In a piece of C code where I work that has Unicode support, I saw this comment, by itself, within a routine that did some string manipulation:// I'm hot for TCHAR.
Basically, they used a high-powered particle accelerator to create MD5 collisions between human-meaningful documents, thus forging the missing link between thermodynamic and informational entropy.
Type: Spoofing Exploit: Local Effects: All browsers
Description: A 7 year old vulnerability has been discovered in multiple browsers, allowing malicious people to spoof the content of websites.
The problem is that the browsers don't check if a piece of black electrical tape is on the screen covering the address bar, which prevents the user from identifying the source of content in the browser window.
Successful exploitation allows a malicious website to load arbitrary content with its source masked by the black tape. The user cannot know if this is a trusted site.
Solution: Remove the piece of electrical tape from the screen. Windex may be necessary to clean up afterwards.
"... it is important to remember that the bulk of business travel still happens for the sake of face-to-face communication."
Yes, and teleconferencing, not terrorism, is why the airline industry is in such a slump. I'm surprised teleconferencing hasn't been banned to help the airlines. I guess the airlines haven't figured this out yet and started lobyying.
Quite an interesting article. I never realized that Thomas Edison built the first PDA in 1906. It was called the Edison Automatic Electric Calendar. It weighed close to three tons and could remember up to five appointments at once.
"why dont i just jump off of a building?" Because you would die.
"that we are crazy" I never said anyone was crazy.
"either you are black or white" Or Asian.
"so much hate" I think of it as different conclusions from different basic assumptions of reality. I don't hate religion. I do dislike closed-mindedness. How can you be so sure you are right if you shut yourself off from all competing ideas?
"some people mention in the old testament about slavery" Yeah, but I didn't. What does that (or any of this really) have to do with my original post?
"where will you go when you die?" The cemetery.
"you will be forgotten" So will you. What's your point?
"then i will have lost nothing" What if we're both wrong and, oh say, Taliban was right? Then we both go to hell. Christianity is not an either-or choice. It was one of several possible religions and any one or none of them could be true.
So, all told, if this was meant to be a rebuttal to my post, it failed miserably. 0 out of 5. It addressed several irrelevant points, but failed to address anything I said specifically. It barely addressed the implicit fact conveyed that I am not a Christian, but that doesn;t really count, as that was ancillarily implicit and not the main point of my post.
Trouble is that humans are aware that they will die someday.
However, the primal survival instinct that makes us avoid getting killed or injured hasn't adjusted to this new idea yet. Thus people seek out religions to avoid danger after they die.
If the wire just tacks onto the surface, expose about 1/8 inch of bare wire, tin it (that is, using the soldering iron, wet the wire thoroughly with solder) then press it onto the board with the soldering iron. Quickly press the wire in place with the end of a screwdriver and remove the iron. Hold the wire with the screwdriver tip for a few seconds until the solder hardens.
If the wire passes through a hole in the board, you need to clean the solder out of the hole. To do this, place the iron to the board and use a soldering wick (an absorbant copper mesh, probably available at Radio Shack) to soak up the excess solder. Then you can strip the insulation off the end of the wire (about 1/8 inch again), place the bare wire through the hole, apply solder and remove the iron. If the wire is stranded, you may want to twist the strands together a bit to keep them together. Trim off any excess wire sticking through the other side above the solder.
If you can't find soldering wick, you can heat the wire by placing the iron against it and gently poke the wire through the hole, melting the solder as you go. Finally, apply some solder to the board to secure the wire. This requires three hands and is recommended only as a last resort.
The thing you must be careful about is not overheating the board. If the iron is held in contact with it too long (more than a few seconds), other components may become unsoldered or the varnish may melt, producing nasty fumes, or the copper traces may separate from the board. If the last of these happens, you may be able to salvage it by replacing the failed traces with 30-gauge wire using techniques described in the first paragraph. This is unnecessary if you are careful though.
If you use rosin core or flux core solder, you should use a q-tip soaked in paint thinner to clean the newly soldered connection after it has cooled. This will prevent corrosion.
Finally, to keep this from happening again, it is best to secure the wire so that it does not flex near the solder joint, where it is brittle and prone to breaking. Nylon zip ties are good for this and should be placed around a structural component of your hardware and preferably not around the board itself.
If you don't want to risk ruining your good hardware right away, you may want to practice by soldering wires to an old token ring card or something.
As for the soldering iron, a small iron of less than 50 Watts is best for this kind of work. Do not use a soldering gun because they are bulkier and more difficult to control and certainly do not use the 300 watt model designed for copper roofing.
Yes, in fact my company arranged a round of golf between one of our more satisfied customers and a prospective customer with the hope they would discuss our product. Kind of reminded me of when zoos put two pandas in the same habitat to see if they mate.
Businessman: As you can see, our product... Zookeeper: Look everybody! He's "presenting".
"We have to put big resistive loads on the 12V lines to get adequate current."
Ummmm... so, you're just wasting power then. The current rating on a power supply is the maximum current the supply can give you before it blows a fuse or catches fire. Similarly, the current rating on the device is how much the device needs to run.
If the device requires more current than the PSU, you need a bigger power supply.
If the device requires less, it will be fine. You don't need to put a bunch of extra load on the power supply for it to work right, unless you're just trying to heat your lab with expensive resistors.
Guru: So click on the icon. Luser: Woah dude, what's with all this technical mumbo jumbo? Click? Icon? We don't all have CS degrees like you pal. Guru: See this, this is called a mouse. You put your hand on it and use it to move the cursor to that little picture. Luser: Oh, man, I have no idea what you just said. What's a 'mouse'? You mean the foot pedal? Also, are you saying we should swear at it? I do that all the time.
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Why would the last Windows PC die at the Cincinnati Zoo?
In a piece of C code where I work that has Unicode support, I saw this comment, by itself, within a routine that did some string manipulation: // I'm hot for TCHAR.
Yeah, really. It only goes from 88 to 108. I often wondered what kind of great stuff we might be missing on, oh say, 75.
Basically, they used a high-powered particle accelerator to create MD5 collisions between human-meaningful documents, thus forging the missing link between thermodynamic and informational entropy.
I hope that clears things up.
Type: Spoofing
Exploit: Local
Effects: All browsers
Description:
A 7 year old vulnerability has been discovered in multiple browsers, allowing malicious people to spoof the content of websites.
The problem is that the browsers don't check if a piece of black electrical tape is on the screen covering the address bar, which prevents the user from identifying the source of content in the browser window.
Successful exploitation allows a malicious website to load arbitrary content with its source masked by the black tape. The user cannot know if this is a trusted site.
Solution:
Remove the piece of electrical tape from the screen. Windex may be necessary to clean up afterwards.
Ha! Joke's on them! Most of my computers were fished from dumpsters.
Top mouse eaten by Topcat. Film at 11.
Nutrition... Free iPod...
/ducks
Would this be a food pyramid scheme?
...yeah, and monkeys might fly out of my butt.
So, if the kid gets sued when he's 18, then lives to be 80, that's 62 years * 12 mo/yr * $5 = $3720.
This seems comparable to their current settlement amount.
"... it is important to remember that the bulk of business travel still happens for the sake of face-to-face communication."
Yes, and teleconferencing, not terrorism, is why the airline industry is in such a slump. I'm surprised teleconferencing hasn't been banned to help the airlines. I guess the airlines haven't figured this out yet and started lobyying.
Quite an interesting article. I never realized that Thomas Edison built the first PDA in 1906. It was called the Edison Automatic Electric Calendar. It weighed close to three tons and could remember up to five appointments at once.
They've come a long ways since then...
I built a fully encrypted system once. Even the source was encrypted. Sadly, I lost the key and it was all for naught...
"why dont i just jump off of a building?"
Because you would die.
"that we are crazy"
I never said anyone was crazy.
"either you are black or white"
Or Asian.
"so much hate"
I think of it as different conclusions from different basic assumptions of reality. I don't hate religion. I do dislike closed-mindedness. How can you be so sure you are right if you shut yourself off from all competing ideas?
"some people mention in the old testament about slavery"
Yeah, but I didn't. What does that (or any of this really) have to do with my original post?
"where will you go when you die?"
The cemetery.
"you will be forgotten"
So will you. What's your point?
"then i will have lost nothing"
What if we're both wrong and, oh say, Taliban was right? Then we both go to hell. Christianity is not an either-or choice. It was one of several possible religions and any one or none of them could be true.
So, all told, if this was meant to be a rebuttal to my post, it failed miserably. 0 out of 5. It addressed several irrelevant points, but failed to address anything I said specifically. It barely addressed the implicit fact conveyed that I am not a Christian, but that doesn;t really count, as that was ancillarily implicit and not the main point of my post.
However, the primal survival instinct that makes us avoid getting killed or injured hasn't adjusted to this new idea yet. Thus people seek out religions to avoid danger after they die.
If the wire just tacks onto the surface, expose about 1/8 inch of bare wire, tin it (that is, using the soldering iron, wet the wire thoroughly with solder) then press it onto the board with the soldering iron. Quickly press the wire in place with the end of a screwdriver and remove the iron. Hold the wire with the screwdriver tip for a few seconds until the solder hardens.
If the wire passes through a hole in the board, you need to clean the solder out of the hole. To do this, place the iron to the board and use a soldering wick (an absorbant copper mesh, probably available at Radio Shack) to soak up the excess solder. Then you can strip the insulation off the end of the wire (about 1/8 inch again), place the bare wire through the hole, apply solder and remove the iron. If the wire is stranded, you may want to twist the strands together a bit to keep them together. Trim off any excess wire sticking through the other side above the solder.
If you can't find soldering wick, you can heat the wire by placing the iron against it and gently poke the wire through the hole, melting the solder as you go. Finally, apply some solder to the board to secure the wire. This requires three hands and is recommended only as a last resort.
The thing you must be careful about is not overheating the board. If the iron is held in contact with it too long (more than a few seconds), other components may become unsoldered or the varnish may melt, producing nasty fumes, or the copper traces may separate from the board. If the last of these happens, you may be able to salvage it by replacing the failed traces with 30-gauge wire using techniques described in the first paragraph. This is unnecessary if you are careful though.
If you use rosin core or flux core solder, you should use a q-tip soaked in paint thinner to clean the newly soldered connection after it has cooled. This will prevent corrosion.
Finally, to keep this from happening again, it is best to secure the wire so that it does not flex near the solder joint, where it is brittle and prone to breaking. Nylon zip ties are good for this and should be placed around a structural component of your hardware and preferably not around the board itself.
If you don't want to risk ruining your good hardware right away, you may want to practice by soldering wires to an old token ring card or something.
As for the soldering iron, a small iron of less than 50 Watts is best for this kind of work. Do not use a soldering gun because they are bulkier and more difficult to control and certainly do not use the 300 watt model designed for copper roofing.
Good luck.
Yes, in fact my company arranged a round of golf between one of our more satisfied customers and a prospective customer with the hope they would discuss our product. Kind of reminded me of when zoos put two pandas in the same habitat to see if they mate.
Businessman: As you can see, our product...
Zookeeper: Look everybody! He's "presenting".
I've already downloaded it and used it to recompile Firefox and I must say that gf@fd@k3nl&
NO CARRIER
"We have to put big resistive loads on the 12V lines to get adequate current."
Ummmm... so, you're just wasting power then. The current rating on a power supply is the maximum current the supply can give you before it blows a fuse or catches fire. Similarly, the current rating on the device is how much the device needs to run.
If the device requires more current than the PSU, you need a bigger power supply.
If the device requires less, it will be fine. You don't need to put a bunch of extra load on the power supply for it to work right, unless you're just trying to heat your lab with expensive resistors.
'640K ought to be enough for anybody' -- Bill Gates
'We think there is a world market for maybe five computers.' --Tom Watson
'Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?' --Samuel Goldwyn
'Municipal Wi-Fi is one of the dumbest ideas I've ever heard' -- Ivan Seidenberg
Yes, I find Microsoft security comes in handy whenever I forget the punchline to a joke.
Knock knock.
Who's there?
Uhhh... Microsoft Security!
See? It's automatically funny, no matter what the context.
Time to tear it down and start working on Internet3.
Slashdot user k4_pacific promotes Anti-Texas Bill.
Guru: So click on the icon.
Luser: Woah dude, what's with all this technical mumbo jumbo? Click? Icon? We don't all have CS degrees like you pal.
Guru: See this, this is called a mouse. You put your hand on it and use it to move the cursor to that little picture.
Luser: Oh, man, I have no idea what you just said. What's a 'mouse'? You mean the foot pedal? Also, are you saying we should swear at it? I do that all the time.