Michael Papet

Silverlight == Pump and Dump Scheme

Use Debian’s awstats to make pretty IIS log graphs and charts!

Verizon business service doesn’t provide service. Just people picking up the phone.

A script to recategorize misspelled words in the popfile corpus.

You have come to believe that more recent packages are critical to establishing/maintaining your geek-credentials.
It’s actually kind of a corner-case scenario where one really needs the latest and greatest of any package.
I know I’m really pissing into the wind on this one, but leave your desktop distro alone if at all possible.  How about using [...]

How to install and use Debian Testing.

The attached script is a perl version of some popular Drupal MySQL database optimizations plus a mysqldump. I added some extra stuff. I suppose it might work on a Microsoft OS, but I didn’t check into it at all.
Please note: The script is dual licensed.
-If you are using it for your non-revenue producing [...]

Debian has KDE 4.3 packages in Sid. If you are running Debian’s testing then, it’s not too hard to get it installed. FYI: Debian’s Testing version is equivalent to running a Ubuntu distro only the bugs are (on average) fixed faster.
1. Add Sid repo’s to your sources.list
2 create a /etc/apt/preferences file and [...]

We all know Apple and Microsoft rule the consumer’s perception of the ‘computer.’ They both have the same Achilles heel. Both organizations place the needs of media distributors over their customers needs/wants.
A little ‘State of the State’ may be necessary.
Media distributors are ‘making lemonade’ out of the simple fact that it is [...]