Microsoft helps kill spammers

良好, 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.

微軟 (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 這裡) 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, 和更多.

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的 9 是出

Well done, Bill, you’ve finally done something right. Internet Explorer的 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的供電計算器

我很無聊 (我的計算器壞了電池), 所以我想我會採取裂縫在開發一個基於Web的計算器. (你可以找到它 hathix.com的/ etc /計算器. 基本上, 您可以輸入一些命令 (聲明變量或函數調用) 和計算器將使用JavaScript動力去尋找答案.

關於計算器的最巧妙的是,它有一些內置的函數 (任何從發現了許多的平方根來尋找兩個數的最小公倍數來找到解決方案的二次方程。)

下面是一些命令,你可以進入計算器和他們做了什麼:

7-拉鍊: 免費的方式來解壓縮文件

My parents just downloaded a zipped file from the 因特網 (not sure what it was, I think an installer or something.) But that’s beside the point, the important thing is that they needed to unzip it so that they could access the files inside. They downloaded WinZip, which lets you unzip files.

All’s 好, 右? Only problem is that it costs a lot. $30, 其實. That doesn’t seem like much, but the general rule of thumb with software is:

If you pulled out your credit card to download something, you probably did pay too much.