I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don’t have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that’ll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.

I’m going to put my remake on a door mat:

I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for a sale, I can tell you I don’t have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acuquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you leave my doorstep now, that’ll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don’t, I will open this door, I will look at you, and I will kill you.

Go to Settings > Wireless & Networks > Mobile Networks > Network Mode

Once you’re there, select “CDMA Only”

Give the phone a minute to make the change, you should see your signal icon go to 3G and have some bars. This isn’t as fast as 4G but it will keep the phone from dropping data altogether while it searches for a 4G signal.

Some phones don’t have as much problem seamlessly switching between 4G and 3G, but this helped me out greatly on my HTC Thunderbolt.

You can read more about the Verizon Outages in December 2011 here.

If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in Delta Airlines 1 year ago, you would have $49.00 today!

If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in AIG 1 year ago, you would have $33.00 today.

If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in Lehman Brothers 1 year ago, you would have $0.00 today.

But, if you had purchased $1,000 worth of beer 1 year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the aluminum cans for a recycling refund, you would have received $214.00.

Based on the above, the best current investment plan is to drink heavily & recycle. It’s called the 401-Keg.

DAL — 8/11/10 to 8/10/11 — DOWN 41% — 590.00 left after the decline
LEH — 8/11/10 to 8/11/11 — BANKRUPT — 0.00 left after the Bankruptcy
AIG — 8/11/10 to 8/11/11 — DOWN 43% — 570.00 left after the decline

Thirty Cans in a pound of aluminum.
Let’s say a year ago that a case of PBR was 13.99 (you got it on sale, and in bulk, because you’re a crafty bastard and knew you had 3000.00 to burn and BY GOD you weren’t going to waste it on E*Trade)

You bought 214 Cases of that shit and had a bit of money left over for a burger (but no fries)

So if there are 24 cans in a case, and you had 214 cases (plus a burger) — Then you had 5136 cans of PBR… which, by the way, you’d still be drinking at this point in time unless you had a series of serious parties and you didn’t let anyone drink anything but PBR while they were there (and why would you? Pussies can’t handle a real man’s beer? Then they shouldn’t be at your party!)

So if 1 pound of aluminum gives you 30 cans, that means you had 171.2 pounds of aluminum to recycle. Current Market for UBC Aluminum (Used Beverage Cans, they’ve got varying thicknesses so this index creates and average) is at $0.89 per pound.

If you take them over to your local recycling yard, they’ll probably give you half that. So that’s $0.45 per pound, times 171.2 pounds = $77.40 — I called up a place here in jacksonville and those fuckers would only agree to pay 0.33 per pound… but I’m guessing they’re just abnormally low or they think I’m an idiot. So let’s say I magically talk those bitches up to giving me a dollar per pound, because I threaten to sue them for something if they don’t cave and give me what I want. I’ll get 171 dollars and 20 cents! The Day is mine!

The only problem that remains is I am still only holding 177.20 instead of the assets I would be holding in stocks: 1060.00 — Sure, both ways I’ve lost money. Both were poor investments. What in the fuck was I doing buying so much stock in 2010 when these companies were on an obviously ephemeral rebound? Why didn’t I buy stocks in 2001 instead? It certainly would’ve been a better Idea than buying stocks in 2010, and I don’t think I’ve ever purchased more than a hundred dollars worth of beer unless I was planning on selling it or I had lost a bet and had to buy a bunch of rounds over the course of an evening out with lots of friends.

When common sense invariably fails you; before you think about reposting stupid crap on Facebook … Try Math. Honesty, Intelligence and Hard Work are going to be the only things that pulls us out of this mess. That’s how America got to be great: Honesty, Intelligence and Hard Work — and that’s the only way America is going to get out from under this mess that we’ve gotten ourselves into.

“This is a job posting I made to try and find a developer to help my sales people, who use skype, see who is calling INBOUND to them. Im not having much luck finding someone who can do this and started wondering is it because im trying to do something impossible? Please forgive me if my terminology is not right, I am not a tech guy. I just want to know if im way off base.

I have my own lead management system in a mysql database that my sales people use to solicit customers. It works great. Our database has a gui that displays different customers information and we make alot of OUTBOUND CALLS with it, we use skype as a separate application to make the calls. skype and my lead management software do not talk to each other (other than we use click to call I guess). One feature i want to add is for when INBOUND CALLS come in through skype. As it stands now when an inbound call comes in through skype we have to get the persons last name OR cut and copy the phone number and type it into a search bar which pulls up the customers information.. we have to do this so we know who we are talking to and can review the customers information.

This is a cumbersome process that takes too much time. We want skype or something, when an INBOUND call is made to us, to populate the phone number thats calling into the search field so we can pull up the customers information (our current search technology can search by phone number). We want to do this OR we can just tell skype to take the number thats calling in and search our database and pull up the customers information… all we want is to get the customers information up on the salesman’s screen in real time or close to real time so the salesperson knows who he/she is talking to.”

Fixed.

“This is a job posting I made to try and find a developer to help my sales people, who use skype, see who is calling INBOUND to them. Im not having much luck finding someone who can do this and started wondering is it because im trying to do something impossible? I just want to know if I’m way off base or not.

I have my own lead management web application, it is hosted offsite in a standard LAMP environment. Each member of my on-site sales staff logs into it using Firefox. We use skype as a separate application to make outbound calls. skype and my lead management software do not talk to each other aside from using the “Click To Call” Skype plugin. One feature I want to add is for when INBOUND CALLS come in through skype on the salesperson’s windows desktop. As it stands now when an inbound call comes in through skype we have to manually get the persons last name OR cut and copy the phone number into a search bar within the Lead Management System (web browser). This pulls up the customers information… we have to do this so we know who we are talking to and can review the customers information.

This is a cumbersome process that takes too much time. We want skype or something, when an INBOUND call is made to us, to populate the phone number thats calling into the search field so we can pull up the customers information (our current search technology can search by phone number). We want to do this OR we can just tell skype to take the number thats calling in and search our database and pull up the customers information… all we want is to get the customers information up on the salesman’s screen in real time or close to real time so the salesperson knows who he/she is talking to.”

Set objNetwork = CreateObject(“Wscript.Network”)

objNetwork.AddWindowsPrinterConnection

“\\servername\printername”

There is new functionality in android 2.2 (Froyo) that allows for Chrome to send links directly to the handset wirelessly, via the phone’s data plan care of your Google account, and automatically launch the links in the appropriate application. This is accomplished by installing the Chrome to Phone plugin for Chrome, and installing the Chrome to Phone app on your android 2.2 handset. What you end up with is a little icon next to your address bar in Chrome, once you click it, it sends the link to your phone and your phone launches the appropriate app. Currently Google Maps, YouTube and internet pages are supported.

Here is the QR Code to download the app directly to your phone.

Could we take it even further?

What if we had a way to share our Desktop, Laptop and Handset screens simultaneously? I think we can write an app for the phone that syncs the device with other machines in real time, via a user’s google account. We could have a ‘tray’ on each of our machines that we can drag things into, that automatically sends them over to the handset. It is similar to google’s new functionality in Gmail where you can drag attachments from your desktop into chrome and drop them into emails. You can also drag attachments out of emails and drop them onto your desktop.

This all requires the Chrome browser be installed… but what if we had a program on our windows machine that acts similar to Chrome and puts hotspots (the tray mentioned earlier) on the screen for us? You install the program and the app and configure both with security credentials so they recognize eachother. It would all be seamless, it wouldn’t ask you for confirmation or anything unless you tried to drag a file that was too big for your phone’s storage capacity or some other problem that may occur.

I am aware that this is an extension of my first blog post.

1. Go to your computer
2. Download the Android SDK from Google, Here.
3. Install it to somewhere simple like C:\sdk\
4. Go to your Android Phone
5. Open the Menu (the one with all your apps in it)
   

   Main Screen: HTC Sense

6. Go to ‘Settings’
   

   Tap the 'Settings' Icon

7. Go to ‘Applications’
   

   Tap 'Applications' icon

8. Go to ‘Development’
   

   Tap 'Development' icon

9. Go to ‘USB Debugging’ and make sure the box has a check in it.
   

   Activate 'USB Debugging' checkbox

10. Get out your USB cable and connect your phone to your Computer
11. On your Computer, navigate to C:\sdk\tools\ (or wherever you installed the android sdk earlier)
12. Double-click (or right-click then hit Run) on ddms
    

    Doubleclick 'ddms.bat'

13. Look for your phone in the list of connected devices
    

    Dalvik Debug Monitor

14. Select your phone (should be the only thing in the list)
15. Click ‘Menu’
16. Click ‘Device’
17. Click ‘Screen Capture’
    

    Follow the Orange Arrows

18. Done! The phone screenshots in this post were taken using this method.

NOTE: This post is intended only for the security testers/analysts and not for a normal internet user. Please do not mess up the default security settings in IE8, unless you know what you are doing. Fortunately for you, I’m going to show you what you’re doing.

IE Intrusive Yellow Bar

Disabling XSS Filters

Go to: Tool Menu > Internet Options > Security Tab > Internet > Custom Level > Hit Disable under “Enable XSS Filter” near the bottom of the list.

Screenshot time!

Tools > Internet Options

Set Custom Level

Scroll down, select the "Disable" radio button, click "OK"

Click 'Yes' on the confirmation popup

NOTE: Enable XSS Filtering after the requirement or Reset to default settings.

To Disable the XSS filter via application code; set HTTP Response header: X-XSS-Protection: 0

http://theunlockr.com/2010/07/26/how-to-root-the-htc-incredible-unrevoked-method/

I’ll begin posting some Apps that require Root Access that I have found incredibly useful or just pretty cool in the coming days/weeks.

A place for public schools to host their inventory tracking systems, this includes all of their books as well as other physical assets. Each student and staff member is input into this system. This user list can likely be imported from some other data object that exists for the school. Users can log in from anywhere to check to see if this book is available in the library or if it has been checked out.

It would contain dashboard functionality for librarians, the ability to input new inventory and equipment. Staff members and students may also update a wishlist for books they wish the library to obtain.

This application would also support the ability for students to browse reference materials from around the internet to assist them in doing their research.

Librarians would be able to upload a floor plan of their library and the application would show students where to go on the shelf to get their book.

I would like to create this and offer it to public schools at a not-for-profit price point.