The Archives

• Rogue Bytes

  What an interesting few weeks it’s been.

  09.18.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Sarah Palin’s Yahoo account got hacked by Anonymous. – This has been all over the news, so I’m sure you’ve heard it by now. But in case you haven’t, here’s some coverage. – PC World, ComputerWorld, Fox News.
  International Space Station infected by a Virus. – That’s just sad. Really, really sad.
  Google launches Chrome [...]

• Computers & Technology

  Mozilla’s Ubiquity

  08.28.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.
  Just installed this. It’s only an early alpha release, but it looks just too promising for me to wait for the beta.

• How To...

  Google, the new Napster

  03.15.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  I saw this little trick on Digg this morning. It actually sorta, kinda works.
  Cut and paste the following text into Google:
  {-inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:”index of” +”last modified” +”parent directory” +description +size +(wma|mp3) “DIGG”}
  Replace the word “DIGG” with the name of your favorite band and voila, a listing of open indexes containing downloadable music files. Of course [...]

• How To...

  Join two Ventrilo servers simultaneously

  01.04.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  A friend of mine showed me this simple little trick that allows you to login to two Ventrilo servers simultaneously. I thought this could come in handy from time to time. Here’s what to do.

  ***click on the pictures to enlarge***
  First, locate your Ventrilo short cut.

  Next, right click on the shortcut and choose properties.

  You will see [...]

• How To...

  Show hidden files in OS X

  11.18.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  I’m blogging about this so I don’t forget how to do it, but some of you may find it useful too.
  I needed to edit my .htaccess file from my web server, but when I downloaded it to my desktop (OS X), the file magically disappeared. So I downloaded it again. This time it asked [...]

• Code & Design

  IE7 problem fixed

  11.01.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  I finally fixed the IE7 problem that plagued this site, although it’s really only a temporary fix. It’s also a very ugly fix. I had to use a conditional comment in my code which detects Internet Explorer 7 browsers and then loads a separate CSS file.

  <!–[if IE 7]>
  <link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” href=”../wp-content/themes/skyecade/ie7_hacks.css” />
  < ![endif]–>

  It sucks [...]