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September 11, 2004
What would things be like if you could use Photoshop tools and filters in the real world?
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iVan
At least some folks are finding some humor in the seemingly endless wrath that Mother Nature has been bringing down on Florida lately:
Welcome to yet another hurricane, 145+ winds. Can ruin Mac, PC and iPod. The new Hurricane iVan. (via engadget)
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Today's News
Fla. man says he can stop Hurricane Ivan
Ivan upgraded from Cat.5 to "worst in living memory". Caribbean, Florida crap pants
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September 10, 2004
Gmail access for cellphones
If you use Gmail and happen to have access to a server with PHP, now you can check your gmail from a cellphone. Just download and install this script to a server and you're ready to go...
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Today's News
Man hopes 1980's 'brick' cell phone will help him pick up chicks, "How could you say no to that?"
New Hampshire police pulling over motorists to thank them for not speeding
It's unconstitutional to search in the skin folds of fat girls, thank god
When stealing a car, make sure you're well rested
Hurricane Ivan heads to Jamaica. Plans to pick up cloud of pot smoke so Florida will relax a little
Lexmark recalls 40,000 taser printers
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September 09, 2004
VX2 Cleaner
Lavasoft’s new plug-in VX2 Cleaner detects the malware VX2 and offers you the ability to remove it from your computer.
Some users have experienced a very difficult variant of VX2 which cannot be removed by Ad-Aware. For those users which have this variant, we have developed a plug-in to help you remove this VX2 variant.
This VX2 variant registers itself in a way, which gives it system privileges. It also prevents the user from viewing this information by removing the user’s rights to do so.
Furthermore it constantly monitors the registry and prevents any attempts to remove its associated values. This makes it very difficult for the user to manually remove it.
The VX2 Cleaner works with all editions of Ad-Aware 6 build 181
How to use Lavasoft’s VX2 Cleaner plug-in:
- Close Ad-Aware 6 build 181 and Ad-Watch (if running)
- Download the free VX2 Cleaner
- Install the VX2 Cleaner
- Start Ad-Aware 6 build 181
- Go to “Plug-ins”
- Select the VX2 Cleaner plug-in and click “Run Plugin”
- If your computer isn’t infected, click “Close”.
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Kerry
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Hitachi Sanrise 32 Petabyte Array
This new storage solution from Hitachi is capable of storing 32PB, or 32,000 terabytes... or 32 million gigabytes. This means its capable of holding 7 bilion MP3's (assuming they are the average size of an mp3 file -- 5mb). You could also hold 49 million movies if each one is 700 megs. To put this into perspective - IMDB, the Internet Movie Database, currently has 411,447 titles in its database. Finally... it only costs a million dollars
Link (Japanese)
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Introduction to IPv6
The new internet protocol...
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Putting some gadget blockage into the next version of Windows
All the Microsoft haters are going to get a new reason to be unhappy when Longhorn, the next version of Windows, comes out in a couple of years: they’re going to include a little something called “Plug and Play Extensions” that should make it a lot easier for companies worried about data theft to stop people from connecting iPods, MP3 player, Flash memory drives, and other portable storage devices to their PC at work (this should make at least one Gartner analyst very happy). It’s not that it’s not already possible to do something like this, but next time around Windows’ll have it built in. Assuming the home version has the same options, you better believe that blocking a kid from hooking up their iPod to their PC to transfer music is going to be the new grounding. [via engadget]
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Today's News
Man tries to shoot seven dogs - shoots three before they start shooting back
Let the evacuations begin.......again
Man sentenced to 6 months for swinging alligator at girlfriend
Turns out students get more sleep than we thought
Flying jackhammer attacks woman, son driving on I-70 (photos)
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Mike's Ad Blocking Hosts File
This is a neat little program that redirects any attempts to connect to an ip address of any ad-servers to a non-existant ip, therefore blanking out all ads that should be displayed.
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New iMac G5 video
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September 08, 2004
Today's Links
Link - This page intentionally left blank
A website that is blank, and not by accident
Game - Reverse
A game where you try to get the player around the levels
Link - Interactive weather map
This map is an interactive storm weather map
Link - Election-o-matic
Create a perfect election candidate'
Game - Panda adventure
Fun interactive strategy game
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Millenium Park -- Chicago, IL
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Tip for parents: how to prevent your child from becoming a hacker
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Huge Hamburgers
People from New York and Ohio come to Denny's Beer Barrel Pub for a pretty big hamburger: 6 pounds of beef, one large onion, two whole tomatoes, a half a head of lettuce, 1 1/4 pounds of cheese, top and bottom buns, and a cup each of mayonnaise, ketchup, mustard, relish, banana peppers and some pickles.
Those who try to tame the 6-pound hamburger have a time limit: They must do it in three hours or less.
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Toyota makes the most reliable cars
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28 Hour Days
A new clock for a new age
This page discusses the benefits of having a 6 day week with 28 hour days instead of a 7 day week with 24 hour days. We would just have more time to get everything done that we want to do. Sounds cool to me
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Some interesting trivia...
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Lexmark Recalls 40,000 Laser Printers
An electrical shock hazard has caused Lexmark to recall about 39,400 laser printers. The printers were sold under the nameplates of Lexmark, IBM, and Dell. From the article: "The recalled printers include Lexmark E232, E232t, E330, E332n, E332tn; IBM Infoprint 1412, 1412n; Dell 1700 and 1700n." Contact information is provided in the article in order to get your free replacement.
Posted by Ryan at 07:11 PM | Comments (0)
McAfee AV ate my application
By John Leyden
Published Tuesday 7th September 2004 16:00 GMT
An Australian software developer has been left fuming after the latest virus definition update from McAfee caused his package to be wrongly identified as a Trojan horse programme.
The false positive meant that ISPWizard, an internet setup program wizard, was labelled as the BackDoor-AKZ Trojan by users running the latest update of McAfee's AV software. As a result, ISPWizard is being unceremoniously ripped from users' systems. This means that many people are unable to connect to their ISPs because the software that they need has been automatically deleted by McAfee.
Cash`n`Carrion
McAfee's cock-up dates from 1 September when it released an antivirus DAT (signature file) update. It has yet to rectify its mistake.
ISPWizard Developer Mark Griffiths slammed McAfee's tardy response: "This is causing major problems for my business, the businesses of my customers [ISPs] and also their customers as well. Despite this problem being quickly reported to McAfee and it being stressed to them that this is a major problem which is causing damage to many businesses, they have been very slow to react," he said.
"Although they have now responded and admitted that this is a problem with their software, they have still not released a new update to their DAT files to fix the problem and say that it may take until Thursday [9 September] before it is actually released. In the meantime, the software continues to misidentify my software as being infected by a Trojan. End users that are being affected are either contacting the ISP for assistance and blaming them for distributing a Trojan - greatly increasing the support burden and costs for the ISP, or they are simply switching to another ISP," he added.
Other AV vendors (for example, Sophos) detect the BackDoor-AKZ Trojan without interfering with the operation of ISPWizard. "I'm not aware of any other anti-virus program that is misidentifying my software at the moment," said Griffiths.
So why is McAfee AV misdiagnosing a benign program as malignant? We don't know. Our repeated calls and emails to McAfee over the last two days failed to generate a response from the company
In copies of email correspondence between Griffiths and Avert Labs, McAfee's AV research division, a suggestion was made that the misdiagnosis could have arisen because components of ISPWizard were created with the same package as components of the backdoor Trojan program. But this remains only a theory. McAfee has offered Griffiths a temporary DAT file that end users would need to manually install on their systems as a workaround. Griffiths is unimpressed with the offer: he is frustrated that McAfee has not released an emergency automatic update. ®
Posted by Ryan at 07:10 PM | Comments (0)
One can get 15 years jail for hacking
Date: September 08, 2004
Source: Computer Crime Research Center
By: Dmitri Kramarenko
Microsoft was forced to spend 1bn of US dollars on protection of their Windows operation systems from hackers, viruses and "phishers". The global software giant was frightened by unprecedented attacks of hackers on the UK-based online gambling companies, weren't they? Cyber blackmailers extorted companies' top-management demanding sums up to {NEWSTEXT},5mn. The Englishmen sell the notion that they incurred 49mn of GBP losses. Hacker action was carried out from Russia: Moscow, St.Petersburg, Balakovo and Saratov.
Russian Department "K" (a department on fighting high tech crimes) revealed 4,295 crimes in the sphere of high technologies for the first 6 months of 2004, Chief of the Department "K" press center, colonel of police Eugene Yakimovich said. According to his information, the analysis shows that 16% of malefactors who acted in the sphere of "computers" were young men aged between 18 and 25 years, 70% of them had high or incomplete high education. The main share of crimes relates to illegal access to information and using of malicious software. It was noted that officers of the department were quite successful in their struggle against crimes of such kind.
Eugene Yakimovich believes that the reason of growth in cybercrime lies in free public access to the Internet. "Do we or do we not want anything, the number of crimes in this sphere is growing: the country is becoming more high tech, and, naturally, the number of scammers is adding in", Eugene Yakimovich said. It appears that 6,500 persons presently using the Internet in Russia are considered by police as potential criminals. We must admit, in fact, that the Internet users statistics do not cover those who buy prepaid Internet scratch cards.
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Gameboy Advance: Got root?
Okay, so we’re not exactly sure what you’re going to do with Unix© running on a Gameboy Advance (besides drive your significant other into someone else’s arms) but if you’re really that into root on your GBA, don’t let us get in your way. Go forth and grep .roms, young one!
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How your eyes read news
Some clever researchers have decided to follow readers' eyes as they are reading news sites in order to see where readers focus their attention
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Today's News
In today's edition of "DUH," study finds exercise might actually help reduce obesity
Stunning satellite photo of Hurricane Frances before it ever thought of owning Florida
Army plans to push goats off cliff in the name of medicine
Maintenance worker uses blowtorch against attacking wasps, sets house on fire
Microsoft patents tabbing through webpages. Next up is backspace
If you're going to crash a party to sell marijuana, make sure all the guests aren't off-duty police
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September 07, 2004
Google's new image organizer software
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Today's Links
Game - Case Closed
A game similiar to Yatzee
Site - Red Bull Aerobatics
A cool site with information on a guy who flies a Red Bull plane
Game - TurboSpirit
Really cool motorcycle racing game
Link - e-how
A site with 15,000 how-to solutions
Link - Build a go cart
Planning on building a go-cart in the near future? If you said yes, then check it out
Game - Olympic Field
If you miss the olympics then play this awesome game
Movie - Zits
I don't know whether this is funny or just plain gross
Link - Noise Toy
A cool noise sequencer, have fun
Posted by Jon at 09:43 PM | Comments (0)
You've got two bad options. Pick the worst
Here's the first choice:
• Pick the Worst:
You find out your best friend is gay.
You find out your father is gay.
Posted by Ryan at 09:35 PM | Comments (0)
Use the turtles to get across the river
Fun game
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ROI Web Site Traffic 1.4.63
Online service for calcuating return on investments put into advertising.
Effective system and affordable pricing. Automatic code generation. Convenient and easy-to-use Web interface of admin area with step-by-step wizard for advertisement campaigns.
Complete financial reports of different types about return of your investments.
Information about your advertisement campaigns will be password protected from unauthorized access or modifications.
Using PWT Online Service you can set up as many advertising campaigns as you want, using all statistics which will also be provided to you.
Posted by Jon at 09:24 PM | Comments (0)
Network Monitor 1.1
BySoft Network Monitor displays all kind of information in real time (1-second update) about all network adapters (network cards, RAS connections, virtual cards, server monitoring for web hosting) in your system.
Download NetworkMonitor.exe and run it (no installation required)
Data displayed for each network adapter:
- Current download speed
- Current upload speed
- Total data downloaded
- Total data uploaded
- IP address
- Adapter speed
- MTU size
- Adapter type
- MAC address
- Status
- Admin status
- In unicast packets
- Out unicast packets
- In non unicast packets
- Out non unicast packets
- In discarded packets
- Out discarded packets
- In error packets
- Out error packets
- In unknown protocol packets
- Output queue length
Posted by Jon at 09:24 PM | Comments (0)
Network Monitor 1.1
BySoft Network Monitor displays all kind of information in real time (1-second update) about all network adapters (network cards, RAS connections, virtual cards, server monitoring for web hosting) in your system.
Download NetworkMonitor.exe and run it (no installation required)
Data displayed for each network adapter:
- Current download speed
- Current upload speed
- Total data downloaded
- Total data uploaded
- IP address
- Adapter speed
- MTU size
- Adapter type
- MAC address
- Status
- Admin status
- In unicast packets
- Out unicast packets
- In non unicast packets
- Out non unicast packets
- In discarded packets
- Out discarded packets
- In error packets
- Out error packets
- In unknown protocol packets
- Output queue length
Posted by Jon at 09:22 PM | Comments (0)
WinGuard Pro
WinGuard Pro Free lets you lock down any program, window or files on your computer with a password.
It also allows you to lock down the Desktop, My Computer Icon, Internet Access, Block people from installing software, the Shutdown menu, Boot Keys and even block access to the entire computer.
It is fully configurable with password time delays, screen blanking and so on. It has over 50 common build in programs like Control Panel, Windows Explorer, Add or Remove Programs, Internet Explorer, Run, the list is endless, and you can even add your own programs, windows and files to the list.
Best of all, WinGuard Pro Free is really easy to use, because you have so much already built in for you, you need not do much in your first stages. As your security needs grow, you can then start adding more items to its list to make your PC fool proof.
Also includes Premium version, which has more features and is a free 30 day trial.
Features:
Built-in programs: There are over 25 or the most common programs built-in for locking on the free version. Whilst premium users get over 50 built-in programs.
Lock your own programs (Premium only): You can also add any of your own programs for locking. Though many are built-in.
Fully configurable: The software comes with it's own Configuration tool, which is very user friendly, and if you get stuck there is a Help menu to hand.
Password timer: You can set in seconds how long you want to give users to enter the password to access any locked programs. This can help deter hackers.
Screen blank: You can have the screen blank in emergencies, this prevents any use of the computer, and blacks out the screen only leaving a password box to access the entire system.
Set your own password warning to users: Using your own pictures you can set them to display on the password box to the users trying to access a locked program, you can use popular picture formats such as Bitmap, JPEG, GIF and so on.
Hide access to the configuration tool: You can stop users from accessing the configuration tool by setting your own password on it. You can also stop them trying to guess the password by disabling the icon on the system tray.
Extra Locking: Did will tell you about Extra Locking? This lets you lock even more features down on your PC. Such as the Desktop, My Computer, Internet Access, Internet Downloading, Software Installations and much more.
Stop people installing software (Premium only): This is a must have for those of you who are sick of users installing software on your computers without your consent. With this feature just a simple click is all that's needed and the software will disable Setup programs, Installers, Self Extracting Exe's, Zip files, the lot.
Help prevent viruses: Using the above feature to stop software installs, this will help prevent such viruses that may be contained in program the user is trying to install.
Lock Files & Folders too: Keep users out of files or entire folders using the optional addon.
Online help: Get help fast using the online help feature.
It's fast, reliable and efficient: It's fast because the actually program takes less that half a mega byte of RAM. It's reliable because the code has been fined tuned over the past three years of it's life. It's efficient because it does not use any other DLL's, OCX's and so on. All it uses is one EXE file 'wgpro.exe', and the use of the API which is built into Windows already.
It's easy to use: It will not bite! It is very easy to use, and looks nice too.
24 hour technical support: You can also email us for help, and our friendly staff will get back to you promptly.
It's free: WinGuard Pro 2004 is as it states FREE! There is no time limits, or restrictions in the free version what so ever.
Posted by Jon at 09:19 PM | Comments (0)
l337 sp34k translator
Translate anything into leet-speak
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Today's News
Two motorcyclists, with either really good aim or really bad judgement, crash head-on
British IT firm names its productline "Puta." Won't be selling in Spain or Latin America
Roller-coaster accident hurts 24; confirms irrational fears of millions
Hurricane winds for sale on eBay. Frances surrenders
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Koepi's Xvid Codec
Koepi's XviD Codec is a video codec just like DivX. Many new movies and videos are being encoded with this codec.
Latest Changes:
Various small bug fixes
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The 64-Bit Question
By Lane Cooper, TechWeb.com
Sixty-four-bit computing systems are poised to remake the enterprise network, offering dramatic increases in performance and scalability by virtue of faster computing speeds and increased memory. And it's none too soon, as the deployment of web-based, processor-intensive enterprise applications drives the need for improved performance across all parts of enterprise LAN and WAN boundaries.
Though now in the minority of the installed base of systems, 64-bit servers with x86-64 capability are showing strong market growth, according to an IDC study. Some units, including AMD's Opteron processor, showed an 81 percent growth over the first quarter of 2004. John Humphreys, research manager of IDC's Global Enterprise Server Solutions unit, believes that the recent introduction of Intel's x86-64-based chips will result in robust 64-bit server sales for next year.
Unisys recently reported that 52 percent of its business-intelligence customers who purchased high-end Windows servers last year chose Intel Itanium-2-based Unisys ES7000 servers. "Big data volumes, access to more data sources, and the need for real-time information are creating growing demand for the processing power of 64-bit based servers," said Michael Thomas, vice president of global solutions partners at the firm.
With 64-bit servers and platforms making their way onto the market, application and solution developers are adding 64-bit capability to their offerings. For example, business-intelligence and real-time-reporting vendor Information Builders announced full support for 64-bit processing in its WebFOCUS product. The firm now offers support for all major 64-bit database-management systems, including Oracle, DB2, Informix, Sybase, Ingres, and Red Brick.
Sixty-four-bit systems will also soon be making their way onto desktop and notebook computers. AMD announced a couple of weeks ago that it achieved a "smooth transition" to a 90-nanometer chip-manufacturing process for low-power Athlon 64-bit chips for thin and lightweight notebook computers. Computer manufacturers are expected to release notebooks with the new 64-bit chips in the next few months.
At the same time, the Sunnyvale, Calif., firm announced a new 64-bit chip for high-powered "desktop-replacement" notebooks. The 32-bit/64-bit AMD64 processor 3700+ offers 32-bit performance and compatibility with emerging 64-bit software.
All of this activity is bound to increase the pressure on enterprise and service-provider networks to deliver high-quality, high-speed services and prevent network elements from acting as bottlenecks in multimedia data flows.
"Administrators are going to have to deal with increased content flowing over fixed [wide-area] capacity networks, while LANs and data centers will have to make sure that their edge devices can handle the increased throughput that 64-bit processors are going to feed into the network," says Mark Weiner, vice president of worldwide marketing at NetScaler Inc.
Wise network administrators will plan accordingly, and simultaneously update their network infrastructure, to ensure that the network doesn't become the bottleneck for the 64-bit server future.
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Alienware overclocks the Area-51 GLX PC to 4GHz
I'm not sure how excited the folks at Intel will be about this, but Alienware just overclocked a PC to 4GHz by taking a 3.6GHz processor and pumping it up to 4GHz. It also requires a special liquid cooling system to keep the thing from completely liquifying.
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Today's Iron Photoshop ingredient: The Moon
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Today's News
Eight-thousand-foot burrito made at Nevada State Fair, followed by 8000-foot-line for bathroom
Store clerk accepts $200 bill with President Bush's picture on it
Man's ashes fall prematurely from plane and end up in woman's attic
The U.S. Air Force is sorry that it accidentally tear-gassed an entire neighborhood in Tucson
Having found the cure for cancer, scientists now focus on finding out if your cow is a lesbian
Seti@Home picks up radio signal from space. Apparently, their stations suck too
Americans have chosen their favorite restaurants. Olive Garden does well, McDonald's not so much
Miami Hurricanes game may be postponed by actual hurricane
Robbers escape by drilling hole through back wall while cops have front of bank surrounded
Never trust a skydiving instructor named Pancake
Woman receives parking ticket while stuck in traffic jam
New Wal-Mart pyramid opens in Mexico December-'04
Flashlight battery explosion at LAX - Entire airport shutdown
Janet Jackson's boob costs CBS $550,000. Not bad, considering it probably only cost Janet five grand
Nothing says "gun safety" like shooting yourself in the leg during a gun safety demonstration
Clinton a-ok after major heart surgery. "He's sedated, but arousable"
Posted by Ryan at 01:20 AM | Comments (0)
Today's Links
Flash- Hey who took my pie?
Funny flash movie
Game - Eat the bugs
A frogger type game, kind of
Link - Conceptart
A huge collection of art from around the world
Link - MSN block checker
See if you are being blocked by a msn buddy
Link - Brandon's guide to picking up women
Having trouble getting those girls to like you, read this and you will be attracting girls like a magnet
Movie - Miss Universe
Watch this funny clip of Ms. Universe
Flash - Re-animator
If you have some extra time, try this out.
Link - Commercials I hate
A site with these horrible commercials
Game - Tetris like game
A game that resembles tetris, but adds a new feel to it
Game - Quibble word game
A fun word game that will kill time
Game - Stunt Jump
Really cool game, drive the bike around the land
Posted by Jon at 01:15 AM | Comments (0)