I think some Mac laptops already have that, so all that would be need to be implemented is the software side (ie violently shaking the laptop causes it to kill the process with the most cpu usage, would be most helpful).
They use JavaScript to detect if you have flash or not, so you need to enable JS. I don't see why they can't just embed the flash directly and let the user click on it if they don't have flash, which will take them to the flash download site anyways.
No binaries! Only source code! Good luck getting it to compile on Windows, I gave up after I got several dozen obscure errors I had never seen before from the compiler.*
* If anyone can get VC++2K5 to compile it, please post.
Just use a tried and true method... take attendance. If the class is too big for that you can pass around an attendance sheet and trust your students not to sign for each other... although that might not help your situation much. Or you can just hand out small quizzes at the beginning of each class (or once a week or something) and use those to figure out who was attending or not. You can even make the quiz questions simple ones to determine if the students did the reading for last night's homework, as an additional bonus!
This is likely why I get picked out so often, as I tend to fly by myself when going home from college for the holidays. Oddly enough, it's usually at Logon Intl Airport (Boston) where I get picked out and not my return trip from Philly Intl Airport.
I actually know how to break that down... B800:0000 is the start of the ASCII video memory. First 0x1 is the smiley, next 0x1 is dark blue on black. 0x21 is !, 0x7 is light gray on black.
The memory is 4000 bytes long (longer if you use a bigger mode than 80x25) with 2 bytes for a screen tile. First byte specifies extended ASCII character (charmap.exe with font Terminal will show you all characters > 0x20), second specifies the color.
All colors that can be used are: 0 = black, 1 = dark blue, 2 = dark green, 3 = dark cyan, 4 = dark red, 5 = dark purple, 6 = brown, 7 = light gray, 8 = dark gray, 9 = light blue, A = light green, B = light cyan, C = light red, D = light purple, E = yellow, F = white. Note that the first nibble is the background color, second is foreground. By default, if you specify a background >= 8, subtract 8 to get the displayed background. The foreground will blink. Not sure what mechanism overrides this to allow "light" backgrounds, but I've seen it done.
I didn't say Firefox 1.5. Firefox 2 lacks the options you described, and I can't figure out what the about:config variable name for it is. I managed to look right over that Opera one (didn't realize it was what I was looking for).
Sounds like just a toolkit to me. One implementation among many. A simple Ajax implementation isn't even 20 lines of code client side, and then whatever server side code is needed to perform the necessary functions.
I find it ironic that their first example of COWS Ajax is a spell checker, which my Firefox already has built-in, client side, for ANY form field on ANY website.
A browser feature to block cookies that either: a) originate from a different domain than the top-level page or b) ignore cookies sent with non-HTML pages. I got the latter idea from CGIProxy.
Firefox doesn't seem to have anything like this. Internet Explorer can be configured to block all "third-party" cookies. Opera doesn't appear to have anything like this either.
Of course with Firefox you can get rid of the cookies as a side effect if you use Adblock or otherwise block ads.
Anyone who uses Google Cal should read this, it'll enlighten the extreme of the possible privacy issues involved with making your calendar public. Thus the user can make an informed decision on whether it should be public or not.
Try leaving the answer blank. ScummVM disables copy protection for SOME games I think (it might only be one or two non-LucasArts ones where the game devs gave the OK, I forget).
I use PHP. Server side includes are perfect for standard headers/footers. I check server variables to change behavior based on whether it's on the dev server or the final webserver.
I'd paste an example, but slashdot seems to think PHP code is "junk characters".
No, I'm doing it on purpose, for anonymity. I use Proxifier's built in feature to forward DNS requests over a proxy... it's a bit weird but it works (I think it hooks the normal DNS mechanisms, and instead of doing a DNS it returns a bogus IP it saves. When a request for that IP comes along, it looks up the appropriate hostname in its look up table and sends that hostname over the proxy, so no DNS request is made. This also has the advantage of allowing Proxifier to see and report on hostnames as opposed to normally just seeing IP addresses.
If anyone claims to make a fully private and "secure" browser, while ignoring that you still have ISP and backbone logs, going through pipes and other servers that do their own logging... I'd have to, in my best technical opinion, call bullshit.
What if it piped it's traffic through an encrypted proxy routing system like Tor? Granted, even then you're not completely secure, but it's good enough for most purposes. The only possible downsides I see are:
Someone who is familiar with Tor and is sniffing your traffic can probably figure out you're using it, but that's about it.
The endnode in your Tor route gets access to your unencrypted traffic (if I understand the protocol right), but they have no way of knowing where your computer is, only the closest router to them to send your data to. This can only prove vulnerable if you get careless.
I just tried the included search engine as well as Google. I'm not seeing any adverts. I was going to try invalid domain names, but my comp is set up in an odd way so that programs can't tell if DNS requests fail, so they end up timing out instead of DNS failing.
I stuck it on my usb drive because it was a small EXE, it was standalone, no installer, and the devs themselves say it's good for portable use. I didn't really run it through it's paces, but I'll probably stick with my Portable Firefox, which can clean my trail anyways, and doesn't rely on IE.
It's called buying another hard-drive. Get an external one for best portability-ness. Then you can just drag and drop, or use a backup tool to do the work for you. Windows Live OneCare includes such a tool even has explicit support for automatic backup to an external drive... although I've never tested it and I don't usually use backup tools thus I don't know how it stacks up.
Here's a hint: If you buy a business package, you actually GET the bandwidth sold to you. Supposedly it's because businesses NEED their bandwidth to, you know, run their business. But my personal theory is that it's because businesses have experience with using lawyers so ISPs don't wanna f*** around with them.
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I think some Mac laptops already have that, so all that would be need to be implemented is the software side (ie violently shaking the laptop causes it to kill the process with the most cpu usage, would be most helpful).
They use JavaScript to detect if you have flash or not, so you need to enable JS. I don't see why they can't just embed the flash directly and let the user click on it if they don't have flash, which will take them to the flash download site anyways.
No binaries! Only source code! Good luck getting it to compile on Windows, I gave up after I got several dozen obscure errors I had never seen before from the compiler.*
* If anyone can get VC++2K5 to compile it, please post.
Just use a tried and true method... take attendance. If the class is too big for that you can pass around an attendance sheet and trust your students not to sign for each other... although that might not help your situation much. Or you can just hand out small quizzes at the beginning of each class (or once a week or something) and use those to figure out who was attending or not. You can even make the quiz questions simple ones to determine if the students did the reading for last night's homework, as an additional bonus!
This is likely why I get picked out so often, as I tend to fly by myself when going home from college for the holidays. Oddly enough, it's usually at Logon Intl Airport (Boston) where I get picked out and not my return trip from Philly Intl Airport.
I actually know how to break that down... B800:0000 is the start of the ASCII video memory. First 0x1 is the smiley, next 0x1 is dark blue on black. 0x21 is !, 0x7 is light gray on black.
The memory is 4000 bytes long (longer if you use a bigger mode than 80x25) with 2 bytes for a screen tile. First byte specifies extended ASCII character (charmap.exe with font Terminal will show you all characters > 0x20), second specifies the color.
All colors that can be used are: 0 = black, 1 = dark blue, 2 = dark green, 3 = dark cyan, 4 = dark red, 5 = dark purple, 6 = brown, 7 = light gray, 8 = dark gray, 9 = light blue, A = light green, B = light cyan, C = light red, D = light purple, E = yellow, F = white. Note that the first nibble is the background color, second is foreground. By default, if you specify a background >= 8, subtract 8 to get the displayed background. The foreground will blink. Not sure what mechanism overrides this to allow "light" backgrounds, but I've seen it done.
I didn't say Firefox 1.5. Firefox 2 lacks the options you described, and I can't figure out what the about:config variable name for it is. I managed to look right over that Opera one (didn't realize it was what I was looking for).
Except that the people who tend to frequent slashdot also tend not to fall for this sort of thing.
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Sounds like just a toolkit to me. One implementation among many. A simple Ajax implementation isn't even 20 lines of code client side, and then whatever server side code is needed to perform the necessary functions.
I find it ironic that their first example of COWS Ajax is a spell checker, which my Firefox already has built-in, client side, for ANY form field on ANY website.
I was "randomly" selected three trips in a row at one airport. Whee! I think it's because I tend to carry electronics (with wires) in my carry on.
A browser feature to block cookies that either: a) originate from a different domain than the top-level page or b) ignore cookies sent with non-HTML pages. I got the latter idea from CGIProxy.
Firefox doesn't seem to have anything like this. Internet Explorer can be configured to block all "third-party" cookies. Opera doesn't appear to have anything like this either.
Of course with Firefox you can get rid of the cookies as a side effect if you use Adblock or otherwise block ads.
Anyone who uses Google Cal should read this, it'll enlighten the extreme of the possible privacy issues involved with making your calendar public. Thus the user can make an informed decision on whether it should be public or not.
Someone should start an SF project for that, and then people could donate to it to support it and... oh wait... doh.
Try leaving the answer blank. ScummVM disables copy protection for SOME games I think (it might only be one or two non-LucasArts ones where the game devs gave the OK, I forget).
I use PHP. Server side includes are perfect for standard headers/footers. I check server variables to change behavior based on whether it's on the dev server or the final webserver.
I'd paste an example, but slashdot seems to think PHP code is "junk characters".
No, I'm doing it on purpose, for anonymity. I use Proxifier's built in feature to forward DNS requests over a proxy... it's a bit weird but it works (I think it hooks the normal DNS mechanisms, and instead of doing a DNS it returns a bogus IP it saves. When a request for that IP comes along, it looks up the appropriate hostname in its look up table and sends that hostname over the proxy, so no DNS request is made. This also has the advantage of allowing Proxifier to see and report on hostnames as opposed to normally just seeing IP addresses.
Is it even possible to slashdot slashdot?
If anyone claims to make a fully private and "secure" browser, while ignoring that you still have ISP and backbone logs, going through pipes and other servers that do their own logging... I'd have to, in my best technical opinion, call bullshit.
What if it piped it's traffic through an encrypted proxy routing system like Tor? Granted, even then you're not completely secure, but it's good enough for most purposes. The only possible downsides I see are:
I just tried the included search engine as well as Google. I'm not seeing any adverts. I was going to try invalid domain names, but my comp is set up in an odd way so that programs can't tell if DNS requests fail, so they end up timing out instead of DNS failing.
I stuck it on my usb drive because it was a small EXE, it was standalone, no installer, and the devs themselves say it's good for portable use. I didn't really run it through it's paces, but I'll probably stick with my Portable Firefox, which can clean my trail anyways, and doesn't rely on IE.
Use a number that the consumer controls.
Because we all know how good average people are with passwords and id numbers.
It's called buying another hard-drive. Get an external one for best portability-ness. Then you can just drag and drop, or use a backup tool to do the work for you. Windows Live OneCare includes such a tool even has explicit support for automatic backup to an external drive... although I've never tested it and I don't usually use backup tools thus I don't know how it stacks up.
Here's a hint: If you buy a business package, you actually GET the bandwidth sold to you. Supposedly it's because businesses NEED their bandwidth to, you know, run their business. But my personal theory is that it's because businesses have experience with using lawyers so ISPs don't wanna f*** around with them.
It's closer to Jimbo's concept of what a Wiki SHOULD be.