2005-12-27
I was checking the specification for XML earlier to try and work out how you are supposed to escape stuff that goes in CDATA blocks. Anyway, I found the Origins and Goals section of the Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Second Edition) specification.
Number 4 made be laugh, "It shall be easy to write programs which process XML documents.".
I'm yet to see a stateless XML parser, let alone one written in clean regular expressions.
Apps that needlessly use XML over (perfectly addequte) .ini files (with the same structure) also cause themselves much pain.
Why?
2005-12-27
The iRivers completely murdered the iPod's in reviews this christmas..
When the sales figures come out it'll be really interesting to see what percentage of the population care about functionality over percieved-style/advertising.
Having spoken to a few (female) friends from school who were yet to actually hear of "mp3s", so were completely uninterested in "mp3 players" that wern't iPod's, I'm not particularily hopeful.
2005-12-26
I was having a look through my \System Volume Information folder earlier (not accessible to even Administrators, so I was using the "run cmd as SYSTEM" hax), and found a file called "tracking.log". Had a look in it.. binary, but 'strings' found a few of the machine names of other machines on my network. Susupicious, no?
Turns out it appears to just be part of the Distributed Link Tracking service, keeping track of windows file sharing+nfs. Fair enough. Even shows in services.msc, description: "Maintains links between NTFS files within a computer or across computers in a network domain.".
Now I'm just wondering how badly (and easily) you can screw over, say, virus/spyware scanners running as the lowly administrator. Giving the administrator group only execute rights to a file would be lethal, (they wouldn't be able to do anything to it), removing "list files" access to the directory it's in makes them incapable of finding a file that changes it's name, too.
Heh heh heh..
2005-12-25
theSpoke.net is offering:
- Visual Studio 2005
- SQL Server 2005
- Visual SourceSafe 2005
- Visual Studio .NET 2003 Academic - Full Download
- Windows Server 2003 Standard
...to current students in many countries who are willing to prove their student status (for instance, with a NUS card), and are willing to pay £20.
Downloads (at least of vs2005) are in iso form, pre-serialed, no activation required.
It's linked from Microsoft's Acedemia minisite, so it's probably not hoax.
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