Long lived new windows
Thursday, June 10, 2010 | 4:46 PM

Posted by Michael Davidson, Software Engineer

I recently posted about Gmail’s fast new windows and explained that the only downside of them was that they closed when the main Gmail window closed. Today, we’re changing that. If you’re using the latest version of Google Chrome, you can now continue to work in popped out windows after you close your main window (especially handy for those of us who always like to keep an eye on our tasks).

For the technically curious among you, our friends on the Chrome team made it possible to transfer the code that runs Gmail from one window to another as the window closes. When the window that hosts the code fires an unload event, we move the iframe with the code to a surviving window. Everything continues to run, including timers and outstanding requests.

change the q to an r and put the ID after the server name and you can remove that session

So the above command killed my session.

The command is shown below along with some output.

This is showing me the current active open ports.  As you can see, ports 25 and 80 are open to the world (0.0.0.0).  The lines showing the dll’s are the processes that are running that are a part of the process inside the square brackets [] that is the service that is running - inetinfo.exe in both cases shown above.  Off to the right is the process ID (PID).

This brings me to my second command - tasklist /svc.

This tells me I have 3 services running as part of inetinfo.exe on PID 180 - IISADMIN, SMTPSVC, W3SVC

Now to figure out how to use these commands in a productive way.

I am going to talk about three things in this article.

Why I use Google
Why I don’t look elsewhere for my search needs
Why that may change

You have been warned.

1) Why I use Google.

a. I use Google because of great search results.
b. I use Google because the page loads really quickly and the results display quickly
c. I use Google because because it is simple

2) Why I don’t look elsewhere for my search needs

a. Yahoo.com reminds me of the Internet equivalent of puke. If I want puke, I can always go to… well, you know.
b. Bing.com reminds me of the new Google.
c. ask.com more themes

I don’t want themes. I don’t want pictures. I don’t want to make your page my home page. I don’t want to know what other people are searching on. I don’t want auto, finance, games, or chat.

3) Why that may change

Years ago when Google started changing its Google logo to be something else I thought everything from cute, to interesting to educational to downright annoying. But, about the time you started getting your nerves jumped up and down on like a 10 ton gorilla in stilettos, you would finally get the standard blue red yellow glue green red Google logo and everything would be better again for a while.

I love Google. I would work there in a heart beat. I think historically it has done some phenomena things. It has done things I have not liked.

Things I have not liked…

a.  great search results have become mostly great and somethimes not so great search results
b.  the page loads mostly quickly - most of the time
c.  It is not so simple.  I can live with the little bar across the top to access gmail, shopping, images, news, etc - I suppose.  The background image thing and this iGoogle thing and this “I’m Feeling lucky” button, and the holy crap the page weight went from 12-14k to 45K or more.  Granted still smaller than most - it is growing.

Thoughts?

In it, it says that both CERN and NASA stte that Doomsday will NOT happen in 2012.  This, of course, brings out the cynic in me and so now I KNOW that’s when it is going to end.

Beyond that, however, I read where people like David Morrison, an astronomer at the NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., get emails (quoting the article)

“Dr. Morrison said he had been getting about 20 letters and e-mail messages a day from people as far away as India scared out of their wits. In an e-mail message, he enclosed a sample that included one from a woman wondering if she should kill herself, her daughter and her unborn baby. Another came from a person pondering whether to put her dog to sleep to avoid suffering in 2012. “

Okay, so, how SHOULD Dr. Morrison respond?  Well, I don’t know HIS circumstance, so Iwill respond for me.  If I got such a letter, I would at least WANT to reply (I wouldn’t for fear of being sued - I am SUCH a coward), “Yes, by all means, please do so.”

I see this as the historically accurate and correct answer.  Life on this planet has evolved, changed, and adapted in response to the environment.  If you watch the lions on the Discovery channel, they eat the young, the old and the ill.  If you watch the fish eating the octipi, you see they eat the little ones, the weak ones, the diseased ones.  The healthy, lucky, strong ones survive.

If we change the scenario around it gets quit simple…

A weak whale writes a letter to a strong giant squid, “Dear strong giant squid, when the water gets dark, my friends and I get eatten.  Should I just go ahead and kill myself, my little whale-kins, and my unborn whale-baby?  Also, while I’m at it, shouldn’t I just go ahead and kill all my close friends and family - after all they are going to die anyway once it gets dark.”

The strong giant squid replies, “Dear weak whale, by all means, please do.  In fact, I would love to be there to help.  Where do you live?”

I keep hearing people say that humans are at the top of the food chain.  I think they have it wrong.  There is not a food chain.  There is a food circle.  Things like H1N1 show us just how vulnerable to the little things. I am quite sure somewhere there is something that eats things like H1N1.  Something then eats that.  Something then eats that and eventually the weak whale eats something only to be treated to the strong giant squid treatment.  You gotta know that the lions in Africa are looking at the little africans and thinking - you know, they don’t taste very good, but those humans are a lot easier to kill than hyenas, maybe I should alter my tastes some.  Plus, there are LOTS of them - I would never have to go hungry again!”

Manning showed them how to run the clock after that; as well as how to move 30 yards and score.

Wow. 

This week I am doing it a bit early.  First, because I have some time, second because I have been so busy this week doing some incredible stuff with some incredible people, and wanted to share.

This week my company had its annual technology conference.  We had approximately 170 people attend.  The last two days were classes that were done by SANS (http://www.sans.org).  I went through “Metasploit for Penetration Testers (Security 553)” and “One-Day Version Cutting Edge Hacking Techniques (Security 517)”.

Now, I generally have a fairly healthy paranoia when it comes to security and computers.  I have always said that there is no such thing as a secure system.  However, when I have said this, it has been due to the fact that my systems have been hacked and that I had been told that no system is secure.  I did not have any “real” knowledge of how to do hacking.  I’ve run a few scripts, I’ve investigated more intrusions than I can count, etc.  However, now, i have actual knowledge from a hacking perspective.  I now have run through some of the MANY MANY tools and techniques that there are to break in to patched systems.  I was introduced to Metasploit - a Framework to assist research, development and use of vulnerabilities.  I have used that framework to break into systems.  I have used that framework to set up pdf’s, word docs, and html files that let me have a command line interface on a system.  I have looked at a tool that you can use to boot a windows box and get passed the local administrative password - oh, and it works in XP, Vista, and, as we tested today, works against Windows 7 too.

So, that’s what my last few days have looked like.  what have yours’ looked like?

•Weaning is the process of gradually introducing a mammal infant, either human or animal, to what will be its adult diet and withdrawing the supply of its mother’s milk.

I Have Calmed and Quieted My Soul

131 A Song of Ascents. Of David.

1 O Lord, my heart is not lifted up; my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me.
2 But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child is my soul within me.
3 O Israel, hope in the Lord from this time forth and forevermore.

David is saying that his soul is weaned.  What is it weaned from?  What is it weaned to?

John Jordan said (I think he was quoting someone, but I could not tell from his post on Facebook) that “God withholds what we want in order to change what it is that feeds us.” I am convinced that this weaning process is prayer and fasting.  For, it is through these, Christ tells us, that demons are rebuked, faith is grown, etc.