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Att handla på amazon är inte helt lätt.

Popup fönster, reklam, kampanjer etc står som spön i backen.
Färger som får Macintosh användare att suckta av längtan till fornstora dagar.
Målgruppen verkar vara synskadades riksförbunds medlemmar eller PRO´s medlemmar (som har gått om tid att försöka "överlista" den ologiska webplatsen.
Mitt största projekt är för tillfället att försöka lista ut var utloggnings-knappen finns på deras webplats. Har du sett den eller vet var den finns så vänligen hör av dig till undertecknad.

Everything you ever would need to know about the great database Firebird and integration with .NET
http://www.dotnetfirebird.org/

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Leonardo da Vinci

The simplicity of scripting language PHP means it will be more popular than Java for building Web-based applications,
Internet browser pioneer Marc Andreessen predicted Wednesday in the US in a speech in California at the Zend/PHP Conference.
zdnet.com

How I Feed My Cats with Linux

Chris McAvoy uses an inexpensive controller, a serial port and a small Python program to feed his cats remotely via the web.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7403

Feed the cats

MD5summer is an application for Microsoft Windows 9x, NT, ME, 2000
and XP which generates and verifies md5 checksums
md5summer homepage

Projectpages at SourceForge

Polisen i Linköping har fortfarande inte hittat dubbelmördaren i Linköping.
Detta trots att:

• Man vet vad han heter - Leif
• Ena offret kände igen mördaren (vid namn)
• Man har mördarens DNA
• Man har ett bra signalement som kan intygas av flera personer
• Man har mördaren ev. på fotografi (Aftonbladet 2005-10-13).
• Man har förhört 3000 personer, vilket motsvarar drygt 3% av hela Linköpings befolkning
• Man har mördarens kniv samt dennes mössa
• Man vet hans ålder ungefär: 22-25 år

Med andra ord, man har allt utom mördarens personnummer och dennes adress.

Vad väntar polisen på ?

Hoppas de att han skall komma in och anmäla sig själv.

Som privatspanare kan jag tillockmed bjuda på detta tipset:

Googla på Leif och Linköping
Intressant nog så är den första träffen: Leif Pagrotsky besöker Motala och Linköping. Jag antar att man undersöker detta tipset för fullt.

Hur många Leif det finns i stadens skolfotokataloger vet jag inte men det kan knappas röra sig om fler än 30-40 Leif i den aktuella åldern 22-25 år.

Som amatör släktforskare kan jag ta fram en lista på alla Leif ifrån Linköping samt deras personnummer på mindre än 5 minuter.
Vad 10-30 polisen har gjort i ett år kan man ju undra.

kling och klang är ute och cyklar

Ciamos 0.9.3 http://www.ciamos.com
3.45MB
1,576 Files
356 Folders

RunCMS 1.1A http://www.runcms.com
4.81 MB
2,168 Files
531 Folders

With all the advances, feature requests and bug fixes Ciamos has had since E-Xoops 1.05Rev3, surely it would be larger than RunCMS (main E-Xoops branch, just renamed). However, we see here that even with all of these additions, Ciamos is still smaller and lightweight. Ciamos is also less graphics intense, allowing for faster page loads and less cache space.

Ciamos has all of the features RunCMS has and many more, so how do these features help webmasters keep their site up to date, and give them more control with Ciamos?
First, we looked at categories (also known as "Topics" for the non-western world) from a birds' eye view and decided:
- Each module had at least a couple categories at least one of the other modules had
- There was a better way to organize categories in the database than haveing numerous duplicates taking up database space
- Having the categories built-in to the CMS itself allows for quicker SQL updates when installing a new module which utilize the Global Topics feature

We then implemented the Global Topics feature and reduced the size of Ciamos by at least 6 files, averaging 400 lines.

Ciamos gives webmasters the ability to view security logs from the security extension of the brand new sysHandler class. Written from complete scratch by me, vi0lat0r, the sysHandler and security class enable beginner and advanced webmasters alike to have a sense of peace, knowing their site is being protected in the following ways:
- Variables must be passed via links
- Only variables that are supposed to be in the address bar will be permitted*
*This feature is currently in the majority of default modules and can be disabled via the admin control panel
- Logs for attempting to access the admin control panel with a non-admin account
- Logs and possible ban for repeating offenders of any of the above and more.
Note: A security log will be created containing their IP, username, referring website (if applicable) and time of incident for all of the above and a few more occasions.

You get active security, like blocking variables being passed via typing them in the address bar, and passive security, like logs created for handling the problematic user. RunCMS has none of these features.

Ciamos also provides advanced link checking for the downloads module on both the admin and user ends, to determine if some of the downloads links are outdated and non-working. The user-end only gives links to working locations of the file being requested, saving you some broken link reports ;-)

Looking for a safe, secure way to keep notes on your website? The admin area allows you to keep an unlimited number of notes for fellow admins of your site to read. You can add/edit/delete them with ease, just a click of a button.

Code has been tidied up and revamped to save space and cpu cycles. Duplicate defines are now gone, and enormouse files, such as the downloads module's admin backend, have been broken into smaller files, allowing quicker page loads. The reason pages load quicker with these smaller files is simple - only the required files are included in order to display the page you're requesting. Instead of having 50 functions all in the same file, we've broken them up into smaller numbers, allowing the server to access the necessary portions quicker and easier.

Speaking of breaking functions into smaller files, we now have a functions folder in the include folder for storing any extra function add-ons you might want to use in your modules. /includes/functions/custom is where you would put them. This allows them to be called at the beginning of the page creation, giving you less files to include in your header file and more control over your end product. Of course, this is mainly for module and hack programmers, but it definately benefits normal webmasters as well since they will get to use the end result ;-)

To find out the other numerous features Ciamos has over RunCMS, and why smaller is better, go to our downloads area and download the latest version of Ciamos now.

Source:http://www.ciamosbase.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=19
-vi0lat0r

Innan 3.0 kom var Windows ett både tekniskt komplicerat och
krångligt operativsystem att arbeta med.

Citat från en utvecklare, vars namn jag inte kan berätta (tur för honom).

Fredagen den 7 oktober 2005 skrev säkerhetskonsulten Marcus Murray
följande svar i IDG på frågan - Hur man säkrar sitt nätverk lagom mycket.

Vad Marcus och många med honom lyckas göra i denna artikel är att blanda ihop risk och effekt.

Med denna "falska matematik" lyckas han förvandla 5% till 60% genom att först undersöka risken för att sedan summera något helt annat (nämligen effekten).
Huruvida det i det aktuella fallet rör sig om misstag eller okunnighet skall dock vara osagt men felaktigt är det.

Så här skulle ett liknande felaktigt exempel se ut:

2% av Sveriges befolkning drabbas av benbrott varje år.
Varje benbrott leder i snitt till 20 dagars frånvaro från arbetsplatsen.
Vi räknar med att man i genomsnitt arbetar 300 dagar på ett år.
Detta gör att 6,66 % av sveriges befolkning drabbas av risken för benbrott (20/300).
Resultatet är inte så stort procentuellt (som i det föregående exemplet) men väl i
konkreta siffror:

2% * 8.000.000 = 160.000 (personer drabbas av benbrott varje år)
8% * 8.000.000 = 640.000 (personer drabbas av benbrott varje år)

Notera:
I mitt exempel finns även andra felaktigheter/tveksamheter med:
* Arbetsdagar på ett år
* Felaktig uppgift om befolkningsmängd
* Sammanblandning av "frånvaro från arbetsplats" med hur många som är sysselsatta i "arbete",
dvs om man är elev och bryter ett ben så kommer man inte att påverka "frånvaron" från arbetsplatsen.
* Tja resten får du roa dig med att finna själv, men jag skulle bli förvånad om du inte fann ytterligare felaktigheter.

Med detta vill jag ha sagt - Ställ er alltid kritiska till dyl. exempel/uppgifter.

**Question: What is the truest definition of Globalization?**

Answer: Princess Diana's death.

Question: How come?

Answer: An English princess
with an Egyptian boyfriend
crashes in a French tunnel,
driving a German car
with a Dutch engine,
driven by a Belgian who was drunk
on Scottish whisky, (check the bottle before you change the spelling)
followed closely by Italian Paparazzi,
on Japanese motorcycles;
treated by an American doctor,
using Brazilian medicines.

This is message is published by an American,
using Bill Gate's technology,
and you're probably reading this on your computer,
that use Taiwanese chips,
and a Korean monitor,
assembled by Bangladeshi workers
in a Singapore plant,
transported by Indian lorry-drivers,
hijacked by Indonesians,
unloaded by Sicilian longshoremen,
and trucked to you by Mexican illegals.....
That, my friends, is Globalization

...But being able to process nearly 2 million pixels per second in Python on average hardware is pretty amazing. When I started working with image processing, you had to use hand-tuned assembler to get anywhere near to that kind of performance.

Improvements in PIL 1.1.6

PyInstaller is a program that packages Python programs into stand-alone executables, under Windows, Linux and Irix. This is similar to the famous py2exe, but PyInstaller works with any version of Python since 1.5, it builds smaller executables thanks to transparent compression, it is multi-platform (so you can build one-file binaries also under Linux), and use the OS support to load the dynamic libraries, thus ensuring full compatibility.

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NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a tool that allows programmers to create installers for Windows. It is released under an open source license and is completely free for any use.

http://nsis.sourceforge.net/