Whats going on with the link? Sure doesn't lead to any story...
Chose one of the partners sites, and reload the url. It worked for me. I think their site needs a cookie to allow access to the content.
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It has been 51 hours since I re-opened outside access to my webserver (apache), to identify the type of attack. They were previously logged in my firewall but are not recognizable except for the port number: 80.
I'm using Kryptolus' script to scan my logs and generate a report. Here is a snapshot of this report. (pages are currently not there, nbci seems to refuse ftp upload. I'll try later)
The count is now at 1123 and still rising. The bulk of the connections is from my ISP's DSL network (in Belgium), but I'm also seeing attempts from outside: Honk Kong, Taiwan or Sweden for example. If these computers are trying each possible IP, think of the number of checks they have made before reaching me!;)
On a more serious note, why are we still building telescopes on Earth with the limitations we face on the ground? (Atmospheric distortion comes to mind... And I do understand they'll probably build this thing in a remote area to avoid the obvious: smog, city lights, etc. Still, though, there are some inherent limitations that they give a telescope like this by building it on and designing it for Earth.)
I've recently seen a TV program about the building of the VLT. It showed the conception and the technical implications of the telescope. At one point they spoke of a device in charge of monitoring and correcting atmospheric optical aberrations, in real time.
With this correction the telescope is providing hyper clear pictures of the sky.
I've searched the ESO site and found a reference to this device on this page (scroll down to "Active Optics").
Besides, given the limitation of the size of objects that can launched in space, a telescope based on earth, big enough and judiciously placed, and equiped with this device, will always achieve better results than a space's one.
My experience shows that the instability of Netscape 4.7x is in most cases caused by the OS (Windows 9X).
Several months ago I've decide to run "Resource Meter" (rsrcmtr.exe). It shows as a small colored vu-meter in the taskbar and is a way to meter the "user resources" and "GDI resources" available for all programs. (remark: "system resources" is in fact the lowest value of the two other)
These memory pools are OS specific/dependant, and are fixed (64k? for win9x) whatever RAM you have on your computer.
The more programs you run, the less resources Windows has for others, and the scale-display decreases (the color going yellow, then red).
This program is very useful to diagnose situation where a crash is imminent. Because, believe me, you don't want it to reach 0.;)
Now with Netscape 4.x.
It also needs resources (GDI or user) to work properly. It uses them to store data of viewed pages. The more Netscape windows you open at once, the more resources it uses. The quantity depending of the page viewed.
For example, a single/. page with moderator feature activated is very hungry, It can take 60% of the resources when there 200-300 user's comments with a moderation "form".
Exhausting all the resources is a cause of 90% of Netscape crashes or lockups.
Before using this little program I had 5-10 crashes in a week. Now it's barely 1, sometimes 2 (on a malformed page). And I surf a lot.;) (java and javascript enabled)
I want the ability to filter images based on the domain and/or size (no more 1x1 web bugs).
I use a proxy which implements filtering by url. Right now I'm surfing 98% ads/bugs/counters free.
Here is a link to WWWOFFLE on Freshmeat, and to the program's homepage.
I desperately hope there is some way to disable this from an individual webpage or for an entire site. Even for the "clueful" end users who do know the significance of the special links, I don't want this anywhere near my site which has negative commentary on Microsoft as it could totally distort the meaning. I don't want my site to be a springboard for Microsoft propaganda, especially since that is exactly what I'm trying to counteract on my site.
A solution would be to setup your site to refuse connections made with IE 6. And by telling the user why.
Let's say I have a business with a website. I sell some sort of nicotine transfer system, say cigarettes. Non-smokers are my enemy.
Somewhere in my website I have a paragraph that speaks of the advantages of cigarette smoking. Microsoft's new browser links the word "cigarette" to another website that tells people that smoking kills people... That's bad for my business. That torks me off! This is a bad idea.
Hmmm... let's think about your comment. This is bad because you're afraid that you're product won't sell if people learn the truth about your competition?
You won't see MS linking to a non-smoking association. They'll rather sell the link to a competitor of your company.;)
I'm using some kind of intelligent proxy which allows me to choose what to cache, or not cache urls (even result of queries) and, more importantly, which include a url-filtering process.
I've been surfing for month without seeing an add, even on slashdot;)
You just have to carefully determine which url-part to filter.
Example:
I don't seen any adds on geocities, even the watermark has disappeared (they add a link to the js instead of the code itselt, thanks). If popups open, they are usually empty because the url used is filtered. I don't have popups on CNN and NY-Times websites...
Here is the url for WWWOFFLE
This is the Linux version, but it's also available in a windows' flavor.
I use Netscape 4.7x and it always identifies it's requests with HTTP/1.0, but is HTTP/1.1 compatible.
You can only identify older browsers with their name, or by setting a dummy default site on apache. Site which will only be visited if the browser can't use the "host" header.
me:
redirecting from one page to another where the user must have a cookie if (sorry, forgot this word) it was accepted
You don't have to be as obtrusive as that, forcing the user to accept a cookie.
My point wasn't to force someone to accept a cookie, simply checking if he has accepted one, and continue processing with or without the cookie.
The process would be something like this (same as your suggestion):
Have some page (/ ?) set a cookie and automatically redirect to a "test" page. This page simply verifies if a cookies is returned by the user. If not, he is rejecting them.
In the article they mention that the females of the new species are sterile. What about the males? If they are not, they can mate with female of that "standard" species and create hybrids.
And how do they reproduce them in the farms? They must have functionnal males and females. What if one of them escapes? And how can they create sterile specimen born from these non-sterile parents?
You can always check if the user has accepted the cookie or not: redirecting from one page to another where the user must have a cookie it was accepted. You can then estimate the proportion of non-cookie users.
And if you base your stats on a short period of time, say 2 or 3 weeks, users clearing cookies will be a minority.
It won't be developped until at least 2012-2015. If it's ever finished.
An the proponent even admit that it won't be more than 60% efficient.
Talk about a shield.;)
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I think GPL allows inside developpement and use of a software.
For example, the NSA's secure version of Linux could have been kept in closed walls (used by the people who developped it and nobody else). This doesn't break GPL. If this version is to be released, tranfered, sold to some other entity, it must carry it's GPL licence since it's developped from source with this type of licence.
I've recently seen on TV (here in Europe) a news report about a man how literally travels the world to collect all sorts of ticks emprisoned in amber. He has different species ranging from microscopic one to some rather big (1 inch). I don't recall his name but I'll come back with more information if I find.
A friend of mine is working (in Europe) for a big company working for banks.
I'll summarize what he told me.
Each week someone is in charge for on call duty. This person is paid for his time (two days, saturday-sunday) even if no intervention is done. And a supplemental bonus is paid based on the length of time between answering the call and returning home after fixing the problem.
Let's take another approach to this problem. And in this case we take 10 doors.
When asked for my choice I say "I pick door number 2" out of the 10 doors.
I have 10% chance of making the good choice.
On the second step of the game I'm asked if I still choose door 2 or if I take the other one (the remainder of the 9 others). In other word I'm asked if I want or if I don't want door 2.
Now, what if the games allows me to point directly the unique door I don't want to open?
I say "I don't choose door 2".
This will mean I'll choose a group of 9 doors which has a 90% chance of containing the prize. Removing 8 empty doors from this set won't change (since there is at least 8 empty doors) my 90% of making the good choice at the beginning.
The second step of eliminating empty doors from the remaining 9 is a disguise. The real question is "do you choose this group of 1 door, or this group of 9 doors".
Presented this way the answer is obvious.;)
And what about this?
The competitor is calling your secretary every 30 seconds throughout the day, asking "give me your next client". And she gives it, with a smile. Yes he uses your human resource, but you can simply screen his caller ID and discard his call.
The analogy with the webserver would be to check the IP of the request, and only answer a certain amount of requests per hour.
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Learn to read: April 11 :)
Chose one of the partners sites, and reload the url. It worked for me. I think their site needs a cookie to allow access to the content.
It has been 51 hours since I re-opened outside access to my webserver (apache), to identify the type of attack. They were previously logged in my firewall but are not recognizable except for the port number: 80. ;)
I'm using Kryptolus' script to scan my logs and generate a report. Here is a snapshot of this report. (pages are currently not there, nbci seems to refuse ftp upload. I'll try later)
The count is now at 1123 and still rising. The bulk of the connections is from my ISP's DSL network (in Belgium), but I'm also seeing attempts from outside: Honk Kong, Taiwan or Sweden for example. If these computers are trying each possible IP, think of the number of checks they have made before reaching me!
I've recently seen a TV program about the building of the VLT. It showed the conception and the technical implications of the telescope. At one point they spoke of a device in charge of monitoring and correcting atmospheric optical aberrations, in real time.
With this correction the telescope is providing hyper clear pictures of the sky.
I've searched the ESO site and found a reference to this device on this page (scroll down to "Active Optics").
Besides, given the limitation of the size of objects that can launched in space, a telescope based on earth, big enough and judiciously placed, and equiped with this device, will always achieve better results than a space's one.
Several months ago I've decide to run "Resource Meter" (rsrcmtr.exe). It shows as a small colored vu-meter in the taskbar and is a way to meter the "user resources" and "GDI resources" available for all programs. (remark: "system resources" is in fact the lowest value of the two other) ;)
These memory pools are OS specific/dependant, and are fixed (64k? for win9x) whatever RAM you have on your computer.
The more programs you run, the less resources Windows has for others, and the scale-display decreases (the color going yellow, then red).
This program is very useful to diagnose situation where a crash is imminent. Because, believe me, you don't want it to reach 0.
Now with Netscape 4.x. /. page with moderator feature activated is very hungry, It can take 60% of the resources when there 200-300 user's comments with a moderation "form".
It also needs resources (GDI or user) to work properly. It uses them to store data of viewed pages. The more Netscape windows you open at once, the more resources it uses. The quantity depending of the page viewed.
For example, a single
Exhausting all the resources is a cause of 90% of Netscape crashes or lockups.
Before using this little program I had 5-10 crashes in a week. Now it's barely 1, sometimes 2 (on a malformed page). And I surf a lot. ;) (java and javascript enabled)
.sucks is already carried by ORSC.
I use a proxy which implements filtering by url. Right now I'm surfing 98% ads/bugs/counters free.
Here is a link to WWWOFFLE on Freshmeat, and to the program's homepage.
The NSA is already reading our mail. ;)
Never heard of Echelon?
A solution would be to setup your site to refuse connections made with IE 6. And by telling the user why.
Hmmm... let's think about your comment. This is bad because you're afraid that you're product won't sell if people learn the truth about your competition?
You won't see MS linking to a non-smoking association. They'll rather sell the link to a competitor of your company. ;)
I've been surfing for month without seeing an add, even on slashdot
You just have to carefully determine which url-part to filter.
Example:
http://ads.*/
http://banner*.*/
*://*.doubleclick.net/
*://*.hitbox.*/
*://*/ads/*
*://*/adserve*
*://*/Ads*.asp?*
*://*/*/banner/*
### yahoo Geocities
*://us.geo1.yimg.com/
*://visit.geocities.com/
*://pic.geocities.com/images/mbe/*
#javascript header:
*://*/toto?*
I don't seen any adds on geocities, even the watermark has disappeared (they add a link to the js instead of the code itselt, thanks). If popups open, they are usually empty because the url used is filtered. I don't have popups on CNN and NY-Times websites...
Here is the url for WWWOFFLE
This is the Linux version, but it's also available in a windows' flavor.
I use Netscape 4.7x and it always identifies it's requests with HTTP/1.0, but is HTTP/1.1 compatible.
You can only identify older browsers with their name, or by setting a dummy default site on apache. Site which will only be visited if the browser can't use the "host" header.
I've set up a mirror at the following location.
The process would be something like this (same as your suggestion):
Have some page (/ ?) set a cookie and automatically redirect to a "test" page. This page simply verifies if a cookies is returned by the user. If not, he is rejecting them.
In the article they mention that the females of the new species are sterile. What about the males? If they are not, they can mate with female of that "standard" species and create hybrids.
And how do they reproduce them in the farms? They must have functionnal males and females. What if one of them escapes? And how can they create sterile specimen born from these non-sterile parents?
You can always check if the user has accepted the cookie or not: redirecting from one page to another where the user must have a cookie it was accepted. You can then estimate the proportion of non-cookie users.
And if you base your stats on a short period of time, say 2 or 3 weeks, users clearing cookies will be a minority.
It won't be developped until at least 2012-2015. If it's ever finished. ;)
An the proponent even admit that it won't be more than 60% efficient.
Talk about a shield.
I think GPL allows inside developpement and use of a software.
For example, the NSA's secure version of Linux could have been kept in closed walls (used by the people who developped it and nobody else). This doesn't break GPL. If this version is to be released, tranfered, sold to some other entity, it must carry it's GPL licence since it's developped from source with this type of licence.
I've recently seen on TV (here in Europe) a news report about a man how literally travels the world to collect all sorts of ticks emprisoned in amber. He has different species ranging from microscopic one to some rather big (1 inch). I don't recall his name but I'll come back with more information if I find.
A friend of mine is working (in Europe) for a big company working for banks.
I'll summarize what he told me.
Each week someone is in charge for on call duty. This person is paid for his time (two days, saturday-sunday) even if no intervention is done. And a supplemental bonus is paid based on the length of time between answering the call and returning home after fixing the problem.
Try the obvious ones:
info@
root@
abuse@
It's not even necessary to have a valid one. The traffic due to delivery attempts will be enough to fill their log files.
We should all use an address @microsoft.com . ;)
It'll be more funny and perhaps MS will try to fight all those spammers.
When asked for my choice I say "I pick door number 2" out of the 10 doors.
I have 10% chance of making the good choice.
On the second step of the game I'm asked if I still choose door 2 or if I take the other one (the remainder of the 9 others). In other word I'm asked if I want or if I don't want door 2.
Now, what if the games allows me to point directly the unique door I don't want to open?
I say "I don't choose door 2".
This will mean I'll choose a group of 9 doors which has a 90% chance of containing the prize. Removing 8 empty doors from this set won't change (since there is at least 8 empty doors) my 90% of making the good choice at the beginning.
The second step of eliminating empty doors from the remaining 9 is a disguise. The real question is "do you choose this group of 1 door, or this group of 9 doors". ;)
Presented this way the answer is obvious.
And what about this?
The competitor is calling your secretary every 30 seconds throughout the day, asking "give me your next client". And she gives it, with a smile. Yes he uses your human resource, but you can simply screen his caller ID and discard his call.
The analogy with the webserver would be to check the IP of the request, and only answer a certain amount of requests per hour.
That's "older stuff".     ;)