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Just thought I’d give a shout out to my mate Dan. I’ve known Dan for far to many years (always seems longer). Dan’s a mixed martial artist and plays in a band called Rancour that you can see performing in and around the Manchester area. Anyway just thought I’d mention him in my blog and include a link to his blog. He basically talks about UFC and gives training tips. Apparently when Windows 7 is released the European version will not have Internet Explorer included. The Windows 7 E moniker is just to indicate it is the European version and might be dropped before official release. This is apparently in response to the antitrust suit Opera filed against Microsoft for bundling IE as part of Windows. Personally I think that’s just Opera crying because they have an extremely pitiful share of the browser market. So manufacturers are now expected to add a web browser to Windows 7 when they preinstall it on the machines. Funny how all this happens just as Mozilla have added the ability for companies to brand Firefox. Personally I can’t see many manufacturers not including Internet Explorer since it’s what most people are used to and there are still a few sites, such as some banks etc, that stil wont let you log in with anything but IE or, for some god forsaken reason, Netscape. [source] Well Apple has gone and released the memory hog that is Safari 4. It does look good but given that it uses a ridiculous amount of memory I think I will pass. It has some nice features that only work on a mac. Go figure. Also Mozilla has released a new version of Firefox 3.5. It is marked as beta 99 but is basically something between a beta and a release candidate. it has improvements to Tracemonkey, the engine used to clean up memory usage but not sure it works that good at removing things from memory it no longer requires. Now Google Chrome has excellent memory handling it’s just a shame it’s options are sparse, I’ve personally decided to give Firefox a break and use Flock for a few weeks. June 9th, 2009 |
 Chrome, Firefox, Flock, Safari, web browsers, Web Development |  Computers, Internet, Software, Web Development |  2 comments A couple of weeks ago I started running to try and get back in to shape. When running I like to listen to music but finding good tracks to listen to whilst running isn’t easy. Needs to have a fast beat to encourage you to push yourself. Anyway I found Podrunner which is a collection of hour long mixes by an American DJ. Each mix (apart from one) has a fixed tempo ranging from 130bpm up to 180bpm. Excellent for running to or any other form of cardio exercise. Unfortunately not much good for me because I hate the sort of house music he uses. If only I could find a rock or hip hop version of Podrunner I’m writing this because blocking by domain on my hosts pretty much kills my web site and so I have had to learn to block ip addresses. Blocking single ip addresses is simple as you just need something like the following order allow,deny And that will block the computer at ip address 9.120.161.206 from being able to access your site. But what if you want to block a whole range of ip addresses such as 9.120.161.0 to 9.120.161.255? Well then we just leave off the end number like this order allow,deny Ok so now we get to the clever and damn fiddly bit. As of Apache 1.3 we can use CIDR codes to specify ranges of ip addresses. So another way of writing the above code would be order allow,deny and that would do exactly the same as 9.120.161. but we can do so much more. After the break (ie click the read more link) I will show a list of the CIDR codes and what they do. May 15th, 2009 |
Script Kiddies, spam, spammers, Web Development | Web Development, spam | Leave a comment Whilst surfing the ether we call the internet I came across a list of top ten javascript functions by Dustin Diaz. As the saying goes it does exactly what it says on the tin. It is a collection of ten (and a bonus one) basic javascript functions that most Javascript writers will need/use quite a lot. Such functions as adding onload events to the window even if you’re not sure that it’s already been set by another script. getElementByClass which to me is something that should of been in Javascript from the start And I know it was written in 2005 but the functions are just as valid today. I recently decided to try / review a new anti virus program I had heard about called Rising Antivirus. Now my first issue with this anti virus is the fact that the installer is over 60MB and the download was slow as hell. Took me around 30 minutes to download and I’m on a 20Mb connection. Once installed it takes over 200MB of hard drive space. First thing I did was run an update and it seemed to me that every component had an update and given I had only just downloaded the program this seems excessive. Next I ran a scan of the local drives. After twenty minutes I stopped it as it had only done about 5% and was saying it had over an hour left to go. Given this was my laptop with little on it this was far from acceptible. Now we get to the main reason I swiftly uninstalled it. I downloaded the Eicar test file which is a standard file that all antivirus programs recognise as a test file so you can test if your antivirus is working or not. So I put the eicar.com file on my desktop and ran it. Rising Antivirus did absolutely nothing. I can accept it not detecting it during the download because my favourite free antivirus, AntiVir, only scans files when they are opened or read. To not detect the test file when run makes me wonder what else it doesn’t detect. I told it to scan the eicar.com file and it alerted me that it was a virus (well a test file which is what it should report it as) but not even a beep from Rising Antivirus when I run the file. In fact I had to turn Rising’s detection level up to high to get it to report it as a virus when I opened it. Even then I could see the command window in the background that eicar.com opens so I’m not even sure that if it had been a virus Rising Antivirus would of stopped it doing anything. So my advice is avoid this anti virus like the plague. The best free anti virus, in my opinion, is AntiVir and the next best free one is Avast. I can no longer even recommend AVG as third place because all reports say as of version 8 AVG has become a resource hog that slows your computer down. Mozilla has released a new add on for their Firefox web browser that lets you skin it. By skin it I mean an image wil appear behind the toolbars and behind the status bars with the text colour of the bars changed to match. You can read more about it, view the available skins and install the add on at www.getpersonas.com. Just read this bit of news and it came as a bit of a shock. The four people who run and maintain The Pirate Bay, a website for sharing files via th eBit Torrent protocol, have all been jailed for a year and fined $4.5m (about £3m). What’s weird about this is everybody expected them to win this court case and their was even rumour that once Time Warner lost they were going to buy the site and all affiliated products. You can read the full story at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8003799.stm Google is a company which prides it’s self on it’s ethics. It only gave the bare minimum information when ordered to and went out of it’s way to get Google in to China. So why is it that their Adsense side of the business seems to accept adverts from the dodgiest of companies? Just lately I have found myself constantly adding new urls to the blocked advert list of my Adsense acount. Several of the urls I have blocked all are just cloaking urls that all point to the same site. The program in question here is called Registry Cleaner Pro. They make wild claims in their adverts that their program fixes IE 8 and also fixes nearly every Windows error you could possibly encounter. I currently have about five urls on my blocked list that point to this company. And then there are the companies who’s adverts offer to let you download Spybot for free. Errr SpyBot IS FREE!!! Just go to the official Spybot site at safer-networking.org and download it for free. The sites that post these adverts expect you to sign up to them which is not free and therefore their adverts, in my opinion, are illegal in most countries. I’m more and more tempted to stop using Adsense if only I could find an affiliate company with some kind of ethics. You can see my list of blocked domains after the break. |
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. If you write Javascript then you will find atleast one of the functions useful.
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