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Dan Rubin's SuperfluousBanter

Suffering from chronic idiocy since 1977

Category Archives: Internet

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The Final Word on IE6

A friend of mine recently asked the ques­tion “Why the Hate on Inter­net Explorer 6?” He explains some very log­i­cal rea­sons why it doesn’t make sense to be so neg­a­tive about IE6, and as I agree with him on just about all points, I thought I’d give the clear­est answer I could.

This item was posted by Dan Rubin on Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008.

Bigger, Better, Faster, More!

It’s offi­cial: Super­flu­ous­Ban­ter now resides on our new server, a dual PIII with 4GB of RAM run­ning Red­Hat Linux. Mmm, fast… The site should be zip­pier now (it cer­tainly rebuilds much faster in MT), which always makes for a good user expe­ri­ence. Once all the bugs are ironed out for all the other MacOS.net clients, I’ll […]

This item was posted by Dan Rubin on Friday, October 3rd, 2003.

Moving Day…

It has begun: We’re mov­ing all our sites to a new facil­ity start­ing today. If you visit MacOS.net, Web­graph, or Super­flu­ous Ban­ter dur­ing the next few days, you may reach us, you may not; you may see an error mes­sage, you may not; you may not notice any­thing at all, or cat­a­strophic errors may abound. We’ll […]

This item was posted by Dan Rubin on Wednesday, October 1st, 2003.

Web Host Suggestions

MacOS.net is mov­ing. For var­i­ous rea­sons, some finan­cial, oth­ers tech­no­log­i­cal, and a few weird ones thrown in for good mea­sure, we’re plan­ning to move all our servers from our cur­rent loca­tion in South Florida. We’re look­ing at a few co-lo ser­vices right now, as well as con­sid­er­ing drop­ping our own servers and switch­ing to Linux-based […]

This item was posted by Dan Rubin on Tuesday, September 23rd, 2003.

A Second Voice for Mezzoblue

Dave Shea kicks his site up a few notches with the intro­duc­tion of A Sec­ond Voice, a new sec­tion of mez­zoblue which fea­tures dif­fer­ent authors writ­ing about their areas of exper­tise, all relat­ing to web design in some way. The first install­ment, Build it, and They Will Come, Nic Steen­hout focuses on Acces­si­bil­ity. Check out the […]

This item was posted by Dan Rubin on Monday, August 11th, 2003.

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