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This video by Eggman85 is going to teach you how to perform the Mercury aces card trick – in which you appear to make a hand of four kings transform into a hand of four aces. Video after the break. Read more »
Comments(0) Surf Junky Bans Those Near Payout!
Yeah, so you like Surf Junky. You won’t like it any more when you reach a $25 balance. Once you get to that amount of money, Surf Junky will mark your account for deletion.
That’s right, deletion. And there’s nothing you can do about it.
Surf Junky will accuse you of using illegal programs to inflate your payout rate regardless of whether or not you actually used them. You will be blamed for this no matter what you do, even if you are following all of the rules. This is how they plan to silence everyone.
Ok a lot of you heard about SurfJunky here, well apparently Surfjunky might not be paying out as promised.. You might want to check this out, if this is the case we need to do something about it.
Comments(0) Members of the Ubuntu colocation team suggest the attack could have begun with a Chinese IP address.
The Ubuntu community had to yank five of the eight Ubuntu-hosted community servers sponsored by Canonical offline Aug. 6 after discovering that the servers had been hijacked and were attacking other machines.
It was suggested during an IRC (Internet relay chat) meeting of the Ubuntu colocation team Aug. 14 that the source of the troubles might have been a Chinese IP address trying to log onto the servers by brute force “for a long time now it seems,” said a participant.
On Aug. 14, the community began to bring the machines back up in a safe state so that they could recover data from them. Unfortunately, according to Ubuntu Community Manager Jono Bacon, the servers were all found to be out of date, stuffed with Web software, and missing security patches—at least in the instances where it was easy to determine what version they’re running.
“An attacker could have gotten a shell through almost any of these sites,” Bono wrote in a posting, regarding a change to location server policy that resulted from the incident.
“FTP (not sftp, without SSL) was being used to access the machines, so an attacker (in the right place) could also have gotten access by sniffing the clear-text passwords,” he said. Also, “the servers have not been upgraded past breezy due to problems with the network card and later kernels. This probably allowed the attacker to gain root.”
Bringing the servers back up has taken longer than the managers would have liked, Bono said. Given that they’ve been relying on help from members spread over the globe, there are “arbitrary limits imposed by those remote hands” and there’s a “(relative) lack of bandwidth” available with which data can be copied from the machines, he wrote.
During the Aug. 14 IRC meeting, location teams were given a choice to migrate to the Canonical data center or stay on the hosted/outsourced servers. Canonical, based in the U.K., is a provider of services to individual and corporate open-source software users.
The pluses of moving to the Canonical data center, Bono said, include better hardware and bandwidth, full-time support from Canonical’s systems administration team—including software maintenance—and integration into Ubuntu’s existing backup infrastructure.
Some of the minuses the Ubuntu community will have to deal with in a move to Canonical—the company behind the Ubuntu distribution—include having less software supported—with the wiki engine MoinMoin, the blog platform WordPress and the Ubuntu community forum Planet on the short list of still-supported applications.
The migration was still in swing as of Aug. 14, and the collocation team leaders were looking for help. “I’d be very happy if I got one index.html file to ubuntu-fi.org today as a start 
MoinMoin would be very nice too,” one said during the IRC meeting. “One thing I would ask for is patience. I understand that a service outage like this makes many people anxious,” he said, requesting that those anxious about restoration of services go to the #canonical-sysadmin channel and ask publicly so that the first available systems administrator can answer the request.
In the meantime, data isn’t lost, although applications must be deep-sixed since executable code simply can’t be trusted following the intrusion.
“Due to the nature of the intrusion, we must assume that any and all executable code of any sort on the old sites is dangerous,” said the meeting leader, “Spads.” “…We have data, but executable code (python, PHP, Perl, any CGI, etc.) will need to be replaced.”
Comments(0) Gmail gives a lot of storage space…but sometimes, even that 2+ GB is not sufficent for us !!!
If you can follow my instructions then you can get all your email, even if its full !!
* Delete at least few emails with unnecessary big attachment. Even if you dont want to delete it then forward to any of your alternate mail boxes. Make sure that its 99% full but not 100%. It wont be a problem for you to receive any mail, here after.
(Usually you can delete the MP3 files stored in your Gmail !! Obviously you must be having those somewhere else in your ipod or your hard disk!! )
* Signup for another Gmail account. (Note: This is where all of your emails are going to come here after after some tweaks)
* Now, go to your inbox where its almost full. Then go to settings. There click on the tab link “Forwarding and POP”
* Fill it as shown below.
i.e., Forward a copy of incoming mail to [your new gmail id]
and select the option “delete Gmail copy”
* Thats it!! All your incoming emails would be forwarded to your new gmail box now.
your almost full old inbox will remain as it is !!!
[[[ I know that some of you must have already figured this out... But wait... advanced hacks are coming here in my next part !!! ]]]
Feel free to share your thoughts on this…
Comments(0) Here are some of the secret pages hidden inside the Firefox browser?
Type these underlined words into your address bar to see these secret pages of Firefox!!
about:
This shows the Firefox logo, version information and other related stuffs. This can be seen from the “Help –> About” menu item also !!
This shows the build related configurations and other related information.
about:license
This shows the license related information, i.e., “Mozilla Public License”
This page shows the images and other files stored in you cache memory.
This page shows the plugins installed in your Firefox browser, like flash player, adobe acrobat PDF reader etc…
This page shows a lot of settings which you can change if you want… But don’t change it if you don’t know what you are doing!!
This page shows the credits to the people who created it!!!
about:Mozilla
This is the weirdest of all pages. This page shows a quote from “The Book of Mozilla”
This has raised a question whether is there is anything like religion of Firefox?? Quite weird anyway….
This is what you will get in that about:Mozilla page
“And so at last the beast fell and the unbelievers rejoiced. But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird. The bird gazed down upon the unbelievers and cast fire and thunder upon them. For the beast had been reborn with its strength renewed, and the followers of Mammon cowered in horror.”
From The Book of Mozilla, 7:15
Enjoy browsing with Firefox !!
