Archive for 2004
December 21st, 2004 by Rich Zygler
tags: General, MySQL, PHP, Perl | No Comments »
A few people make fun of me because I have a personal disaster recovery plan for my computers, data, and applications that are located in my home. These people aren’t in the IT industry. Those in IT usually nod thoughtfully and muse, “I should do that too.”
At ...
December 20th, 2004 by Rich Zygler
tags: Business | No Comments »
I hate security updates like this.
From: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11873/discussion/
Symantec Windows LiveUpdate is reported prone to a local privilege escalation vulnerability. This issue can allow a local unprivileged attacker to gain administrative privileges on a vulnerable computer.
It is reported that this issue only presents itself during an interactive LiveUpdate session. A local attacker ...
December 17th, 2004 by Rich Zygler
tags: .NET, ASP, Design Patterns | 2 Comments »
One of my biggest complaints so far with working on projects in .NET is the total lack of community projects. It seems every worthwhile-looking solution that is out there is spearheaded by Microsoft and slapped into its “patterns and practices” section. The problem I have with this of ...
December 13th, 2004 by Rich Zygler
tags: Business | No Comments »
Nothing is a bigger pain in the butt then pumping gas into your car in the middle of a snowstorm. Nothing that is… except for when the gas pump turns down your Amex credit card and makes you scramble across icy pavement to pay the attendant inside. Luckily, ...
December 10th, 2004 by Rich Zygler
tags: Business, Sports | 1 Comment »
After letting all these BALCO steroid headlines sink in for a few days, it’s occurred to me how similar it all is to some of the other high profile corporate scandals of the past few years.
Baseball, like any professional sport in the U.S. is big business. Millions ...
December 7th, 2004 by Rich Zygler
tags: General | No Comments »
I've always said that at a certain point, sleep and food are interchangeable. I learned this back in my first run through college during the many sleepless nights I spent studying. I also find the same thing happens when I'm up late programming. If I'm missing a ...
December 5th, 2004 by Rich Zygler
tags: Business, Sports | No Comments »
I wrote a similar diatribe last year on this. Here is an updated version:
I like football. Not-so-much college football because of the constant bickering involved in "who is the best" type discussions. Although, I wish I had paid more attention in my statistics classes in school. ...
November 30th, 2004 by Rich Zygler
tags: General | No Comments »
I might look like a follower. This is afterall a blog that I'm starting and everyone is doing that. Some of you may remember the old days of this site. We were blogging before there was such a term. We had a webcam before the words ...
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