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As buzzwordy as Web 2.0 is, end-user content is rapidly becoming the majority of the visible end-user internet experience (e.g. Digg, MySpace, Facebook, etc.) With thousands/millions of users posting content, XSS filters start to become an arms race against the latest techniques. With Internet Explorer even rendering code with as valid code. Even when filters are put into place, all it takes is one XSS virus to take down an entire website.

Even disabling Javascript content all together in websites, with user content, other methods can be used to steal cookies/sessions/user credentials. Flash attacks are becoming more and more common, and are near impossible to protect against. Users demand dynamic user-driven content, the companies comply, I'm just surprised this hasn't been more prevalent.

--Joel
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Acording to google 25 GB in 42 minutes is 10,000 KB+ / s

--Joel
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So why do we pass it if it can't be enforced fully? Think about it, the answer is always money or despotism.

read more on my blog.

Done and done.

http://toba.ath.cx:724/downloads/misc/nsa_evidence .tgz

or somehow account for approximately 60 tons of missing aircraft debris at the Pentagon.

Huh?

Let's take a step back for a moment:

1. There were dozens upon dozens of eyewitness reports who say that a commercial jetliner was what crashed into the Pentagon. These were all just ordinary people, going about their business in the DC area, some affiliated with government and/or miltary, some not. Of the witnesses who say it "sounded" like a missile (note the word "sounded"): how is that even relevant? I ask because of the obvious: how many of these people even know what a missile "sounds" like? How many people have heard a commercial jetliner just hundreds of feet (and at some point, tens of feet) off the ground travelling at ~400-500mph? And to repeat, many, many, many people reported directly seeing an American Airlines commercial jetliner.

2. All of the "conspiracy" reports talk about how "no wreckage" was found at the scene. That is patently false. There was TONS of Boeing 757 wreckage recovered, in total, from the Pentagon. Ironically, here are even large pieces of 757 wreckage visible in the photos used to try to "prove" there was no wreckage! Not to mention that the air disaster photos picked for the video were no doubt picked because there WAS wreckage.

3. Remains 184 of 189 of the victims aboard flight 77 were identified AT THE SCENE from DNA: http://www.dcmilitary.com/army/stripe/6_48/nationa l_news/12279-1.html

4. The ONLY place I've EVER seen any claims about supposed video from the Sheraton, gas stations, etc., is in the internet flash video. I have seen no reference or proof ANYWHERE else, from ANY source, that videos have supposedly been confiscated "minutes" later by the FBI.

5. Also, stop and think about this: where was the (visible) "wreckage" from the WTC towers? Is the only reason we even believe that commercial planes crashed into the towers is because we were able to see it with our own eyes? And even that isn't enough for the conspiracy theorists: they still claim that the WTC towers were *rigged with explosives*, such that they could be made to fall AFTER jetliners rammed into the buildings!

For a detailed analysis, see:

Detailed analysis of building, crash, and events:
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/pages/911_pentagon_7 57_plane_evidence.html
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread79655/pg 1

Article debunking the conspiracy story:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2004/11 0804factsstraight.htm

http://www.snopes.com/rumors/pentagon.htm

http://anderson.ath.cx:8000/911/pen06.html

Purdue University also did a simulation, with associated report, that approximates what happened to flight 77 that day:

http://www.cs.purdue.edu/cgvlab/projects/popescu/p entagonVis_files/pentagonVis2003.mpg
http://www.cs.purdue.edu/cgvlab/projects/popescu/p entagonVis_files/paper_422.pdf

And finally, you might be interested in a test done years ago at Sandia National Laboratory, in which an F-4 was crashed into a concrete wall. Not a 757 and not the Pentagon, but I'd implore you to find any recognizable "wreckage":

http://www.sandia.gov/media/mov_mpg/f_4crash_test_ slow.mpg

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This reminds me of the worst website ever...which was trying to make a fool of a random bulletin voting service. This site does nothing but hosts bulletins, but yet you can vote as many times as you like if you remove the unique identifier from the action. here check it out. Worst Website Ever and please click vote like a hundred times it's amusing

I believe the PLF folks are working on a PLF for Ubuntu.

http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/doc/plf
http://placelibre.ath.cx/keyes/index.php/2005/10/1 4/56-plf-ubuntu-meeting-summary

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You laugh, but my university really did.

OK, not really really. It was a prank by a secret society.

ZyDas provided an open source driver for their
USB 802.11G chips.

Ralink appears to have done the same thing.

Since the drivers are still somewhat in their infancy, your mileage may vary, but it appears that both vendors (Which comprise many of the USB thumb sized adapters out there...) have stepped up to the plate and provided source and technical data to back it up with. There's been decent reports of usability with the Hawking model using ZyDas' chipset. At least for now, devices like the Hawking HWU54G adapter are largely supported in some mode that is remotely usable. I suspect that by the end of year that the driver sets for these two vendors' chips will end up in the kernel proper.

Before you throwing in the towel, check out the following website:

http://zd1211.ath.cx/
(It used to be hosted at http://zd1211.sourceforge.net/ before moving to this new site.)

This project was started a while back to support the ZyDAS ZD1211 chipset in Linux. As it states on the site, the code was originally donated by ZyDAS. Sometime last year, I managed to contact their tech support and request another kind gesture to the open source community. A few emails later, they released an update to their original code. If I'm not mistaken, the version at the project's website has incorporated the improvements made in the company's updated code. The ZD1211 project also has a list of USB adapters that carry the ZD1211 chipset.

After checking out the project's website, check out the vendor's page as they have been keeping up with their pledge of helping out the open source community by releasing updated drivers. As a bonus, they have also released an updated **WPA Supplicant**. Enjoy fellow /.'ers!!

ZyDAS' ZD1211 download page:

http://www.zydas.com.tw/downloads/download-1211.as p

Disclaimer: I am in no way affiliated with ZyDAS. I just believe it is commendable that a company responded to a request to support the open source community and is actively doing so by publishing updated drivers.

Good luck to us all!

There are quite a lot of USB 802.11b/g dongles out there containing the zydas zd1211 chipset, which has a reasonably active GPL development effort based at http://zd1211.ath.cx/, including ongoing work from the manufacturers, and aiming eventually for inclusion in the main kernel tree. My company has had a lot of success using devices with this chipset under linux.

I recently bought a Zyxel ZyAIR G-220, for the sole reason that Zyxel open sourced their drivers. They are not to pretty, and it took me about 4 hours to get it to work (mostly due to unrelated compile errors), but it works fine.

If you want drivers to improve, then show companys that do make linux drivers for their wireless cards that you support them, and buy their hardware. Zyxel opened up their drirers, and a soureforge projet was setup to improve them. http://zd1211.ath.cx/

function createXMLHttpRequest() {
        try { return new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP"); } catch(e) {}
        try { return new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP"); } catch(e) {}
        try { return new XMLHttpRequest(); } catch(e) {}
        alert("XMLHttpRequest not supported");
        return null;
}

While you're waiting for this to show up, there's a realtime way of doing this in AJAX now: AJAX translator, and I could see this making it's way in a website, or forum to provide the same 'on the fly' translation of text. With all that's been done with the internet, it's still pretty segmented in terms of languages; this would open up that knot.

I agree with many of the statements that Linus made. I have been GNOME-faithful for 2 years and features disapear ALL of the time! Examples:

The Open Terminal in the right-click menu on the desktop.. required a hack to get it back and many other right click functionality on the desktop and in Nautilus. I can't seem to remember what is missing anymore because they are GONE!

Overall, I tried KDE and it's so-so. I can't get used to using it, I feel like many people in the community, it has toooo many options and other stuff. I happen to enjoy the look and feel of GNOME but hate it when they remove shit that I use.

--
http://52reasons.ath.cx/

http://www.wikipediaclassaction.org/

They sent me this email after I asked why they where doing this:

Hello,

You do not understand the issues here, so perhaps, it is best for you to
sit this one out on the side.

Why must I become involved in the Wikipedia website? If there is
offending or inaccurate content, about me, my business or family, why
should I be required to become a user and edit the content?

I am interested to learn why you thought I would be interested in your
comments.

Regards,

--
http://52reasons.ath.cx/

Probably you're right, people gets confused with some many linux distributions. In order to solve that I show them Ubuntu, I tell them use Ubuntu (not linux). Eventually they'll say "Ah! it's linux", but by then they're already in.

I had the same problem with the multimedia stuff, that's until I ask them run Easy Ubunutu after installing ubuntu to get all multimedia codecs you need and much more.

My last conversion occured last friday. A colleague installed Ubuntu on his laptop, it recognized everything the first time, and he's a happy Linux guy now.

Every time I get someone to try Linux I'm amazed on how positive their reaction is.

<Evil Mode>Now I have to continue with my plans to slowly but gradually start showing linux beauty to the whole company (20000+ Employees) in order to throw windows out of here some day.</Evil Mode>

Are you sure you didn't post a link to your blog because of this: http://evilempire.ath.cx/node/88

(You're welcome)

They'll give you the ability to buy television programs. Bye Bye cable bill.

I wrote about this Last Month

You can do a much better raytracer with canvas than without it - previously you'd have needed a large table or many divs to display the image, but with canvas the output can actually be drawn properly.

yeah, totem sucks big time. I use vlc for most of videos I watch. If something doesn't want to work, I try Xine (sometimes it helps). If I need subtitles for some reason, MPlayer is the way to go (it needed some tweaking, though... like adding a default font and changing some setting to make full screen work correctly).

anyways, it's a good idea to run Easy Ubuntu after you install the system. It downloads and installs a lot of proprietary stuff (various audio and video codecs, skype, etc).

This is not a complete list, but Reason and GarageBand are not free nor open source, so these links might be useful:

- ardour, Digital Audio workstation / http://ardour.org/
- Rosegarden, audio and MIDI sequencer, score editor, and general-purpose music composition and editing environment / http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/
- LilyPond, music notation / http://lilypond.org/web/
- MusE MIDI/Audio sequencer / http://muse.serverkommune.de/
- Audacity, music editing station / http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
- Music Theory (free, not oss): http://www.musictheory.net/ and http://andyvn.ath.cx/Software-Aquallegro.php
- general link: http://linux-sound.org/

Cheers :-)

actual quotes in fortune format mostly from this channel over the years http://lez.ath.cx:800/~ohsix/dumquotes.txt

• Add extra repositories for installing a lot of additional software.
• Install multimedia codecs for reading all videos, musics and DVDs.
• Activate the "audio preview" feature in Nautilus.
• Install the most needed Firefox plugins: Flash, Java, Real, videos. Adds Microsoft fonts, GNOME's Firefox buttons, officials Firefox icons.
• Install archiving support for RAR and ACE.
• Install the most used peer-to-peer softwares: aMule (a clone of eMule) and Azureus (for Bittorent).
• Install the Skype voice-over-IP software. (Warning: at this time Skype is not packaged for Breezy so install don't work)
• MSN: Install AMSN cvs with webcam support.
• Num lock: Active the num lock at system startup.
• Replace the GNOME foot logo with Ubuntu's logo.
• Install the NVIDIA or ATI driver for 3D support.

WoW works good in cedega.

Here is a page with screens: http://transgaming.org/gamesdb/games/view.mhtml?ga me_id=3518

And here is a wiki page talking about known issues etc: http://digital-conquest.ath.cx/wiki/index.php/Worl d_of_Warcraft

It is also an officially supported game by cedega so you can expect help and stuff to get it going tip-top.

Is this his hand?

I can't believe that Apple managed to design, prototype, test, mass produce, market and ship the iPod in 9 months. They did. This article talks about how Apple hired Tony Fadell in early 2001 to begin development of the iPod. They worked with PortalPlayer on the hardware, and developed the software in conjunction with Pixo, Inc. According to this article, Pixo didn't even get the call from Apple until late spring 2001. It was a rushed product because they were so behind in that market, but it turned out to be one of the most successful things they ever did.

Cedega is a mixed bag.Some of my Favorites play great. HalfLife 1 & 2. StarWars Jedi Academy and JK1&2, WoW, GuildWars.

Some of my favorites Don't Play at all. Prince Of Persia, HULK, Legacy of Kain:DEFIANCE...HALO

Always check the wiki before purchasing. http://digital-conquest.ath.cx/wiki/index.php/Main _Page

I support TransGaming with a subscription, almost against my better judgement, because I believe those $5 monthly reciepts show a viable market to the developers. It shows that I use Linux AND buy my software. I also purchase every Linux Game I can find even if its an old LOKI game collecting dust on the shelf. These sales, if made in sufficient quantities, will convince them to port more. NATIVE UT2K4, Awesome under Linux. Have not bought Doom3 yet. Waiting on Quake4.

I wish there were no need for Cedega. But until there isn't, I'll use it.

I don't use GIMP on Windows, because on Windows I have Paint Shop Pro, which for what it's worth I believe to be the most underappreciated graphics editing app ever and one of only two apps which I feel justified in paying money for.

I'm not a professional graphics editor, I just use editors casually for vector, raster, web, and (most of the time) photo editing work. I know a bit about various editing and filter features, workflow organizations in different editors, and so on. I know PSP is absolutely amazing in terms of saving my time - last weekend I spent maybe five hours to go from my camera's output to 200 best picks, all retouched to the best of my liking. I know it would take me days to do that in GIMP, considering how disjointed its interface is when it's not the only thing on the desktop and how it doesn't have many of the adaptive filters I was using in PSP. Frankly, I'm sure the same thing would happen for original graphics workflow, since GIMP doesn't have any of the integrated vector features of PSP. But then GIMP obviously has the advantages of being open and running under Linux.

I tried Krita, and found it to be very feature-incomplete. It has far less features than GIMP, and I've already mentioned how many features I think GIMP has. I'm sure that if I spent more time in GIMP I would be able to use it more efficiently, but I think the lack of an MDI is a fundamental shortcoming and I won't invest my time in learning more until I see it fixed or hack up a fix myself (the first month of the first semester of grad school is not the best time to do that, you know...)

Arcanum - I played Arcanum in 4.3 and at least half of the listed issues have been fixed. I guess I am not doing my wiki duty, I will install the game again and update that entry when I get a chance.

Evil Genius, not working due to texturing problems. Also annoyances during install.

Bloodlines works with nVidia, not our fault ati drivers suck.

Call it 1.5/3 since the two that work arent perfect. Not horrible considering the popularity of those games. I am a great collector of obscure RPGs and RTS games, and I do my best to make sure the ones I own are represented in the games database and the support voting.

Arcanum - I played Arcanum in 4.3 and at least half of the listed issues have been fixed. I guess I am not doing my wiki duty, I will install the game again and update that entry when I get a chance.

Evil Genius, not working due to texturing problems. Also annoyances during install.

Bloodlines works with nVidia, not our fault ati drivers suck.

Call it 1.5/3 since the two that work arent perfect. Not horrible considering the popularity of those games. I am a great collector of obscure RPGs and RTS games, and I do my best to make sure the ones I own are represented in the games database and the support voting.

I second to that... I'm getting the "Tetris decease" once again.
I'm trying to blast off real things wherever I go:

http://discoboy.ath.cx/pics/IMG_1806.JPG (105k)
http://discoboy.ath.cx/pics/remote_meteos.jpg (56k)
http://discoboy.ath.cx/pics/meteos_hus.jpg (66k)
http://discoboy.ath.cx/pics/meteos_plant.jpg (105k)

Meteos addict since 12th of August...

I second to that... I'm getting the "Tetris decease" once again.
I'm trying to blast off real things wherever I go:

http://discoboy.ath.cx/pics/IMG_1806.JPG (105k)
http://discoboy.ath.cx/pics/remote_meteos.jpg (56k)
http://discoboy.ath.cx/pics/meteos_hus.jpg (66k)
http://discoboy.ath.cx/pics/meteos_plant.jpg (105k)

Meteos addict since 12th of August...

I second to that... I'm getting the "Tetris decease" once again.
I'm trying to blast off real things wherever I go:

http://discoboy.ath.cx/pics/IMG_1806.JPG (105k)
http://discoboy.ath.cx/pics/remote_meteos.jpg (56k)
http://discoboy.ath.cx/pics/meteos_hus.jpg (66k)
http://discoboy.ath.cx/pics/meteos_plant.jpg (105k)

Meteos addict since 12th of August...

I second to that... I'm getting the "Tetris decease" once again.
I'm trying to blast off real things wherever I go:

http://discoboy.ath.cx/pics/IMG_1806.JPG (105k)
http://discoboy.ath.cx/pics/remote_meteos.jpg (56k)
http://discoboy.ath.cx/pics/meteos_hus.jpg (66k)
http://discoboy.ath.cx/pics/meteos_plant.jpg (105k)

Meteos addict since 12th of August...

Well, look at that...they are not even listed in the Unofficial Transgaming Wiki which either means they are very new or not enough interest.

Harass the game developers about this (even though we know it's futile, but bug them anyway)
Maybe I should stop voting these games down in the voting process? naw =P

http://animefreak.ath.cx:9000/index.php/2005/07/24 /telus-tell-us-we-suck/

With your logic, here are valid reasons for blocking everything else.

http://mistercow.ath.cx/

The F-2 is the new Japanese frontline fighter and employs stealth technology developed by Japanese engineers. The F-2 is distinctly inferior to the American F-22 but is a source of pride for the Japanese military.

In about 5 years, Tokyo will deploy the new F-2 Super Kai, an improved version of the F-2. The Japanese military has already released pictures of a preliminary model. It should be quite effective an slaying Godzilla or the Chinese military.

The pictures of the F-2 Super Kai are awesome. What's this? I'm salivating.

And you can thank people like this for messing it up for us. If you don't want to see anime banned because some idiot can't keep her children away from porn, contact your senators or congressmen and let them know you're an adult with a mind of your own who is quite legally entitled to watch "risque" animation.

I've been using the following; which seems to work pretty good:

http://dkpinteractive.ath.cx/scripts/AJAXRequest.j s

Regards.

As long as there is money left in the world - they wont stop bitching. :)

Meh, I don't download music at all - I only use the net for /. and the busiest anime site on the web. http://sexyanime.ath.cx/

I decided to have short cables dangling out of the phone to avoid doing permanent modifications to the case. I unplug the phone when using the phone with my computer and I unplug the computer connections when using it as a phone. I've also used the "spkr" connection to record phone conversations.

My grandparents had something similar happen to them. Except they desserved it, a bunch of garbage in the front yard. http://chadwick.ath.cx/ -Chadwick Ferugson

http://chadwick.ath.cx/ I hate DHS or is it DSHS?

something truly embarrassing is going to be displayed on all of those big displays.

something like this?

(work safe link)
(really!)

Mounting the fan this way would help, but it seems difficult to scale up to multiple drives. On my home system, I have two hard drives in large CD-ROM bays and want to mount one low speed fan that blows air past the drives from the front of the case to the back.

I've jerry-rigged this already with some tape. The CPU temperature dropped by 20F, and the hard drive's temperature dropped to room temperature + 5F. (I also opened up the front of the case which probably helped a lot...)

The problem is that the installation looks terrible, and is noisy, since the fan is exposed to the outside of the case. Also, I don't really trust the tape to hold up over time.

I would like to do something that is more permanent and that is completely internal.

Hard drives have screw holes on the bottom that can be used for mounting, but these holes aren't used by the hard drive brackets that I have.

Perhaps one of them could be used to mount an 80mm fan like this, entirely inside of the case. (Some other case fan would be needed to provide fresh air, but this would make sure that the drives had air-flow.)

Here's the tricky part. I've drawn the fan so that it is flush with the cd-rom and the top of the case. It turns out that standard 80mm fans actually do take up all of the space. So, what type of commonly available, cheap mounting bracket will connect one of the screw holes on the bottom of the drive to the mounting hole on the fan? I think the best way to go is to pick something that will bend, and then use 2-4 of them to keep the fan from moving. Any ideas?

You could check out my site for a radar map that covers the Bay Area. I have some satellite animations as well.
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Hope it helps! Feedback is always wanted.