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  1. Re:Not just IE on Microsoft Advises to Type in URLs Rather than Click · · Score: 1
    No.

    In mozilla, people can make http://www.evil.com appear as http://www.goodgoodgood.com@www.evil.com.

    In IE, people can make http://www.evil.com appear as http://www.goodgoodgood.com.

  2. Re:What about .... on Microsoft Advises to Type in URLs Rather than Click · · Score: 1

    The idea is that the url you type in is "trusted" not to do anything nasty like that. Of course it's completely bogus, a browser which is so insecure the company tells you only to visit sites you already trust, is broken.

  3. Re:Use colors on Microsoft Advises to Type in URLs Rather than Click · · Score: 1
    2. Display all non-ascii characters in a different color. Please ignore the probably loud Politically Correct crowd that will say you are demonstrating anglo-centric bias...

    But this doesn't help a greek distinguish between omicron and cyrillic 'o', and if people are taught that "red means unsafe" it will stop people using non-ascii domains at all.

  4. Re:Homograph attacks might bite us all on Microsoft Advises to Type in URLs Rather than Click · · Score: 1
    Codepage? Default? This is unicode.

    Okay, so maybe you want to render non-ascii characters red. What happens when a chinese user wants to verify a greek online store's name where the omicrons have been replaced with the cyrillic 'o' character?

  5. Re:Excellent on NVIDIA Drivers for 2.6 Kernel · · Score: 1
    And maybe we should all mod your post down, even if we don't have points, just in case they are monitoring Slashdot.

    Nuts, I had points, too.

  6. Re:The other downside to java generics is worse on Hejlsberg Talk About Generics in C# and Java · · Score: 1

    It depends on your perspective. Java 1.5 code will run on a Java 1.4 VM (unless it uses some of the new APIs). I can only assume C# won't be able to manage this.

  7. Re:You're better off with a well-rounded CS educat on Trying Your Hand at Level Design? · · Score: 1
    You're better off with a well-rounded CS education

    Yeah, if you can map, mod, camp, and speak t3h l33t, you'll have a sure winner.

  8. Re:Interesting project to watch? on Full X11-Based Distro For PDAs · · Score: 1
    Ok, being able to use multiple windows (which don't fit together on 640x480) is not very useful,

    The earliest macs which popularised the windows (and maybe the Windows) we know and love, used a resolution of 512x384 IIRC. (At 1bpp of course).

  9. Re:Webmail on Feds Thwart Extortion Plot Against Best Buy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Uh, the likelihood is that it was a web bug, in which case webmail won't help - the request comes from your browser, and thus IP. In fact, webmail makes it worse, because a lot of email software can disable web bugs or can't display them to begin with, web browsers don't tend to disable loading remote images ;-)

  10. Re:One possible feature I'd like to see on The State Of The GTK+ File Selector · · Score: 1

    Beat the crap out of windows once again? Grab TweakUI from microsoft, you can change the shortcuts and define where the My Documents folder is.

  11. Re:AI? on Mysterious Tartrate Conquers All At Go · · Score: 1
    By the time each player has made 15 moves, or a solid start to a game, your search space is 20 google, and that's assuming no taking has taken place.

    That's googol... a word I'm sure is disappearing from the language as we speak ;)

  12. Re:Java VM is what we need on Athlon 64 3400+ Reviewed · · Score: 1
    The Itanium is too expensive and slow. Ditto Sparc. AMD 64 bit servers running 64bit Java VMs will make for a killer combination.

    Or maybe they'll be slow too. I think you're missing something...

    Just kidding, I love java :-P

  13. Re:what are speed bins? on Athlon 64 3400+ Reviewed · · Score: 1
    In case you're not trolling, chip manufacturers crank out one design of chip, test it, then put them into bins based on how fast they can run reliably.

    Trolling? Why does every post have to fall into the dichotomy of trolls/karma whores?

  14. Re:Facts Businesses Care About on Microsoft Rolls Out New Anti-Linux Ad Campaign · · Score: 1
    By contrast, our MacOS 9.2.2 servers have to be reset monthly, and we haven't even bothered with running Microsoft platforms, due to the unreliability of the OS.

    I'm sure you've thought about this, but why are you using 9.2.2 rather than some version of X? Is it some software that's only available for classic? Conventional wisdom would say that X is a "good" server os and 9 is "bad".

  15. Re:Mixed response on Rumors of iPod mini, 100 Million Songs, Xserve G5 All True · · Score: 1
    Down from 2.4x4.1x0.62 inches to 2.0x3.6x0.5 inches. And it's $50 less for a tenth the storage?

    Did you actually multiply that out? It's slightly over half the size. And it's $50 less for a tenth the storage?

    Er, a quarter the storage.

  16. Re:XFS Filesystem on Linux 2.4.24 Release Fixes Root Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    But we distinguish it by calling it "XFS server".

  17. Re:seems a bit easy to highjack on Finding MD5 Collisions With Chinese Lottery · · Score: 1

    But if I say that "foo" and "bar" have the same md5, it's trivial for the server to check otherwise.

  18. Re:2.6.0 experiences on Fedora Core 2 Schedule Up · · Score: 1

    > #patch -p1 NVIDIA_Kernel-1.0.4496-2.6.diff
    That should be:
    #patch -p1 < NVIDIA_Kernel-1.0.4496-2.6.diff
    Hurrah slashcode ;-)

  19. Re:Buy the last generation on Is it a Good Time to Get an Athlon64? · · Score: 1

    No, you've got it backwards. He should buy the latest and greatest, causing the prices to come down so that I can buy one when the next chip comes out.

  20. Re:John Carmack ? on SpaceShipOne Rockets To 68,000 Feet · · Score: 1

    "Hey, no sweat guys, it's just a big rocket jump!"

  21. Re:Um, too obvious? on Setting up a System w/ Wake-on-LAN and VNC? · · Score: 1
    Do you actually use this way of putting php together in production system?

    Making it up as i type it into a slashdot box? Nope ;-) But for things without a template system I do prefer to keep HTML output outside the php parser.

    The above was simplistic, but add some real HTML with lots of quotes that need escaping, some indentation, and an editor that syntax highlights HTML differently from PHP (and sure, a bit more thought into layout), and I find it easier to manage. That's just me of course, and i've never developed PHP with more than one other person.

    And if I get modded offtopic... ;-)

  22. Re:Um, too obvious? on Setting up a System w/ Wake-on-LAN and VNC? · · Score: 1

    Oops, I forgot to say, I don't know if WOL allows you to shut down, that's easily added. If not, VNC will do it.

  23. Um, too obvious? on Setting up a System w/ Wake-on-LAN and VNC? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What's wrong with something simple? Throw a .htaccess in a directory with this (untested) script.
    <html><body>
    <?php
    $machine="123.123.12 3.123";
    $connect="wakeonlan --wakeup $machine"; // or whatever
    if($_REQUEST['connect']) {
    exec($connect);
    ?>
    Starting up <?=$machine?>.
    <?php
    } elseif(ping($machine)) {
    ?>
    <?=$machine?> is up.
    <?php
    } else {
    ?>
    <?=$machine?> is down. <a href="?connect=1">Start up</a>.
    <?php
    }
    ?>
    </body></html>

  24. Re:Oh telstra you dorks on Australia's Largest ISP Redefines Spam · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Sometimes I write emails on my laptop while it's not on the network, and send them when i plug in.

  25. Re:Much to learn. on What's Wrong with the Open Source Community? · · Score: 1

    Because it's relevant to the parent, and so contributes to the conversation (thread). If you aren't interested, there's a scrollbar, you could even get one of those crazy mice those kids have these days.