Atlas - We are all just floating in space...

Did you ever stop to think for a second about our situation... we are on a rock - floating through space. Sure the rock is big, we find it quite big indeed. But ultimately we are just bags of mostly water on a rock orbiting a nuclear explosion... and us, the exploding sun and a few other planets are just flying through space. We do not know where we are going... we do not know where we came from... unless you agree with the scientific belief that we know where the centre of the universe is using Dopler shift to pinpoint back to where we are flying from. I agree with that belief... or rather, I believe in it.

But ultimately our planet is like a lost child wandering aimlessly forever through freezing cold space.... I like this video because it remind me that we have a choice. We can sit in our offices, working for the man, again pointlessly, aimlessly... or you can party hard - work too of course, but also enjoy life.  

The Higgs Boson

Is there any better news in the world than that news of the Higgs Boson yesterday. If you do not know what the Higgs Boson is then you will not learn about it here from me, what with the fact that I am not a nuclear physicist.. also if you do not know about it, then really you do not need to know, if you were interested then you would already know about it by now.

This picture explains how the Higgs Boson helps in propelling galaxies around the universe...  somehow...

But to me, as a pantheist, this is the greatest news I could hear. It further confirms the "standard model" in physics. The standard model is basically a mathematical understanding of the universe. Finding the Higgs Boson help to validate that the standard model is basically correct.

Again, as a pantheist, a validated standard model is an approved mathematical equation of my understanding of god. That is why I love science, that is why I love the "discovery" and that is why I love my god.

Can you explain your God in mathematical theory? Do you want to?

Common Password List..

You know if someone wants to break into your account they can use a program that can guess your username and password. If they already know your username that is half the battle. For example, nearly every company will have an email address with admin@example.com. Now it is just a matter of guessing the password. Programs can look to a password list.. try admin@example.com as the username and try a password... if someone want to break into your account... the definitely will. Make no mistake about that one. 


But my point... here is what a list of common passwords. It would be interesting to see if you have a password that you use regularly is on this list!


http://bftp.v53.eu/passwords/CommonPasswordlist1.txt

This is really sweet... take out 15 mins to watch it...

Brought to you by a program called Mobbed... really nice

Star Wars on Telnet!!!! Class!

For a Windows 7 machine... (but as long as you have telnet you can do it on literally anything - as long as that thing has telnet installed!)

Step 1 - Open Telnet
Go to Start...
Type run... hit Return...
Type telnet... hit Return...

Step 2 - Install Telnet (Ignore this if Telnet is installed already)
Go to Start...
Go to Control Panel
Click on Programs
Under Programs and Features click on Turn Windows features on or off...
Put a tick beside Telnet Server and Telnet Client
Screen will disappear when you are finished... Telnet will now be installed...

Cu...tting...Edge Graphics Telnet Starwars Episode IV

Step 3 - Running Star Wars - Episode IV on Telnet
If you had to do Step 2 above then you now have to retry Step 1`
Now with telnet open type the letter o as in "o" for open.
Now type towel.blinkenlights.nl


Step 4 - Marvel At The Genius of some people
Consider how long it took to get this done...
Eat something...
May the force be with you....

Poker for idiots...

Just saw this add on television... it is for some poker website. It showed two men standing up in a warehouse kind of environment... there is a poker table between then and there is a dealer sitting at the table about to deal one last hand and the boys are obviously waiting to see the result of the card. Around this table are the audience.. a smouldering hot woman (ie - normal looking but with good lighting and 4 pints of makeup) is biting her lip in anticipation.

Come on... did you look at this add and think "I want to play poker online!" Some people will actually fall for this advert.

Sad...

Here be dragons!

I was looking into browsers, as you do and I came across this browser called SeaMonkey. In the early days Mozilla Firefox was community driven. As in the community wrote and maintained it. However then the project got to the size that Mozilla branched off into a more commercial project called Mozilla Firefox. There were a core bunch of people that stuck with the community based version however and called the browser SeaMonkey. I believe that they initally considered calling the project Buttmonkey but changed it. Even I think that that was a good idea.

Side note: in the browser, type in about:mozilla in the address bar and hit return.. Weird ah!

Second side note: in the browser type in about:config. Go here to get access to the internal settings of your Mozilla Firefox browser. FYI - you mess up these setting you could mess up to a certain degree your browser.