1 Pixel per meter – wow, this is awesome. Too bad dragging only works in IE.
Category: Legacy
SBook: SBook5 is an extremely fast, AI-based personal information manager for computers running the Mac OS X operating system.
/. came across (again this morning) the Unix-Haters Handbook last night, which always raises some spirited discussion.
Probably the biggest reason I don’t use Linux on the desktop is because of impossible system niggles, like Copy and Paste. I mean, Jesus, it’s Copy and Paste. Can it be that frickin’ hard to get it to work in a standard way (or at all) across applications?
- Mini-Box M-100 – world’s smallest mini-ITX computer (very neat looking, 1U, 2×20 LCD, silent option) – only 1x100BT though (has 1 PCI slot, but it doesn’t look like ther’s room to fit anything in it – no backplate certainly)
- Hush Mini-ITX PC – silent, all metal case (any US dealers?)
- MSI-Mega PC – compact form factor multimedia pc
Earlier post
Exploring JS/Quicktime:
- Quicktime Compatibility (embedding)
- QuickTime API Documentation
- Quicktime API: JavaScript Support (sample)
- Google Groups: Fully Scriptable Plugins for Mozilla/Netscape, Mozilla does not fully support
- Scripting Plugins in Mozilla
- DevEdge: Plugin Central, Plug-in Basics, Using the Right Markup to Invoke Plugins, Netscape Gecko Plugin Overview
- vog blog: vlog: quicktime
- Related: Scripting with Flash
[moz: can one open group of tabs from links (via js or xul)? plugin: select text, pull all links and open in new tabs]
Take 2
Building a Vector Space Search Engine in Perl, via Simon. [try: relations based on hrefs, precalc vector rel by context]
I received a message today from my ISP informing me that spam had been reported as being relayed from my system, which seemed pretty darn curious to me. I double checked, and my Postfix main.cf was set to mynetworks_style = host, which theoretically only trusts the host system and rejects all outside systems. A quick Google search turned up Anti-Relay’s relay tester (utilizing Chip Rosenthal’s rlytest script – the Network Abuse Clearinghouse seems to do the same thing), and my system appeared to be fine:
Tested host banner: 220 muffins.randomfoo.net ESMTP Postfix
System appeared to reject relay attempts
Connection closed by foreign host.
So I’m pretty mystified. There’s certainly some fishy business going on. Decoding the headers do indeed apparently point to my machine. The url mentioned in the spam is http://www.bestsaleschannel.com/, which doesn’t give any results when digging or tracerouting, however, it does seem to somehow browse on my computer (but again, not dig). Doing a sniffer cap on browsing seems resolve to an IP: 208.255.131.202 (which doesn’t rdns and dies of dns errors), but provides a link to the registrar: eNom, which well, gives the same whois info.
Since neither the receiving mail server nor my mail server were open relays, that it seems to suggest a few things: either I’ve been rooted (chkrootkit at least seems clean), or there’s some funky DNS stuff going on (see above), or the IP was simply spoofed. Time to do some sniffing, I suppose.
Ian makes a list about IE standards compliance