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Feb 21 2007

IE7 and vista more secure, in a pigs eye

from some apache logs: IE7 for Vista HTTP_USER_AGENT: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; MSDigitalLocker Vista 1.3; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.0.04506; .NET CLR 3.0.04222; .NET CLR 3.0.04320; InfoPath.2) For comparison, HTTP_USER_AGENT with FireFox: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061206 Firefox/1.5.0.9 This gives a potential hacker an almost complete picture of the visiting system. Combine it with other cgi.vehicles and you have a base line of vulnerability in client sites. I love Linux, everyone say it with me "I will not upgrade to vista, I will get Ubuntu or buy a mac." the actual logs are from a userfriendly user. but i felt ti worth to pass along this friendly reminder that M$ will sell your info to the dumbest of apache logs out there.

0 comments - Posted by john at 5:11 PM - Categories: Adobe

Feb 17 2007

So its official

I have lost 8 years of email. I trusted in a USB hard drive as a backup device and it died before i could move the backed up mail folder off it. its not quite as bad as a family member dying , but I lost several letter from my now wife I would have liked to have kept to show our children. Everyone and I mean everyone needs to backup to a trusted physical device as much as possible.

2 comments - Posted by john at 4:09 AM - Categories: (Tech) Hardware

Feb 15 2007

NTFS read on a mac

Ok, well theoretically you could take these drivers and read that USB drive your relative so smartly formatted as NTFS instead of FAT32. link here

0 comments - Posted by john at 2:18 AM - Categories: Adobe

Feb 13 2007

Ha Ha Cthulhu Calls

Got to love the warm fuzzy antics of an elder god bent on humanities destruction.

0 comments - Posted by john at 2:54 PM - Categories: Adobe

Feb 13 2007

What REALLY happend in boston

0 comments - Posted by john at 12:14 PM - Categories:

Feb 8 2007

An Open Source Coldfusion?

Smith Project
from their website.
Smith is a freeware, cross-platform ColdFusion engine, written entirely in Java. Running on the top of Java Runtime Environment and Java Servlet Container, it can be virtually deployed on any operating system and work with any web server. Smith represents lightweight, yet reliable alternative to the existing ColdFusion servers. It supports most important CF features (see Features) and already drives several large ColdFusion applications. Deeply integrated in J2EE, Smith works as part of ordinary Java Web application and can easily be used together with servlets and JSPs. The server behaviour is easily configurable through the simple Web interface where database connections, debugging options, server mappings and more can be set. Smith is freeware software, which means that it comes with permission for anyone to use, copy, and distribute it. It is also being seriously considered to open-source it.
Ill be looking at it over the next couple of days.

6 comments - Posted by john at 4:16 PM - Categories: Adobe

Feb 7 2007

Locker Room Respect

I am fully aware of the fact I am a big guy showering a in gym shower. What I don't need as I try get back into shape is some jerk making jokes at my expense while I shower off to get to work. I wish this pool wasn't on a college campus. There is a reason hamsters eat their children!

2 comments - Posted by john at 2:16 PM - Categories: Health

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