I mean, these (ed: programmers) are people who are lucky if they are wearing matching socks when they come to work, if they even remember to wear socks at all.

Quoted from The Old New Thing.

這是一個我想寫很久了的主題, 由於我也搞不清楚的原因 delay 到這個時候. Anyway, here it goes…
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Here it comes again, referer spam from Microsoft’s live search engine is back. It managed to bypass the mod_rewrite rules I got from The Art of Web the last time I was spammed.

New rules (again, from The Art of Web) were installed last night. So far, the log spamming seems to be stopped.

Huge thanks to people from The Art of Web for documenting this instance and updating their blocking method.

In a blog post Danny Kalev published earlier this year on InformIT, an example was presented demonstrating how one could write valid but insecure code involving vector and auto_ptr which compiles without any warning, despite other warnings Micorsoft’s recent compilers would’ve issued against standard compliant code. Along with other points he made in the post, Danny suggests Micorsoft doesn’t really care about your code safety. I couldn’t have agreed with him more, and would like to contribute my own analysis (aka. my two cents) in support of Danny’s finding.
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這幾個禮拜從 COdE fr3@K 的 log 開始注意到有愈來愈多 “人” 被 search.live.com 經由 “jeffhung” 這個 keyword 導到我的站上.
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