Between a morning and afternoon of meetings to pitch a new product idea, I snuck in a rather surreal lunchtime trip to an auction preview of assets from a bankrupted optical networking company.
I knew a lot of people that worked for the place. It had a reputation of severely overpaying employees and burning venture [...]
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Do you hate being forced to look at ads while you putter around the web? Me too. For that reason I've been blocking advertising servers with my own compilation of ad server filters for quite some time. The fantastic Firefox (formerly Firebird) browser/AdBlock combination makes this method seem redundant for browsing with [...]
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Several days ago I began to notice a large amount of HTTP traffic from 147.27.1.194 (hydralix.softnet.tuc.gr), which is a part of the SoftNet Lab at the University of Crete in Greece.
After some digging, I realized that the server was either proxying or flat-out duplicating (both, perhaps) my entire site. Either way, visiting that address [...]
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