Tricking browsers that are storing passwords

Posted on Saturday, 9th of February, 2008 by Jory

For a system that I’m working on that I plan to, at some point, release as open source product, I am going to implement a system so that, to get the specific pages, you need to enter your password even if you are logged in. If you do, you will remain “super-authed” untill you close the browser. This would prevent, ie, my little sister to use my laptop, go to my website and have full power because I’m still logged in. But as I was working on it, a question arose: How good is this, taking into account that most people will just end up storing the password in their browser. Obviously, there are ways around that. (Using a random name for the password field each time is probally enough.) But, by doing that, I will be breaking browser functionalities. Do I really want to do that?

Posted in PHP, Programming, The Internet | 4 Comments

Error reporting

Posted on Saturday, 29th of December, 2007 by Jory

This has been a draft for a while, so things are probally outdated but I’m still wondering about this, so here goes…

I have been doing a lot more PHP lately then I have in a long while and that, plus the prospect of a pretty big project I will hopefully start on during the summer, made me think a bit about error reporting. I’m not talking about E_ALL vs E_, err, 0. I’m talking about what to tell the user when either (s)he or the application screws up.
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New laptop

Posted on Thursday, 20th of September, 2007 by Jory

Last night, I got my new laptop. Its a Vostro 1500 from Dell, and it looks hawt. It has a Core 2 Duo T7300 @ 2 GHz, 2 X 1GB DDR2-666 SDRAM, a Seagate Momentus 7200 RPM 160GB hard drive. Graphics and sound aren’t the greatest ever, but I didn’t buy it for gaming anyway. I got it to be fast, and it sure is. 😀
The laptop came with Windows Vista Business edition, which is actually pretty nice. Sure, I can’t find my way around it, but thats probally just getting used to it. I do want to install Windows XP and Kubuntu on it as well, though. XP because I actually need it for school (They force us to use MS Visual Studio.) and Kubuntu because thats what I want to actually use.
The problem with Windows XP is that, apparently, my harddrive is so exotic or something, that the installation disk doesn’t have drivers for them. I have a driverset thats supposed to work with XP, but haven’t yet figured out how to make the installer use them. (If anyone is actually reading this, feel free to make suggestions. 🙂 )
I’ve decided to wait untill Kubuntu 7.10 comes out before installing that, because somehow whenever I attempt an upgrade, it becomes a mess.
Oh, and I want an actual mouse. :/

Posted in Computing | 3 Comments

Ooh, bloo

Posted on Tuesday, 18th of September, 2007 by Jory

As of last sunday, I’m one of the blue guys over at InvisionFree Support. Cool, huh. 🙂

Also, this place needs to be updated more.

Posted in InvisionFree / ZetaBoards, This blog | 1 Comment