Seems every one is more interested in your comment on biofuels. Me too:)
"A team of US researchers also found that switchgrass-derived ethanol produced 540% more energy than was required to manufacture the fuel." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7175397.stm
why not apply the extra money as a credit on your bill? this is exactly what Australian ISP iiNet is partnering with TOMIZONE for: Tomizone signs up with iiNet.
Aussies tend to think that their usage is more exact than UK/US usage Can't speak for all Aussies - but I didn't even know our usage of the word "Capsicum" was distinct until I holidayed in Hawaii. I definitely didn't think "Capsicum" was any more correct. I didn't even know why we used a different word, just assumed it was something we used from UK English.
"httponly" is very interesting - didn't know about that. how often do you want to play with your session cookie in script? i've definitely never needed to!
tho this isn't actually about cookies, from the actual article - it's google allowing a form submitted from an 'evil' website to set-up a 'forwarding rule'. they call it a "Cross-site request forgery".
In Australia there is a total assumption of everyone in a store being a criminal (we did start as a convict colony). In most supermarkets it's a real hassle trying to leave when you haven't bought anything. The only way to exit is via the checkouts, where you have to excuse yourself past the people buying stuff. Sometimes you'll get asked to display the contents of your bag whether or not you are buying anything. I was very surprised to see supermarkets in the UK with checkouts in the opposite corner of the entry/exit.
I don't actually attribute this to our colonial history. More likely the result of the supermarket duopoly here - it's not like you can effectively take your business elsewhere.
Scanners don't just test everything on your machine against a list of signatures.
Scanners are capable of detecting an application hooking into WinAPI functions to act as a keylogger. The article is pondering whether these vendors are maintaining a "look-the-other-way" list of known fedware.
At the same time there was a few milestones in advertising & music videos: Michael Jackson's Black or White, Schick FX ad - where a guy's head morphs from a block, an another Airline ad (who's name escapes me) where some Orcas swim through a 747.
Currently you can find a copy of DvdDecryptor and grab a copy of that Blockbuster DVD you hired last night.
If a Blu-ray crack requires a hardware device, suddenly it's in the 'can't be bothered' basket for LOTS of people.
unfortunately hackers are now getting into 'reputable' websites, and putting in 'shady stuff'... as happened when the Miami Dolphins website was hacked..
Stats like this is why call centres try kick you off the phone as quick as they can. I read an article (can't find it now) about a tech call centre where the staff member with the highest turn around time simply found one modification to your PC (i.e. installing Winzip), and said that you'd voided your warranty. Other staff members would send out a free monitor cable, claiming that'd fix the problem, just to quickly get you off the phone.
All stats can be screwed with - call time seem like a fair dubious one to me...
if you need to make a few changes on 10 remote servers, all of which differ either a lot or slightly, are you really firing up Remote Desktop 10 separate times, opening up the IIS GUI 10 times, and finding / clicking the relevant buttons 10 times? To answer your question - there's two options I can think of...
As of IIS 6.0 the 'metabase' configuration is all in an XML file - you can edit the xml files directly or programmatically.
There a few configuration settings you can set via nant tasks - which I think use metabase APIs themselves...
If you go to google suggest and type 'www' the top suggestion is 'www.myspace.com'. Reveals the most popular site among people who don't realise they should be typing into the address bar!!
Well put. I agree with you 100% - IT departments take a "controlling" approach most, rather than a helpful one:
Staff: we want to use USB keys. IT: We are going to ban USB keys. That's how viruses and worms get into the network. Banning USB keys will make our lives easier.
Rather than: Okay, what exactly is the problem you are trying to solve? Do you need the ability to work on files from home? Remote access?
In their defence this attitude can be the result of: (A) staff not articulating what the actual problem is, (B) maybe an equally bad attitude from the staff (cmon, IT guys-just fix it!), (B) limited resources means IT don't have the time or budget to achieve what you are after. It really boils down to a communications/attitude issue! "It makes our lives easier" should never be a reason...
i usually use links from Jakob Nielsen's site to talk people out of designs that i think are 'non-intuitive' (even tho this one is a bit insulting):
The one bright point is that splash screens and Flash intros are almost extinct. They are so bad that even the most clueless Web designers won't recommend them, even though a few (even more clueless) clients continue to request them.
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I just pictured some head-honcho at the FBI leafing thru the a bill and yelling, "okay, so who made a wiretap to iceland!"
So you have to wonder what some of the dreams on Slow Wave are simulating? :)
"httponly" is very interesting - didn't know about that. how often do you want to play with your session cookie in script? i've definitely never needed to!
tho this isn't actually about cookies, from the actual article - it's google allowing a form submitted from an 'evil' website to set-up a 'forwarding rule'. they call it a "Cross-site request forgery".
Some interesting points
There have already been 'malicious javascript' attacks that reconfigure a router that has default user/name and password. Requires you to view a compromised (or malicious) website - but shows that even a physically plugged in router (with default credentials) can be compromised: http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/security_response/weblog/2007/02/driveby_pharming_how_clicking_1.html
we also won't have to go out and buy some non-standard power-pack when the original goes kaput.
In Australia there is a total assumption of everyone in a store being a criminal (we did start as a convict colony). In most supermarkets it's a real hassle trying to leave when you haven't bought anything. The only way to exit is via the checkouts, where you have to excuse yourself past the people buying stuff. Sometimes you'll get asked to display the contents of your bag whether or not you are buying anything. I was very surprised to see supermarkets in the UK with checkouts in the opposite corner of the entry/exit.
I don't actually attribute this to our colonial history. More likely the result of the supermarket duopoly here - it's not like you can effectively take your business elsewhere.
Scanners don't just test everything on your machine against a list of signatures.
Scanners are capable of detecting an application hooking into WinAPI functions to act as a keylogger. The article is pondering whether these vendors are maintaining a "look-the-other-way" list of known fedware.
At the same time there was a few milestones in advertising & music videos: Michael Jackson's Black or White, Schick FX ad - where a guy's head morphs from a block, an another Airline ad (who's name escapes me) where some Orcas swim through a 747.
And not to forget the computer generated cat... :)
Currently you can find a copy of DvdDecryptor and grab a copy of that Blockbuster DVD you hired last night. If a Blu-ray crack requires a hardware device, suddenly it's in the 'can't be bothered' basket for LOTS of people.
unfortunately hackers are now getting into 'reputable' websites, and putting in 'shady stuff'... as happened when the Miami Dolphins website was hacked..
Stats like this is why call centres try kick you off the phone as quick as they can. I read an article (can't find it now) about a tech call centre where the staff member with the highest turn around time simply found one modification to your PC (i.e. installing Winzip), and said that you'd voided your warranty. Other staff members would send out a free monitor cable, claiming that'd fix the problem, just to quickly get you off the phone.
All stats can be screwed with - call time seem like a fair dubious one to me...
I think grabbed the EXE that comes with the "Super" (http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html) frontend for FFMPEG..
If you are happy to host the video yourself, create the FLV with FFmpeg, there's a tutorial on it here: FLV encoding with ffmpeg.
..and use Jeroen Wijering's Flash Video Player for playback.
yes - i remember my mum getting a hand written "business opportunity" letter from Africa in the 1980s.
I find wikipedia VERY good at getting through marketing guff:n s_and_pricing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista#Editio
Same thing when I was trying to decipher the differences in recent intel chips:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core2
If you go to google suggest and type 'www' the top suggestion is 'www.myspace.com'. Reveals the most popular site among people who don't realise they should be typing into the address bar!!
...because I've got money waiting for me at ámäzón.com & çïtîßäñk.com that I can't get thru to!
Well put. I agree with you 100% - IT departments take a "controlling" approach most, rather than a helpful one:
Staff: we want to use USB keys.
IT: We are going to ban USB keys. That's how viruses and worms get into the network. Banning USB keys will make our lives easier.
Rather than: Okay, what exactly is the problem you are trying to solve? Do you need the ability to work on files from home? Remote access?
In their defence this attitude can be the result of: (A) staff not articulating what the actual problem is, (B) maybe an equally bad attitude from the staff (cmon, IT guys-just fix it!), (B) limited resources means IT don't have the time or budget to achieve what you are after. It really boils down to a communications/attitude issue! "It makes our lives easier" should never be a reason...
were you pushing around partition images (a la Symantec Ghost) with rsync? if so, which app did you use to create/write the partition images? ta..