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Dan Rubin's SuperfluousBanter

Suffering from chronic idiocy since 1977

Category Archives: Technology

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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.

I Lost My Password

How usable is secu­rity? It’s a ques­tion I’ve been ask­ing myself lately. One of the courses I attended last semes­ter was about cryp­tog­ra­phy and secure design. What got me think­ing is the fact that secu­rity is just 20% technology—80% is orga­ni­za­tional. Secu­rity is about people—about trust. The thing is, the more you try to make […]

This item was posted by dhilhorst on Wednesday, March 31st, 2004.

Usability and Business Applications

Some of you may (or may not) be famil­iar with the acronym ERP or Enter­prise Resource Plan­ning. “ERP appli­ca­tions are a type of busi­ness man­age­ment soft­ware designed to help com­pa­nies auto­mate day-to-day tasks, such as tak­ing orders, keep­ing books, and man­ag­ing human resources.” Over the last decade or so every self-respecting and com­pete­tive com­pany implemented […]

This item was posted by dhilhorst on Tuesday, March 9th, 2004.

Style Master 3.5 Quick Review

Due to rapid gain in pop­u­lar­ity of CSS-based design among web design­ers and devel­op­ers more and more spe­cial­ized WYSIWYG tools are becom­ing avail­able to edit stylesheets. Westciv’s Style­Mas­ter 3.5 is going to seduce both the novice user as well as the con­firmed stylesheet expert. Style Mas­ter 3.5 has an intu­itive and com­plete inter­face — configuring […]

This item was posted by dhilhorst on Thursday, March 4th, 2004.

The Old Technology Giveaway: Contest Results!

Finally, after care­fully review­ing every entry (read: drool­ing for hours over old junk I wish I had), I have selected the two win­ners of this oh-so-close-to-tongue-in-cheek con­test, and they likely come as no sur­prise to those who have been keep­ing up with their respec­tive entries: 1st Place: Grant Hutchin­son — Grant’s sub­mis­sions were all terrific, […]

This item was posted by Dan Rubin on Thursday, November 13th, 2003.

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