Posted by drfrog
Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:44:12 GMT
Comic Sans, Font of Ill Will: "Kelson writes 'The Wall Street Journal profiles Vincent Connare, designer of the web's most-hated font, Comic Sans. Not surprisingly, the font's origins go back to Microsoft Bob, where he saw a talking dog speaking in Times New Roman. Connare pulled out Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns for reference, and created the comic book-style font over the next week. 'Mr. Connare has looked on, alternately amused and mortified, as Comic Sans has spread from a software project at Microsoft Corp. 15 years ago to grade-school fliers and holiday newsletters, Disney ads and Beanie Baby tags, business emails, street signs, Bibles, porn sites, gravestones and hospital posters about bowel cancer. ... The jolly typeface has spawned the Ban Comic Sans movement, nearly a decade old but stronger now than ever, thanks to the Web.'
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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(Via Slashdot.)
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Posted by drfrog
Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:16:00 GMT
there are a few recipes out there for gemstone with apache, here is one with nginx complete with init scripts
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Posted by drfrog
Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:16:00 GMT
there are a few recipes out there for gemstone with apache, here is one with nginx complete with init scripts
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Posted by drfrog
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:50:00 GMT
if any of you are like me ssl certificates still seem like a black art hell most encryption seems like it was found in some hidden inner pocket of the cryptinomicon
anyways here i go again, i ll be explaining how to generate one of these bad boys
and maybe even explain how to config apache or nginx with them
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Posted by drfrog
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:46:00 GMT
this is an ingenious
instead of basing your tirgger on a time , trigger it based on file modifications etc
http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com/index.php?/archives/102-Productive-Monday-Incron-Execute-commands-based-on-filesystem-activity.html
check out the examples
for instance one can process a file after tis been uploaded
reload a server after a conf file has been modified
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