Author: Maëlys McArdle

Just checked my work schedule.

Every single day this week [and weekend] I’ll have to get up by at least 9AM to go to work/school (if not earlier), and then won’t come back home from work until at least 10PM. A person from work quit, so they’re giving the rest of us alot more hours. I’m still debating whether this is a blessing and a curse.

Also had 3 labs due for Thursday, but because the TA for two of these labs was to be absent, he was instead supposed to pick them up Saturday morning at his office. This gave me a chance to delay the work on one of them (the other was already complete), since I had 4 labs and one midterm to worry about that week. Went to the university Friday night after work, but all the doors were apparently locked to the buildings at 11PM. Went first thing Saturday morning before work, but turned out the office number that I thought was his did not exist. There was no one around that I could ask for directions either [Saturday]. So I was not able to hand them in to his office. There goes %30 of my lab marks. BLEARH.

Currently working on a new site for the DDR Club at the University of Ottawa (where I attend). Not up yet, but it the address will be www.DDRClub.info.

Busy life.

Some of you might remember that on my Links tab on NXSeal (my old website), I had made use of an Internet Explorer flaw that could spoof (read: fake) you going to www.uottawa.ca (displaying that URL in the address bar) when in fact it sent you elsewhere (a “UVE B33N H4CKZoRZ” humouristic page). Well since then, Microsoft fixed the problem. But now there’s a new flaw that has similar characteristics though completely different approaches. Unlike the previous flaw however, once at the target page, the address bar displays the correct URL. Either way, this easily implementable flaw does spoof the initial status bar response to the URL as I’ll demonstrate:

It says that you’re at microsoft.com, when in fact you’ll be brought over to Google’s site. To note that the double-underline under the above link is only as a result of the conflicting CSS code of this page.

I sold my old Ti4200 with the premise that I would replace that excellent card with a new and upcoming excellent card. The idea was that if I didn’t sell it now, I would just give it away and thus no $110 off a new card. So I took the leap, and went for this new video card due to financial reasoning, as well as its high repute.

Well here it is:

Indeed I will be in the New York Times.

This feat is due to the SpreadFirefox effort, which aims at bringing the attention of the masses to the everyday hacker’s favourite browser, Firefox. They are going to achieve this PR stint by placing a full-page ad in the New York Times.

For anyone who doesn’t know, Firefox is a program to surf webpages, much like Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. However, unlike the latter product, Firefox has virtually nill in the way of overly gaping security holes. When security issues do crop up, the Mozillateam behind Firefox come up with an update virtually overnight, wheras updates for Internet Explorer can take up to 6 months to appear, if at all. Furthermore, Firefox also supports “tabbed-browsing” (a feature that once you get used to, you won’t go back), supports tons of cool little extensions (such as “mouse gestures”: the ability to give commands via a wand-like movement of the mouse), has plenty of slick skins, and best of all is completely free! The whole project is supported via donations.

Back on track: to promote this excellent utility, donating $10 (Student Rate) to the project will earn you a spot on that advertisement that will appear in the New York Times. If you wish to make a contribution, you still have 9 days to do so.

Here are the pictures for the last GEO2334 Fieldtrip. They can be accessed here.

Fun Stuff!