Weird-ass networking problem of the day. Myself and _Quinn have been requesting the same pages on multiple machines on each end, in multiple browsers, and I have come up with the following busted scenario.
Some of http headers, max transfer unit, cookies, html formatting on this page, combined with the chunk of network cloud we’re going [...]
Chisuji looks to be an interesting webcomic.
Secunia, has issued a security advisory on the IDN spoofing issue, based on the homograph attacks identified by Eric Johanson.
Users of Browsers that implement International Domain Names (IDN) support are affected. Secunia has constructed a test to check if your browser is affected. This would include all Gecko-based browsers that support IDN. InternetExplorer, which has [...]
I’ve spent a great deal of time today banging my head against a strange quirk (for lack of a better term) in Firefox’s Quirks Mode automagical detection.
Two servers, same document, Firefox renders in Standards Complient Mode from one, Quirks Mode in the other.
Made the following change to the <html> tag:
<html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”>
But that’s not supposed to [...]
Google Maps kicks an amazingly large quantity of MapQuest ass. Part of me doesn’t like the overuse of javascript, but at least Google works to ensure it’s error-free, and functional in various browsers. I’ve always liked Google’s use of in-band signaling for all their query options in the search boxes. It seems they are the [...]
I’ve noticed oodles of single-pixel-off render bugs in IE over time, especially now with XHTML/CSS. In particular, I not that IE seems to have troubles with the whitespace present when multiple list items are on multiple lines: Moving them all one after another in a long, long line seems to alliviate things.
The moral of the [...]
tds.net provides DSL service in (among other places) the Middleton WI area.
When connecting with PPPoE, one may get any number of different IP addresses. The problem stems from the fact that TDS has aquired several companies along the way, and their IP blocks. Yet, they have busted reverse DNS for those IP blocks. A connection [...]
Shannon and I managed to get my parking ticket waived, by way of buying (renting?) a parking pass. 6.25$ is significantly less than 35$. Good deal, yes?
So I have a Guest parking pass usable in Level2 parking permit areas. Effectively, this means around the university, and specifically, on the street in front of Shannon’s residence.
I lost the blog entry I was writing when the power went out. Reki and Nemu are offline, their 17″ monitors to hungry for the UPS. Kuu is breathed life, and she still works hard talking to the wired. Rakka, then, faithfully provides low power ssh client to Kuu, in the form of a laptop.
And [...]
Difficulty levels in this game are seldom linear.