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Sunday, May 30, 2004

ArtRage

Seems like this was made by some guys from photoshop...logged this a lot of months back, still haven't checked it out...d/l'ing it now and gonna check it...hopefuly by tomm :) but if it works anything like the hand illustration they've shown as an example, i'm gonna be hunting for a paypal link for these guys!!!
Ambient Design Ltd.


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on another note,
The day I get late every single f*cking night is because FrapperMan has 4 chat windows simultaneously open!!!! and actively talking on the phone with the fifth !!

Friday, May 28, 2004

for iMutter

Nishkama-karma - work without desire for the fruits of action. When there is total surrender and work is done without desire...

Everything in the Universe appears to me now like pictures hanging on the walls of a room.

Saturday, May 22, 2004

Shopping Spree At Bazee

1. http://www.baazee.com/jsp/BidForm.jsp?Trade_TradeId=25682573
2. http://www.baazee.com/jsp/BidForm.jsp?Trade_TradeId=25676161
3. http://www.baazee.com/jsp/BidForm.jsp?Trade_TradeId=25636653
4. http://www.baazee.com/jsp/BidForm.jsp?Trade_TradeId=25639906
5. http://www.baazee.com/jsp/BidForm.jsp?Trade_TradeId=25626261

Those Silly Little Inset Bars

Hands-on; Those Little Inset Bars

Living with Asperger's Syndrome

Living with Asperger's Syndrome || kuro5hin.org

Transcript of Bruce Sterling at Microsoft Corporation

Watching Rats Abandon Ship - Transcript of Bruce Sterling at Microsoft Corporation

My PassPort No.

#0001 16574 C35B 7DA

Thursday, May 13, 2004

Into The Black - {subjts good for mutter}

Nick Cook's Book

GoogleBlog

Google's Blog

How Well Do You Know Your Teenager ?

Is the Fruit of your loins on Drugs ?

The Relentless Pursuit of Intimacy

British Pub Etiquette

Do it Yourself Deity

What Is God

What Drug Is This ?

1,3,7-trimethylxanthine (sometimes used as a pesticide to kill frogs) also happens to be one of the world’s most popular drugs.

Users find that it improves attention and concentration, and slightly decreases their heart rate at low doses. It is habit forming however and has been known to cause agitation, anxiety, insomnia, disorientation, nausea, delirium, hallucinations and tinnitus. Some people report involuntary tremors or even convulsions. Overdoses can cause seizures, respiratory failure and cardiopulmonary arrest. Withdrawal from regular use can cause symptoms including headache, nausea, nervousness, reduced alertness and depression.

The metabolic half-life of the drug is usually somewhere between three and seven hours so a typical user will take somewhere between fifteen and thirty-five hours to process 95% of their initial dose.

Emulate

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Tuesday, May 11, 2004

W2NETMGR.EXE - COOL.EXE

The virus infected us this morning. Keylogger, trojan, it's the whole package. Google dosn't have anything on it. Neither does astalavista.box.
Searched almost all other search engines.

Spreads over the network, kills the 'RegEdit' window as soon as it opens.
Modifies the host file in system32/drivers/etc/hosts and redirects all browser requests for known antivirus websites to 127.0.1
Only known definate symptoms.

So far, the sysads have worked out the following process -

1. boot in safe mode.
2. delete all copies of wnetmgr.exe
3. delete all copies of cool.exe
4. delete all registry keys which reference the virus
5. restart into safe mode with networking.
6. change winxp cd keys.
7. install XP service pack 1
8. install updates from windowsupdate.microsoft.com
9. reboot into normal mode
10. open regedit.
11. wait.
12. if regedit dosn't get killed, you're homefree.
13. the virus infected my machine again after 2 hours so wait for a LONG while.

As of this moment, the above process will NOT clean your machine.

The virus could be a variant of W32.Donk.Q (not confirmed)

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Monday, May 03, 2004

Indian Ingenuity At Work.

India’s secret army of online ad clickers

By N Vidyasagar and Ratna Bhushan TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: With her baby on the lap, Maya Sharma (name changed) gets down to work every evening from her 8th-floor flat at Thane’s Vasant Vihar. Maya’s job is to click on online advertisements. She doesn’t care about the ads, but diligently keeps count - it’s $0.18 to $0.25 per click.

A growing number of housewives, college graduates, and even working professionals across metropolitan cities in the country are rushing to click paid Internet ads to make $100 to $200 (up to Rs 9,000) per month.

‘‘It’s boring, but it is extra money for a couple of hours of clicking weblinks every day,’’ says a resident of Delhi’s Patparganj who has kept a $300-target for the summer. Here’s how it works: online advertisers in developed markets typically agree to pay the hosting website each time an ad is clicked. With performancebased deals becoming dominant on the Internet, intermediaries have sprung up to ‘‘do the needful.’’ Why, type in ‘earn rupees clicking ads’ in Google - you get 25,000 results. ‘‘I’m not surprised. As competition intensifies, people are using every trick in the book to increase their revenues,’’ says Sam Balsara, CMD, Madison. The trend is catching up in India. Says Goutam Rakshit, chairman, Advertising Council of India: ‘‘It’s a numbers game as far as media buying is concerned. Anybody who can manipulate numbers gets the edge. This is an unethical practice which needs to be curbed.’’

Take Click2freemoney.com. Calling itself an Internet advertising company that shares profits with members, it gives three options to earn money - by clicking on website links via emails that they send, by clicking on banners and text ads in their paid-to-click section, and by referring others to the website. No wonder Internet advertising companies have been floated in many neighbourhood colonies, promising to share ‘‘secrets’’ to earning in dollars by clicking online ads for an upfront fee of Rs 250 to Rs 1,500. Typically, online ad clickers get their money remitted by opening accounts through PayPal or StormPay - which enables money transaction if you have an email address.

Most clickers, however, opt to pay commission to middle men and encash earnings in rupees. Clickers say they pay $7 commission for every $50 dollar earned. Clicks are bought to boost number of hits for web ads or online advertisers who are not tracking user location. Rakshit says that new technology solutions are being developed to bring in some sort of accountability. ‘‘It is going to be a cat-and-mouse game,’’ he says.

Industry, as a whole, is confident that this is an interim trend that will fizzle out in the long run. But for the moment, there are countless Maya Sharmas clicking away.

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