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The Weirdest Sites Ever 2007-03-03 09:47:55 The net gets pretty strange. But here are one person’s picks for the cream of the freaky:
The Rubber-Band Shooting Guide Oh, like you’re such an expert at office supply warfare that you don’t need pointers!
General Zod 2008 He couldn’t be worse than any of the other candidates.
Sherry Shriner Every weird sites list needs at least one deranged religious ranter. This is the one.
the Boring Web Page The exact opposite of Web 2.0.
Kibo Nobody beats the classics. Kibo, an acronym for “Knowledge In, Bull**** Out”, has been the Internet’s only native surrealist comedian for two decades.
the Incredible Hulk’s blog Surprisingly large vocabulary for someone who only grunts in person.
the Wikinovel You know how they make Wikipedia? Apply the same process to a novel and what do you get?
Time Cube Every weird site list needs at least one deranged metaphysical ranter. This is the one.
Viagra-Holics Anonymous People. Addicted. To Viagra. And t Read more:Sites
Shutdown your computer for 1 day. 2007-02-28 19:57:47 Will you survive for 24 without your computer ? do you think you can actually find LIFE ?! (no.. playing Second Life doesn’t count as life…)
the following Website is offering you to join in and Shutdown
your computer between 24 March 2007 to 25th, 24 hours without computer..
Lucky for me (or not so lucky) i was called as “reserve duty” to the military, so whether i like it or not I’ll probably be Offline and Computerless, but what about you ? will you stand the trial or fail while trying (or while browsing your favorit sites ?)
Will you dare !? http://www.shutdownday.org
Five Web Browsers You Probably Haven’t Tried 2007-02-24 18:49:15 The browser wars - we all know the heavyweights, Internet Explorer on Windows, Safari on the Apple, and Firefox on Unix and crossing to Windows at a rapid pace. But amid all the sound and fury about which browser you use (and really, who cares? hello, they’re all free?), you probably don’t encounter the other contenders, unless you run a website. There, looking at your server logs, will be a dozen or so web browsers that you don’t even recognize. So what are they like?
Konqueror
http://www.konqueror.org/
Konqueror is the default web browser for the KDE environment, which is itself very popular on Linux, BSD, and all Unix systems. Konqueror is very much influenced by the Microsoft Explorer idea, which is fitting considering KDE is itself made so Windows users feel at home. So Konqueror is a web browser, editor, file manager, file viewer, and more. Konqueror uses its own rendering engine, named KHTML. It is limited to running in Unix environments.
Seamonkey
Read more:Haven
, Probably
Search Engines - a look under the hood 2007-02-23 14:43:07 It seems impossible that Google was born only nine short years ago. These days, the art of quickly retrieving data from the Internet based on keywords has risen to such major importance, that many have questioned whether Google, the current leader, is more important than the TCP/IP proxy itself.
A search engine works in three phases: It crawls the web, moving from link to link. It indexes what it finds. And it returns results. The crawling part is like an indiscriminate bot - it tries to explore every link. Indexing is another story; efficient data storage and indexing is the kind of thing that’s worth money and patents. Some engines cache the pages directly, some create a keyword-frequency-based index, some file everything away in a database, and some save every word of every page.
Plain text is still the main thing that search engines see. They can only index images, video, and audio going by what you tell them. This is another reason why it’s important to use the &ldq Read more:Search
A Brief History of Web Browsers 2007-02-21 19:09:27 If all you do with a web browser is use it, you don’t much care what’s going on under the hood or what its background is. But if you do any kind of web development at all, it’s quite a hot subject. And nearly every web browser we have today is related! I’ll try to describe how this is so, without sounding like a long line of “begats” from the Old testament.
The very first web browser was named simply “WorldWideWeb” and had an editor built in. This is of course the application Tim Berners-Lee (the father of the Internet as we know it) used while creating the world’s first web server in 1990 on a NeXTStep box and getting the hypertext transfer protocol worked out. It was later renamed “Nexus” and being a prototype, it pretty much died out. Other applications and means of communicating between computers were of course available before, but this was the first web browser using the HTML standard as we know it today.
the fir Read more:Brief
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Vintage Gaming - part five: the miscellaneous part… 2007-02-20 17:16:43 Computer games have been with us since, well, computers. It may be hard for some of you young ‘uns to believe after seeing today’s virtual reality 3D game environments, but there was a time when we had nothing but alpha-numeric characters on a console screen for gaming - and we loved it!
So, a round-up of where to find the classics. Luckily, text-mode games are a no-brainer to port to any modern platform. Any first-year programming student could write one from scratch. So here’s some classics, for those seeking, for those who have forgotten, and those who have yet to discover their riches:
RPG (role-playing games)
Rogue:
A Java version online.
A Javascript version online.
Rogue for many platforms.
Moria:
Ports of Moria for PC, Mac, and Amiga.
A Linux version.
Angband:
THE Angband site - only one you need. Angband is ported to everything but a digital watch.
Nethack:
Oh, ho! Now we’re talking the top of the text-mode RPG food chain.
The official Nethack sit Read more:Gaming
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Vintage Gaming - part four: MAME and ZSNES 2007-02-19 06:12:46 If you spent much time in video game arcades throughout the golden age of the 1980’s, you have no doubt missed your favorite games from that time. Even decades later, you’ll catch yourself absently humming the theme from Super Mario Bros. or even trying to track down a Tron cabinet on eBay. Today, the cultural significance of the video game arcade generation goes largely unrecognized. Arcades you find today are a pale shadow of the golden age, with maybe a vintage multi-game machine tucked in a corner with PacMan, Burgertime, and Galaga crammed on it. Many of you might feel robbed of your childhood memories, which were won at the cost of so many dear quarters.
Well, check the screen shot from my desktop taken on 2/16/07:
1943, Ghosts ‘n’ Goblins, Mr Do!, QBert, Frogger, Shinobi…
And that’s just the beginning! The program that made this possible is MAME, the “Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator”. It is free and GPL licensed. It is cro Read more:Gaming
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Image Formats Every Web User Should Know 2007-02-15 13:41:24 You might have wondered why we can’t just settle on one file format to store images in and be done with it. The problem with that is that we all want two things in an image format: we want perfect image preservation, and we want them to load instantly. It turns out, computers being the beasts that they are, that these two goals are incompatible with each other! Add to this the jungle of corporations patenting their image technology, and you have the soupy mess we have today.
Image
formats get their speed by compression, where a code to make the image data take up less space in memory is used. The higher the compression, the faster it loads, and the worse the image quality gets. So, from (roughly) fastest to best quality:
JPEG - The most common format used on the Internet today. It is the fastest loading, and it uses “lossy” compression. It takes up the least file space, up to 1/20th of the uncompressed file size! But images saved in JPEG format tend to get blurry an Read more:Formats
The Politics of Blogistan 2007-02-13 15:21:39 Catchy title, no? But seriously, today’s question: Could the Internet become its own nation?
It’s surprising how little it takes to form a nation in the first place. The Internet has
A constant population. There are people who live on it every day.
Its own currency. While no official united money exists, quite a bit of the money in existence through the world is in electronic form anyway, and the handling fees incurred in transferring funds electronically function as a kind of exchange rate.
A government of sorts. ICANN functions in that capacity, with other global standards boards such as the W3C acting as regulatory agencies.
Its own languages (HTML, CSS, PHP, RSS).
It has its own taxes (Think of your ISP bill! Price of membership…).
And can anyone deny that it has its own culture?
Lovers of technology and communication have traditionally sought out a free niche of their own. Recently there has been Sealand, an almost-official country founded by a pirate r
Five Cheap PC Fixes 2007-02-12 06:33:49 It always staggers me that the same consumers who think nothing of changing the oil or fixing a flat tire on their car turn pale with dread at the thought of performing similar maintenance on their desktop computer. That’s the whole idea of the IBM-inspired PC - to be an assembly of interchangeable parts. Here are five quick fixes for common problems:
The CMOS battery - is your computer senile?
If your computer forgets the system time and different internal setting such as BIOS information, it could have a bad CMOS battery. These are the size of a dime and mounted into a socket directly on your motherboard. Removing them can be tricky, as they are usually held in place with a clip mechanism of some kind. If you can get them out without damaging the board, it’s all of a dollar or two to replace. Rare problem; CMOS batteries last as long as ten years, but some may be defective or recycled.
Fans - is it making a lot of noise?
Just like the engine of your car, parts of the c Read more:Cheap
Five PC Operating Systems You’ve Never Heard Of 2007-02-11 07:00:46 Well, maybe you’ve heard of one or two… after all, you’re reading this site!
But largely in the computing world, there are the Big Three, with Microsoft leading the pack, Apple making a strong second, and Linux coming up from the rear. On the server side, Solaris and BSD have some light numbers (though they’re adapting to the desktop presently). But when you want to establish yourself as UBER-leet, check out one of these arcane systems and you will forever have bragging rights as one who ventured far off the beaten path.
Plan 9 From Bell Labs - What a tangled history it has! Created by the same visionaries who made Unix, this was an experimental venture to try to re-define the multi-tasking system. Bell Labs orphaned the project and then sold the lab out to Lucent technologies, which killed it completely. If it hadn’t been released as open source, it would be dead today, but instead it has a very tiny cultish following. Arcane in the extreme, it doesn&r Read more:Heard
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, Systems
Finding People on the Web 2007-03-04 17:05:31 Being a “net detective” is a tricky business, with a whole profession behind it. There is a sharp line between our right-to-know and the right-to-privacy, and people tend to be very paranoid on the Internet anyway, so the first thing you have to realize is that some people are unfindable and that’s that - unless, of course, you have some form of government clearance. For regular civilians, the task is a bit daunting.
Two tips on using these methods:
Use your own data to test the accuracy of the service. I’ve seen purported search sites that couldn’t find themselves in a paper bag. Searching for yourself is enlightening anyway - you find out just how much of a trail you leave and how easy it is to find you.
Cast a wide net, use many different methods and sites, and log all the results in a file. Collecting clues will be tedious, but remember that it’s kind of like working your way up a ladder; once you have four pieces of information it will be easi
ZIP ZOO - File Compression Formats You’re Likely to Meet 2007-03-05 20:50:28 We’ve all had the experience of downloading some goodie over the Internet, only to discover that it’s packed up in some file archiving and compression format. There are dozens of formats kicking around out there, and it seems like no sooner are you equipped to handle five formats than some joker hands you a sixth. Why do we need so many? Wouldn’t it be nice to have a standard? Yeah, right, dream on…
.zip The closest we have to a standard. The most common archive/compression format is easily accessible both to pack and unpack across every major platform. Opens with PKZIP & WinZIP on Windows, a built-in handler on Mac OS X v10.3+, and with the ‘unzip’ command on Unix-likes.
.7z The next-best to ZIP. The 7-zip program handles a broad variety of formats, including .cab, .rar, .Z, .gz, .bz2, and others. It is ported to the Windows platform as 7z.exe, the Mac OS X platform as 7zX, or the Unix-alike platforms as 7z.
.gz The GNU zip program, native Read more:Compression
, Formats
What was the Internet Like Before the World Wide Web? 2007-03-09 07:12:57 Why, Sonny, in my day we didn’t have no fancy Wikipedia, we had to look everything up in a book! And we were durned glad to have them…
The same kind of people who pounce on spelling mistakes in a forum will be quick to trip you if you confuse the Internet
with the WorldWide Web
. The Internet is actually just the connected computers and servers. The World Wide Web is the documents stored on those computers, all linking to each other and able to be traversed and retrieved across various computers by a system of protocols.
The Internet is quite usable without the World Wide Web system. In fact, every time you download a file through FTP, log into an IRC chat room, remote access another computer using VPN, or send email directly from computer to computer, you are doing just that. Likewise when you have an entity such as a college or corporation which has an ‘intranet’ or internal network to allow computers within this network to communicate. Once you and your a
Weird google Search Results on my site. 2007-03-14 21:54:25 every now on then (who am i kidding, practically every 5 minutes) i love to check my Search
Engine referrals to see what people were looking for in my site and how they found it,
Here are just few examples (together with short answers)
galaga activity phpbb: At first i didn’t understand how and why they found me only then i figured it out, it was due to my Vintage Gaming article which somehow connected with phpBB and the Activity Mod, hope i helped…
what opens .7z file mac: That was an easy one, .7z is an extension for 7zip compressed files, you can read all about it on the “Zip Zoo” article
ask jeeves average age of alien abductees: hmmm… the Ask Jeeves part was probably picked up as related keywords from one of my Search Engine articles, but as for the Alien abductees.. only god knows…
in future i always suggest you carry the “Alien UFO Detector Strap” i’ve reviewed.
ask what is my name: You dont have to ask or search anymor Read more:Search Results
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Lame Gadget Of the week #1 2007-03-14 20:57:22 While trying to expend my contribution to the world
(by trying to write the second part for “Fixing Windows using a Live Linux CD”)
I’ve stumbled upon some bizarre gadget and though to myself that it’s my Civil duty to
report back and alert the world (or the 7 readers that i have) from this horror.
What we’re looking at is one of the weirdest “Gadget
s” (?!) i have EVER seen in my life,
the manufacturer site is not in English so i cannot give you all the hot details about it
(unless there’s someone who’s willing to Translate this for me)
but it SHOULD be “Alien UFO Detector Strap“, now we can finally prove everyone that we’re not
only special… we’re EXTRA “special” (or just Mentally Unstable).
this costs only 18.95 USD, which is nothing compared to the safety you’ll have knowing you’re family members are human (or not ?!)
What was the Internet Like Before the World Wide Web? 2007-03-09 07:12:57 Why, Sonny, in my day we didn’t have no fancy Wikipedia, we had to look everything up in a book! And we were durned glad to have them…
The same kind of people who pounce on spelling mistakes in a forum will be quick to trip you if you confuse the Internet
with the WorldWide Web
. The Internet is actually just the connected computers and servers. The World Wide Web is the documents stored on those computers, all linking to each other and able to be traversed and retrieved across various computers by a system of protocols.
The Internet is quite usable without the World Wide Web system. In fact, every time you download a file through FTP, log into an IRC chat room, remote access another computer using VPN, or send email directly from computer to computer, you are doing just that. Likewise when you have an entity such as a college or corporation which has an ‘intranet’ or internal network to allow computers within this network to communicate. Once you and your a
ZIP ZOO - File Compression Formats You’re Likely to Meet 2007-03-05 20:50:28 We’ve all had the experience of downloading some goodie over the Internet, only to discover that it’s packed up in some file archiving and compression format. There are dozens of formats kicking around out there, and it seems like no sooner are you equipped to handle five formats than some joker hands you a sixth. Why do we need so many? Wouldn’t it be nice to have a standard? Yeah, right, dream on…
.zip The closest we have to a standard. The most common archive/compression format is easily accessible both to pack and unpack across every major platform. Opens with PKZIP & WinZIP on Windows, a built-in handler on Mac OS X v10.3+, and with the ‘unzip’ command on Unix-likes.
.7z The next-best to ZIP. The 7-zip program handles a broad variety of formats, including .cab, .rar, .Z, .gz, .bz2, and others. It is ported to the Windows platform as 7z.exe, the Mac OS X platform as 7zX, or the Unix-alike platforms as 7z.
.gz The GNU zip program, native Read more:Compression
, Formats
Finding People on the Web 2007-03-04 17:05:31 Being a “net detective” is a tricky business, with a whole profession behind it. There is a sharp line between our right-to-know and the right-to-privacy, and people tend to be very paranoid on the Internet anyway, so the first thing you have to realize is that some people are unfindable and that’s that - unless, of course, you have some form of government clearance. For regular civilians, the task is a bit daunting.
Two tips on using these methods:
Use your own data to test the accuracy of the service. I’ve seen purported search sites that couldn’t find themselves in a paper bag. Searching for yourself is enlightening anyway - you find out just how much of a trail you leave and how easy it is to find you.
Cast a wide net, use many different methods and sites, and log all the results in a file. Collecting clues will be tedious, but remember that it’s kind of like working your way up a ladder; once you have four pieces of information it will be easi
The Weirdest Sites Ever 2007-03-03 09:47:55 The net gets pretty strange. But here are one person’s picks for the cream of the freaky:
The Rubber-Band Shooting Guide Oh, like you’re such an expert at office supply warfare that you don’t need pointers!
General Zod 2008 He couldn’t be worse than any of the other candidates.
Sherry Shriner Every weird sites list needs at least one deranged religious ranter. This is the one.
the Boring Web Page The exact opposite of Web 2.0.
Kibo Nobody beats the classics. Kibo, an acronym for “Knowledge In, Bull**** Out”, has been the Internet’s only native surrealist comedian for two decades.
the Incredible Hulk’s blog Surprisingly large vocabulary for someone who only grunts in person.
the Wikinovel You know how they make Wikipedia? Apply the same process to a novel and what do you get?
Time Cube Every weird site list needs at least one deranged metaphysical ranter. This is the one.
Viagra-Holics Anonymous People. Addicted. To Viagra. And t Read more:Sites
Shutdown your computer for 1 day. 2007-02-28 19:57:47 Will you survive for 24 without your computer ? do you think you can actually find LIFE ?! (no.. playing Second Life doesn’t count as life…)
the following Website is offering you to join in and Shutdown
your computer between 24 March 2007 to 25th, 24 hours without computer..
Lucky for me (or not so lucky) i was called as “reserve duty” to the military, so whether i like it or not I’ll probably be Offline and Computerless, but what about you ? will you stand the trial or fail while trying (or while browsing your favorit sites ?)
Will you dare !? http://www.shutdownday.org
Five Web Browsers You Probably Haven’t Tried 2007-02-24 18:49:15 The browser wars - we all know the heavyweights, Internet Explorer on Windows, Safari on the Apple, and Firefox on Unix and crossing to Windows at a rapid pace. But amid all the sound and fury about which browser you use (and really, who cares? hello, they’re all free?), you probably don’t encounter the other contenders, unless you run a website. There, looking at your server logs, will be a dozen or so web browsers that you don’t even recognize. So what are they like?
Konqueror
http://www.konqueror.org/
Konqueror is the default web browser for the KDE environment, which is itself very popular on Linux, BSD, and all Unix systems. Konqueror is very much influenced by the Microsoft Explorer idea, which is fitting considering KDE is itself made so Windows users feel at home. So Konqueror is a web browser, editor, file manager, file viewer, and more. Konqueror uses its own rendering engine, named KHTML. It is limited to running in Unix environments.
Seamonkey
Read more:Haven
, Probably
Search Engines - a look under the hood 2007-02-23 14:43:07 It seems impossible that Google was born only nine short years ago. These days, the art of quickly retrieving data from the Internet based on keywords has risen to such major importance, that many have questioned whether Google, the current leader, is more important than the TCP/IP proxy itself.
A search engine works in three phases: It crawls the web, moving from link to link. It indexes what it finds. And it returns results. The crawling part is like an indiscriminate bot - it tries to explore every link. Indexing is another story; efficient data storage and indexing is the kind of thing that’s worth money and patents. Some engines cache the pages directly, some create a keyword-frequency-based index, some file everything away in a database, and some save every word of every page.
Plain text is still the main thing that search engines see. They can only index images, video, and audio going by what you tell them. This is another reason why it’s important to use the &ldq Read more:Search
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