老黃賣瓜::自打嘴巴

今日看到三則新聞

第一則來自東方日報

海關近來大力打擊「ＢＴ」點對點下載活動，但有網民利用灰色地帶，轉而把各類影片上載到因短片「巴士阿叔」而走紅的YouTube 分享網站

看完這段報導才知道 YouTube 是因短片「巴士阿叔」而走紅，看來 YouTube 應該考慮報答「巴士阿叔」，向他派發股票﹗憑「巴士阿叔」就可以令YouTube 走紅？聰明的讀者自己自看看 Google Trend 再作決定吧﹗

第二則來自經濟日報

電腦碩士入侵前公司系統
1.電腦碩士被公司解僱後，自行編寫程式入侵前公司系統；
2.上午在家執行程式「攻擊」數小時，導致前公司不能接收任何電郵；
3.下午則在大學活動室或公共圖書館執行程式「攻擊」，令前公司不能使用過濾方法還擊；
4.但百密一疏，電腦碩士最終被警方拘捕及檢控。
資料來源︰警務處

Stupid!Stupid!Stupid!

Let’s review CRACKING 101, Rule No. 1 : Don’t try this at home. 如果你蠢到係屋企用自己部電腦去做DoS，根本是咎由自取，又何來百密一疏。英國人就會說 “Bloody Fool!” ; 美國人就會說 “Moron!” ; 而香港人就會說”死蠢”，但資料來源竟然是警務處？﹗

另外，攻擊和入侵是兩碼子的事，兩者相差十萬八千里。You can attack without invasion. 請小心用詞以免混淆視聽﹗

文中還提及電腦碩士自己編寫爪哇程式，有必要將 Java 譯作「爪哇程式」嗎？如果他用 C programming Language，要不要譯作「丙程式」呢？根本就是畫蛇添足！

第三則同樣來自經濟日報

「怎樣杜絕（員工作怪）？我都想知呢！」電腦保安事故協調中心高級顧問梁兆昌說

唔知係唔係啲高級顧問都有嘅通病，就係個腦坐得太耐，啲血管塞咗。記者問你啲咁 technical 嘅問題，都預咗你答啲行貨答案，答得太詳細太深奧，記者又唔明又寫唔番出嚟，可能連高級顧問自己都唔明。政府俾咁高人工你，你居然答你都想知？

辦報的唔該拿出誠意及水準，否則你們將被 Internet 所取代。

Today is the 15 annversary since Linus Torvalds first Linux post on usenet.

From: Linus Benedict Torvalds
Date: Mon, Aug 26 1991 4:57 am

Hello everybody out there using minix -

I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I’d like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons) among other things).

I’ve currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work. This implies that I’ll get something practical within a few months, and I’d like to know what features most people would want. Any suggestions are welcome, but I won’t promise I’ll implement them

Linus (torvalds@kruuna.helsinki.fi)PS. Yes - it’s free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs. It is NOT protable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that’s all I have .

Here is my web 2.0 logo

Beta is a must because we are at web2.0 but it seems the the r doesn’t match my Name . You can generate your web2.0 logo in Web2.0V2Logo Creatr.

We always said that Google is your friend when you search information on the Internet. However when it comes to privacy, Google is not always your friend. It is because Google stores a cookie on your PC expiring in 2038. If you are a paranoid person like me. Then you should considered using the following method to protect your privacy.

Using anonymous proxy is one of the solution to solved the above problem and surf the web anonymously, but this solutions has it’s own drawback, it will slow down your connection to the outside world(internet). Then I come across this small how-to page in the internet. If you are using a decent and resonable morden web browser (read mozilla firefox), then you can redirect all your google search request to anonymous proxy, while still surfing the web at full speed.

The following steps demostrate on a ubuntu 6.06 Dapper LTS computer:

1. Install tor
   • Do not use the packages in ubuntu’s universe. They are not maintained and most likely old and therefore miss out on stability and possibly security fixes. Add the following two line in /etc/apt/source.list
     

     deb http://mirror.noreply.org/pub/tor dapper main
     deb-src http://mirror.noreply.org/pub/tor dapper main

   • Verifying signatures with apt 0.6.x
     

     # gpg –keyserver subkeys.pgp.net –recv 94C09C7F
     # gpg –fingerprint 94C09C7F
     # gpg –export 94C09C7F | sudo apt-key add -

   • Inatall tor
     

     # apt-get update
     # apt-get install tor

2. Install foxyproxy extension for your firefox, restart firefox.
3. Configure FoxyProxy
4. Delete cookie from Firefox
5. Set Firefox so that it only keeps cookies till you close Firefox (Edit/Preferences/Privacy/Cookies)
6. Surf the Internet

I just read Paul Thurrott’s article IE 7.0 Technical Changes Leave Web Developers, Users in the Lurch. Although it was written last August.
Summary:

• In a recent blog entry, Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) Lead Program Manager Chris Wilson revealed many of the technical improvements that Microsoft will add to IE 7.0 for its final release. Almost all the improvements are related to bugs in IE’s implementation of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Many of these bugs are not fixed in the currently available IE 7.0 Beta 1.
• Microsoft doesn’t plan to fully support the latest CSS standard in IE 7.0.
• The most critical point in Wilson’s post, in my mind, is Microsoft’s admission that it will fail the crucial Acid2 browser-compliance test , which the Web Standards Project (WaSP) designed to help browser vendors ensure that their products properly support Web standards. Microsoft apparently disagrees. “Acid2 … is pointedly not a compliance check,” Wilson noted, contradicting the description on the Acid2 Web site. “As a wish list, [Acid2] is really important and useful to my team, but it isn’t even intended, in my understanding, as our priority list for IE 7.0.” Meanwhile, other browser teams have made significant efforts to comply with Acid2.
• Microsoft blames backward-compatibility problems for the stalemate over true Web standards compatibility. Put succinctly, the company has gone its own way for so long and now has to support so many developers who use nonstandard Web technologies that it will be impossible to make IE Web-standards-compliant without breaking half the commercial Web sites on the planet. Furthermore, by halting all IE development for several years before reconstituting the IE team to create IE 7.0, Microsoft has set back Web development by an immeasurable amount of time.
• My advice is simple: Boycott IE. It’s a cancer on the Web that must be stopped. IE isn’t secure and isn’t standards-compliant, which makes it unworkable both for end users and Web content creators.

Pretty strong words from Microsoft-advocate Paul Thurrott.

Web developer still need to take care IE user, we still need to write more IE only code, web user please use other more standard compilance browser like Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari and Opera to make web developers’ life much more easier.

I’ve use many firefox plugins and the followings are my best favorite plugins for web developer.

Web Developer Extension (http://chrispederick.com/work/firefox/webdeveloper/)
The Web Developer extension for Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser with various web developer tools.

LiveHTTPHeaders (http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org/)
Help debugging web application.See which kind of web server the remote site is using. See the cookies sent by remote site.

MeasureIt (https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=539)
Draw out a ruler to get the pixel width and height of any elements on a webpage.

ColorZilla (https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=271)
Advanced Eyedropper, ColorPicker, Page Zoomer and other colorful goodies.

I’ve just finished upgrade from Ubuntu 5.10 to 6.06 on my notebook. Actually, I didn’t use the upgrade function but backup data and do a fresh install. It’s because I’ve manually install Firefox 1.5 on Ubuntu 5.10 and also my Chinese system had some problem.

Ubuntu 6.06 looks more polished than the previous version 5.10. All the hardware is recognized during the installation and are ready to use after the system reboot. Wireless networks is working and the display correctly identified and configure, the graphic controller is intel i915GM, some other distributions need to manual install and configure 915resolution, there are so many other distributions out there need to learn from Ubuntu.

I start using ubuntu since last August, because fedora core didn’t installed on my notebook, but Ubuntu works out of the box. Great Distribution that everyone should give it a try.

Today I bought the Head Rush Ajax. This is the latest book in the “Head First” series published by O’reilly. I have all the “Head First” series book now. Next task is to finish Head Rush Ajax, and Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML.

Other “Head First” Series book:

Head First Java

Head First Servlets and JSP

Head First Design Patterns

Head First EJB