Did Google intentionally not include support for firewall? I am behind a firewall and have downloaded ChromeSetup.exe from Google Chrome site, yet I cannot install it!

Are you ready to make history? Are you ready to set a World Record? Today is Download Day. To become part of the official Guinness World Record you must download Firefox 3 by 17:00 UTC on June 18, 2008, or roughly 24 hours from now.

Every man in a village of 100 married couples has cheated on his wife. Every wife in the village instantly knows when a man other than her husband has cheated, but does not know when her own husband has. The village has a law that does not allow for adultery. Any wife who can prove that her husband is unfaithful must kill him that very day. The women of the village would never disobey this law. One day the queen of the village visits, and announces that at least one husband has been unfaithful.

What happens?

To make a TNS listener listen to multiple TCP ports, this is what needs to be done in listener.ora file. (Make sure to change the hostname and port(s) to match your needs.)

SID_LIST_LISTENER =
(SID_LIST =
(SID_DESC =
(SID_NAME = PLSExtProc)
(ORACLE_HOME = C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\database)
(PROGRAM = extproc)
)
) LISTENER =
(DESCRIPTION_LIST =
(DESCRIPTION =
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = IPC)(KEY = EXTPROC1))
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = wallstreet)(PORT = 1521))
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = wallstreet)(PORT = 1526))
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = wallstreet)(PORT = 1528))
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = wallstreet)(PORT = 1530))
)
)

What do you do when you have to resize over 30,000 images to two different sizes (thumbnail and cropped), while keeping the aspect ratio?

Hmm… I thought ACDSee or VSO Image Resizer were my only viable options but no; Mogrify, from ImageMagick,is actually a much more potent option and it is available right on my CentOs Server!

Here is how to resize all jpg images in the current directory with Mogrify:

mogrify -resize 266 *.jpg

What if the directory containedvery large number of images? In that case, here is the trick:

find -name “*.jpg” -type f -exec mogrify -resize 266 {} \;

Mogrify allows you to resize, convert file format (jpg to png for example), blur, crop, annotate, apply gamma correction and much more.

Explore more of mogrify options here.

Good Day,

Although, I do not know you in person, I got your contact via personal search on the internet, Let me start by introducing myself. I am Mr.George Thabo a banker in the ABSA Bank Ltd, South Africa. I have a profitable transaction for you. I was attending a business luncheon in September 1999 in china and I was introduced to Mr. Andreas Schranner, a renowned German Real Estate/Property magnate. He later employed my services as a banker and investment Consultant, Three months later he invited me and told me of his desire to open a fixed deposit account, he could fall back to on retirement, under my professional guidance and based on my advice he made a fixed deposit of US14,700,000(Fouteen Million Seven Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) in one of our branches. This deposit was for 5 years and upon maturity I made effort to contact my client, l could not reach him. I was forced to travel to Germany and there I got the tragic news that, my client Mr. Andreas Schranner, his wife Maria, their daughter Andrea Eich, his son in law Christian, and their children Maximilian and Katharina, all perished in the Monday, 31 July, 2000 plane crash in western German city of Moenchengladbach.

Please Click here and find out what happened to the Mr. Andreas Schranner : Http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm. After further investigation, l also discovered that Mr. Andreas Schranner did not declare any next of kin in his official papers including the paper work of his bank deposit. And l remember he also confided in me the
last time he was at my office that no one except me knew of his deposit in my bank. So, Fourteen Million Seven Hundred Thousand United States Dollars is still lying in my bank and no one will ever come forward to claim it. What bothers me most is that according to the laws of my country at the expiration of a numbers of years the funds will revert to the ownership of the South African Government as unclaimed funds if nobody applies to claim the funds.Against this backdrop, my suggestion to you is that I will like you as a foreigner to stand as the next of kin to Mr.
Andreas Schranner so that you will be able to receive his funds. Should you be interested please send me your full names and Direct Telephone and Fax Numbers, and I will prefer you to reply me on personal email address below:Email:{georgethabo2@gmail.com} then I shall provide you with more details of this Transaction. Please also note that I am willing to give you 25% of the total Money for your assistance.

Your earliest response to this proposal will be appreciated.

Be well and God Bless.

Best Regards,

George Thabo.

A few weeks ago, I bought this Asus Laptop from Newegg.com. For folks who like to know configuration, it is a ASUS F3 Series F3JP-AP035C-A NoteBook Intel Core 2 Duo T7200(2.00GHz) 15.4″ Wide XGA 1GB DDR2 667 120GB 5400rpm DVD Super Multi ATI Mobility Radeon X1700 - Retail. I also bought 1 GB of Corsair memory and upgraded this baby to its maximum capacity of 2GB RAM. It comes pre-loaded with Windows Vista. There are far too many posts in the blogosphere about how “great” and “secure”Windows Vista really is, so I will just put my 2 cents - it isn’t.

Microsoft Windows Vistaprovides not one iota of productivity, speed, security or anything else that a next generation operating system ought to provide - a whole lotta nothing is what it is.Apart from eye-candy, which some users might appreciate,I did not see anything that would improve my computing experience.

I wish my experience was different; I expect a lot more from Microsoft.

Making an Operating System secure doesn’t mean you have to make it difficult to use - I am failing to understand how User Account Control changes anything whatsoever from the previous paradigm of all users being Administrators? Secondly, why should UAC ask if I wanted to launch an application or operating system function? Didn’t I just launched it - using the keyboard and mouse that was attached to the PC; not remotely, mind you or by using some internal function call (think, source of event)? I am sure there is a reason for it, but at the end of the day, even if the user said launch the application, if the application code itself is not secure, it will be exploited.

Anyway, I have given up on Windows Vista. I am now a OpenSuse 10.2 user :-). Installation was a breeze, no hardware incompatibilities; sound, wireless lan, display etc. all worked from the ground up!

Nearly 8,600 voters have voiced their choice, and the 2007 inductees are ExxonMobil, Halliburton and Wal-Mart. You can read for yourself here. Some of my favorite comments are about ExxonMobil. Read below:

Exxon is gouging America with unreasonably high fuel prices while spending millions to prevent better fuel efficiency. Austin, TX

Exxon, you need to face the music and pay for the damages your oil spill caused. Much life was lost and the damage is still there. St. Charles, MO

Exxon, for its flagrant destruction of environment and greedy avoidance of its responsibility. Seattle, WA

Exxon has spent huge amounts of money to confuse ordinary people and governments into inaction, through funding of climate change skeptics. If Exxon had used the money it wasted on funding skeptics to clean up its act, the world would be well on the way to reducing global greenhouse gases now. Alberta, Canada

Being from Louisiana, I know all too well how Exxon has weaseled its way into local communities, does as little as possible even if it means compromising worker safety, and release of chemicals due. They have record profits and are eliminating jobs that are vital to the safety of their refineries. Greenwell Springs, LA

Exxon endlessly appeals the court decisions that find them culpable for the 1989 oil spill some of the defendants have died while Exxon’s phalanx of lawyers refuses to take responsibility for their disaster. Fairbanks, AK

Exxon wins hands down for causing the greatest potential harm to the most people. Their actions, if unabated, will contribute directly to the extinction of thousands of species and perhaps billions of people as weather patterns shift, seas rise, deserts encroach upon farmland and habitat is lost through global warming. Atlanta, GA