Mount a trashed hard drive using Target Disk mode – macosxhints
Archives for November 2004
Overloading Spammers
As reported by the BBC, Lycos has created a screensaver that targets the Web sites of spammers, overloading them with requests for information. They hope to “make the monthly bandwidth bills of spammers soar by keeping their servers running flat out” and slow down their sites “under the weight of data requests. Early results show that response times of some sites have deteriorated by up to 85%.” The lists of spammer Web sites are pulled from real time black lists, which are built with addresses sent out to e-mails received by users from around the world. Even better, the method they are using, shouldn’t have a noticeable effect on the Net’s speed, unlike some other proposed solutions.
This is a great way to fight back, I really hope it works, even if it is only for a little while.
SilverSpider PlayList 1.0
A quick note to announce the public release of SilverSpider Play List, a set of PHP scripts that helps you add a recent music list to your Web site. Each time you listen to a song, your media player will send song information to your Web site which will gather the info, and with the help of Amazon, compile it into a list of entries, each containing the name of the song, the artist and the album cover.
CSS – Conditional comments
CSS – Conditional comments are “excellently suited to give special instructions meant only for Explorer on Windows. They are supported from Explorer 5 onwards, and it is even possible to distinguish between 5.0, 5.5 and 6.0.” – from the amazingly helpful Quirksmode.
graphicPUSH: Capturing and Optimizing Screenshots for Print
Bug Report – Latest reports
Quirksmode: Bug Report – Latest reports – “The Bug Report system is entirely dedicated to finding, mending and publishing CSS and JavaScript browser bugs.”
Note: It is easier to read the pages outside of the frameset.