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Journal Journal: Ruby On Rails official wiki totally spammed

Journal by jodosha on Saturday January 13, 2007 @03:45PM

In the last hours official Ruby On Rails wiki was totally spammed by automatic scripts. Now it's totally unusable, every page was defaced about 700 times.
The only way to read original version of a page is append '/versions/1' to the end of the url.
It was just created a discussion page, to solve the problem.

Decryption Keys For HD-DVD Found, Confirmed 473

Posted by kdawson on Saturday January 13, 2007 @02:14PM from the house-of-cards dept.

kad77 writes "It appears that, despite skepticism, 'muslix64' was the real deal. Starting from a riddle posted on pastebin.com, members on the doom9 forum identified the Title key for the HD-DVD release 'Serenity.' Volume Unique Keys and Title keys for other discs followed within hours, confirming that software HD-DVD players, like any common program, store important run-time data in memory. Here's a link to decryption utility and sleuthing info in the original doom9 forum thread. The Fair Use crowd has won Round One; now how will the industry respond?"

Submission + - Print Messages on your Beer

Submitted by

Migraineman

on Saturday January 13, 2007 @01:09PM

Migraineman writes: "I stumbled upon a clever hack by Sprite. He reverse engineered the pin functions on an HP inkjet cartridge, and built a simple driver board that converts the cartridge into a hand-held inkjet printer. The driver board is programmed with a fixed message. Moving the "print head" is your responsibility, but it leads to some interesting applications. Printing messages on a whiteboard was the original inspiration, but printing messages on the foam head of a Guinness is just inspired."

Comment Re:Doesn't validate... (Score 2, Informative) 748

by Hungry Student on Thursday September 22, 2005 @10:58AM (#13621618) Attached to: Slashdot HTML 4.01 and CSS

W3C is perfectly stable, its taking issue with your non-quoted href attributes. Look at error # 12: "an attribute value must be a literal unless it contains only name characters."

As a general rule, quote all attributes, much more future-proof (XHTML requires all attributes be quoted), and much easier on the eyes when using a syntax-highlighting editor. FYI, I downloaded a snippet of your HTML, quoted the attributes, ran it back through the validator, and it validates (save for the lack of a doctype).

Hope this helps.

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