geek stuff - Summary - Entries from February 2006

geek stuff - 6 Topics from February, 2006

RFC 1984

RFC 1984 is Internet Architecture Board (IAB) and the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) Statement on Cryptographic Technology and the Internet. Defined tags ...

on disagreement

The below is not my writing. I picked it from the comments left at " The Importance of Having Friends Who Disagree ". Somethings I have observed,which are ...

42 spotted in the wild

Did Shakespeare inspire Douglas Adams for the answer 42 ? Take thou this vial, being then in bed, And this distilled liquor drink thou off; When presently through ...

mediawiki configuration tip

The problem with MediaWiki is not the lack of documentation, but the lack of well organized documentation. Here is a useful bit of information I found out. Suppose you ...

GNUnify 06

Last week, I had gone to GNUnify , a conference organized by Symbiosis(SICSR), Pune. I had spoken on webservices together with Gopalv and Premshree . An ...

pay for email considered harmful

AOL, Yahoo and Goodmail: Taxing Your Email for Fun and Profit The justification is that if people have to pay to send email, they won't send junk email. Apparently ...