Ever wonder what it takes to crash PHP, well here is a quick guide . Technically speaking PHP being a high level language should not crash, but reality speaks for itself. By knowing what could make PHP crash it may be possible to implement various safety mechanisms in your PHP configuration that would prevent users [...]
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Last week, I began a countdown of the ten reasons Linux and BSD are far superior to Windows. I received a huge response to the first installment, so without further delay, here’s the final four reasons and my official response to some of the comments and criticisms I’ve received.
I know that some Microsoft fanboys are probably hitting the Send button on their flames as they read the title, but you can’t ignore the truth. Linux and BSD are vastly superior to Windows in every way. Don’t believe me? Read on, my friend. Read on and realize the folly of your MS ways.
Lists are often arbitrary and this one is no different. It springs from my tastes and my opinions and I won’t be surprised if some visitors to this website feel strongly that I have overlooked movies they think should be included. In that regard, I welcome your suggestions but let’s set some guidelines. For me, [...]
Hey, today’s the iPod’s fifth birthday, born October 23, 2001. We’d sing Happy Birthday, but copyright law prevents us from doing so unless we pay the owner of that song. So instead of crooning that hackneyed ditty, we’re going to spread the haterage about the iPod. The iPod gets so much adoring and worshipful press—we [...]
I’m not the only guy who likes making lists. Over the years, many gaming magazines and websites have made lengthy lists of their own in an attempt to compile comprehensive guides chronicling the best video games of all time. Here is a summary of some of the leading Top 10s, as excerpted from various Top [...]
The giant food corporations have one mission: selling more food and beverage products to consumers. Succeeding with that mission depends on keeping consumers in the dark on certain issues such as the presence cancer-causing chemicals found in popular food products. Here are ten things the food corporations, whose products dominate grocery store shelves across the [...]
When most people hear “AppleScript,” they think automation–and with good reason. AppleScript lets you control Microsoft Word, Adobe Photoshop, FileMaker Pro, and hundreds of other Mac programs with just a few lines of code. But if you think of AppleScript as only a nerdy, workflow-automation tool, you’re missing out on a lot of power. Truth [...]
Robert P. Crease, a member of the philosophy department at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and the historian at Brookhaven National Laboratory, recently asked physicists to nominate the most beautiful experiment of all time. Based on the paper of George Johnson in The New York Times we list below 10 winners [...]
I obviously don’t get pitched for investment by other entrepreneurs, so I don’t know what lies are being told, but I’ll tack on some of my own “at face value” comments to the top ten (actually 11).
Hopefully, you have heard of some of these or maybe even all, but if not then let me introduce you to ten tools that every admin should have.
CSS has many different benefits for website owners. The most obvious is the pure, raw design capabilities CSS brings to websites. CSS can control everything from the size of your font to the very layout of your page. A site designed with proper HTML and CSS can avoid incorporating almost any design elements into the [...]
Everyone loves a list – even film directors. But what do their Top 10s say about their personalities? John Walker decides that Quentin Tarantino lacks a sense of humour, whereas Terry Jones goes to the cinema to cheer himself up
Since my last three “hack” posts on bookmarklets, RSS and Technorati were so popular, I thought I would follow up with my ten favorite blogging hacks. Don’t ask me why, but I like the number 10. These work on most if not all of the major weblog platforms, including TypePad, Blogger and WordPress. (This post [...]
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When you’re looking for the next leader in web 2.0 blog design, Hicks starts to look a little too plain, Santa Maria wicked-worn out, and Zeldman like something you might print out, not read online. Where are the leaders of modern blog design? The particular platform (WP, Moveable Type, Typepad, Handcoded) doesn’t matter. It’s what [...]
There are many reasons why good employees quit, most are preventable. From my years of experience as a consultant, I’ve identified a “Top Ten” list of reasons why people leave jobs.
