tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68561722011-04-21T13:07:38.152-07:00Hey you're smart, no rocket surgeon, but you keep your zipper up. And everyone else is an idiot.Surgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975199566256351371noreply@blogger.comBlogger601100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6856172.post-1122512056147782352005-07-27T17:54:00.000-07:002005-07-27T17:54:16.200-07:00

Michael Lynn, a former research analyst with Internet Security Solutions is speaking out about the second Cisco IOS code theft and how much worse a WORM aimed at routers can be. -- "But when there is a Windows XP bug, it's not really a big deal, How do you ship (data) when the routers are dead?"read more | digg story

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A new extension for automatic updating of Adblock is now available in beta. It automatically updates rules using the Filterset.G filter and unlike an earlier extension, is sanctioned by the Filterset.G author.What a GREAT idea. I wanted to see this done for some time. This will be going on my thumb-drive and used on all client computers from here on out. I am worried a bit about the effect it's

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If you haven't yet tried Google Earth, you really ought to. Not long after Google acquired the satellite imaging company Keyhole, they launched the highly acclaimed Google Maps and shortly there-after Google Earth, which is a stand-alone application using the same imagery but also offering more features than initially available through the Google Maps web interface.Google Earth is a much more

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For television via the Internet, the future is now. Time Warner is testing a new service that allows about 9000 cable and internet customers to access television over the internet.I'm not one of them but hey, if the technology takes off and consumers respond well, my provider will offer it too! The article notes that the high number of computer savvy people living in San Diego as the reason it

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A California congressman is preparing a bill that would let copyright owners, such as record labels or movie studios, launch high-tech attacks against file-swapping networks where their wares are traded. That's cool. As long as the reverse is acceptable. Vigilantism is a sign that people have lost faith in the ability of the law enforcement community to protect their interests. So in the name of

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With the 1.06 update you can be certain to receive the best protection available against disturbing privacy threats with faster scanning and more efficient Code Sequence Identification (CSI) capabilities in both Ad-Aware and Ad-Watch.For a complete list of updates and changes, click here.read more | digg story

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The California State Senate on Monday approved a bill with broad bipartisan support (29-7) that would prohibit state and local governments from issuing identification documents, driver's licenses, and ID cards containing a RFID tagWTH? They're looking after us? It's a kodak moment. You might want to gather the family close and take some pictures or something.Known as the Identity Information

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AuditMyPC.com has added pop-up testing to its arsenal of auditing tools. The new feature allows users to run tests against their installed pop-up blocking software, step by step. The tool comes in a few flavors from network noob to web-geek and even something they call Misc.read more | digg story

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Yahoo tracks all of its users everywhere on the web and the way to opt-out is detailed below. If you have a Yahoo e-mail account or belong to one of Yahoo's many Yahoo groups, this probably applies to you.Beacon clauses in the yahoo privacy information give the opt-out we're looking for. Clicking here will bring you to a paragraph entitled "Outside the Yahoo Network."In this section you'll see a

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WASTE is software for setting up small, secure, private filesharing networks. WASTE provides chat, instant messaging, and file transfers between connected users, all of which is encrypted. The software is entirely peer to peer so no server is required. It works best for transferring files between small groups of people, like a group of friends.I've not tried this yet but the idea is a great one.

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JavaCool Software has released version 3.4, which is not available via the update feature of previous versions. Update install instructions for people using older versions suggest that you should download the latest version, disable all protection in your current install, uninstall the old version and then install the new one.read more

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The MPAA has now turned its gaze towards the "theft" of television shows."Continuing its war on Internet file-swapping sites, the Motion Picture Association of America said Thursday that it has filed lawsuits against a half-dozen hubs for TV show trading..."The problem here is that they're still going after the technology rather than the people breaking the laws. This is like giving parking

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Mozilla foundation has rushed to fix the 1.0.3 security issues. Firefox 1.0.4 has been officially released. Direct link I'd like to see all software updated so quickly. I for one am very thankful for it as the work-around for 1.0.3 was getting rather annoying. Turn off Java Scripting when surfing, turn it back on when you visit a trusted site, so the pages work properly,(gmail? GUH!)then turn it

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As part of the Safe is Beautiful campaign, Cox Communications has sent out email to users announcing the availability of security software free for Cox subscribers, installs on up to 4 computers.Their new security software includes:Anti-Virus protection for your PCFirewall softwareParental Controls "help filter the sites your kids are visiting and set time limits for Internet use"Anti-Spyware

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Some time ago I published this as a wake-up call to the game and entertainment industry here. Since then it seems to me that this is becoming relevant to more and more industries and content providers (CP's) of all sorts. These two simple ideas still elude the awareness of so many people it shocks me. So here it is, freshened up a bit and aimed at the CP's collectively. Rule No. 1 -

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Privacy advocates' efforts to stop legislation that would create a federally-approved electronic ID card failed today. A military spending bill which contained the so-called Real ID Act driver's license reform passed unanimously in the U.S. Senate.Hey, great! Just what we need. Bundle up some war-fighting cash with some privacy abolishment and toss in a ever growing threat of identity theft and

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Apparently the good folks over at FrSIRT have found a way to trick your beloved Firefox into installing an extension, bypassing the regular security measures using JavaScript. Your options at this point seem to be, disabling JavaScript, or my preference, disable the "Allow web sites to install software" option, by going to Tools -> Options -> Web Features (windows). UPDATEMozilla Security has

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I have reached 250lbs lost in the program, that's 300 down from my highest weight. Almost exactly a year after starting the program. That works out to about 0.7 lbs lost per day over an entire year... think about it. Christmas, Halloween, Easter, Valentines, Birthdays, LAN Parties and still losing weight.I get asked all the time what my goal weight is. Hard to know. I started the program with the

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Slashdot | Online Gaming Ad Network Launches Great. This sounds like something I could work to combat. I'd like nothing more than to see this company fold with such dramatic failure that no one is willing to attempt it ever again. Gonna have to get Adblock for my games now too? These stupid asses have ignored Surges No 1. Rule of computers... the hackers always win.

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At last check-in I was down 192 lbs from my starting weight. Much thanks due to the efforts made by so many to help me get this far so quickly. I have had some chages to my plans, I now only need 3 meal replacement shakes a day, 5 Fruits and veggies, and 6oz lean protein, in my case I choose chicken. Almost like eating real food. At least trips to resturants are begining to be more practical.

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We all know that WinAmp puts links all over the place to AOL. They are on the Desktop, the Start Menu, the IE favorites, The quick launch bar, even in your history. A I've found a new place and I find it rather disturbing. WinAmp adds an AOL website to your IE Trusted sites during installation, and this along with all the other AOL garbage is NOT optional. To see if your computer has been

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Fortunately not mine. My good friend RM was in for an angiogram today, so GH and I went up to be with him and lend support for SM and family. Things went well. One site that was 100% blocked was had rerouted itself and one known blockage area wasn't blocked at all anymore. So what ever the aliment is, we have yet to discover the source of the chest pain, fainting spells and general malaise RM is

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Users of KDE love the little game that comes with their desktop environment. It's fun, and very simple and remains challenging and interesting. Someone has taken the time to make a Frozen Bubble - Java port which means you will be able to play on your windows machine, provided you have installed the java run time enviornment. Enjoy!

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After much toying with various flavors of linux have finally done what I set out to do. This was not as easy as I was told it was going to be and really, no one seems interested in helping you recover and crack XP/NT passwords. All but two of the tools I'm using are freely available, but I'm told it can be done with free tools only. Tools required for my efforts: A target machine. This

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This is just too funny. Visit google and type in "Bastards" as your search term, then click the "I'm feeling lucky" button. Well done google!

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StarFARCE is more like it. This will present a whole new challenge for hackers, for like a day or two. They're going to crack StarForce and release ever single game published with it. The people that download them will not have any bullshit to put up with, however there will be thousands of people for whom the bullshit will be outrageous. The paying customer. The authors of StarForce openly

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Don't worry about spammers, the FTC is hard at work passing laws they simply can't enforce. This time they want to block back door pop-up advertisements. Goooood luck with that shit fellas.

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Steam Kills 4 in Japan! (registration required... NOT) Im sorry but there's just no way I'm going to load or use Steam to do anything. Camper-Strike be damned. HL2 can just bite me.

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Since the beginning of portable digital media people have desired to make copies of software. Legal or not, be it right or wrong, people do it. They have been doing it and will never stop. There is no effective means of protecting digital media and there never ever will be. I know this is true because of Rule No.1 and No. 2 of Surges Guide to Computing. [ see links to the right ] Many companies

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This is something I found on the net. It's author is unknown. Makes you think about how slanted our views are here in the Empire of The United States of America. I dare you... Enter Mexico illegally. Never mind immigration quotas, visas, international law, or any of that nonsense. Once there, demand that the local government provide free medical care for you and your entire family. Demand

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Apparently it can be done, and the implications are not good. As we all know, anyone can write and publish something on the web. So if you have Firefox or not, you should really check out how impressive this proof of concept is. This will not stop me from using Firefox however. The proof shows a fake user interface that was all created to emulate Firefox, INCLUDING THE ENCRYPTION LOCK that

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So the good folks at Apple have their panties in a bunch over Real Networks release of software that will allow users to download and play songs on the iPOD from the Real Network Music download. See rules 1 and 2. More..

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First off, let me say that the U.S.A. uses the word American with such arrogance it's laughable. Do you realize that the people living in Brazil and Cuba and Canada, even Paraguay are all "Americans"... Don't try to argue the point, and you can take "popular usage" and jam it! Popular usage or rather common slang of the United States doesn't rename continents. The following is credited to George

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This is kind of blunt and to the point. If you know me at all you're not surprised. Orrin Hatch sucks because he wants the RIAA to sue Apple for the iPod and all the other MP3 players with his P.O.S. bill The Induce Act. The Induce Act says "whoever intentionally induces any violation [of copyright law]". Read more at CNET. The Game/Technology news website Little White Dog sucks because

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Well.. it's 2:40 in the morning and I have to be up at 9:30 to get to my doctors appointment. So, I cruise the web looking at different things like Wil Wheaton's webpage to check up on muh fellow geeks. Looks like they were in my neck of the woods recently. If I were in better shape I might have ventured out to support the cause. Also I was able to sign up for Google's Gmail service, which

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So I, like everyone else I know, can't wait for DOOM 3 to hit store shelves. I've seen the preview footage on all the websites, I read all the .plan file updates, I've seen the screen shots and the TV coverage. I've read the reviews of those LUCKY BASTARDS who got to preview the game. I have virtually soaked up every bit of available information on the game I could find. I even played the leaked

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At times I find myself wondering what lies ahead for me. I see no clear answers and the hints shown are a mixed bag. I have been at this weight loss program for some time now. The cost of which is nothing to sneeze at. And for this I am accruing quite a debt. I have been spared the inevitable result of debt thus far. I have avoided losses to my name and credit. But this situation can not

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As if things were not hard enough figure out, remember, and then late explain to someone else, the solutions for the current challenges seem to be like removing the knife by pushing it all the way through. Consider the mega in megabyte really meaning 1024kb instead of 1000kb. I found an interesting website that has information on one proposed solution to the confusion, but I really don't think

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I am feeling better now, finally. I still have a bit of booger patrol to contend with, particularly at night. My physical activity is back up to regular now that I'm feeling better. So with all my blustering energy I've taken on some new projects. The first was on Wednesday. I went over to MCE and FE's place to help move some firewood and bricks from the side of the house to make room for

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I have been putting up with a cold for a week now. I have had it move from an ear ache to sneeze fits, to sore throat, runny nose, sinus infection, chest congestion. At this point it's not longer a bothersome condition that made me weak. My face and eyes hurt, from sinus pressure and I'm generally feeling pretty crummy. My bass guitar is fixed, thanks to the string pluckers over at Blue

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I've played a few flash games that are TRULY addictive, like Kick-Ups, and the Wrecking ball on the race track game, and I guess I just missed the boat on the Yeti Sports thing. Head over to the QArcade, and type "seal bounce" into the search box on the top right of the page.

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Check this shit out. I was shocked. Open up regedit Navigate to MyComputer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ZoneMap\Domains\Have a look at the entries in there. It's not picked up by any ad/spy programs or Norton. It is not removed when you clear cookies, temporary internet files, all offline content or history. I had to manually, one by one,

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I have been using my Linksys BEFSX41 Router/Firewall for a few weeks now. I'd had to rethink how I do things a bit on the networking side of things. Some programs have to be told to use passive mode and some programs ( games mostly ) had to have ports opened to allow them to access the internet. I am considering running a windows version of a Intrusion Detection System (IDS) called Snort.

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It all started as a bothersome itch in my ear, that turned into a sneeze fit, that became a runny nose, and then a sore throat and now it's trying really hard to get into my chest and keep me buckled down even longer. Congrats all around from friends and family on my weight loss success. I have been loosing so much that the usual amount of physical activity no longer burns the amount of

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Yesterday I went back to class to weigh in. It's finally happened. So far I've lost 101.5 lbs. in 12 weeks. Pretty cool. I have to thank my friends and family that have supported me in my weight loss efforts. While some of them have slipped, and sometimes still do and say unsupportive things, I know that none of them are against me. As Americans we are conditioned to become overweight. TV,

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This weekend CLP, CMP, EP, TAP, and myself all went east to the local indian casino. They have a really nice golf course that CLP and I toured, $60.00 to play and $20.00 for me to ride along. We were stuck behind a foursome of tourists from a well known island nation, and they played every hole like it was the PGA tour. Just hit the fucking ball, damnit! Behind them was a friendly group of

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I just purchased this unit from NewEgg.com for $72.73, after shipping and taxes. I was a little bothered that my extensive research over at Price Watch yielded some misdirection on the actual price of the part. Seems that Price Watch has some old data or New Egg has raised prices a few dollars. Reported TOTAL price: $63.00 Actual price paid: $72.73 Difference of : $9.73 I still bought it,

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Well, today I took delivery of a new refrigerator. 18.2 cubic ft. It's something we've needed around here for some time. My brother purchased a small one for me to use when our large one broke about a year ago. Sometime after my brothers actions (if I remember correctly), CMP bought another one that was slightly larger than mine. Even the two combined was no where near the capacity of a

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I have now been bestowed with the ever mighty broadband connection of my local cable provider! Feel the joy while basking in the flickering glow of my activity lights. Muahaha, my foes beware.

Surgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975199566256351371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6856172.post-1083908114245065002004-05-06T21:53:00.000-07:002004-05-06T22:49:32.936-07:00

Microsoft has about caused me to reload my computer. I run XP Pro, and was having a real problem getting online with my 56k connection. Dial in... computer hangs for about 5 minutes and then everything's fine. There were work arounds for different webpages, but most applications would not start... the computer would not shut down and the only way out was to hit reset. Here I sit today,

Surgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975199566256351371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6856172.post-1083724794627943712004-05-04T19:26:00.000-07:002004-05-04T19:44:19.060-07:00

Check in today went well, lost 9.5 lbs. For a 10 week total of 89 lbs. I don't think I ever want to get 18,000+ calories of physical activity again for any reason. I could not have done this without the support of my family and friends. Most of the time they are supportive of my efforts and try to adapt their "gap" behaviors to reduce the chance that I will slip off the prescribed menu.

Surgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975199566256351371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6856172.post-1083698607202146712004-05-04T12:09:00.000-07:002004-05-04T12:27:18.436-07:00

I am on a drastic weight loss program through the local hospital and things have been going very well for me. I have lost 79 lbs in 9 weeks. It's not been easy by any means, and I can't hardly wait for it to be over. I have to check in with the counselor and the doctor today and they tell me that this week I'm scheduled for another EKG. I expect a significant loss this week as I have record

Surgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975199566256351371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6856172.post-1083628465471907212004-05-03T16:23:00.000-07:002004-05-03T17:45:03.436-07:00

There is no real good solution to heat that comes and goes. If it was there all the time, you could better justify the costs of central air. If hot weather is rare, you find it a nice relief to have some warmer weather. Now don't get the wrong idea, we have unmistakably awesome weather here, I wouldn't trade it for anywhere else, but it does get and stay hot from time to time and

Surgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975199566256351371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6856172.post-1083603033851857592004-05-03T09:37:00.000-07:002004-05-03T09:54:45.576-07:00

A show just caught my attention on the idiot box... I'm not sure exactly what this show is... Eh it has to be seen to be understood. Perhaps that's the wrong word, because I've seen it and I do not understand it at all. I guess it must be like a Teletubbies thing, with super saturated colors and odd pear-shaped, saucer-eyed dancing creatures. I wonder if they have a formula for this sort of

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Things could not have gone any better than this. A lot of tears, basic questions and I think the best part is some healthy discussion about how and when to continue the effort. I wanted to let control of the conversation rest in CMP's hands, and I think it was some sage advice from FE that strongly influenced my choice in doing so. Where did some of the items come from... the truth in the

Surgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975199566256351371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6856172.post-1083547397430107642004-05-02T17:59:00.000-07:002004-05-02T18:27:39.216-07:00

I have never worked so hard in my life. I have put in long hours with poor sleep and at long last it's over. Now let's see if it was all in vain. There does exist the chance that a favorable outcome is not on the horizon. I stand to lose a lot including my home, car, health/dental/auto insurance, my dog, and risk forever damaging the already strained relationship I have with my mother. And

Surgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975199566256351371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6856172.post-1083302978145374732004-04-29T22:28:00.000-07:002004-04-29T22:33:55.873-07:00

Titles have come to Zero Logic. Just wanted to try them out.

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I have never in my life, ever owed such a great debt of gratitude to so many people. I just don't know how I may in my life ever repay the kindness and amazing effort put forth, at their personal and financial expense. I owe thanks and blessings to MCHE, FE, D and GH. These people have done more than I could, and they did this for my benefit. I admit to being in need and these people have

Surgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975199566256351371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6856172.post-1083253815772753932004-04-29T08:30:00.000-07:002004-04-29T22:35:34.826-07:00

A few days ago I was over at a friends house (GH), and I had my computer with me to try and resolve some of the connection problems I've been having ( and still have ) with SBC. Since GH is an hardcore FPS enthusiast like me, I was sure to bring along all the CD's for the games we've been waiting to try over a LAN. Even on a good day my connection to the internet is not the greatest. 56k modem

Surgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06975199566256351371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6856172.post-1083142544481205062004-04-28T01:52:00.000-07:002004-04-29T22:36:27.670-07:00

Ok so I really need to sleep now its just about 2 AM now and I should have been in bed hours ago. Just remember: they're after you because you're paranoid.

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