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Posted August 2, 2006 · August 2, 2006

I got mine from my friend NoS, who got his from a co-worker. I dunno where the co-worker got his though.I handed out most of my invites to personal friends and family.

August 2, 2006

I am not a girl but, as some have mentioned, I would agree that most women probably go into bathrooms in groups because they have almost always been told "Don't go anywhere alone". Guys are usually not told this after they are about 12 years old from my experience.On the "racing" theory, its actually more something guys would do then girls. Guys, by nature, are competitive, its part of the way the brain reacts to male hormones. Girls are not as competitive by nature as men and so I would say its more that they have something they want to talk about in a semi-private area.Maybe not and every girl is different so there probably isn't a rule of thumb on this idea.On the time spent in the bathroom, I wonder if part of it is that they want to make sure the other women they went in with get out safely. Its just a guess but, I would say that would be supported by the 'safety in numbers' rule. Girls also probably fix their hair and makeup if it needs it when they are done taking care of business. This would also add to the time they spend in the bathroom.

August 2, 2006

I like your site a lot, here are a few things to look at (as some have already mentioned) sorry if I sound mean, l please take this constructively.

1. On the right side by the word baseball, there is a black space, try to fill that in so your bar is the same color the whole way.

2. Maybe try creating a box (by adding a bottom bar) around the word "Shoutbox" and "Navigation".

3. Lower the left navigation a bit so there is a clear space between it and "Navigation".

4. The "Refresh" and "Smiles" buttons should show the whole text. This might be hard to do, just experiment with it.

5. Possibly elminate the border that occurs when you go over the menu options at the top. This might be accomplished by adding "border=0" or something. I am not quite sure how to get rid of it.

6. Make "News and Notes:" not spill off the edge of the background. This also applies to the (long) list of rules and "Welcome to the USFSL" introduction to the site.

9.5/10 - Very well put togeather with only minor errors.

August 2, 2006

eBay is crazy, IMO unless you have the money to generate the traffic to get hundreds of sales a day its not worth the hassle and cost. eBay recently increased the "Store" fees too so its even harder to make a profit. The only thing (as someone mentioned earlier) I would use eBay for is to start generating some decent traffic to my website.Even then I could probably think of better advertising for the money it takes to post something on eBay. Basically unless your item is rare you probably aren't going to make a lot. At most you'll probably break even.With the all the e-books out there its probably a safer bet to not buy any of them and if your going to sell on eBay take a few months to do some research. See whats selling and whats not. Check the "Pulse" (pulse.ebay.com) to see what you probably shouldn't sell (top searched items, they are always crammed full of auctions, good luck getting even one serious bidder.) You'll notice that most of the "Most Watched" items are either really rare or a mystery item. The mystery items are weird and unless you know (again, by doing some research over a period of time) what your doing I don't recommend trying to create a mystey item.

August 2, 2006

I love seeing people who think they are going to get rich on something like this. If you look at the page you get a whole $0.75 per hour for being online. I don't even think thats enough to cover the electrical costs. .

August 2, 2006

Personally I use WinRAR. It compresses better then WinZip, you can split an archive to a few (or many!) Floppys, Zip Disks, Thumb Drives, CDs, DVDs etc. you need.I checked into a archiver called "KGB Archiver" because it was supposed to have wicked compression rates but, it only does on specific things like text documents. Other things such as MPEG files take too long to compress with it and the advantage over WinRAR is not enough to justify the time it takes to compress stuff with KGB.So, with all that said I vote "WinRAR".

August 2, 2006

I personally use Kaspersky 6.0, Spybot S&D, Ad-Aware SE, a hardware firewall (built into my router) and PeerGuardian 2.

August 2, 2006

Yeah, I really enjoy watching Red vs Blue. Its quite a kicker although I can't watch it unless the kids are asleep. I even bought a shirt from Rooster Teeth with a quote from one of the episodes of Red vs Blue :PI'll have to check into The Strangerhood though, haven't seen it yet.

August 2, 2006

This tutorial is so users can watch the movies they own on their iPod or PSP. Nothing fishy about that. It basically turns your PSP or iPod into a portable DVD player. I personally used this guide when I saw it was posted. I put a DVD of a magician on it so I could watch it when I don't have access to a DVD player or TV. :PEDIT (by nations): corrected spelling errors

August 2, 2006

Yeah, I have been thinking of getting a PS2 (mainly for God of War) and if this product really works I will be more then happy to get a PS2 with this (assuming its not too expensive, they have yet to set a price for it!).However, seeing this come out so late in the PS2's life cycle makes me wonder why Sony didn't try to have something like this earlier due to the XBox having this ability (HDTV-compatibilty) built-in from the get go.

August 2, 2006

Online store was a great option until DVD Burners and Media got so cheap that you can get a high quailty DVD-R for less then 50 cents. Plus, as others have mentioned, it poses a risk of the site going down or a hacker getting into your account. Although I don't think anyone would upload anything personal, they might upload something to share with a friend if the friend lives in another country or state.Other then that I can't see a purpose for this kind of storage, sorry.

August 2, 2006

A new device called the Xploder HDTV Player has been announced. This product promises to

pump out HD-resolution pictures from your old PS2 for a fraction of the price.

Dubbed the HDTV Game Player, the gadget coverts the PS2's output into 720p or 1080i. The Game Player hooks up to your HD TV using an RGB component-video cable. Xploder said the device will provide "crystal clear picture quality... for all PS2 games". It'll also improve the image quality of games played on regular-resolution TVs, the company claimed.

Xploder will offer both PAL and NTSC versions of the HDTV Game Player. It will also output via a regular VGA cable to a computer monitor. PS2 users select the resolution they want on the console - the choices are saved to memory card.

Personally, I don't believe something like this would work very well. If it does then that would be pretty sweet but, it sounds like something that cannot work (taking a video that has 480 lines of video (just a guess) and making it have 1080 lines, all while improving and not stretching or distorting the picture.)

No price has been set yet, but you can check out the companies site by going here.

Source

August 1, 2006

So, I came across a book I have from a while ago and thought some of its contents might be of use to the members here! If the admins want, please remove everything below **Taken from book**, everything else is also posted here:

This part was **Taken from book**, although not exactly copied word for word. I paraphrased most of it. If it isn't paraphrased, it is quoted. The book is titled The WORST-CASE Scenario Survival Handbook by Joshua Piven and David Borgenicht. Also, the book is over 150 pages, so I just posted the ones I thought would come in handy for most people. If someone wants me to update this, I can post the rest of the situations later on.

How to Escape from a Sinking Car

Open the window as soon as you hit the water, note that if your driving around a lake or on ice its advised to keep your windows slightly cracked at all times. The reason for this is because once the pressure is equal you can open your door.

If your power windows don't work or you can't roll them down all the way try to break the glass with your foot, shoulder or other heavy object.

Because most cars are front engine, it is heavier in front then anywhere else. This results in your car quickly sinking at a steep angle. Don't worry about anything in the car unless its another person. Cars will float as long as air is in the car. This can range from a few seconds to a couple of minutes.

If you can't break open a window or open a door you have one last option.

Wait until the car has filled almost completely with water, take a really deep breath and try opening the door. Because the car is full of water the pressure outside and inside should be equal. This will allow you to open your door and swim to the surface.

How to Jump from a moving car

You may need to jump from a car for some reason, maybe its brakes have failed and the tutorial below here doesn't work. Maybe you were kidnapped and are in a car. I don't know but here is how to get out of a car by jumping.

Because your moving at the same speed as the car, your body will naturally want to follow it. Make sure when you jump that it is at an angle.

Tuck your head, arms and legs into as tight of a ball as possible.

Aim for a soft landing area such as grass, wood chips, or brush. Anything that is softer then pavement - or a tree.

Basically make sure the object can "give" a little (or a lot!) that your going to try and land on. This will help reduce injury from the jump.

Roll when you hit the ground

I assume you should try and still be in as small of a ball shape as possible. This helps minimize injury.

How to survive being caught in an avalanche

Try to stay on top of the snow using freestyle swimming motions.

If your only part buried you can use your hand to dig out and kick your feet.

If you have a ski pole try poking around to see if you can feel open air. If so, dig that way.

If your completely buried here is what you should do

Make sure your not injuried to badly, most people suffer great injury when full buried by an avalanche. This would make self-rescue hard to impossible. But, if your injury is not too bad here is what you should do.

Dig a small hole around your face and then spit. Saliva follows gravity and heads downhill giving you a good idea which way is up. Dig up and do it quickly.

**This part was taken from Popular Mechanics (link to the article here)**

How To Stop A Car With No Brakes

Begin pumping the brake pedal and keep pumping it.You may be able to build up enough pressure in the braking system to slow down a bit, or even stop completely. If you have antilock brakes, you do not normally pump them--but if your brakes have failed, this may work.

Do not panic. Relax and steer the car smoothly.Cars will often safely corner at speeds much higher than you realize or are used to driving. The rear of the car may slip, so steer evenly, being careful not to overcorrect.

Shift the car into the lowest gear and let the engine and transmission slow you down.

By downshifting a car it causes engine braking, which essentially keeps the engine from going about a specific MPH. Usually its not faster then about 10-15 in 1st gear (if your in an Automatic, this is usually identified as "Low"). This will help make the vehicle easier to control.

Pull the emergency brake, but not too hard.Pulling too hard on the emergency brake will cause the rear wheels to lock and the car to spin around. Use even, constant pressure. In most cars, the emergency brake (the hand brake or parking brake) is cable operated and serves as a fail-safe brake that should work even when the rest of the braking system has failed. The car should slow down and, in combination with the lower gear, eventually stop.If you come up behind another car, use it to help you stop.Blow your horn and flash your lights to get the driver's attention. If it appears you're going to hit the car, try to hit it square, bumper to bumper, so you do not knock the other vehicle off the road. This is an extremely dangerous maneuver. It works best if the vehicle in front of you is larger than yours--a bus or truck, for example--and if both vehicles are traveling at about the same speed. You do not want to crash into a much slower-moving or stopped vehicle. However, you may have no choice.

August 1, 2006

What do you get for the graphics buff who has everything? How about Nvidia's Quadro Plex 1000, a racked collection of GPUs in their own box, together capable of rendering 80bn pixels every second and powering monitors with a combined resolution of up to 148 megapixels.

It starts at only $17,500 using Quadro GPUs. With the use of Model II, you can have to pleasure of using

two Quadro 4500 X2 GPUs - ie. four graphics cores

Model III has the ability to work with "Broadcast Quailty" HDTV.

Models I and III can do 32x SLI full-screen anti-aliasing, while the Model II goes up to 64x SLI FSAA. The Model II has 1GB of DDR2 graphics memory per GPU, while the other two machines have 512MB of GDDR 3 per GPU.

The machines are controlled from a PC or workstation - 32- or 64-bit, Windows or Linux - connected across a network. Nvidia reckons the boxes will interest not only content creators but folk doing scientific modelling and simulation work.

The projected release time for this thing is September according to my source.

August 1, 2006

Even today passwords play a central role in system security. Here are ten myths of passwords with using Windows:

Myth #1: My Password Hashes Are Safe When Using NTLMv2

Many readers will be familiar with the weaknesses in LanManager (LM) password hashes that made L0phtcrack so popular. NTLM made hashes somewhat stronger by using a longer hash and allowing both upper and lower-case letters. NTLMv2 made even more advances by computing a 128-bit key space and using separate keys for message integrity and confidentiality. It also uses the HMAC-MD5 algorithm for further message integrity. However, Windows 2000 still often sends LM or NTLM hashes over the network and NTLMv2 is also vulnerable to in-transit (also known as replay) attacks. And since LM and NTLM password hashes are still stored in the registry, you will still be vulnerable to attacks against the SAM.

Until we stop using LanManager, which probably won't be anytime soon, do not assume that your password hashes are safe. L0phtcrack is a popular

Myth #2: Passwords created by "Random Password Generators" are great passwords.

This is totally bogus, for one thing a hacker can figure out what algorithm the generator uses and reverse your password in a matter of minutes. Random passwords are usually extremely hard to remember and they take a long time to type most of the time. This increase the chance of someone figuring out your password just by watching you. Make sure that if your creating a password, it alternates between the left and right hand side of the keyboard, contains at LEAST one number and has both upper and lower-case letters involved.
Here is a list of almost eight thousand words, all which use both sides of the keyboard.
https://xato.net/?gi=fd5430c8d485

It is best to create a password that involves something easy for you to remember. This can be anything from vulgar language, part of an address, a favorite song or rhyme, maybe a name of a person. Make sure to combine letters and numbers though. Maybe substitute letters for numbers such as IH4t3Y0uSoVeRYmUCHD!eandR()T

Myth #3: 14 characters is an optimal password length.

With LM, password hashes were split into two separate 7-character hashes. This actually made passwords more vulnerable because a brute-force attack could be performed on each half of the password at the same time. So passwords that were 9 characters long were broken into one 7-character hash and one 2-character hash. Obviously, cracking a 2-character hash did not take long, and the 7-character portion could usually be cracked within hours. Often, the smaller portion could actually be used to assist in the cracking of the longer portion. Because of this, many security professionals determined that optimal password lengths were 7 or 14 characters, corresponding to the two 7-character hashes.
NTLM improved the situation some by using all 14 characters to store the password hash. While this did make things better, NT dialog boxes still limited passwords to a maximum of 14 characters; thus the determination that passwords of exactly 14 characters are the optimal length for the best security.

With newer versions of Windows such as 2000 and XP your password can now be up to 127 characters long. This can also get around LM problem as Windows doesn't even correctly create and store a hash of your password if its over 14 characters. This makes brute-force attacks a lot harder.

Myth #4: Passwords such as "J0hn99" are great passwords.

Most password cracking programs can try hundreds of word variations per second. Adding numbers to the end also only takes a few seconds to do. The longer your password the better. Although using "L33t Sp34K" is probably one of the best ways to create a password. This would include things such as using a combination of symbols, letters and numbers to form a word (or in some cases, even just a single letter).

Myth #5: Any password can eventually be cracked.

This is one of the biggest ones in my opinion. Hackers will leave you alone (unless the Government has hired them to do the dirty work) if they can't get your password guessed in a few minutes. The process of cracking passwords is not only time consuming but it also takes lots of processing power that could be used for other things. As a rule of thumb, the longer your password is the more likely the hacker will give up and move on.

Myth #6: Passwords should be changed every 30 days.

If you have something of high-risk this maybe a good policy but, for the average joe its not something that should be suggested. Constantly changing a password often causes a typical user to develop extremely predictive patterns and other things that lower the effectiveness of a password. If a user knows they don't have to change their password they can focus on making a password more complex and thus harder to crack. If required to change passwords every-so-often its a more realistic to have the time frame be 90+ days.

Myth #7: You Should Never Write Down Your Password

It is actually a good thing to have your password written down. It IS however, not a good policy to sticky note them to your monitor or around your desk. If you write down a password it can help you create more complex passwords and its easy to recover them if they are forgotten. If you write down a password make sure you do NOT throw it away! A lot a big companies have had security compromises because the passwords that were written down get thrown in the dumpster.

Myth #8: Passwords Cannot Include Spaces

Its a fact that if a character is visible in Windows, it CAN be used in your password. This obviously includes spaces. It is NOT however, recommended to use spaces at the beginning or end of the password. Also make sure spaces are not over used as a person listening in on your typing can hear the unique "click" the space bar makes everytime its pressed. Please note that a space isn't counted in complexity requirements by Windows.

Myth #9: Always use passfilt.dll

Simply put, using passfilt.dll FORCES users to be within 2000 and XP password guidelines. This can quickly and easily create frustration, which may result in the use of a bad (or weak) password just to get around the Windows password requirements.

Myth #10: Use ALT+255 for the Strongest Possible Password[/quote]Using "ALT" and a three digit combo create ASCII characters. This may sound very secure as you have to know the exact three digit combo to crack the password but, you can easily watch someone type those numbers in. Here is some math to prove this point:[quote]For example, a five-character password made up of high-ASCII characters will require 25 keystrokes to complete. With 255 possible codes for each character and five characters, the total possible combinations are 255^5 (or 1,078,203,909,375 - Just over 1 Trillion possible combos). However, a 25-character password made up of only lower-case letters has 26^25 (236,773,830,007,968,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 or a crazy amount of over 236 Decillion (I had to look that one up!)) possible combinations. Clearly, you are better off just making longer passwords.

One trick you can use too is ALT+0160, this creates a "Non-Breaking" space. This fools a hacker if they see this type of "space" as they will think your password contains a space when it really does not.

SOURCE:
https://www.symantec.com/connect/articles/ten-windows-password-myths

July 31, 2006

What it is

A exploit in the buggy OS of XP has been found, this one concering DHCP.

OS effected

Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server

Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP1

Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP2

Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP3

Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP4

Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server

Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server SP1

Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server SP2

Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server SP3

Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server SP4

Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional

Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP1

Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP2

Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP3

Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP4

Microsoft Windows 2000 Server

Microsoft Windows 2000 Server SP1

Microsoft Windows 2000 Server SP2

Microsoft Windows 2000 Server SP3

Microsoft Windows 2000 Server SP4

Microsoft Windows XP

Microsoft Windows XP Home

Microsoft Windows XP Home SP1

Microsoft Windows XP Home SP2

Microsoft Windows XP Professional

Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP1

Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2

Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition

Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition

Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition

Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition SP1

Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition SP2

Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition SP1

Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition SP2

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition 64-bit

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition 64-bit SP1

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition SP1

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter x64 Edition

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition 64-bit

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition 64-bit SP1

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition SP1

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition SP1

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard x64 Edition

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Web Edition

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Web Edition SP1

How to fix it or reduce your risk

Block access at the network boundary, unless it interfers with production.

Make sure only trusted networks and hosts can send DHCP requests to affected computers.

Microsoft has released patches to fix this exploit at the following addresses:

Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP4:

Microsoft Hotfix Security Update for Windows 2000 (KB914388)

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