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  1. Valid CSS? on Firefox and Opera Fail the Acid2 Test · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm confused, is this supposed to be valid CSS2? The W3C CSS validator finds 8 errors in the page.

    -molo

    CSS validator results

    * Line: 46
    Parse Error - second two]
    * Line: 91 Context : .parser-container div
    Invalid number : color orange is not a color value : orange
    * Line: 97 Context : .parser
    Property error doesn't exist : }
    * Line: 100 Context : .parser
    Property m rgin doesn't exist : 2em
    * Line: 100
    Parse error - Unrecognized : };
    * Line: 102 Context : .parser
    Invalid number : width only 0 can be a length. You must put an unit after your number : 200
    * Line: 103 Context : .parser
    Parse Error - ! error;
    * Line: 103 Context : .parser
    Parse error - Unrecognized : }

  2. Re:sharing on ESA Aiming for Martian Probe in 2011 · · Score: 1

    Great, just like ISS, the biggest boondoggle yet.

    -molo

  3. Re:Trying to get a feel for evolution in america - on Top 10 Evolutionary Adaptations · · Score: 1

    An old earth is certainly compatible with the Bible. The Bible doesn't say that a "day" in the creation story is a literal day. It actually says that in God's perspective time doesn't matter.

    But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. (2 Peter 3:8, KJV)

    This concept even dates back to the Psalms of the Old Testament:

    For a thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night. (Psalm 90:4, NIV)

    So any Christian declaration that the earth must not be older than a specific age just doesn't add up, by the Bible's own text.

    -molo (a former Christian)

  4. openssl benchmark on Easy, Fast, Cheap Way to Generate CPU Load? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Fire off one of these per processor:

    > while true ; do openssl speed ; done
    Doing md2 for 3s on 16 size blocks: 511846 md2's in 3.00s
    Doing md2 for 3s on 64 size blocks: 278228 md2's in 3.00s
    Doing md2 for 3s on 256 size blocks: 98836 md2's in 3.00s
    Doing md2 for 3s on 1024 size blocks: 27645 md2's in 3.00s
    Doing md2 for 3s on 8192 size blocks: 3574 md2's in 3.01s
    [... continues ...]

    -molo

  5. Re:GCJ- Linux app packaging on Java Fallout: OO.o 2.0 and the FOSS Community · · Score: 1

    That is interesting. I didn't know that ELF had such a feature. So that makes it supportable for Linux, Solaris, and some BSD versions. More cross-platform, but not for all. I wish AIX and HPUX would modernize. :(

    -molo

  6. Re:GCJ- Linux app packaging on Java Fallout: OO.o 2.0 and the FOSS Community · · Score: 1

    This is interesting, but it obviously relies on the behavior of the GNU dynamic loader.. so it is not cross-platform. For those of use that use linux in addition to *BSD, Solaris, AIX and HPUX, this is not a real option.

    -molo

  7. Re:Right... on Apple Plugs IDN Spoof Bug · · Score: 4, Informative

    actually, idn works in firefox 1.0.1, but the punycode URL is displayed instead of the unicode characters. This is still a temporary solution. It can be overridden by changing network.IDN_show_punycode to false.

    -molo

  8. Re:This is silly... on CSS Support Could Be IE7's Weakest Link · · Score: 1

    IE6 chokes on the W3C XHTML 1.1 DTD. Don't ask me why.. but it displays an error and won't render the page. If I remvove the DTD (but leave the Doctype), the page renders fine (and actually still validates). *sigh*

    -molo

  9. Re:and how many times... on GCC 4.0 Preview · · Score: 1

    If you're dlopen()-ing glibc, I think you have bigger problems.

    -molo

  10. Re:and how many times... on GCC 4.0 Preview · · Score: 1

    Yes, GCC has had many ABI changes, However, GLIBC since version 2.1 has not. They maintain what is called "versioned symbols" so that when something changes, they can provide two implementations, and the correct one is selected at load time during symbol resolution. This is EXACTLY the scheme that Solaris uses (its part of ELF, which Sun had a significant hand in). If you want your binary to be portable, build it against an older version of glibc and it will run on all newer versions.

    -molo

  11. Re:NetBSD, here I come on Debian Release Mgr. Proposes Dropping Some Archs · · Score: 1

    My SGI Indy is running woody. It works quite well, albeit slowly. It is perfectly suitable for a X terminal.

    -molo

  12. MIPS but not MIPSel (little endian) on Debian Release Mgr. Proposes Dropping Some Archs · · Score: 2, Informative

    I see from the list of ports that they include only one MIPSs port, while Debian includes two: "mips" and "mipsel" (little endian). They are binary incompatible and run on entirely different hardware. Big-endian MIPS runs on SGIs and such while little-endian MIPS runs on Decstations and such.

    I don't know which Gentoo has, but it doesn't have both.

    -molo

  13. Re:What about ARM ? on Debian Release Mgr. Proposes Dropping Some Archs · · Score: 1

    I think you are confusing the default install with the base install (the real minimum). A base-only system comes in around 20 MB. I havn't looked in a few years, so I don't know exactly.. and it will vary slightly per platform, so corrections are welcome. But the minimum install is well under 100MB.

    -molo

  14. Re:Manual Transmission on How Are You Conserving Energy? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    FYI, in modern cars, using engine breaking on the downhills can will use less gas than putting it in neutral. The inertia of the car moving keeps the cylinders turning with minimal fuel. Of course, this might not be helpful if you're just going to have to go back uphill.. but if there's a stop sign or light at the bottom of the hill, its probably worth it.

    -molo

  15. Re:Start working on immigration now... on In Need of Repatriation Advice? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Have any stories about the Japanese legal system? I'm curious. Thanks.

    -molo

  16. Re:Whitelists ignrore third-level domains. on Opera Fixes IDN Spoofing in Opera 8.0 Beta 2 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No, you can do a DNS cache poisoning attack. It is pretty hard to DNS cache poison a address like www.paypal.com because it is already in the cache of most DNS servers (because of the site's popularity). But, there is nothing stopping you from cache poisoning a hostname that no one has tried to connect to yet.

    Say for example I'm a phisher and am trying this attack. I send my phishing spam to all of the earthlink.net accounts I have, using the IDN url. At the same time, I start a DNS cache poisoning attack, using spoofed DNS packets that look like they come from paypal, sending to all the known earthlink DNS servers. The DNS servers accept the spoofed packets when they do a query, poisoning the cache. All the client sees is the whitelisted Unicode URL.

    -molo

  17. Whitelists ignrore third-level domains. on Opera Fixes IDN Spoofing in Opera 8.0 Beta 2 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The problem with whitelisting TLDs is that this ignores problems with bogus third-level domains/hosts. The listed registrars prevent registering look-alike domains, but no one controls look alike third-level domains.

    For example, ωωω.paypal.jp (using greek omega). This can be combined with a DNS cache attack.

    -molo

  18. Re:Removing MSN Messenger doesn't actually remove on Image Causes Exploitable Overflow in Microsoft Products · · Score: 1

    Dude, that rocks. I'm looking for a comprable section in msoe50.inf, for Outlook Express, but I don't see it. Any clues here?

    Thanks.
    -molo

  19. Re:How much cash do they really have? on Microsoft: The Faint Smell of Rot · · Score: 2, Informative

    Microsoft stock stopped rising years ago. See here:

    MSFT 5 years

    MSFT max

    -molo

  20. Re:XFree on X.Org 6.8.2 is Out · · Score: 1

    Debian is using XFree86 4.3.0 + patches that are licensed properly. The plan is to release Sarge with this version and then switch over to Xorg.

    -molo

  21. Re:Tactical Nukes on North Korea Admits to Having Nuclear Weapons · · Score: 1

    They did make it.. but they weakened it down to 50 megatons to test it. The 100 megaton version would have made too much fallout. See here:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba

    -molo

  22. From the changelog: on Apache 2.0.53 Released, Fixes 2 Security Problems · · Score: 4, Informative
    *) SECURITY: CAN-2004-0942 (cve.mitre.org)
    Fix for memory consumption DoS in handling of MIME folded request
    headers. [Joe Orton]

    *) SECURITY: CAN-2004-0885 (cve.mitre.org)
    mod_ssl: Fix a bug which allowed an SSLCipherSuite setting to be
    bypassed during an SSL renegotiation. PR 31505.
    [Hartmut Keil <Hartmut.Keil adnovum.ch>, Joe Orton]
  23. Re:"What Is Message Queuing?" on Open Source Message Queuing System · · Score: 1

    Ah, sorry if that wasn't clear.. I am considering delivery to the final recipient, not delivery to the queue. You are correct in that case.

    -molo

  24. Re:"What Is Message Queuing?" on Open Source Message Queuing System · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Sorry, thats not transactional. Transactional means that either the message will be delievered and accepted, or it won't. There is no in between state. The sender is notified of the results. There cannot be a gurantee of delivery. The receiving side may fail, but any steps that it performed will be wound back to its original state.

    -molo

  25. Re:"What Is Message Queuing?" on Open Source Message Queuing System · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Good points, thanks.

    -molo