Found this while reading TechRepublic… People will go any lengths for a publicity stunt.
Now along with the great wall of China astronauts can enjoy looking at Eva Longoria, billed as “TV’s Sexiest Earthling.”
Images: Desert pinup ogled by Google Earth
– Suramya
Vinit posted this on Anomalizer’s Blog. It took a couple of seconds for for me to realize what he was talking about and then I fell of the chair laughing…
Surabhi says: The best part … you realize it.
VB says:
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Before you ask, she’s too lazy to login to her own account.
MS Office’s speech-to-text takes 70 mb.
According to Surabhi, it takes 70kgs (moi).
Thanks for the laugh guys.
– Suramya
You know I just realized that some of the people who visit my blog do so to actually catch up with whats going on in my life and not to hear he post about random stuff that I found interesting. So to fix that oversite here’s a brief update on my life and what I have been upto:
* Today I attended Akhil and Navya’s engagement party. It was a really nice event. Yes they actually got engaged and it wasn’t an april fool’s joke (As I initially suspected it to be…) I guess many people probably didn’t show up because they thought that it was a joke…
* Wished my cousin happy birthday. I remember that it was a pain convincing anyone to come to her birthday party because everyone thought that it was a joke…
* The flooring is being put in the house we are constructing here in Noida, India. The white marble floor looks amazing. I did take pics and posted them online you can check them out Here
* Read my first Anita Blake novel by Laurell Hamilton. It was interesting though I found her way of writing very choppy (She uses too many short sentences) so it was a bit difficult for me to get into the flow of the novel initially. Once I got over that the novel was actually pretty interesting. However I still prefer Kim Harrison’s books on vampire hunter’s (Dead Witch Walking etc)
* One of my friend is getting married next month. I won’t name her here yet because she asked me not to so that she can break the news to every one… but considering that she is getting married in another 18 days she better hurry up and tell everyone or I will…
* A third friend is getting engaged to another friend next month. Lets see if I can attend the engagement. It would we awesome if I could…
What else… Yeah its getting pretty hot here in Delhi with a high of 35 Degree C (96 Degree F)
Well this is all for now. Will write more later.
Cya,
Suramya
Saw this at Userfriendly… Now doing this to someone is just plain evil…
– Suramya
Anyone who has been to NYC knows thats its easy to get confused which direction is which when travelling via the Subway system, its ok during the day (When you can look at the sun and figure out which way is east… unless its noon… then you are SOL)
Someone decided to actually do something about this and painted directional signs outside some of the subway entrances… Really good work. Unfortunately the person didn’t sign the sign so we don’t know who to thank…
Here’s an example:
Thanks to Adam Fields for the link
– 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
This is one of the more interesting bugreports I have seen. Basically:
A couple engaged to be married shared a computer. He used Firefox to visit a bunch of dating sites, being smart enough not to have the browser save his password. But Firefox did save the names of the sites it was told never to save the password for. She happened to stumble on this list had a big fight (According to her: sh*t hit the fan) and then they broke up. This is after 5 years of dating… Stupid guy… lucky girl (That she found out about this before tying the knot)
I guess FireFox should start promoting itself as: “The browser you can use to find out if your significant other is cheating on you”
Bugzilla Report: Bug 330884 (Read it, its interesting)
Thanks to Schneier on Security for the link.
Cya,
Suramya
Found this while browsing through Cnet (Honest!)… And I think this is really funny:
“After years of reminding blokes that ‘our eyes are up here,’ someone’s gone and invented a bra that seems to say “but my breasts are down here,'” wrote the blog’s Star C. Foster.
Only downside in getting this is that its about $500 a piece… I think getting a new iPod would be cheaper and more useful.
Original Post: Scrolling LED bra sends mixed messages
Purchase them: Here
– 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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