Unto the pure, all things are pure

Military Technology 2011-07-16 The Network Storm is here There you have it!  This is a reproduction mock-up of the attack software from the Electrical Engineering University of the People's Liberation Army: Distributed DOS Ctrl-D Select Attack Target IP Address of Attack Target FalungGong Network List: Falung DaFa Locations in North America: Alabama xx Region Falung Falung DaFa Network Minghui Network FalungGong Testimony Site (I) FalungGong Testimony Site (II) Attack     Cancel Watch the original video:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_Wu1HlZbBk

A good teacher or an expert is someone who, after listening to you for five seconds, knows : what you know , what you don't know , what you want to know , and what you need to know in order to achieve what you want to know . Otherwise both of you will be spending unproductive hours going around each other repeatedly.  I am sure you have see this only too often, where two parties confuse each other on different frequencies. Hence, if you are offering advice, do take a step back and spend five seconds to figure out what the other person knows, does not know, and wants to know, so as to offer what he needs to know.

The gigantic difference between today and say, twenty, years ago, has got to be Google Search. Before there was airplane travel, there were restrictions to what we can do to impact people far away.  It was worse before there was long distance telephone.  But with the near death of distance from cheap calls and fast jets, there was a boom in work that got done. With computers came software.  The difference in speeds between today's toy computer and the first super computer is often forgotten, but it is a mind boggling three orders of magnitude , in favor of the toy computer.  The same improvements to automobiles would mean doing 50,000mph instead of 50mph today.  Imagine every granny having such a car. Software on speedy computers is a super enabler.  But the super enabler is idling in waste 99% of the time while we think of things to make it do.  The limitations now, instead of being caused by vast distances, are caused by the smallness of the...

I use the quality of Windows Messenger as a barometer of Microsoft. In 2000, it was MSN Messenger.  It came after Yahoo Messenger, but surpassed it immediately.  The features were really convenient.  Those pleasant audio notifications when your friends come online or send you a message became the standard noises in the office.   Remote Assistance worked, and I used it to help troubleshoot the PCs of many friends located far away.  There was even a real telco connection and you could dial to real phones .   File transfer worked if the firewall wasn't too strict.   PC to PC voice was excellent. In 2003, MSN Messenger was the largest network, eclipsing AIM and Yahoo Messenger, with 30 million customers I think. The ability to make any animated GIF into an animated emoticon was priceless.  Pressing F2 you could use it like a walkie-talkie .  File transfer worked all the time.  So did handwriting , which was absolutely critical when ...

Today I helped a friend who had trouble connecting her HP Photosmart B210 to the Apple Time Capsule. The error message on the HP printer was not useful, something about MAC filtering being turned on at the wireless router.  This is patently not true as MAC filtering was not enabled and any other PC could just connect to the Time Capsule by entering the correct password. After two wasted hours, it was down to the type of encryption used.  The (old) Time Capsule was on WEP.  By changing it to WPA, it worked.

Everyone tells me gambling isn't directly defined in the bible. Here's my take. Gambling is not playing a game of chance. If it is, children playing Snakes and Ladders would be engaging in an act of sin. (Perhaps it is and I am unaware of some Christian groups out there who prohibit Snakes and Ladders.) Gambling is not placing a bet. If it is, a farmer who buy some seeds hoping to reap a harvest later in the year would be making a huge gamble that the weather would turn out favorable. Gambling is not gaining something without honest labor. If it is, a Boeing 747 pilot lifting 400 tons across the ocean with the mere effort of his fingers would be doing something sinful. And a person inheriting a house from his parents would be a born gambler. However, all the generally acknowledged forms of gambling are invariably games of chance and require placing bets. We will talk about honest labor later. What then is gambling? From what I have read from different sources, ...

Sometimes geniuses do fumble. Visual Studio is without question an engineering masterpiece. But the LINQ to SQL connection issue is really a silly mistake. Why would anyone want to compile a connection string, with password and all, into code? Anyway, the geniuses did provide a good alternative.  The problem can be solved easily without having to modify anything generated by Visual Studio. The DBML Designer generates a few constructor overloads for the DataClasses1DataContext class (assuming default naming). One of them takes in a, what else, connection string! So, when you instantiate your data context, just use this constructor instead. This is what I do for my particular application: DataClasses1DataContext db = new   DataClasses1DataContext ( ConfigurationManager .ConnectionStrings[" xxx "].ConnectionString);