are the popups that move themselves so that the top of the window (e.g., Close button) is off the top of the screen where you can't get at it. Got hit with one of these the other day when I was forced to use filterless MSIE on another machine.
A few years ago, the guys at college laughed at me when I outfitted my brand new machine with this old brown 3.5" floppy drive. This thing has been through a flood, dropped, rained on, and just plain BIG and OLD. I ripped it out of a junked '286 or so; it's about the size of a CD-ROM. They just don't make 'em like this anymore. As a heavy 3.5" (ab)user, I watched with mock amazement as new floppy drive after new floppy drive in the dorms bit the dust after 4-6 months of light use. When it's running you can almost hear it from the next room, but this beast will read ANYTHING - people would come over asking me to copy a disk because their machine kept asking if they wanted to format it. Bad sector, what's that? This thing is going to outlive me.
The chip's method of operation is that it sees to it that the ink level monotonically decreases - it most likely contains a small EEPROM (non-volatile memory) cell where the ink level is recorded. When the ink level suddenly goes from "Empty" to "Full" the chip senses this and locks out the cartridge. What you'd really need is a way to a) rewrite the memory, without using their DMCAed technology, or b) Legally obtain new 'blank' chips.
/me rues the day when it will be necessary to mod-chip a printer... (screw that, I just replaced my dying Deskjet 820 with a dot-matrix line printer, and have been saving a $bundle$ on consumables.)
On several computers I have noticed sounds (it's a clicking or thumping sound) that occur when the mouse is moved, proportional to how fast it is moving. Does the sound only occur when moving a large window, or does mousing while the window (or similar screen content, e.g. white background etc.) is visible?
At my Uni, there was no (paper) registration to fill out. When a user was causing problems, the network folks found 'em as follows:
Get the IP/MAC of the user Pull the plug on half the network and see if the machine disappears Continue working down to smaller segments (dorm, floor, switch) until the user's wire is found and yank it Wait for user to come down to the computer center and complain they can't get online:)
This, of course, gets much more difficult when the offending user shuts the machine off...
The "blinking NES" syndrome is easy to cure. Unless some severe dirt/corrosion has appeared on the contacts, it is normally* caused by the internal 72-pin connector (between the cartridge and the NES's main board) losing its spring over time...the contacts no longer touch all pins on the cartridge. To fix this, you can open the NES and carefully pry on the contact pins to bring them back into firmer contact with the cartridge. Alternatively, you can get a replacement connector from various sources (aftermarket, NES freaks, EBay?).
* The "Blinking" is also controlled by the NES's security lockout chip; foreign/pirate/unlicensed cartridges or failure of the CIC (security) chip on either the cart or the NES will cause it. My NES experienced this after the CIC chip or some supporting chip mysteriously blew out. (Tip: Do not connect arbitrary circuitry to the NES expansion slot.) To remedy, find the CIC and either sever Pin 4 (or ideally, unsolder this pin from the board and tie it to ground) or find some other way to force the voltage levels on this chip. More details on disabling the CIC should be available via Google search:)
There is no 'inert gas' inside a HDD that can leak in or out. Essentially all consumer HDDs operate in normal air at normal atmospheric pressure. (The HDD even has a breather that allows in filtered air from the outside, so that the drive can equalize with the external pressure. Manufacturers vary, but the filtering typically comes from a paper filter and/or a "maze" (like the lines at Disney World) that impedes the flow of dust and particles into the drive.) The motion of the heads combined with the Winchester effect tend to sweep any particles that do get into the drive toward the outside edge of the platter.
For me lately, I get about a 50/50 mix of English and Brazilian spam, with the occasional (maybe 10% of total spam) "gibberish" Asian character-set mail.
Does anyone remember the hype from this failed marketing gimmick from about 10 years(!) or so ago? They were announcing "VideOCart is here!" in Jewel or Dominick's grocery stores (can't remember which, they all look alike to me:), handing out buttons, etc. Strangely, I never did see an actual VideOCart--I am quite certain this bit the dust before or shortly after the beginning of production. Hopefully consumers will be just as interested in the "KleverKart" as they were in the original.
During my Freshman year of college, I wrote a BASIC program that would use the modem to call numbers on the dorm phone system at specified times - kind of a primitive version of those 976-WAKE type services. On its first day of operation, a minor programming/math error dealing with the system clock caused it to start ringing each number every hour or so, starting at midnight... Whoops! A couple angry people knocking on my door the next morning.
The only way to fly (through browser restrictions).
User-Agent: Mozilla/8.0 (compatible; MatrixViewer 1.0; There is no spoon. ) Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,tex t/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,video/x-mng,image/pn g,image/jpeg,image/gif;q=0.2,text/css,*/*;q=0.1
navigator.appVersion=99.99 navigator.(appName|u serAgent)= "MSIE Microsoft Internet Explorer 99.99 Windows XP 2000 Win32 Win64" navigator.platform="Win32 Win64 Windows XP 2000 ME"
"NTT also used optical communications technology to make the 120GHz system possible....After modulation, the signal is picked up by a special photodiode capable of responding with the high-speed signal....In order to extend the range of the transmission, a 20cm-diameter lens was used to focus the beam."
This is an experiment I did in a chem class back in high school. My memory might be a bit fuzzy.
Pennies are not all copper, but a thin copper 'shell' around another metal. With a small file, file a few (3 or so) notches in the sides of the penny so that the other metal is exposed. Place the filed penny in a beaker and cover with acid (I don't remember which acid, probably sulfuric). After a while the acid will have 'eaten' away the other metal, leaving only the copper shell. This shell (you did wash away all the acid, of course) looks indistinguishable from an ordinary penny. Watch the students' faces as you throw the penny into a glass of water and it floats - then pick it off the surface of the water and crunch it into a little ball with your mighty fingers:)
Macrovision doesn't necessarily affect the timing of the signal; it works by inserting garbage (such as high or alternating voltages) in the vertical blank interval of each frame (that is, the part of the frame that occurs "between" beyond the bottom and top of the screen). This affects the automatic gain control of most VCRs, causing jitter, buzz, annoying variations in brightness, loss of sync, and other artifacts. Similar techniques are used (possibly a subset of Macrovision) to insert a signal that interferes with the VCR's speed setting upon playback. The extraneous signal bleeds over to the portion of the tape that tells the VCR whether to play at SP/LP/SLP speed, causing the tape to run at the wrong speed and/or alternate speeds during playback. (Try recording some DVDs from a Playstation2, and you may see this behaviour upon playing back the tape. Fortunately, my VCR--a Toshiba/M648 picked up cheaply at a garage sale--seems immune to all known copy protections.)
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the jacket is intended to be an alternative to handguns, pepper sprays and rape whistles.
What IS the breakdown voltage of a latex condom, anyway?
Does creating the window.open() command and embedding it into the JavaScript language count as prior art?
:-)
Surely that guy used it first; you have to test this stuff somehow
are the popups that move themselves so that the top of the window (e.g., Close button) is off the top of the screen where you can't get at it. Got hit with one of these the other day when I was forced to use filterless MSIE on another machine.
A few years ago, the guys at college laughed at me when I outfitted my brand new machine with this old brown 3.5" floppy drive. This thing has been through a flood, dropped, rained on, and just plain BIG and OLD. I ripped it out of a junked '286 or so; it's about the size of a CD-ROM. They just don't make 'em like this anymore. As a heavy 3.5" (ab)user, I watched with mock amazement as new floppy drive after new floppy drive in the dorms bit the dust after 4-6 months of light use. When it's running you can almost hear it from the next room, but this beast will read ANYTHING - people would come over asking me to copy a disk because their machine kept asking if they wanted to format it. Bad sector, what's that? This thing is going to outlive me.
The chip's method of operation is that it sees to it that the ink level monotonically decreases - it most likely contains a small EEPROM (non-volatile memory) cell where the ink level is recorded. When the ink level suddenly goes from "Empty" to "Full" the chip senses this and locks out the cartridge. What you'd really need is a way to a) rewrite the memory, without using their DMCAed technology, or b) Legally obtain new 'blank' chips.
/me rues the day when it will be necessary to mod-chip a printer... (screw that, I just replaced my dying Deskjet 820 with a dot-matrix line printer, and have been saving a $bundle$ on consumables.)
On several computers I have noticed sounds (it's a clicking or thumping sound) that occur when the mouse is moved, proportional to how fast it is moving. Does the sound only occur when moving a large window, or does mousing while the window (or similar screen content, e.g. white background etc.) is visible?
At my Uni, there was no (paper) registration to fill out. When a user was causing problems, the network folks found 'em as follows:
:)
Get the IP/MAC of the user
Pull the plug on half the network and see if the machine disappears
Continue working down to smaller segments (dorm, floor, switch) until the user's wire is found and yank it
Wait for user to come down to the computer center and complain they can't get online
This, of course, gets much more difficult when the offending user shuts the machine off...
> allowing restrictions to be set on Outlook mail messages
Does this mean a spammer can DRM-tag his messages so they cannot be forwarded to his ISP?
The "blinking NES" syndrome is easy to cure. Unless some severe dirt/corrosion has appeared on the contacts, it is normally* caused by the internal 72-pin connector (between the cartridge and the NES's main board) losing its spring over time...the contacts no longer touch all pins on the cartridge. To fix this, you can open the NES and carefully pry on the contact pins to bring them back into firmer contact with the cartridge. Alternatively, you can get a replacement connector from various sources (aftermarket, NES freaks, EBay?).
:)
* The "Blinking" is also controlled by the NES's security lockout chip; foreign/pirate/unlicensed cartridges or failure of the CIC (security) chip on either the cart or the NES will cause it. My NES experienced this after the CIC chip or some supporting chip mysteriously blew out. (Tip: Do not connect arbitrary circuitry to the NES expansion slot.) To remedy, find the CIC and either sever Pin 4 (or ideally, unsolder this pin from the board and tie it to ground) or find some other way to force the voltage levels on this chip. More details on disabling the CIC should be available via Google search
There is no 'inert gas' inside a HDD that can leak in or out. Essentially all consumer HDDs operate in normal air at normal atmospheric pressure. (The HDD even has a breather that allows in filtered air from the outside, so that the drive can equalize with the external pressure. Manufacturers vary, but the filtering typically comes from a paper filter and/or a "maze" (like the lines at Disney World) that impedes the flow of dust and particles into the drive.) The motion of the heads combined with the Winchester effect tend to sweep any particles that do get into the drive toward the outside edge of the platter.
For me lately, I get about a 50/50 mix of English and Brazilian spam, with the occasional (maybe 10% of total spam) "gibberish" Asian character-set mail.
no more possibility of seeing a printer mod-chipping lawsuit hit the frontpage?
He's not on my Special Friends list yet?
Because it's a much better term to over-use than "hella"
Does anyone remember the hype from this failed marketing gimmick from about 10 years(!) or so ago? They were announcing "VideOCart is here!" in Jewel or Dominick's grocery stores (can't remember which, they all look alike to me :), handing out buttons, etc. Strangely, I never did see an actual VideOCart--I am quite certain this bit the dust before or shortly after the beginning of production. Hopefully consumers will be just as interested in the "KleverKart" as they were in the original.
If they're so legitimate, how do I keep ending up on their lists? (To hear it from them, I have opted in quite a lot.)
During my Freshman year of college, I wrote a BASIC program that would use the modem to call numbers on the dorm phone system at specified times - kind of a primitive version of those 976-WAKE type services. On its first day of operation, a minor programming/math error dealing with the system clock caused it to start ringing each number every hour or so, starting at midnight... Whoops! A couple angry people knocking on my door the next morning.
Putting ads in the User-Agent field for webmasters browsing their access_logs or server stats?
89% MSIE
8% Mozilla
2% Lynx
1% Visit My Porn Site! http://....
So much for my current User-Agent string of Mozilla/8.0 (compatible; This is the only ad-free space left on the internet)
The only way to fly (through browser restrictions).
x t/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,video/x-mng,image/pn g,image/jpeg,image/gif;q=0.2,text/css,*/*;q=0.1
u serAgent)= "MSIE Microsoft Internet Explorer 99.99 Windows XP 2000 Win32 Win64"
User-Agent: Mozilla/8.0 (compatible; MatrixViewer 1.0; There is no spoon. )
Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,te
navigator.appVersion=99.99
navigator.(appName|
navigator.platform="Win32 Win64 Windows XP 2000 ME"
No, it means that spyware research groups are forbidden to package "specimens" on disks or Web sites and pass them around.
You may see this in programs that run Windows programs in batch.
Windows reported the following error: "The operation completed successfully."
"NTT also used optical communications technology to make the 120GHz system possible. ...After modulation, the signal is picked up by a special photodiode capable of responding with the high-speed signal. ...In order to extend the range of the transmission, a 20cm-diameter lens was used to focus the beam."
Also known as Fast Ronja. Cool as hell though.
This is an experiment I did in a chem class back in high school. My memory might be a bit fuzzy.
:)
Pennies are not all copper, but a thin copper 'shell' around another metal. With a small file, file a few (3 or so) notches in the sides of the penny so that the other metal is exposed. Place the filed penny in a beaker and cover with acid (I don't remember which acid, probably sulfuric). After a while the acid will have 'eaten' away the other metal, leaving only the copper shell. This shell (you did wash away all the acid, of course) looks indistinguishable from an ordinary penny. Watch the students' faces as you throw the penny into a glass of water and it floats - then pick it off the surface of the water and crunch it into a little ball with your mighty fingers
Macrovision doesn't necessarily affect the timing of the signal; it works by inserting garbage (such as high or alternating voltages) in the vertical blank interval of each frame (that is, the part of the frame that occurs "between" beyond the bottom and top of the screen). This affects the automatic gain control of most VCRs, causing jitter, buzz, annoying variations in brightness, loss of sync, and other artifacts. Similar techniques are used (possibly a subset of Macrovision) to insert a signal that interferes with the VCR's speed setting upon playback. The extraneous signal bleeds over to the portion of the tape that tells the VCR whether to play at SP/LP/SLP speed, causing the tape to run at the wrong speed and/or alternate speeds during playback. (Try recording some DVDs from a Playstation2, and you may see this behaviour upon playing back the tape. Fortunately, my VCR--a Toshiba/M648 picked up cheaply at a garage sale--seems immune to all known copy protections.)