zsouthboy's comments

On: Tell HN: Add ?share=1 to Quora URLs to display con...

[zsouthboy]

I wrote a bookmarklet to delete stuff like this without opening the inspector:

  javascript:(function(){document.styleSheets[0].addRule(".highlighted_to_remove","background:red !important");var e=function(e){if(e.keyCode==27){i()}};document.addEventListener("keydown",e);var t=function(e){e.stopPropagation();this.classList.add("highlighted_to_remove");return false};var n=function(e){e.stopPropagation();this.classList.remove("highlighted_to_remove");return false};var r=function(e){this.parentNode.removeChild(this);i();e.preventDefault();e.stopPropagation();return false};var i=function(){var i=0;var s=document;while(s=document.body.getElementsByTagName("*").item(i++)){s.removeEventListener("mouseover",t);s.removeEventListener("mouseout",n);s.removeEventListener("click",r);s.classList.remove("highlighted_to_remove")}document.removeEventListener("keydown",e)};var s=0;var o=document;while(o=document.body.getElementsByTagName("*").item(s++)){o.addEventListener("mouseover",t);o.addEventListener("mouseout",n);o.addEventListener("click",r)}})()

Post about it: https://plus.google.com/114437281866675781856/posts/hkp9F9Wr...

[Lambdanaut → zsouthboy]

Nice. I think your bookmarklet stretched the hacker news comments page.

Deleted!

[Sammi → zsouthboy]

Works like a charm in Chrome. Not so in Firefox. I'm on a Mac.

[panzi → zsouthboy]

So did I!

    javascript:var cursor = document.body.style.cursor; document.body.style.cursor = "crosshair"; var killer = function (event) { document.body.style.cursor = cursor; if (event.target.parentNode) event.target.parentNode.removeChild(event.target); window.removeEventListener('click', killer, false); event.stopPropagation(); event.preventDefault(); }; window.addEventListener('click', killer, false);void(0)

[panzi → panzi]

Improved version:

    javascript:(function(){var e=document.body.style.cursor;document.body.style.cursor="crosshair";var t=document.createElement("div");var n="border:1px solid #3280FF;background-color:rgba(50,128,255,0.5);position:absolute;z-index:999999999999999;display:none;";var r="pointer-events:none;";var i="transition:width 60ms,height 60ms,left 60ms,top 60ms;";n+=r+"-webkit-"+r+"-moz-"+r;n+=i+"-webkit-"+i+"-moz-"+i;t.setAttribute("style",n);document.body.appendChild(t);var s=null;var o=function(e){var n=e.target;if(n!==s&&n.parentNode){var r=n.getBoundingClientRect();var i=document.documentElement;var o=document.body;var u=i.clientTop||o.clientTop||0;var a=i.clientLeft||o.clientLeft||0;var f=window.pageYOffset||i.scrollTop||o.scrollTop;var l=window.pageXOffset||i.scrollLeft||o.scrollLeft;var c=l-a+r.left-1;var h=f-u+r.top-1;t.style.display="block";t.style.left=c+"px";t.style.top=h+"px";t.style.width=r.width+"px";t.style.height=r.height+"px";s=n}};var u=function(n){document.body.style.cursor=e;if(n.target.parentNode)n.target.parentNode.removeChild(n.target);if(t.parentNode)t.parentNode.removeChild(t);window.removeEventListener("click",u,false);window.removeEventListener("mouseover",o,false);n.stopPropagation();n.preventDefault()};window.addEventListener("mouseover",o,false);window.addEventListener("click",u,false)})();void(0)

"Source": http://jsfiddle.net/udzP3/

[durzagott → zsouthboy]

Thank you for this! It looks pretty awesome.

On: Ask HN: Review my startup, http://UpOut.com

[zsouthboy]

Signing up to be notified of "my city" doesn't seem to work in Opera 11 or Chrome latest on Windows.

[martinshen → zsouthboy]

Thanks for letting us know. We're fixing this as we speak.

On: Motorola Xoom will ship without Flash support

[zsouthboy]

I call bullshit. If you have flash disabled or set on-demand in your browser preferences, there is no change in the overall speed or responsiveness of your device, in comparison to flash not being installed.

[nailer → zsouthboy]

I left flash enabled. Obviously disabling would do the same as uninstalling.

Go read the HN guidelines, too BTW.

On: 7-inch pocket gaming concept blows our minds six w...

[zsouthboy]

Check again - this isn't independent OLED key screens like the Optimus was/is. It's a single, plain LCD underneath some hard plastic keys with a window in the right place.

On: Mac App Store: Open for Business

[zsouthboy]

Market costs $25 to submit to, as well.

On: Ray Ban Virtual Mirror

[zsouthboy]

- We are sorry -

Browser error

Your browser is not compatible with the application (supported browsers: Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome)

(Running Opera on OSX.)

EDIT: it's worse than that, read the bottom of the sys requirements: "Note: The user must have administrator rights to the computer he is using."

So they're installing some shitty Windows-only plugin?

[tzs → zsouthboy]

I'm impressed by your ability to deduce whether or not a plugin is shitty based solely on what OS it runs on.

On: Hidden admin user on every HP MSA2000 G3

[zsouthboy]

I don't know about others, but we put all our iSCSI stuff on a physically disparate network, separate NICs, separate switches.

Doesn't help if someone has physical access to the datacenter, but that's a given.

[patrickgzill → zsouthboy]

Would it not be the case, that a compromised machine that was mounting iSCSI, might then be able to access the hidden admin feature? It could then mount other volumes read-only and read data meant to be private...

[thehigherlife → patrickgzill]

Not necessarily. In most cases administration access to these things are on an entirely separate network from connection protocol. Having an iSCSI / nfs connection isn't enough; you'd also have to be on the same network as the management interface.

On: Hidden admin user on every HP MSA2000 G3

[zsouthboy]

It's a SAN device with a ton of drive bays. We've got a few and they seem pretty speedy, haven't had an issue with them. I'm already investigating what generation we have - but I'm almost certain our initial setup on at least one was using the admin !admin credentials, which means that it's documented _somewhere_.

[jodrellblank → zsouthboy]

Just had a quick look through some of the setup docs, and I can find "manage / !manage" as a given, but not admin / !admin (yet).

On: Windows 8 will be Microsoft's 'riskiest product be...

[zsouthboy]

My favorite part is where they threw it all out, reset to 2003 codebase, and started from scratch basically, 18ish months before release.[1]

So from a technical standpoint, Vista took longer [5 years] and had less development time [under 2 years] actually make it into the product. (Yes, code they already had they could and did reincorporate into the final product, but still, wow.)

[1] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2005/10/16/481625.as...

This post is full of snark by the way, but it is useful to know what went wrong with Vista. (TL;DR: Management of very large software development is _hard_)

On: Clever android app

[zsouthboy]

I use tasker to emulate a feature that Apple devices have: separate volume levels for speaker and headphones (not sure why Android doesn't already have that).

Set a task that runs when headphones are plugged to set the media volume to x, and an exit task to set it back to y when they're unplugged. Simple.

[robotron → zsouthboy]

"not sure why Android doesn't already have that"

Patents?