De-hash. Interesting explanation of what rainbow tables are and how they can unravel cleartext from hash.
Where do I sign? New bill to cure the cell phone blues. Not that the cell phone industry has anything against consumers, they’d really like to take our money and run, if only they can get out of paying early termination fees.
My social network is my inbox. This is probably the easiest feature to implement. Capture all the custom IM messages from my contacts, display them in reverse chronological order. Preferably in GMail, since this is my first interface to the online world. Yes, Twitter and Facebook were there first, but this would be so more useful.
Google’s recent big social effort is called Mocha-Mocha (or Mocka-Mocka?), and will become the infrastructure for all social stuff across all of their applications. As a part of this, a new feature called Activity Streams will be introduced or at least implemented in Reader this quarter. This will be comparable to Facebook’s News Feed (Minifeed?) feature, and integrate Gmail’s addressbook and contact list.
Semantics. I think I’ve got to stop picking on Microsoft spin, it’s just too easy:
Microsoft also agreed that an analysis of boxed copy sales is not representative of Vista’s momentum, noting the trend of people getting a new operating system with a new PC has further accelerated with Vista.
My sources tell me this happens as a result of people’s inertia to buy PCs and just pick the default installed OS. It seems a lot of people are confused how inertia and momentum relate to each other.
Make sure it’s not used and disabled. My home bandwidth was driving me crazy, it streams fast enough but browsing is painstakingly slow. 3+ seconds to pull a Google page from Ruby is unaccepted, and curl confirms it’s not Net::HTTP at fault. Turns out this started when I changed the router’s DNS setting.
After setting the IPs, I checked the ‘Use DNSMasq for DNS’ options, so my computer would always hit the router first for DNS requests, and find all other computers on the network. But a while back I had to reset the router, and in doing so reset the DNSMasq service to ‘disabled’. The delay happened because the router was the first nameserver used, but didn’t run the DNS service.
These two options, using DNSMasq and enabling the service are located in two different control panels, Setup and Administration/Services respectively (I’m using DD-WRT). Just in case you’re experiencing the same browsing lag or decide on a career designing router UIs.
Above, Scott Adams finds perhaps the best use for Web 2.0.
Matthieu Riou