Comments for Joey Gibson's Blog http://joeygibson.com OSX, Java, Ruby, Python, Objective-C, Lisp, politics, religion, Greek, Spanish and much more! Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:17:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc Comment on “Prize Notification” From “Microsoft” by Anna http://joeygibson.com/2008/07/18/prize-notification-from-microsoft/#comment-715 Anna Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:47:01 +0000 http://joeygibson.com/?p=612#comment-715 Hi! I am a winner to, so the e-mail claims. Pah! Sorry, that I wrote some irritated letter to them, asking who will pay the taxman? I hate this sort of crap! We all got blowed away by this man or bank. Even if I didn´t answered all letters (6) they just sent another one and a another one, untill I finally answered it. Shit happends! Hi!

I am a winner to, so the e-mail claims. Pah! Sorry, that I wrote some irritated letter to them, asking who will pay the taxman? I hate this sort of crap!

We all got blowed away by this man or bank. Even if I didn´t answered all letters (6) they just sent another one and a another one, untill I finally answered it. Shit happends!

]]> Comment on “Prize Notification” From “Microsoft” by Natascha Herselman http://joeygibson.com/2008/07/18/prize-notification-from-microsoft/#comment-714 Natascha Herselman Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:26:41 +0000 http://joeygibson.com/?p=612#comment-714 Hi there, yes I'm also a winner of the same amount at the same winning number!! Does any body know more about the scam?? Can't Microsoft tell us more or do something?? Hi there,

yes I’m also a winner of the same amount at the same winning number!! Does any body know more about the scam?? Can’t Microsoft tell us more or do something??

]]> Comment on “Prize Notification” From “Microsoft” by Svein http://joeygibson.com/2008/07/18/prize-notification-from-microsoft/#comment-713 Svein Fri, 28 Nov 2008 20:02:16 +0000 http://joeygibson.com/?p=612#comment-713 congratulation, now I also is winner of the same amount at the same winning number, What a nice system. I wonder if there is somebody who have taken one more step an got any cost claim for the forwarding om all this money? congratulation, now I also is winner of the same amount at the same winning number, What a nice system.
I wonder if there is somebody who have taken one more step an got any cost claim for the forwarding om all this money?

]]> Comment on Let *Me* Decide What A Good Password Is! by joeygibson http://joeygibson.com/2008/11/26/let-me-decide-what-a-good-password-is/#comment-712 joeygibson Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:31:08 +0000 http://joeygibson.com/?p=866#comment-712 Yes, Coder, I *do* know about SQL injection attacks. I've been doing this software thing for a very long time. I've built many, many systems over the years, and they ALL supported whatever the user wanted to use as their password. It's really not that hard, it's just lazy developers. Yes, Coder, I *do* know about SQL injection attacks. I’ve been doing this software thing for a very long time. I’ve built many, many systems over the years, and they ALL supported whatever the user wanted to use as their password. It’s really not that hard, it’s just lazy developers.

]]> Comment on Let *Me* Decide What A Good Password Is! by Coder http://joeygibson.com/2008/11/26/let-me-decide-what-a-good-password-is/#comment-711 Coder Fri, 28 Nov 2008 09:17:59 +0000 http://joeygibson.com/?p=866#comment-711 "In fact, it’s more work for the developers to check for these “offending” characters and scold the user for daring to use them!" - Wrong! do you know punctuation marks in fields can really screw up queries against databases if not done properly. For legacy code, it's almost always better to restrict punctuation mark in one place than santizing in 1000 places where its used.. otherwise a clever hacker to exploit it to gain access to your account .. Search for "SQL injection attack" for more information but given that agreed.. there are ways to avoid this and ideally we should allow punctuation marks in passwords “In fact, it’s more work for the developers to check for these “offending” characters and scold the user for daring to use them!”
- Wrong! do you know punctuation marks in fields can really screw up queries against databases if not done properly. For legacy code, it’s almost always better to restrict punctuation mark in one place than santizing in 1000 places where its used.. otherwise a clever hacker to exploit it to gain access to your account .. Search for “SQL injection attack” for more information

but given that agreed.. there are ways to avoid this and ideally we should allow punctuation marks in passwords

]]> Comment on Let *Me* Decide What A Good Password Is! by Ronald http://joeygibson.com/2008/11/26/let-me-decide-what-a-good-password-is/#comment-709 Ronald Fri, 28 Nov 2008 02:55:02 +0000 http://joeygibson.com/?p=866#comment-709 Maybe to prevent encoding issues? Encoding can be a pain in the ass in some unexpected cases... Also, not all characters are present in all keyboards. These may cause some support nightmares they simply don't want to have. :) Maybe to prevent encoding issues? Encoding can be a pain in the ass in some unexpected cases… Also, not all characters are present in all keyboards. These may cause some support nightmares they simply don’t want to have. :)

]]> Comment on Why Can’t I Install iPhone Apps Via iTunes? by G.B http://joeygibson.com/2008/07/10/why-cant-i-install-iphone-apps-via-itunes/#comment-708 G.B Thu, 27 Nov 2008 22:10:30 +0000 http://joeygibson.com/?p=595#comment-708 OMG !! THank u soooo much!!! i been having the same problem and that fixed it!! Now i can sync my apps! ^^ However i have another problem i donet have the itunes and apps store in my iphone how can i get them back again? OMG !! THank u soooo much!!! i been having the same problem and that fixed it!! Now i can sync my apps! ^^
However i have another problem i donet have the itunes and apps store in my iphone how can i get them back again?

]]> Comment on Let *Me* Decide What A Good Password Is! by Gatzby http://joeygibson.com/2008/11/26/let-me-decide-what-a-good-password-is/#comment-707 Gatzby Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:23:29 +0000 http://joeygibson.com/?p=866#comment-707 I'm guessing it's the regular expressions used to validate passwords that are preventing you from using anything other than a-z, A-Z and 0-9. Instead of checking whether or not a password contains *at least* some pattern of alphanumerics, they often check for these pattern *and nothing else*. I’m guessing it’s the regular expressions used to validate passwords that are preventing you from using anything other than a-z, A-Z and 0-9. Instead of checking whether or not a password contains *at least* some pattern of alphanumerics, they often check for these pattern *and nothing else*.

]]> Comment on OH NOES! I’ve Lost My .emacs File! by Jason http://joeygibson.com/2008/11/14/oh-noes-ive-lost-my-emacs-file/#comment-706 Jason Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:17:05 +0000 http://joeygibson.com/?p=857#comment-706 I discovered Emacs in '97 when I was doing C++ development for BellSouth (the Sun development tools had great integration with either vi, Emacs or XEmacs editors). I'd been a hardcore vi user since 1990 (still am), but I could adapt Emacs (actually, for some reason I opted for XEmacs at the time - can't remember why - maybe it had better fonts) better for the job at hand. Syntax highlighting - check (vi never had this - it only arrived with vim), split buffers (top for the .h, bottom for the .cpp) - check, tab completion for finding files - check, nice macro record/playback features - check, nice search/replace - check,control behavior of tab key - check, auto replace tabs with 4 spaces check. So, after a while you can imagine I crafted a pretty customized/personal .emacs file. I even continued to use emacs for a while after switching to Java in 2000 (it wasn't until Eclipse 2.0 before I switched to an IDE and left Emacs behind). Then I moved on, and for some reason the .emacs file got left behind. Shame really - I haven't really used Emacs since - it's not the same without my .emacs file - and I don't have the time or inclination to re-create it. I discovered Emacs in ‘97 when I was doing C++ development for BellSouth (the Sun development tools had great integration with either vi, Emacs or XEmacs editors).

I’d been a hardcore vi user since 1990 (still am), but I could adapt Emacs (actually, for some reason I opted for XEmacs at the time - can’t remember why - maybe it had better fonts) better for the job at hand. Syntax highlighting - check (vi never had this - it only arrived with vim), split buffers (top for the .h, bottom for the .cpp) - check, tab completion for finding files - check, nice macro record/playback features - check, nice search/replace - check,control behavior of tab key - check, auto replace tabs with 4 spaces check. So, after a while you can imagine I crafted a pretty customized/personal .emacs file. I even continued to use emacs for a while after switching to Java in 2000 (it wasn’t until Eclipse 2.0 before I switched to an IDE and left Emacs behind).

Then I moved on, and for some reason the .emacs file got left behind. Shame really - I haven’t really used Emacs since - it’s not the same without my .emacs file - and I don’t have the time or inclination to re-create it.

]]> Comment on Let *Me* Decide What A Good Password Is! by Bill Beckelman http://joeygibson.com/2008/11/26/let-me-decide-what-a-good-password-is/#comment-705 Bill Beckelman Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:56:46 +0000 http://joeygibson.com/?p=866#comment-705 I couldn't agree more. One of the major banking websites that I use does this and it drives me crazy as well. I want a stronger password. I couldn’t agree more. One of the major banking websites that I use does this and it drives me crazy as well. I want a stronger password.

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