Mes Secrets Inconnus

Here's what you need to do to make websites go crazy.I tried it with a couple of websites and it worked. Some serious fun there.

1.Go to Google.com

2.Remove everything from the address bar, then copy & paste the following into it:

javascript:R=0; x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.25; y2=.24; x3=1.6; y3=.24; x4=300; y4=200; x5=300; y5=200; DI=document.images; DIL=DI.length; function A(){for(i=0; i-DIL; i++){DIS=DI[ i ].style; DIS.position='absolute'; DIS.left=Math.sin(R*x1+i*x2+x3)*x4+x5; DIS.top=Math.cos(R*y1+i*y2+y3)*y4+y5}R++}setInterval('A()',5); void(0);

3.Hit enter.

4.Enjoy.
Look carefully, a lot of maths involved here ;-).

I have done this a lot in the past, but the only thing that was missing was the name. Infact this technique was the one that catapulted my career. It just required some logical thinking and some one to put this into practice. I was thrilled when i stumbled onto this article.. Heheh .. Now i am taking this to the new level, by just giving the link. But just in case you don't have the time to read the whole stuff, here is the funda - "Take your worst bug, the ugliest part of your code, the part that is so bad, so radioactive that no one can touch it without getting killed, and you make it private and inaccessible, and put a new interface around it, essentially entomb it in concrete so that no one can get close to it. In other words, if you can't fix it, at least contain the damage."

This is effectively explained using Intel and Microsoft as the subject. Thier stratergies and what they adopted to be numero uno in this undaunted world. You can read more here. Rob has done an excellent work in coining a very good name for it :-)

This is what i was waiting for.For a long time now SHA was secure algorithm & was the domain of hopeless research in many scientist's mind. heheheh.. i was also secretly tryin this. But now i guess, In few years from now SHA-1 will be obsolete, Thanks to this chinese professor.Just wondering what the feel would be when you will be the only person who knows a world class secret!!!

More can be read HERE. Just check out how cool Ms. Wang is trying to be!!!

For those of you using Windows, do the following:

1.) Open an empty notepad file
2.) Type “Bush hid the facts” (without the quotes)
3.) Save it as whatever you want.
4.) Close it, and re-open it.
Is it just a really weird bug???

Most people think it’s a Windows Notepad easter egg (I thought so myself, to be honest), but in fact, it isn’t. It’s just a lousy Notepad bug. Let me explain…
I was myself curious about the cause of this phenomenon, and I found out that this text is not the only one to cause problems. There are other strings that cause Notepad to screw up, including “this app can break”, which was another version of the bug that generated a lot of buzz. I’ve personally tested a series of strings that have the same effect, including “this api can break”, “this cat can split”, “jane can not dance”, “text wit hou tcaps” and even “abcd efg hij klmno” and “xxxx xxx xxx xxxxx”. What do these phrases have in common? They are made up by four words made up by four, three, three and five letters, all lowercase. So, by induction, all “4-3-3-5″ strings should work.
Now, let’s get to why this thing happens. First of all, it seems that Notepad writes the files just fine, it just can’t read them again correctly. As a proof, try opening your saved file, the one that Notepad screws up, with another text editor. I used EditPlus and it turned out to be OK. So why the Notepad thing then? Well, it’s a Windows thing. Notepad uses a Windows function that allows it to figure out whether a text file is Unicode or not. And that function, my friends, is the one that screws it up. Because the way it checks can easily be described as “guessing”. And it guesses that the file is actually Unicode, and not Ascii, as it is supposed to be.
Now, two different but similar explanations can be given.
The first is that, after the ASCII-to-hex conversion of the string, Notepad rearranges the hex codes not according to ASCII standards, but to Unicode, and that messes it up. Here’s the example:
Take “bush hid the facts”. The hex codes (they can be seen with any hex editor you want to download) for the string are:
62 75 73 68 20 68 69 64 20 74 68 65 20 66 61 63 74 73
Arrange the codes to make up Unicode characters and you get:
7562 6873 6820 6964 7420 6568 6620 6163 7473
You’ll notice that every code is hyperlinked. If you click on each one of them, you’ll see that each one represents a Chinese (I think) “letter”.
So this whole thing’s cause is the coincidence that the 18 ASCII characters happen to represent 9 Unicode characters. And, of course, Windows’ inability to determine the right encoding of the file.
The second explanation is slightly different, but the basics are the same: the difference between ASCII and Unicode. It’s just a matter of Notepad defaults. You see, when you save the file, in the “Encoding” field, the default drop-down is set to ANSI. So, by default, Notepad saves as ANSI. But if you do a File -> Open, the default Encoding is set to Unicode. That’s exactly what happens when you double click a saved file. Notepad knows the path, but not the Encoding. So it uses the default Unicode encoding, which spits the Chinese characters as explained above.
And that’s about it. No easter eggs, no conspiracies, no Bush interventions. Just plain old Microsoft

Someone at Microsoft has a very good sense of humor. They’ve released a blue
screen of death screen saver... to remind people of the good old days. Only a matter of time before it gets pulled I reckon :)

Download it while you still can! ... More details can be found on The Register

Found a cool Site : - http://www.databaseanswers.org/data_models/

Whats so cool about this? Well this is has around 100's of Data Models already ready in place, be it Airline Resrvation to School Management System. Its ready with schema and business rules. So from next time onwards before doing a data model just check in this site for your schema.....

Did you notice my new Template with all the labels, archive and a whole new look and feel???Well you can also get to do all this and much more thanks to certain madmen who dedicated thier precious time in the hacks and made the blog look a lot better and gave the power in your hands

Have a look at my label cloud, I don't mean I invented it. Goodness me no. But here's how it's done:I was checking out Hackosphere where I found the expandable post summaries javascript hack, and saw a link to phydeaux3's blog, with this most excellent entry: Code for Beta Blogger Label Cloud.It's very clearly and beautifully explained, so all you need is to pay phydeaux3 a visit and follow the instructions. You can change the font family, colours and font sizes once you've entered the basic code in the right places.
Cheers to these men and many more...when i went googling around!!!!

Interesting enough, according to Microsoft Word, Vinny spent 3709 minutes editing this document which is about 62 hours. I presume the actual time is much longer, since this does not reflect file versions. But even more interesting is the fact that this document was printed before it was created. Go figure how that works!!!!

Well Mr. Gates, we do agree with what you said "I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act"

Man used MP3 player to hack ATMs

Shortly after the launch of XP, somewhere in M$ HQ, someone on the M$ design team was in the progress of developing something for Media Center. It was believed to be way too powerful for public consumption and forever archived in the servers of M$. Now 3 years later, a young prodigy by the name of W3bbo saw light of this unheard theme, and traveled far and wide to unravel its mysteries. One theme to find. One theme to upload. One theme to download. One theme to rule them all.
hehehehe, enough Lord of the Rings talk for one day. Let me cut the crap and show you how to unravel this beauty.

YouOS is an experiment in a new kind of computing platform.Its still in its alpha stage when i got there. You can view here YouOS
The demo was mind blowing.
I think that it would be smart move for YouOS developers to get somehow Google backing - maybe sell it to Google. (but stay on development)
With Google backing this WOS could develop faster.
Considering all of Google's current offerings. I mean, if you think about it, what Google offerings are currently overpriced? Could Google overprice something like YouOS? Absolutely, but I believe their history shows otherwise. Now, if we were talking about Microsoft, then that would be another story....
I think where something like YouOS would be very, VERY useful to Google would be to provide a slick "launch pad" for its apps. Right now, Google has some excellent applications, but unfortunatly, they are all disjointed and seperate. There's no simple jumping-off point. (with the possible exception of http://Google.com/ig but that still falls shore requiring tweaking.) A "desktop" metaphore with built-in (and that's important), consistent, and tailorable access to all the Google apps would be very nice indeed. (Thus the reason I've been creating and modifying several of those Google application launchers here on YouOS.) Just keep it in the "Google philosophy" of lean, fast, and simple to use. I personally think something like YouOS has these elements in place.

I am simply amazed by my IPOD. Not because its a apple product, but becaz of its simplicity and the effect it produces on your ears.It rocks!!!!!. I have a iRiver , but i like my IPOD better. The only thing i feel missing is the radio!!!.But who cares, i still love my IPOD.
And Microsodt is one company that can't stand competition, be it PS2 or IPOD - Micro$oft is releasing a portable MP3 player to compete with the mighty iPod. Its supposed to have some kinda wifi connectivity. No solid info about this product is out yet from Micro$oft. Here are some articles i found

http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/10/m...-media-player/

http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/11/m...r-dubbed-zune/

Thanks to phpdeveloper.org, I came to know about Dotgeek PHP Marathon

Looks pretty interesting, I will register and see if I can solve the problems!