mod_gzip is your friend. Really

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I need to install mod_gzip...

I need to install mod_gzip... 12/03/2003 06:24 AM
On a low bandwidth, high latency network connection (like the one at the conference here in Bangalore), it's readily apparently that my blog would load way faster it the content was compressed. Mental note: Install mod_gzip on web server soon. Very soon. To those of you who read my web site from half way around the world on a regular basis: why didn't anyone point this out sooner? Seriously. It's a simple thing I can do to make your life...

1st Workshop on Friend of a Friend,
Social Networking and the Semantic Web

1st Workshop on Friend of a Friend,
Social Networking and the Semantic Web 06/21/2004 01:50 PM

Call for papers, come for the party or just come and hang out.

You can't be a decent standard if you don't have a conference.

Topics

The FOAF (Friend of a Friend) project explores a unique combination of themes from social networking, search engines, knowledge representation and software development. FOAF was designed as a practical experiment that would highlight the technical, social and business challenges raised by the next generation of "Semantic" Web technology. Over the past few years, the FOAF developer community has been working on standards-based techniques for publishing and harvesting machine-readable descriptions of people, the links between them, and the things they create and do. The working assumption of the project is that such techniques will underpin the deployment of the next generation of Web technology, W3C's "Semantic Web". The FOAF project was created in the expectation that these machine-readable descriptions will grow, as the Semantic Web platform matures, to cover companies, organisations, documents, groups, products, file sharing and many other aspects of life, both online and off. The time has come to evaluate these assumptions in the context of the opportunities and challenges presented by the rise of FOAF and the Semantic Web.

Social networking is a recent topic gaining much interest and publicity. Social networking sites are community sites where users can maintain an online network of friends or associates for social or business purposes: whether looking for a job, reconnecting with old friends, moving to a new area, or dating. Most of these sites are based on a centralised architecture: all users' descriptions are stored in one big database. There is, however, growing user and business interest in portability between such sites, and for sophisticated "single sign-on" mechanisms that reduce the need for data re-entry, while allowing users to manifest different aspects of themselves in different contexts. FOAF-based import/export allows such sites to address user demand for control of "their" data; however, many deployment, privacy, authentication and engineering issues have not yet been fully explored. To what extent do mechanisms such as FOAF change the environment they attempt to describe? How can the visibility of personal data be restricted to certain audiences? How can businesses make money when their customers can migrate to new services with increased ease?

This workshop on FOAF, social networking and the Semantic Web provides a first chance to discuss the unusual combination of perspectives - academic and scientific, engineering, social, legal and business - drawn together by these trends. The workshop aims to bring together for the first time researchers interested in the effects, analysis and application of social networks on the (Semantic) Web as well as practitioners building applications and infrastructure. The workshop will also try to give a snapshot of current developments, as well as setting a roadmap for the future of both FOAF and social networking - especially in the context of the Semantic Web.

Topics of interest for full papers include, but are not limited to the following:

* Social network metadata standards
* Trust issues in social networks
* Profiles of FOAF, subsets, mapping to other vocabularies and formats
* Federated digital identity, single sign-on (decentralized identity management)
* Business models for the Semantic Web (life after banner advertisements)
* Integration with desktop and mobile applications (chat, IM, P2P, Bluetooth, address books, RSS/Atom)
* Privacy, etiquette and best practice issues for aggregators
* Infrastructure for social networking
* Applications of online social networking
* Knowledge management with social networks
* Mathematical analysis of social networks
* Exchange of social network information
* Applications of online social networks
* Shared annotations
* Use of digital signatures and encryption with RDF/XML
* RDF-based search engines, data harvesting and syndication
* GUIs (browsers, editors) for FOAF and Semantic Web data
* Formalisms that address practical problems of heterogenous changing data
* Pragmatics of sharing data schemas across subtly different datasets

[it's the danbri and Libby show!]

Compress Web Output Using mod_gzip and
Apache

Compress Web Output Using mod_gzip and
Apache 02/19/2003 07:46 AM
WebmasterBase Feb 19 2003 6:43AM ET

Mod_GZIP Compressed CSS Files Causing
Netscape v4 Errors

Mod_GZIP Compressed CSS Files Causing
Netscape v4 Errors 01/19/2003 04:03 AM
"...if you've had problems with sites and NN4x and can't seem to find out why, check to see if your host is running mod_gzip and ask them to exclude your css files from being compressed."

my friend my friend, my friend ...

my friend my friend, my friend ... 09/02/2004 11:38 AM
smile, YOU'VE JUST BEEN KICKED IN THE NUTS!

Your friend: the FBI

Your friend: the FBI 04/15/2004 11:36 AM

Thoughts for Tax Day:  A friend sent t his article on various rules that restrict the U.S. government from investigating terrorists.  The implication of the article is that we'd all be better off if the CIA and the FBI could work unfettered.  Certainly the widows and orphans of September 11th would be better off.  Yet our government has a history of pouring tremendous amounts of effort in the wrong areas, often resulting in months or years of misery for innocent people.  One of the more humorous recent examples is Booker Prize winner Ian McEwan's detain ment at the Vancouver airport.  We want the Federales to be strong enough to hunt down Saudi terrorists in flight schools but sufficiently weak that we can throw them off our own backs when necessary.

[As noted on Prairie Home Companion on Saturday, if you're sending a check to the IRS this year put a couple of extra stamps on the envelope because it's going all the way to Iraq.]

IM a Friend

IM a Friend 04/14/2005 02:03 AM

Feature Creep

“Those of you who read this site via RSS/Atom/LiveJournal syndication may have missed our latest site feature, ‘IM to a friend’.

As of this last Friday, there's a tiny AIM icon next to the title of each entry. When it's clicked on, most AIM clients should give you a new message window containing the URL of the entry you'd like to share with a friend. After you enter their screen name and send the message, feel free to chat about what you've sent their way. It works transparently and is loads easier than a standard copy and paste.

Yeah, we're trying to harbor conversation about our site and drive our traffic up. We're also trying to make sending URLs to friends a bit easier. We stole the idea from our friends at blogging.la….

Note: Trillian doesn't seem to install handlers for ‘aim:‘ links. If you run Trillian and click on the link, there's a good chance that nothing will happen. iChat and the official AIM client seem to be all good tho. Sorry Trillian users.” [Preshrunk]

Intere sting idea for those libraries exploring IM. Might be a nice reverse idea on the idea of creating IM interfaces into the catalog, too.

CVS Wants to Be Your Best Friend
(Really)

CVS Wants to Be Your Best Friend
(Really) 08/05/2002 10:44 PM

Be my friend? Only on my turf.

Be my friend? Only on my turf. 07/14/2004 04:53 PM
Release 1.0 editor Esther Dyson examines the promise--and the confusion--around social networks.

Well, not *that* kind of a friend

Well, not *that* kind of a friend 01/23/2004 02:23 PM
Cheap i18n fun for the morning (emphasises mine):

I'm absolutely sure this will help people come together... For any non-finnish speakers out there, "orkut" is a common slang term for "orgasm". "Sain orkut" = "I had an orgasm". Well picked site name, indeed. It's even affiliated with Google :-).

ROTFLMAO!

Our friend eloped!

Our friend eloped! 12/28/2004 09:25 AM
She ran off with a guy we don't really like, and told her family but not her friends!

A friend in need...for only $5 a month

A friend in need...for only $5 a month 09/06/2004 03:34 AM
ZDNet Australia Sep 6 2004 7:53AM GMT

Our Friend, The Meter

Our Friend, The Meter 06/23/2004 01:16 AM

Want a friend? Use Bluetooth

Want a friend? Use Bluetooth 06/25/2004 07:26 AM
Economictimes Jun 25 2004 10:56AM GMT

Friend of research?

Friend of research? 06/21/2004 10:13 PM
USA Today Jun 22 2004 2:47AM GMT

On the Web, anonymity is a friend -- and
a foe

On the Web, anonymity is a friend -- and
a foe 03/06/2004 01:55 AM
SiliconValley.com Feb 22 2004 11:38AM GMT

Internet more friend than foe

Internet more friend than foe 07/11/2004 06:49 AM
Pittsburghlive.com - Sun Jul 11, 08:25 am GMT

Another New Friend for Microsoft

Another New Friend for Microsoft 05/21/2004 06:59 PM
Business Week May 21 2004 11:12PM GMT

Be my friend? Only on my turf

Be my friend? Only on my turf 07/14/2004 06:51 PM
CNET Jul 14 2004 11:22PM GMT

ASPjar Tell-a-Friend

ASPjar Tell-a-Friend 03/17/2005 03:53 AM
farhad koosha (Mar 15 2005)

Could iPod Be Your Next Best Friend?

Could iPod Be Your Next Best Friend? 03/28/2005 10:05 AM

It's called anthropomorphizing, giving an inaminate object a human personality. By Heather Svokos, Knight Ridder News Service

MySQL.com: A New Look for an Old Friend

MySQL.com: A New Look for an Old Friend 12/16/2002 09:08 AM

strtotime(); Is My Friend

strtotime(); Is My Friend 11/20/2002 10:40 AM
Made a quick php script went through and converted my post dates to Unix time stamps. Much fun was had by all.

New IE bug may be scammers best friend

New IE bug may be scammers best friend 12/10/2003 01:13 AM
ZDNet Australia Dec 10 2003 0:24AM ET

Raped by Internet friend

Raped by Internet friend 04/17/2004 02:23 AM
Malay Mail Apr 17 2004 5:48AM GMT

Click Friend and Enter!

Click Friend and Enter! 03/13/2003 10:25 AM
Get ready to have a non-productive rest of the week: Nethack 3.4.1 is out! They would have to release this...

Cloning Kerry's Friend or Foe?

Cloning Kerry's Friend or Foe? 08/18/2004 05:00 AM
Presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry favors therapeutic cloning. If that sounds shocking, the Republicans don't seem to mind. By Kristen Philipkoski.

Friend or Foe? A Digital Dog Tag Answers

Friend or Foe? A Digital Dog Tag Answers 04/15/2004 06:30 AM
Despite precautions, soldiers continue to be killed by "friendly" fire. New technologies, however, may prevent such mistakes.

Computers are a comedian's best friend

Computers are a comedian's best friend 08/21/2004 08:38 PM
PA News via The Scotsman Online Aug 22 2004 0:27AM GMT

Is Google the hacker's best friend

Is Google the hacker's best friend 07/30/2004 10:42 PM

Gmail invite available to a friend

Gmail invite available to a friend 06/10/2004 01:25 AM
If any of my online friends haven't received an Gmail invite and would like one, I have one to give away -- just send me an email. First come first served, friends or regular readers only. I'm not interested in selling it. I'm not particularly wowed by the service, but maybe you are as curious as I was to see what all the fuss is about....

Friend, good! Fire, bad!

Friend, good! Fire, bad! 05/12/2004 09:43 PM
James Lileks .. Lileks

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Part II: Intel as friend

Part II: Intel as friend 06/05/2005 11:20 PM
If the reports are to be believed, today, June 5, 2005, will mark the last full day of Apple Computer Inc. as we know it. Based on the activity Kevin April's article, "Earth shattering: Apple to switch to Intel in 2006," has received, there's not much explaining that needs to follow that statement. But in case you missed it (or the dozens of related posts), CNET is reporting that Apple will announce a gradual transition to Intel processors Monday. Had this story been reported Saturday, my column would have been filled with doomsday propositions and woe, as I lamented the demise of a once-great computer company, one of the few which truly thought differently and consistently gave me a reason to engage my friends in friendly debate. I would have predicted the fall of the Mac culture and Web presence, waved goodbye to the revolution and clenched my iPod fervently in my left hand while typing with my right. That, and I might have tendered my resignation. But now that I've had a few hours to digest this rumor, I see things a little differently than I did when I first read Spymac's breaking news Friday night. I've had a chance to put things in perspective. So, let's assume worst-case scenario, that CNET's report is completely accurate and Steve Jobs will demo a new Mac with an Intel processor during Monday's WWDC keynote. Let's say he abandons both IBM and Motorola, and jumps into the ring with the likes of Dell and Compaq using Intel's existing technology. And while we're at it, let's say we'll be able to run Longhorn on all new Macs by 2007. Is the prospect of a partitioned Mac running Longhorn and OS X side-by-side really so terrible? For one, OS X or XI or XII will always be Mac-centric. As the saying goes, "Why buy the cow when you get the milk for free?" Apple knows this and will find a way to keep its operating system proprietary. But what if it didn't? What if a shopper on Dell.com was able to choose between Windows and OS X? Switching software is the same as switching hardware, right? If that's the case, however, Apple's family of CPUs are going to suffer in the sales department. I mean, why buy a $1,499 iMac when a $399 Dell can run the same virus-free OS just as well? We could very well be in store for a major shift in strategy by Apple. It could drop several of its hardware lines and instead focus on chipping away at Microsoft's 90 percent OS share. Think of sole desktop and portable lines, with each family having three different models that satisfy budget and power needs. And think of all the goodies we'll be able to put inside those Intel-based machines. Clearly, Apple has thought all of this through and Steve will ease all of our concerns on Monday. If Steve did ink a deal with Intel, however, you have to assume that as soon as he left the offices, Intel CEO Paul Otellini was on the phone to Bill Gates with the scoop. And don't think for a second that Gates wasn't in on the deal from day one. And also, remember when Otellini, when questioned about security by a reporter at the D: All Things Digital conference in late May, responded with, "If you want to fix it tomorrow, maybe you should buy something else." This all makes for an eyes-glued-to-the-Internet Monday, and with no broadcast planned, there's going to be some heavy traffic on whatever sites are lucky enough to have running updates. Apple will always be Apple, and there will always be a place for Spymac and the legions of devoted fans. And there will never be an "Intel Inside" sticker on the front of anything made by Cupertino’s laboratories. The heart and soul of Apple is in its ability to stay one step ahead of the cutting edge and a change in chip won't change that. Just think of it as leveling the playing field once and for all.

Acusphere Makes a Friend

Acusphere Makes a Friend 07/07/2004 04:38 PM
The struggling specialty pharmaceutical company has shown an ability to survive, which may serve it well.

Computers: Friend or foe to science?

Computers: Friend or foe to science? 08/31/2004 02:32 AM
USA Today Aug 31 2004 6:30AM GMT

CSS is Your Friend: Making a PHP/CSS
Switcher

CSS is Your Friend: Making a PHP/CSS
Switcher 10/15/2002 09:17 AM

Wanted: New Friend, Must Have Bluetooth

Wanted: New Friend, Must Have Bluetooth 06/23/2004 11:07 AM
Boston Globe Jun 23 2004 2:36PM GMT

Wanted: New Friend; Must Have Bluetooth

Wanted: New Friend; Must Have Bluetooth 06/23/2004 10:49 AM

A molecular biologist's best friend

A molecular biologist's best friend 06/16/2004 09:16 PM
Just when you think all government endeavors are going to hell, the National Center for Biotechnology Information comes to the rescue (well, has been coming to the scientist near you since 1988). For free, search everything from dna sequences in organisms where the genome is known to searching known Mendelian inheritances for Homo Sapiens (example here). Also of much use and interest is PudMed< /a> with the ability to search and read virtually any established molecular biology paper.
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