If IE7 is to blame, then how come it isn't vulnerable to such malformed URIs? Presumably it already checks for these 0x00 characters, whereas FF didn't until 3.0a7.
I totally agree with you. After R'ing TFA I couldn't spot a single element, attribute or CSS property that they are not supporting that I'd want to use when sending an HTML email. The elements and attributes that have been dropped seem to fall into two camps:
- Those used to make a page interactive - onclick attributes, form elements and so forth. - Things used to hide stuff on a web page - td colwidth=0 and tr colheight=0 for example.
It seems to me that they are mostly droppinig features whose main users are spammers and phishers, although there are a few things that I can't see an immediate reason for not wanting to support - CSS background-image and the img alt attribute for example.
I had the same experience. For me it turned out that the Google Toolbar was causing the problem. I now use Googlebar instead and Firefox is solid and stable again.
Windows Defender installs something called 'Software Explorers' into your Control Panel that lets you browse information about programs that are connected to the networking layer (and those that are running or run on start up).
It also gives each process a rating based on how Microsoft rate the program - Permitted, Unknown etc, etc.
Well it all depends on how each of the infected nodes picks its target. In the highly unlikely scenario where the infected nodes coordinate amongst themselves so none of them attack the same node at the same time, then you are correct. Averaging the incoming attacking bandwidth over large periods of time might make your answer approach correctness too, despite the fact that there would be times when the incomming connection would be completely swamped and others when it was entirely idle.
However, if they act independently and pick their attacking address at random, which seems are more likely, then you're wrong and here's a little experiment to help you understand why:
Let's assume that n=6. Go buy n-1 6-sided dice (that's 5 dice) and roll them. We're going to designate the attacking computer's IP address as '6' and the uninfected computer's address as '1'. So, re-roll any dice that come up '6', because we'll assume that the attacker knows better than to try and attack itself. Once you've got rid of all the 6s, count up the number of 1s. If there was only a single '1' rolled, or if no 1s were rolled at all, roll them all again. If after 7 days, you've still not had a roll with more than one '1' in it, then post a reply here and I'll stand corrected.
While doing this, you might like to read up on this thing called probability theory, it's great.
Really? I would have thought that the odds of being attacked by multiple infected computers at once would mean that my entire 350 downstream connection would get swamped.
I uninstalled it because it froze about 10 times a day on Windows XP. Sometimes it wouldn't open at all, the process started, but it stalled before opening the window. Other times it would freeze while trying to display a page.
Rolled back to FF 1.5 which works just fine. I tried IE 7 too, but even though it's caught up considerably, I can't live without Ad block!
Yeah, and people who connect to the Internet deserve all they get too. Remember the good old days when you could only catch a virus off a floppy? I'd like to see those Russian crackers infect millions of PCs that way!
Seems to me that the only people upset by this would be people who want their kids to have access to this stuff. Are you also opposed to the minimum age for sex, booze and theatres throwing kids out when they try and get into R rated movies?
I just don't understand the problem here - if little Johnny is hanging out with friends, tries to rent an M rated game and is refused, then what is the problem? That's all good as far as I can see. If that's a problem for you, then go out and rent little Johnny his copy of GTA. While you're at it, could you pick him up another pack of Camels and some more Trojans?
I suppose another alternative is that you are minor who is stands to be prevented from playing all those fun and gory 'M' rated games too:)
It's a shame that a new law needs to be written to compensate for parent's poor parenting skills, but would you want your child to be watching / playing anything that falls into categories (1) or (2)? I certainly don't, and anything that helps prevent it is OK by me.
Well I'm currently working in a hotel room with a crappy P4 Compaq laptop that overheats all the time and a nice custom built desktop PC and a 20" widescreen LCD monitor. It all depends just _how_ portable you have to be. Like other people have posted, in most hotel rooms you can get VPN access back to your main development servers. Personally I run VS 2005, Pocket PC emulators and SQL Server 2005 off my 1Gb laptop and I don't have too many problems. OK, performance ain't what it could be, but it gets me by and gets me seeing the world... and this is my own business, so if I'm cutting anybody short by slowing development down, I'm cutting my own throat.
It sounds like the sort of 'servers' you are looking for are just laptops. Buy a Mac Book Pro and use bootcamp to turn it into an incredibly lightweight but powerful server, buy a Dell Inspiron E1705 with a T2500/2600, 2Gb of RAM, VT technology and a 17" screen.
Heck, if you really need a separate server and development PC to do your work, then you will have to expect to carry at least two devices. Two laptops and a hub must be a pretty portable way of working.
Absolutely, and what do you think? Have this guy's actions have caused more harm than good? Is the world a better place because he did this? Personally I don't think so, but then again I don't think the world is that much worse off either.
IMHO, this guy is an insensitive coward. He says he did it to promote discussion of school shootings, but all he achieved is to rub salt in the wounds of the families affected. He's so afraid of the consequences of his actions that he's keeping his identity a secret, which shows just how much he really believes in his so-called cause.
It would crack me up if this guy's identity was discovered and the mainstream media picked up on it.
But enough of all this - I'm done.
And I apologise about the dig at your Mother and non-Sister. That was a cheap shot.
Really? You think that people having fun re-enacting your tragedy is not as painful as the media reporting the original events? Well I certainly wouldn't.
But my real point was that just because you _can_ do something, doesn't mean you should. Great, you can stand on your 1st ammendment rights and say and publish whatever you like, no matter how tasteless and insulting other people may find it, but that doesn't mean you should, nor does it mean that you are morally or ethically correct to do so.
Yes I know that morals and ethics are just points of view, but what is and is not acceptable is decided by the majority, not the minority.
I hope you take the same attitude after somebody publishes a game where the central theme is the re-enactment of your mother's rape and your sister's death by a drunken driver.
1. Rehashing the MBR and installing a new boot loader. I think that's pretty much understood and reliable technology these days. 2. Dynamically resizing partitions and the filesystems they contain. That's considerably fresher technology IMHO.
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Sorry, myself and a lot of other people don't agree with you.
I'm getting 66 today's FF3 build.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b5pre) Gecko/2008030405 Minefield/3.0b5pre ID:2008030405
Firefox doesn't support COL or COLGROUP either.
Another benchmark. Man those network speeds are scarily bad compared to XP. Glad I never made the switch...
http://gizmodo.com/337768/battlemodo-windows-vista-service-pack-1-rc1-vs-shipping-vista
You can also get it with the Intel X3100 which has open drivers I believe.
If IE7 is to blame, then how come it isn't vulnerable to such malformed URIs? Presumably it already checks for these 0x00 characters, whereas FF didn't until 3.0a7.
If you're using Windows, try Foxit, it is orders of magnitude faster to open and render than Adobe Reader.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6108414.stm/
I totally agree with you. After R'ing TFA I couldn't spot a single element, attribute or CSS property that they are not supporting that I'd want to use when sending an HTML email. The elements and attributes that have been dropped seem to fall into two camps:
- Those used to make a page interactive - onclick attributes, form elements and so forth.
- Things used to hide stuff on a web page - td colwidth=0 and tr colheight=0 for example.
It seems to me that they are mostly droppinig features whose main users are spammers and phishers, although there are a few things that I can't see an immediate reason for not wanting to support - CSS background-image and the img alt attribute for example.
I had the same experience. For me it turned out that the Google Toolbar was causing the problem. I now use Googlebar instead and Firefox is solid and stable again.
Windows Defender installs something called 'Software Explorers' into your Control Panel that lets you browse information about programs that are connected to the networking layer (and those that are running or run on start up).
It also gives each process a rating based on how Microsoft rate the program - Permitted, Unknown etc, etc.
Well it all depends on how each of the infected nodes picks its target. In the highly unlikely scenario where the infected nodes coordinate amongst themselves so none of them attack the same node at the same time, then you are correct. Averaging the incoming attacking bandwidth over large periods of time might make your answer approach correctness too, despite the fact that there would be times when the incomming connection would be completely swamped and others when it was entirely idle.
However, if they act independently and pick their attacking address at random, which seems are more likely, then you're wrong and here's a little experiment to help you understand why:
Let's assume that n=6. Go buy n-1 6-sided dice (that's 5 dice) and roll them. We're going to designate the attacking computer's IP address as '6' and the uninfected computer's address as '1'. So, re-roll any dice that come up '6', because we'll assume that the attacker knows better than to try and attack itself. Once you've got rid of all the 6s, count up the number of 1s. If there was only a single '1' rolled, or if no 1s were rolled at all, roll them all again. If after 7 days, you've still not had a roll with more than one '1' in it, then post a reply here and I'll stand corrected.
While doing this, you might like to read up on this thing called probability theory, it's great.
Really? I would have thought that the odds of being attacked by multiple infected computers at once would mean that my entire 350 downstream connection would get swamped.
I uninstalled it because it froze about 10 times a day on Windows XP. Sometimes it wouldn't open at all, the process started, but it stalled before opening the window. Other times it would freeze while trying to display a page.
Rolled back to FF 1.5 which works just fine. I tried IE 7 too, but even though it's caught up considerably, I can't live without Ad block!
It's good because it won't crash by exhausting the runtime's stack space. Instead it will just loop forever.
Yeah, and people who connect to the Internet deserve all they get too. Remember the good old days when you could only catch a virus off a floppy? I'd like to see those Russian crackers infect millions of PCs that way!
Seems to me that the only people upset by this would be people who want their kids to have access to this stuff. Are you also opposed to the minimum age for sex, booze and theatres throwing kids out when they try and get into R rated movies?
:)
I just don't understand the problem here - if little Johnny is hanging out with friends, tries to rent an M rated game and is refused, then what is the problem? That's all good as far as I can see. If that's a problem for you, then go out and rent little Johnny his copy of GTA. While you're at it, could you pick him up another pack of Camels and some more Trojans?
I suppose another alternative is that you are minor who is stands to be prevented from playing all those fun and gory 'M' rated games too
It's a shame that a new law needs to be written to compensate for parent's poor parenting skills, but would you want your child to be watching / playing anything that falls into categories (1) or (2)? I certainly don't, and anything that helps prevent it is OK by me.
They also probably feel safe from Intel reprisal because of their lawsuit.
Well I'm currently working in a hotel room with a crappy P4 Compaq laptop that overheats all the time and a nice custom built desktop PC and a 20" widescreen LCD monitor. It all depends just _how_ portable you have to be. Like other people have posted, in most hotel rooms you can get VPN access back to your main development servers. Personally I run VS 2005, Pocket PC emulators and SQL Server 2005 off my 1Gb laptop and I don't have too many problems. OK, performance ain't what it could be, but it gets me by and gets me seeing the world... and this is my own business, so if I'm cutting anybody short by slowing development down, I'm cutting my own throat.
It sounds like the sort of 'servers' you are looking for are just laptops. Buy a Mac Book Pro and use bootcamp to turn it into an incredibly lightweight but powerful server, buy a Dell Inspiron E1705 with a T2500/2600, 2Gb of RAM, VT technology and a 17" screen.
Heck, if you really need a separate server and development PC to do your work, then you will have to expect to carry at least two devices. Two laptops and a hub must be a pretty portable way of working.
Absolutely, and what do you think? Have this guy's actions have caused more harm than good? Is the world a better place because he did this? Personally I don't think so, but then again I don't think the world is that much worse off either.
IMHO, this guy is an insensitive coward. He says he did it to promote discussion of school shootings, but all he achieved is to rub salt in the wounds of the families affected. He's so afraid of the consequences of his actions that he's keeping his identity a secret, which shows just how much he really believes in his so-called cause.
It would crack me up if this guy's identity was discovered and the mainstream media picked up on it.
But enough of all this - I'm done.
And I apologise about the dig at your Mother and non-Sister. That was a cheap shot.
Really? You think that people having fun re-enacting your tragedy is not as painful as the media reporting the original events? Well I certainly wouldn't.
But my real point was that just because you _can_ do something, doesn't mean you should. Great, you can stand on your 1st ammendment rights and say and publish whatever you like, no matter how tasteless and insulting other people may find it, but that doesn't mean you should, nor does it mean that you are morally or ethically correct to do so.
Yes I know that morals and ethics are just points of view, but what is and is not acceptable is decided by the majority, not the minority.
I hope you take the same attitude after somebody publishes a game where the central theme is the re-enactment of your mother's rape and your sister's death by a drunken driver.
It's just art after all.
Thank you for this, I just _hate_ how bloated and slow Adobe Reader has become. This Foxit PDF Reader really does open instantly! Sweet!!
Well, I think there are two things here:
1. Rehashing the MBR and installing a new boot loader. I think that's pretty much understood and reliable technology these days.
2. Dynamically resizing partitions and the filesystems they contain. That's considerably fresher technology IMHO.