Microsoft is buying Aquantive, Yahoo bought RightMedia, Google bought DoubleClick, 24/7 also got acquired. This last month is definitely a crazy one for the ad serving/network industry. Lots of buzz and projected future, huge premium paid for acquisitions.
Javascript link submit in IE6
The problem only occurred if you use Internet Explorer 6 or older. Using href=”javascript:;” and onclick=”some function” will ignore onclick in IE6 (does not happen w/ Firefox). Solution: simply use “javascript:some function;”
Delete small files
Delete small files less than 100Kbytes: “find -size -100k | xargs rm” or find -size -100k -exec rm “{}” “;”
smartctl for ATA drives
If you get this error that device is not supported by running the default command
Device: ATA WDC WD800JD-60LS Version: 07.0
Serial number: WD-WMAM9F764913
Device type: disk
Local Time is: Tue May 15 13:12:49 2007 CDT
Device does not support SMART
Request Sense failed, [Input/output error]
Error Counter logging not supported
Error Events logging not supported
[GLTSD (Global Logging Target Save Disable) set. Enable Save with ‘-S on’]
Device does not support Self Test logging
Solution: add “-d ata” switch
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: WDC WD800JD-60LSA0
Serial Number: WD-WMAM9F764913
Firmware Version: 07.01D07
User Capacity: 80,026,361,856 bytes
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: 7
ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
Local Time is: Tue May 15 13:19:16 2007 CDT
SMART support is: Available – device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x84) Offline data collection activity
was suspended by an interrupting command from host.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self-test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: (2460) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 33) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 5) minutes.
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always – 0
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 175 172 021 Pre-fail Always – 2225
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always – 17
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always – 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always – 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 090 089 000 Old_age Always – 7761
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 253 051 Pre-fail Always – 0
11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0012 100 253 051 Old_age Always – 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always – 17
190 Unknown_Attribute 0x0022 062 055 045 Old_age Always – 38
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 105 098 000 Old_age Always – 38
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always – 0
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 200 200 000 Old_age Always – 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 200 200 000 Old_age Offline – 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always – 0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0009 200 200 051 Pre-fail Offline – 0
SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Extended offline Aborted by host 50% 1 –
SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
Alexa scrambles traffic data
It’s pretty interesting to see that Alexa is using CSS to scramble site traffic results. Now you cannot select, copy the data and paste into somewhere else because some random numbers are added between the original characters.
The browser sees this:
The code is actually this (if CSS is disabled)
I have not had time to dig deeper into this and it’s just an interesting observation.