The 25 Best High-Tech Pranks Everyone loves a good laugh, and in the age of electronics, high-tech hijinks are just waiting to be pulled off. So snuggle up to your screen and get ready to unleash all sorts of shenanigans as we present the 25 best high-tech pranks known to man. Our apologies in advance to your friends and co-workers. 1. We start with one sure to throw off even the most advanced Windows user. 2. While we’re on the topic of system startups, the Windows Startup folder is a fantastic place for fun. 3. A classic computer prank never goes out of style. 4. There are few things funnier than forcing a friend to insult himself — and Microsoft has made it easy to do just that. 5. While you’re in the Word or Outlook settings, another good place to tamper is the dictionary. 6. A small investment will have a big payoff with the ThinkGeek Annoy-a-Tron. 7. 8. 9. Since you’re already under the desk, try out another switcheroo: the speaker swap. 10. 11. 12. Another great mouse prank awaits you in the Control Panel.
Learn to Program, by Chris Pine A Place to Start for the Future Programmer I guess this all began back in 2002. I was thinking about teaching programming, and what a great language Ruby would be for learning how to program. I mean, we were all excited about Ruby because it was powerful, elegant, and really just fun, but it seemed to me that it would also be a great way to get into programming in the first place. Unfortunately, there wasn't much Ruby documentation geared for newbies at the time. And it wasn't very good. What saved me was that I made it really easy for people to contact me, and I always tried to help people when they got stuck. A couple of years later, it was getting pretty good. :-) So good, in fact, that I was ready to pronounce it finished, and move on to something else. It took me another year, but now I think it's really good, mostly because of the hundreds of brave souls who have helped me write it. What's here on this site is the original tutorial, more or less unchanged since 2004.
What Would Happen If You Shot a Gun In Space? | Can Guns Fire In Space? | Can I Shoot a Gun in Space? Fires can't burn in the oxygen-free vacuum of space, but guns can shoot. Modern ammunition contains its own oxidizer, a chemical that will trigger the explosion of gunpowder, and thus the firing of a bullet, wherever you are in the universe. No atmospheric oxygen required. The only difference between pulling the trigger on Earth and in space is the shape of the resulting smoke trail. The possibility of gunfire in space allows for all kinds of absurd scenarios. Shooting stars Imagine you're floating freely in the vacuum between galaxies — just you, your gun and a single bullet. If you do the latter, Newton's third law dictates that the force exerted on the bullet will impart an equal and opposite force on the gun, and, because you're holding the gun, you. Once shot, the bullet will keep going, quite literally, forever. Getting down to details, the universe expands at a rate of 73 kilometers per second per megaparsec (about 3 million light-years, or the average distance between galaxies).
Secure DMG with DiskUtility © 2006 Lawrence I. Charters Washington Apple Pi Journal, reprint information Use a Mac for more than a few weeks and you’ll discover it quickly accumulates vast amounts of personal information. The Mac offers a powerful tool for the paranoid in Mac OS X 10.4: FileVault. Unfortunately, FileVault also has a dark side: if you have problems with your hard drive, FileVault may prevent you from recovering your own data. If you use a Mac at work, you will probably find your employer prohibits the use of FileVault. Important disclaimer: the author has nothing against FileVault. But the Mac has another very powerful tool for the paranoid: Disk Utility. Portable, password-protected disk images have some wonderful advantages. Figure 1: Navigate the nested menus in Disk Utility to select New > Blank Disk Image… Depending on size, you can E-mail the disk image to yourself, copy it to a CD-ROM or DVD, copy it to a flash drive, or copy it to a file server. Launch Disk Utility.
HTML5 A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML This Version: Latest Published Version: Latest Editor's Draft: Previous Versions: Editor: This specification is available in the following formats: single page HTML , multipage HTML , web developer edition . This is Revision: 1.4938. Copyright © 2011 W3C ® ( MIT , ERCIM , Keio ), All Rights Reserved. W3C liability , trademark and document use rules apply. The bulk of the text of this specification is also available in the WHATWG Web Applications 1.0 specification, under a license that permits reuse of the specification text. This specification defines the 5th major revision of the core language of the World Wide Web: the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). This section describes the status of this document at the time of its publication. If you wish to make comments regarding this document in a manner that is tracked by the W3C, please submit them via using our public bug database . This is a work in progress!
Disturbing Simple Facts and Errors in the BP and Oil Commission Reports Disturbing Facts and Errors in the BP and Oil Commission Reports A Preliminary Review of BP’s and Oil Commission’s Reports- Some Disturbing Simple Facts or Errors (References) on Depths We are compelled to ask how there can be so many disturbing facts (inconsistent) and simple errors in both the BP and Oil Commission Reports? Simply put, there are now many more new questions and concerns given the data and information that has been officially published. The following cursory assessment presents a “report on the Reports” submitted to the Gulf Oil Spill Remediation Conference by BK LIM, Geohazards Specialist. Gulf Oil Spill Remediation Conference Tallahassee, FLOilSpillSolution@comcast.netSKYPE: Gulf_Ad - BK Lim 17 January 2011 Like this: Like Loading... About concernedcitizensofflorida Live in North Florida
Free Books A lot of people keep asking about a good list of programming books. Hence, we are building this list to save your time and to spread the knowledge. Some of these books will definitely help us to evolve our coding skills and thought processes for developing better solutions. We will do our best to keep updating this list, hope you find this list useful, here we go. Meta-List Graphics Programming Language Agnostic: NerdDinner Walkthrough Assembly Language: Bash Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide See .NET below Django Djangobook.com Emacs The Emacs manual Thanks Emacser (October 17, 2010) Forth Git Haskell Dive Into HTML5 Java JavaScript Linux Advanced Linux Programming Lisp Lua Programming In Lua (for v5 but still largely relevant) Maven Mercurial NoSQL CouchDB: The Definitive Guide Objective-C The Objective-C Programming Language Parrot / Perl 6 Perl 6 (Work in progress) Perl PowerShell Mastering PowerShell Prolog PostgreSQL Practical PostgreSQL Python Learn REBOL Thanks Nick (October 19, 2010) Ruby Scala Scheme Smalltalk Subversion Vim
Free Programming Books Here is an uncategorized list of online programming books available for free download. The books cover all major programming languages: Ada, Assembly, Basic, C, C#, C++, CGI, JavaScript, Perl, Delphi, Pascal, Haskell, Java, Lisp, PHP, Prolog, Python, Ruby, as well as some other languages, game programming, and software engineering. The books are in various formats for online reading or downloading. This list will be updated daily. Scroll downn, or use the shortcuts below.
7 Tools to keep your Mac Healthy For the four years I’ve been using a Mac, I haven’t used a maintenance tool. All I’ve ever done was verify disk permissions, and maybe use Drive Genius to perform some optimisation. But even that was just something ‘extra’ and not necessary according to me. The real question is, can maintenance tools really help in getting your system speedy, healthy, and less prone to crashes? Maintenance A straightforward tool, as can be told by its name, Maintenance is a one window wonder. Ice Clean A much more comprehensive tool, Ice Clean is sort of your eyes into the system. When it comes to maintenance, Ice Clean can run the usual system scripts, disk verification and other forms of cleanup. MainMenu A no fuss application, MainMenu resides as an icon in your menubar. Onyx The big name in Mac maintenance, Onyx allows you to run a whole lot of maintenance scripts, along with cleanups of internet, fonts, logs, etc. MacPilot TinkerTool Cocktail Verdict