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  1. Source : http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=528&ncid=528&e=3&u=/ap/20050207/ap_on_hi_te/web_browser_flaw_1

     

     

    Officially, the Internet's Domain Name System supports only 37 characters — the 26 letters, 10 numerals and a hyphen.

     

    But in recent years, in response to a growing Internet population worldwide, engineers have been working on ways to trick the system into understanding other languages.

     

    Engineers have rallied around a character system called Unicode. The newly discovered exploit takes advantage of the fact that characters that look alike can have two separate codes in Unicode and thus appear to the computer as different. For example, Unicode for "a" is 97 under the Latin alphabet, but 1072 in Cyrillic.

     

    Subbing one for the other can allow a scammer to register a domain name that looks to the human as "paypal.com," tricking users into giving passwords and other sensitive information at what looks like a legitimate site.

     

    Some browsers, including Firefox, let users deactivate the other character sets but doing so is complicated and would cut off access to the relatively few sites that use non-English characters in their addresses.

     

    A better solution is to always manually type Web address directly into a browser rather than clicking on a link sent via e-mail or even copying and pasting that link.

  2. the sum of 1 to n can be written explicitely as n(n+1)/2..... but ur looking for some from 21 + .... +30

     

    now think about it...

     

    and please stop with the teachers thing

  3. Mussorgsky' date=' Night on bare mountain.

     

    Holst, the planets (I think that counts).

     

    March of the Hebrew slaves (not sure who it`s by tho`?)

     

    and the best of the bests has to be, J.S.Bach`s Toccata and Fugue in D minor (it has to be D minor as it sounds more sinister, the others are ok too, but D minor has the edge!)

     

    edit: can modern classics be considered here?[/quote']

     

    boo, d minor is too cliched.

  4. it's rachmaninoff :P

    and yes' date=' rach 3 is incredible. i have a cd with rach himself playing his 4 piano concertos and rhapsody on a theme of paganini with the philadelphia orchestra in the 1920s and 30s. truly amazing.

     

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    out of topic, but i would like to listen to those cds, i pmed you. cheers

  5. HKEY_CURRENT_USER/SOFTWARE/MICROSOFT/WINDOWS/CURRENTVERSION/INTERNET SETTINGS

     

    the two entries are

     

    MaxConnectionsPerServer

    MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server

     

    but u probably have to create them urself.. just right click and new Dword value.

     

    after creating them right click and select modify, for the first one. edit to decimal 6. and the second to decilma 8. you can choose whatever value u wnat however

  6. impossible to say really, so many of them. dvorak's 9th symphony sounded really good live. then u also have rachmninov's (rachmaninoff however u wanna spell it) 3rd piano concerto. and his rhapshody on the theme by paganini as well. Chopin's and Listz's paino music is always brilliant to listen. Mozart's work are as always precision in itself. and Bach's multiple voice contrapuntal pieces are a joy to listen to....

     

    So , its really hard to choose. :(

  7. mathematicians here might find it amusing , taken from bash.org

     

    "Impure Mathematics

    ------ -----------

    To prove once and for all that math can be fun, we

    present: Wherein it is related how that paragon of womanly

    virtue, young Polly Nomial (our heroine) is accosted by that

    notorious villain Curly Pi, and factored (oh horror!!!)

    Once upon a time (1/t) pretty little Polly Nomial was

    strolling across a field of vectors when she came to the boundary

    of a singularly large matrix. Now Polly was convergent, and her

    mother had made it an absolute condition that she must never

    enter such an array without her brackets on. Polly, however,

    who had changed her variables that morning and was feeling

    particularly badly behaved, ignored this condition on the basis

    that it was insufficient and made her way in amongst the complex

    elements. Rows and columns closed in on her from all sides.

    Tangents approached her surface. She became tensor and tensor.

    Quite suddendly two branches of a hyperbola touched her at a

    single point. She oscillated violently, lost all sense of

    directrix, and went completely divergent. As she tripped over a

    square root that was protruding from the erf and plunged

    headlong down a steep gradient. When she rounded off once more,

    she found herself inverted, apparently alone, in a non-Euclidean

    space.

    She was being watched, however. That smooth operator,

    Curly Pi, was lurking inner product. As his eyes devoured her

    curvilinear coordinates, a singular expression crossed his face.

    He wondered, "Was she still convergent?" He decided to

    integrate properly at once.

    Hearing a common fraction behind her, Polly rotated and

    saw Curly Pi approaching with his power series extrapolated.

    She could see at once by his degenerate conic and dissipative

    that he was bent on no good.

    "Arcsinh," she gasped.

    "Ho, ho," he said, "What a symmetric little asymptote

    you have I can see you angles have lots of secs."

    "Oh sir," she protested, "keep away from me I haven't

    got my brackets on."

    "Calm yourself, my dear," said our suave operator, "your

    fears are purely imaginary."

    "I, I," she thought, "perhaps he's not normal but

    homologous."

    "What order are you?" the brute demanded.

    "Seventeen," replied Polly.

    Curly leered "I suppose you've never been operated on."

    "Of course not," Polly replied quite properly, "I'm

    absolutely convergent."

    "Come, come," said Curly, "let's off to a decimal place

    I know and I'll take you to the limit."

    "Never," gasped Polly.

    "Abscissa," he swore, using the vilest oath he knew.

    His patience was gone. Coshing her over the coefficient with a

    log until she was powerless, Curly removed her discontinuities.

    He stared at her significant places, and began smoothing out her

    points of inflection. Poor Polly. The algorithmic method was

    now her only hope. She felt his digits tending to her asymptotic

    limit. Her convergence would soon be gone forever.

    There was no mercy, for Curly was a heavyside operator.

    Curly's radius squared itself; Polly's loci quivered. He

    integrated by parts. He integrated by partial fractions. After

    he cofactored, he performed runge - kutta on her. The complex

    beast even went all the way around and did a contour

    integration. What an indignity - to be multiply connected on

    her first integration. Curly went on operating until he

    completely satisfied her hypothesis, then he exponentiated and

    became completely orthogonal.

    When Polly got home that night, her mother noticed that

    she was no longer piecewise continuous, but had been truncated

    in several places But it was to late to differentiate now. As

    the months went by, Polly's denominator increased monotonically.

    Finally she went to L'Hopital and generated a small but

    pathological function which left surds all over the place and

    drove Polly to deviation.

    The moral of our sad story is this: "If you want to

    keep your expressions convergent, never allow them a single

    degree of freedom."

  8. like the previous post said, mp3's currently dont allow for surround sound. you will either have to install some upmixing software. ( i never had to as i dont have 5.1). but a quick google, i found this which could possibly be ur savior.

     

    http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=27803

     

    also try http://www.doom9.org and see if they have any extra guides.

     

    formats that currently support surround are. AAC, AC3 and DTS afaik

     

    ur dvd player should be able to decode AC3 and DTS, I am sure it can AAC as well ( recommended)

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