The Twitter API does indeed cover the kind of thing you're talking about. If you scroll down to the very bottom of that API page you linked you'll see a link to the "Streaming API", http://dev.twitter.com/pages/streaming_api
This allows you to receive tweets in real-time over a persistent HTTP connection.
It's rather well hidden though, perhaps they don't want people finding out about it for whatever reason (performance?).
All versions since Java SE 6 update 10 for Microsoft Windows are believed to be affected by this vulnerability. Disabling the java plugin is not sufficient to prevent exploitation, as the toolkit is installed independently.
There's a seperate plugin called something like Java Deployment Toolkit which you also need to kill.
In recent times firefox seems to have removed the little "[ ] Enable Java" checkbox from the Options > Content page, however I've found if you go into Tools > Add-ons > Plugins you can disable the Java(TM) Platform SE 6 Uxx plugin from there, which seems like it does the trick.
Just as a note for others: I had to grab an updated shorewall package from debian testing because the version shipped with lenny doesn't support ipv6 properly and was blocking my packets. If ping6 tells you Operation not Permitted then that is the solution.
"ArK does not embed into Dolphin or Konqueror in 4.1"
it doesn't embed into Dolphin, no, because that's not Dolphin's design goal. i don't have 4.1 nearby to test this on, but in 4.2 you can navigate directly into tarballs seamlessly in Konqueror.
i'm curious, what exactly is dolphin's design goal(s) then?
i assumed it was meant to replace the file-browsing capabilities of konqueror; indeed konqueror is now labeled specifically as "Web Browser" and Dolphin as "File Manager" in my K menu.
(Using kubuntu intrepid here, kde 4.1.3)
oh, and i can confirm that konqueror in 4.1(.3) does have the desired behaviour of seamlessly browsing archives and opening files etc. although it doesn't try to open pdfs inside itself like it did with kpdf in 3.x (a good thing), i realise there is probably some configuration for this hidden somewhere.
"3.5 derived a lot of its power from a very solid, well refined OLE framework, and 4.1 has yet to even approach that"
the "OLE framework" in KDE is called KParts, and the infrastructure hasn't changed one bit between KDE3 and KDE4.
i've noticed problems with ole in kde 4.1 also, dragging and dropping no longer seems to work in many cases - but i think this is more a problem with the new applications not yet fully implementing support for it, rather than a problem with the underlying framework.
i am eagerly awaiting the next amarok 2.x release, because as other posters have pointed out, 2.0 is a bit of a step backwards in terms of functionality.
don't take this post as a complaint, i think it's great what the kde team are doing. i wouldn't want it any other way:)
oh, and if you're tempted to say "they should have just held 2.0 until January, then", don't bother: making releases from the code repository is an absolutely requirement to keep open source projects moving, and one of the downsides of that is that often a first release of a new series isn't what a consumer-grade user is going to what to cut their teeth on. that's why there is another step in row, e.g. distributions. not that they seem to always be doing their users the best favours lately in that regard.
and guess who provides the backbones that these "independant" ISP's use ?
Look up WBC (Wholesale Broadband Connect), and/or Datastream.
My understanding is that BT owns the last mile, then passes the traffic directly from the exchanges (in the case of datastream), or from the aggregation points (WBC), directly to the ISP's network.
I have 4 of them running and they all have an uptime > 200 days
(not to brag or anything)
I also tried writing my own in C, i think it managed maybe half an hour of uptime? Sadly I never did get around to finishing it though, got bored.
Hey, stop stalking me.
You learned ASP, hehe. How'd that work out for ya?
Also, I hope you're earning a tidy sum from that online shop, I could sure do with a steady income off of something like that. I'm off to uni to study computer systems engineering (yep, I'm branching out into electronics - I figure that having a physical product to sell is gonna be a good thing with things going the way they are.)
I was gonna add some ontopic stuff here, but I'll save that for another post, where it'll have slightly less chance of being modded down.
cheers
Ps, you made me use html mode for the quotes, now i have to go and add p tags around all my paragraphs; i hope you're happy:P
I started programming when I was about 12, and I am completely self taught. My parents knew nothing about computers, and still know nothing now despite my efforts. Anyway, i started with javascript, html, and php. (This was around 6 years ago). I think it was much easier to start learning the basics of this kinda stuff when you don't have to deal with all the boring (to a 12yo) details of memory management, libraries, and compilers etc. Web programming is something were you can get the instant results and action, you can just keep tweaking the source file and hitting F5 until you get something that works and looks vaguely like what you're after; this is especially useful when you don't know what you're doing.:)
I had a few books which taught me the basics, a javascript book and a html book. They only covered simple things, (I think the js book was a For Dummies..., actually), but it was enough to get me started. After that I found the php.net docs and a friend showed me loads of his php code and i picked that up fairly quickly.
Being a website, it's something easy to show off too, it was kinda cool to be like "dude, the whole world can see my webpage!". Following that theme, i got started on irc bots, eggdrops are written in C, and you can script em with tcl. Be careful tho, tcl is kinda quirky and weird (at least, that's how i remember it). But it's great for simple stuff, get the bot to parse some text and reply etc. This might also be a good time to learn some networking stuff. Also since eggdrops can also have C modules written, this is a possible path into C, although I didn't go that way so I don't know how good it is.
I eventually learned C(++) from some online tutorial, http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/ I think. And I wrote a load of code for manipulating some large binary files (game resource files, from Halo). I certainly don't recommend letting anyone learn C solely from some tutorial, since I had rather large gaps in my knowledge at this point (that code i wrote is terrible), but it was some great experience anyway. I played around with some.NET (ugh!) gui stuff, because I didn't know how else to make a gui program at the time (seriously, I don't know how I was meant to know about qt, gtk, or win32 etc at this point) and a program that just prints text on the command line got boring real fast.
Hacking at computer games was what really drove my interest in C at that time. Reverse engineering of the file formats was fun! Even if I did kinda suck at it and just found most of the info on the web.
Looking back, I'm thinking I probably would have liked someone to show me python (and maybe perl) much earlier than when i eventually discovered them. php sucks as a general purpose scripting language and C gets tedious for those little tasks.
Sorry that was all probably a little incoherent, I spent the time I was meant to be doing english homework programming;)
Most of the posts ive seen so far are just people bashing ads and whining... which is all very well but is there not something which can be done about the ad problem?
How else can a small-time webmaster expect to pay for hosting and bandwidth?
Obviously a paypal donatation link is one possibility, but ive no idea how effective they actually are. Ads are (ignoring blocking software here) compulsory viewing, and so are guarrenteed to generate cash. Im guessing the % of visitors who donate is even smaller than the avg click-through rate on ads.
"Why were those students even able to use proxies?"
im pretty sure they mean web-based proxies in this case, which fetch the blocked page for you thus bypassing the webfilter
for anyone whos interested CGIProxy is an example of one such proxy
there are even sites which will mail you lists of new proxies, so you can stay one step ahead of the webfilter
it pretty much impossible for a webfilter to block all such sites, although i imagine if the admins took the time to actually research these tools they could come up with some pattern matching rules to get most of them.
imo the issue here isnt about whos liable, but that a 3 month suspension is way too harsh, and will wreck that years worth of learning for the students
"Some of our games, by virtue of their design and hardware demands, simply couldn't work on Xbox 360"
Im pretty sure this is just refering to the motion sensing which sony built into the control in a late attempt to jump onto the ninetendo bandwagon. it doesnt say that the xbox is incapable of running the game due to lack of resources such as cpu, mem etc
so sure, these games couldnt work on the xbox, but will xbox (& wii) owners really be missing much....? (especially when you look at price comparisons/value for money)
from tfa: "the goal is to ultimately develop techniques for checking other distribution techniques as well, such as instant messaging or Web uploads"
so they will be scanning our web traffic in real-time to determin if we are sharing child porn?
anyone else see this and think something along the lines of "this is just a 'think of the children' excuse to implement advanced monitoring systems, which in due time the govt. will take over 'in the public interest'"?
Slashdot Mirror
All of this has happened before...
You might be thinking of this, http://collegecallgirl.blogspot.com/
Regardless, it's a good read.
The Twitter API does indeed cover the kind of thing you're talking about. If you scroll down to the very bottom of that API page you linked you'll see a link to the "Streaming API", http://dev.twitter.com/pages/streaming_api
This allows you to receive tweets in real-time over a persistent HTTP connection.
It's rather well hidden though, perhaps they don't want people finding out about it for whatever reason (performance?).
Indeed, it is:
1113982824 -> 0x42660768
0x42 0x66 0x07 0x68
__66_.102_.__7_.104
104.7.102.66.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN PTR lax04s01-in-f104.1e100.net.
66.102.7.104
I did not know you could do this until just now, so thanks GP!
(Also slashdot's layout mangling is awful, so please excuse the underscores)
Replying to myself, I know. I also just read TFA (!) and disabling the Java Platform plugin alone isn't enough!
There's a seperate plugin called something like Java Deployment Toolkit which you also need to kill.
To check if you're vulnerable, PoC is here: http://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/bb5eafbc6c6e67e11c4afc88b4e1dd22/testcase.html
In recent times firefox seems to have removed the little "[ ] Enable Java" checkbox from the Options > Content page, however I've found if you go into Tools > Add-ons > Plugins you can disable the Java(TM) Platform SE 6 Uxx plugin from there, which seems like it does the trick.
Hey,
Thanks for the reply, it appears to be working! :)
Just as a note for others: I had to grab an updated shorewall package from debian testing because the version shipped with lenny doesn't support ipv6 properly and was blocking my packets. If ping6 tells you Operation not Permitted then that is the solution.
Hi there,
What are the variables SLA_INTF and INTF_ID supposed to be in your script above?
Without them it calculates my ipv6 address as: 2002:5e4b:cf23:0000::0000 (from 94.75.207.35) which doesn't look right to me.
Thanks
That's nonsense.
Everyone dies.
"ArK does not embed into Dolphin or Konqueror in 4.1"
it doesn't embed into Dolphin, no, because that's not Dolphin's design goal. i don't have 4.1 nearby to test this on, but in 4.2 you can navigate directly into tarballs seamlessly in Konqueror.
i'm curious, what exactly is dolphin's design goal(s) then?
i assumed it was meant to replace the file-browsing capabilities of konqueror; indeed konqueror is now labeled specifically as "Web Browser" and Dolphin as "File Manager" in my K menu.
(Using kubuntu intrepid here, kde 4.1.3)
oh, and i can confirm that konqueror in 4.1(.3) does have the desired behaviour of seamlessly browsing archives and opening files etc. although it doesn't try to open pdfs inside itself like it did with kpdf in 3.x (a good thing), i realise there is probably some configuration for this hidden somewhere.
"3.5 derived a lot of its power from a very solid, well refined OLE framework, and 4.1 has yet to even approach that"
the "OLE framework" in KDE is called KParts, and the infrastructure hasn't changed one bit between KDE3 and KDE4.
i've noticed problems with ole in kde 4.1 also, dragging and dropping no longer seems to work in many cases - but i think this is more a problem with the new applications not yet fully implementing support for it, rather than a problem with the underlying framework.
i am eagerly awaiting the next amarok 2.x release, because as other posters have pointed out, 2.0 is a bit of a step backwards in terms of functionality.
don't take this post as a complaint, i think it's great what the kde team are doing. i wouldn't want it any other way :)
oh, and if you're tempted to say "they should have just held 2.0 until January, then", don't bother: making releases from the code repository is an absolutely requirement to keep open source projects moving, and one of the downsides of that is that often a first release of a new series isn't what a consumer-grade user is going to what to cut their teeth on. that's why there is another step in row, e.g. distributions. not that they seem to always be doing their users the best favours lately in that regard.
QFT
Look up WBC (Wholesale Broadband Connect), and/or Datastream.
My understanding is that BT owns the last mile, then passes the traffic directly from the exchanges (in the case of datastream), or from the aggregation points (WBC), directly to the ISP's network.
ie, they don't get to fiddle with my traffic.
Guys, seriously, who here still uses one of the big six ISPs by *choice*?!
It's time to switch ISPs
The difference in service is staggering.
I'm gonna be emailing my ISP to thank them for not signing up to this new scheme.
Disclaimer: I don't work for adsl24 or entanet, nor do I get paid for directing you there. I'm just a very happy customer
http://adsl24.co.uk/broadband_home.php - take a look, you won't be disappointed
[17:43] #mtxf# uptime Online for 325 days, 04:59 (background)
try getting the real eggdrop http://www.eggheads.org/downloads/ ;)
I have 4 of them running and they all have an uptime > 200 days
(not to brag or anything)
I also tried writing my own in C, i think it managed maybe half an hour of uptime? Sadly I never did get around to finishing it though, got bored.
You learned ASP, hehe. How'd that work out for ya?
Also, I hope you're earning a tidy sum from that online shop, I could sure do with a steady income off of something like that. I'm off to uni to study computer systems engineering (yep, I'm branching out into electronics - I figure that having a physical product to sell is gonna be a good thing with things going the way they are.)
I was gonna add some ontopic stuff here, but I'll save that for another post, where it'll have slightly less chance of being modded down.
cheers
Ps, you made me use html mode for the quotes, now i have to go and add p tags around all my paragraphs; i hope you're happy :P
I started programming when I was about 12, and I am completely self taught. My parents knew nothing about computers, and still know nothing now despite my efforts. Anyway, i started with javascript, html, and php. (This was around 6 years ago). I think it was much easier to start learning the basics of this kinda stuff when you don't have to deal with all the boring (to a 12yo) details of memory management, libraries, and compilers etc. Web programming is something were you can get the instant results and action, you can just keep tweaking the source file and hitting F5 until you get something that works and looks vaguely like what you're after; this is especially useful when you don't know what you're doing. :)
I had a few books which taught me the basics, a javascript book and a html book. They only covered simple things, (I think the js book was a For Dummies..., actually), but it was enough to get me started. After that I found the php.net docs and a friend showed me loads of his php code and i picked that up fairly quickly.
Being a website, it's something easy to show off too, it was kinda cool to be like "dude, the whole world can see my webpage!". Following that theme, i got started on irc bots, eggdrops are written in C, and you can script em with tcl. Be careful tho, tcl is kinda quirky and weird (at least, that's how i remember it). But it's great for simple stuff, get the bot to parse some text and reply etc. This might also be a good time to learn some networking stuff. Also since eggdrops can also have C modules written, this is a possible path into C, although I didn't go that way so I don't know how good it is.
I eventually learned C(++) from some online tutorial, http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/ I think. And I wrote a load of code for manipulating some large binary files (game resource files, from Halo). I certainly don't recommend letting anyone learn C solely from some tutorial, since I had rather large gaps in my knowledge at this point (that code i wrote is terrible), but it was some great experience anyway. I played around with some .NET (ugh!) gui stuff, because I didn't know how else to make a gui program at the time (seriously, I don't know how I was meant to know about qt, gtk, or win32 etc at this point) and a program that just prints text on the command line got boring real fast.
Hacking at computer games was what really drove my interest in C at that time. Reverse engineering of the file formats was fun! Even if I did kinda suck at it and just found most of the info on the web.
Looking back, I'm thinking I probably would have liked someone to show me python (and maybe perl) much earlier than when i eventually discovered them. php sucks as a general purpose scripting language and C gets tedious for those little tasks.
Sorry that was all probably a little incoherent, I spent the time I was meant to be doing english homework programming ;)
Slightly OT here, but why isnt there a way to recieve messages, such as "new story posted", by jabber?
:\
I would have thought jabber support would have been ahead of aim at least
Most of the posts ive seen so far are just people bashing ads and whining... which is all very well but is there not something which can be done about the ad problem?
How else can a small-time webmaster expect to pay for hosting and bandwidth?
Obviously a paypal donatation link is one possibility, but ive no idea how effective they actually are. Ads are (ignoring blocking software here) compulsory viewing, and so are guarrenteed to generate cash. Im guessing the % of visitors who donate is even smaller than the avg click-through rate on ads.
"Why were those students even able to use proxies?"
im pretty sure they mean web-based proxies in this case, which fetch the blocked page for you thus bypassing the webfilter
for anyone whos interested CGIProxy is an example of one such proxy
there are even sites which will mail you lists of new proxies, so you can stay one step ahead of the webfilter
it pretty much impossible for a webfilter to block all such sites, although i imagine if the admins took the time to actually research these tools they could come up with some pattern matching rules to get most of them.
imo the issue here isnt about whos liable, but that a 3 month suspension is way too harsh, and will wreck that years worth of learning for the students
i also said "value for money"
this is currently what sony have to offer: http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZYMxpcYrYZE
so unless they get their act together, the xbox is by far a clear winner
(laugh, its funny)
"Some of our games, by virtue of their design and hardware demands, simply couldn't work on Xbox 360"
Im pretty sure this is just refering to the motion sensing which sony built into the control in a late attempt to jump onto the ninetendo bandwagon. it doesnt say that the xbox is incapable of running the game due to lack of resources such as cpu, mem etc
so sure, these games couldnt work on the xbox, but will xbox (& wii) owners really be missing much....? (especially when you look at price comparisons/value for money)
"I think you mean steganography." ;\
thats the one!
knew my version didnt look quite right
stenography is something rather different
from tfa: "the goal is to ultimately develop techniques for checking other distribution techniques as well, such as instant messaging or Web uploads"
so they will be scanning our web traffic in real-time to determin if we are sharing child porn?
anyone else see this and think something along the lines of "this is just a 'think of the children' excuse to implement advanced monitoring systems, which in due time the govt. will take over 'in the public interest'"?
how many ways can these pictures be hidden?
zip, rar, and other compression formats
encrpyted
hidden inside other files (stenography)
the list goes on...
these people should learn, you cant fight the internet
... they dont do this already?
with the wealth of infomation that has been readily available on the internet for years, you'd think someone would have had the idea before now
this is probably just when they felt they could get away with announcing it... y'know with all those nasty terrorists and pedophiles about these days
"one would think these guys would just seek gainful employment"
But wheres the fun in that!?
maybe its because apple are actually releasing this on windows
seems an odd move by apple, surely they could have used this as another reason to switch to mac...