Well, the host OS can act as a NAT (ask Wikipedia what that is) or it can bridge the network connection, and the guest OS gets a valid (globally) accessible IP address. A NAT is a bit safer because it's impossible for a system from the outside to initiate a connection with the guest OS, but if you bridge and the guest OS has an accessible IP address, any system can connect to it. Of course in reality they're connecting to the host OS, but the host OS isn't necessarily set-up to watch the data, instead just passes it right along to the guest. Worms, anything.
Of course you can set up a firewall on the host OS, but if you're already doing that, you don't need VMWare, you can also just get a real computer, put Win98 to it and put it online but through the firewall.
How the fuck is it possible, in your mind, that non-citizens are allowed to vote? I hear people complaining that they don't want to have compulsory ID-checks at polling station, but if no one checks for ID, how do they know the person is a citizen that has a right to vote? Is it really possible for non-citizens (whether legal or illegal in the country) to just go to a polling station and vote for somebody? If that's really so, then I have an idea... start a tourism industry where people from all over the world travel with legal papers into the US a few days before the election, and let them vote. Because I'm sure a lot of people all over the world wish they could do something about the fucked up regime running the USA at the moment. (Too bad nobody has the firepower to do something "pre-emptive").
F'ing hell, of course we (you, the US, whoever (I'm fucking glad I don't live there so that no one's gonna draft me when that time comes)) can't leave, but you (that would be you, Mr. Bush) can't stay the course either... because staying the course means more and more Iraqis and more and more US soldiers getting murdered senselessly. The only viable option is to get more troops in there, but boohoo, not before the elections, and the fucking politicians would rather save their own cushy jobs than to save the lives of Iraqis and the soldiers!!! And the US is running out of soldiers, but Bush would rather save his face than admit to the international community that he fucked it up big time and he needs help, and because of that 650,000 Iraqis plus what is it now 2800 US soldiers are dead...
There was a small story in the HHG series about aliens who encoded the whole of human knowledge into a number, took a meter ruler, and made a precise mark between 0 and 1. But then they chipped the ruler while taking it home.
Or was it some other book?
Nice idea, but I guess you can only get to a certain precision before reaching the Nanometer limit..
There's a funny IRC quote about this topic at German-bash.org . It's in German, but I'll translate. As a background, if you have children here you get some welfare-money (Kindergeld) from the Govt.
<AndrewPoison> The GEZ attacks once again with their "logic". I have to pay money because I own an internet-ready gadget, even if I don't have an internet connection. <AndrewPoison> I guess I'll apply for Kindergeld. I don't have any kids yet, but I have the gadget for it.
Their logic says the networked computer can access port X of the radio streaming server, so anybody owning a computer must pay the fees. Goddamn, why don't you make your streaming server subscription-only? Write down a userid and password on the TV/radio-licence and make the fools who've paid money use them to login!
I wonder if someone's invented an automatic toilet seat raiser/lowerer. Maybe combine it with an RFID sensor that can identify if it's a woman or a man who just walked in to the bathroom. Of course then it wouldn't work if the man has to do some sitting-down-business... hmm how about a sensor that notices approaching butts... RFID butt implants!
All kidding aside, a button to activate the gadget would be enough.
Technically speaking, Yahoo is giving away "browser-based authentication" for its e-mail service for developers to build new applications. Currently only Yahoo Mail (http://mail.yahoo.com) and certain broadband partners like AT&T (NYSE:T - news) and BT (BT.L) are granted such access to the code.
This will allow people to make custom versions of the basic interface, or look, of e-mail. Other uses may include tapping the information inside a user's e-mail program to create new ways of displaying the information to individual users.
How the hell will browser-based authentication enable users to do all that? Or are they talking about providing an API for outside users? The old (non-Ajax, non-beta) Yahoo Mail! had a clever login system. There's Javascript that md5-encodes the password and a session salt string, and sends the username and encoded password to the server. The plain password itself is never sent through the network. I doubt that the crown jewels they're talking about, because even I have manage to implement the function on some web-applications I've developed..
Put only program shortcuts on the Start menu. Never put shortcuts to the following on the Start menu:
Program uninstallers. Users access uninstallers through the Software Explorer control panel.
Help files. Users access Help topics directly from your program.
Control panels. Users access control panels from the Control Panel home page.
Program options. Users access program options from the Options command, usually found on the Tools menu.
Readme files. Reconsider the need for a Readme file because most users rarely look at them. If you do need a Readme file, let users access it from your setup program.
Web sites. Users access Web sites through appropriate links in your program. Exceptions are Microsoft Update and Windows Catalog.
How I hate software that install all of that in their Start Menu entries. Or programs that insist they go into "C:\Program Files\My Stupid Software Company Inc\My Stupid Program".
Talking about reform, I find the most illogical thing of user interfaces is the menubar.. how do you exit? Go to "File". Where are the options? Under "Tools".. why can't somebody offer a totally new way of making the menu. Start with "Program", where you have "Options" and "About" (maybe "Help" too), then "Document" or "File", and then "Edit", etc.. We're so used to File -> Exit that we stop thinking how illogical such a construct is... exit the file?
Opera has started implementing some CSS2 that makes it easy to make full-screen presentations using only the browser, Looky here. When the browser goes to full screen mode, it starts using the @media projection rules, so you can write a plain HTML file, and make it look nice for presentation by using CSS rules. Which is.. neat.
I second this idea. Although I know it as Kerio Firewall (and it's nowhere to be found at kerio.kom, only at Sunbelt Software, what gives?), here's the download page.
I once helped a girl who suffered the same problem. A pop-up comes up every so often. I didn't see anything wrong at first, but then I noticed wscript.exe was running. It was running a VBS-script in a loop, and every few random minutes it would launch an Internet Explorer window with an ad, which would just as quickly disappear. I search the disks for all VBS files, found the suspect file, and searched the registry for any mention of that filename.
Another way malware might hide is when they install themselves as a service.
He's not that important of a guy, he was pretty famous, an icon, but I think most of the shock comes from the fact that he's fought so many deadly animals and survived. He's gambled with his life so many times, but damn, this time he lost.
He should've just slowly sabotaged PHP... that would've been more fun.
I like his stance though, he has the guts to quit something that was fun for him (must've been, if he's been doing it for 6 years) to protest terrorism (by Israel).
I like KDE's clock with its built-in multiple world clocks display, practical if you have friends in different timezones. Use the scrollwheel over the clock to change the timezone, or just mouseover it to see the tooltip showing what time it is in all the zones you have. You can even put 2 or more clocks beside each other.:)
Try Proxomitron. It acts as a proxy server, and you can use RegExp commands to catch suspect ads embedded in pages and block them. The great thing about it is, install it once and use it in all browsers.
If you go x generations back, there are 2^x "ancestors" (1 generation before you: 2^1 = 2 parents, etc). If we go back 5000 years then you have, hmm how many generations? Let's say 200 generations. 2^200 = 1.6 x 10^60, but there weren't that many humans back then. So it seems their research have concluded that a lot of people have a common ancestor. Is it in-breeding? Well, sort of. Going the other way, if you have 2 kids, and they have 2, etc, etc, you will have 2^x grand(-grand)*-kids that after e.g. 20 generations, a million people will be there, and it's hard to believe that two people will know that they are related to each other through you.
I'm guessing you mean spellcheck in for input areas/textboxes? At first I thought you meant on any (static) page. It's certainly doable, like Tom's Hardware Intellitxt: a Javascript function that gets loaded at the end of the page load, reads through the page, and converts keywords to green links that show (annoying, IMHO) advertisement when the user mouse-overs the link. So it's certainly doable using GreaseMonkey, or as an "add-on" for site owners.
Use a dictionary of most used words (88600 of them?), and use XmlHttpRequest to ask the server if it sees an unknown word.
Some sites already do something liketo this! Thanks to the magic of DHTML, the website operator can include a Javascript at the end of the article, that goes through the article and turn words to links, which, when you mouse-over them, show tooltips with ads in them! Luckily for me, they're easily disabled with Proxomitron.
If it's a Yahoo Groups (a mailing list) email, you can tell an email never made it to you when you see a reply from someone else, quoting the email you never got. Or from the archives, which are available from the Yahoo Groups website. That's the f how.
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Use to calculate a hash of the message client-side and let the server-side script hash the message and compare the MD5-sums. If they match, it means the comment was submitted through a (Javascript-enabled) browser (or a script that was made to calculate the MD5 sum as well). To make things more fun, pre-fill a hidden field with a salt that needs to be returned to the server..
Works fine for my guestbook-app.
Well, the host OS can act as a NAT (ask Wikipedia what that is) or it can bridge the network connection, and the guest OS gets a valid (globally) accessible IP address. A NAT is a bit safer because it's impossible for a system from the outside to initiate a connection with the guest OS, but if you bridge and the guest OS has an accessible IP address, any system can connect to it. Of course in reality they're connecting to the host OS, but the host OS isn't necessarily set-up to watch the data, instead just passes it right along to the guest. Worms, anything.
Of course you can set up a firewall on the host OS, but if you're already doing that, you don't need VMWare, you can also just get a real computer, put Win98 to it and put it online but through the firewall.
How the fuck is it possible, in your mind, that non-citizens are allowed to vote? I hear people complaining that they don't want to have compulsory ID-checks at polling station, but if no one checks for ID, how do they know the person is a citizen that has a right to vote? Is it really possible for non-citizens (whether legal or illegal in the country) to just go to a polling station and vote for somebody? If that's really so, then I have an idea... start a tourism industry where people from all over the world travel with legal papers into the US a few days before the election, and let them vote. Because I'm sure a lot of people all over the world wish they could do something about the fucked up regime running the USA at the moment. (Too bad nobody has the firepower to do something "pre-emptive").
F'ing hell, of course we (you, the US, whoever (I'm fucking glad I don't live there so that no one's gonna draft me when that time comes)) can't leave, but you (that would be you, Mr. Bush) can't stay the course either... because staying the course means more and more Iraqis and more and more US soldiers getting murdered senselessly. The only viable option is to get more troops in there, but boohoo, not before the elections, and the fucking politicians would rather save their own cushy jobs than to save the lives of Iraqis and the soldiers!!! And the US is running out of soldiers, but Bush would rather save his face than admit to the international community that he fucked it up big time and he needs help, and because of that 650,000 Iraqis plus what is it now 2800 US soldiers are dead...
There was a small story in the HHG series about aliens who encoded the whole of human knowledge into a number, took a meter ruler, and made a precise mark between 0 and 1. But then they chipped the ruler while taking it home.
Or was it some other book?
Nice idea, but I guess you can only get to a certain precision before reaching the Nanometer limit..
Their logic says the networked computer can access port X of the radio streaming server, so anybody owning a computer must pay the fees. Goddamn, why don't you make your streaming server subscription-only? Write down a userid and password on the TV/radio-licence and make the fools who've paid money use them to login!
I wonder if someone's invented an automatic toilet seat raiser/lowerer. Maybe combine it with an RFID sensor that can identify if it's a woman or a man who just walked in to the bathroom. Of course then it wouldn't work if the man has to do some sitting-down-business... hmm how about a sensor that notices approaching butts... RFID butt implants!
All kidding aside, a button to activate the gadget would be enough.
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Technically speaking, Yahoo is giving away "browser-based authentication" for its e-mail service for developers to build new applications. Currently only Yahoo Mail (http://mail.yahoo.com) and certain broadband partners like AT&T (NYSE:T - news) and BT (BT.L) are granted such access to the code.
This will allow people to make custom versions of the basic interface, or look, of e-mail. Other uses may include tapping the information inside a user's e-mail program to create new ways of displaying the information to individual users.
How the hell will browser-based authentication enable users to do all that? Or are they talking about providing an API for outside users?
The old (non-Ajax, non-beta) Yahoo Mail! had a clever login system. There's Javascript that md5-encodes the password and a session salt string, and sends the username and encoded password to the server. The plain password itself is never sent through the network. I doubt that the crown jewels they're talking about, because even I have manage to implement the function on some web-applications I've developed..
How I hate software that install all of that in their Start Menu entries. Or programs that insist they go into "C:\Program Files\My Stupid Software Company Inc\My Stupid Program".
Talking about reform, I find the most illogical thing of user interfaces is the menubar.. how do you exit? Go to "File". Where are the options? Under "Tools".. why can't somebody offer a totally new way of making the menu. Start with "Program", where you have "Options" and "About" (maybe "Help" too), then "Document" or "File", and then "Edit", etc.. We're so used to File -> Exit that we stop thinking how illogical such a construct is... exit the file?
The article did say he felt he had a lot more free time in college compared to highschool, where he hung out with friends and played games...
Opera has started implementing some CSS2 that makes it easy to make full-screen presentations using only the browser, Looky here. When the browser goes to full screen mode, it starts using the @media projection rules, so you can write a plain HTML file, and make it look nice for presentation by using CSS rules. Which is.. neat.
I second this idea. Although I know it as Kerio Firewall (and it's nowhere to be found at kerio.kom, only at Sunbelt Software, what gives?), here's the download page.
I once helped a girl who suffered the same problem. A pop-up comes up every so often. I didn't see anything wrong at first, but then I noticed wscript.exe was running. It was running a VBS-script in a loop, and every few random minutes it would launch an Internet Explorer window with an ad, which would just as quickly disappear. I search the disks for all VBS files, found the suspect file, and searched the registry for any mention of that filename.
Another way malware might hide is when they install themselves as a service.
He's not that important of a guy, he was pretty famous, an icon, but I think most of the shock comes from the fact that he's fought so many deadly animals and survived. He's gambled with his life so many times, but damn, this time he lost.
Poor guy.
He should've just slowly sabotaged PHP... that would've been more fun.
I like his stance though, he has the guts to quit something that was fun for him (must've been, if he's been doing it for 6 years) to protest terrorism (by Israel).
I like KDE's clock with its built-in multiple world clocks display, practical if you have friends in different timezones. Use the scrollwheel over the clock to change the timezone, or just mouseover it to see the tooltip showing what time it is in all the zones you have. You can even put 2 or more clocks beside each other. :)
Try Proxomitron. It acts as a proxy server, and you can use RegExp commands to catch suspect ads embedded in pages and block them. The great thing about it is, install it once and use it in all browsers.
If you go x generations back, there are 2^x "ancestors" (1 generation before you: 2^1 = 2 parents, etc). If we go back 5000 years then you have, hmm how many generations? Let's say 200 generations. 2^200 = 1.6 x 10^60, but there weren't that many humans back then. So it seems their research have concluded that a lot of people have a common ancestor. Is it in-breeding? Well, sort of. Going the other way, if you have 2 kids, and they have 2, etc, etc, you will have 2^x grand(-grand)*-kids that after e.g. 20 generations, a million people will be there, and it's hard to believe that two people will know that they are related to each other through you.
Fun to think about..
Ah, there's lots of other crap in Flickr. Like people doing dumb jock poses. I wonder what photographic value this picture has.
WOW!!!!11eleven!!! You must be so 3117!!!!11!!!
What are you, 13 years old?
Damnit, it's spelled "grammar"! You sound intelligent enough, so don't ruin it by this small misspelling.
I'm guessing you mean spellcheck in for input areas/textboxes? At first I thought you meant on any (static) page. It's certainly doable, like Tom's Hardware Intellitxt: a Javascript function that gets loaded at the end of the page load, reads through the page, and converts keywords to green links that show (annoying, IMHO) advertisement when the user mouse-overs the link. So it's certainly doable using GreaseMonkey, or as an "add-on" for site owners.
Use a dictionary of most used words (88600 of them?), and use XmlHttpRequest to ask the server if it sees an unknown word.
Some sites already do something liketo this! Thanks to the magic of DHTML, the website operator can include a Javascript at the end of the article, that goes through the article and turn words to links, which, when you mouse-over them, show tooltips with ads in them! Luckily for me, they're easily disabled with Proxomitron.
Brokeback Academy? Starfleet Mountain?
If it's a Yahoo Groups (a mailing list) email, you can tell an email never made it to you when you see a reply from someone else, quoting the email you never got. Or from the archives, which are available from the Yahoo Groups website. That's the f how.