Archive for July, 2007

My daughter will be 1 year old in less than a month now, and she isn’t just walking around, she is running around. And she is into everything, and I mean everything. She on top of the footstool, under the coffee table, climbing the steps, inside of her toybox, literally anywhere she can squeeze into, under, or on top of.

We bought these little clippy things that go onto your cabinet drawers and doors to keep toddlers from opening them. They work well, but what a pain they are to install. If I knew that we could have got the same outcome by training the dog to be a drawer childproofer(as the video below shows) I wouldn’t have had the headache of putting all those blasted things on.

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Imagine, if you will, that you needed the bird flu vaccine and time is running out. Before you are 2 Medical Administrators and 2 doors. One MA is standing in front of each door. But what’s behind the door, you ask. Well, in the room behind one of the doors is the bird flu vaccine and in the room behind the other door is nothing. You do not know which door leads to which room, and that’s where the MAs come in.

The 2 MAs know which room has the vaccine, but the only problem is that one MA always tells the truth and the other MA always tells a lie. And added to that, you do not know which MA is which. They look the same. Here’s your task: You can only ask one MA one question and your goal is to get into that room with the vaccine, because as it was previously mentioned, time is running out.

What is the one question you ask the one MA to guarantee that you access the right room and
save yourself? Hurry, time is running out.

• Wayne’s World was filmed in two weeks.

• The raised reflective dots in the middle of highways are called Botts dots.

• Samuel Clemens’ pseudonym “Mark Twain” was the nickname of a riverboat pilot about whom Clemens wrote a needless nasty satirical piece. Apparently, Clemens felt guilt later and adopted the name as a nom de plume as some sort of expiation.

• Every time you lick a stamp, you’re consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

• The derivation of the word trivia comes from the Latin “tri-” + “via”, which means three streets. This is because in ancient times, at an intersection of three streeets in Rome (or some other Italian place), they would have a type of kiosk where ancillary information was listed. You might be interested in it, you might not, hence they were bits of “trivia.”

If someone borrows $10. from someone and says, “Before God I swear to you that I will repay you.” How many people do you think will be bound by that?

Promises, vows, oaths, etc. and those made without invoking any deity. “I vow to you you I will….”

To me that locks one into fulfilling that, but I see so many people who feel it’s just a bunch of words.

What do you think? That person to whom the promise/oath/vow/swear an oath to…. whatever……was made. Do you think that person was just a sucker to believe it?

Or do you think the one who gave that oath is bound by it?

When I was much younger, I think I believed in oaths, vows etc. Then life moved on giving me experience, quite often hard, which led me to the fact that now I don’t believe in oaths at all.

Life is so dynamic that too many times it surprises you with twists, so you have to be prepared for changes. Also people change thus changing your attitude towards them. Needless to say, you can’t be 100% sure that you know them well enough to give any vow or believe them when they give one.

This consideration leads to the conclusion that being mature, one shouldn’t give any oaths or swear to God. I think giving vows is rather childish and quite often it is nothing more than a manipulation.

Some may say that I live unhappy life with this kind of attitude. I would answer, no it’s not that I’m unhappy because of my lack of faith in humans. I actually believe in people when they say “I can do this for you” or “I’ll try my best” but not when someone says “I swear to god or whatever…” or ” I will never” or “I will always”…

*After some playing around, I have concluded that this apparently works on any NT based machine (this includes XP…you have been warned)*

Windows Vista can be completely killed by pressing a simple combination of just two keys. All you need to crush Microsoft’s latest operating system and put the much-applauded wow at an end is two fingers.

This issue has been reported independently of Microsoft, and the Redmond company has failed to issue any official comment at the time of this article. The immediate question which comes to mind is if the problem is a security vulnerability or a simple bug.

Either way, you too can watch Windows Vista die in front of your eyes. To make matters worse, the key combination is one of the most utilized keyboard shortcuts in Windows. Pressing the Windows key together with “E” will start Computer in Windows Vista. Keeping the two keys pressed will open a large volume of Computer windows. Want to crush Windows Vista? Nothing could be simpler. Just keep the two keys pressed for more than 20 – 30 seconds.

The operating system will begin to behave aberrantly and will continue to open Computer instances flooding the desktop. There is no way to restore Vista to its normal self, outside of a reboot. With Computer windows cascading on your desktop, you will soon find that Task Manager cannot be accessed. The same is valid for additional processes. You will have to restart the operating system in order to restore Vista.

In its present form, the bug seems to create nothing more than a Denial of Service condition. It remains to be seen if it can be exploited remotely or if it permits code execution. Still, I’d put my money on a bug, rather than on a security vulnerability.

*After some playing around, I have concluded that this apparently works on any NT based machine (this includes XP…you have been warned)*

On a brighter note, a person could have a lot fun with this trick in a Circuit City or Best Buy to all of the computers in sight.