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  1. Ground School by jmagar.com · · Score: 1, Interesting · on Non-Geeky Gifts for Tech Geeks

    These are nice and all that. But the best gift this season, at least for me, is Ground School. Gaining my private pilots license is a dream, and the ground school part is a great way to begin. It's relatively cheap compared to the hours of flight time. And it allows for the dreamer (me) to decide quickly whether or not they have the commitment to the dream or not.

  2. We need good developers in the Toronto Area... by jmagar.com · · Score: 1 · on Programming Until Retirement?
    I'm hiring! I'm not looking for enterprise SQL Server people, but low level C programmers. OpenGL is an asset, but I'm also looking for good people with experience: Java, Stereoscopic, MPEG, DTV, ATSC, Quality Assurance Testers, WinCE, VxWorks, Embedded Linux, Greenhills Integrity, etc. I've got 20 positions to fill TODAY! (some in the Waterloo area, some in Markham, and the rest in our Toronto HQ)

    If your buddies (or you) are interested swing by my blog: www.jmagar.com

    There's more info there, and link to the corporate website...

  3. I can't help but do a little astro trufing.... by jmagar.com · · Score: 5, Informative · on Content Syndication With RSS
    If you run PHP / MySQL website, and want a free and powerful RSS content syndication engine that easily integrates with any architecture check out MyHeadlines. Already having been ported to PHPNuke, PostNuke, Xoops, MyPHPNuke, PHPWebsite, and a Stand Alone version is also available. The easy CMS abstraction layer lets you integrate with just about any PHP based web site. It comes with a catagorized database of over 3000 feeds, and features a scraper subsystem for constructing new RSS feeds for sites that don't produce their own.

    Cheers,
    Mike

  4. Doing this right now... by jmagar.com · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Do You Write Backdoors?

    I have been pondering the implications of this type of thing for a while now. I am currently building in a backdoor AND telling the user about it. You can read more of the discussion here:

    Remote Code Hosting

  5. Re:It's not about technology by jmagar.com · · Score: 1 · on Websites Complaining About Screen-Scraping
    Slashdot has eaten my original reply: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=53128&cid=5255 436

    Anyway, I think the document referred to is this one:

    Template Based Scripting

    Looking forward to your RSS feeds, so that I can turn of my scrapper.

    Cheers,
    Mike

  6. Re:It's not about technology by jmagar.com · · Score: 1 · on Websites Complaining About Screen-Scraping

    Woohoo! RSS would have saved me the time of scraping your site. The scraper grabs the headlines, and links directly back to your site's content. If anything you should see more traffic as the headlines reach more eyeballs now.

    Here's the document in question:

    Template Based Scraping

    Cheers,
    Mike

  7. MyHeadlines @ www.jmagar.com by jmagar.com · · Score: 1 · on New Linux News Portal - LinuxDailyNews
    If you run a PHPNuke, PostNuke, Xoops, MyPHPNuke, or any MySQL and PHP based website you should really check out MyHeadlines. It allows each of your users to subscribe to what ever news feeds thay want, it comes with a categorized DB of over 2500 sources. This module can plug directly into your site, and is fully customizable with a documented API.

    Get it here: http://www.jmagar.com

    Cheers,
    Mike

  8. MyHeadlines @ www.jmagar.com by jmagar.com · · Score: 1 · on New Linux News Portal - LinuxDailyNews
    If you run a PHPNuke, PostNuke, Xoops, MyPHPNuke, or any MySQL and PHP based website you should really check out MyHeadlines. It allows each of your users to subscribe to what ever news feeds thay want, it comes with a categorized DB of over 2500 sources. This module can plug directly into your site, and is fully customizable with a documented API.

    Get it here: http://www.jmagar.com

    Cheers,
    Mike

  9. A weak Canadian Dollar is GOOD for Canada! by jmagar.com · · Score: 1 · on Giant Neutrino Detector, 2km Underground
    A weak dollar is good for the Canadian economy because it is an incentive for American business to trade with Canada. If you get 1.45 for every dollar north of the border then you'll buy that Canadian thing-a-ma-jig instead of one found in you borders. (not gonna discuss NAFTA and how that also helps Canada and Mexico)


    So your 0.67 is now in circulation in Canada and some Canadian gets to buy groceries. A weak CDN Dollar is the reason why we have a tremendous export surplus with the US.
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    www.jmagar.com

  10. Re:will the real FP please stand up by jmagar.com · · Score: 1 · on Turbolinux Layoffs

    Hot Damn that's good!

    Cheers Mate!
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    www.jmagar.com

  11. It's all about metrics... by jmagar.com · · Score: 1 · on Stuffing Junkmail Postage-Paid Envelopes?
    Has anyone considered why they insist on using mass mailings as advertising? How do they measure the success of such activities?


    So pretend for a second you're a Marketing executive and your company uses mass mailings as a vehicle for advertisement. In the past you had a reply rate of less than 3%. You know this by taking the accounting totals for reply envelopes for this month and divide by the "$0.33" value to get the number of responses. This over your outgoing totals gives you your total response rate. Pretty logical way of measuring the success of a mailing list.


    Now the next month the reply rate soars to 6% due to many of the silly ideas posted here. You are now "King of the Hill", the best damn Marketing executive this company ever had. You may or may not know why the reply rate increased, but you sure as hell are going to use the same list again! Hell you just doubled your marketing dollar, you may even consider expanding your mailing advertising budget! Way to go /.'ers you just validated the whole damn junk mail model!
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    www.jmagar.com