What is wrong with me?
Seen moments ago:
rm -rf /usr/lolcat/nginx
That's some serious typo skills - some part of my brain meant to write that. You know that bit in that show where that guy realises he's going insane? I'm that guy.
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Ramblings about cats, games and miscellanea.
I am in your Firefox, stealing your Passwords
The Firefox developers have their security and usability priorities all muddled up. You can't access my self-signed website, but I can steal your passwords without you even knowing. And they think this makes your browser better.
In Firefox 3, they introduced stricter SSL certificate checks that give you an error page that you can't turn off. It's a usability nightmare if it's a site you want to get in to; there are 4 mouse clicks, all over the screen to add the site - amusingly, 5 if you only want to add it temporarily. Reminds me of ...
Flash, Iframes and IE
Here's another fun little flash/ie fact: putting a 1x1 swf inside a 1x1 iframe fails in IE, at least if you want to use ExternalInterface. It seems that the iframe has to be 18px by 18px - and Google and I have no idea why. Any suggestions?
Update: It's just callbacks that are unavailable, and the iframe seems to need to be on the page. No workaround found, I'm afraid.
Sun's out, trains off
Has anyone else noticed how the RMT only ever strikes when it's sunny?
Let's move!
I don't regularly comment on matters of politics, but I shall today. For some reason I was surprised when I heard that the 42 day detention bill had passed in the commons. Diane Abbott's speech is a perfect example of why it should have failed - you know something's up when a Labour MP stands with senior ministers from the tories and lib dems in saying the security services don't need it, that the similar legislation was already defeated two years ago and that it's just about strengthening the PM's position. I couldn't see ...