* 24 Gigs of RAM * Intel® Xeon® Processor E5520, 8 real CPUs * Nvidia Geforce FX 3800 * Windows 7 Enterprise 64Bit Windows Experience Index: 5.9 (because of the hard drive)
Continue ReadingBrizzly Invitation
Update November 10th Use this link for your Brizzly invite: http://bit.ly/iIHtY After my in-depth review of Brizzly a new web-based Twitter client, I have now 10 invites to share. If you want on just add a comment below with your email address filled. I will invite you after that.
Continue ReadingMicrosoft and Open Source
Microsoft Switzerland invited to a short presentation and discussion round with Hank Janssen from the Microsoft Open Source Technology Center (OSTC) in Redmond. He talked a little bit about their infrastructure (which is impressive and awesome by the way), projects Microsoft has contributed to and why they do it. I made a few notes and […]
Continue ReadingTwitter @reply is Broken by Bots
Twitter is popular. Twitter has a simple and powerful API. Twitter displays @cocaman on a special page. These three points are enough to make the @reply option vulnerable. Chris Messina, Chief Open Source Advocate and BarCamp co-inventor, recently updated his “my-name-is” homepage. My camichel.com site is very much influenced by his old design. I had […]
Continue ReadingAnti-WordPress-Hacking Suggestions
After the recent discussion about the hacks that are used to break into blogs with the WordPress software, I came up with a few ideas on how to make WordPress more secure. More security for adding administrators First of all I really would like to have a method in WordPress that sends an administrator an […]
Continue ReadingThe Twitter Bird is now a Bear/Grizzly
There are hundreds, even thousands of Twitter clients out there. But most of the people still use the twitter.com website to update their tweets. A new and in private beta testing mode Twitter client is “brizzly” and it offers some nice features for Twitter users. The general user should be understanding the website quiet fast. […]
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