« September 19, 2004 - September 25, 2004 | Main | October 03, 2004 - October 09, 2004 »
October 02, 2004
Photoshop some of the lesser-known security features of the new $50 bill
Posted by Ryan at 10:16 PM | Comments (0)
Presidential debate audio torrent
In case anyone missed it and has the slightest bit of interest in hearing possibly one of the most boring things ever.......
Click here to download the full audio debate with bit torrent
Posted by Ryan at 08:57 AM | Comments (0)
Neiman Marcus' 2004 Christmas Catalog
Neiman Marcus has just released their 2004 Christmas catalog. Some of the notable items of it are the 230'-log Zeppelin (as pictured to the right), which only costs $10 million. There's also a $1.5 million bowling alley.
Posted by Ryan at 08:52 AM | Comments (0)
October 01, 2004
Today's News
Japan discovers heaviest element known to man. To call it "Japonium"
Mount St. Helens erupting. (Link updated, with pic)
Live CBS video feed from Mount St Helens. Reporters in background don't know sound is on
Apocalypse hopefuls get excited as another volcano blows its top in Mexico. No word on giant flies
Posted by Ryan at 06:54 PM | Comments (0)
Least active SourceForge Projects...
1. GNU Bonzai Buddy (GBB) - Bringing Bonzai Buddy to Linux
2. GoatSS - goatse.cx screensaver module
3. WideOpen - Opens up all your ports for examination by the outside world
4. Dancing Steve - Steve Ballmer dancing desktop
5. YAMsC - Yet Another Minesweeper Clone
6. AdGaim - Adds multiple ad windows to GAIM
7. WULinux - Automatically downloads Windows updates to Linux to take up hard drive space
Posted by Ryan at 12:07 AM | Comments (0)
Cool Game
Posted by Ryan at 12:02 AM | Comments (0)
September 30, 2004
Make a name for yourself by causing an 800 plane pile up. Niiccceeee....
Posted by Ryan at 11:54 PM | Comments (0)
Some geek pick-up lines...
1. Your name is Leslie? Look, I can spell that on my calculator!
2. You must be Windows 95 because you gots me so unstable.
3. My 'up-time' is better than BSD
4. Is that an iPod mini in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
5. If you won't let me buy you a drink, at least let me fix your laptop
Posted by Ryan at 11:43 PM | Comments (0)
Boeing 727 Limo
Keeping with things that fly, Vaca Meter Limousines has converted an old Boeing 727-100 and converted it into a 50-seat luxury limousine. For about $300 an hour, Limousines de Guadalajar Vaca Meters will fly, uh transport you and your closest 49 friends around Mexico. It’s powered by a six-cylinder, turbocharged diesel engine in the back and has air brakes and suspension. The bird is about 54’ long and 12’ wide. Truck-style wheels and suspension replace the landing gear and on the inside, passengers are treated to neon strobes, a dance floor, a bar and a romantic space in the back to _________. (fill in the blank).
It’s amazing what three months and sixty people can accomplish… well, now the world finally has one… a “Wingless 727 Limo”
Posted by Ryan at 08:48 PM | Comments (0)
Squirrel Fishing
Posted by Ryan at 08:44 PM | Comments (0)
Kerry's "Top 10 Bush Tax Proposals" are:
10. No estate tax for families with at least two U.S. presidents.
9. W-2 Form is now Dubya-2 Form.
8. Under the simplified tax code, your refund check goes directly to Halliburton.
7. The reduced earned income tax credit is so unfair, it just makes me want to tear out my lustrous, finely groomed hair.
6. Attorney General (John) Ashcroft gets to write off the entire U.S. Constitution.
5. Texas Rangers can take a business loss for trading Sammy Sosa.
4. Eliminate all income taxes; just ask Teresa (Heinz Kerry) to cover the whole damn thing.
3. Cheney can claim Bush as a dependent.
2. Hundred-dollar penalty if you pronounce it "nuclear" instead of "nucular."
1. George W. Bush gets a deduction for mortgaging our entire future.
Posted by Ryan at 08:42 PM | Comments (0)
4 wheel fury
Cool game... like Tony Hawk in flash
Posted by Ryan at 08:33 PM | Comments (0)
Guy that can do weird things with his eyes...
Posted by Ryan at 08:29 PM | Comments (0)
Today's News
School teacher steals credit card. Does what most of us would do: Goes to Chuck E. Cheese
BYU bans ad advertising "I can't... I'm Mormon" shirts. With pics
Restaurant asks customers to sign waiver for food poisoning before eating
Ranchers paint phone numbers on farm animals after fourth hurricane (with pics)
If you're going on a flight, don't bring an entire meth lab with you in your carry-on baggage
Almost half the British population has cheated on a partner
Scientists raise alert level on Mount St. Helens
Man pays teens to break into his house so he can beat them up and impress his wife (with video)
Top 11 reasons you just saw boobs on my computer screen
Man dies after being repeatedly bitten by his pet hamster. Richard Gere unavailable for comment
Man who wanted to avoid traffic gridlock gets ticketed for landing helicopter in his backyard
Grade school apologizes to parents for serving margaritas to the kids at lunch
JPG viruses now spreading through porn circles
Man armed with two sticks abandons food-mart robbery when everyone in store starts laughing at him
Posted by Ryan at 05:05 PM | Comments (0)
Real or hoax?
Here are some pictures that have circulated around on the internet. Can you tell if they are real or just a hoax?
Posted by Ryan at 04:19 PM | Comments (0)
September 29, 2004
Today's Links
Movie - Car Trick
Watch a SUV on two wheels
Game- Bash Brannigan Again
These head come out of holes and you have to bash them with a steal arm
Link - Virtual Coin Flip
Heads or Tails, let this site decide
Link - Wireless Mini Video Recorder
Broadcast a short range Television Channel
Link - USB mini desktop aquarium
Ever wanted to have a aquarium powered by USB? Just don't turn off your computer for too long
Game - Pegz
Fun and interesting
Game - Dragon Booster
Really hard game, chose your dragon and try to play
Game - E scrabble
Play a game of scrabble through e-mail
Game - Popoint
How fast do you move your mouse? See how fast you can click the numbers 1 - 15
Link - Fat Fingers
Find the items on ebay that are spelled incorrectly
Link - Accuradio
Internet radio website
Lines - Worst pick up lines
Never, ever try these on a girl
Link - Mess with britney
Hard to explain, just look at it
Posted by Jon at 04:21 PM | Comments (0)
September 28, 2004
Fun game
Posted by Ryan at 06:57 PM | Comments (0)
Where to find malware within Windows...
Here are some of the usual places a worm or virus might hide itself:
1. START-UP FOLDER. Windows opens every item in the Start Menu's Start Up folder. This folder is prominent in the Programs folder of the Start Menu.
Notice that I did not say that Windows "runs" every program that is represented in the Start Up folder. I said it "opens every item." There's an important difference.
Programs represented in the Start Up folder will run, of course. But you can have shortcuts in the Start Up folder that represent documents, not programs.
For example, if you put a Microsoft Word document in the Start Up folder, Word will run and automatically open that document at bootup; if you put a WAV file there, your audio software will play the music at bootup, and if you put a Web-page Favourites there, Internet Explorer (or your own choice of a browser) will run and open that Web page for you when the computer starts up. (The examples cited here could just as easily be shortcuts to a WAV file or a Word document, and so on.)
2. REGISTRY. Windows executes all instructions in the "Run" section of the Windows Registry. Items in the "Run" section (and in other parts of the Registry listed below) can be programs or files that programs open (documents), as explained in No. 1 above.
3. REGISTRY. Windows executes all instructions in the "RunServices" section of the Registry.
4. REGISTRY. Windows executes all instructions in the "RunOnce" part of the Registry.
5. REGISTRY. Windows executes instructions in the "RunServicesOnce" section of the Registry. (Windows uses the two "RunOnce" sections to run programs a single time only, usually on the next bootup after a program installation.)
7. REGISTRY. Windows executes instructions in the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\open\command "%1" %* section of the Registry. Any command imbedded here will open when any exe file is executed.
Other possibles:
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\open\command] ="\"%1\" %*"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\comfile\shell\open\command] ="\"%1\" %*"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\batfile\shell\open\command] ="\"%1\" %*"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htafile\Shell\Open\Command] ="\"%1\" %*"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\piffile\shell\open\command] ="\"%1\" %*"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\CLASSES\batfile\shell\open\command] ="\"%1\"
%*"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\CLASSES\comfile\shell\open\command] ="\"%1\"
%*"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\CLASSES\exefile\shell\open\command] ="\"%1\"
%*"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\CLASSES\htafile\Shell\Open\Command] ="\"%1\"
%*"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\CLASSES\piffile\shell\open\command] ="\"%1\"
%*"
If keys don't have the "\"%1\" %*" value as shown, and are changed to something like "\"somefilename.exe %1\" %*" than they are automatically invoking the specified file.
8. BATCH FILE. Windows executes all instructions in the Winstart batch file, located in the Windows folder. (This file is unknown to nearly all Windows users and most Windows experts, and might not exist on your system. You can easily create it, however. Note that some versions of Windows call the Windows folder the "WinNT" folder.) The full filename is WINSTART.BAT.
9. INITIALIZATION FILE. Windows executes instructions in the "RUN=" line in the WIN.INI file, located in the Windows (or WinNT) folder.
10. INITIALIZATION FILE. Windows executes instructions in the "LOAD=" line in the WIN.INI file, located in the Windows (or WinNT) folder.
It also runs things in shell= in System.ini or c:\windows\system.ini:
[boot]
shell=explorer.exe C:\windows\filename
The file name following explorer.exe will start whenever Windows starts.
As with Win.ini, file names might be preceeded by considerable space on such a line, to reduce the chance that they will be seen. Normally, the full path of the file will be included in this entry. If not, check the \Windows directory
11. RELAUNCHING. Windows reruns programs that were running when Windows shut down. Windows cannot do this with most non-Microsoft programs, but it will do it easily with Internet Explorer and with Windows Explorer, the file-and-folder manager built into Windows. If you have Internet Explorer open when you shut Windows down, Windows will reopen IE with the same page open when you boot up again. (If this does not happen on your Windows PC, someone has turned that feature off. Use Tweak UI, the free Microsoft Windows user interface manager, to reactivate "Remember Explorer settings," or whatever it is called in your version of Windows.)
12. TASK SCHEDULER. Windows executes autorun instructions in the Windows Task Scheduler (or any other scheduler that supplements or replaces the Task Scheduler). The Task Scheduler is an official part of all Windows versions except the first version of Windows 95, but is included in Windows 95 if the Microsoft Plus Pack was installed.
13. SECONDARY INSTRUCTIONS. Programs that Windows launches at startup are free to launch separate programs on their own. Technically, these are not programs that Windows launches, but they are often indistinguishable from ordinary auto-running programs if they are launched right after their "parent" programs run.
14. C:\EXPLORER.EXE METHOD.
C:\Explorer.exe
Windows loads explorer.exe (typically located in the Windows directory)during the boot process. However, if c:\explorer.exe exists, it will be executed instead of the Windows explorer.exe. If c:\explorer.exe is corrupt, the user will effectively be locked out of their system after they reboot.
If c:\explorer.exe is a trojan, it will be executed. Unlike all other autostart methods, there is no need for any file or registry changes - the file just simply has to be named c:\explorer.exe
15. ADDITIONAL METHODS.
Additional autostart methods. The first two are used by Trojan SubSeven 2.2.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Currentversion\explorer\Usershell folders
Icq Inet
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Mirabilis\ICQ\Agent\Apps\test]
"Path"="test.exe"
"Startup"="c:\\test"
"Parameters"=""
"Enable"="Yes"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Mirabilis\ICQ\Agent\Apps\]
This key specifies that all applications will be executed if ICQNET Detects an Internet Connection.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\CLASSES\ShellScrap] ="Scrap object"
"NeverShowExt"=""
This key changes your file's specified extension.
Posted by Ryan at 06:28 PM | Comments (0)
Today's News
School trips lessening as organisers fear being sued when accidents happen
Strong earthquake strikes California (duh)
Posted by Ryan at 04:49 PM | Comments (0)
floAt's Mobile Agent
floAt's Mobile Agent is a powerful phone editing tool that allows you to easily manage all personal data stored on your phone, via a number of different connections methods. It allows easy management of Phonebook (both SIM and Phone memory), SMS, Profiles, and Files stored on the phone. It can also allow you to pickup and dial calls directly from your PC.
Latest Changes:
* Added Task category support
* Added Event category support
* Added Remember calendar size and position
* Added Event reminder support
* Fixed Default task reminder time
* Fixed Event deleting issues
* Fixed bug 993769 Multiday event view on calendar is visible only at first day
* Fixed bug 997577 More than 1 new item
Posted by Jon at 04:46 PM | Comments (0)
September 27, 2004
Check out this heatsink...
Posted by Ryan at 08:37 PM | Comments (0)
I know! lets shoot our lcd with airsoft guns!
Posted by Ryan at 08:32 PM | Comments (0)
Beijing 2008 olympic stadium
Here are some concepts for the 2008 Beijing olympic stadium:
Posted by Ryan at 08:26 PM | Comments (0)
Theme: Epic proportions
Posted by Ryan at 08:16 PM | Comments (0)
Photoshop theme: Lesser-known blatant forgeries. Link goes to GIS for "forgery"
Posted by Ryan at 08:10 PM | Comments (0)
Today's News
The latest thing in tacky wedding planning: Krispy Kreme Wedding Cake. Emeril surrenders
108-year-old man takes up smoking
Posted by Ryan at 07:34 PM | Comments (0)
September 26, 2004
Kerry Still Catching Footballs Like A Girl
Posted by Ryan at 01:00 PM | Comments (0)