Microsoft helps kill spammers

Iyi, 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, ve daha.

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 çalışan bu hesap makinesi

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-Zip: halletmek dosyaları için ücretsiz bir yol

Ailem sadece bir sıkıştırılmış dosya indirilir Internet (ne olduğunu emin değilim, Ben bir yükleyici falan düşünüyorum.) Ama bu konumuzun dışında, önemli şey, onların içindeki dosyalara erişmek böylece bunu halletmek için gerekli olduğunu. Onlar indirilen WinZip, hangi dosyaları unzip sağlar.

Tüm bu iyi, sağ? Tek sorun, bir sürü maliyeti olduğunu. $30, aslında. Çok gibi görünmüyor, ancak yazılım ile başparmak genel bir kural olduğunu:

Eğer bir şey indirmek için kredi kartı çıkardı varsa, muhtemelen çok fazla para ödedin.