sun solaris telnet arguments parsing hack
Some of you may be aware of the technique of banner grabbing to find out what software is running on a remote machine. It is done by reading out transmitted data that contains a product name and/or version, such as HTTP's "Server:" response header. Like virtually every content sent by a server, the server is totally free what to send, i.e. this can be easily faked by an HTTP server's admin, and is sometimes even done.
I’m really typecasting myself here. If there were an international “Person most likely to write a Spectrum emulator in Javascript” award, I’d have taken it for the last five years running. So here it is - probably the most stereotypical project I’ll ever come up with.
PUNDO3000 compares food ads and how the meal really looks after cooking at home. Some meals look quite similar, others look completely different. (via dlat)
Blogging is sooo 2005, and so is bookmarking. Inspired by Fefe's Blog, this is just a subset of my bookmarks plus some comments. Please /leave a note/ unless I've implemented comments etc..
boing boing reports that the brand new hddvd encryption key was leaked one weak after its rollout. grats.
I tried to log in to Apple Developer Connection this morning to find out that my password had been changed and the email associated with my account was now a yahoo.com address that wasn't mine. Luckily, my "security question" was still the same, so I was able to reset the password and email address back.
404 Research Labs maintain a bookmark collection to funny HTTP error pages. There's also a 404 page of the week - great stuff!
"The best, most ridiculous, most redundant graphical implementation of ASCII!"
Marius Fietzek has created some German language audio walk throughs for the Lucas Film Games classics The Secret of Monkey Island or the infamous Zak McKracken. (via dev-radio)
