If you're even thinking about DHTML, you probably aren't up to par with the latest web technologies that are designed to be more accessible and progressive. Please stop what you are doing and read Designing With Web Standards before you even think about building a website.
DHTML (really just the combination of HTML, CSS, ECMAScript, and DOM) is the "latest web technology". I'm not sure what you mean by "progressive" in this context, but well-written DHTML can be just as accessible as as well-written vanilla HTML. Please note my use of the words "well-written"; crappy code is crappy code, no matter what technologies you're using. The key is to make sure things degrade gracefully, so that your content or application is still usable in older or non-standard compliant browsers.
Also note that Jeffrey Zeldman, the author of the book you recommend, uses JavaScript on his own web sites, including the very page you link to.
Better yet, wait until they go down in a legal ball of flames, and then buy them for a fraction of what they'd sell for now. No sense spending any more than you have to. Their crash is inevitable, just wait it out.
Then release all their code, but for poetic justice, release it under the GPL they are currently questioning the legality of.
Hell, many major sites don't even implement an A record (correctly) for their base domain. Ever go to someserver.com only to not get a response or an entirely different site as compared to www.someserver.com?
"Correctly"? Having an A record for your domain that points to your web server is only done as a convenience for people too lazy to type "www." or whatever. There's no reason you need an A record for your domain, you just need them for your various hostnames within that domain (eg, "www", "mail", "foo", "whatever").
Having an A record pointing to your web server can actually cause problems if the machines in your MX records aren't available for some reason. Many MTAs will attempt to deliver mail to the A record hosts in this situation, while those hosts may not be configured to accept incoming mail. This will result in mail bouncing instead of letting the originating MTA retry delivery to the MX hosts as it would otherwise.
Thank you for paraphrasing exactly what I said. I believe I stated clearly that the mail clients are not vulnerable, but people are, hence social engineering and everyone having the same chance of infection no matter what mail client they're using (since it doesn't depend on any particular client vulnerability).
The last few viruses did not affect all Windows mail clients at all, since most of them don't execute attachments by default, and therefore the virus cannot infect the system.
I'm afraid you are mistaken. The last few viruses going around did not attempt to be auto-executed by any particular mail client. They just depended on people being clueless enough to run the executable manually after downloading it. Which, needless to say, a lot of people did. Every Windows mail client is equally vulnerable to this because it has nothing to do with the mail client at all. See also: social engineering v. exploiting a security hole.
The recent Mimail virus even sent itself out as a.zip file. Did people unzip it and then run the.exe? Of course they did. Mail client vulnerabilities are completly optional these days.
Of course it's a swastika (aka sunwheel, etc). It was not only used by Native Americans though. It's actually kind of interesting how this symbol, or symbols remarkably similar, are found in so many cultures. It was used by Buddhists as mentioned on the page linked in the previous post, and also in northern European cultures, which was almost certainly where the Nazi part got it, given their use of other runes as well.
All my two-window needs are met by either command-tilde...
Holy shit, THANK YOU.
As a fairly recent Mac convert, I have been sorely missing the ability to switch between windows within a single application. Alt-Tab on Windows or Linux/KDE cycles between all open windows, where Cmd-Tab on OS X cycles between applications, not individual windows. Expose helps, but (Alt|Cmd)-tabbing is faster and preferred in a lot of cases. I never knew this shortcut, so I assumed it wasn't possible.
I don't run a local MTA on my computer at work, but my Red Hat 9 workstation there has both Postfix and sendmail installed. I don't remember if sendmail was off by default or if I turned it off myself, but postfix doesn't appear in/etc/rc3.d.
Incidentally, on RH9,/usr/sbin/sendmail is a symlink to/etc/alternatives/mta, which is in turn symlinked to/usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail, which appears to be the actual sendmail binary. Also, in addition to/usr/sbin/postfix, I also have/usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix. WTF?
Anyway. you didn't mention my preferred MTA, Exim, which is the default MTA on Debian.
He promptly REBOOTED my machine remotely in the hopes that I wouldn't capture the session.
How did he manage this? Did you actually install some sort of remote administration software for them to use? It couldn't be something they pre-installed since you say you contacted them after replacing the OEM XP install with Win2k.
You are far more trusting than I, especially when it comes to dealing with front-line tech support.
Without looking at their web site, I'll bet this still suffers from the same problem regular firewalls do. Namely, that the firewall can keep all this traffic away from the servers, but they can't prevent your pipe being saturated. Hence "denial of service". It doesn't matter how well your servers are running if you have no bandwidth left.
True, but you can keep a Brita pitcher in your fridge and refill the bottles at home. At work you can refill them from the water cooler, if you have one.
That's what I do. I buy a new bottle every few weeks when I forget to bring one with me or run out while I'm somewhere away from home or work.
Might be OK for starbucks to offer free access to folks who buy $4 Mocha's and other items, but what about Johnny Freeloader setting up camp outside their building?
Easy. Give customers a generated username/password with purchase. Expire them after some period of time (say, 2 - 4 hours) to prevent re-use. Free wireless connectivity for customers, nothing for Johnny Freeloader.
Get off your high horse and understand that all the world does not share your passions.
Sharing passions has nothing to do with it. If some place expects to sell me a service, I expect them to be able to answer some simple questions about it before I hand over any money.
The iPod will never make a useful PDA without the kind of redesigning that would pretty much make it not an iPod anymore. Input, for one thing, would have to be tacked on and I can't think of any elegent way of doing that without throwing away the iPod's simple, sleek design. Without input, it simply isn't a PDA. An basic organizer, maybe, but no more.
I, for one, would love to see an Apple PDA. They're in a great position to make one, all they need is a scaled-down version of OS X, similar to Windows CE or that Pocket PC version of XP. I'd be surprised if they didn't already have one somewhere for experimental purposes. They've already got a slew of applications that would go great on a PDA: Apple Mail, Address Book, iCal, iPhoto, etc, could all be made to sync seamlessly with your Mac. Add Inkwell for handwriting recognition and you're set.
A truly useful PDA would also include Bluetooth and 802.11g, of course. I can dream, can't I?
That right there is part of the problem. The truth is, spammers aren't stupid. Sure, a lot of them certainly are, but not all of them.
See the Sobig virus, for example: Write a virus that will install a proxy server on infected machines and spam through them with impunity, knowing that the proxy server will appear to be the point of origination. If no one can trace it back to the spammer's actual network connection, he doesn't have to worry about his ISP ever finding out. See also the story a few months back about web proxies on infected Windows machines; DNS is updated so the spamvertised domain resolves to the infected machine which then proxies the traffic to the actual web site, so the spammers don't lose their web hosting accounts either. Quite frankly, that's brilliant.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying any of this is good. I spend eight hours a day five days a week dealing with spam in my job in a large ISP's abuse department. I've seen a lot of the tricks spammers use, and the people coming up with some of them aren't stupid.
Slashdot Mirror
(or use emerge, port, or whatever, depending on what distro you're using)
In my experience, Working Joe is usually the one going around corners as fast as possible and generally just driving like a total idiot.
Maybe that's what I get for driving in LA.
If you're even thinking about DHTML, you probably aren't up to par with the latest web technologies that are designed to be more accessible and progressive. Please stop what you are doing and read Designing With Web Standards before you even think about building a website.
DHTML (really just the combination of HTML, CSS, ECMAScript, and DOM) is the "latest web technology". I'm not sure what you mean by "progressive" in this context, but well-written DHTML can be just as accessible as as well-written vanilla HTML. Please note my use of the words "well-written"; crappy code is crappy code, no matter what technologies you're using. The key is to make sure things degrade gracefully, so that your content or application is still usable in older or non-standard compliant browsers.
Also note that Jeffrey Zeldman, the author of the book you recommend, uses JavaScript on his own web sites, including the very page you link to.
I know soylent green is made of people.
(yes, I know it really isn't if you read the book rather than just watch the movie)
Dada poetry! It's art!
What gizmos and conveniences do you expect your home will have in a year or two?
My SO is going to be a year and a half into grad school two years from now. I'll be lucky if I can afford a coffee maker at that point.
Better yet, wait until they go down in a legal ball of flames, and then buy them for a fraction of what they'd sell for now. No sense spending any more than you have to. Their crash is inevitable, just wait it out.
Then release all their code, but for poetic justice, release it under the GPL they are currently questioning the legality of.
Don't lose any sleep over it, spammers have had tools to harvest the web for e-mail addresses for years.
Insightful?
Hell, many major sites don't even implement an A record (correctly) for their base domain. Ever go to someserver.com only to not get a response or an entirely different site as compared to www.someserver.com?
"Correctly"? Having an A record for your domain that points to your web server is only done as a convenience for people too lazy to type "www." or whatever. There's no reason you need an A record for your domain, you just need them for your various hostnames within that domain (eg, "www", "mail", "foo", "whatever").
Having an A record pointing to your web server can actually cause problems if the machines in your MX records aren't available for some reason. Many MTAs will attempt to deliver mail to the A record hosts in this situation, while those hosts may not be configured to accept incoming mail. This will result in mail bouncing instead of letting the originating MTA retry delivery to the MX hosts as it would otherwise.
Not to mention that if you plan to get an iPod cover (eg, iSkin, Podsleev), it won't fit into the dock anyway.
Thank you for paraphrasing exactly what I said. I believe I stated clearly that the mail clients are not vulnerable, but people are, hence social engineering and everyone having the same chance of infection no matter what mail client they're using (since it doesn't depend on any particular client vulnerability).
What part of that did you disagree with?
The last few viruses did not affect all Windows mail clients at all, since most of them don't execute attachments by default, and therefore the virus cannot infect the system.
.zip file. Did people unzip it and then run the .exe? Of course they did. Mail client vulnerabilities are completly optional these days.
I'm afraid you are mistaken. The last few viruses going around did not attempt to be auto-executed by any particular mail client. They just depended on people being clueless enough to run the executable manually after downloading it. Which, needless to say, a lot of people did. Every Windows mail client is equally vulnerable to this because it has nothing to do with the mail client at all. See also: social engineering v. exploiting a security hole.
The recent Mimail virus even sent itself out as a
Of course it's a swastika (aka sunwheel, etc). It was not only used by Native Americans though. It's actually kind of interesting how this symbol, or symbols remarkably similar, are found in so many cultures. It was used by Buddhists as mentioned on the page linked in the previous post, and also in northern European cultures, which was almost certainly where the Nazi part got it, given their use of other runes as well.
All my two-window needs are met by either command-tilde ...
Holy shit, THANK YOU.
As a fairly recent Mac convert, I have been sorely missing the ability to switch between windows within a single application. Alt-Tab on Windows or Linux/KDE cycles between all open windows, where Cmd-Tab on OS X cycles between applications, not individual windows. Expose helps, but (Alt|Cmd)-tabbing is faster and preferred in a lot of cases. I never knew this shortcut, so I assumed it wasn't possible.
I don't run a local MTA on my computer at work, but my Red Hat 9 workstation there has both Postfix and sendmail installed. I don't remember if sendmail was off by default or if I turned it off myself, but postfix doesn't appear in /etc/rc3.d.
/usr/sbin/sendmail is a symlink to /etc/alternatives/mta, which is in turn symlinked to /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail, which appears to be the actual sendmail binary. Also, in addition to /usr/sbin/postfix, I also have /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix. WTF?
Incidentally, on RH9,
Anyway. you didn't mention my preferred MTA, Exim, which is the default MTA on Debian.
He promptly REBOOTED my machine remotely in the hopes that I wouldn't capture the session.
How did he manage this? Did you actually install some sort of remote administration software for them to use? It couldn't be something they pre-installed since you say you contacted them after replacing the OEM XP install with Win2k.
You are far more trusting than I, especially when it comes to dealing with front-line tech support.
Reasearch? To write an article like the one we're currently discussing?
Without looking at their web site, I'll bet this still suffers from the same problem regular firewalls do. Namely, that the firewall can keep all this traffic away from the servers, but they can't prevent your pipe being saturated. Hence "denial of service". It doesn't matter how well your servers are running if you have no bandwidth left.
True, but you can keep a Brita pitcher in your fridge and refill the bottles at home. At work you can refill them from the water cooler, if you have one.
That's what I do. I buy a new bottle every few weeks when I forget to bring one with me or run out while I'm somewhere away from home or work.
good luck acquiring a copy
No luck is needed, Amazon has it for under $20.
Don't be silly. Prostitution is a crime.
What does prostitution have to do with anything?
Might be OK for starbucks to offer free access to folks who buy $4 Mocha's and other items, but what about Johnny Freeloader setting up camp outside their building?
Easy. Give customers a generated username/password with purchase. Expire them after some period of time (say, 2 - 4 hours) to prevent re-use. Free wireless connectivity for customers, nothing for Johnny Freeloader.
Get off your high horse and understand that all the world does not share your passions.
Sharing passions has nothing to do with it. If some place expects to sell me a service, I expect them to be able to answer some simple questions about it before I hand over any money.
The iPod will never make a useful PDA without the kind of redesigning that would pretty much make it not an iPod anymore. Input, for one thing, would have to be tacked on and I can't think of any elegent way of doing that without throwing away the iPod's simple, sleek design. Without input, it simply isn't a PDA. An basic organizer, maybe, but no more.
I, for one, would love to see an Apple PDA. They're in a great position to make one, all they need is a scaled-down version of OS X, similar to Windows CE or that Pocket PC version of XP. I'd be surprised if they didn't already have one somewhere for experimental purposes. They've already got a slew of applications that would go great on a PDA: Apple Mail, Address Book, iCal, iPhoto, etc, could all be made to sync seamlessly with your Mac. Add Inkwell for handwriting recognition and you're set.
A truly useful PDA would also include Bluetooth and 802.11g, of course. I can dream, can't I?
Rule #3: Spammers are stupid.
That right there is part of the problem. The truth is, spammers aren't stupid. Sure, a lot of them certainly are, but not all of them.
See the Sobig virus, for example: Write a virus that will install a proxy server on infected machines and spam through them with impunity, knowing that the proxy server will appear to be the point of origination. If no one can trace it back to the spammer's actual network connection, he doesn't have to worry about his ISP ever finding out. See also the story a few months back about web proxies on infected Windows machines; DNS is updated so the spamvertised domain resolves to the infected machine which then proxies the traffic to the actual web site, so the spammers don't lose their web hosting accounts either. Quite frankly, that's brilliant.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying any of this is good. I spend eight hours a day five days a week dealing with spam in my job in a large ISP's abuse department. I've seen a lot of the tricks spammers use, and the people coming up with some of them aren't stupid.