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LackRack Makes Home Colocation More Affordable 4

Posted by samzenpus from the swedish-DIY dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The LackRack is the ultimate, low-cost, high shinyness solution for your modular datacenter-in-the-living-room. Featuring the LACK side table from Ikea, the LackRack is an easy-to-implement, exact-fit datacenter building block. It provides superior mounting for up to 8 U of 19" hardware, such as switches and other professional gear. Multi-shiny LackRack can also be painted to your specific preferences and the airflow is unprecedented."

Comment Re:IE8 is *not* vulnerable (Score 1) 83

by praseodym (#30250762) Attached to: Major IE8 Flaw Makes "Safe" Sites Unsafe

That doesn't make sense:
1. Google serves all ads within Google.com from that same domain. No cross-site scripting anywhere, so nothing for the XSS filter to block.
2. For external sites (AdSense), disabling the XSS filter on Google.com won't help either: the external site would have to disable it. Otherwise anyone could just disable the XSS filter on their own domain and hack away on other sites.

Comment Re:IE8 is *not* vulnerable (Score 5, Informative) 83

by praseodym (#30220680) Attached to: Major IE8 Flaw Makes "Safe" Sites Unsafe

Except, that was the FIRST security flaw linked in the article. The SECOND one (at The Register) is about a different security flaw, in the XSS filter. The XSS filter is new in IE8.

And, BTW, Google does indeed disable it so that they are not vulnerable to the flaw: their servers send a "X-XSS-Protection: 0" header.

Comment Re:Er, no (Score 1) 154

by praseodym (#30187834) Attached to: Microsoft's Lack of Nightly Builds For IE

There have been several beta releases for Internet Explorer 7 and 8. Still no need for nightly builds: if it's not release quality, why publish it at all?

In open source projects, nightly builds are mostly a service for developers/testers as well. And since everybody can help improve the code, having more people test can certainly be beneficial.

Comment Re:Obvious... (Score 2, Informative) 154

by praseodym (#30183524) Attached to: Microsoft's Lack of Nightly Builds For IE
In recent interviews, the IE team explained that they run many testsets (W3C sets, Acid3, CSS3.info) themselves anyway. They have also contributed a lot of new tests to W3C (e.g. http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2009/01/27/microsoft-submits-thousands-more-css-2-1-tests-to-the-w3c.aspx). They ask for feedback about their tests. The only thing we can do to improve IE is to make sure there's enough test coverage.

Comment Re:Obvious... (Score 1) 154

by praseodym (#30183508) Attached to: Microsoft's Lack of Nightly Builds For IE

What if they'd just release their rendering engine, with a very simple UI which only lets testers enter a URL? After all, most of the problems are in IE's rendering engine, not in its UI. That would solve the problem of journalists etc. looking at it as a real product.

Now, I do doubt the usefulness. We can't improve the code like we can with open source projects. Giving feedback about the rendering engine isn't all too useful either, because the IE team cares about standards nowadays and uses many tests themselves (W3C testsets, Acid3, CSS3.info). They already know the bugs, so the only thing we could conclude with a nightly is how far along they are.

Comment BitTorrent links (Score 5, Informative) 744

by praseodym (#29910449) Attached to: Ubuntu 9.10 Officially Released

Comment How will it work? (Score 1) 423

by praseodym (#28919701) Attached to: Microsoft Drops Windows 7 E Editions

How will the ballot screen work? Will it redirect to the chosen browser maker's website, will it download an installer? If so, that'd be way too much work for 'simple' users and they'll just close the ballot screen leaving IE as the default browser.

Also, I can't help thinking that there must be a prettier way to make this ballot screen (outside of IE, preferably!).

Comment Re:Depends how you define characters (Score 2, Informative) 186

by praseodym (#28571831) Attached to: iPhone Vulnerability Yields Root Access Via SMS

You're correct. And to complete it:

"Larger content (Concatenated SMS, multipart or segmented SMS or "long sms") can be sent using multiple messages, in which case each message will start with a user data header (UDH) containing segmentation information. Since UDH is inside the payload, the number of characters per segment is lower: 153 for 7-bit encoding, 134 for 8-bit encoding and 67 for 16-bit encoding." -- from Wikipedia

So, in this case it's 134 bytes and not 140 since the payload probably doesn't fit in a single 140 bytes.

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