HOW TO: Turn Off the Internet Explorer 5.x and 6.x 'Friendly' Error Messages
Several frequently-seen status codes have “friendly” error messages that Internet Explorer 5.x displays and that effectively mask the actual text message that the server sends. However, these “friendly” error messages are only displayed if the response that is sent to the client is less than a specified threshold. For example, to see the exact text of an HTTP 500 response, the content length must be greater than or equal to 512 bytes.
Microsoft via mail list posting by Edi Weitz — Friendly. Right. There are three ‘solutions’ provided, method 3 being the most generally useful: pad the error message until it is longer than 512 characters.
Was T.Rex Really King of hte Lizards?
in the new issue of Science, a team of researchers announced that a chemical analysis of the T. rex peptides suggests the king of the lizards is most similar to a present-day chicken. … the complicated methodology that led to the surprising discovery may also help scientists to understand cancer that metastasizes to bone.
Scientific American — Nice double discovery
Video: Cosplayer Off-Kai Ends In Police Raid
This video is awesome! So this is an Off-Kai, or an offline meeting of online friends. I think these are people who “met” on a cosplay-for-fun board on 2-channel. They met up for real in the middle of an Akihabara street on a Saturday to perform this wonderfully synchronized dance with blasted stereo music. Look how happy they look!
Then the cops show up and the music stops and everyone runs.
TOKYOMANGO via Boing Boing — Fun and surreal — which is surely the point. BTW, it is two cops who show up as far as I can tell. Amazing how that was able to break up the dance.
Twitter is an amazing success story in terms of rapid user uptake and flattering press. I had a chance to speak with the team a while back about the wild ride they’ve been on. At that time they were fielding spikes of up to 11,000 requests per second across some 16 cores with very little caching
DHH on Loud Thinking — Interesting bit of info about twitter. I wonder if this post, especially the parts about ‘giving back’ to the open source project is going to stir up some trouble??
No Need to Submit Sitemaps: Autodiscovery Emerges
Ask.com, Google, Microsoft Live Search and Yahoo announced today their support of autodiscovery of Sitemaps.
The new, open-format allows webmasters to specify the location of their Sitemaps withing their robots.txt file. This takes away the need to submit sitemaps to each search engine separately.
Well, clearly a better way to go than having to submit the site maps. I still don’t quite understand why site maps are needed or useful in the first place – what’s wrong with crawling?
I don’t know whether Monty Python ever wrote a gag on programming languages, but if they did, this Erlang video must be it. The funniest thing is that it is pretty serious…
via Erlang Now! — This has made the rounds a few times, if you haven’t seen it you’ll be astounded: is this serious or a put on?
Code of Conduct: Lessons Learned So Far
Rather than responding in detail to the many comments on my Draft of a Bloggers’ Code of Conduct or the earlier Call for a Blogger’s Code of Conduct, as well as some of the thoughtful discussion on other blogs, I thought I’d summarize some of my chief takeaways from the discussion so far.
Tim O'Reilly — This is looooong — I suppose I should read it, but I haven’t yet. Thought I’d mention it anyway.
“A few days ago, I received an e-mail from Arizona State University about the RIAA coming to campus to give a talk about copyright and the state of the music industry as part of ASU’s Security Awareness Week. I went this morning, and it was fairly interesting. David Hughes is the Senior Vice President of Technology for the RIAA,” Anthony Garone blogs.
MacDailyNews — Amazing.
