http://shermanboyd.com ending is better than mending Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:08:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I think the Firefox 3 stop and refresh buttons leave a little to be desired. The thin arrow and "x" gives the impression of comic sans. Ugh. Hey-O. It bothered me so much that I came up with some alternatives. These are just quick and dirty four ... http://shermanboyd.com/2008/03/05/firefox-3-refresh-and-stop-button Click "Start", "Run" and type "telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl" and hit enter. Prepare to nerd out. http://shermanboyd.com/2007/08/24/ascii-star-wars Don't be Evil. Be Good!: "The numbers 1 to 400,000 cover The Darfur Wall. Each number represents a person killed in Darfur. By donating $1 or more, you can light a number, turning it from dark gray to brilliant white. As we light the wall, we acknowledge the importance of ... http://shermanboyd.com/2006/12/06/the-darfur-wall So the Firefox 2.0 upgrade was what, in my mind, a major software upgrade should be. First off I barely noticed any changes whatsoever. It's a soft and silent upgrade over the old Firefox. Some software upgrades have to move everything around in each upgrade, just to ... http://shermanboyd.com/2006/12/03/firefox-20-im-totally-stoked Today I received an email from Arizona State Credit Union. It appears my account had been locked thanks to some pesky hackers from Europe. Wait a minute ... I don't even have an account with AZSTCU! I get these phishing scams in my email every day. Phishers try ... http://shermanboyd.com/2006/10/02/phishing-scam-strikes-the-arizona-state-credit-union Cross site scripting has become the single most popular hack, beating even the ever popular buffer overflow. I'm reposting the MITRE report here, in a slightly modified format, for my own purposes. Rank Flaw TOTAL 2001 2002 2003 ... http://shermanboyd.com/2006/09/26/state-of-the-hack I made a nice lunch today, some spicy sausage. I've got a bunch of Jalapenos growing in my back yard so I've been trying to use them instead of black pepper. They really work well with a bit of bratwurst: Put a little olive oil in a frying pan, ... http://shermanboyd.com/2006/09/18/todays-lunch-sausage-w-jalapenos Princeton University conducted an independant study of the Diebold AccuVote-TS voting machines: Check out the Princeton report here. Princeton scientists demonstrate the flaw on this video. Watch this Fox news report here. PBS report on the voting machines. http://shermanboyd.com/2006/09/17/diebold-voting-machines-unfit-for-duty Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Flash media player, software that is almost universally installed across the Internet. These vulnerabilities can allow a hacker to take over your computer. Download the update here: Adobe Flash Download If you are wondering what version you currently have installed check this page. http://shermanboyd.com/2006/09/17/update-flash-now-do-it The old method of hitting printscreen (usually twice for good measure) and then editing the photo in Gimp just wasn't working for me anymore. Luckily I found this little shiny collection of 1's and 0's: http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html It has more features than I really need, but here is a list of the ... http://shermanboyd.com/2006/09/16/taking-better-screenshots