Character Encoding: Which Schemes Encode to Which Sizes?
The subject of character mapping and encoding is formidable, and many confuse the various schemes and standards available. As a...
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Her Name is Susan | Daniel Miessler
I lack the words, but I don’t need them. I sometimes realize that I’m hesitant to talk about my love...
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The VIA Model of Security Filtering Technologies
I inwardly smile when I hear the term “Unified Threat Management”. It means different things to different people, but to...
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Misconceptions about Unicode and UTF-8/16/32
So everyone knows that UTF-8 encodes Unicode code points into eight bits, and UTF-16 encodes Unicode code points into 16...
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Some Thoughts on the Economic Viability of E-Books
A friend of mine (I’ll identify him if he so desires) sent me the following email: I think this is...
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Technology Pseudocode: Keeping Your Technology Problems Abstracted
The über-tech-geek culture has a problem with tool obsession. Twitter, Friendfeed, Google Reader–these are all basics, but each of these...
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The Pubsubhubub Protocol | Daniel Miessler
This is an exciting protocol. I want to use it to get my various services’ content into Friendfeed, and to...
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Problems with Check Point, NAT, and SIP
Scenario You have an Asterisk server behind a Check Point firewall trying to contact a VOIP provider located on the...
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U.N. Report Predicts Social Unrest Due to Inequality
Evidently I’m not the only one who’s seeing what’s happening. I’ve been writing for years about how we’re approaching a...
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Reaching Your Content Potential | Daniel Miessler
I recently came up with a concept called Content Potential, which I define as the maximum level of popularity your...
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If The Problem Were Simply Sub-Standard American Schools, Asian and Indian Kids Would Be Doing Poorly As Well
Liberals love to blame poor Black and Hispanic performance in American public schools on the lack of school quality, e.g....
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Quicksilver + Quicksearches = Ultimate Power
I’m often asked why I think so much of Quicksilver, and why it’s always part of my pitch when I’m...
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