falcifer

So I'm watching The X-Files... "Kill Switch". The episode written by William Gibson and Tom Maddox.In the episode one of the pioneers of the internet creates a sentient virus. He then tries to kill the virus with another virus... he encrypts the virus and puts it on a CD. Put it's coded within a music file. (Twilight Time by The Platters).I was wondering if this is actually possible. Analysing one of my own MP3s in a hex editor, I can see a few lines at the end which contain the song title and artist. And I know that MP3s can carry extra data about them. So how much exactly can you put into this area? Could you add a long string of code to it and still have the MP3 play as normal?

Well... it kept resetting my location to "North, SC, USA"... which isn't where I'm from.And my real location wouldn't work, nor would the next closest town, so I've had to use the closest biggest town, which is a good 15 miles away, but it's better than nothing...I'm from North Yorkshire in England. But not York... although I did go to Uni there.

Ditto. It's the only such site I've come across before, since I don't really do a lot of things like that. But I've always liked it.

That's a good point, Ste.Of course, people can always develop ONLY in and for Firefox, and force everyone else to move away from IE... (The last time I used Opera, I had the option to view pages using the IE engine or the Firefox engine, so I don't think that'd be a problem.)

I use KWrite.I used to use Notepad, or Wordpad, so I could see exactly what I was doing.Now I use KWrite, which is similar to Wordpad, except that it highlights different elements of the HTML to make things even more clearly.

Personally, when I did loads of HTML and JS for blogs, I had IE (since it was un-removable), Firefox and Opera. Just so I could test in each browser.But now I'm on Linux, which actually comes with Firefox 2... not really pre-installed, but you can choose to install it when you install the OS.But I don't do much HTML and JS. Not recently anyway.I think, with serious web development, you should test on a few different browsers. And probably a few different versions, to account for older versions.Which can be a problem, since it means having a load of browsers on your computer.Firefox 2 is my favourite browsers, though. Decent debugging console thing. Wonderful amount of themes and add-ons.I think the fact that it's open-source, too, it what makes it better.Updates and improvements can be made as and when they need to be. So you can always get a decent stable version. Whereas IE either installs separate updates, and then puts them into the next release, which takes a while to come around.Not to mention that given Firefox's open-source nature, finding and exploiting security holes is more of an issue, so more attention is paid to making it more secure, I would think.IE is closed, so security holes aren't found until after they've been exploited, and then MS releases updates and patches. I'm not absolutely certain about that, but it seems like that's what makes Firefox more stable and secure.