Tag Archives: internet

Netflix: Your parental controls break everything

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Dennis

Normally I’m an email kind of guy and if a site takes so many precautions to not publish any possible way to contact them except via phone, I’d just bag it altogether and choose an alternative. I actually took the … Continue reading →

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Do we really need super-fast broadband?

Posted on October 19, 2009 by Dennis

Wouldn’t it be nice to download your favorite music track in just 11 seconds? Or a 60 minute TV show in just 1 minute 2 seconds? How about a High definition movie in just over 14 minutes? Is this ever … Continue reading →

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A Few Cool Ways To Use RSS Feeds

Posted on January 29, 2008 by Dennis

So what is all this RSS hype? I’ve known about RSS feeds, what they are for, and how to use them for quite a while. It’s not like they are new or anything! It wasn’t until recently that I started … Continue reading →

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Programming a client for the WHOIS protocol

Posted on October 10, 2007 by Dennis

I have a little task that involves programmatically determining whether DNS servers are set correctly for a domain. Since this project is written in Python, I first set out to see if there were any “whois” clients already available for … Continue reading →

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Permalinks

Posted on October 1, 2007 by Dennis

I’ve played around quite a bit with link structure for various sites I’ve programmed. I’ve found that Google will index your pages whether they have a parameterized URLs: http://somesite.example?param1=this&param2=that or parameterized Paths (Permalinks): http://somesite.example/this/that I think, however, that in general, … Continue reading →

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