I was asked by a friend the other day about the details on running a website. From the effort required in maintaining a site to hosting and domain costs and what you should look for in a web server. The best way I could figure to answer all of the questions was to go off the only thing I had on the subject, my experiences running the WordPress-driven 404 Tech Support and a … [Read more...]
Cooking for Engineers – Recipes for the Analytically-Minded
With Valve spending so much time updating engineers lately in Team Fortress 2, it got me thinking about them too. Like, what do they eat? Well, besides sandviches. The smiling lad to the left might just learn to cook more than a sandwich at a website called Cooking For Engineers. All joking and lame lead-ins aside, Cooking For Engineers provides some real insight into the … [Read more...]
PDFVoid – Don’t Send a Malicious PDF
PDFVoid is a web service developed by the same folks behind NoVirusThanks that allows you to scan a PDF for any malicious code or exploits. You can upload a PDF (up to 1MB in size) or submit a URL that points to a PDF to have it scanned to see whether the file is clean or suspicious. The scan only takes a few seconds to completed. If the file is clean, it will be deleted but if … [Read more...]
Using the Microsoft Home Use Program for Office 2010
If where you work has an agreement with Microsoft (or Micrsoft as the posters in Wal-Mart spell it), you could benefit as an employee by being able to purchase a super-cheap copy of Microsoft Office 2010 for Windows or Office 2008 for Mac through Microsoft's Home Use Program. For $9.95 and your employment at a company with this agreement, you can get Office Professional Plus … [Read more...]
New Improvements to CAPTCHAs with NuCaptcha
CAPTCHAs, those images of squiggly letters that are a pain to solve, help digitize books, and are increasingly being cracked by bots, are taking a new approach. Instead of being a still image, CAPTCHAs are now being made into videos of moving text so they're easier for a human to solve but more complicated for a bot with NuCaptcha. NuCaptcha's Basic service is free and still … [Read more...]