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If you want to use C# to write CGI applications, you might stumble on some technical difficulties, when using the IIS web server: no matter what are the permissions you set for the folder holding the CGI executable, whenever executing it, the web server doesn’t process the file and tries to serve it as if [...]

I was just browsing, when I found this on digg. Most posts there seemed “too hot”, so I decided to cool off, gain distance, and then write my own thoughts. People are wrong, when they assume that file copying is necessarily “stealing”. In many countries, the consumer is allowed to make copy(ies), for personal use, [...]

On 2006–02–28, ICANN “renewed” its deal with Verisign (NASDAQ:VRSN), basically delegating on them the running of the .COM hierarchy, by far the most valuable of the Internet’s name spaces. This new contract, yet to be approved  by the U.S. Department of Commerce, will expire in year 2012, but – like the previous contracts – gives [...]

Questão: como fazer o sistema siteBar 3.3.5 (http://sitebar.org/downloads.php) sincronizar-se com os bookmarks do Firefox 1.5? Não consigo fazê-lo AUTOMATICAMENTE, mas consigo fazê-lo por imports/exports. Todavia, o siteBar 3.3.5 tem limitações que impedem o import de ficheiros de bookmarks, ao menos por dois motivos: (1) tamanho – no maior dos ficheiros testado (2.5 MB, em formato [...]

I found these nice complementary reviews, one about blogging systems (for example, comparing MovableType to WordPress) and the other about desktop blogging software (for example, comparing BlogJet to Bloggar).

A maior parte dos blogs são suportados por sistemas de publicação “versáteis”, escritos em linguagens de programação diversas. Os sistemas mais populares, que já utilizei, são o “MoveableType” e o “WordPress”, o primeiro escrito em Perl, o segundo escrito em PHP. Estes sistemas são instalados do lado do servidor e suportam a publicação (1) pela [...]