Monthly Archives: August 2003

Bit by the bug

Posted on August 7, 2003 by Brian Jepson

Sam has caught the fever. Have you installed Rotor yet? I’m editing a couple of C# books right now, and I’ve been using it to test the example code. Be sure to build it free (source env.csh free) for maximum … Continue reading →

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Twice in one day!

Posted on August 5, 2003 by Brian Jepson

glennf gives some link love to two companies (QGO and TowerStream) from Rhode Island in one day! Whoohoo!

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T-Mobile Unlocking

Posted on August 5, 2003 by Brian Jepson

AT&T Wireless GSM(TM)/GPRS General Discussion: “TMobile will provide the unlock codes after 3 months of service.”

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3650, Mac OS X, and VPN

Posted on August 2, 2003 by Brian Jepson

I just switched from AT&T Wireless to T-Mobile, mainly because of the unlimited GPRS for $19.99 a month. The only problem I had was that the phone I got (Nokia 3650) is configured to go through wap.voicestream.com, which gives me … Continue reading →

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A great story on SQL Injection

Posted on August 1, 2003 by Brian Jepson

Ted Neward: “Two or three days ago, a student who listened to me rant about SQL Injection attacks during the Code Access Security module lecture sent us (myself and the other two instructors) the following. It’s obviously been edited to … Continue reading →

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Enough Perl-bashing

Posted on August 1, 2003 by Brian Jepson

Jeremy Zawodny: “Come on Tim, don’t you know better? Don’t blame the language. You can write obscure code and leave it undocumented in any language.” Right on. I don’t think it’s even all that obscure; if you know the DBI … Continue reading →

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Chewing gum prohibition to end soon

Posted on August 1, 2003 by Brian Jepson

The Globe and Mail: “People in Singapore will soon be allowed to buy long-banned chewing gum – but only from pharmacies…”

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