09/03/10 09:50 - 72.ºF - ID#52647

Revisiting Clipboard Security in IE

The day (e:samathon86) and I revisited the IE clipboard insecurity site

I made five years ago. Many IE users are still 100% vulnerable to this stupid exploit and it seems like no one cares. I bet a huge percentage of all IE users are. Basically, it lets a website read your clipboard in Internet Explorer if you don't have your setting set properly. The interesting part is that it allows the site to continue to read it in the background.

In fact I found it to be so extreme as to read the host OS clipboard while IE was running in a VM.

You can use the site to test your browser's vulnerability and turn it off. You are totally safe if you are using a browser besides IE, although I am wondering if flash presents a similar risk. I might check it out more this week.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 04/08/15 11:50

Category: cars

09/03/10 09:40 - 72.ºF - ID#52646

Cheaper Gas With Cash

The Getty in Kenmore had a gas sale for customers who pay cash.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 09/03/10 09:40

Category: food

09/03/10 07:02 - 70.ºF - ID#52643

Just when I thought I had eaten everything

My chinese coworker says he is bringing in chinese squash soup. At first I figured it was just a name for the type of soup but with squash I would recognize so I asked him for some pictures from this site

They are both squashed I have never seen. I makes me wonder what else is out there. He said he didn't know english names for them.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 09/03/10 07:02

Category: mac

09/03/10 12:01 - 82.ºF - ID#52641

New Mac Window Manipulation Icon Placement

I really hope Apple doesn't go with this new vertical icon placement for the whole OS. It is so ugly and frustrating. It seems especially stupid when it doesn't match the rest of the OS.

Below you can see the difference between safari and itunes.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 09/03/10 12:01

Category: computers

09/03/10 10:59 - 81.ºF - ID#52640

Mac OS Snow Leopard in Vmware on Fedora On a Dell

Well this answers the question I wasn't sure about. Was my vmware image of snow leopard only working because I was previously running fedora on a macbook pro? The answer appears to be no and holy crap it is fast now. Here we have Snow Leopard in Fedora on Dell. Don't worry I bought an actual copy of snow leopard for this.

The fact that both that and the windows VMs both boot up in about 1-5 seconds makes testing web stuff in every OS a snap. This is especially important now that the resolution on my screen is 150dpi.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 09/03/10 11:01

Category: computers

09/02/10 11:17 - 74.ºF - ID#52637

The new dell m4500

Its ugly and heavy but its a powerhouse and its not a mac.

When first booted it up to install fedora, I accidentally forgot to hit f12 to boot from the DVD and it started to load the factory preinstalled windows 7. Believe it or not windows 7 crashed on first boot and went into that stupid safe mode screen.

I quickly restarted and booted up the fedora dvd. Luckily Linux is running smooth on the quad core 2.0 ghz i7 with 8gb of ram, 256gb ssd and a 1gb nvidia card.

I love fedora so much. Every freaking thing worked on first try both on this and my old MacBook pro.

paul writes at 05:58:49 02/18/11 - Comment #60754: Just for fun I tried to install ubuntu on a secondary drive on the same machine. The experience was horrible. The internal monitor did not work, there was no default option for full disk encryption during install, and even after the install, the internal monitor did not working without a lot of fiddling around.

I simply booted up the live Fedora 14 disk and installed right over it.

tinypliny writes at 11:46:57 09/03/10 - Comment #58242: Unlearning is the toughest part. I still struggle between metric and non-metric units and constantly convert in my head. Though I am guessing that unlearning OS-based preferences and habits would be much easier than rewiring my brain for a measurement system that just doesn't make sense.

uncutsaniflush writes at 09:59:12 09/03/10 - Comment #58238: Wow. Those are impressive specs. I suspect that a 256 gig ssd costs more than some of my neighbor's houses on the WestSide.

(e:tinypliny) - you (and most people) are victim to the myth that Microsoft Windows products are easy to use and user-friendly. In India and other countries outside the grasp of Microsoft's tentacles, new users have little trouble using Linux computers because they don't have to unlearn what they know about Windows.

I've been using various flavours of Linux since 2001 almost exclusively. Windows XP and Windows 7 boxes confuse me because the gui isn't like any of the Linux guis and desktop environments I'm used to.

It's like imperial vs. metric measurementwise. Metric is easier if you don't need to remember what a gallon is in litres. Imperial Gallons are easier if you don't need to convert them into litres.

tinypliny writes at 08:02:40 09/03/10 - Comment #58209: Little wonder then, that so many of us with gutless souls are still on Win XP.

Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 09/02/10 11:17

Category: food

09/02/10 12:13 - 73.ºF - ID#52634

Mike on an M&M

For his birthday, one of (e:Mike)'s friends had his face printed on a bag of M&Ms. It was weird crunching his face.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 09/02/10 12:13

Category: food

09/02/10 12:08 - 73.ºF - ID#52633

Chris' NY Sandwich Co Lunch Special

No exaggeration, this was definately the best lunch I have eaten in my entire life.

It was two giant, panko encrusted chicken breasts on salad greens topped with layer after layer of yellow and red tomatoes, fresh mozzarella, and proscuito with a balsamic and Basil vinigrette.

Chris' NY Sandwich Co
395 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202-1603
(716) 854-6642