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 me it means consolidating the…
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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 bits (or, two bytes), right?…
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 an excellent observation. My first…
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 have multiple competitors that the…
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 Google Feedburner, and to my…
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 Internet Problem SIP requires that…
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 volatile social situation due to…
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 site/brand can reach based on…
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. lack of updated textbooks, no…
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 trying to get someone to…
Spotify: How We Will Consume Music in the Future
I’ll mess this up, but here are the various ways we’ve been able to enjoy music throughout history: Live Vinyl Radio 8-Track Cassette CD MP3…
A Highly Concise Summary of “Atlas Shrugged”
Here’s a clean little summary of Ayn Rand’s book, Atlas Shrugged, from this Wall Street Journal article: Sound familiar yet? The point of the piece…