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see, and if you used my extension you wouldn't have the problem of /. eating half of your 'k' character.

|337 h4x0r 5k1||z

you could even setup and use your own l337 character set. :)

I had a look at the site. What is it that is new and/or interesting in this? I went to the "golden eggs" page, which is supposed to list the most interesting commands. What I see there falls into one of 2 categories:

- a complicated way of executing a normal shell command (di ("Domain (WHOIS) Information using coolwhois.com") seems to do exactly the same as a modern whois, ipinfo-url looks like a a lame version of host, etc.),

or

- it does the same as adding a search engine to your Firefox search bar.

Have I missed something?

http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=yubnu b&submitform=Find+search+plugins Thought I would point out there is a great firefox plugin for this website.

If you use firefox then you can add it to your searchengine bar in the toolbar. Goto http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=yubnu b&submitform=Find+search+plugins and add it to the list.

I'm sorry I gimped the link: http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=yubnu b&submitform=Find+search+plugins

FYI, there is a firefox search engine plugin for this too. http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=yubnu b&submitform=Find+search+plugins/

If you use Mozilla (you should) you could always download Flashblock. I've never looked back....

You should use the plugin called Permit Cookies. Uses a keyboard shortcut (alt-c) to allow cookies for a particular site

http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/permitco okies

This: http://adblock.mozdev.org/dev.html is also useful :)

Along with this adblock filterset :)

This: http://everythingisnt.com/hosts.html will block a lot of those ad servers before it even tries to load.

This: http://adblock.mozdev.org/dev.html is also useful :)

I remember back in the dark ages of 1994 when my family and I picked up our first internet-ready computer and hopped on AOL with a 14.4 modem. It wasn't long after that there were published reports of a secret form of subterfuge in our midst (the one in particular I remember was on the Today show). Something called a "cookie" was being sent to our computer as we browsed web sites, and it could track where we went and what we did. Some people in the media were outraged. Mom was somewhat apprehensive at this new way for advertisements to reach us - more, I think, about me buying something than some type of ID theft or the like.

Eventually, however, we got over it. Let's face it, folks, advertising is a part of the world and we're not going to get rid of it. Do I like targeted advertising? No. Certainly not. In fact, I take steps to prevent it from happening such as deleting cookies from known tracking sites and using wonderful Firefox extensions *cough*Adblock*cough* but they still get through.

Fine. I'll deal with targeted ads. However, there's a very real difference between someone wanting, wishing, willing me to do something (an advertisement) and someone forcing me to do it (malware/spyware/trojans/hijackers). While we often lump the two together, they are indeed different.

I hate to say it, but this time those annoying popup ads are in the right.

...I would be timid to sell an OS for Losers too.

I'll stick to getting my books Second Hand (Garage Sales, Friends, p2p, etc.)
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Hello. I noticed that you will be undertaking a task I recently went through, putting Linux on an original iBook. That link has most of my experiance, but here is a quick summary:

For a good experiance in Ubuntu, at least 256mb of RAM is needed. You can get by with less if you are willing to hack and try other window managers, but if you want the nice integrated experiance you have to have at least that much ram. I have 300 in my iBook and it runs great. Better than the original OS in my opinion. But that Live CD might not run so well, as the iBook's cd drive is slow.

You will be happy to know that the Airport card works without a hitch. I use WEP and Wireless networking all day long. With this howto you can get the great Kismet to work.

PPC Linux lacks a real flash pluggin. There are free ones but they don't work so good (they require more CPU power than iBook has most of the time). Looking at broken puzzle pieces suck, so I use this extension and never click play.

But sure to check out the Ubuntu Guide, as most of the advice (everything cept windows codecs, those don't work) is the same for PPC. Also check out the PPC wiki.

Good luck and be sure to come to the forums if you need help.

I wish my TV had DVI-in.
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You can also use OpenSSH's tunneling and SOCKS4 proxy mode to reach (relative) safety,
most programs support SOCKS natively (others can usually be socksified).
Firefox supports it well(in the proxy settings, only set the SOCKS proxy), and you can select one of multiple endpoints with the SwitchProxy extension
I use this occasionally to get around stupid firewalls.

I propose reducing ESA's budget by the estimated worth of this frivolous spacesuit in orbit.

Really?! The ESA? Why!??

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I propose reducing ESA's budget by the estimated worth of this frivolous spacesuit in orbit.

Really?! The ESA? Why!??

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Far too many years ago I remember using Helios "parallel C" on a transputer network (in this case actually a network of PCs, each PC modeling one transputer). 1. The language "enhancements" available encouraged more parallelism than normal with only tiny changes to coding approach (a lot of work done by the compiler obviously) 2. A lot of work on parallelising, was done by the "controller" that parceled off work to the "transputers" (apols for bad terminoloy , this was around 15 years ago and my memory of those days is hazy). I'm sure these days similar minor "addons" to common languages to encourage high level parallelism, coupled with some beefy analysis at compiler level to enable extra parallelism and coupled to a dynamic run time analysis tool, which could spot parallelism opportunities (as all programmers will know, some optimizations are not obvious at code analysis stage, only become apparent when code executes) when application running. I'm currently working on projects that would massively benefit from multi threaded CPU's - currently work is farmed out from central server to multiple processing clients, being able to have multi threaded CPUS would help this enormously.
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I sympathize with you 100%. But as two failed marriages have taught me" "Sometimes Being Right Doesn't Matter".

We get the mistaken idea that the rules of Democracy extend inside the corporate workplace. Some do, but a suprising number do not. You are on private property...SOMEONE ELSE'S private property. You have been invited onto that property to do a job.

The dress code will change in accordance to how much you are in the "public eye", and how anal management is.

Don't expect to get a job at Galactic Headquarters with "Deth Rulz" tatooed on your forehead.

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Have misread this they way I did: "No, my exoskeleton doesn't hinder me in the workplace at all! I had to take that 'Deth Rulz' decal off, but after that, everything was fine..."

Guys, to this crowd, a "body mod" means a Borg arm!

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I've been considering the purchase of Delicious Monsters Library application, but have been putting it off since I don't really want to have to lug everything over to my computer for scanning (via an iView, or some other quick cam-like device).

I remember when Library was 1st coming out, I read some blog review of it, and the reviewer was talking about how they had a USB Barcode scanner which contained a small amount of memory onboard. This allowed them to wirelessly walk around the house scanning in barcodes, saving them to the units memory, and then when they plugged it into their Mac, it downloaded all the codes it had scanned and imported the items.

Sounds great, but I've never came across such a unit yet, and most of the USB-based devices I have seen are very expensive, especially when I just want one for "around the house" type scanning.

Does anyone know of a unit such as the one I've described? For that matter, can anyone recommend a decent, yet cheap, barcode scanner which would be compatible with a G5 Mac?
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I've been considering the purchase of Delicious Monsters Library application, but have been putting it off since I don't really want to have to lug everything over to my computer for scanning (via an iView, or some other quick cam-like device).

I remember when Library was 1st coming out, I read some blog review of it, and the reviewer was talking about how they had a USB Barcode scanner which contained a small amount of memory onboard. This allowed them to wirelessly walk around the house scanning in barcodes, saving them to the units memory, and then when they plugged it into their Mac, it downloaded all the codes it had scanned and imported the items.

Sounds great, but I've never came across such a unit yet, and most of the USB-based devices I have seen are very expensive, especially when I just want one for "around the house" type scanning.

Does anyone know of a unit such as the one I've described? For that matter, can anyone recommend a decent, yet cheap, barcode scanner which would be compatible with a G5 Mac?
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use Reload Every with a custom reload setting of 1 second, type in a fake ID (as the parent said), and tell Reload Every to resubmit the post data every request.

I love this.

...and After Microsoft Purchases the Sun

All of Springfield goes dark and Mr. Gates asks. . .

"Have you ever seen the sun set at 3:00?"

Later he turns up dead.

Sounds like a good Simpsons Episode to me. . .
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By fat the easiest solution is the SiwtchProxy Tool, a Firefox Extension that is easy to install and manage.

SiwtchProxy Tool offers a simple status-bar interface where the user can change proxies on the fly. It comes with a pre-set anonymous setting which will change the proxy periodically (user-supplied value). For the list of proxies used, you can supply a simple text file or use a web-based dynamicaly updated list.

For SwitchProxy Tool homepage, see http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/switchpr oxy or https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php ?application=firefox&id=125
(I have not observed any of the problems mentioned by the users - with the obvious exception that sites that know you by IP address won't recognize you if you use the anonymising proxy, but that can hardly be construed as a bug.)

You can find several suitable anonymising proxy lists in this forum:
http://forums.mozmonkey.com/viewtopic.php?t=19

It's really quite fast, elegant and easy.

I'm sick of people asking me if a browser could fail to render PHP.

They don't get it, what my PHP app is churning out is something between HTML 3.2 and 4 (I don't claim to be fully 4.0 when I'm not)

This is not JavaShit people...it is taken care of by the server before your browser even gets ahold of it.

*anger*
*anger*
*anger*

Ok, time for a coctail.
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Can you say "thoughtcrime"?

Mod the parent up "plusplusgood"! %D

"Not even Prozac can save us now!"
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It's a plugin to firefox so you can disable ad's

http://adblock.mozdev.org/

Theres already 2 volumes out, episodes 1-6 at Highstreet Retailers (I remember seeing adverts),

i.e,
1-3
4-6

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Better keyboard Hyperlink navigation:

Firefox + Hit a Hint (http://users.tkk.fi/~psillanp/hah_hp/)

If you really want to do without a mouse use Ratpoison with Conk http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/ http://conkeror.mozdev.org/

I use ratpoison and conk when I want a happy medium between a full blown GUI and a low rez terminal.

so hosting a site could be a problem, but how about something like greasemonkey on firefox to do it locally? would that get around the restriction?

This is the answer to your flash problems. Blocks *all* flash, if you want to see it, just click on it. Works great for sites that have a lot of annoying flash advertising, and simple to use :)

What, exactly, are you concerned with this time around? Apple's porting difficulty should be _much_ less. In fact, it's been rumored that they already have a port of OSX to x86. FreeBSD (upon which OSX is based) most certainly runs on x86.

If Apple's been planning this way, for a while, I'm sure they're also working with 3rd. party developers, as well.

Cheers,

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Darwin/FreeBSD already runs on x86 hardware and it wouldn't surprise me to hear that OSX already supports x86, as well.

In other words, they've already done the port of which you speak and it's likely it would just be a matter of retargeting for other software vendors.

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Weather prediction has been done. Now stop screaming like a retard on AOL.

People will always have desktop computers and they will always want to grab a round of UT2004 during their coffee break.

The PC market is quite safe.
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you want flashblock.

http://flashblock.mozdev.org/

I detest Flash. Why help build open flash?

Maybe time is better spent helping making flashblock better.

http://flashblock.mozdev.org/

Amateur.

This is it. Doesn't work for me though, I still get the compatibility thing.

I've been annoyed that Greasemonkey doesn't work with it either, but apparently it was actually a bug in Greasemonkey and will be fixed in their next release. Read that here while I was trying to figure out what the hell was going on :) http://bugzilla.mozdev.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10173

SessionSaver for Firefox

To those of you who want to use greasemonkey w/deerpark should get the greasemonkey beta (0.3.4)
http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/changes/0.3.4.html

Deerpark includes a bug fix that is invaluable to me, namely, the ability to specify whether dns requests are handled locally or by your SOCKS proxy.

The best I could find for you is Auto Copy Lite, an extension which boasts automatically copying to the clipboard the text you select within Firefox. It is a shame there is no apparent better option and I understand your frustration -- more from losing data on busy websites than with crashing browsers -- but why not use this extension and just select all the text you have written (Control + A on Windows) every time you, say, finish a paragraph?

Sorry for not being more helpful.

Why/How can Firefox, which runs happily on W2K and others, offer better security, while IE cannot do the same on an OS developed by MS itself?

According to Microsoft, IE is integrated into the operating system itself -- it is no longer a standalone application. Ostensibly they did this to allow greater desktop-to-Internet integration, but given the inherent insecurity of ActiveX, the tendency for the forces of evil to use it maliciously, and the inability of users to lock it down, it's not exactly a hot selling point these days.

Firefox, on the other hand, stands to benefit immensely from all this. It offers a free, lightweight, standalone browser whose programming environment makes it easy for developers to extend its functionality without coopting its security (so far). It does this without any hooks into the operating system, and offers a variety of ways to combat malware, popups and generally obnoxious behavior (Flash movies, rampant advertising, etc).

Microsoft might claim that they won't be releasing any further security patches or functional upgrades to Windows 2000 or IE6. But as of September 2004, ~49% of Windows users still use Windows 2000 or lower (98, 95, NT, etc). Trying to scare users into upgrading their OS, so they can take advantage of a marginally improved, questionably more secure Windows, doesn't seem to be working anymore. And I'm by no means a Linux zealot -- I'm an ASP/SQL programmer, have been using Windows since v3.1, and am a huge fan of Microsoft's development tools / languages.

Besides landing my most recent job, discovering Firefox was the best tech-related thing that's come along in recent memory. It's inspired me to start learning more about client-side development again, after seeing what's possible with AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript And XML), standards-compliant CSS and XHTML. Once Dean Edwards' CSS-based IE7 stylesheet matures a bit more, developers will be able to instantly upgrade the set of standards-compliant available to IE 5/6 users. At that point, who will need IE 7? The days of developing wonderful new HTML and CSS tags that are only supported by one browser are in decline...... Firefox's market share has risen to just under 10% in the past year, while Microsoft's market share has dropped to under 90% for the first time since Netscape was still relevant. IE7 won't become ubiquitous for a long, long time, especially if Microsoft doesn't plan on making it available to users of its older operating systems. Why would developers of any web applications besides IE-only Intranets/Extranets create products that utilized features only available to a very small set of the installed user base?

So whatever, Microsoft. Dig your own grave, if you insist upon doing so. I'll continue to use your server-side tools, provided something better and easier-to-use doesn't come along, but at this point, you've lost me as a client-side developer of IE. Not that you should care, of course..... but if you can lose a devoted developer like me, I have to wonder how many others you've push away. It appears it's not all about "Developers, Developers, Developers!", as Steve Ballmer & Co. would have us believe.

Why/How can Firefox, which runs happily on W2K and others, offer better security, while IE cannot do the same on an OS developed by MS itself?

According to Microsoft, IE is integrated into the operating system itself -- it is no longer a standalone application. Ostensibly they did this to allow greater desktop-to-Internet integration, but given the inherent insecurity of ActiveX, the tendency for the forces of evil to use it maliciously, and the inability of users to lock it down, it's not exactly a hot selling point these days.

Firefox, on the other hand, stands to benefit immensely from all this. It offers a free, lightweight, standalone browser whose programming environment makes it easy for developers to extend its functionality without coopting its security (so far). It does this without any hooks into the operating system, and offers a variety of ways to combat malware, popups and generally obnoxious behavior (Flash movies, rampant advertising, etc).

Microsoft might claim that they won't be releasing any further security patches or functional upgrades to Windows 2000 or IE6. But as of September 2004, ~49% of Windows users still use Windows 2000 or lower (98, 95, NT, etc). Trying to scare users into upgrading their OS, so they can take advantage of a marginally improved, questionably more secure Windows, doesn't seem to be working anymore. And I'm by no means a Linux zealot -- I'm an ASP/SQL programmer, have been using Windows since v3.1, and am a huge fan of Microsoft's development tools / languages.

Besides landing my most recent job, discovering Firefox was the best tech-related thing that's come along in recent memory. It's inspired me to start learning more about client-side development again, after seeing what's possible with AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript And XML), standards-compliant CSS and XHTML. Once Dean Edwards' CSS-based IE7 stylesheet matures a bit more, developers will be able to instantly upgrade the set of standards-compliant available to IE 5/6 users. At that point, who will need IE 7? The days of developing wonderful new HTML and CSS tags that are only supported by one browser are in decline...... Firefox's market share has risen to just under 10% in the past year, while Microsoft's market share has dropped to under 90% for the first time since Netscape was still relevant. IE7 won't become ubiquitous for a long, long time, especially if Microsoft doesn't plan on making it available to users of its older operating systems. Why would developers of any web applications besides IE-only Intranets/Extranets create products that utilized features only available to a very small set of the installed user base?

So whatever, Microsoft. Dig your own grave, if you insist upon doing so. I'll continue to use your server-side tools, provided something better and easier-to-use doesn't come along, but at this point, you've lost me as a client-side developer of IE. Not that you should care, of course..... but if you can lose a devoted developer like me, I have to wonder how many others you've push away. It appears it's not all about "Developers, Developers, Developers!", as Steve Ballmer & Co. would have us believe.

An open source database from Germany carried the name Firefox, so the project was renamed for the last time. It was called Firefox.

The name changes Mozilla has gone through are so confusing even the author cannot properly keep track of them. The database was called Firebird. One good thing to come out of all the messing was they made sure to carefully isolate all the branding information and make tools like Firesomething possible, allowing users to personalise their browser.

Platypus! Right click, Platypus!, hover cursor, press Del, ...

Dumb article, too.

Erm...Platypus can't help that.

Someone has already written AdBlock for FireFox. Since it allows you to block page elements by pattern, you can use it to block file extensions from being displayed as well, eg., *.swf to kill all flash. It also has a panel you can open up which shows each element of the page, so you can block elements you can't right-click to select like Flash and MIDI. One of the nicer aspects is that you can choose to collapse the blocked elements, so there isn't a big blank spot on the page where the blocked element was.