"Don't forget..." consists of Photoshop palettes pasted over billboards in a metro station in Berlin. Is it a street art project or clever advertising campaign? I studied advertisng in Berlin at HdK and will not be surprised if there is an advertising campaign behind it.
Firefox 3 limits usable encrypted (SSL) Web sites to those who are willing to pay money to one of their approved digital-certificate vendors. Self-signed certificates (SSC) get rejected. For example U.S. Army uses certificates are issued by the Department of Defense and could not be trusted according to Firefox 3. Expired SSL certificates on Google and LinkedIn get affected as well.
The Mozilla.com Web site, where Firefox 3.0 can be freely downloaded, defends the new feature, saying SSL certificates not issued by a validated certificate authority -- so-called self-signed certificates (SSC) -- don't provide even basic validation; and expired certificates should not be viewed as "harmless" because they open avenues for hackers.
On the other hand expired SSL certificates are actually quite common.
According to Netcraft data, the number of SSL websites passed 600,000 in 2007. If we make a rough estimate and assume the same ratio as for the Fortune 1000 websites, that would mean that there are around 108,000 websites with expired SSL certificates. All these would get the “error page” in Firefox 3.
The lack of one industry standard when it comes to SSL and SSC creates both the security hazard and sub-prime usability issue. This is actually something that Mozilla itself seems aware of. Jonathan Nightingale, who works with usability and security at Mozilla, had this to say in his blog in regards to how Firefox 3 handles SSL certificates:
I don’t think the approach in Firefox 3 is perfect, I’m not sure any of us do. I have filed bugs, and talked about things I think we could do to continue to enhance our users’ security while at the same time reducing unnecessary annoyances.
What is the difference between:
www.moxietype.net
moxietype.net
moxietype.net/index.php
www.moxietype.net/index.php
User might expect all those pages lead to the same page. Search Engines though might store these locations separately. This might result in much lower page rank.
Solution
Decide if you want to keep www or not and make a Global Redirect at your server or write Global Redirect in htaccess file. I prefer non-www as it takes a few more strokes to type in.
Inform Google on Webmaster Dashboard Tools (under Settings) about which version they should keep in their Index. Join Google Webmaster Central if you haven't done so already.
Analyze all the pages in your Web Site and remove duplicate URLs from Google Index by using robots.txt. For example print or category in URL could lead to the same page. You might want to restrict print and category in URL from being indexed. Read about Improving on Robots Exclusion Protocol.
There is a set of simple questions to ask while planning a contribution-based project such as technological requirements, skills of the contributors and time dependancy.
Be aware of any specialized language that you are using in your instructions or in the description of the project. Words and phrases like “cache”, “ftp”, “social book-marking”, “beta”, “screengrab”, “firewall”, “tagging”, “tweet”, “proxy”, etc… may not be part of your audience’s vocabulary.
If you get the server error message such as:
- (Mac OS X 10.2) "An error occurred while trying to add the selected printers. Error 1282"
- (Mac OS X 10.3, 10.4) "server-error-service-unavailable."
You might need to reset the system. Follow these easy steps:
TinEye is an image search engine. You give TinEye an image and it'll find it on the web for you. TinEye analyzes image attributes and compares fingerprints of every single image in the TinEye Search Index. However, keep in mind that TinEye is a new Web search engine and they didn't have the time to index all the images on the Web yet. I found over 500 sites containing variations of the image.
TinEye is the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology. Given an image to search for, TinEye tells you where and how that image appears all over the web — even if it has been modified.
Just as you are familiar with entering text in a regular search engine such as Google to find web pages that contain that text, TinEye lets you submit an image to find web pages that contain that image.
Every day TinEye's spiders crawl the web for additional images. Using sophisticated pattern recognition algorithms, TinEye creates a unique and compact digital signature or 'fingerprint' for each one and adds it to the index.
Ever wanted to get rid of your Web Hosting Company? Good news! You can set up UNIX server right at your home or in your office if you have static IP address and high speed internet connection. Below are steps and links to the original instructions. I can't vouch for them as I am still looking for an old PC to pull it off.
It appears that it is much easier to rely on the content generated by the other sites than create their own. In this case I will agree with the Facebook.
Power.com asks users to provide their user names and passwords for social networks. It then accesses those outside sites as if it were the user, and allows the user to view the other site’s pages without actually visiting it.
Facebook blocked access to its site from Power.com, which “deliberately circumvented Facebook’s technological security measures in order to continue its unlawful practice of accessing Facebook’s computer systems without authorization,” the complaint stated.
Photo: prefabricated WeberHaus
There are now about 15,000 passive houses built around the world, with the majority in German-speaking countries and Scandinavia. It costs only about 5 to 7 percent more to build than conventional houses. Passive Houses get all the heat and hot water they need from the amount of energy that would be needed to run a hair dryer.
Decades ago, attempts at creating sealed solar-heated homes failed, because of stagnant air and mold. But new passive houses use an ingenious central ventilation system. The warm air going out passes side by side with clean, cold air coming in, exchanging heat with 90 percent efficiency.
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1 comment ( 1125 views )The Google Metadata Web Authoring Statistics might be a bit outdated in a sense that Google pays more attention today to meta description element than it did when the article was written and totally disregards meta keywords element but it is still worth reading about the common mistakes.
The http-equiv values pragma and expires are attempts at bypassing caches without having to set the HTTP headers correctly. These are probably unnecessary uses; any scenario where there is a legitimate reason to limit caching, the author is going to have enough control over the server to send the appropriate headers. In addition, the meta tags can't be considered reliable (e.g. proxies and transparent caches aren't going to honour them).
The distribution value is supposedly used to control who can access the document. Search engine "optimisers" tell people to set it to "global" to ensure that search engines index their pages.
Google Tech Talk on Generating and Querying Semantic Metadata and Ontologies
Google Tech Talks June 21, 2007
How to extent media wiki environment with semantic aspects and how to provide natural language interfaces for varying knowledge bases.
Clear Private Data Does Not Clear Private Data in Firefox 3From what I can tell it is not a real bug but a regression that's part of a new feature RichResults. The browsing history does not erase RichResults anymore. If you don't want RichResults keep track of where you went, in Firefox you need to enter
about:config
and then scroll down to:
browser.urlbar.maxRichResults
and change the default.
The default setting is 12 and if you want nothing, you enter 0.
Refusal of the "RichResults" to obey the "Clear Private Data" command presents a significant privacy issue in Firefox 3. Read a message board on Ubuntu dedicated to this issue.
Did you ever wonder why WordPress out-of-the-box is not Search Engine Optimized and All in One Search Engine Optimization Plug-in is inadequate? Below is the explanation that WordPress provides:
This January will be Apple's last presentation at the Macworld and CEO Steve Jobs will not appear. Industry events like Macworld Expo have been losing their luster inside Apple for some time.
"There's one leg shorter than the other ones; you can fix it with a few packets of sugar."
"It's very, very low so there's only your head at the table."
These are a couple of my favorites. Check out the rest of the catalog of chairs from the Secrets of Efficient Meeting Collection.
3 comments ( 1274 views )Gibson Research Corporation writes on Ultra High Security Password Generator:
Since there is no "output from the previous encryption" to be used during the encryption of the first block, the switch shown in the diagram above is used to supply a 128-bit "Initialization Vector" (which is just 128-bits of secret random data) for the XOR-mixing of the first counter value. Thus, the first encryption is performed on a mixture of the 128-bit counter and the "Initialization Vector" value, and subsequent encryptions are performed on the mixture of the incrementing counter and the previous encrypted result.
The result of the combination of the 256-bit Rijndael/AES secret key, the unknowable (therefore secret) present value of the 128-bit monotonically incrementing counter, and the 128-bit secret Initialization Vector (IV) is 512-bits of secret data providing extremely high security for the generation of this page's "perfect passwords". No one is going to figure out what passwords you have just received.
Make sure to write the generated password down. 
"Wolfram Research has released the seventh version of Mathematica, and it does a lot more than symbolic algebra. New features include Secure Website and Network Connectivity, Statistical Model Analysis and Built-in Image Processing and Analysis:
Cross-site scripting (XSS) is a security vulnerability of dynamic Web pages generated from information supplied to the web server and replayed as part of the response to the browser. In an XSS attack, a malicious user can create a specially crafted link to inject unwanted executable script or code (usually JavaScript) into a Web site. When an unsuspecting victim clicks the link, the malicious piece of JavaScript can then send the victims’ cookie away to a CGI script.
A full security review usually involves more than just seeking out XSS vulnerabilities; it also involves overall threat modeling, testing for overflows, information disclosure, error handling, SQL injection, authentication, and authorization bugs.
In order to change the administrator, known in Unix as "root", password you will need a copy of Mac OS X Install disk. If you don't have the original disk, buy another one or call Apple (1-800-SOS-APPL) and ask for a replacement boot disk.
Once you have an install disk, double click on the Install Mac OS icon and you'll get a window with a restart button. Click on it, and your Mac will restart and go to the installation process.
You don't need to install the OS again! Click through windows until you get the regular set of choices on the menu bar. One of those menus is Utilities and one of the choices on that menu is Reset Password.
Change your password and choose Quit from the Installer.
Next time you start your computer you know your admin password.
Note: your admin password is only of limited security because anyone with an OS install disk can restart and reset your root password without knowing your existing password.
How to reset Mac OS X Admin Root password by using sudo command
About Proxify Anonymous Surfing
A web-based anonymous proxy service which allows anyone to surf the web privately and securely. The Proxify widget provides easy access to the Proxify service, directly from your Dashboard.
Proxify hides your IP address and our encrypted connection prevents monitoring of your network traffic. Once using Proxify, you can surf normally and forget that it is there, protecting you.
System Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 or later