Archive for February 2007

Spotplex + ' = Firefox Crash?

I was checking out Spotplex (The actual site is having some problems it looks like), but I saw that they're outlink.php page consisted only of what seemed to be:
<script language='Javascript'> location.replace('$_GET['url']'); </script>
Decided to see if I could an XSS going. So I tried http://www.spotplex.com/outlink.php?url=http://google.com' (Warning, may crash you)
Firefox locked up. IE 7 just says server [...]

Ning

Ning is pretty cool. The video shows you can do custom CSS and other neat things. I've only found the ability to change the header name and color. Or change the questions that it asks you for the profile.
They also have a feature to edit the php code itself, and use SFTP to upload whatever [...]

It's Vista, My Dear

It does have better security, kinda. Like programs, even being run while your logged in as admin, don't have access to other program files and such. It has a special 'Run As Administrator' link now, but UAC is annoying as hell. Got rid of that pretty quickly. All I have to say to it is:
Control [...]

Hungarian Anime

Not really. I was looking over my Analytics page and saw animeaddicts.hu on there as a source, then checked the logs to find out some fan of anime posting on some Hungarian anime site in Hungarian (I'm assuming, I'm no linguist, just going by the tld) is also a fan of Diablo, with his sig [...]

Multipart File Downloader

Wrote a script that downloads a file in parts to overcome the smallness of the disc cache for a server.
Check it outÂ