Thanks Mrs Veronica!
The Phishing Phairy delivered me good tidings today!
Dear Mr/Mrs
My name is Veronica ,I am the Current CEO of BankInter Branch office in Madrid Spain, we offer Xmas loans with a minimum interest rate of 1%. Fill the application form for immediate process.
LOAN APPLICATION FORM
NAME............. FULL ADDRESS..... CITY............. STATE........... ZIP CODE......... COUNTRY.......... TEL.............. Sex............. LOAN AMOUNT NEEDED.... LOAN PURPOSE......... OCCUPATION.................................. MONTHLY INCOME.......................... LOAN DURATION PERIOD............................... Other Contact E-mai:
PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL APPLICATION/INQUIRIES SHOULD BE SENT TO intercustomercareservice@live.com AS THIS ADVERT IS SENT FROM OUR PUBLIC OFFER CENTER
Thanks Mrs Veronica
It's good to know I can get a Xmas loan from Mrs Veronica with only 1% interest! Where do I sign up?! Oh wait! I can sign up in my email!
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Seriously, who falls for this crap?
Floating What?
Update a CentOS 4.4 xen instance to 5.4? Sure thing. I'll just resolve some broken dependencies, and then I'll be on my way...
[root@homeapps ~] : rpm -Uvh procps-3.2.7-11.1.el5.i386.rpm udev-095-14.21.el5.i386.rpm e2fsprogs-1.39-23.el5.i386.rpm e2fsprogs-libs-1.39-23.el5.i386.rpm --nodeps warning: procps-3.2.7-11.1.el5.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e8562897 Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:e2fsprogs-libs ########################################### [ 25%] 2:procps ########################################### [ 50%] 3:udev ########################################### [ 75%] 4:e2fsprogs ########################################### [100%] [root@homeapps ~] : yum update Floating point exception [root@homeapps ~] : ps aux Floating point exception [root@homeapps ~] : top Floating point exception
Oops.
Good thing I made a backup.
I <3 Firefox
Firefox is awesome. Firefox combined with cool extensions is even better. I've been using the Adblock Plus extension for a while, and I certainly dig it. It allows you to filter out advertisements (or other content, if you wish) using regular expressions, or just simple filters. Generally ads don't bother me that much. I've just learned to look around them.
The ones that really bother me are the ones that interrupt the content I'm reading. There are two schemes that drive me bonkers. The first is Google Adwords. People seem to have zero reservation about placing the adword boxes right in the middle of their content, with the exact same styling as the content they're surrounded by. How annoying. The second just appeared recently, and uses a piece of JavaScript to edit the document client-side so that certain keywords appear as links, but are really just advertisements that pop up on your screen as soon as you mouse over them. Since my sight is somewhat impaired, I do the "highlight a line so I know where I'm reading" trick quite a bit, and clicking on one of those keywords is a really quick way to piss me off.
Adblock Plus has given me an avenue to get rid of these annoyances. The following two rules seem to block all of the crap I mentioned above. I wouldn't call them perfect yet, since I've only tested them on a few sites.
*googlesyndication.com/*/show_ads.js *kontera.com*
The first blocks the Google Ads, and the second blocks the faux-link pop-up ads. Enjoy.
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