Archive for August, 2009
Has reCaptcha been cracked?
I’m not sure what to say here, I have ReCaptcha on my blog to fight spam comments, and my idea was it was to stop bots from spamming the comments. Lately I have been getting 20-30 comment’s waiting for approval, ones like these:
- Yeah … Here people used to say: ABC teach – in all hut shout:).
- I really like your blog and i respect your work. I’ll be a frequent visitor.
- Horoshaya infa!.
- Very interesting and amusing subject. I read with great pleasure.
- Purely my IMHO – you can not make the choice. Good luck, think about it..
They seem to be coming mainly from .ru domains. Has anyone else using ReCaptcha noticed this recently?
Tags: SPAM
Internet Explorer 6 lives until 2014
I know this is old news, but I felt like I needed to post this information. It seems that Microsoft has extended support for Internet Explorer 6 until 8th April 2014, despite campaigns to kill off IE6. If you have a look on IE Blog it states that the upgrades to newer versions are the responsibilities of the end user or the company.
The engineering point of view on IE6 starts as an operating systems supplier. Dropping support for IE6 is not an option because we committed to supporting the IE included with Windows for the lifespan of the product. We keep our commitments. Many people expect what they originally got with their operating system to keep working whatever release cadence particular subsystems have.
Microsoft has extended their support for Windows XP until 2014 and Internet Explorer 6 was supplied with Windows XP, so there will still be updates for another 5 years.
Tags: Internet Explorer, Microsoft
Internet Explorer first, Safari last against phishing
An independent security research group named NSS Labs found that Internet Explorer 8 came out on top at stopping phishing attacks. Firefox and Internet Explorer both tied first followed by Opera and Chrome. Safari was the biggest loser, coming last with only 2% of phishing attempts being blocked and there was no difference between the Mac or Windows client.
You can read the full PDF document that NSS Labs has detailing the testing process and their results.
Tags: Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari
News Corp to charge for online news?
Well is seems Rupert Murdoch is going to want us to pay to read online news, in the latest headline coming from news.com.au.
I had a smirk on my face when I read a quote from the article that Mr Murdoch said.
Quality journalism is not cheap, and an industry that gives away its content is simply cannibalising its ability to produce good reporting.
I would like to think that news.com.au does have quality journalism. Also don’t they get enough money from the ads plastered all over the site? I would like to think if they are going to charge for “quality journalism”, will they remove ALL the ads, one would hope so.
There is a nice thread going on Whirlpool about the whole scenario, quite a funny read.
What are your thoughts on this situation, will you be seeking your news elsewhere?
Tags: Internet
From Ubuntu to Windows 7
Well I was running Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty on my EeePC 1000HE and was going great, so I decided to do a dist upgrade to 9.10 Karmic, bad idea!
It downloaded and installed fine, but when I rebooted wicd wouldn’t pick up my wireless network, so no internet basically means I hosed the machine.
I had a copy of Windows 7 RTM so thought I would give it another run on the EeePC, and I must say it is magically fast, I am loving it. Anyone with a newer modern EeePC running XP or Vista, I would highly recommend updating to Windows 7.