Καλά, not really kill, just bring down. But it makes the title sound nice.
In other news, Microsoft has finally done something right by bringing down Rustock, a botnet that infected millions of computers and caused them to send massive amounts of spam. Rustock was one of the (if not the) biggest spam networks in the world.
Microsoft (and some feds) raided some hosting facilities in the US and took down the servers that instructed infected computers to send spam.
You can read more at cnet.
Ως συνήθως, I got bored so I wrote a game in JavaScript. It’s a role-playing game called Labyrinth (you can find it εδώ) which follows a guy who gets lost in a cave. You have to collect sticks to destroy barrels, planks to cross water, keys for colored doors, and more.
Here’s what Labyrinth looks like:
I know it’s horribly drawn, but I drew everything myself. I’m such a bad artist that it’s a miracle that the key even looked like a key. And that glowing yellow/orange/red thing is a lantern.
Well done, Bill, you’ve finally done something right. Internet Explorer 9 is now out and can be downloaded from microsoft.com. Here’s the catch: it only works on Windows Vista and 7.
Let me repeat that:
Thoughts on the new browser
For one thing, it’s a lot better than Internet Explorer 8, although that isn’t saying much. To be honest, it’s actually decent; Internet Explorer can now compete with the other popular browsers like Firefox and Chrome.
Here’s what really matters:
I was bored (and my calculator was out of batteries), so I figured I’d take a crack at developing a web-based calculator. (You can find it at hathix.com/etc/calculator. Basically, you can enter some commands (variable declarations or function calls) and the calculator will use JavaScript power to find the answer.
The neatest thing about the calculator is that it has some built-in functions (anything from finding a number’s square root to finding the LCM of two numbers to finding the solutions to a quadratic equation.)
Here are some commands you can enter into the calculator and what they do:
Οι γονείς μου κατεβάσει μόνο ένα συμπιεσμένο αρχείο από το Internet (δεν είναι σίγουρος τι ήταν, Νομίζω ότι ένα πρόγραμμα εγκατάστασης ή κάτι τέτοιο.) Αλλά αυτό είναι δίπλα από το σημείο, το σημαντικό πράγμα είναι ότι έπρεπε να το αποσυμπιέσετε ώστε να μπορούν να έχουν πρόσβαση στα αρχεία μέσα. Θα κατεβάσει WinZip, η οποία σας επιτρέπει να αποσυμπιέσετε αρχεία.
Όλα είναι καλός, δικαίωμα? Το μόνο πρόβλημα είναι ότι κοστίζει πολύ. $30, όντως. Αυτό δεν φαίνεται όπως πολύ, αλλά ο γενικός κανόνας είναι με το λογισμικό:
Αν έβγαλε την πιστωτική σας κάρτα για να κατεβάσετε κάτι, ίσως δεν πληρώσει πάρα πολύ.
Hello and welcome to hathix’s blog, home to all the news/rants/raves/ramblings/stuff I can think of.
Until I think of some news/rants/raves/ramblings/stuff, see ya.