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
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
瑣事三則
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
"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
隨想隨寫
無心閱報，無
Weekly spam summary on December 16th, 2006
This week, we:
- got 16,689 messages from 271 different IP addresses.
- handled 21,893 sessions from 1,229 different IP addresses.
- received 207,766 connections from at least 62,254 different IPaddresses.
- hit a highwater of 8 connections being checked at once.
This is about the same volume as last week ,although the number of different IP addresses connecting to us isunusually large.
| Day | Connections | different IPs |
How to get me to block your web ads in a flash
Tim Bray :
The animation in Web display ads is outta control, outta control, I tellya!
What he said (except that it's been going on for years). The fastest andbest way to get me to really kick your ads to the curb has always beento make them blink and get in my face, and it amazes me that anyone hasever thought such ads were a good idea.
(Huge, page-disrupting and modem-saturating ads don't help, but they are