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Congrats Dave!!!! WOOOO!

I’m not going to say what I mean for now, wait ’til Dave tells everyone :p

I’m happy tonight ian just ‘publicized’ his new forum, WebDesignForum!

lol I’m such a luzer, my highlight of the day is when someone opens a new forum! Anyway, I wish you the best ian! You know you’re a huge reason why I ever got so into web dev, WMF kept me going. I consider you my friend and I owe ya

Still don’t have GMail?

I have an extra one, first person to post a comment to this entry with the email to send it to get’s it.

<edit>Dave put up another offer, so if you still don’t have one then get commenting :p</edit>
<edit>That’s gone too Better luck next time.</edit>

Well the style I was talking about in the last entry has gone live. Surf over to WT and have a look. We’ve even managed to grab Floris‘ crazy cool buttons and icons!

Well I was hard at work yesterday, literally all day, designing and coding the new WT style. I’m really proud of it, infact — I love it It hasn’t been released to the public eye yet because there are a few things that need to be taken care of.

The old design was “clunky” and it looked crowed. That with the lack of margins, things touched the edge of the screen — that was what I hated most But I’ve managed to design a nice looking style that looks good even in 800×600 resolutions. That was hard to achieve because we have the sidebar and it takes up a chunk.

Anyway, keep your eyes open for the new style at WT, should be coming soon!

A recent article on Slashdot entitled “SHA-0 Broken, MD5 Rumored Broken” got my attention a couple days ago.

So what does it mean for a hash algorithm to be “broken”? Well, it means that two sets of different data can produce the same hash. This is called a “collision“. There is no way to stop collisions in hashes, no matter what algorithm you use — it’s just a matter of time until people find collisions. It’s simply the logic of math (don’t ask me to explain it, because I’ve haven’t a clue).

Recently after the article on Slashdot, there was a comment pointing to a whitepaper that proved that there were collisions found with MD5.

Now using MD5 to hasg passwords shouldn’t have any effect on things like web apps or *nix systems (after all, if you have the MD5 hash of a password, there are online cracking sites that’ll crack it in a matter of days). The problem comes with the file checksums. If an attacker can insert malicious code into a file and retain the same checksum, then we’ve got some trouble. And considering most routers use a MD5 digest to verify the integrity of files, it can be a big problem.

Though MD5 still isn’t “broken” (as you need an efficient way to find collisions to make use of them), you’ll still probably see SHA1 hashes more often.

That’s my understanding of things, but I’m lost when it comes to this cryptography stuff. So if you know your stuff, feel free to enlighten me.

Well, what do you think?

CSS design, still a little bit of work to do to validate it though. I like it I find it easier to read things now.

Anyway, drop me a line and tell me what you think

Just a little brainstorm on how to make your links SEF.

• Old: content.php?id=58&page=3
• New: content/Some-crazy-title/58/3

Basically, what I like to do is have the title of the page I’m showing (like an article title) as the first part of the URL, and then the “important” information like ID’s and page numbers etc. go after it. As long as you follow the same “layout” of the URLs in every URL you make, then you can use the information as if it were a query string. So if you use Title/ID/PageNum, then use it everywhere!
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I got it!

It is a scary game, let me tell you. I was just playing; it’s dark outside, no lights on and my sound pumped up. With the ‘brightness’ option kept low, you can hardly see a damn thing in that game. Your best friend is your flashlight! But to scare your pants off even more, you have to equip your flashlight as a weapon of its own, meaning you can’t shoot anything when you have your flashlight on because you have no weapon equipped. It makes it a lot more scary because you see a guy, so you have to turn of the flashlight to equip a weapon — then you don’t know where the hell to shoot!

If you suffer from claustrophobia, then you do not want to play this game. The corridors are dark and narrow, sounds coming from every direction and if you see fog or blood splatters — that is not a good thing (it’s a tip right out of the manual). You’ll be strutting along a corridor, thinking your hot shit with your loaded shotgun and deadly aim when you hear some screeching behind you. You turn around, ready to shoot — adrenaline pumping, and you stop. It was only a loose valve letting off steam. What? Steam? Steams bad! You turn back around and there they are, ready to kill you. Ahhhhhh!

Hope I painted a pretty picture for you I’ll post screenshots tomorrow if I’ve got time.

I’ve hacked the vBulletin archives to hopefully make them better. Take a look:
New Archive
Old Archive

Changes:

• Descriptive URL’s.
  • Old way: f-6.html, t-1123.html etc
  • New way: Forum_Title-f-6.html, Thread_Title-t-1123.html
• Descriptions.
  • Forum descriptions
  • Thread descriptions (a.k.a “post preview”)
• H1 Headings
  • Forum home has site title in H1 heading
  • Forum display has forum title in H1 heading
  • Thread display has thread title in H1 heading
• Real URL
  • We use Apache’s .htaccess to ForceType PHP on a file “archive” (thus, a file without an extension). So it looks like a directory. No more ugly /archive/index.php/blah.html.

If you run a vB board and want this hack, let me know and I’ll zip it up for you (there are small things here and there that you have to edit in the files, too lazy to create a formal how-to).

One thing though, would descriptions help or hurt with SE goodness? The descriptions will include keywords that SE’s will pick up, but does that mean they are less likely to spider any further then the forum display page?

Thanks ian for pointing it out! I can’t believe I didn’t see it, a little error in my HTML ’tis all

Anyway, posting comments should work now.

Well, I was made admin at WT the other day. I was surprised, to put it simply.

I don’t know what else to say lol. I guess it’s good