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Stealing History (Part 2)
Cody Swann has a modified version of the exploit using prototype that works in IE and has support for AJAX requests:
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Replacing the CPU with the GPU
I've been keeping an eye on this type of thing ever since I read a paper about using the GPU for generic tasks. We are beginning to see GPU's enter a new area, where they function like math coprocessors of the old days. This is going to be great for the bioninformatics industry.
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Stealing History
Update: Cody Swan has a version that works in IE and supports AJAX to log the urls somewhere. Info here.
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Simple AJAX Steps for Success
We are doing a ton of AJAX work with [AO]. Here are 10 helpful hints if you are considering using AJAX in an upcoming project:
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Google = Evil
Marc does an excellent job of laying out Google's evil strategy:
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Dare on AJAX / RSS
Great post by Dare
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IContext = Good
Andrew Stopford asks:
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xFruits: Consume your RSS
xFruits is a slick service that lets you transform RSS/OPML/etc. in all sorts of neat ways (Mobile, Web, PDF). Here is a sample, my feed turned into a mobile site
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ORM + You = Lawsuit
"FireStar recently filed a lawsuit (also in East Texas) against Red Hat for the use of the principle of Object Relational Mapping in Hibernate (developed by JBoss), a popular component of Java applications. Jim Farmer of immagic has confirmed that Sakai uses Hibernate and is, therefore, vulnerable to both direct and indirect infringement charges by FireStar. Farmer has also confirmed that while uPortal 2 does not use Hibernate, plans are underway to incorporate the component in uPortal 3. FireStar's patent claim goes beyond Hibernate, which is only one implementation among many of the Object Relational paradigm. Potentially any web framework that uses ORM, including those deployed in PHP, Ruby on Rails, or .NET, is vulnerable."
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C#->Javascript Compiler
You had to know it was only a matter of time. Google has their Java->Javascript compiler and the Xamlon guys have their C#->ActionScript compiler. Soon, we will have a C#->Javascript compiler thanks to Nikhil Kothari (Script#):
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Google Analytics Free For All
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Dave Winer: Macs Crash More
"Every time my Mac crashes in the middle of the night I think of the stupid Apple commercial where they claim that Macs don't do that. It happens about once a week, sometimes every other day..."
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IE7 Native PNG Support a Sham?
"This must be a bug in IE’s filter implementation. So what I did next was to test the same image with opacity applied to it in IE 7, since they now claim they have native transparent PNG support. But… the results were exactly the same. Which makes you wonder if it’s not just the same filter as in IE 6 being applied under the hood.
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Visual Studio Express Should be Part of Windows
Jeroen van den Bos has made the case for adding VS Express to Windows. [1]
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Best Online Aggregator
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OS X + Grammer Check
I found this note about developer improvements on OS X quite interesting:
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IE Beta 3: Officially Unusable.
Don't bother downloading it unless you really need to. Beta 2 worked fairly well on this system. Beta 3 consistanly hangs within 5 minutes of usage for me.
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Live Services are in Trouble
Nial Kennedy is leaving Microsoft. His reason? He joined MS to work on the Live initiatives and after MS stock fell when they announced their Live goals, they scaled back everything. Sounds like Live won't be nearly as cool as it could have been.
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IE Beta 3 Lockups
Seems like every time I send a message in OWA, IE beta 3 locks up. I love IE, but these lock ups need to stop. To be fair, FireFox locks up on me occasionally too... but not nearly as much as this new IE build. If you are listening IE team, my biggest IE peeves have to be the lockups and the fact that the javascript debugging / error experience blows serious chunks. As AJAX gets more and more popular, people are going to prefer Mozilla more and more simply because it gives decent error messages and its javascript console's error log is far superior to IE's javascript error handling.
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Asynchronous "For" Loops
With processors set to scale at the CPU level instead of the Mhz level, wouldn't it be great if you could write some code like:
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Linus Gets Censored
So, Linus started cussing up a storm in a recent GPL 3 debate and got his post deleted. In part of his criticism about GLP3, he states:
