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Sandra wrote about our sugar glider scrat!. I enjoy playing with the little fella, but I have to tell you that he must believe that I am a restroom. Every time I get him out, he pees on me. So I think I will just leave him in his cage and let Sandra play with him.
I can tell you from first hand experience what the difference between wax and parchment paper is! I decided to make some cookies tonight, and while I was pondering UI design in .NET, I grabbed the wax paper instead of the parchment paper, put my cookies on it, and stuck it in the oven at 375 Degrees. Well let me tell you, about 10 minutes later, there was an odd melted plastic kind of smell in the air, and well.. you can guess the rest. Wax paper does not belong in the oven, it nearly caught on fire, while parchment paper doesn’t suffer from the same shortcoming.
So someone posted an ad on Craigs List, saying that Robert needed to leave the area suddenly, and that all his possessions, including his horse, were up for immediate grabs. The ad stated that everything was free for the taking. Well as you can probably guess, Salisbury did not place the ad, nor did he have any knowledge of the ad. So he was alerted by someone who became suspicious after going to the house to retrieve the free horse. Robert was then alerted as to what was going on, and he rushed home some 30 minutes later. As he got close to his house, he could see cars passing him in the opposite direction with his belongings hanging out. This must have been a really terrible thing to see, getting close to your house, not knowing what to expect, and then seeing cars loaded down with your stuff. Robert tried to stop some of the people taking his stuff, but they showed him the Craigs List ad, and said that because of the ad they were allowed to take whatever they wanted, and continued on their way. The police and Craigs list are now investigating.
You can find an article on fox here about it:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,341089,00.html
So I finally broke down and made Sandra a blog. You can find it here. I thought it was time I pass down some of my computer knowledge to her. I think she will do well enough, all women have a built in ability to talk constantly, so maybe that will apply to writing in a blog as well. So her blog is www.womanlywisdomblog.com, check it out!
Review Of The Mist Stephen King
I give this movie a 3.5/5
The movie is good, but in all honesty my favorite thing in the whole movie is the amazing painting of Roland at the beginning. (Roland is the gunslinger from the dark tower series. You can see the tower behind him, and there is a rose beside him. I would pay $1,000 for that painting. Anyway, the movie is suspenseful, the critters are done convincingly enough. The ending is truly Stephen King all the way, and I recommend watching the movie for the ending if for nothing else. It is something you will think about for a while after you finish watching it. There is nothing especially wrong with the movie, I think the reason I can not rate it any higher is that for me, when I read a book (or in this case a novella), and it is really good, and then they try to adapt it into a movie, it never comes out as good as it was in my mind. But anyway, the movie is good, it is totally enjoyable, and I have to tell you that you will cheer when a certain person gets shot in the head. Oh yes, you will cheer.
Beginners Guide To Bittorrent
BitTorrent is a protocol for file sharing. It uses a decentralized network, meaning that unlike Napster, LimeWire, or other P2P file sharing services that store the files on one or more centralized servers, bitTorrents are shared in pieces by individual computers. The files in whole or part are never stored on centralized servers, only the trackers.
The protocol was developed by programmer Bram Cohen, and the first implementation was released in 2001. I would also like to note that a extremely large amount of the overall internet traffic is generated by torrents.
A very good advantage about this protocol is that it is not sequential. The files are broken into many small pieces, and are distributed on a rarest piece first basis. This is to ensure that there is a maximum amount of completed files available.
The simplified process is something like this:
UserA has a file he wants to share via bitTorrent.
He creates a torrent file, and makes that torrent available via torrent trackers. (Or in a trackerless system (decentralized tracking) he would become the first tracker.)
5 Different people see the torrent, and open it for download via their torrent clients.
They all start getting pieces of the file from UserA, but then they also start sharing different pieces with each other.
Torrent - This is the file that points the way to the actual file on everyone’s computers.
Seed - this is a person who is sharing the file
Leech - This is a person who is downloading the file
So Basically:
To Upload Files Via BitTorrent:
Clients:
Azureus
http://azureus.sourceforge.net/
Azureus is a BitTorrent implementation in Java (so you can use it on any platform that supports java) It easily supports multiple concurrent BitTorrent downloads, can be customized, and is constantly updated. Make sure you have a recent Java Virtual Machine installed.
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BitCommet
BitComet is a BitTorrent/HTTP/FTP download management software, which is powerful, fast, very easy-to-use, and completely FREE. It contains many advanced features for BitTorrent download and extends its leading BitTorrent technology to HTTP/FTP to accelerate Downloading up to 5 - 10 times faster, or more.
There are many other clients, but those are two that I especially like.
Trackers: (Not a comprehensive list in the least, but enough to get you started)
isoHunt. (http://www.isohunt.com)
The Pirate Bay (http://www.thepiratebay.org)
Mininova (http://www.mininova.org)
Btjunkie (http://www.btjunkie.org)
TorrentSpy (http://www.torrentspy.com)
I normally like to use Yahoo! I honestly prefer Yahoo! over G for my homepage, though I typically use G for searching. Yahoo! is starting to become annoying however, as they are posting news stories that are video only, which I am unable to view at work. I would like to see a text version of these, or don’t show them at all. This really is annoying Yahoo! Also, please stop posting the stupid “7 recipes” random blog posts, and the top x lists of things that someone just threw together. I can honestly not believe you post some of that crap. I write posts better than those, and I don’t see my stuff on the Yahoo! homepage, so I can only come to the conclusion that someone is “helping” someone else out for some reason. So Yahoo! stop with the BS news stories, show text link alternatives to the video ones, and don’t get taken over by Microsoft!
What you are probably looking for is the float property.
You can use float:left; or float:right; (there are other options as well, but these are most common).
you would do something like this <img src=”image path” style=”float:left; padding:5px; border:0px;” />
This will allow text or anything else to be next to the image. The padding allows a little room between the text and image, and setting the border to 0px means don’t show a border. (There is often a blue default border when using the img as a link).
CTRL + SHIFT + DEL OR Go to Tools -> Clear Private Data, then be sure to check cookies.
That’s all there is to it!
The correct term for this is a “screen shot”. There are a couple of keyboard shortcuts that will allow you to do this, but you will also need some type of graphics editing program, paint, ms word, or something similiar.
The keyboard commands are ALT + Print Screen, CTRL + Print Screen. One gets just the active window, the other gets everything on the visible screen.
Once you press one of these keyboard commands, the image will be in your clipboard. You need to then open up image processing software (paint, photoshop, etc), and PASTE what is in memory onto a blank document.
That’s all there is to it!
1. There are several sites that facilitate the downloading of video sites such as youtube.
http://keepvid.com/ is one such site, and there are many others, you may also want to check out a video converter to go from the flash videos you will generate via these sites onto an avi or mpeg, I would recommend SUPER (just goolge search for it), it is free.
That all depends on what you mean by “signed in”.
If your at a business or school that uses an exchange server, then you may very well stay logged in, and the computer could be locked.
If your referring to being signed in to a specific website, then it all depends on how they store their sessions, some sites have their sessions expire after a certain period of inactivity, and some stay live for days.
It is always best practice when using a computer that has multiple users on it, to log out completely, and even to erase your user name if it shows up after you log out.
1. Depending on your email client, you may have to click a link that says “display images” or something similar.
2. Check that the message is being displayed in HTML.
3. If you still can’t see the image, try to view the source of the message, and find the html tag <img source=”http://…” and copy and past the http://… part into the browser, and see if the image is displayed, if not then the link is dead, if it is, then there is still some setting that is incorrect in your email client.
Am I the only person who has seen the way Obama stands behind Hillary sometimes and looks down at her like she’s a horse and he wants to mount her and take her for a bareback ride around the park? Maybe I’m just imagining all of this, but I really think there might be something going on there…It’s just speculation at this point, but I think we might all get a shock if something like this turned out to be true.
1. Make sure it is properly shared on the desktop computer, and that the computer and printer are both on. Also make note of the share name.
2. On your laptop, go to Start - > printers and faxes - > click add a printer, click next, make sure the “a network printer or printer attached to another computer” is selected, click next, then click “find a printer in the directory”, and click ok, and see if it finds the share name you made note of above.
3. If you do not see it, I would make sure the computers are on the same workgroup / domain, and that the printer is properly shared.
