Spyware 101

June 17th, 2008

Technical

What is Spyware:

The administrator of any site you visit can find out your IP (then your location, place of work, ISP), hostname, language settings, operating system, browser/version, screen resolution, referrer (site you came from), and exit page (site you left to). A prolific advertising system can find out even more since they can track your [...]

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Bleh

April 26th, 2008

Posted by Hani Obaid

Blogging, Business, Games, Men & Women, Movies, Music, Religion, Society, Taxi, Technical

18 Comments

A. The eyes are no more.
My name is Bugs, king of Rabbits, Look upon my ears, oh ye mighty, and despair!

Why does a rabbit need gloves ?

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Custom Anti-Spam Words On Wordpress

March 2nd, 2008

Posted by Hani Obaid

Blogging, Technical

26 Comments

Two things I’ve always admired about Roba’s blog are the ajax plugin which adds the comments inline without refreshing the page, and the custom anti-spam words. In the past few months, I’ve tried a dozen different ajax inline-comment plugins and couldn’t get any of them to work with my theme. I’ve been too lazy to [...]

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IT - Setting up multi-instance mysql on Windows Vs. Linux

September 19th, 2007

Posted by Hani Obaid

Technical

12 Comments

In this post, Jad suggested Linux as an alternative to expensive OS like MAC/Windows.
While I think Linux makes a wonderful server platform performance-wise, when it comes to learning-curve, and user-friendliness, it doesn’t measure up. So I would not recommend it to anyone none-technical.
This made me recall an exercise I recently went through to create a [...]

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Hani Obaid : Wohoooo fixed, firebug rocks!
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