Scott Yang's Playground

Found an interesting link today. Until I clicked on it… www.yaromat.com/macos8/ Suddenly, my Internet Explorer window is filled with running text telling me that “macsetup” has been downloaded, windows files removed from my hard drive, and the computer is rebooting for a change… A few seconds later, my screen comes up with the blue-smiley-face logo [...]

The saga continues from the story yesterday… Last night at around 10′ish, I thought EveryDNS has already been fixed because I can now see their website and use their web interface to modify my DNS configuration. I woke up this morning, and found some of my spooled emails still cannot be sent because source domain [...]

In my attempt to recover from the EveryDNS disaster, I have accidentally found another free domain name service provider. It is dns.widge. It is marketed as Real-time managed DNS services, with web-based creation and management of your DNS records. It has real-time updates, both primary and secondary DNS services, support for wildcards and round-robin, as [...]

At the point of writing, the Domain Name Service provider that I have put my (nearly) 100% trust on is off-line today. EveryDNS can no longer be reached after abut 11:00am AEST. Not only the website is down, it also brought down all the domains hosted with it. In my case, that will be all [...]

The English Standard Version Bible has been released in late 2001, and we bought the Crossway one pretty much straight afterwards when they landed Australia. However, I have been sharing the ESV with Vivian my wife for the last year since we have only bought one, and I still spent most of my time reading [...]

At work, the web application that I’ve been developing has always had this problem over a secure SSL link. On certain pages, before the document is fully loaded, a dialog box will popup telling me that “This page contains non-secure items, would you like to display those items?”. Whether I choose ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ does [...]

In an earlier Slashdot story this month, “SDF Punted, Due to DDOS“, the long running Unix public access system, SDF (abbr for Super Dimension Fortress, of an ’80s Japanese anime), had their service disconnected by their ex-provider NWLink. The cause of the disconnection? Because of the repeating DDoS attack in January and early February that [...]

I ran across a Slashdot story today talking about that it is the 25th Anniversary of BBS (Bulletin Board System). Today, when every second guy on the street can access Internet in fast blazing speed, and when all the computers you wish to access are inter-connected on the information highway of Internet, there aren’t many [...]

MovableType 2.6 has just been released with 70+ changes. The full changelog can be seen here. Some of the highlights are: Text formatting options. Not just whether turning on converting the breaks, but also allows plug-ins for text formatting so you can have independent formatting options for each article/post. I will be waiting for the [...]

I have had my resume on the Internet for quite a few years, and during 1999-2000 I often received phone calls from head hunters/recruitment agents asking whether I would like to take up a new job. However, for the last year and half because of the general economy slow down and the dot com crash, [...]