Having your name on top should take no more than 5 seconds to achieve

Copy and paste the URL below to your address bar and change YOUR_TEXT with any text of your choice.

The page functions as if it is the authentic Google homepage by using Google for all operations. One wonders how Google feel about use of their bandwidth from sources on another domain. However, this certainly benefits their overall status.

• Brought to my attention by Dr. Scott Tobkes.

An article from Techworld proves how ridiculously easy it is to break the Microsoft authenticity check, which is needed to allow users to get software updates such as the common Service Packs. It is yet another story which reflects terribly on Microsoft and their security loopholes. Perhaps they try to make it easy and encourage distribution of illegal copies of Windows, just as they turned a blind eye to piracy in the far east. Some would argue that they simply cannot program a mechanism that is sufficiently secure.

To carry out the hack, users simply needed to insert the following line into Explorer’s address bar before the WGA authentication check was carried out:

javascript:void(window.g_sDisableWGACheck='all')

This revelation is utterly embarrassing for any manufacturer whose annual revenue pushes the high billions. It took only a day since its announcement for WGA to be broken. Ironically, believe it or not, WGA stands for Windows Genuine Advantage. Piracy was definitely an advantage which promoted Microsoft when it was still in its diapers.

The pile of dusty Dells in my office, taken from my daily photolog

Below is a story which I discovered on Dvorak Uncensored. He pointed to an item from Thomas Hawk who talks about being denied to right to photograph streets:

Yesterday I was shooting some photos of One Bush St. (the building where Bush and Market Streets intersect) when their security guard came out of his little glass jewelbox lobby hut to ask me to stop taking photos of the building. He said it was illegal. I moved to the sidewalk and continued taking photos and he again asked me to stop. When I told him I was on a public street sidewalk he said that actually they owned the sidewalk and that I was going to have to stop taking photographs.

Even after shooting approximately 2000 photos in the streets of Manchester, never did anyone address me with a complaint. “Only in America”, some would say…

Female fan: “Oh, Bill, your floppy is so long”

hen there is nothing particularly interesting to post, the typical blogger will publish a photo. Shown above is Bill Gates posing for a teen magazine in 1985. The photo below is from WikiMedia.

“When nobody else is in the room, I sometimes get jiggy with it”

Dr. Irving from the University reported a ‘critical’ issue with the Linux distribution that had been installed in student clusters. The following message was posted yesterday afternoon to the Linux-users mailing list. I believe it is worth quoting:

Several of our students have been complaining about a pornographic screensaver on Redhat Fedora Core 3 desktops. After a bit of rooting around I’ve tracked this down to the webcollage.desktop screensaver which picks random images off the internet and displays them within the screensaver. Not a very responsible inclusion in a desktop environment but it can be found in /usr/share/applnk/System/ScreenSavers should anyone receive similar complaints.

he screenshot below practically illustrates why you should not always trust news sources, even if they are as big as Yahoo Inc. Some say that technical Web logs are more knowledgeable sources of information while journalists, correspondents and editors have scarce knowledge of some topics they cover. I was faced with the screen shown below when reading the Technology section in Yahoo.

Are the two processors going to fight one another by spitting heat? It should of course have been “dual-core”.

I caught the following photos on Dvorak Uncensored. It is still unknown where these toilet facilities come from exactly.

On the left: view from outside
On the right: inside-out view

Rather then making sarcastic remarks, let your imagination lead you to problems with such ‘innovation’. Innovations are said to be truly dead; the above is an evidence.