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Oh great, another article written to sound like LDAP hasn't got past the experimental dabbling stage.

LDAP has had support in Netscape 4 and Mozilla for quite a while. Here's a fairly old HOWTO I wrote: How to set up LDAP in Mozilla 0.9.2.

How many people here went through school and actually realised there is no such thing as partially transparent?

The word you want is translucent. DO YOU HEAR ME ROAR! TRANSLUCENT!!!

I think I'll go lie down now ...

Have a look at the terminology.

A while back Microsoft was in town running a conference. One of the gigs they had was a little party out at a local theme park. I copied my mate's ID card, and we waltzed up to the gate. We were let through without even being asked for ID, and we were free to enjoy the food and rides all night. :-)

Complete story.

It isn't quite so advanced, but simply add advertiser domains to your restricted sites zone. In the restricted sites zone they will have no Java, cookies, or Javascript - all of which are annoying.

You'll still see the images though, but that's what my Squid proxy is for. (I don't want to pay to see your adverts. It's my bandwidth and money dammit.)

You also forgot that you need to remove quotes as well.

When it helpfully fills in a text box, you have to escape the quotes. Take this example:

<input value="DATA">

Now we craft the malicious string ( " onfocus="alert('howdy'); ) and place it in the text box like so:

<input value="" onfocus="alert('howdy');">

See also my article on Accepting input and malicious script insertion.

Lots of sites are vulnerable. Lots of sites have lazy developers.

Indeed it does! However that stops everything that attempts to pop up a window. Including Mozilla's very own bug helper form.

The solution is to disable Javascript then use: this one I believe.

Any website that depends on Javascript should be spurned.

100% quoting of a document is not fair use.

If someone visits my homepages, grabs one sentence and applies SmartQuotes to it, that is fair use. If they do it to every sentence, they are stealing my intellectual property.

Now, my website is distributed under the OpenContent license. If they do not comply with clause 2a they are violating the license under which I allow them to download from my website. They are violating my license. It's MY website. It is still MY file no matter where it is.

(Clause 2a: a) You must cause the modified content to carry prominent notices stating that you changed it, the exact nature and content of the changes, and the date of any change.)

Purple underline eh? That'll go nicely with my site colours.

Seriously ... purple wiggly lines are a stupid idea. Here are some reasons:

• Is it purple? Not everyone can see colour as well as the next blue-eyed cloned Aryan. People reading the web right now have disabilities that don't let them tell whether than link is purple or grbleen.
• On the web, someone could have trashed it with CSS. (As parent post noted.) How many times have you seen a fresh, un-visited link, and it is the purple "you just clicked me" colour? Colours don't mean anything. Wiggly lines, straight lines, kinky lines, no lines. What does it matter? It's a link.
• People don't understand. Already any features past left-click, reload, stop, and back are boggling people's brains. Do you think they can handle another feature? (Personally I think reload and stop are advanced features, seeing the way newbies don't use them.) Folks look at the wiggly underlines in Word and say "HEY! I didn't underline that!". Wait until a Frontpage user previews his website and sees all these MSSmartTags(TM) on his document. Won't he be confused?

Friends don't let friends do Microsoft.

IMO this is due to pop culture's perception of hacking. If I told people that I was hacking some code people I know would swoon at the thought of my 'illegal' behaiour.

The school threatened the poor guy and got all up tight and crazy about it and scared the crap (and life) out of him.

That's a real pity. Maybe they should have got a clue about security instead.

My worst crime at school was programming stuff when I should have been writing essays. Ooops. A week without computer access. But even with that black mark against me I still had the root password and was responsible for adding new users and resetting passwords. Props to my old school.

Giving away your code for free, or even letting other people copy your code is usually NOT a viable business model. Microsoft does not develop custom projects.

Using an 'open' license does not force you to give your code away for free.

Have you taken the time to read the GPL (as an example of a open license)? It says that you can charge for the pleasure of distributing your code.

If you don't like the GPL, then write your own - the NineNine License.

Admittedly I've never charged people to download my software, (distribution is ~2c/download, most was written because I wanted it), but I do get paid because of it. Take for example Clatter. Because of it I landed a job with an company friendly to open licenses and I've been paid to support my software.

Check out her email address, @bangaloreworldu-in.co.nz

Go and visit http://www.bangaloreworldu-in.co.nz/ and you'll see the fictional site of the university she supposedly went to.

Hold on, it is located in India (.in?), but the domain is a New Zealand Company (.co.nz). Blatant abuse of the DNS!

PS, .nz has a 10 second-level choices that cover a lot of things. There is .ac.nz and the less suitable .school.nz that they could have used. I'll bet Register.com doesn't offer them (or .in) and they were too lazy to track down the proper website for registrations.

Should have used WebWHOIS - it'll find the correct registrar for ya!

Some of this is already solved:

• Right-click blocking: It's in there! M18.
• Ping/traceroute/nmap/whois/nslookup: Use URL Expander. It is still in an early stage at the moment, and I haven't yet got instructions on how to change the "Search" button to use it - although I do know how.

F-cked Company managed to register a domain with that naughty word in it.

I understand that they registered it with Tucows/OpenSRS.

With DSL your data charges are calculated by where you are plugged into the DSLAM at the exchange. I can't wander down to the local exchange and stick my DSL plug into my neighbour's port, because it has a lock on the door.

As a Telecom Jetstream customer I change my "context" on the modem so I get unmetered (though limited) 'net access.

How it works I don't know, as the phone co. bills me for data transfers, not my ISP.