Geekiest. Maize Maze, Ever.
Star Trek fan Tom Pearcy has planted 1.5 million maize plants to cut the maze, which features images of Mr Spock, the USS Enterprise and what looks like Captain Jean-Luc Picard and a Borg cube.
Check it out at: Maize: the final frontier
Thanks to Sarcasmo’s Corner for the link.
– Suramya
This is a really cool flash application that allows you to create Visio like diagrams using flash. I tried it out and found the system to be pretty responsive. It allows you to share the documents you create for collaborative editing and if you like what you have you can export it as image files (jpg, png) or as SVG files that can be imported into Visio.
I like the idea and will probably use it for personal stuff, however I don’t think I would use it if I ever had to design some sensitive/confidential system layout. I searched for a privacy policy but couldn’t find any so don’t know what level of privacy are they offering. Without a privacy policy they can do whatever they want with your data.. Not saying that they will, just that they can.
Check it out: Gliffy.com – Diagram and draw in your web browser
Thanks to Adam Fields (weblog) for the link.
– Suramya
As some of you probably know I love taking photos but I have always had trouble capturing fireworks, they just don’t come out nicely for me 🙁
The following article’s have some awesome tips on how to photograph fireworks so now that I know the secret you can expect some nice pics of fireworks on my site in the near future 🙂
For Digital Cameras: New York Institute of Photography – Tips on Fireworks Digital Photography
For Regular Cameras: How to Photograph Fireworks
Thanks,
Suramya
Found an Interesting set of USB Accessories while browsing through the Wired Site… My personal favorite is this one:
It would be interesting to watch a wearer try to use this… 😉 Any volunteers for a demo 😉 😀
Source: Wired 14.06: PLAY
– Suramya
Lets hear it for the open source movement. Tamiflu one of the medicines used for treating pandemic flu has been made open source… meaning the process to create the drug has been opened to the public.
The biggest advantage is that anyone can now synthesize the drug if required so the production bottleneck has been removed. However, the question that comes to my mind is that how willing will people be to trust a medicine that their next door neighbor made in his garage? Are you really willing to risk trying that medicine? Prob yeah, if you don’t have any other option but what if you do? I think most people (including me) would rather take a medicine prepared by a qualified/reputed lab than some homegrown varity…
But still its a step in the right direction. How you may ask? Well, now all the labs have the process without having to spend R&D to reinvent the wheel. So if the need arises everyone can pitch in to make the drug.
Original Article: MAKE: Blog: HOW TO – Make Tamiflu
Thanks to Adam Fields (weblog) for the link.
Thanks,
Suramya
Ok, this is just plain hillarious.. Though I do feel sorry for the poor sysadmin who had to trace this issue and I am impressed that he actually managed to solve it. Basically:
“Josh [Breckman] was called in to investigate and noticed that one particularly troublesome external IP had gone in and deleted all of the content on the system. The IP didn’t belong to some overseas hacker bent on destroying helpful government information. It resolved to googlebot.com, Google’s very own web crawling spider. Whoops.â€
So when googlebot crawled the pages it deleted them as it went through them. This is really poor application design, the authentication mechanism depended on the client to have javascript enabled and if they didn’t it assumed that allowed the visitor full access to the site.. Not smart…
Complete Writeup: The Spider of Doom – The Daily WTF (Has some good suggestions on how to avoid this)
Thanks to Daily Blogoscoped for the link.
– Suramya
Tools to use that show “ALL” of the the ACL’s permissions that are on these network folders:
I haven’t tried any of these tools yet so I can’t vouch for them. However these were recomended by smart people that post to the Security Basics @SecurityFocus Mailing list so I am sure that they work ;).
Thanks,
Suramya
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