A few minutes ago, I received a guestbook entry with a link to the url http://picocouple.oldledy2001.net/index.html. Curiously, I clicked on the link, only to find out that it redirects to a page on http://xearl.com/ which contains a threat detected by NOD32 as "Win32/Agent.NDA trojan". The site xearl.com itself has the message: "This site is closed."The attack was from IP Address : 80.50.82.90 which...
By Michael Eric Dyson For more than a year, I've been embroiled in a public debate with Bill Cosby about poor blacks. Cosby has been harshly critical of the poor, blaming them for their plight and arguing that personal responsibility is the key to their success. Cosby has dismissed both social forces and the legacy of racism in berating the poor for their many failures--bad parenting, bad language...
Last night I had a chance of doing some work for an Italian family. When I told them that my name was Alfero and I believe its Italian, they told me that the name meant "Iron". I got very excited because I figured that closely matches my physique and personality :), until I did a little more research, only to find out iron is actually "Ferro" in Italian. Well, that was a little close, but that only...
In a recent decision, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed its own
"suggestion test" as the main method for determining when a patent should be
found obvious over knowledge in the public domain. Under this test, even
the most obvious incremental advances and add-ons can be patented unless the
Patent Office or a defendant in court produces a document that shows someone
else suggested...
Warner v. Stubbs, in Oklahoma, the defendant filed her answer and
counterclaim against the RIAA on August 23, 2006. In it she likened the
RIAA's tactics to "extortion".
The very next day, on August 24, 2006, the RIAA turned around and asked
the Judge for permission to withdraw its case: More…
Stay up-to-date with the latest tips, tricks, and techniques in these articles.
In this article we're going to cover some basic
concepts on what you can do in order to make your ASP.NET application
as spider and search engine friendly as possible.
In this article the author discusses
some options for speeding up the loading of your ASP.NET pages. Some
tips include using caching, control use, and data handling techniques.
Microsoft has developed its own approach to AJAX
development called Atlas, which promises browser ubiquity as well as
tight, albeit optional, ASP.NET integration. In this column, we survey
the Atlas architecture to get a better understanding of how you may use
it in your development work.
In this article, you'll learn about many of the
new caching enhancements in the ASP.NET 2.0 framework. First, you'll
learn what we mean by caching and how it is done using ASP.NET
Framework 1.1. Next, you’ll learn how caching support has been
integrated into the new DataSource controls. Finally, you'll learn how
to configure and take advantage of SQL Cache Invalidation.
Explains the process of adding
'advanced' search engine features like Stemming, Stop words, etc to a
C#-based web-crawling indexer and search page that can be used on any
Web site.
Includes solution to the problem of Binary serialization and
deserialization across Assembly versions.
Full source for the spider and search included.
In this article Peter describes best
practices for taking server-side values (whether from a database,
web.config or a calculated value) and sending them to the client to be
used by JavaScript.
A CAPTCHA image displays text that is readable to humans, but not to
computers. The concept is useful because it provides a means to filter
out automated programs while allowing real users to pass through. Bots
for example, which spam comments on weblogs and other dynamic websites,
are a fairly pervasive problem and even a regularly new and low traffic
blog like this was getting dozens of spam...
A new feature for Gmail being rolled out right now allows you to call
contacts from within your Gmail account. Currently you must be signed
into the Google Talk application for it to show up, but hopefully soon
the feature will be available to users who don't have the instant
messenger installed. More…
[ABC News]
For those of you who've been following the saga of IE7, RC1 is another
in a long line of releases preceding the browser's launch. The RC1
build includes improvements in performance, stability, security, and
application compatibility. Since beta 3, the user interface has been
polished, support for CSS has been enhanced, French and Spanish
language support has been added, and an auto-uninstall...
[Macworld]
Earlier today, Logitech announced a new line of mice called, with sufficient bravado, Revolution. Comprising a full-size home model, the MX, and a smaller (though still sizable) portable model, the VX,
the Revolution line aims to, as the company so modestly put it,
“transform the experience of finding and manipulating the vast amount
of digital content on a person’s computer or on...
[ABC News]With the new 8GB e280,
SanDisk has pulled way ahead of Apple in the flash memory game. This
morning, SanDisk announced something that should make lots of holiday
shoppers happy: an 8GB version of the SanDisk Sansa e200
series—officially called the e280.
Pop3 Component written completely in managed code.Allow you to monitor your POP3 mailbox.Support attachments, HTML email or text email.
[Blogma]
We felt a little guilty after posting yesterday's item that pointed to "10 tips on doing nothing at work," so we'll try to make amends.
An anonymous submittor says "Today's young
generation can use Linux on the desktop provided it works with their
iPod. Linux on the desktop still hasn't reached that stage and has to
be compatible with multimedia applications like iTunes and iPod if it
has to beat Microsoft's Windows dominance on the desktop. Open source
gurus at LinuxWorld discuss solutions to make Linux more
consumer-friendly."...
The PC maker will offer desktops and servers powered by AMD processors, starting in September.
Color Schemer is a handy site (and software tool) for you web designers to help you pick your colors.
[Blogma]
It's not that we advocate subversion in the workplace or anything, honest. We just want to help our readers keep their bosses and co-workers on their toes.
With that in mind, we offer these 10 tips on how to get away with doing nothing at work. The pointers are apparently meant as satire, but we think they could be pretty effective--if we were so inclined to try them, which of course would...
Wired news describes how Sweden's pirate system has gone totally out of control and how pirates, with outstanding public support, are determined to force a paradigm shift
It's not the problem of the pirates to figure
out how to compensate artists or encourage invention away from the
current intellectual property system -- someone else will figure that
out. Their job is just to tear down the flawed...
The Pirate Bay was born in the late summer of 2003, in a plain motherboard box in Mexico with a slow radio uplink to the net. While at the center of a heated debate, The Pirate Bay neither operates in a black market nor lays claim to a loophole of
international law. Like its progenitor organization, Piratbyran, the
administrators of the Pirate Bay believe the law is wrong.
Graeme Williams writes "So many dimensions
are folded into this compact book that it took me more than a few
moments to see what I was looking at. In the space of 184 pages, SQL
Pocket Guide, Second Edition documents, explains, illustrates and
compares the most common SQL statements from Oracle (10g), DB2 (8.2),
SQL Server (2005), MySQL (5.0) and PostgreSQL (8.1), with occasional
notes on previous...
(InfoWorld) - Linux has great potential in the mobile arena, but establishing it there will be a tall order, industry participants told a LinuxWorld Conference and Expo audience.
A movement to force hardware manufacturers to eradicate the Caps Lock key from the computer keyboard is afoot on the web.
The Google Analytics Blog has announced that
you no longer need an invitation to receive the Website statistics
tracking for free. Just head on over to the Google Analytics site and
login with you Google account. It will then take you through the steps
that are needed to setup your Website.
One of the arguments for using frames has always been that they allow
you to keep parts of the layout on-screen at all times. This can be
emulated with CSS, as described here
In the Get Genuine program from Microsoft, they released a Windows
Product Key Update Tool. So after getting a legal license they can
choose to keep their pirated windows installation and change the key to
a genuine one. So they won't have to reinstall their PC.Linkified: http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/purchase/UpdateInstructions.aspx
(actual tool)
"Do you die?"
"No man! I'm the f*n hero!" "You know why?"
"SEQUEL!"
Sony batteries used in several Dell laptop
models are being replaced because of a demonstrated fire hazard. It's
the largest electronics-related recall involving the Consumer Products
Safety Commission.