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  1. Re:Ouch! on Malicious Web Pages Can Install Dashboard Widgets · · Score: 3, Informative
    That seems liek quite a security flaw... Any timeline on it being patched?
    Preferences -> General -> Open "safe" files after downloading (uncheck)

    Problem solved. Having that pref checked is asking for trouble. You can drop whatever you want in my downloads, I'll open it myself when I'm ready.

    Disclaimer: I am not running Tiger, so this may not be 100% correct.
  2. Re:pre-emptive lawsuit on Apple Sued over Tiger, Injunction Sought · · Score: 2, Funny

    Umm, I'd care... I would need to find a new editor as one of the requirements for jEdit would be goatse.

    And quite frankly that's enough to make me use emacs, but i can't remember if OS X runs on emacs ;)

  3. Re:They also dropped Cinema Display prices... on Apple Updates Power Mac Line · · Score: 1

    Actually, if you order it before end of day today (2005-04-27), you can get the Dell 20" 16:10 for $486. That's a tough price to beat.

  4. Re:Derrrrrr.... on It's not a Feature, It's a Vulnerability! · · Score: 1

    oops, yeah you are right.

  5. Re:Derrrrrr.... on It's not a Feature, It's a Vulnerability! · · Score: 2, Informative
    Now as an added bonus, look in your /bin directory and tell us which scripts have suid turned on. Now look for the suid bit on every file in your filesystem.

    It won't be very easy to find the programs without a 'find' command.

    Considering that it's OS X we are talking about, find is already there.
    sudo find / -perm -6000 -ls
    Will give you your list, not sure how many actually show up, I'll have to check when I get back in front of a Mac.
  6. Re:Slashdot 3 Google on Google Local, Definitions, & Registrar · · Score: 2, Informative
    Ever wonder what happens when you drop a Google ad? Your sites completely disappear from the Google search results.
    I don't know if that's true. We ran ads with Google for a while and decided that there are changes that need to be made on my end to make that a profitable choice.

    We have always ranked very high for specific product name searches first page if not first result, until a recent tweak on Google, now they are around page 4. The generic terms for us are pretty competitive and we haven't focused on those yet, so we basically don't exist there.

    Now I do list on froogle, but I doubt that has anything to do with it.

    Of course with anything controlled by a third party, Your Mileage Will Vary.
  7. Re:CSS is annoying on The CSS Anthology · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The problem with using a color name in your class definitions is about 2 minutes before the site is complete they decide all the blue stuff should be green and now you have blue that's really green.

    Name them for what they are, not what they look like. Somewhere down the road you'll be glad you did. ;)

  8. Re:Not an idiot on iPod Shuffle, Mac Mini, iLife '05, iWork · · Score: 1
    ...left me wondering the same thing: Can you turn it off, or is play always random?
    "With Play in Order mode, you manage the music. If things take a turn for the predictable, never fear. Turn iPod shuffle over, flip the slider to Shuffle and mix on the go."

    From the "DJ Your Day paragraph" on the iPod Shuffle page
  9. Re:I invented an alternative on Open Source Alternatives to Dreamweaver Templating · · Score: 1

    Warning: Unterminated comment starting line 4 ;)

  10. Re:More headlines you won't see... on Tech Headlines You Won't Read in 2005 · · Score: 1

    Very nice, but you missed one...

    Your computers uptime is directly proportionate to...

  11. Re:No wonder he got better... on Patrick Volkerding Back to Work · · Score: 1

    Well, except for when the Santa Ana's blow, then it blows all that crap back into the South Bay, you're welcome ;)

  12. Re:Seattle has had something like this for ages on Yahoo! Maps to Support Realtime Traffic · · Score: 1

    This type of info has been available for many Metro areas in the US for quite a while from the Travel Advisory News Network.

    Of course if you live in the L.A. area, you know that traffic sucks unless it's between 3:00 AM and 4:30 AM on Wednesdays.

  13. Re:Apple is killing the iPod Image on More on Apple/Motorola Joint Cell Phone Venture · · Score: 1
    The iPod's image is a small object that is stylish, easy to use, and has enough space for your music. Through doing BS like this, they are destroying that image that has been so successful. The only advantage of having a phone that plays music purchased from Apple's music store is the fact that people will be buying their ringtones from Apple instead of the service provider. Of course, you will end up with people who think this crap is really 'schweet' and they will use their iPhones to play music extremely loudly from the phone's crappy built-in speakers.
    uhh, Maybe it will be a phone with a hard disk that will be able to play FairPlay encrypted files.

    Or if you prefer, an iPod that has a phone in it.

    If all it did was play AAC ringtones I don't know that Apple would waste the ink on a contract with Motorola.

    If I can remove one more item from my pocket, it's a win. Although personally my keys annoy me more than anything else.
  14. Re:VOIP Spam? on The Other VoIP · · Score: 1
    Does anyone here get VOIP Spam yet? Have telemarketers started pissing on this communication medium yet?
    I have been using vonage since July 2002 and we have never gotten a cold call on that line.

    YMMV.
  15. Re:AdBlock on Firefox Users Bad For Advertisers · · Score: 1
    It won't hurt the site any more than it would hurt if you just clicked on nothing. And they'll get a few pennies or whatever in the meantime.
    While that sounds right with a quick glance, in reality it would/should go a little like this...

    Scenario #1, clicking on the ad to fund the site and not going any further.
    Marketing geek #1: Man all of the traffic from site X has a horrible bounce rate (one page visits).
    Marketing geek #2: I say we pull the plug.
    Marketing geek #1: Yeah, that makes sense.

    Scenario #2, not clicking on the ad at all.
    Marketing geek #1: We don't seem to be getting a response from our ads on site X...
    Marketing geek #2: Let's look at their demographics again and see if we aren't using the wrong creative and make some adjustments.
  16. Re:AdBlock on Firefox Users Bad For Advertisers · · Score: 4, Insightful
    It wouldn't even need to display them. Just issue the right http GET commands, and not even listen for the result.
    By doing this you will ultimately hurt the site you think you are helping.

    When the advertisers look at their ROI and see that all of the traffic from site x is crap, they will pull the ads and the site you were trying to help will need to find another method to support itself.
  17. Re:Now, before anyone says it... on Apple Releases Mac OS X Patches · · Score: 4, Informative
    And that's OS X's fault how, exactly?

    Looks more like a vulnerability in Slashcode to me...
    Yeah, that was my first thought, then I tried it on my PowerBook which I use for development. It works on any file found under docroot, including .htaccess and it doesn't have to be the OS X install of Apache, I build my own and it works.

    I'll provide the link that the very helpful AC posted below in case it doesn't get modded up as I think people should see it.

    More info here.
  18. Re:Tiger is just around the corner... on Running Mac OS X Panther · · Score: 1

    Take a look at Proteus, you might like it, it was my Trillian replacement when I left Windows.

  19. Re:Good points on Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther · · Score: 2, Informative
    Fink is nice, but it tends to make something of a mess. Even worse, that mess is mixed in with your current files, making it difficult to clean up later.
    Umm, not to sound like an ass, but...

    1) Launch Terminal.app
    2) sudo rm -rf /sw
    3) Fink is nothing but a memory ;)
  20. Re:meta-no-archive on Google Index Doubles · · Score: 2, Informative
    I'm sure I've seen some way of doing a sort of backwards search on a page, that will show all the pages in Google that link to it.
    The search you are looking for looks like this: link:slashdot.org
  21. Re:I've seen this before... on Gentoo Ricer Comparison · · Score: 2, Insightful
    ...and it's stupid. It's insulting to the hard work by the Gentoo folks, and ignorant to imply that
    From a gentoo user... Gentoo in theory is very nice, Gentoo in practice is a cluster fuck. I can't tell you how many times a package upgrade has broken something like a mail server. Fuck, seriously, get the permissions worked out before you let a package loose. Or not just dropping a kernel package because nobody knew how to maintain the previous gs-sources package when the original maintainer went "on leave".

    Nevermind that fact that qmail-scanner and Spamassassin are out of date... (actually qmail-scanner may be up to date)

    Time to look at FreeBSD again.
  22. Re:PHP or Perl? on Learning PHP 5 · · Score: 1
    Er, PHP stands for 'PHP: Hypertext Preproccessor' (gogo recursive acronyms!), not Personal Home Page.
    Actually, you are both right.
  23. Re:ASP.NET and PHP5 explained on Learning PHP 5 · · Score: 1
    How aggressively backwards compatible? It has been my understanding that a LOT of stuff written under PHP4 will not work under PHP5 without significant rewrites, and that there are no intentions of adding in that back capability. I have not yet seriously tried using PHP5 as yet largely because of this. Can you clarify?
    You can see Backward Incompatible Changes and new keywords for the things that may cause problems for you.

    The biggest issues I can forsee is if you currently use some of the new keywords in your old code. (but I haven't messed with PHP5 yet)
  24. [OT] Re:And? on Google-branded Firefox? · · Score: 1
    I will, however say that I would gladly give up the left nuts of all those within 100 miles of me for a version of FireFox that had what this Google Fangirl thinks would be the Alpha and Omega of browsers.
    After reading your blog, I find that statement to be extremely funny.
  25. Re:What i like about XP on Jef Raskin On The Mac · · Score: 1
    I'm also burnt out on the brushed metal look, the costly updates and dodgy performance unless your willing to fork out big $$$

    like others have said.. until there is a "white box" or generic - i can't afford the upgrade game and after my experimenting around i won't bother until prices come down on more capable OSX systems.

    I want a workstation to learn from, experiment with and have fun on - not necessarily just to look cool on my desk
    I'll agree with you on the Brushed Metal look.

    What upgrade cycle are you referring to, the OS upgrade every ~18 months? You don't have to do it, although eventually you will become unsupported. The up side is OS X generally gets more responsive with each new paid release.

    You can get a dual 1.8 with 1G RAM for $2200, it's not cheap but that machine is going to last a very long time. Just don't buy the memory from Apple

    I want a workstation to allow me to get work done, I don't want to spend time fighting with my machine. In 2 years on OS X I have never had a problem and I can do everything I need to do for work with the exception of printing UPS labels to the Thermal printer.