Countries like India are building up local launch capabilities because it is cheaper than launching the same satellite, etc using private companies like Ariane (ESA). This translates to substantial saving for the Indian space program.
If NASA is going to rely on private enterprises, wont it be more expensive for NASA. Given that they are facing budget cuts, where are they going to find the extra money to pay for these more expensive launches? And if most of the reduced budget goes into paying these private operators, where is the money needed to fund the shuttle replacement program?
I am looking for some kind of adblock-ish support for squid proxy that can be used to scrub HTML on the fly and get rid of those annoying popups, etc. Three primary reasons for this:
I don't want to configure/tweak ad-block on all the machines @home - keeping the settings in sync can be cumbersome.
Expecting the non-tech savvy folks at home to keep adblock settings in sync is a non-starter option. Ideally, I would like them to browse (set the proxy once) and not worry about those pop-ups, etc. Everything else is transparently fixed/cleaned up for the users by the proxy server.
I am on a bandwidth monitored connection to the ISP. Getting rid of all these junk will reduce my bandwidth costs.
If anyone knows of such software or can suggest better solutions/ideas, please either post them here or mail me.
I second the suggestion for aliasing rm with "-i". After being bitten by the "unintentional deletion of files" bug in my early unix days, I have always aliased the rm/mv/cp commands and recommend all new unix users to do the same.
I used to keep bookmarks and then switched to using google/yahoo search engine technique you mentioned. But of late, I am switching back to keeping bookmarks because the quality of search results from the search engines seems to have deteriorated. Earlier the relevant results would appear in the first couple of pages. Now, I have to dig through the list of junk results before hitting the relevent page. To save me the hassle the next time around - I just bookmark the site.
<offtopic to OP> Anyone else notice that queries to google now need to be appended with "-ebay -this -that" and not just simple keywords to restrict junk results? </offtopic>
I had the same problem. I have used "Xenu's link sleuth" link checker for validating my bookmarks file. But it is available only for windows - may have changed since I last checked.
Don't hold your breath on this one. If the owners are dumb enough to not protect their PCs - what makes you think that they will *suddenly* start patching their PCs? Most probably, they will decide their PC is slow and upgrade to a more faster PC.
We need to educate the people to take care of their machines properly and be a good responsible netizen.
What is the point of beaming ads to outer space? The target audience is still on this planet. Who's gonna watch the ad and say " Gee whiz! There's a sale going on right now on Earth" . This is plain stupid.
Setting does not work in FF1.0 on Windows. It does not matter if you set it via prefs.js or user.js - in either case the settings still show user set value of 'false' but the IDN spoof still works.
Never underestimate the power of human ingenuity.
We had the same problem at one of my ex-employer - there was a policy to change passwords every month. Initially, you could not 'recycle' a used password until ten entirely new passwords were used. Later on this was increased to 24 unique passwords before you could reuse the original password. People started forgetting passwords (3 failed login attempts and you are locked out) and started to write them down on post-it notes, etc. Some folks came up with an easy to use "formula" to generate unique passwords - crack the "formula" and you can easily find out the password.
The whole exercise of frequently changing passwords for security got compromised because it became cumbersome and annoying for people to keep remembering unique passwords. The policy looks good on paper - but as long as the human element is not factored in, it will not be effective.
I use a moox optimized version of firefox. Never tried K-Meleon. Based on the reviews/feedback - it seems to be snappier than firefox - can't wait to give it a try. Will I make the switch to K-Meleon completely? Dunno. I have got accustomed to the adblock and bugmenot extensions of firefox and unless there is something equivalent in K-Meleon - I will not be switching over completely.
OTOH, its good to have more alternatives to IE. The more users are converted from IE to alternative browsers - the better it is for the rest of us. Plus competition is always good - keeps the developers on their toes:-)
The idea sounds good in dealing with spammers embedding links in blogs, etc to bump up search engine rankings. But what about the people who visit the blogs - it does not solve the spam problem for them. I have seen blogs/sites/guestbooks (probably misconfigured) that are spammed to oblivion by bots inserting random spammy URLs. The signal to noise ratio on these sites is so low that the sites become pretty unusable very quickly.
A few days back vulnerabilities were reported for Mozilla/Firefox and people posted comments saying that they were switching back to IE. Does this mean that they are now switching back to Mozilla/Firefox?:-)
This reaffirms the adage that no software is "absolutely" secure/bugfree - just relatively better/worse than other software. Pick the one you feel is more secure. Both Firefox/IE-SP2 will have flaws.
Btw, I must admit that I use Firefox as my primary browser and this did not affect me.
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If NASA is going to rely on private enterprises, wont it be more expensive for NASA. Given that they are facing budget cuts, where are they going to find the extra money to pay for these more expensive launches? And if most of the reduced budget goes into paying these private operators, where is the money needed to fund the shuttle replacement program?
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Mahesh
How is this different from existing code search engines like http://www.koders.com/?
What is the USP of this new code search engine?
Regards,
Mahesh
I am looking for some kind of adblock-ish support for squid proxy that can be used to scrub HTML on the fly and get rid of those annoying popups, etc. Three primary reasons for this:
If anyone knows of such software or can suggest better solutions/ideas, please either post them here or mail me.
e.g. "\rm" will invoke the unescaped version of rm and not the alias "rm -i"
I second the suggestion for aliasing rm with "-i". After being bitten by the "unintentional deletion of files" bug in my early unix days, I have always aliased the rm/mv/cp commands and recommend all new unix users to do the same.
I used to keep bookmarks and then switched to using google/yahoo search engine technique you mentioned. But of late, I am switching back to keeping bookmarks because the quality of search results from the search engines seems to have deteriorated. Earlier the relevant results would appear in the first couple of pages. Now, I have to dig through the list of junk results before hitting the relevent page. To save me the hassle the next time around - I just bookmark the site.
I had the same problem. I have used "Xenu's link sleuth" link checker for validating my bookmarks file. But it is available only for windows - may have changed since I last checked.
We need to educate the people to take care of their machines properly and be a good responsible netizen.
What is the point of beaming ads to outer space? The target audience is still on this planet. Who's gonna watch the ad and say " Gee whiz! There's a sale going on right now on Earth" . This is plain stupid.
A temporary working solution has been posted on the mozillazine forums. In particular this link: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=2152 21 has the solution.
Setting does not work in FF1.0 on Windows. It does not matter if you set it via prefs.js or user.js - in either case the settings still show user set value of 'false' but the IDN spoof still works.
Never underestimate the power of human ingenuity. We had the same problem at one of my ex-employer - there was a policy to change passwords every month. Initially, you could not 'recycle' a used password until ten entirely new passwords were used. Later on this was increased to 24 unique passwords before you could reuse the original password. People started forgetting passwords (3 failed login attempts and you are locked out) and started to write them down on post-it notes, etc. Some folks came up with an easy to use "formula" to generate unique passwords - crack the "formula" and you can easily find out the password.
The whole exercise of frequently changing passwords for security got compromised because it became cumbersome and annoying for people to keep remembering unique passwords. The policy looks good on paper - but as long as the human element is not factored in, it will not be effective.
OTOH, its good to have more alternatives to IE. The more users are converted from IE to alternative browsers - the better it is for the rest of us. Plus competition is always good - keeps the developers on their toes :-)
The idea sounds good in dealing with spammers embedding links in blogs, etc to bump up search engine rankings. But what about the people who visit the blogs - it does not solve the spam problem for them. I have seen blogs/sites/guestbooks (probably misconfigured) that are spammed to oblivion by bots inserting random spammy URLs. The signal to noise ratio on these sites is so low that the sites become pretty unusable very quickly.
This reaffirms the adage that no software is "absolutely" secure/bugfree - just relatively better/worse than other software. Pick the one you feel is more secure. Both Firefox/IE-SP2 will have flaws.
Btw, I must admit that I use Firefox as my primary browser and this did not affect me.