"...in a recent poll, 91% of Americans reported lying on a regular basis."

HOLY COW!!!

I fancy myself pretty good at unraveling untruths already (and handling the subsequent fall out), but this vidcast by the YouTube guru Howcast gave me some life-changing new tips!

Shifty eye contact (along with my potent and intuitive senses) usually gives it away for me, but there are a variety of other tell-tale factors that will help you pinpoint exactly who ate your last Tofutti ice cream sandwich and left the empty box in the freezer.

They advise not to bust the culprit right away, and that you should keep the info stored in your back pocket, but how you handle things is totally up to you. And yes, someone really did leave my Tofutti box empty in the freezer (because I knew you were wondering).

A hearing impairment exists when an individual is not sensitive to the sounds normally heard by its kind. In human beings, the term hearing impairment is usually reserved for people who have relative insensitivity to sound in the speech frequencies.

Hearing loss can be inherited. Both dominant and recessive genes exist which can cause mild to profound impairment. If a family has a dominant gene for deafness it will persist across generations because it will manifest itself in the offspring even if it is inherited from only one parent.

People who are hard of hearing have varying amounts of hearing loss but usually not enough to be considered deaf. Many people who are deaf consider spoken language their primary language and consider themselves "hard of hearing".

People with unilateral hearing loss (single sided deafness/SSD) can hear normally in one ear, but have trouble hearing out of the other ear. Problems with this type of deficit is inability to localize sounds.

Those who lose their hearing later in life, such as in late adolescence or adulthood, face their own challenges. For example, they must adjust to living with the adaptations that make it possible for them to live independently. They may have to adapt to using hearing aids or a cochlear implant, develop speech-reading skills, and/or learn sign language.

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A solution to this problem is to test for cookie support by creating a cookie and sending it to the web browser. You then have to test if the cookie can be retrieved from the client and check if its value has not been modified.

If the cookie can not be found, you can redirect to a page informing the user that they need to enable their cookies or use a browser that supports cookies to access the feature of your web site that is dependant on cookies.

You can add the following code to the landing page of your web site -

   1: if (!Page.IsPostBack)

   2: {

   3:     if (Request.QueryString["AcceptsCookies"] == null)

   4:     {

   5:         // Create a new coookie to test with.

   6:         Response.Cookies["TestCookie"].Value = "Testing";

   7:         Response.Cookies["TestCookie"].Expires = DateTime.Now.AddMinutes(1);

   8:         Response.Redirect("TestForCookies.aspx?redirect=" + Server.UrlEncode(Request.Url.ToString()));

   9:     }

  10:     else

  11:     {

  12:         Response.Write("Client accepts cookies = " + Request.QueryString["AcceptsCookies"]);

  13:     }

  14: }

Create a TestForCookies.aspx web page that will be redirected to, to perform the actual test for the cookie -

   1: if (!Page.IsPostBack)

   2: {

   3:     string redirect = Request.QueryString["redirect"];

   4:     int acceptsCookies;

   5:  

   6:     if (Request.Cookies["TestCookie"] == null)

   7:     {

   8:         acceptsCookies = 0;

   9:     }

  10:     else

  11:     {

  12:         acceptsCookies = 1;

  13:         // Remove cookie from the client by setting it's expiry to a day

  14:         // before.

  15:         Response.Cookies["TestCookie"].Expires = DateTime.Now.AddDays(-1);

  16:     }

  17:  

  18:     Response.Redirect(redirect + "?AcceptsCookies=" + acceptsCookies, true);

  19: }

PC Decrapifier is a free uninstall utility that is specifically designed to remove nearly all of that trial and promotional software that’s been driving you buggy.

The program does not need to be installed, simply unzip and run, or if you prefer you can run this application from a USB drive. You choose the items to be removed from a list, and you can also create a restore point (highly recommended), to undo any changes.

The following is the current list of software and items that PC Decrapifier can detect and remove. The list is generated from the items the program detects on your computer, and you then choose the items to be removed by the program automatically. What could be simpler than that?

Targeted Applications:

• AOL Install
• AOL UK
• AOL US
• Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo XI
• Corel Photo Album 6
• Corel Snapfire Plus SE
• Corel WordPerfect
• Dell Search Assistant
• Dell URL Assistant
• OpenDNS Blog
• Desktop Icons Removes Unnecessary Desktop Icons
• Digital Content Portal
• Earthlink Setup Files
• ESPN Motion
• Get High Speed Internet!
• Google Desktop
• Google Toolbar
• HP Rhapsody
• Internet Service Offers Launcher
• McAfee
• Microsoft Office Activation Assistant 2007
• Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007
• Microsoft Office Standard Edition 2003
• MS Plus Digital Media Installer
• MS Plus Photo Story 2LEMusicMatch Jukebox
• MusicMatch Music Services
• muvee autoProducer 5.0
• NetZero Installers
• Norton AntiSpam
• Norton AntiVirus 2005
• Norton Ghost 10.0
• Norton Internet Security
• Norton Internet Security
• Norton Protection Center
• Norton Security Center
• Norton Symantec Live Update
• Office 2003 Trial Assistant
• Orange Internet
• PC-cillin Internet Security 12 Trend Micro
• QuickBooks Trial
• Reset IE Home and Search Pages
• Roxio Express LabelerRoxio Easy Media Creator
• Roxio MyDVD LE
• Roxio RecordNow
• Sonic DLA
• Sonic RecordNow Audio
• Sonic RecordNow Copy
• Sonic Update Manager
• Tiscali Internet
• Travelocity Gadget
• Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security 14
• Unnecessary Startup Items
• Vongo
• Wanadoo Europe Installer
• Wild Tangent Games
• Yahoo! Music Jukebox
• Yahoo! Toolbar for Internet Explorer

Download at: Download.com

The product can find and delete similar and duplicate pictures in different file formats and dimensions based on content comparison. It is not only available as a desktop application, but is already integrated into online stock photography web stores that enable their users to find related images.

The innovative thing here is that in the past it was impossible for a machine to compare the content of two images in the way a person would do. For example it was impossible to detect similarities between two photographs of a person taken from a different angle using a computer. Besides supporting all the widespread image formats the application can detect similarities also between images with different sizes.

What is really interesting here is the speed that Visual Similarity Duplicate Image Finder achieves. Having in mind that image processing is an extremely heavy task the application manages to process thousands of images and gigabytes of data in just minutes. The desktop tool also provides functionality for deleting duplicate pictures and can mark them automatically using criteria set by the user - smallest size, biggest size, smallest dimensions and so on.

The corporate version of the product provides an interface via which it can be integrated into third party desktop and web systems.

A lot of products already use the tool in order to provide different features:

• detection of duplicate documents scanned on a scanner (the tool can detect similar documents even if they are skewed during the scan process)
• displaying a similar pictures section on a stock photography web sites and search for similar images based on a sample
• identification of a disease or an anomaly in medical software comparing an X-ray image with a database of images with different diseases and more.

These are only a part of the industries where such innovation comes extremely handy and solves issues that could not be handled in the past.

Visual Similarity Duplicate Image Finder is a powerful utility for finding similar and duplicate images in a folder and all its subfolders. It has the following features:

• Find all similar and duplicate images in a folder and all its subfolders using visual compare
• Find exact duplicate image files using CRC32 checksum
• Find rotated at 90°, 180°, 270°, flipped horizontal and/or vertical and graycaled duplicates
• User can adjust the percent of image similarity
• Smaller resolution duplicates can be automatically marked for deletion
• Smaller file size duplicates can be automatically marked for deletion
• Show preview for original and duplicate images
• User can select the images for deletion
• Duplicate images can be moved to Recycle Bin, custom folder or deleted
• Supports many image file formats
• Has intuitive interface and rich documentation

Supported file formats:

• JPEG Bitmap (*.jpg;*.jpeg;*.jpe)
• Compuserve Bitmap (*.gif)
• Portable Network Graphics (*.png)
• TIFF Bitmap (*.tif;*.tiff;*.fax;*.g3n;*.g3f)
• JPEG2000 Files (*.jp2)
• JPEG2000 Code Stream (*.j2k;*.jpc;*.j2c)
• Targa (*.tga;*.targa;*.vda;*.icb;*.vst;*.pix)
• Paintbrush (*.pcx)
• Windows Bitmap (*.bmp;*.dib;*.rle)
• Windows Metafile (*.wmf)
• Enhanced Windows Metafile (*.emf)
• Windows Icon (*.ico)
• Windows Cursor (*.cur)
• Wireless Bitmap (*.wbmp)
• Portable Pixmap (*.pxm;*.ppm)
• Adobe Photoshop (*.psd)

Download Visual Similarity Duplicate Image Finder

Le lecteur K7 Yamaha est branché, le pc pret à enregistrer, on remet ce blog en marche! Tout d'abord mes excuses les plus plates pour toutes les personnes qui attendaient de la bande magnetique fraiche....

On revient avec un mix exclusif de dj Detect qui sent bon le debut du siècle (ma période hiphopsection) et qui montre bien les Skillz du dj versaillais. Ca cut, ça mixe, ça selectionne (Sound Ink, J Zone, du Fondle'Em, KMD, Mf Doom, Mykah 9...) le son est lourd, tout ce qu'il faut pour avoir entre les mains une bonne K7.
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En parlant de bonne K7 je vous ai aussi encodé une mixtape devenue classique "Underground Explorer" de dj Fab. Le old timer qui était proche de Detect à l'époque, étant donné qu'il faisait parti du même collectif de dj's "Metalcrabs" (qui comptait également Orgasmic). Vous retrouvez dans cette mixtape des artistes tels que Necro, Mike Laddd, Obscure disorder, Cage, Antipop Consortium, faites moi signe si vous voulez la playlist la voici:

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Detect est très vite devenu le spécialiste de la scène underground californienne comme il l'a prouvé avec son cd "Triple Threat", tout ca pour vous dire que le prochain mix à venir est également une exclusivité tout droit venu de Los Angeles!

Space and Motion's♣ Wave Structure of Matter emphasises the theory that all things in the universe are interconnected to everything else, even if at just some very minute level.

With that in mind I become to ponder the relationship this assumption has with many situations that has been claimed to have occurred through-out human history.

I consider myself a realist, residing around the binds of truth avoiding crackpot theories and religious ideas. I must though maintain an open-mind, especially when pursuing the truth, under such beliefs that at any time, new found knowledge could very well contradict one or many of our propositions about what reality truly is; and thus we are all then required to admit our errors and maintain composure during the change when realised. Such errors don't imply guilt in anyway other then just total ignorance of the true facts. Propositions are by their nature subject to refinement.

I watched a documentary some time ago on Animal Planet regarding animals and their extraordinary sensory abilities to detect many things like potential natural disasters and their uncanny ability to detect their master's intentions to return home even if they are both spaced hundreds of kilometres in distance apart. Many sceptics may assume inconclusive observations, alternative explanations or even just plain coincidental connections of the facts.

I would have felt impelled to think the same way but for the repetitive nature of the observations. Coincidence must surely only apply in total random conditions otherwise a connection must exist, even if this connection is just time. If time is the common connection between these events especially in repetition at suitably stochastic points of observation then surely a connection of some sort can not be denied.

Many may believe or at least suggest an alternative theory. Spiritualism or Psychic influence are common denominators but a more rational explanation is already available.

In a previous article I made question of the ability for the human being to observe true reality as its complete truth in contrast to our seemingly bounding restraint towards our perceived reality. This implies our reality can be nothing more then what we all as a biological species (or even just human beings) can perceive as reality in the first place.

It is already well known that animals in nature contain differing levels of sensory ability and even alternative means of doing so. Who are we to claim that all other species of life on this planet are bound by the same sense of reality of that of the human being? If our reality is nothing more then our ability to perceive true reality, then the differing methods of perceiving this reality would in its obvious means be nothing short of an alternative reality. These alternatives may by assumption be small and insignificant but I believe this would completely lay bound to the species which perceive it.

But you surely must be wrong - you may ask. If such was true, we would have surely identified these traits already. With all our technology and expanding understanding of reality such things must have already become blatantly obvious.In contrast to what? Our total understanding of reality? Many may claim my observations are unrealistic or conjecture by nature, but I would be greatly interested in finding out whether these same people themselves believe in equally controversial ideas such as the existence of God. In pursuit of the truth my observation could very well be flawed and I do accept that possibility. Either way, an open-mind is the best device toward achieving wisdom.

At any rate, I believe all other life on this planet are as awe-inspiring as reality and are nothing short of it. We are blessed by their existence and without them such a reality would no doubt be a rather mundane and gloomy environment. The significance of other species on earth should never be under-estimated, their presence may be more important then we could ever realise. And who knows, maybe they will in time teach us more about ourselves.

Saturday 3rd December 2005 (Extracted LiveJournal Article)

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Sometime back, I installed Openfiler on a external hard disk (manufacturer: Iomega)that I had at home (running Windows Vista Home Premium). This was meant to be a proof of concept and pretty soon, I had to bring it to office desktop (running Windows XP SP2) to make it work with some other virtualbox virtual machines that I had built in my spare time.

Troubles in recognizing the USB external hard disk on windows XP

However, the problem that I faced on Windows XP SP2 host operating system was that the openfiler Virtual machine (using virtualbox 1.5.6 of course) would not recognize the USB external hard disk at all! The same USB device was working fine on windows vista.

After struggling with this problem for a while, I found a quick workaround (Not sure if it is documented in the user manual or not) and also tested some reset steps on windows, which seem to work with the Iomega external USB hard disk.

These steps should also be relevant to other hard disk models in general.

Some more details...

In my case, windows had detected the USB drive and had even installed the Virtualbox driver for it. USB support was enabled for the openfiler virtual machine in the settings. The external hard disk was selected, but still no iscsi drive showed up on doing a fdisk -l

When to know a device is being accessed..

Well, if the device makes a whirring noise and the light blinks or comes on, it is enough to know that the device is being accessed internally and something good happened in terms of making the USB device work.

The setup that worked..

However, this setup worked after a little tinkering:

Firstly, make sure the USB controller and EHCI controller is enabled. Then choose the USB external hard disk device from the list of all USB devices and enabled it.

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Make sure no other Virtual machine is accessing the same USB device. From what I have seen, if the same device is accessed by other virtualbox VMs, an exclusive lock is acquired on it, which makes it difficult to be used by other virtual machines.

This is true with windows too. Windows will stop seeing the USB hard disk when it is being used by a virtualbox virtual machine. At least, I have seen this behaviour with virtualbox 1.5.6

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Make sure that Windows is able to detect the USB device first. If not, then you need to troubleshoot that first. Usually, powering off the device, unplugging it from the USB port and restarting the windows PC/desktop/laptop works great. (Hey, its windows).

You want to see something like this in your system tray to be sure of this.

Now you know for a fact that windows, your guest Operating system, detected the USB drive fine. So now, there is a good chance that virtualbox will detect it too.

Fire it up..

Power up the virtual machine and check if the USB device got detected. A simple fdisk -l will show it as a iscsi device, with names like /dev/sda, /dev/sdb or so. If you do not see anything of the sort, you can be certain that the device did not get detected. Another visual way to know is to see if the light on USB device comes up or not. No light, no access.

The manual workaround if the device is still now seen after powering up the virtual machine ..

However, there is still another trick up our sleeve that can be tried.

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At the bottom message bar of the virtual machine, right click on the USB plug icon. You will see that a list of the detected USB devices comes up. Select the external hard disk. Unless another virtual machine is running that is using the same USB device, there is a very good chance that the light on the hard disk will light up like this:

At this point, you may also see a windows dialog box saying that a virtualbox USB device was detected and the driver needs to be loaded:

Double check before you congratulate yourself..

All right! So it looks like your device got accessed after all.

There are many ways to confirm if it really got detected by the virtual machine as a scsi device or not:

1) Check the fdisk -l command's output:

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2) Check the contents of /proc/scsi/scsi file:

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3) Check the content of /var/log/messages or the output of dmesg command:

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A quick Recap...

Once again, if this does not work, just go back to the basics:

1) Power off the USB device (when applicable) and take it out

2) Reboot windows

3) Plug in the USB device

4) Make sure windows detects it

5) Make sure the virtual machine has the USB device enabled in its setup

6) Start up the virtual machine. Make sure no other virtual machine is using the same USB drive.

7) If you do not see the USB device, force it to be attached by right click on USB plug icon in bottom bar of virtualbox VM application window

Hope that helps.

Em primeiro lugar quero dizer que o Saturday Mixtape desta semana atrasou-se porque estive com problemas na internet! Mas cá está! La Mode - hugh jass Mixtape é a minha escolha desta semana, La Mode sempre em grande.TrackList

01. la mode - Salami
02. Simian Mobile Disco - Hustler (A-Track Remix)
03. Leonard de Leonard - Leonizer Fever
04. Edu K - Gatas Gatas Gatas (Crookers mix)
05. Black Ghosts - Any Way You Choose to give it - (boy 8 bit dub)
06. DatA vs Yelle - J’aime Pas L’art
07. Digitalism - Idealistic (A-Trak_Remix)
08. Cazals - Life is Boring ( La Mode’s Rubber dub dub)
09. boys noize vs Regrets - The Battery
10.Brodinski - bad runner
11.The Presets - My People (DIM Remix)
12.crookers love to edit Timberland boots
13.Detect-DanceDivision (Yuksek Remix)
14.Digitalism - Magnets (la Mode’s Space pirate Remix)
15.Wax stag - Short Road

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Parece estranho os pontos de interrogação? Nada disso..a tracklist está como La Mode tem no Blog do Myspace

La Mode - Hugh Jass Mixtape [43:50 /40.14MB]

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Version 1.5 contains new functionality to monitor for any device being plugged in; useful when you have no control over what memory stick is being inserted, but need to fire off a script to perform a particular action.

e.g.

label:(any)
exec:"c:batchbatch-any.cmd" %1 %2

You can find the download on the USB Detect & Launch page.