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day-level permalink  Thursday, August 29, 2002

permalink Practice Shots with HF

Top Photography tips from HF:

1. Fill the frame with your subject
2. Something about the flash...use the flash (I think)
3. Find interesting lines, then take a picture of them




See more photos at the picture gallery.

11:59:08 AM  comment [] |

permalink Uncover the real WINNT killer

Last Friday I got to work and was greeted by mr. blue screen. After rebooting a couple of times only to see the message "kernelos32.exe is either missing or corrupt" I asked our sysadmin for help.

"Your Winnt directory is missing" he told me. What? "It's not there. What were you doing that caused this to happen?" That last inquiry has propelled me into a virus hunt that will uncover the real WINNT killer.

Just jotting down one possility I saw on FuzzyBlog:

Microsoft said Thursday that "critical" security lapses in its Office software and Internet Explorer Web browser put tens of millions of users at risk of having their files read and altered by online attackers.

The world's leading software maker said that an attacker, using e-mail or a Web page, could use Internet related parts of Office to run programs, alter data and wipe out a hard drive, as well as view file and clipboard contents on a user's system.

I never thought viruses actually wiped out hard drives. I never even knew someone who knew someone who had an aunt whose entire hard drive was wiped out. Does this really happen?

3:30:50 AM  comment [] |

permalink Spell Check for Web Forms

This is a bookmarklet. Can be used to check a multiline text field before pressing "submit". Could prevent some embarrassing usergroup postings. Works with IE. I found this gem while meandering Blogarithms.

I got this from the 9/3/02 issue of PC Magazine. (Can't find it on line.) Here's some JavaScript that works with IE:

oShell=new ActiveXObject ("WScript.Shell");
oShell.SendKeys ("^c"); //copy
oWord = new ActiveXObject ("Word.Application");
oWord.Visible = true;
oWord.Documents.Add();
oWord.Selection.Paste();
oWord.ActiveDocument.CheckSpelling();
oWord.Selection.WholeStory();
oWord.Selection.Copy();
oWord.ActiveDocument.Close(0);
oWord.Quit();
var nRet = oShell.Popup ("Apply changes?\nClick OK to replace all selected text.", 0, "Spell Check Complete", 33);
if (nRet==1) {oShell.SendKeys ("^v");}

Paste the above into a file such as spellcheck.js. Drag the icon for this file to IE's "Links" toolbar and rename the link. Select text in any browser text box and click on the button. It launches Word, runs the spell checker, and replaces the text. Not ideal, but better than nothing.

[Noise]

2:43:03 AM  comment [] |