Wednesday, February 16, 2005
Embedded Software Engineers Needed
Scientific Atlanta is seeking Embedded Software Engineers who are skilled in C/C++, JavaScript, XML, GUI Interfaces, UNIX, Assembler, Embedded Software, Software Version Control, IP networking, and more to work as developers for embedded projects in...more »
How to Create a WYSIWYG Rich Text Editor in JavaScript.
WebDeveloper: Credit Card Validation Script
Need help figuring out how to choose either credit card validation or checks on a form? This thread should give you some real answers.
WebDeveloper: Changing Font in Menu Script
What is the best method for adding fonts to a menu using JavaScript? Here is one method ...
How to Create a WYSIWYG Rich Text Editor in JavaScript. Pt. 2
Today, you'll learn about different methods for handling keyboard input and the RichEdit control. Keyboard input is handled by two functions; onKeyPress() and onKeyDown(). The RichEdit constructor creates the necessary HTML elements to display the control.
Need help figuring out how to choose either credit card validation or checks on a form? This thread should give you some real answers.
WebDeveloper: Changing Font in Menu Script
What is the best method for adding fonts to a menu using JavaScript? Here is one method ...
How to Create a WYSIWYG Rich Text Editor in JavaScript. Pt. 2
Today, you'll learn about different methods for handling keyboard input and the RichEdit control. Keyboard input is handled by two functions; onKeyPress() and onKeyDown(). The RichEdit constructor creates the necessary HTML elements to display the control.
Judge Denies IBM's Dismissal of SCO Case (UNIX News)
A federal judge has rejected efforts by International Business Machines Corp. to dismiss a major portion of a lawsuit brought by SCO Group accusing the computer giant of copyright infringement.... more »
Buy or Rent Used Cisco Equipment -
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Help Is on the Way
The Georgia Department of Human Resources takes a stand against benefits fraud.
A new report from NASCIO looks at the privacy implications of spam, phishing and spyware for states doing business online. more »
A new report from NASCIO looks at the privacy implications of spam, phishing and spyware for states doing business online. more »
U.S. Governments Move Toward Open Source
Peter Quinn, CIO of Massachusetts
"We as technologists [can] finally break the back of the ineffectiveness, the inefficiency and the stupidity of the silos of information in government." -- Quinn at the U.S. CIO Summit on Open Source. more »
"We as technologists [can] finally break the back of the ineffectiveness, the inefficiency and the stupidity of the silos of information in government." -- Quinn at the U.S. CIO Summit on Open Source. more »
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HBO: Bill Maher: New Rules:
The new season begins Friday, Feb. 18 at 11 pm | Full Schedule
October 29, 2004
All right. I've got to move on. It is time for New Rules, ladies and gentlemen!
All right. New Rule: If you were surprised that Ashlee Simpson was lip synching, you aren't allowed to vote. Not knowing that mechanically-generated tween-agers lip synch is like believing your stripper's real name is Cherry Bomb.
New Rule: This election day in Florida, to make up for Republican dirty tricks in 2000, black Floridians must go into white districts and hang around the polling places and scare white people away. Just like at the ATM, the far end of the subway and theaters showing kung fu movies. So say hello to your new Palm Beach County Election Commissioner, Willie Horton.
New Rule: You can't call it a treat if everyone hates it. We toppled Saddam Hussein. Why can't we get rid of candy corn? Anyone who hands this stuff out on Halloween hates your children and wants them to die. They just don't have the guts to stick a razorblade in an apple.
New Rule: Scientology makes you fat. Kirstie Alley, Lisa Marie Presley, John Travolta: fat, fat, fat! L. Ron Hubbard went to the cupboard to fetch his old dog a bone. But it was gone because his followers scarfed it! Let's be honest. It's not a religion. It's just an excuse for a bake sale.
Speaking of food, New Rule: No McDonald's in hospitals. I'm not kidding! They are putting McDonald's in hospitals. Hello? You're doctors. You're not supposed to be in the repeat-business business. This is like if John Edwards covered the floor outside his trial law office with banana peels. Sorry, Fast Food Nation, but we already figured out a way to screw patients. They're called HMO's. more »
October 29, 2004
All right. I've got to move on. It is time for New Rules, ladies and gentlemen!
All right. New Rule: If you were surprised that Ashlee Simpson was lip synching, you aren't allowed to vote. Not knowing that mechanically-generated tween-agers lip synch is like believing your stripper's real name is Cherry Bomb.
New Rule: This election day in Florida, to make up for Republican dirty tricks in 2000, black Floridians must go into white districts and hang around the polling places and scare white people away. Just like at the ATM, the far end of the subway and theaters showing kung fu movies. So say hello to your new Palm Beach County Election Commissioner, Willie Horton.
New Rule: You can't call it a treat if everyone hates it. We toppled Saddam Hussein. Why can't we get rid of candy corn? Anyone who hands this stuff out on Halloween hates your children and wants them to die. They just don't have the guts to stick a razorblade in an apple.
New Rule: Scientology makes you fat. Kirstie Alley, Lisa Marie Presley, John Travolta: fat, fat, fat! L. Ron Hubbard went to the cupboard to fetch his old dog a bone. But it was gone because his followers scarfed it! Let's be honest. It's not a religion. It's just an excuse for a bake sale.
Speaking of food, New Rule: No McDonald's in hospitals. I'm not kidding! They are putting McDonald's in hospitals. Hello? You're doctors. You're not supposed to be in the repeat-business business. This is like if John Edwards covered the floor outside his trial law office with banana peels. Sorry, Fast Food Nation, but we already figured out a way to screw patients. They're called HMO's. more »
NASA Spent $12 Million For a Space Pen While the Russians Just Use Pencils-Fiction!
bullet Summary of the eRumor
The message says that the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration spent ten years and $12 million developing a pen that writes in zero gravity for use by astronauts. The pen will write upside down, underwater, on almost any surface and is functional at extremely hot and cold temperatures. The Russians, however, filled the need for a space writing instrument by simply using pencils.
bullet The Truth
For some people, it's sport to point out government waste and bureaucratic stupidity, but this story about the space pen won't provide ammunition for it. The government did not fund the development of the pen, it did not cost $12 million to perfect, and neither the Americans nor the Russians consider it desirable to use pencils in space. In fact, both Americans and Russians use the space pen for their flights.
The famous space pen, which is still a popular product today, was developed by Paul Fisher the founder of the Fisher pen company. An engineer who improved ball point technology, he created his "bullet pen" in the 1940's, which became one of the best-selling pens of the Twentieth Century. Later, he perfected a pen that was sealed with pressure inside of the cartridge that made the ink to flow regardless of gravity. It also worked in high and low temperature extremes, underwater, and wrote on many kinds of surfaces. According to the Fisher Pen company, after extensive testing, NASA chose the pen in 1967 for use by Apollo astronauts and it's been a part of space travel ever since. The company says it took Fisher about 2 years and $2 million to develop the space pen. Prior to 1967, there were no pens that worked in space so there were pencils used, but there were concerns about pencil dust floating around the space capsules as well as fears that if the tip of a pencil broke off and drifted into the electronics, there would be problems.
I love my space pen. Let's see how long works *grins*
The message says that the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration spent ten years and $12 million developing a pen that writes in zero gravity for use by astronauts. The pen will write upside down, underwater, on almost any surface and is functional at extremely hot and cold temperatures. The Russians, however, filled the need for a space writing instrument by simply using pencils.
bullet The Truth
For some people, it's sport to point out government waste and bureaucratic stupidity, but this story about the space pen won't provide ammunition for it. The government did not fund the development of the pen, it did not cost $12 million to perfect, and neither the Americans nor the Russians consider it desirable to use pencils in space. In fact, both Americans and Russians use the space pen for their flights.
The famous space pen, which is still a popular product today, was developed by Paul Fisher the founder of the Fisher pen company. An engineer who improved ball point technology, he created his "bullet pen" in the 1940's, which became one of the best-selling pens of the Twentieth Century. Later, he perfected a pen that was sealed with pressure inside of the cartridge that made the ink to flow regardless of gravity. It also worked in high and low temperature extremes, underwater, and wrote on many kinds of surfaces. According to the Fisher Pen company, after extensive testing, NASA chose the pen in 1967 for use by Apollo astronauts and it's been a part of space travel ever since. The company says it took Fisher about 2 years and $2 million to develop the space pen. Prior to 1967, there were no pens that worked in space so there were pencils used, but there were concerns about pencil dust floating around the space capsules as well as fears that if the tip of a pencil broke off and drifted into the electronics, there would be problems.
I love my space pen. Let's see how long works *grins*
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
Why you should switch to Firefox
By Robert Vamosi
Senior editor, CNET Reviews
Can you imagine the Internet without pictures? A new flaw in the way Windows, and therefore Internet Explorer, renders JPEG images--one of the most common image formats on the Web--should make you think twice about whether you should display them. At the very least, it should nudge you into considering an alternative Internet browser, such as Firefox.
The code to exploit this flaw is now public. Usually, exploit code release is the first step toward a new virus or worm, and as we have seen before, the time from exploit to virus is generally about two to three weeks. In other words, the clock is ticking.
more »
Senior editor, CNET Reviews
Can you imagine the Internet without pictures? A new flaw in the way Windows, and therefore Internet Explorer, renders JPEG images--one of the most common image formats on the Web--should make you think twice about whether you should display them. At the very least, it should nudge you into considering an alternative Internet browser, such as Firefox.
The code to exploit this flaw is now public. Usually, exploit code release is the first step toward a new virus or worm, and as we have seen before, the time from exploit to virus is generally about two to three weeks. In other words, the clock is ticking.
more »
US missile defense test fails again
National Missile Defense (NMD) The second US interceptor missile defense test in less than two months has failed, as Washington proposes cuts in the program.
» Read full story
» Read full story
Security Watch Special: Windows XP SP2 Has a Dangerous Hole
Security Watch Special: Windows XP SP2 Security Center Spoofing Threat.Top Threat: Windows Security Center Spoof. Windows XP Service ...
Excerpt from "The Diary of Samuel Pepys"
Samuel Pepys, who was later the administrator of the British Navy, witnessed the Great Fire of London firsthand and wrote about it in his diary as follows. . . .
September 2
Lords day. Some of our maids sitting up late last night to get things ready against our feast today, Jane called us up, about 3 in the morning, to tell us of a great fire they saw in the City.
So I rose, and slipped on my nightgown and went to her window, and thought it to be on the back side of Markelane at the furthest; but being unused to such fires as followed, I thought it far enough off, and so went to bed again and to sleep. read more
September 2
Lords day. Some of our maids sitting up late last night to get things ready against our feast today, Jane called us up, about 3 in the morning, to tell us of a great fire they saw in the City.
So I rose, and slipped on my nightgown and went to her window, and thought it to be on the back side of Markelane at the furthest; but being unused to such fires as followed, I thought it far enough off, and so went to bed again and to sleep. read more
IBM Introduces Budget Unix Server
TechNewsWorld, CA - Feb 8, 2005
IBM continued its extension to the small and medium business market this week as the company unveiled its entry-level, Unix-based p5 510 server, priced at just ...
IBM continued its extension to the small and medium business market this week as the company unveiled its entry-level, Unix-based p5 510 server, priced at just ...
SECURITY WATCH:
Randex Goes After Windows
New virus version searches for open ports and poorly-protected systems.
Plus: Why buy password-cracking software?
New virus version searches for open ports and poorly-protected systems.
Plus: Why buy password-cracking software?
Dvorak on Google and Wikipedia
Posted by CowboyNeal on Tuesday February 15, @10:55AM
from the looking-for-strings dept.
cryptoluddite writes "PC Magazine has an article by John C. Dvorak expanding on the community discussion of Google's offer for free web hosting of Wikipedia. Those against the deal point out that Google may be planning to co-opt the encyclopedia as Googlepedia (by restricting access to the complete database). In a revealing speech given by the Google founders, Larry Page says he would 'like to see a model where you can buy into the world's content. Let's say you pay $20 per month.' Should public domain information be free?" It's a pretty scary scenario painted, but one can hardly take a speech from 2001 as serious evidence these days.
from the looking-for-strings dept.
cryptoluddite writes "PC Magazine has an article by John C. Dvorak expanding on the community discussion of Google's offer for free web hosting of Wikipedia. Those against the deal point out that Google may be planning to co-opt the encyclopedia as Googlepedia (by restricting access to the complete database). In a revealing speech given by the Google founders, Larry Page says he would 'like to see a model where you can buy into the world's content. Let's say you pay $20 per month.' Should public domain information be free?" It's a pretty scary scenario painted, but one can hardly take a speech from 2001 as serious evidence these days.
IE breaks free from Windows
From C-Net News
Version 7.0 of browser won't wait for OS update, Gates says. Also: Anti-spyware, free of charge.
Is Microsoft running scared?
Version 7.0 of browser won't wait for OS update, Gates says. Also: Anti-spyware, free of charge.
Is Microsoft running scared?
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