Some web developers are complaining that an Internet Explorer patch that’s meant to foil Net scams is disabling some applications that didn’t put a premium on security
Australia will have its own top-level internet name server from next week, bringing it in line with New Zealand
Sigh! Apple, Apple, Apple! What are you doing!
Safari 1.2 has been released, but if you’re not running Panther then you can’t. Yes, yes I know same goes for Safari 1.1, and not a peep was made by me. I don’t know, I was too busy to notice, and was kinda hoping that Apple would rectify this shortly. Then I thought that maybe the 1.1 release were just minor changes to get it to run on Panther, I don’t know, like some porting thing or something. I don’t know, I’m not a geek, I’m a designer. Maybe this is the case for 1.2 also, maybe, maybe not…
Is Apple intentionally doing this to force users to upgrade their OS? Will users keep having to upgrade almost every time there’s a new Safari release, like a certain Microsoft company you might know about will be doing with their browser from now on? (security patches are of course the exception).
Is this not good or am I just whinging? Maybe some answers will turn up here someday.
Proving yet again that this site, especially the X-Files bit, attracts freaks is the search engine report for the week. Someone really wanted to know who killed the red headed man
by searching for the phrase 156 times. There’s been a recent wave of people search for Home, the episode about the incestuous family of genetic mutants. I think that search has some connection to the trial of the German cannibal guy because they all seem to think the episode involves cannibals, it doesn’t, the cannibal episode is Our Home. Then there’s the clueless hoping to find reference to Law and Order
and Babylon 5
hidden amongst the X-Files information. The blog searchers show more intelligence, although I still wondering what Daimler Chrysler
guy was looking for
A computer virus that targeted the noxious SCO Group, performed as its perpetrators promised yesterday, bringing down company’s web site. The massive denial-of-service attack is expected to continue until 12 February
The arsehole from IP 68.15.51.63 tried to spam the site again yesterday arvo to pimp his used cars. MT-Blacklist hummed away quietly in the background denying his efforts. He’s in my blacklist if anyone would care to add him to theirs
Recreated in Flash for your retrospective pleasure, these classic arcade games — including Pac-Man, Tetris and Space Invaders — should stir up a few memories of twiddling with joysticks as a kid
The BBC made a unique deal with Real Networks which disposes of their spyware tactics. If a user clicks on a link to download Real Player from a BBC web site, the referrer script sends them to a page where they can download an expiry-free, spyware-free and nuisance-free version of the player. It’s because the BBC have such a stringent public service remit, that it was offensive to charge people a licence fee for BBC content, then make them pay all over again for the facility to view/listen to it
While not exactly the Comprehensive guide to .htaccess it claims itself to be, it is nevertheless a very good beginner’s guide for basic .htaccess tricks like setting up custom error documents, redirects, preventing specific file types from being listed, denying access by domain (not just IP), and a wealth of other goodies. Its easy to understand for those who are .htaccess challenged and offers some really good tips
In Cambodia, motorbikes act as routers [BugMeNot] for a store-and-forward email system. They have a system that allow remote villages in Cambodia to send and receive email via Wi-Fi-equipped motorbikes. The Motoman system converges in the provincial capital where a satellite-enabled school uploads and downloads email for the remote recipients. The system is funded in part through US benefactors who aren’t just sending money; they’re spending time there as well, and helping to improve the quality of medicine and people’s livelihoods
NSW Commerce Minister John Della Bosca says the state wanted to dismantle its reliance on a near monopoly
software by pursuing an open source strategy. Mr Della Bosca conceded the decision was controversial, but said an open source strategy would ultimately provide greater business opportunities to local SMEs
The last MovableType update added comment throttling to stop spammers and it was nice to see it at work. Last night some wanker on IP address 68.15.51.63 hit the site in two sustained bursts of ten spam messages each. All successfully throttled
BugMeNot circumvents those annoying registration requirements that haunt sites such as the New York Times, via the simple strategy of allowing people to post the login and password for accounts they’ve created so that anyone can use those logins. Contributors of fake logins get banned from the site
A consortium of consumer electronics makers plans to unveil next week a memory card format that holds one gigabyte of data and is smaller than rival Secure Digital
Online bank Egg is considering a move away from pure Web interfaces for its customers, in a shift that will have implications for developers as well as customer
The joys of legacy coding. The blockquote tags have been causing ugliness in RSS for a while, thanks to some coding in older parts of the site. An inability of the plugin that handles formatting to deal with paragraphs in blockquotes hasn’t helped.
Removed the blockquotes from older parts of the site and replaced them with their own div style instead. This allowed me the fix the weirdness that was happening in the blogs.
Blockquote tags need to be wrapped around each quoted paragraph. That way the RSS doesn’t have to deal with the extraneous br tags in its output, which looks much cleaner.
There are NO words to describe my utter shock and abhorrance for this dickhead. He gets a G5 for a GIFT! Who the hell gets a G5 for a GIFT?
Ok that’s not what I’m truly shocked at. He dissembowels it so he can whack PC bits in it so he can run Windows XP, apparently he wanted a Dell (Dill or Hell) not a G5!
Where are the Apple police when you need them!
AARNet has bypassed router heavyweights Cisco and Juniper to select Procket as the backbone platform for its superfast national optical network, AARNet3. Procket has pocketed a multimillion-dollar contract to supply 12 of its high-performance Pro/8000 series core routers for the Australian universities and scientific research network
Australian government users of Linux are ignoring SCO’s offer of licences to protect them from possible legal action over the company’s claim to intellectual property used in the open source operating system. Government users, while generally cautious about legal risks, are taking a wait-and-see approach to SCO’s controversial claims
Philips is preparing to mass-produce a slim, book-sized display panel onto which consumers could download newspapers and magazines — then roll up and put away. The 127mm display, which can show detailed images, can be rolled up into a pen-sized holder. If connected to a mobile phone, it can also be used to download web pages, a book or e-mail
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