IE uses standards mode if the webpage identifies itself correctly, according to standards. If you just have a simple tag to start off your page with no DOCTYPE or other proper language definition, you're in quirks mode, and you don't have a chance in hell of getting your page to match up with other browsers.
They have signed papers indicating they are permitted to do penetration testing, by request of the organization they are testing. If they get arrested, they show the papers, the police verify them, and they get released.
As of yet IIRC, we have been unable to use science to say WHY something happens, but only HOW it happens. I think in the cases where we have determined WHY something happens (example: Newton's gravity happens because of relativity) we can only use a "HOW" to explain it (we don't know WHY relativity is true).
IANAScientist, so please correct me if I got any of that wrong.
One interesting way to look at it is that Science explains the HOW and Religion explains the WHY.
I got accused of hacking my school's network by the computer class teacher about 7 years ago in high school.
Turns out someone had set IE's homepage to a local network copy of the school website instead of the online version (which it was supposed to be). Wouldn't surprise me if it was the teacher in question who did it too by accident. Of course, the network share didn't have appropriate permissions so the moment I fired up IE it "hacked" into the share. Apparently it DID have some form of logging, though.
To be fair, I did notice the URL, and out of curiosity navigated a level up and checked out a few other webpages on the local copy. But I only checked out a couple files before I got bored and went back to doing whatever it was I had fired up a browser for in the first place. Still, she blatantly labeled me a "hacker". Uh huh.
This same teacher disappeared without a trace at the end of the year without even giving out the obligatory class award plaques and honor roll certificates that year. We didn't even get the t-shirts she promised anyone who could break 50 words a minute typing the alphabet blindfolded (I got 53).
When I reinstalled XP SP0 on my 5 year old computer it booted up much faster than I was used to with SP2.
When I patched it to SP2 and rebooted, it was back to being slow.
The problem disappeared when I discovered slipstreaming and made my own XP install CD with SP2 built-in, but really, most users aren't going to know how to do that, let alone be bothered to. Hell, most people who I talk to think reinstalling XP means you lose all your data (not true, reformatting is optional, and anything that would be replaced is backed up before the install) so I don't think Joe Average reinstalls much to begin with.
I blame snipers for the red spots. Whenever I've died there, it was a sniper that killed me. A good reason why the other two corners aren't red would be that one of the two spawn points is closer to the battlements... with the other spawn point I'm more likely to go fall through the hole in the floor and end up in the middle of my base instead.
Actually since Windows doesn't allow programs access to physical memory, the program would probably be shut down by Windows after it tries to write to Virtual Memory it didn't allocate.
That does sound like fun though, does it work on C64 emulators?
Well you obviously don't like IRC because you've only used it for support. For those of us who use it to just chat it's fine. And guess what? We usually leave our clients connected 24/7 even when we're not there. Would you have rather joined a support channel to find it empty? Maybe they could rename #support to #peoplewhocareaboutyourproblem.
Some IRC communities are hostile towards newcomers, giving a bad impression. But if you look around enough you'll find some that are ok.
One time I joined a channel and at one point announced my mp3 script (plain-text, no colors or other annoying bits), and got accused of being a script kiddie by someone who obviously didn't know what a script kiddie was (hint: it involves black-hat hacking, not mp3 players). I told them truthfully I didn't know they didn't like mp3 scripts and I said it wasn't auto-announce and that I'd stop doing it. They still banned me. I then went to the community forums to ask about my ban and my thread was promptly closed without explanation. I decided to stick to friendly communities.
They can still implement encryption that allows the user to provide a key... but I suppose there is no way to guarantee the key isn't saved somewhere, other than Google's word.
A safe that you would have to physically and completely remove and take all the way home before you could open it to add or remove anything, and then take it all the way back to commit your changes.
The one feature that really floored me is that you can browse ZIP files ONLINE! That's just novel! It's hidden though (most users would rather a ZIP file download than a directory listing pop up when they click it) and you access it by prepending "jar:" to the url and appending "!/" to the end. Try it!
It also has a much better HTML/CSS layout and better functionality for file:// and ftp:// (and jar:) urls (has a show hidden files option for file:// and shows explorer icons for files).
Here's some more of my favorite new features:
Overall speed increases... tab switching is now snappy like it should be, and like it is when you don't have any extensions. I like my extensions, and now I can have my cake and eat it too!
Places. This is probably the one feature everyone here is aware would be in FF3. Firefox 3 throws in some sample queries when you first run it and it imports your bookmarks into an SQL database.
Bookmark favicons now update to a new site favicon even if the bookmark already has a favicon! This was a bit annoying as before to update a favicon you had to manually go into the bookmark HTML and delete the icon data.
New download manager appearance with search and with the ability to use a Windows antivirus program on EXE files.
Full page zoom! However, it seems to crash when I used it on slashdot.org!:(
Healthy in comparison to cocaine, sure... but there are other things in life besides computers! Jobs, friends (and I mean as in real, social, face-to-face interaction, online friends can't count for that), school, exercise, and a whole lot more... if you're on the computer all the time you can't do any of these other things!
Well OK SOME of those things you can do but it's not the same as more traditional methods anyways, especially as far as social interaction is concerned. And don't even TRY to say you can eat properly and exercise without leaving your computer.
I dualboot with XP... I should check to see if this is happening... however I DID disable system restore for the Vista drive from XP, and visa-versa, to decrease the chance they would mess each other up. I do thing both OSs have system restore enabled for all my common drives, except those I don't put Windows programs on since that would be useless.
C:\Windows\temp was done away with back with Windows NT... IIRC. At any rate, here in XP it's a per-user folder under a user's Application Data\Local Settings
I lock my swap file down to a fixed size too, although to only 1.5gb, since I heard you should stick to 3x ram and I had.5gb ram to start... then I got 1gb more ram and I just kept the swap size.
However more recently I realized that it's not a good idea to lock the upper bound of the size... since if a program starts eating memory out of control I'd rather have the swap file grow a bit and the program crash when it hits the 2gb barrier than risk the whole OS crashing when the comp runs out of memory... that happened to me once when I had.5gb memory. Not fun. So I just lock the lower bound to 1.5gb and I figure it should stay that size unless something drastic happens.
I don't know if locking the size really makes a difference now though. Back in the 16-bit days it was supposed to stop Windows from dynamically changing the size of the swap file and thus made everything run faster. I guess I just do it out of habit and because I'm guaranteed to not have my free space fluctuate when I'm trying to cram stuff onto the drive and put off clean up once again.
Bah, right after I posted my comment I realized I wasn't thinking straight. Time for bed I guess. Ignore parent and imagine I typed this instead:
Default Windows settings would mount the drive and immediately parse autorun.inf. I'm not sure about running the trojan, but I think MS totally disabled the run part of autorun in Vista and maybe an XP update (instead you get a dialog which shows the autorun action as one of several options you can take including nothing, or opening the drive in explorer).
Default Windows settings would run the trojan once you plugged the drive in. To avoid this you either have to hold shift for an indeterminate amount of time while plugging the drive in, which can be difficult or impossible. With such a drive you're likely to use a more inaccessible port because you likely won't be needing to unplug it much. The only other alternative is to disable autorun for removable drives. This option is not available in the standard GUI and third party tools (or TweakUI) are needed.
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That should be "simple <html&;gt tag".
Also this behavior has been around for a while, at least since IE6.
IE uses standards mode if the webpage identifies itself correctly, according to standards. If you just have a simple tag to start off your page with no DOCTYPE or other proper language definition, you're in quirks mode, and you don't have a chance in hell of getting your page to match up with other browsers.
Does this mean I can sue the city for demolishing my 5-bedroom mansion which never existed?
Er, at least, that's how these sorts of things are supposedly done. IANAPenetration Tester.
They have signed papers indicating they are permitted to do penetration testing, by request of the organization they are testing. If they get arrested, they show the papers, the police verify them, and they get released.
As of yet IIRC, we have been unable to use science to say WHY something happens, but only HOW it happens. I think in the cases where we have determined WHY something happens (example: Newton's gravity happens because of relativity) we can only use a "HOW" to explain it (we don't know WHY relativity is true).
IANAScientist, so please correct me if I got any of that wrong.
One interesting way to look at it is that Science explains the HOW and Religion explains the WHY.
I got accused of hacking my school's network by the computer class teacher about 7 years ago in high school.
Turns out someone had set IE's homepage to a local network copy of the school website instead of the online version (which it was supposed to be). Wouldn't surprise me if it was the teacher in question who did it too by accident. Of course, the network share didn't have appropriate permissions so the moment I fired up IE it "hacked" into the share. Apparently it DID have some form of logging, though.
To be fair, I did notice the URL, and out of curiosity navigated a level up and checked out a few other webpages on the local copy. But I only checked out a couple files before I got bored and went back to doing whatever it was I had fired up a browser for in the first place. Still, she blatantly labeled me a "hacker". Uh huh.
This same teacher disappeared without a trace at the end of the year without even giving out the obligatory class award plaques and honor roll certificates that year. We didn't even get the t-shirts she promised anyone who could break 50 words a minute typing the alphabet blindfolded (I got 53).
When I reinstalled XP SP0 on my 5 year old computer it booted up much faster than I was used to with SP2.
When I patched it to SP2 and rebooted, it was back to being slow.
The problem disappeared when I discovered slipstreaming and made my own XP install CD with SP2 built-in, but really, most users aren't going to know how to do that, let alone be bothered to. Hell, most people who I talk to think reinstalling XP means you lose all your data (not true, reformatting is optional, and anything that would be replaced is backed up before the install) so I don't think Joe Average reinstalls much to begin with.
I blame snipers for the red spots. Whenever I've died there, it was a sniper that killed me. A good reason why the other two corners aren't red would be that one of the two spawn points is closer to the battlements... with the other spawn point I'm more likely to go fall through the hole in the floor and end up in the middle of my base instead.
Actually since Windows doesn't allow programs access to physical memory, the program would probably be shut down by Windows after it tries to write to Virtual Memory it didn't allocate.
That does sound like fun though, does it work on C64 emulators?
Well you obviously don't like IRC because you've only used it for support. For those of us who use it to just chat it's fine. And guess what? We usually leave our clients connected 24/7 even when we're not there. Would you have rather joined a support channel to find it empty? Maybe they could rename #support to #peoplewhocareaboutyourproblem.
Some IRC communities are hostile towards newcomers, giving a bad impression. But if you look around enough you'll find some that are ok.
One time I joined a channel and at one point announced my mp3 script (plain-text, no colors or other annoying bits), and got accused of being a script kiddie by someone who obviously didn't know what a script kiddie was (hint: it involves black-hat hacking, not mp3 players). I told them truthfully I didn't know they didn't like mp3 scripts and I said it wasn't auto-announce and that I'd stop doing it. They still banned me. I then went to the community forums to ask about my ban and my thread was promptly closed without explanation. I decided to stick to friendly communities.
They can still implement encryption that allows the user to provide a key... but I suppose there is no way to guarantee the key isn't saved somewhere, other than Google's word.
A safe that you would have to physically and completely remove and take all the way home before you could open it to add or remove anything, and then take it all the way back to commit your changes.
And NASA could ask him to fix the darn wheel on that rover and clean off the solar panels for them while he's there. :)
More than 1/3 is not "so few".
(Here's how I figured out the 1/3 bit from "110 million".)
Hopefully by then tasers will be ubiquitous. I bet one will be marketed as "The Ad Blocker".
I'm pretty sure Microsoft made their own compiler for Visual Studio (IIRC, it's named msbuild).
The one feature that really floored me is that you can browse ZIP files ONLINE! That's just novel! It's hidden though (most users would rather a ZIP file download than a directory listing pop up when they click it) and you access it by prepending "jar:" to the url and appending "!/" to the end. Try it!
It also has a much better HTML/CSS layout and better functionality for file:// and ftp:// (and jar:) urls (has a show hidden files option for file:// and shows explorer icons for files).
Here's some more of my favorite new features:
Overall speed increases... tab switching is now snappy like it should be, and like it is when you don't have any extensions. I like my extensions, and now I can have my cake and eat it too!
Places. This is probably the one feature everyone here is aware would be in FF3. Firefox 3 throws in some sample queries when you first run it and it imports your bookmarks into an SQL database.
Bookmark favicons now update to a new site favicon even if the bookmark already has a favicon! This was a bit annoying as before to update a favicon you had to manually go into the bookmark HTML and delete the icon data.
New download manager appearance with search and with the ability to use a Windows antivirus program on EXE files.
Full page zoom! However, it seems to crash when I used it on slashdot.org! :(
New Places UI for bookmark organizing.
Healthy in comparison to cocaine, sure... but there are other things in life besides computers! Jobs, friends (and I mean as in real, social, face-to-face interaction, online friends can't count for that), school, exercise, and a whole lot more... if you're on the computer all the time you can't do any of these other things!
Well OK SOME of those things you can do but it's not the same as more traditional methods anyways, especially as far as social interaction is concerned. And don't even TRY to say you can eat properly and exercise without leaving your computer.
...companies will buy sections of road and carve their theme jingle in them?
"...When Dual-Booting With XP"
I dualboot with XP... I should check to see if this is happening... however I DID disable system restore for the Vista drive from XP, and visa-versa, to decrease the chance they would mess each other up. I do thing both OSs have system restore enabled for all my common drives, except those I don't put Windows programs on since that would be useless.
C:\Windows\temp was done away with back with Windows NT... IIRC. At any rate, here in XP it's a per-user folder under a user's Application Data\Local Settings
I lock my swap file down to a fixed size too, although to only 1.5gb, since I heard you should stick to 3x ram and I had .5gb ram to start... then I got 1gb more ram and I just kept the swap size.
However more recently I realized that it's not a good idea to lock the upper bound of the size... since if a program starts eating memory out of control I'd rather have the swap file grow a bit and the program crash when it hits the 2gb barrier than risk the whole OS crashing when the comp runs out of memory... that happened to me once when I had .5gb memory. Not fun. So I just lock the lower bound to 1.5gb and I figure it should stay that size unless something drastic happens.
I don't know if locking the size really makes a difference now though. Back in the 16-bit days it was supposed to stop Windows from dynamically changing the size of the swap file and thus made everything run faster. I guess I just do it out of habit and because I'm guaranteed to not have my free space fluctuate when I'm trying to cram stuff onto the drive and put off clean up once again.
Bah, right after I posted my comment I realized I wasn't thinking straight. Time for bed I guess. Ignore parent and imagine I typed this instead:
Default Windows settings would mount the drive and immediately parse autorun.inf. I'm not sure about running the trojan, but I think MS totally disabled the run part of autorun in Vista and maybe an XP update (instead you get a dialog which shows the autorun action as one of several options you can take including nothing, or opening the drive in explorer).
Default Windows settings would run the trojan once you plugged the drive in. To avoid this you either have to hold shift for an indeterminate amount of time while plugging the drive in, which can be difficult or impossible. With such a drive you're likely to use a more inaccessible port because you likely won't be needing to unplug it much. The only other alternative is to disable autorun for removable drives. This option is not available in the standard GUI and third party tools (or TweakUI) are needed.