I'm sure that there are ids under 10000 and even under 1000 that haven't been used in ages. They need to start recycling those and handing them out to random new users.
Do any of these substitute email servers support MS's proprietary MAPI protocol as a fully-implemented workalike? Of course not!
MAPI and the Exchange protocol are two different things. MAPI is an API, a set of functions, for programs that run on Windows to do mail-related stuff. It is also an abstraction, that hides the actual over-the-wire protocol used to talk to Exchange. Third party vendors implement the MAPI interface so that Outlook (and other MAPI clients, if there are any?) can use it. The actual protocol used for talking to their servers is completely different from what Exchange uses.
Hey, is there any browser that denies all requests to read cookies except if you are actually visiting that domain at that particular time? Or extensions to accomplish this?
You mean a browser that doesn't send your cookie from hotmail.com to the slashdot.org web server?
Any browser that supports cookies, ever since they were invented.
With the exception of browser bugs, cross-site scripting, etc., obviously, but this is a basic part of the cookie spec.
increasintly, if you don't have cookies, holding a session is impossible (unique id's on the getline are going the way of the dodo) and, increasingly, sites want you to maintain sessions to do anything useful.
For session tracking, cookies are now the standard, but there are other security precautions that can only accomplished by including a unique ID in every form.
Go read up about "session riding" or "cross-site request forgery". For example:
Slap a web interface on your site that allows (forced) the AUTHORS to enter their content into a plain textarea. Spend your time working on the design of the site and let them worry about the content.
The current University system is a joke. It filters out the mediocre and makes them look good, while the truly intelligent (but perhaps slightly lazy) get NOTHING for their efforts but the shaft.
And this is different from the workplaces where all these people go after college anyway?
what is so great about "unobtrusive" ?
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The one part that I don't get about the "new Javascript" philosophy that has been going around is, why people are so obsessed with keeping the scripts optional.
Why not use the full power of DHTML and build applications that totally rely on it?
The one piece of the Ajax puzzle that I could see being optional is XMLHttpRequest, as it is only a de-facto standard. ECMA script, CSS, and DOM are standards, and the browsers can be expected to support them.
Attempting to maintain support for non-conforming browsers seems to add a lot of time (read: money) for little benefit. Too many bucks for too little bang.
Also, you can't point at CSS and say that just like good CSS is unobtrusive, so is good scripting. Apples to orange. CSS is about presentation. And unless you're a marketing person, presentation IS optional. A colorful, three-column positioned blog done with CSS that degrades to plain black on white text laid out from top to bottom, is a good thing. Or at least it's fun to develop and then brag about how well it degrades. But scripting is NOT presentation, or at least it is not JUST presentation. If what you are developing is not a "web page" but a "web application", then scripting is part of what the application does.
Finally, don't anybody trot out the line about companies that forbid their employees from running browsers with JavaScript enabled. I haven't seriously known of a policy like that since about 1998. You also hear the same thing about cookies, and that's BS as well.
Out of the box, a Windows computer will rip WMA files that are only playable on that very same computer.
I call FUD, unless this is something new that Microsoft snuck into a service pack so recent that I haven't noticed. Media Player 9 would only rip WMA but they weren't DRM'd by default; Media Player 10 not only supports MP3 but I think it's the default setting.
Not for me it doesn't. I have a PC where IE takes an abnormally long time to start, but this doesn't afflict Firefox. My guess is that some part of Windows itself is fucked, and because IE is so integrated into the OS it is affected by it but not Firefox.
Can someone explain how a thing like this is supposed to work? I don't mean whether or not it can be cracked, I'm sure it can. I mean, how does it ever work even on the non-technical user?
You don't meet bangable girls at an arcade. Maybe your definition of bangable is different than mine. The only place worth your time if you're going out to hook up and get laid is a place that is dark, noisey and has an endless supply of alcohol to ply the other person with.
You have confirmed that you must be under 30. In the 1980's this is exactly what arcades, including Chuck E. Cheese were like.
For some reason Cringely gets paid to say stuff like "I predict Microsoft will become the world's biggest Linux vendor", things that you'd otherwise expect to hear from a 22-year old desktop support technician getting stoned during his lunch break.
As any old phone phreaker knows, one can dial any (land) phone - even today - by clicking the receiver.
That's nothin'. For a real challenge, try dialing your favorite 1-900-SEXX line by cutting the phone chord in two and touching the wires together the right number of times...
For more information, I suggest reading old articles of Phrack.
What kind of a world do we live in where the most readily available information about an electonic device of immense historical importance is information put together by and for people who were outsiders trying to break in? Why isn't all of Ma Bell's old secret internal documentation out in the open where future generations can learn from it?
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"If Pacman had affected us as kids we'd be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music."
Well, if we believe what the police in Utah say, that's what a rave is... Especially the munching pills part
Wasn't that the point of the joke?
Of course the OP also deserves a whooping for using that quote without saying where it came from.
I'm sure that there are ids under 10000 and even under 1000 that haven't been used in ages. They need to start recycling those and handing them out to random new users.
Do any of these substitute email servers support MS's proprietary MAPI protocol as a fully-implemented workalike? Of course not!
MAPI and the Exchange protocol are two different things. MAPI is an API, a set of functions, for programs that run on Windows to do mail-related stuff. It is also an abstraction, that hides the actual over-the-wire protocol used to talk to Exchange. Third party vendors implement the MAPI interface so that Outlook (and other MAPI clients, if there are any?) can use it. The actual protocol used for talking to their servers is completely different from what Exchange uses.
Hey, is there any browser that denies all requests to read cookies except if you are actually visiting that domain at that particular time? Or extensions to accomplish this?
You mean a browser that doesn't send your cookie from hotmail.com to the slashdot.org web server?
Any browser that supports cookies, ever since they were invented.
With the exception of browser bugs, cross-site scripting, etc., obviously, but this is a basic part of the cookie spec.
increasintly, if you don't have cookies, holding a session is impossible (unique id's on the getline are going the way of the dodo) and, increasingly, sites want you to maintain sessions to do anything useful.
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For session tracking, cookies are now the standard, but there are other security precautions that can only accomplished by including a unique ID in every form.
Go read up about "session riding" or "cross-site request forgery". For example:
http://shiflett.org/articles/foiling-cross-site-a
See the code sample near the end of the page, under "Force the use of your own HTML forms".
If I had mod points right now, I'd give this +1 Sarcastic.
You ain't usin' real SQL if you put quotes around your column and table names.
::= <double quote> <delimited identifier body> <double quote>
What is real SQL? From the SQL-92 standard:
<delimited identifier>
[s][p][a][n][\s]*[\w]*[\W][\w]*
How is this different from "span\s*\w*\W\w*" ?
Slap a web interface on your site that allows (forced) the AUTHORS to enter their content into a plain textarea. Spend your time working on the design of the site and let them worry about the content.
You realize he was converting them for the purpose of putting them on a website, right? ; )
Did he say the website was public?
The current University system is a joke. It filters out the mediocre and makes them look good, while the truly intelligent (but perhaps slightly lazy) get NOTHING for their efforts but the shaft.
And this is different from the workplaces where all these people go after college anyway?
The one part that I don't get about the "new Javascript" philosophy that has been going around is, why people are so obsessed with keeping the scripts optional.
Why not use the full power of DHTML and build applications that totally rely on it?
The one piece of the Ajax puzzle that I could see being optional is XMLHttpRequest, as it is only a de-facto standard. ECMA script, CSS, and DOM are standards, and the browsers can be expected to support them.
Attempting to maintain support for non-conforming browsers seems to add a lot of time (read: money) for little benefit. Too many bucks for too little bang.
Also, you can't point at CSS and say that just like good CSS is unobtrusive, so is good scripting. Apples to orange. CSS is about presentation. And unless you're a marketing person, presentation IS optional. A colorful, three-column positioned blog done with CSS that degrades to plain black on white text laid out from top to bottom, is a good thing. Or at least it's fun to develop and then brag about how well it degrades. But scripting is NOT presentation, or at least it is not JUST presentation. If what you are developing is not a "web page" but a "web application", then scripting is part of what the application does.
Finally, don't anybody trot out the line about companies that forbid their employees from running browsers with JavaScript enabled. I haven't seriously known of a policy like that since about 1998. You also hear the same thing about cookies, and that's BS as well.
I am not trolling I actually don't get it.
Out of the box, a Windows computer will rip WMA files that are only playable on that very same computer.
I call FUD, unless this is something new that Microsoft snuck into a service pack so recent that I haven't noticed. Media Player 9 would only rip WMA but they weren't DRM'd by default; Media Player 10 not only supports MP3 but I think it's the default setting.
but IE loads faster
Not for me it doesn't. I have a PC where IE takes an abnormally long time to start, but this doesn't afflict Firefox. My guess is that some part of Windows itself is fucked, and because IE is so integrated into the OS it is affected by it but not Firefox.
Can someone explain how a thing like this is supposed to work? I don't mean whether or not it can be cracked, I'm sure it can. I mean, how does it ever work even on the non-technical user?
You don't meet bangable girls at an arcade. Maybe your definition of bangable is different than mine. The only place worth your time if you're going out to hook up and get laid is a place that is dark, noisey and has an endless supply of alcohol to ply the other person with.
You have confirmed that you must be under 30. In the 1980's this is exactly what arcades, including Chuck E. Cheese were like.
You've got to be kidding. Why do you think MS Office does _not_ feature PDF-export like OpenOffice?
It's because MS wants the DOC-format to be standard, _not_ PDF.
And here I thought it was collusion between MS and Adobe so that people will buy both Office and Acrobat.
And HQL? Wow that's a great feature. Having to learn a mini language that looks almost like SQL and does the job of SQL.
Yeah, but you can't blame Hibernate for that idea. The whole Java world seems to love pseudo-SQL: EJB-QL, JDO-QL, etc.
For some reason Cringely gets paid to say stuff like "I predict Microsoft will become the world's biggest Linux vendor", things that you'd otherwise expect to hear from a 22-year old desktop support technician getting stoned during his lunch break.
replacing compact, binary config files with 'human-readible', resource-intensive XML
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Like what, the Windows registry? Don't say shit like that or ESR will shoot with one of those guns he collects.
http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch03s01.html#id28
Some bright bunny came up with the idea of using perl stringified data structures instead using Data::Dumper.
Uhh.. that's one of the things that Data::Dumper was designed to do.
Gather round kids, this 30yr old is gonna tell a tall tale....
In stone age times, before the Internet, even before remote control was standard gear, just about every TV only went from Channels 2-13.
One 30yr old to another: don't you remember UHF?
I just bought the domain http://www.slashshot.org:)
Should have it set up in about 2 hours. What should I use it for?
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As any old phone phreaker knows, one can dial any (land) phone - even today - by clicking the receiver.
That's nothin'. For a real challenge, try dialing your favorite 1-900-SEXX line by cutting the phone chord in two and touching the wires together the right number of times...
For more information, I suggest reading old articles of Phrack.
What kind of a world do we live in where the most readily available information about an electonic device of immense historical importance is information put together by and for people who were outsiders trying to break in? Why isn't all of Ma Bell's old secret internal documentation out in the open where future generations can learn from it?