http://www.blink7.com Making Technology Interesting Tue, 03 Jun 2008 03:24:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Who are the Demo Writers? The typical demogroup consists of coders, musicians and graphics artists (sometimes referred to as graphicians). Some prominent scene figures (e.g. Laxity/Kefrens) perform multiple roles. Many legendary demogroups, like Razor 1911 and Fairlight, have roots in software piracy. In fact, the demo scene itself evolved ... http://www.blink7.com/2008/06/02/amiga-demos-102-desert-dream/ What is a Demo? A “demo” (short for demonstration) is a multimedia presentation designed to show off both the graphical capabilities of the computer and prowess of the programmer. The Commodore Amiga was a popular platform for demo creators due to its advanced (for the time) and standardized hardware (as ... http://www.blink7.com/2008/05/30/amiga-demos-101-state-of-the-art/ What is Hotlinking? Hotlinking (also known as inline linking, piggybacking, leeching and bandwidth theft) refers to when one site links directly to an object on a second site. Typically, the object is a picture that can then be displayed on the linking site without the owner having to copy the ... http://www.blink7.com/2008/05/21/tutorial-adding-hotlink-protection-to-wordpress/ Identifying the Problem Using CPanel, you turn on Hotlink protection to prevent outside hot linking to your files from unauthorized sites. Enabling Hotlink protection causes a 404 error for previously-working Wordpress URL’s http://www.blink7.com/2008/05/19/fixing-the-cpanel-hotlink-error-in-wordpress/ Simplicity is key when presenting statistics to management or customers. Data analysts are often tempted to put as many details as possible on the standard “one sheet” template; however, too many numbers on a page can cause confusion about where to initially focus. When reducing the number of ... http://www.blink7.com/2008/04/12/excel-tutorial-using-conditional-formats-for-traffic-lighting/ When performing data analysis on a cohort population, it is often desirable to categorize characteristics can have many values. Age, income level and credit card score are examples of population attributes that can be placed into “buckets” and easily analyzed based on broad categories (without having resort to linear ... http://www.blink7.com/2008/02/28/sas-tutorial-creating-categories-with-proc-format/ Imagine you are given a list of major Canadian political donators and wish to load it into SAS for further analysis. The list is in a text file with fields delimited by tab characters. SAS Enterprise Guide (EG) offers wizards to automatically import a variety of file formats, ... http://www.blink7.com/2008/01/25/tutorial-loading-tab-delimited-files-with-sas/ When buying electronics, two factors remain relatively consistent - If it's new, it costs a lot more If Sony is involved, it costs a lot more Yet, even these two truisms fail to account the the $699cdn (roughly the same in American dollars) price tag placed on a (third-party!) Memory stick currently ... http://www.blink7.com/2008/01/23/the-699-memory-stick/ Phishing, in practical terms, is an attack used by hackers to gain access to private information such as credit card numbers, social insurance numbers and user passwords. Rather than breaking down a physical or technological barrier, phishing is a social engineering attack where targets are typically duped into providing ... http://www.blink7.com/2007/12/26/tutorial-spotting-a-phishing-scam-in-your-email/ What is Digg? Generally referred to as a social news site, Digg is technically a user-driven news aggregator. Registered Digg users can “digg” (i.e. bookmark and submit) an article on a web page by submitting a URL, along with a brief description. URL submissions are placed on display for ... http://www.blink7.com/2007/12/20/tutorial-manually-adding-digg-support-to-wordpress/