if they have an old school mouse, you know, with the mouse balls (*snicker*), slap a small size post-it on the bottom to cover the ball. renders the mouse useless (well, until you take the post-it off). for extra effect you can write something like "took you THAT long to figure out?" on it.
All this prank talk is amking me think of the SNL with Christopher walken on the "Pranked" show... "Yeah, I pranked him in the head with a shovel....are you being a stiffly stifferson? I hate stiffly stiffersons, I want to prank them for hours in my basement"....
Ah, Christopher Walken.... the man can do no wrong...
One of my friends/co-workers left for his first vacation quite paranoid (as well he should be) as we have a reputation for being the merry pranksters of the office (icy hot on the phone, fake phone calls, fish in the desk, etc.). With the mental anguish he was going through knowing that we were going to do something to him when he got back, he left us all explicit instuctions to not touch anything on his desk. So being the good friends that we are, a day before his return we saran wrapped each individual item on his desk (each book, each pencil, each photograph, we even went so far as to wrap each pushpin and the namplate on his cube wall). We finished off the whole thing by hermetically sealing his cube itself with industrial grade plastic wrap (you know, the HUGE rolls) and leaving a note..."Brad, we knew how worried you were about somone messing with your desk while you were gone so we took it upon ourselves to ensure nothing happened. We believe you will find it nice and secure, hope you had a nice trip!"
From the article: "Since then, SCO has alleged that Linux contains a number of copyright and other intellectual property violations, and it has demanded that Linux users pay it a $700 per processor licensing fee to bring their systems in compliance."
So if I run Linux on a dual processor, does that mean I "owe" SCO $1400? I thought it was $700 per machine...
there should be no debate about it and no one should be taking offense... he was talking about companies, most likely through a thick german accent ([as evidenced] by the [liberal] use of [brackets])... a lot of stuff he could have been more clear about perhaps with a better mastery of the english language.
Every governor of California in the past 30 years has faced a recall petition drive, but only now has one been successful. Wonder why that could be.
Maybe because people (like me) are sick of living in the 98+ degree heat in their one bedroom apartments, turning on the air conditioner (not excessively, mind you) and getting a $200 power bill because some idiot mismanages energy contracts.
Very good point! My main box is a 500MHz iMac DV/SE with 640MB RAM that is going on 3 years now, running the latest (full) OS (10.2.6) and other goodies (Photoshop 7, etc.) flawlessly. Now how many of you PC owners can get by on 500MHz without throwing the damn thing out the window? My work PC is a 1.4GHz Pentium and the thing chokes about 3 times a day and applications load in about twice the time as my Mac. The only downside is in the whole game area (can't run Unreal, Max Payne, etc.) but whatever, give me Diablo II and Warcraft III any day!
What a lot of people seem to be missing is that, say, with an Apple 1.6GHz, yes it's running at 1.6GHz but it will school a comparably equipped 1.6GHz Wintel machine. That's also not counting the 64-bit address bus and ability to support 8GB of RAM that the Apple has. When your Athlon 2400+ can support 8 GB of RAM, give me a call...
Stick with smoking crack. No "tarry black gunk" to jam up the mouse wheel, and if the mouse wheel ever gets dirty for some other reason you can disassemble it, clean it, alphabetize the components, rebuild a carbeurator fom an old chevy, and reassemble the in a new "more interesting" fashion in under a minute... while twiching.
I work for a notary organiztion that does a lot dealing with ID fraud. A very cool thing about this place is that, aside from the normal benefits (health, dental, etc.) all employees (and members too) get a $5000 ID theft insurance policy. So now I don't have to worry about getting my ID stolen too much, I'm insured for more than my net worth:) . I may be mistaken but I believe the policy is underwritten by AIG Specialty Insurance, so if you're really super worried you can get such an insurance policy.
All she'd need to do is start a "war against terrorism" and ANY election fiascos will be overlooked (same thing works for "youthfull indiscretions", corporate corruption, power-hungry insanity, and the general rape and sodomy of basic rights and liberties). Just like, uhm, this other politician I've heard of...
There should be no such thing as a "professional politician"...
"...keep some food at your desk. And try to keep it to good stuff. A veggie platter is good with ranch dressing or something like that, maybe even a meat tray with mustards..." Uhm, veggie platter... Meat Tray... But wouldn't the caterers keep getting in the way?
Sounds somewhat like the GraffitiWriter & StreetWriter... Both cool-ass dot matrix style graffiti tools made by the Institute for Applied Autonomy. (Except the StreetWriter does it while you drive)
I use Snort (well, HenWen actually...) and it works great as a NIDS. However, if you use Snort be sure you have a more recent version (Version 2 RC1 or above) as prior versions have a vunerability that may allow users to run arbitrary code as root, thereby negating your security in the first place.
At home I have my 4,500+ audio CD collection mounted individually to the wall and sorted by color (i.e. all the disks with predominantly red disk art start on the left, then fade to the orange, then fade to the yellow, and so on...) It's a bit labor intensive to set up the first time (4,500 push pins) but the effect is incredible and it's actually pretty handy. Instead of hunting through all my disks to find, say Massive Attack, I remember that it's the bright orange disk, walk up to my wall and grab it off. Plus it's neat looking and keeps my CDs off the ground and close at hand. I have a micro version of that at work except the shiny side is pointing out because most CD-Rs typically dont have disk art... And when the sun starts setting and hits my cubicle wall it looks like someone's got a disco ball going on.
The essence of hacking is finding out how stuff works... It comes as no suprise that those things carry over to other aspects of life. But here comes the age old "chicken/egg" debate: Does an interest in hacking come from an interest in how stuff works? -or- Does an interest in how stuff works come from an interest in hacking? Meditate on that, suckers...
Wow, isn't that the post where I claimed to be an jailed albino nicknamed "great white" that other inmates poked with a stick, tried to convince the idiot kid that AIM'd me to have a religious sing-a-long where you dig your fingers into your eyes and scream and claimed that I was instant messaging via a Speak'n'Spell glued to a cell phone?
Yes, you can make anyone look like a freak when you selectivly clip their LiveJournal posts out of context. A+ for you!
As much as your unfounded anti-Mac sentiment irks me (I am a devout Mac user since elementary school) I am not going to get into the great Mac Vs. PC debate here. Instead, I would like to draw your attention to the the fact that this post makes absolutely no sense. Wow, you got modded 4, great... Personally I would have labeled this as "Offtopic" seeing as how we go from a mythical beast pun to an Apple boycott war-cry. But here's the kicker; the Pegasos (basis of the Pegasus pun that was getting worked on this thread) IS NOT MADE BY APPLE, nor sponsored by Apple. As was stated in a previous post it very well may be in violation of Apple's EULA. So good sir, if your computer sprouts a horn and wings and flies off into the night, I would try to correctly identify the make & model before you use it as a platform to launch an unfounded Steve Jobs/Apple-bashing diatribe. You will only end up looking dumb.
"Calling this chair just a chair is like calling Beckham an average ball crosser."
You can say that again... although I probably still won't understand what the hell it means. Damn you American ignorance!!!
i was going to write something witty and informative using a whole bunch of accented characters, however i'm at work and have no idea how to get accents on a PC (except for the tilde -or should i say "n-yay"- in my last name
of course by "whacky weeds" we're talking about oregano wearing propeller beanies or perhaps some parsley with those googly-eyed slinky glasses and a kazoo, right?
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if they have an old school mouse, you know, with the mouse balls (*snicker*), slap a small size post-it on the bottom to cover the ball. renders the mouse useless (well, until you take the post-it off). for extra effect you can write something like "took you THAT long to figure out?" on it.
All this prank talk is amking me think of the SNL with Christopher walken on the "Pranked" show... "Yeah, I pranked him in the head with a shovel....are you being a stiffly stifferson? I hate stiffly stiffersons, I want to prank them for hours in my basement".... Ah, Christopher Walken.... the man can do no wrong...
One of my friends/co-workers left for his first vacation quite paranoid (as well he should be) as we have a reputation for being the merry pranksters of the office (icy hot on the phone, fake phone calls, fish in the desk, etc.). With the mental anguish he was going through knowing that we were going to do something to him when he got back, he left us all explicit instuctions to not touch anything on his desk. So being the good friends that we are, a day before his return we saran wrapped each individual item on his desk (each book, each pencil, each photograph, we even went so far as to wrap each pushpin and the namplate on his cube wall). We finished off the whole thing by hermetically sealing his cube itself with industrial grade plastic wrap (you know, the HUGE rolls) and leaving a note..."Brad, we knew how worried you were about somone messing with your desk while you were gone so we took it upon ourselves to ensure nothing happened. We believe you will find it nice and secure, hope you had a nice trip!"
From the article: "Since then, SCO has alleged that Linux contains a number of copyright and other intellectual property violations, and it has demanded that Linux users pay it a $700 per processor licensing fee to bring their systems in compliance."
So if I run Linux on a dual processor, does that mean I "owe" SCO $1400? I thought it was $700 per machine...
there should be no debate about it and no one should be taking offense...
he was talking about companies, most likely through a thick german accent ([as evidenced] by the [liberal] use of [brackets])... a lot of stuff he could have been more clear about perhaps with a better mastery of the english language.
Every governor of California in the past 30 years has faced a recall petition drive, but only now has one been successful. Wonder why that could be.
Maybe because people (like me) are sick of living in the 98+ degree heat in their one bedroom apartments, turning on the air conditioner (not excessively, mind you) and getting a $200 power bill because some idiot mismanages energy contracts.
Very good point! My main box is a 500MHz iMac DV/SE with 640MB RAM that is going on 3 years now, running the latest (full) OS (10.2.6) and other goodies (Photoshop 7, etc.) flawlessly. Now how many of you PC owners can get by on 500MHz without throwing the damn thing out the window? My work PC is a 1.4GHz Pentium and the thing chokes about 3 times a day and applications load in about twice the time as my Mac. The only downside is in the whole game area (can't run Unreal, Max Payne, etc.) but whatever, give me Diablo II and Warcraft III any day!
What a lot of people seem to be missing is that, say, with an Apple 1.6GHz, yes it's running at 1.6GHz but it will school a comparably equipped 1.6GHz Wintel machine. That's also not counting the 64-bit address bus and ability to support 8GB of RAM that the Apple has. When your Athlon 2400+ can support 8 GB of RAM, give me a call...
Stick with smoking crack. No "tarry black gunk" to jam up the mouse wheel, and if the mouse wheel ever gets dirty for some other reason you can disassemble it, clean it, alphabetize the components, rebuild a carbeurator fom an old chevy, and reassemble the in a new "more interesting" fashion in under a minute... while twiching.
The following companies offer ID theft insurance.
American International Group
Chubb Group
Encompass
Farmers
Travelers Insurance
I work for a notary organiztion that does a lot dealing with ID fraud. A very cool thing about this place is that, aside from the normal benefits (health, dental, etc.) all employees (and members too) get a $5000 ID theft insurance policy. So now I don't have to worry about getting my ID stolen too much, I'm insured for more than my net worth :) . I may be mistaken but I believe the policy is underwritten by AIG Specialty Insurance, so if you're really super worried you can get such an insurance policy.
I have a solution to the Apple question....
Mac-on-Linux
All she'd need to do is start a "war against terrorism" and ANY election fiascos will be overlooked (same thing works for "youthfull indiscretions", corporate corruption, power-hungry insanity, and the general rape and sodomy of basic rights and liberties). Just like, uhm, this other politician I've heard of...
There should be no such thing as a "professional politician"...
"...keep some food at your desk. And try to keep it to good stuff. A veggie platter is good with ranch dressing or something like that, maybe even a meat tray with mustards..."
Uhm, veggie platter... Meat Tray... But wouldn't the caterers keep getting in the way?
How is that a Troll?????? HUH, BITCHASS??? (Ok.... that was flamebait... im sorry)
Sounds somewhat like the GraffitiWriter & StreetWriter... Both cool-ass dot matrix style graffiti tools made by the Institute for Applied Autonomy. (Except the StreetWriter does it while you drive)
I use Snort (well, HenWen actually...) and it works great as a NIDS. However, if you use Snort be sure you have a more recent version (Version 2 RC1 or above) as prior versions have a vunerability that may allow users to run arbitrary code as root, thereby negating your security in the first place.
At home I have my 4,500+ audio CD collection mounted individually to the wall and sorted by color (i.e. all the disks with predominantly red disk art start on the left, then fade to the orange, then fade to the yellow, and so on...) It's a bit labor intensive to set up the first time (4,500 push pins) but the effect is incredible and it's actually pretty handy. Instead of hunting through all my disks to find, say Massive Attack, I remember that it's the bright orange disk, walk up to my wall and grab it off. Plus it's neat looking and keeps my CDs off the ground and close at hand.
I have a micro version of that at work except the shiny side is pointing out because most CD-Rs typically dont have disk art... And when the sun starts setting and hits my cubicle wall it looks like someone's got a disco ball going on.
The essence of hacking is finding out how stuff works... It comes as no suprise that those things carry over to other aspects of life. But here comes the age old "chicken/egg" debate:
Does an interest in hacking come from an interest in how stuff works?
-or-
Does an interest in how stuff works come from an interest in hacking?
Meditate on that, suckers...
Wow, isn't that the post where I claimed to be an jailed albino nicknamed "great white" that other inmates poked with a stick, tried to convince the idiot kid that AIM'd me to have a religious sing-a-long where you dig your fingers into your eyes and scream and claimed that I was instant messaging via a Speak'n'Spell glued to a cell phone?
Yes, you can make anyone look like a freak when you selectivly clip their LiveJournal posts out of context. A+ for you!
As much as your unfounded anti-Mac sentiment irks me (I am a devout Mac user since elementary school) I am not going to get into the great Mac Vs. PC debate here. Instead, I would like to draw your attention to the the fact that this post makes absolutely no sense. Wow, you got modded 4, great... Personally I would have labeled this as "Offtopic" seeing as how we go from a mythical beast pun to an Apple boycott war-cry. But here's the kicker; the Pegasos (basis of the Pegasus pun that was getting worked on this thread) IS NOT MADE BY APPLE, nor sponsored by Apple. As was stated in a previous post it very well may be in violation of Apple's EULA. So good sir, if your computer sprouts a horn and wings and flies off into the night, I would try to correctly identify the make & model before you use it as a platform to launch an unfounded Steve Jobs/Apple-bashing diatribe. You will only end up looking dumb.
"Calling this chair just a chair is like calling Beckham an average ball crosser." You can say that again... although I probably still won't understand what the hell it means. Damn you American ignorance!!!
i was going to write something witty and informative using a whole bunch of accented characters, however i'm at work and have no idea how to get accents on a PC (except for the tilde -or should i say "n-yay"- in my last name
Step 1: Collect programmers Step 2: ...
Step 3: PROFIT!!!
of course by "whacky weeds" we're talking about oregano wearing propeller beanies or perhaps some parsley with those googly-eyed slinky glasses and a kazoo, right?