Today I received an email from Purdue News: Purdue students, faculty and staff should assume that the university will operate as usual on Friday (Feb. 1). However, a winter storm warning is in effect for Tippecanoe and surrounding counties. Information about conditions on campus and any changes in university operations will be posted online at [...]
Chmod-ing a whole directory recursively is usually not a good idea. Directories should be executable when serving them via http but the documents should not. Here’s a set of commands from the Mercurial book to help separate chmod-ing of directories and files: $ chmod 755 ~ $ find ~/public_html -type d -print0 | xargs -0r [...]
Targeted Ads Web2.0 has basically boiled down to one business model: users receive free services in exchange for personal information which then drives targeted ads Google took this almost non-existent targeted ads business model and made it into The Business Model of the decade. Google is trying to acquire the online ad agency Double-Click, Microsoft [...]
All through university, the question of “where do I want to work” has been looming over me and I’ve always had a stock response in the back of my mind. The stock response enabled me not to worry about job searching too much. When the time came to truly get a job, though, I realized [...]
Miguel de Icaza, founder of Ximian and now lead Novell developer recently posted about Microsoft’s partnership with Novell. Specifically, Moonlight, Novell’s free implementation of Microsoft’s Silverlight is now the official Linux version, sanctioned by Microsoft. Microsoft will give Novell access to the test suites for Silverlight to ensure that we have a compatible specification. The [...]