Downgrade Flash Player

I'm not concerned about issues of security in my ordinary life things, but maybe you need to secure your ports.

According to David Neu, SecurityErrorEvent, an ActionScript 3.0 class, is not what you might call a friend. So remove your Flash Player 9-nish version now, and downgrade to Flash Player 8.

Due to a design flaw in ActionScript 3 socket handling, compiled Flash movies are able to scan for open TCP ports on any host reachable from the host running the SWF, bypassing the Flash Player Security Sandbox Model and without the need to rebind DNS.

To read more: click here

Mordor

Under Web Design

The inexperienced or insufficiently thoughtful designer complains that too many websites use grids, too many sites use columns, too many sites are “boxy.” Efforts to avoid boxiness have been around since 1995; while occasionally successful, they have most often produced aesthetically wretched and needlessly unusable designs.

The experienced web designer, like the talented newspaper art director, accepts that many projects she works on will have headers and columns and footers. Her job is not to whine about emerging commonalities but to use them to create pages that are distinctive, natural, brand-appropriate, subtly memorable, and quietly but unmistakably engaging.

If she achieves all that and sweats the details, her work will be beautiful. If not everyone appreciates this beauty—if not everyone understands web design—then let us not cry for web design, but for those who cannot see

As seen in A List Apart, preciously written by Mr. Zeldman.

On Strike

Reading the news, while having a coffee, I have read Jordi Rufin, and other people in Winterthur are on strike.

Know more about this, here. Raise the Fist.

NOTE: That brought into my mind, old memories, that was one decade or more ago, about me and friends standing at Jordi's house in Pg. Sant Gervasi, where he played music in his grand piano for us ...for over an hour.

Waoh

CSLI Lecture Notes are now part of the Stanford Medieval and Modern Thought Digitization Project. That means books such as Unger's Cut-elimination, Normalization, and the Theory of Proofs, Troelstra's Lectures on Linear Logic, Aczel's Non-well-founded Sets, van Benthem's Manual of Intensional Logic, and Goldblatt's Logics of Time and Computation are now available online and for free


Visit the library here.

SEGONQUART Studio

SEGONQUART Studio. testing the link stuff from GoogleBar. It seems that works. :)

True

The greatest value of universities is not the brand name or perhaps even the classes so much as the people you meet.

Via Paul Graham

Python on Panther

At the new headquarters , I'm working both with Tiger and Panther ( OS X systems for my Macintosh computers). based in UNIX FreeBSD. In Panther, it is recommended to develop web-sites, that you install python packages.
Which can be easily found and downloaded here