The AskApache blog has a great comprehensive guide to .htaccess. A must read for anyone who does a lot of work with Apache.
Archive for May 2008
There is a Zero-day Adobe flash exploit being actively distributed in the wild using SQL injection attacks onto many websites (Securityfocus thinks about 20,000 or more). Reported to be a password sniffer.
Yet another reason to run the excellent Firefox addon NoScript.
Windows lacks the linux ’shutdown’ command, so it is a pain to get it to schedule a reboot in the future. Linux’s shutdown command make this easy, just issue the command ’shutdown -r +60′ for example to reboot an hour in the future.
No such luck in Windows, you need to download a separate program to do this. It is a sysinternals program, you might remember sysinternals from such utilies like FileMon and ProcessMonitor.
The program we use for this is called PsTools and more specifically the file psshutdown.exe.
Place psshutdown.exe into a directory for future use, for this example we will use c:\tools\.
Then open a command prompt and type the following command:
at 2:00am c:\tools\psshutdown.exe -r -f -c -t 10 /accepteula
This will result in:
Added a new job with ID = 1
You can verify this task has been added by looking at the Scheduled Tasks - the job name will be At1 if you haven’t scheduled any other tasks via the command line.
If all goes will, Windows will reboot at 2:00am, or your specified time.
For some reason, Firefox started to display a blinking cursor, like web pages I have been viewing were editable. Thinking that some errant plugin was causing this behavior, I manically disabled a few I had recently installed. However that didn’t fix the problem.
Good ole Google to the rescue.
Firefox has a ‘feature’ that lets you select text with more visual feedback. I guess the little one must have been hitting keys and turned this on.
Turning it off is easy! Press F7 to turn off caret browsing.
Alternatively, type “about:config” in the URL area, then filter for “caret“. Change accessibility.browsewithcaret to “false”.
