Monday, September 20, 2010
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Passwords passwords everywhere
So I had to create a new password, and this is the explanation I got why my regular 10 character that includes capitals, special chars and numbers is not ok
Password Requirements: Contain 8 - 16 characters with both upper and lower case (e.g., a-z, A-Z). Have digits and punctuation/symbol characters as well as letters e.g., 0-9, !@#$%^&*()_+|~-=\`{}[]:";'<>?,
And I think it will only get worse, until everysite willb e able to read my thumb or eye view.
Password Requirements: Contain 8 - 16 characters with both upper and lower case (e.g., a-z, A-Z). Have digits and punctuation/symbol characters as well as letters e.g., 0-9, !@#$%^&*()_+|~-=\`{}[]:";'<>?,
And I think it will only get worse, until everysite willb e able to read my thumb or eye view.
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Monday, August 16, 2010
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Daddy - How was I born?
Daddy, how was I born?
A little boy goes to his father and asks 'Daddy, how was I born?'
The father answers, 'Well, son, I guess one day you will need to find out anyway! Your Mom and I first got together in a chat room on Yahoo. Then I set up a date via e-mail with your Mom and we met at a cyber-cafe. We sneaked into a secluded room, and googled each other. There your mother agreed to a download from my hard drive. As soon as I was ready to upload, we discovered that neither one of us had used a firewall, and since it was too late to hit the delete button, nine months later a little pop-up appeared that said:
Scroll
Down... You'll love this....
A little boy goes to his father and asks 'Daddy, how was I born?'
The father answers, 'Well, son, I guess one day you will need to find out anyway! Your Mom and I first got together in a chat room on Yahoo. Then I set up a date via e-mail with your Mom and we met at a cyber-cafe. We sneaked into a secluded room, and googled each other. There your mother agreed to a download from my hard drive. As soon as I was ready to upload, we discovered that neither one of us had used a firewall, and since it was too late to hit the delete button, nine months later a little pop-up appeared that said:
Scroll
Down... You'll love this....
'You've got Male!
Friday, August 13, 2010
Working in the Sun
I took this picture from outside of my office.I am not sure what this person does, but hopefully, he is not my accountant.
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Sunday, August 8, 2010
US Congress in action
House Minority Leader Lawrence F. Cafero Jr., R-Norwalk, pictured standing, far right, speaks while colleagues Rep. Barbara Lambert, D-Milford and Rep. Jack F. Hennessy, D-Bridgeport, play solitaire Monday night as the House convened to vote on a new budget. (AP)
The guy sitting in the row in front of these two....he's on Facebook, and the guy behind Hennessy is checking out the baseball scores.
These are the folks that couldn't get the budget out by Oct. 1, and are about to control your health care, cap and trade, and ! the list goes on and on….
The guy sitting in the row in front of these two....he's on Facebook, and the guy behind Hennessy is checking out the baseball scores.
These are the folks that couldn't get the budget out by Oct. 1, and are about to control your health care, cap and trade, and ! the list goes on and on….
Should we buy them larger screen computers - or - a ticket home, permanently? |
This is one of their 3-DAY WORK WEEKS that we all pay for (salary is about $179,000 per year). I am ready to start from the beginning by voting out all elected officials and not letting any of them stay in office for more than two terms. No more lifelong healthcare, retirement, voting in their own pay raises, taking perks on our taxes, etc. |
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Can you spell : Eyjafjallajökull
This is not a funny post, but just remembered it.Back in the days that the Icelandic volcano erupted, I was in India. I came back flying through Russia, not funny at all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_eruptions_of_Eyjafjallajökull
All included
I can't say this is a typical bathroom in India, but this is what I had in the Bangalore hotel I last stayed.It was very unique to have a Jet shower standing near the toilet seat :-)
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Monday, August 2, 2010
Weeds - A funny TV series
Ignoring the aspects that are shown in the series, it's a funny as hell TV Series.
Sunday, August 1, 2010
Friday, July 30, 2010
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
PayPal - referals
PayPal has a unique referral system. It's based on fees that premier or business accounts open only.
After your referral has received payments for 200$, you will get the commission, but again, this lasts only 12 months from day of registration.
So, if the referral has started his business 12 months AFTER he has registered, you will not get any fees.
It's better than nothing, as PayPal are the biggest, and also used in a wide selection of websites.
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Best Penalty Kick Ever? Ezequiel Calvente Penalty for Spain U19 vs Italy U19 (24/07/10)
YouTube - Best Penalty Kick Ever? Ezequiel Calvente Penalty for Spain U19 vs Italy U19 (24/07/10)
Indeed, a superb goal, I wonder what the goalie thinks though.
I am singing in the rain (driving actually)
You might think that this 2 wheeler will get one tomorrow? wrong, he probably wouldn't.
India: In Word and Image
Plain instructions Part 2.
Again, some very simple instructions. It's hard to see, but check for the 3 small labels, yea: Mouse, Keyboard and Monitor.
I wonder what would a left handed person do with the mouse. Can he move it to the other side of the keyboard?
Will the alarm sound off?
Monday, July 26, 2010
Plain instructions
India have been trying very hard in the past years, and the coming commonwealth games are an important phase in the countries history, and some areas need specific instructions on how to behave in public.
India - Bangalore - cross road
I thought to myself, what can I say as a text for this picture.
I think any word it too much.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Three great Kings
I usually don't get many joke mails, but I thought this one is worth the forward action
Teacher : Can you tell me the name of 3 great kings who have brought happiness & peace into people's lives?
Student : Smo-king , Drin-king & Fuc-king..
Teacher : Can you tell me the name of 3 great kings who have brought happiness & peace into people's lives?
Student : Smo-king , Drin-king & Fuc-king..
I am back - and yea, I am also sorry
Ok,
I know I have been gone for a long time, and have posted such unrelated posts - but it's my blog and I will do whatever I (wait, that's not what I wanted to say). but I am back.
I know I have been gone for a long time, and have posted such unrelated posts - but it's my blog and I will do whatever I (wait, that's not what I wanted to say). but I am back.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Windows 7 RSAT not working
if you installed Microsoft RSAT on a windows 7 machine, don't forget you need to enable the tools you want in : control panel -> programs
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Weeds Complete wallpaper Collection
I will try to make as complete as possible a collection of Weeds (showtime TV series) wallpaper images.
If you find some that I miss, please drop a note.
If you find some that I miss, please drop a note.
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| Weeds |
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
WURF(l) WURF(l) and PHP part 1
If you ever tried to install a mobile application or website, you probably felt like that. hundreds of browsers, standards, non standards and than some.
One application that tried to solve that is WURFL. What it does is keep a huge database of mobile phone browsers and their capabilities, and gives the developers a single place to get coding right.
You write once, and the API acts like a layer, and displays the corresponding code to the requesting browser/phone.
All seemed nice, until I started to install and implement it.
It first asks for a PEAR dependancy log. I installed that.
Now comes the messy part, neither instructions, not on the web nor on the downloaded package are informative enough, nor do they even correlate to the correct folder they are in.
Once tells you to update a file from one location, while residing on a different one.
It's hard to ask from people who invest of their time by writing open and free source, but if you will spend just 1,2, 5 and even 10 hours more, you will save an exponential number of hours by solving questions that the answers are already known.
I will continue with the installation process:
1. Install PEAR install log - done
And that's about the last easy step that WURFLS had to give.
There MUST be a better way to help users, I am not asking for a 24hour support line, but 1 clear easy FAQ/Forum - that will do it.
One application that tried to solve that is WURFL. What it does is keep a huge database of mobile phone browsers and their capabilities, and gives the developers a single place to get coding right.
You write once, and the API acts like a layer, and displays the corresponding code to the requesting browser/phone.
All seemed nice, until I started to install and implement it.
It first asks for a PEAR dependancy log. I installed that.
Now comes the messy part, neither instructions, not on the web nor on the downloaded package are informative enough, nor do they even correlate to the correct folder they are in.
Once tells you to update a file from one location, while residing on a different one.
It's hard to ask from people who invest of their time by writing open and free source, but if you will spend just 1,2, 5 and even 10 hours more, you will save an exponential number of hours by solving questions that the answers are already known.
I will continue with the installation process:
1. Install PEAR install log - done
And that's about the last easy step that WURFLS had to give.
There MUST be a better way to help users, I am not asking for a 24hour support line, but 1 clear easy FAQ/Forum - that will do it.
Monday, January 11, 2010
Chinese Safa Kasha
We all know that Chinese is one of the difficult languages to learn, talk and master. It all starts with learning the ABC and numbers.
First lesson: Number 6 in Chinese
First lesson: Number 6 in Chinese
Sleep for a random time in PHP
If you want your PHP program to halt/sleep for a random period of time, use the folowing:
sleep ( rand ( int min, int max));
*sleep is in seconds
so:
sleep ( rand ( 2, 4));
will sleep for 2 to 4 seconds.
http://php.net/manual/en/function.sleep.php
http://php.net/manual/en/function.rand.php
sleep ( rand ( int min, int max));
*sleep is in seconds
so:
sleep ( rand ( 2, 4));
will sleep for 2 to 4 seconds.
http://php.net/manual/en/function.sleep.php
http://php.net/manual/en/function.rand.php
How to execute wget from php
I was trying to exectue wget from php, tried and read several sites.
The way to do it is very simple:
<?php
exec ('wget URL_TO_GRAB'); // note you can add ANY command or option as well.
?>
Have fun
The way to do it is very simple:
<?php
exec ('wget URL_TO_GRAB'); // note you can add ANY command or option as well.
?>
Have fun
Sunday, January 10, 2010
There is no business like Grow business
Oh what a show, call me outdated, call me late comer, but Just today I watched the first episode of this most funny show ever.
Weeds - It's a hilarious story about a mom of 2 whom her husband just died, and on her effort to overcome everything, becomse a drug dealer - yea - super duper idea.
have fun !!!
http://www.sho.com/site/weeds/home.do
Weeds - It's a hilarious story about a mom of 2 whom her husband just died, and on her effort to overcome everything, becomse a drug dealer - yea - super duper idea.
have fun !!!
http://www.sho.com/site/weeds/home.do
Where Thou you Jadoo
I used to play Planetside, a nice FPS game form Sony. Beside the bad lag I had, it was a pretty solid game, which I liked.
One of the better players on my realm: Europe, was Jadoo, here's an old screenie of a chat part of my success
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Free PC Information
If you need to get information on your PC, I found http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html to fit the job pretty good.
Edimax BR-6504 Router Default settings
IP: 192.168.2.1
USER: admin
Password: 1234
Just a piece of handy info
USER: admin
Password: 1234
Just a piece of handy info
Skiff - 'D' next Real E-Reader
The skiff just launched, undoubtedly the next real Epaper out there.
It can fold, it can sing and it has WiFi
http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/technology/e-book-reader-skiff-launched_434713.html
It can fold, it can sing and it has WiFi
http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/technology/e-book-reader-skiff-launched_434713.html
Adsense and Dynamic content
If you want to put adsense on your php dynamic pages, it's possible
Let me explain how GET|POST matters. The process of getting the relevant ad to the page is as following:
1. The user inputs some query and hits Search.
2. The browser sends the request and gets the page with some contents
3. The AdSense javascript on this page calls spider telling him the URL of the page
4. The spider comes, grabs the page and analyzes it thus selecting the relevant ads
Now what will happen if the JS tells the spider the URL like http://www.mysite.com/myscript.cgi? The spider will see a page with default content because it didn't POST a request there. But the user will see quite different page because he did! So ads displayed will correspond with contents of default page, not with what the user has requested. And if the request was sent by user via GET then the JS will pass the spuider the URL like http://www.mysite.com/myscript.cgi?q...ss+destruction, so both user and spider will see the same content and the spider will be able to select the appropriate ads to display.
credit
Let me explain how GET|POST matters. The process of getting the relevant ad to the page is as following:
1. The user inputs some query and hits Search.
2. The browser sends the request and gets the page with some contents
3. The AdSense javascript on this page calls spider telling him the URL of the page
4. The spider comes, grabs the page and analyzes it thus selecting the relevant ads
Now what will happen if the JS tells the spider the URL like http://www.mysite.com/myscript.cgi? The spider will see a page with default content because it didn't POST a request there. But the user will see quite different page because he did! So ads displayed will correspond with contents of default page, not with what the user has requested. And if the request was sent by user via GET then the JS will pass the spuider the URL like http://www.mysite.com/myscript.cgi?q...ss+destruction, so both user and spider will see the same content and the spider will be able to select the appropriate ads to display.
credit
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Going to ski in the Alps? Meet your R.I.P. Instructor
I don't want to be rude or anything, but I am not sure this is the first thing I want to see when I choose who will be my ski instructor off piste
http://www.rtmsnowboarding.com/who_we_are/tom_donnelly.php
http://www.rtmsnowboarding.com/who_we_are/tom_donnelly.php
Shutdown and reboot of all Domain copmuters
It's an easy tool, and free
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897541.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897541.aspx
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
VIM Search and replace
VIM is an awsome tool for editing, I keep learning new things every day.
Today I learned how to easily search and replace strings:
:[range] s/search/replace/
so easy. there are other options as well, you can work in Visual mode to select lines, you can ask to search and replace in the entire file, etc.
super easy.
Today I learned how to easily search and replace strings:
:[range] s/search/replace/
so easy. there are other options as well, you can work in Visual mode to select lines, you can ask to search and replace in the entire file, etc.
super easy.
Bug 2010 !!!
We all waited for the Y2K bug, that didn't arrive, but voot voot, it hit Germany only 10 years later.
A delayed Y2K bug has bitten hard at some 30 million holders of German debit and credit cards, making it impossible for them to use automatic teller machines and point-of-sale terminals since New Year's Day.
Multiple news agencies said the outage stemmed from card chips that couldn't recognize the year 2010. The DSGV, an association representing German banks, said engineers were working diligently to fix the problem, but a full resolution might not come until Monday.
The outage affected 20 million EC, or electronic cash, cards, which act as debit cards, and 3.5 million credit cards, according to the DSGV. A separate bank association known as BDB said about 2.5 million of its cards suffered from the same problem and another 4 million cards issued by Germany's cooperative banks were at least partially touched.
The reports are the latest to involve the inability of computers to properly handle the 2010 date. Just after midnight on New Year's Day, Symantec's Endpoint Protection Manager stopped accepting updates after it was hit by its own 2010 date bug. Soon after the first of the year, SpamAssassin began blocking huge amounts of legitimate email because they included the 2010 in their headers, a date so far off the spam filter assumed they had to be junk.
A delayed Y2K bug has bitten hard at some 30 million holders of German debit and credit cards, making it impossible for them to use automatic teller machines and point-of-sale terminals since New Year's Day.
Multiple news agencies said the outage stemmed from card chips that couldn't recognize the year 2010. The DSGV, an association representing German banks, said engineers were working diligently to fix the problem, but a full resolution might not come until Monday.
The outage affected 20 million EC, or electronic cash, cards, which act as debit cards, and 3.5 million credit cards, according to the DSGV. A separate bank association known as BDB said about 2.5 million of its cards suffered from the same problem and another 4 million cards issued by Germany's cooperative banks were at least partially touched.
The reports are the latest to involve the inability of computers to properly handle the 2010 date. Just after midnight on New Year's Day, Symantec's Endpoint Protection Manager stopped accepting updates after it was hit by its own 2010 date bug. Soon after the first of the year, SpamAssassin began blocking huge amounts of legitimate email because they included the 2010 in their headers, a date so far off the spam filter assumed they had to be junk.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Monday, January 4, 2010
check for group member in user cake $loggedInUser->isGroupMember
If you are trying to implement usercake (AWSOME), and you need to check if a user is in a group, here is the code:
if (!$loggedInUser->isGroupMember($admin_group_id) ){
echo "Admin only access";
die();
}
have fun
if (!$loggedInUser->isGroupMember($admin_group_id) ){
echo "Admin only access";
die();
}
have fun
Track visitors to your website with mysql and php
A very simple table and script, enjoy
CREATE TABLE `track` (
script
$tm=time();
taken from: http://www.plus2net.com/php_tutorial/visitor-logging.php
CREATE TABLE `track` (
`id` int(6) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`tm` varchar(15) NOT NULL default '',
`ref` varchar(250) NOT NULL default '',
`agent` varchar(250) NOT NULL default '',
`ip` varchar(20) NOT NULL default '',
`ip_value` int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
`domain` varchar(20) NOT NULL default '',
`tracking_page_name` varchar(10) NOT NULL default '',
UNIQUE KEY `id` (`id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 ;
script
$tm=time();
$ref=@$HTTP_REFERER;
$agent=@$HTTP_USER_AGENT;
$ip=@$REMOTE_ADDR;
$strSQL = "INSERT INTO track(tm, ref, agent, ip, tracking_page_name) VALUES ('$tm','$ref','$agent','$ip','$tracking_page_name')";
$test=mysql_query($strSQL);
taken from: http://www.plus2net.com/php_tutorial/visitor-logging.php
Best bookmark sync addon for ALL browsers !!! xmarks !!
I use xmarks as syncing between all my computers and all the browsers I use
http://www.xmarks.com/
very very good and accurate
http://www.xmarks.com/
very very good and accurate
Sunday, January 3, 2010
Send SMTP in PHP Via PEAR package also in Amazon AWS
If you are going to send SMTP with PHP, and sendmail isn't just good enough, you might want to try and use PEAR package. super one.
Just don't forget to setup correctly the header for the send function
$header['From'] = $websiteName . " <" . $emailAddress . ">";
$header['MIME-Version'] = '1.0';
$header['Content-type']= 'text/html; charset=iso-8859-1';
$header['Subject']= $subject ;
Have fun
Just don't forget to setup correctly the header for the send function
$header['From'] = $websiteName . " <" . $emailAddress . ">";
$header['MIME-Version'] = '1.0';
$header['Content-type']= 'text/html; charset=iso-8859-1';
$header['Subject']= $subject ;
Have fun
Not funny: A father murdered his 8 month daughter
This has happened yesterday. A father murdered his 8 month old daughter by slamming her on to the floor. I feel like shouting !!! The atrocity, the sheer brutal force one can use against a harmless 8 month - she is your own flesh and blood !!
There are no words to describe this, and only one thing comes to my mind: DEATH PENALTY !!!
I really wish that there would bring up the chair for such criminals.
Some couples whom are childless are waiting for a child for years, and others can easily take a life.
To add more to the horror, the child was crying for 20 minutes (so the neighbors claim) - if that's the case, why didn't they intervene? where is their humanity? Reading such news makes me sad and sick.
Don't have words for this.
There are no words to describe this, and only one thing comes to my mind: DEATH PENALTY !!!
I really wish that there would bring up the chair for such criminals.
Some couples whom are childless are waiting for a child for years, and others can easily take a life.
To add more to the horror, the child was crying for 20 minutes (so the neighbors claim) - if that's the case, why didn't they intervene? where is their humanity? Reading such news makes me sad and sick.
Don't have words for this.
Friday, January 1, 2010
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