February 2006 - Posts

• EDU: Block specific images from WebPages or whole directories (banners)

  If you’re like me and still use forums or pages that load images for you to click on than read on.  Some of these pages house the advertisements on their own server, www.FavSite.com serves up images from www.FavSite.com/banners or even www.FavSite.com/advert.gif.  Why is there no option that allows you to right click and block the image?  You can’t use the hosts file because that just blocks the whole site.   Enter the PAC file (Proxy Auto Configuration file) which will allow us to do just that.  First off I highly suggest that you visit the following site http://www.schooner.com/~loverso/no-ads/ John looks to have put a lot of hard work into the PAC file available for download.  Once you have worked through the process you can proceed to add specific images to the file which looks like the following. || shExpMatch(url, "*FavSite.com/aprb03.gif")   By default the PAC file you can download from the site blocks images served up from a banner directory, the example I gave is for a image that is served up from the root.  The only problem I’m still having is redirecting the gif from a web server to a 1x1 gif image that I host on my workstation. Also a few key points, only open the PAC file with wordpad and when you add the path of the PAC file into IE use 2 forward slashes not what they tell you (file://c:/no-ads.pac). Posted Feb 24 2006, 11:02 AM by Anonymous with no comments

• Apple's ode to hackers

  Seems like apple put a poem in case a hacker tried to liberate the OS.  I'd never want a mac but come on, is a poem going to stop anyone? http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/ptech/02/17/apple.hacker.poem.ap/index.html The maker of Macintosh computers had anticipated that hackers would try to crack its new OS X operating system built to work on Intel Corp.'s chips and run pirated versions on non-Apple computers. So, Apple developers embedded a warning deep in the software -- in the form of a poem. Indeed, a hacker encountered the poem recently, and a copy of it has been circulating on Mac-user Web sites this week. Apple confirmed Thursday it has included such a warning in its Intel-based computers since it started selling them in January. The embedded poem reads: "Your karma check for today: There once was a user that whined/his existing OS was so blind/he'd do better to pirate/an OS that ran great/but found his hardware declined./Please don't steal Mac OS!/Really, that's way uncool./(C) Apple Computer, Inc." Posted Feb 20 2006, 09:28 AM by Anonymous with no comments

• Ricky Williams smoking pot again

  What a pot head... ...violated the NFL's substance abuse policy for a fourth time and is facing a one-year suspension from the league... http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2336760 Posted Feb 20 2006, 09:24 AM by Anonymous with no comments

• Blind Cal student sues Target V.Web site cannot be used by the sightless :cali:

  http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/02/08/MNGO7H4VBP128.DTL The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Alameda County Superior Court, said the upscale discounter's on-line business, target.com, denies blind Californians equal access to goods and services available to those who can see. Posted Feb 09 2006, 04:03 PM by Anonymous with no comments

• Google software allows remote access to PCs :eeek:

  Now this is pretty cool. http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/internet/02/09/google.desktop.ap/index.html SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- Google Inc. is offering a new tool that will automatically transfer information from one personal computer to another, but anyone wanting that convenience must authorize the Internet search leader to store the material for up to 30 days. To enable the computer-to-computer search function, a user specifies what information should be indexed and then agrees to allow Google to transfer the material to its own storage system. Google plans to encrypt all data transferred from users' hard drives and restrict access to just a handful of its employees. The company says it won't peruse any of the transferred information. Once another computer participating in a user's personal network is turned on, Google automatically transfers the information so it's available to be searched. Posted Feb 09 2006, 12:20 PM by Anonymous with no comments

• Reason #101 to change all local Administrator passwords every 3-6 months

  You DL and create a floppy disk and power on the computer, upload the results and you can get the info for free in about 2 days :scared:  This is just getting crazy!  My favorite tool on the LAN is DCPC although I'm not sure if they are still giving it away. “Login Recovery is a service to reveal user names and recover passwords for Windows NT, 2000, XP, 2003 and Longhorn. As long as you have physical access to the computer, your passwords can be recovered By following three simple steps, over 98.5% of passwords can be recovered within less than ten minutes. This service does not overwrite passwords, it does not write anything to the hard drive, it does not alter the computer in any way. It simply reads the encrypted passwords for processing through our servers. A free low priority service is provided which can take upto two working days to process passwords. If you wish immediate access to the passwords, a priority service is available for a fee of GBP 10.00 + VAT (approx USD 20.81 or EUR 17.15). (Fee introduced to cover costs of the dedicated server farm)“ http://www.loginrecovery.com/index.html   EDIT: someone just told me this;  BTW they used the free service. it recovered by pw that was 15 characters, upper and lower case, numbers, special characters and no real words in less than 5 minutes! Posted Feb 08 2006, 12:47 PM by Anonymous with 2 comment(s)

• Command line switches for the free repackage utility that is most likely already on your computer V.IExpress

  If you guys don't already know about IExpress I suggest first going to your start menu (apple & Linux users need not proceed) and clicking the run command (yes the shortcut is “Windows” key 'R' I know) and typing IExpress.  This little tool can sometimes come in handy if you are trying to repackage something and have no access to anything else.  I also like the ability to open the file up w/ winzip after you are finished.  At any rate I was checking to see if there were any command line options and thought I'd list them here.  I'm sure many of you already know about this tool as it first appeared in Win2k but these command lines options might be of some use.   /q Specifies quiet mode, or suppresses prompts. /q:u Specifies user-quiet mode, which presents some dialog boxes to the user. /q:a Specifies administrator-quiet mode, which does not present any dialog boxes to the user. /t:path Specifies the target folder for extracting files. /c Extracts the files without installing them. If /t: path is not specified, you are prompted for a target folder. /c:path Specifies the UNC path and name of the Setup .inf or .exe file. /r:n Never restarts the computer after installation. /r:i Prompts the user to restart the computer if a restart is required, except when used with /q:a. /r:a Always restarts the computer after installation. /r:s Restarts the computer after installation without prompting the user. /n:v No version checking - Install the package over any previous version. Posted Feb 08 2006, 12:07 PM by Anonymous with 1 comment(s)