Microsoft helps kill spammers

Jól, 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.

Labyrinth

As usual, I got bored so I wrote a game in JavaScript. It’s a role-playing game called Labyrinth (you can find it here) 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:

Playing Level 10 of Labyrinth
Playing Level 10 of Labyrinth

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.

Internet Explorer 9 is out

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:

It only works in Vista and 7. It doesn’t work in XP.

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:

JavaScript-alapú számológép

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:

7-Fütyülés: a szabad utat, hogy csomagolja ki a fájlokat

A szüleim csak a letöltött zip fájlt a Internet (Nem tudom, mi volt,, Azt hiszem, egy telepítő, vagy valami.) De ez a lényeg, A legfontosabb dolog az, hogy szükséges csomagolja ki, hogy azok is elérheti a fájlok belsejében. A letöltött WinZip, amely lehetővé teszi, hogy csomagolja ki a fájlokat.

Minden rendben jó, jobb? Az egyetlen probléma az, hogy sokba kerül. $30, valójában. Ez nem tűnik soknak, de az általános szabály, a szoftver:

Ha kihúzta a hitelkártya letölteni valamit, akkor valószínűleg nem túl sokat fizet.