How many root DNS servers are reachable over Internet II?

After yesterday , I decided to spend some timeworking out how many of the root DNS servers are reachable overour Internet II link. The answer surprised me: 9 out of the 13root nameservers are reachable over Internet II .

(The necessary disclaimer: your view of what is reachable over InternetII may well vary from ours due to routing and local policy issues.)

We prefer to send packets over our Internet II link, so working out thisnumber was relatively simple. I got a list of the IP


軟硬軟硬軟硬

硬——智海抄寫:公民抗命

亨利‧戴維‧梭羅(Henry David Thoreau)的《公民抗命》 ,原題為〈對市政府的抵抗〉(Resistance to Civil Government ),發表於1848年的演講,翌年收於《 人類學論文集》。

英文原文請按此連結

為了行動找著依據,小弟抗命將

天星之火,可以燎原(holiday mood)

更多野睇之資料來源


十二月二十(wed)、二十一(thu)及二十三(sat)
---廣邀所有市民參與

甲)活動內容:
天星事件盡露香港政府在規劃事務上的專橫與不民主,就此我們了解到,要爭取,就要人民積極參與,故特設〔人民


我很認真。拜請廣傳、代貼到各大討論區。

(若有朋友做成一個比較方便轉貼的jpeg檔,萬謝。)


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An Internet dependency

Our main Internet connection is effectively down at the moment, and hasbeen for over an hour and a half by now. It's startling how much of mywork and the little stuff I do, including things I do more or less tofidget, turns out to be in some way dependent on the Internet.

(I have a pile of little fidgets that I do just to fill time, thingslike checking every so often to see if the mail server is OK or if thereare any new Fedora Core


風中

1. 文明單位: 天星到皇后
嘉賓:許日銓、葉蔭聰

不止運動,還有文化。值得聽的一集。

2.



據說在車上看朋友們前仆後繼組人鏈攔車,是像荷李活大片般催淚的。可惜我坐的位子只看到大堆護車的警察。星期四那晚,在人群中
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瑣事三則

《生活小百科》

半夜。
一個人。
o係outport既酒店房。
好肚餓。
只得一個o係雪櫃拎出o黎,比我個心仲要冰凍既雞尾包。
冇微波爐。
可以點做?
將佢放o係座地燈既燈罩頂上面。
20分鐘之後。
得o左。

《語無倫次》

飛o左十幾個

祝...快樂






















"拆" 掉那星





























昨晚媽媽生日一大家人出來吃飯,可說是不能不出席的。
這日除了是媽媽生日飯外更是天星的集會,去不到只能在心中為他們打氣吧。最多就是可以把消息e-mail開去。
在飯局中剛剛有短新聞報導,提及天星情況,知道又有朋友

A basic principle of website security

In theory I shouldn't have to say this, but in practice I probably do.One of the most basic principle of designing secure websites is simplythis:

Never trust anything you get from the network .

Everything you get from the network is under the control of asufficiently determined attacker, no matter how it is 'supposed' tobe generated. Every request, every form POST , every cookie, andevery AJAX callback. No amount of obfuscation can do more than slow anattacker down.

(In fact