When my wife and son set out to carve a pumpkin this year, I was asked to help.
I didn't see much of a problem in the traditional method of cutting shapes. I *did*, however, see a need to improve the process of removing the pumpkin guts.
What you'll need:
1 spaghetti spoon (forked thing to serve spaghetti)
1 cordless drill/screwdriver
3 3-inch strands of weed eater cord
Run the weed eater cord strands through the hole in the top of the spaghetti spoon and load both ends of the strands into the drill. Tighten them down.
After you've cut the top out of the pumpkin, you can use this contraption to entangle, strip, and scrape a LOT of guts out.
This is just one more way you can geek out your Halloween!
Embed a mildly embarrassing image in a user's Outlook signature. The kicker is to only have it display for a select few users.
Step1 - Create a folder on a webserver with ASP or PHP support that will host the script.
Set the folder permissions such that the only authorized users are the people you want to be in on the joke when it happens.
Step2 - Create an ASP script (PHP is even easier) that will host the embarrassing image and place it in the folder from Step1.
Here are some examples of ASP/PHP scripts (please note that Slashdot will add spaces in anything appearing like a URL)..
<%
embarrassing_image = "embarrassing_image.png"
fake_image = "white_one_pixel_square.png"
userfull = Request.ServerVariables("LOGON_USER")
look = inStr (1, userfull, "user_to_goof",1)
If 1 > look Then _
Response.Redirect (embarrassing_image) _
else _
Response.Redirect (fake_image) _
end if
%>
Step3 - Set the Outlook editor to HTML
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\<Office Version (9 is 2K)>\Outlook\Options\Mail\EditorPreference
10000 = Plain Text
20000 = HTML
30001 = Microsoft Word
30002 = Microsoft Rich Text
This step may or may not work.
Also, you'll need to find the user's hive under
HKEY_USERS (there are typically only a couple) while he's logged in since you can't access HKCU remotely (unless you use a.REG file that the user can enter himself in a login script or something).
Step4 - Edit the stationery and reference the ASP/PHP script as an image within the body.
<img src="http://webserver/directory_with_permissions_s et/harmless_filename.asp" border="0">
Copy the stationery over..
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Stationery
If the last step didn't work (like in my situation) and the user has Word setup as the email editor, you'll need to edit his "document.dot" file instead of an HTML stationery file.
Step5 - Set the stationery..
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging
Subsystem\Profiles\JBrewer\0a0d020000000000c000000 000000046\001e0360\Blank
Sit back and wait for the user to send out an email to the group.
NOTE:
I still have not overcome the "Anonymous" problem.. If an unauthorized user gets the email, he will be prompted for a login.
With PHP, there's a possibility of doing this without using NT permissions at all (look at the "Accepted Answer"). I'm sure there's a way to use this technique with ASP, too.
..Because he's actually trying to apply the theortical in the real world. Instead of being a dreamy-eyed futurist like so many so-called 'scientists,' he has gone so far as to ask companies to retard or halt their research on artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology.
This makes Joy a political target when he's in the press, but he believes that strongly about the problem our great-grandchildren could inherit. And this generational bomb is potentially a lot bigger problem than 'global warming'/air pollution thing!
Stephenson is exactly what came to mind when I read this, but I was thinking of a different story. It's entitled "Spew--Are you on the trail of the next unexploited market niche - or just on a nookie hunt?"
Here's a tidbit..
As I have been watching Evan and you on the Stalker Channel the past couple of days, I have been trying to figure out if the two of you have a thing going. It's hard because the camera doesn't give me audio, I have to work it out from body language. And after careful analysis of instant replays, I suspect you of being one of those dangerous types who innocently give good body language to everyone. The type of girl who should have someone walking 10 paces in front of her with a red flashing light and a clanging bell. Just my type.
..than money if done with the right attitude and strategies.
Try Strebe. This book is really difficult to get your hands on nowadays.. A friend picked up a couple of copies for myself and another potential business partner.
I did some of my best audio editing with 5 - 10 instances of Sound Recorder open while copying/pasting/recording over and over until I got the results I wanted. This kept the entire process mental instead of getting lost in mulit-track timelines.
Is there a Sound Recorder equivalent for OSX (other than Quicktime)?
When I read the headline, I thought there could be real jamming performed. By that, I mean totally disrupting (or close to it) the camera's ability to capture images. This method seems like it would be very useful in situations like this.
Since Americans generally are apalled by the thought of voyeurs and law enforcement alike capturing images without 'proper' permission, then a weapon like this seems like it would be incredibly useful.
The film 'Red Planet' brings that famous frog phrase to mind..
Would this diversity indicate...
1) rapid adaption was necessary in an environment that was becoming more harsh at human hands?
2) the frogs are flourishing? Is the environment's supposed toxicity is not hampering frogs in nearly profound ways as previously speculated?
3) there was a miscount in the first place? This is Sri Lanka. Might it have much less biological study than the African Savannah, the Australian Outback, or even the Brazilian rain forest?
Think of gamers beyond retirement..
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Currently we have phones with small games in them.
With the technology available when these 35-year-olds are 70, they'll be able to have fully immersive games embedded in their walkers.
I seem to recall in 1997 how the media was praising the entrepeneuring Gen Xers. We had all of these millionaire twentysomethings popping up.
...
The media seems to have vision problems beyond myopia...it also seems hindsight-impaired. In all of the press, I don't see the dot-com bust blaming the Y2K budget bubble at all. Maybe I'm wrong or maybe I've a perspective unique to Tech Support.
The IT and Software Development industries were overbudgeted by 300-500% in many companies from 1998 to 2000. A company I worked for in 1999 had perhaps 1000 employees, but had around 100 developers and IT staff working full-time on Y2K and Y2K+1 calendar-related issues. Once the Y2K problems were gone, many COBOL, Foxpro, and other programmers were out of work. The bloated IT budgets in companies saw *lots* of contractors and regular employees alike seeking other jobs in the summer of 2000.
Many companies were created just to handle Y2K issues. Others were started to try to soak up some of the money being thrown around that was left over after Y2K didn't soak up all of the budget.
And let's face it, the United States was getting excited about technology. The first wave of real computer consumerism happened when Windows 95 was released and coincided with Intel working the bugs out of its Pentium chips.. This wave lasted about 1.5 years. The second wave was around 1998-1999 and it came down in the year 2000 when people were sick and tired of hearing about Y2K and how all of the computers were going to blow up. After the computers didn't end up blowing up and consumers realized they had computers fast enough for solitaire and email, the consumer frenzy stopped. Now you can except computer consumerism to coincide with Christmas and back-to-school shopping like many other industries.
Eventhough computer consumerism is not rampant and technology is no longer the big news in the U.S., the economy still seems doing alright in some industries:
Aetna, the number-two U.S. health insurer, said its quarterly earnings will be twice analysts' estimates. Shares of Aetna leapt 19 percent.
When I watched Iron Giant, I was intrigued by the protrayal of American reaction to the launch and apparent 'spying from above' of Sputnik.
I realize there are probably plenty of literary works out there that address this, but are there any notable (or obscure for that matter--I like obscure) films or television shows that address American culture after Sputnik?
The install script's job is to checks to see if your OS is one of the RedHat or Mandrake distros just added to the support list. Once it finishes this validation, it downloads the installer binary. Here its just in case you'd like to try it out on a distro like Gentoo or SuSE.
Back the Future II may not have been far off
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While Marty McFly in the retro-shop buying his sports almanac:
Now, this has an interesting feature, a dust jacket. Books used to have these to protect the covers, of course that was before they had dust repellent paper. And if you're interested in that, we have a quaint little piece from the 1980's, called a Dustbuster.
I'm not sure I understand.
Can you start over from the beginnining with more details on your idea?
All I know is that anytime you talk to a non-lawyer, you'll very quickly
hear, "So what's your idea?" I'm curious as to where to actually draw
the line on this.. Who should you actually reveal your idea to?
Should you keep everything in your head/notes until it's time to fill out
the patent forms?
Maybe roll your own non-disclosure agreements for friends/associates
otherwise?
JPEG compression not used? You must mean that you want to see JPEG2000. IIRC, JPEG is the most common compression used digital cameras. Personally, I would prefer PNG--great compression with bitmap-like quality. If you use Linux on a laptop, I'm sure any compression you like is available for the various snapshot programs out there.
I'm not a photographer by any means and that's why I can't justify buying a device designed only for that use.. I've heard of high end digital cameras that have a variable shutter speed / exposure time. That would be a nice feature since colors are not very rich at very low exposure times--whether on film, CMOS, CCD, or whatever. This might be a feature that is very difficult to integrate into PCs.. I would imagine that this would be a software feature, which would likely not get anyhwere near the desired effect.
What kind of camera does this thing use? Can it get better than 640x480x16-bit?
I've been avoiding the $1000-drop on a digital camera for a while. I just can't see spending $1000 on a single-use device like that, but I can't stand lower-quality images. Since manufacturers also refuse to put a hard drive in them, I don't see any point in messing with temporary storage--especially since a standard cannot be agreed upon.
So, my thoughts were always toward using my laptop to take pictures. You can't a much better preview screen than a 14-inch TFT LCD. The only problem is, where can you get a high-quality 'web cam'? Keep in mind, the desired effect is that the laptop would the bulky and expensive part. I don't want to hang a $1000 friggin DV camcorder off of my laptop.
Just wanting portable PC w/ full-size components?
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For about $750, This has every feature I can come up with except for TV-in/capture (and you can do that over USB 2.0 or Firewire). It's cheaper than the Cappuccino and it comes with a screen!
It uses full-sized PC133 RAM and CPU. There are AMD and Intel versions of each of the two models (this makes it look like four models on the site).
This kind of structure should be able to function as a power plant in two or three different ways and send the power very efficiently to earth down a wire (thus, solving any issues with microwave or other space-to-Earth power transmission methods).
1) Unobstructed solar panels in space.
2) Natural magnetic induction from the Earth's magnetic field. I don't know what the terminology for this is, but this concept was explored recently with the use of a thin tether drug behind a space shuttle. The difference in the magnetic field at different locations of a conducter generates electricity.
3) Nuclear reactors are 'safer' in space. There's *plenty* of radiation in space--a little more won't hurt
This isn't just for Dot-COMs--It spread through Dot-DE as well.
I kind of hate to say this since I like Rackspace, but no one else seems to have mentioned it..
Here's my story (all of this transpired on June 19, 2002)..
I knew very quickly that this thing is sending bot-forged unsolicited emails.. I'm the webmaster for a friend's domain in Germany--let's say "somedomain.de." I setup the webmaster address to point to my email at Yahoo!. I setup one more alias to point to her email address on her webmail (I think on Web.de). I received an email at my Yahoo! account, sent to "figlio@somedomain.de." Guess what? That's not one of the two accounts that have ever existed for somedomain.de. Where the heck could the "figlio" have come from!? Is it a handle that someone has in another European country and the Someonelikesyou.com PHP bot took that and applied to a random domain? I think so...
So, I did a whois on Someonelikesyou.com's IP and the IP block was owned by Rackspace. I emailed abuse@rackspace.com. The next day, there was some sort of "We're down for maintenance--sorry for any inconvenience" message. I guess they finally found a shameless host with Jumpstart--or maybe they'll be somewhere else next week.
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I didn't see much of a problem in the traditional method of cutting shapes. I *did*, however, see a need to improve the process of removing the pumpkin guts.
What you'll need:
1 spaghetti spoon (forked thing to serve spaghetti)
1 cordless drill/screwdriver
3 3-inch strands of weed eater cord
Run the weed eater cord strands through the hole in the top of the spaghetti spoon and load both ends of the strands into the drill. Tighten them down.
After you've cut the top out of the pumpkin, you can use this contraption to entangle, strip, and scrape a LOT of guts out.
This is just one more way you can geek out your Halloween!
Embed a mildly embarrassing image in a user's Outlook signature. The kicker is to only have it display for a select few users.
.REG file that the user can enter himself in a login script or something).
s et/harmless_filename.asp" border="0">
0 000000046\001e0360\Blank
Step1 - Create a folder on a webserver with ASP or PHP support that will host the script.
Set the folder permissions such that the only authorized users are the people you want to be in on the joke when it happens.
Step2 - Create an ASP script (PHP is even easier) that will host the embarrassing image and place it in the folder from Step1.
Here are some examples of ASP/PHP scripts (please note that Slashdot will add spaces in anything appearing like a URL)..
<%
embarrassing_image = "embarrassing_image.png"
fake_image = "white_one_pixel_square.png"
userfull = Request.ServerVariables("LOGON_USER")
look = inStr (1, userfull, "user_to_goof",1)
If 1 > look Then _
Response.Redirect (embarrassing_image) _
else _
Response.Redirect (fake_image) _
end if
%>
<?php
$embarrassing_image = "embarrassing_image.png";
$fake_image = "white_one_pixel_square.png";
$userfull = $_SERVER["LOGON_USER"];
if (eregi ("user_to_goof", $userfull))
{
header ("Location: " . $embarrassing_image);
}
else
{
header ("Location: " . $fake_image);
}
?>
Step3 - Set the Outlook editor to HTML
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\<Office Version (9 is 2K)>\Outlook\Options\Mail\EditorPreference
10000 = Plain Text
20000 = HTML
30001 = Microsoft Word
30002 = Microsoft Rich Text
This step may or may not work.
Also, you'll need to find the user's hive under
HKEY_USERS (there are typically only a couple) while he's logged in since you can't access HKCU remotely (unless you use a
Step4 - Edit the stationery and reference the ASP/PHP script as an image within the body.
<img src="http://webserver/directory_with_permissions_
Copy the stationery over..
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Stationery
If the last step didn't work (like in my situation) and the user has Word setup as the email editor, you'll need to edit his "document.dot" file instead of an HTML stationery file.
Step5 - Set the stationery..
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging
Subsystem\Profiles\JBrewer\0a0d020000000000c00000
Sit back and wait for the user to send out an email to the group.
NOTE:
I still have not overcome the "Anonymous" problem.. If an unauthorized user gets the email, he will be prompted for a login.
With PHP, there's a possibility of doing this without using NT permissions at all (look at the "Accepted Answer"). I'm sure there's a way to use this technique with ASP, too.
This makes Joy a political target when he's in the press, but he believes that strongly about the problem our great-grandchildren could inherit. And this generational bomb is potentially a lot bigger problem than 'global warming'/air pollution thing!
Why the future doesn't need us.
Criticism *and* Support for Joy's opinions abound
And as are as 'futurists' are concerned, don't get me wrong--I love The Matrix and Michio Kaku as much as the next guy (or girl).
By the by, here are a couple of articles that address and expound upon (with bigger 'public' names like Bill Joy) the progress of A.I.
May artificial intelligence remain artificial
A.I. Can't Yet Follow Film Script
Here's a tidbit..
Try Strebe. This book is really difficult to get your hands on nowadays.. A friend picked up a couple of copies for myself and another potential business partner.
You're right-- there are no electrons., but I'm not sure about the religious twist..
Is there a Sound Recorder equivalent for OSX (other than Quicktime)?
Since Americans generally are apalled by the thought of voyeurs and law enforcement alike capturing images without 'proper' permission, then a weapon like this seems like it would be incredibly useful.
Would this diversity indicate...
1) rapid adaption was necessary in an environment that was becoming more harsh at human hands?
2) the frogs are flourishing? Is the environment's supposed toxicity is not hampering frogs in nearly profound ways as previously speculated?
3) there was a miscount in the first place? This is Sri Lanka. Might it have much less biological study than the African Savannah, the Australian Outback, or even the Brazilian rain forest?
With the technology available when these 35-year-olds are 70, they'll be able to have fully immersive games embedded in their walkers.
The media seems to have vision problems beyond myopia...it also seems hindsight-impaired. In all of the press, I don't see the dot-com bust blaming the Y2K budget bubble at all. Maybe I'm wrong or maybe I've a perspective unique to Tech Support.
The IT and Software Development industries were overbudgeted by 300-500% in many companies from 1998 to 2000. A company I worked for in 1999 had perhaps 1000 employees, but had around 100 developers and IT staff working full-time on Y2K and Y2K+1 calendar-related issues. Once the Y2K problems were gone, many COBOL, Foxpro, and other programmers were out of work. The bloated IT budgets in companies saw *lots* of contractors and regular employees alike seeking other jobs in the summer of 2000.
Many companies were created just to handle Y2K issues. Others were started to try to soak up some of the money being thrown around that was left over after Y2K didn't soak up all of the budget.
And let's face it, the United States was getting excited about technology. The first wave of real computer consumerism happened when Windows 95 was released and coincided with Intel working the bugs out of its Pentium chips.. This wave lasted about 1.5 years. The second wave was around 1998-1999 and it came down in the year 2000 when people were sick and tired of hearing about Y2K and how all of the computers were going to blow up. After the computers didn't end up blowing up and consumers realized they had computers fast enough for solitaire and email, the consumer frenzy stopped. Now you can except computer consumerism to coincide with Christmas and back-to-school shopping like many other industries.
Eventhough computer consumerism is not rampant and technology is no longer the big news in the U.S., the economy still seems doing alright in some industries:
I realize there are probably plenty of literary works out there that address this, but are there any notable (or obscure for that matter--I like obscure) films or television shows that address American culture after Sputnik?
installer-rpm-glibc2.2-i386.gz
Can you start over from the beginnining with more details on your idea?
All I know is that anytime you talk to a non-lawyer, you'll very quickly
hear, "So what's your idea?" I'm curious as to where to actually draw
the line on this.. Who should you actually reveal your idea to?
Should you keep everything in your head/notes until it's time to fill out
the patent forms?
Maybe roll your own non-disclosure agreements for friends/associates
otherwise?
I'm not a photographer by any means and that's why I can't justify buying a device designed only for that use.. I've heard of high end digital cameras that have a variable shutter speed / exposure time. That would be a nice feature since colors are not very rich at very low exposure times--whether on film, CMOS, CCD, or whatever. This might be a feature that is very difficult to integrate into PCs.. I would imagine that this would be a software feature, which would likely not get anyhwere near the desired effect.
So, my thoughts were always toward using my laptop to take pictures. You can't a much better preview screen than a 14-inch TFT LCD. The only problem is, where can you get a high-quality 'web cam'? Keep in mind, the desired effect is that the laptop would the bulky and expensive part. I don't want to hang a $1000 friggin DV camcorder off of my laptop.
What he said.
It uses full-sized PC133 RAM and CPU. There are AMD and Intel versions of each of the two models (this makes it look like four models on the site).
"You can control the Integer house.." - link
Cameras (evidently dark right now in Hong Kong) - link
I wish I could read more about the thing, but the pages aren't loading and it looks like we're going to burn it down!
login: generic99
password: generic
in two or three different ways and send the power very efficiently
to earth down a wire (thus, solving any issues with microwave or
other space-to-Earth power transmission methods).
I kind of hate to say this since I like Rackspace, but no one else seems to have mentioned it..
Here's my story (all of this transpired on June 19, 2002)..
I knew very quickly that this thing is sending bot-forged unsolicited emails.. I'm the webmaster for a friend's domain in Germany--let's say "somedomain.de." I setup the webmaster address to point to my email at Yahoo!. I setup one more alias to point to her email address on her webmail (I think on Web.de). I received an email at my Yahoo! account, sent to "figlio@somedomain.de." Guess what? That's not one of the two accounts that have ever existed for somedomain.de. Where the heck could the "figlio" have come from!? Is it a handle that someone has in another European country and the Someonelikesyou.com PHP bot took that and applied to a random domain? I think so...
So, I did a whois on Someonelikesyou.com's IP and the IP block was owned by Rackspace. I emailed abuse@rackspace.com. The next day, there was some sort of "We're down for maintenance--sorry for any inconvenience" message. I guess they finally found a shameless host with Jumpstart--or maybe they'll be somewhere else next week.
Sorry for the formatting screwups. I was more concerned about spelling, information accuracy, and sharing.
Thanks : ).