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Hisso Hathair: A Brief History of Trademarks
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Sunday, 23 December 2012. A Brief History of Trademarks. Of all the regulatory systems that get lumbered with the umbrella of “intellectual property”, Trademarks. Is the one with the oldest history. Popular accounts date trademarks back to the troglodytes. Troglodytes loved their trademarks. Apparently. Cave paintings demonstrate the importance of leaving one’s mark on things, in much the same way as Coca-Cola likes to leave its mark on bottles of fizzy sugar water. Would otherwise have us stay. The mark...
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Hisso Hathair: May 2013
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Friday, 17 May 2013. A brief history of registered designs. Oh man, I clearly did not. 160;want to write this post. This one has been a long time coming. Part of the problem is that Registered Designs are relentlessly boring. From the point of view of a philosophy of IP it doesnt get more utilitarian than RDs. 160;for patterns on linen. Hang on to your hats incredulous readers because it only gets more exciting from here. . Sorry No it doesnt. The shape of the Holden Monaro:. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Hisso Hathair: The Intellectual Property Metaphor
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Friday, 9 November 2012. The Intellectual Property Metaphor. There is no such thing as intellectual property. Is probably the best known person who has made this argument. Stallman wrote. As more and more of a nation's economy becomes invested in these rights over intangible things, forcing both a rethink of how we manage such rights in parallel with an increasingly vocal effort to cement "intellectual property" into place. The sweat of the brow. However - it was just a metaphor. I've started to wond...
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Hisso Hathair: An idea for a teeny-tiny web developer's toolkit
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Monday, 17 November 2008. An idea for a teeny-tiny web developer's toolkit. Every now and then I need to work out what's gone wrong with a production web server. Maybe it was a deployment issue, or a configuration issue or maybe something has broken. I'm sometimes wondering "what on Earth is that server saying to this browser? Which is so awesome. It lets you observe SSL encrypted traffic between client and server. Serve local files to the browser instead of server files and "spoof" DNS addresses. Printf...
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Hisso Hathair: A Brief History of Patents
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Monday, 10 December 2012. A Brief History of Patents. You have to feel a little sad for Filippo. He was an amazing artistic. Genius. He was revered in his own lifetime. He had convinced his government that he had an amazing and revolutionary invention that needed an extraordinary protection if he were to go ahead and build it. But mere hours after its launch his creation, his pride, and a sizeable part of his fortune lay at the bottom of the Arno river. To complete the dome Filippo had to invent new hois...
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Hisso Hathair: Welcome to ASZ.COm.Au (Or, The Resolver Library is Broken)
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Thursday, 30 April 2009. Welcome to ASZ.COm.Au (Or, The Resolver Library is Broken). A few days ago, I did a Google search and got the strangest error. A 404 (File Not Found) page that claimed to be from Apache with PHP and Frontpage extensions loaded. Google doesn't run Apache. Since that was A Very Odd Thing Indeed I went to the Google home page. This time I got a new message. Welcome to ASZ.COm.Au" (for some reason, I feel it's important to preserve the capitalisation). A discussion about the issue.
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Hisso Hathair: Rough Cuts: Cut
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Wednesday, 14 November 2012. I had a few posts here titled "rough cuts." They were essentially unstructured drafts that were just brain dumps. As such they seldom made much sense. So I've removed them from here (really I just marked them as "revert to draft"). Update: I've moved them over to my Tumblr page. What's a Rough Cut? But here "rough cut" means "unfinished thought or unpolished post" - it's thinking out loud and really only meant to help me sort out things in my head. Tuning Nagios Load Checks.
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Hisso Hathair: March 2013
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Friday, 15 March 2013. I started playing around with a new way of debugging web apps. I basically piped the HTTP stream through UNIX pipes, using a combination of Perl scripts and other commands to modify HTTP headers and bodies on their way to and from the browser. I've just started playing with the concept again and this time I've put the code on GitHub. It's still in its really early days and I really only ever have time these days to pick at it occasionally. Introducing Mumpsimus: An experiment.
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Hisso Hathair: September 2012
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Thursday, 27 September 2012. Monday, 24 September 2012. I've neglected this blog for a lot of reasons. The main one being that I didn't feel I had anything to say. I still feel that way. But there are some things it will be helpful to write down, and this place is as good as any. So I'm rebooting the blog. I'm moving from being a "villain" to a "super villain." It's all in the presentation you see. :). Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Tuning Nagios Load Checks. UPDATE: Ive released the code that I referred to...
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Hisso Hathair: The Top 5 Things You Will Forget to do This Morning
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Wednesday, 21 November 2012. The Top 5 Things You Will Forget to do This Morning. You will forget that you promised yourself you'd do real work. Checking your dozens of inboxes. You will forget that thing. That you needed to do. you know. the one. with the thing. For the colleague with the other thing. Remember? I'm hoping) you'll forget to unsubscribe or unfollow moi. You will forget to stop being sucked in by posts that start "Top [number] somethings. You will forget the fifth thing. UPDATE: Ive releas...