Mysidia
Saturday, August 28, 2004
Snooping on page source
I saw this interesting article mentioning tools to get past clever tricks some webmasters supposedly use to hide their page code.
It doesn't seem ideal. Web browsers' view source options should not be so easily fooled, so that users can understand what methods/layout techniques web sites are using, and if they are successfully breaking the view source option.. then it's a bug in the browser, right?
I wonder what sites are using the so called tricks anyways?
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It doesn't seem ideal. Web browsers' view source options should not be so easily fooled, so that users can understand what methods/layout techniques web sites are using, and if they are successfully breaking the view source option.. then it's a bug in the browser, right?
I wonder what sites are using the so called tricks anyways?
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Shortcomings of RPM
Things I'd like to see in a downloadable package file that RPM doesn't do I'm thinking a separate APM (Application Package Manager) would be ideal...
It would be a "meta package" management system. I.E. a package file encapsulating a list of packages to be automatically installed based on the system in order to successfully create an installation
When I download a package file it should have these features:
It would be a "meta package" management system. I.E. a package file encapsulating a list of packages to be automatically installed based on the system in order to successfully create an installation
When I download a package file it should have these features:
- Ability to just click on it or type the package filename into a terminal and start a graphical (GUI) installer.
- Installer should be able to run regardless of precise linux distribution. The same application package file should work for Mandrake, SuSE, etc.
- RPM files can be used for the individual resources the application needs, but the installer must be able to add them without user manually downloading each.
- Installer must be able to resolve all dependencies
- It must be possible to embed all dependencies in the APM file
- It must be possible for certain dependencies to be resolved by downloading needed files from a supplied list of mirrors+file locations instead
- It must be possible to use vendor media, i.e. provide the user the option to insert one of their distribution's CDs or use the OS vendor's ftp site
- Installer should be able to fetch patches
- Installer should be able to provide mirror lists
- Installer should integrate some component so the user can uninstall it from an "Add/Remove Programs" list somewhere
Dangerous phones?
See this slashdot posting about retellers suspending sales on some mobile phones due to a software issue that could damage users' ears in some cases on battery failure, owch!!
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