If I ever get around to trying to define freetard, it’s definitely going to include a bit about denying reality and redefining the English language. John C. Welch received a reply from the FSF, including them denying their strategy as an attack. Meanwhile, back on planet Earth, it’s pretty obviously exactly that. Definitely read this if you consider the FSF anything other than a cult of freetards.
Archive for July, 2008
I’ve been playing with MobileMe for about a week. The vision has expanded since I last looked at .Mac, but it’s still nowhere near ready. Unreliable push contacts on the iPod touch are not worth the grief or the money.
One day, though. Maybe.
Anyone still using FTP should read this and switch to SFTP. Steven Frank is co-founder of Panic, which puts out the excellent Transmit file transfer application.
There’s a much bigger difference between FTP and SFTP than just the letter S (and the meaning behind it).
This is advice I thoroughly agree with, for whatever that’s worth. I’m almost at the point where I’d pay extra to find a web host that doesn’t support FTP.
Interesting Ars Technica article on spam:
From April 1 to May 1, McAfee ran an experiment with 50 volunteers designed to measure just how much spam a person would receive if they actually registered at all the sites that request your e-mail address. The total amount of spam that comes flooding down the system is almost awe-inspiring.
Tech talk on launchd by its creator from July 2007.