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Ok folks. I’ve often found myself entertained by text that shows up in spams to try and get around methods of spam filtering (such as Bayesian filtering). So I’m going to give this a shot: I’m going to put any spams I find amusing and post them to my blog. They’ll be available (including the first one I posted earlier this morning) in the Spammer-tainment section of my site. So enjoy!
So recently, Yahoo! released a new version of Y!IM. Ever since then I’ve been getting lots of “So and so has added you to Yahoo! 360 as a friend” messages. I don’t use Yahoo! 360. It’s very obvious I don’t considering I have my own blogging software here and my LJ for more private (ie: friends only) stuff.
So I tried to find a way to remove Yahoo! 360. And looked on the Yahoo! Help pages. And I found my answer under the information on how to delete a blog: You cannot delete a Yahoo! 360 account. Just the blog. Which I didn’t even make yet.
So I wanted to settle for the next best thing: Make Yahoo! stop telling me about people adding me to Yahoo! 360. It’s very simple to do:
And tada! No more Yahoo! 360 alerts!
I forget if I showed these on my LJ before, but I think I referenced them. But here they are in a convenient to play format. Midgets screaming “EEEEEEEEEEEE” ontop of a moving car are funny.
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This (and SQL injection and the like) is why you check your data before you do something with it.
http://thedailywtf.com/forums/thread/78846.aspx
For the less computer savvy, let’s put it this way: _SESSION contains information about that user’s session (such as the name they’re logged in with or an ID to keep track of them with a shopping cart for example). /var/www is a common path for webpages on a *NIX system (THIS is problem one right here perhaps: Not using the temporary path /tmp instead of /var/www).
Say the user’s session has the “Tempfile” value in the session set to “tempfile1234″. Ok good, then when it’s done with it (say by clicking a logout button), it would delete tempfile1234. But generally sessiosn timeout. After say… 1 hour as an example. Then say for instance the user clicks the logout button after this 1 hour time out period occurrs. What happens? There’s no more session data! So the “Tempfile” value is blank. So this line NOW evaulates to: “rm -rf /var/www/”, which when executed deletes the entire website folder! All because they didn’t check if the session was even still valid, let alone check what the value in there was. UGH!
FYI, we’ve found similar problems at work. Such as a SQL UPDATE command without a WHERE clause, thus updating EVERY SINGLE ENTRY in the table. Not fun.
Well I realized that I could go up to 800×600 on my Tandy VGM-340 monitor right away. But I swore that this thing went up to 1024×768. So I did investigating. And it seems that it only does it on very low, eye burning refresh rates. So I turned off “Hide modes that this monitor cannot display” under the Screen Refresh Rate in the monitor’s settings. This let me select 43Hz (interlaced) and TADA! 1024×768 actually works! Now I don’t feel like everything’s super cramped anymore.
Well folks I’m back in Philly now. I just did the “up to 1 hour” setup of Comcast Internet in I dunno… 10 minutes? The longest part of me getting back online was probably me waiting for the cable modem to restart.
I currently don’t have a decent sized monitor, since the one in Gainesville was too big to ship. So I’m on my old .34 dot pitch monitor on 640×480. So fun. But it’s better than nothing.
Report for AC maybe coming later.
Welp, my computer is packed. I’m heading off to Jacksonville in the afternoon to fly out from there Thursday morning to Pittsburgh for AnthroCon. After AnthroCon I’ll be back in Philadelphia ‘burbs with my family til atleast mid-November so that I can get more work done. My employer has more work to be done right now on site rather (ie: on site network and computer support) than over the net (ie: programs and websites). So, by being by the office I’ll have more to do and get paid more and can get out of my existing debt.
I’ll be sparsely on til Monday evening or so. Til then, bye for now. PS: My cellphone bill is behind so I won’t be reachable by cell either. If you really need me, e-mail me.
Very amusing to listen to and a very interesting choice for a speaker. NSFW content ahead. Read the rest of this entry »
It just occurred to me today that Nintendo may be ran by perverts now. I mean first they came out with the Nintendo DS and told us that touching is good. Then they decided to officially name their code named Revolution system the Wii. What are they thinking?!