Chipping the web: November 4th

November 4th, 2008 4:00:06 pm pst by Sterling Camden

• Quirky Birds and Meta-Syntactic Programming
  Jumping from functional to object syntax makes the quirky bird more Ruby-friendly
  Tags: ruby homoiconic metaprogramming programming
• Found it….
  Fun with stereotypes (Thanks, Chad)
  Tags: humor writing personality
• 10 security tips for Microsoft Windows XP
  11. Remove the network cable, keyboard, mouse, microphone, and camera.
  Tags: security techrepublic microsoft windowsxp apotheon

Tags: apotheon, del.icio.us, homoiconic, humor, metaprogramming, microsoft, personality, programming, ruby, security, techrepublic, windowsxp, writing

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4 Responses to “Chipping the web: November 4th”

1. apotheon says:

   November 5, 2008 at 10:15 am

   My favorite was:

   9. Use something other than MS Windows XP.

   Okay, so I didn’t phrase it that way in the article, but still. . . .

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   • Sterling Camden says:

     November 5, 2008 at 10:39 am

     Yeah, about the only thing worse than Windows XP is any version of Windows before it.

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     • apotheon says:

       November 5, 2008 at 4:11 pm

       Oh, I don’t know about that.

       I’d say Vista is worse — and Win2k is better.

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       • Sterling Camden says:

         November 5, 2008 at 5:29 pm

         Do you say that because of a larger attack surface, or did they introduce more vulnerabilities (or both)?

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