Friday, January 25, 2019

Eye Pogue on Your Windows PC

Wha?

You want to save your eyes - meaning, if the stuff on the monitors is too bright, you want to hit CTRL+#+c to invert colours. How?

(this is the easy part.. Open Windows Settings and *then* in the "Find a Setting" search field, you type "Color filter settings".  While you're typing, it's prompted you with what you're looking for as a drop down. Choose that. Click the selector to turn ON filters (just for now). Then, go down and change from "Grayscale" to "Inverted (reverse colors on the display)". Then, check the box to "Allow the shortcut key to .." )

Good? Excellent. Now. What do you do when your background image is dark and the page you're viewing is mostly white. If you invert one, the other monitor gives you grief.

See, I wouldn't know how to solve this if I hadn't dabbled in CSS. One solution - which is basically opening a dummy webpage whose background is black solves the problem wanting working on monitor without the filter, where the stuff is mostly dark and controlling the display on the other one-- In this case, you merely open one of your bookmarks in Chrome. Bookmark a file that has this :

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
 <head>
  <title>Black!!
  </title>

  <style type="text/css">
   body {
    background-color: black;
   }
  </style>
 </head>

 <body>


 </body>

</html>

Now, a quality hack (I think) would be to use AHK to launch Paint on a large image that is essentially just a black background :) How many bytes would such a file take? 50 KB believe it or not - for basically 0 info!! Or maybe about 10 bits of info..

Monday, January 21, 2019

Hima Reddy Nails it With INTU. Nice Work with that Gann Analysis!

Buy : LOW, INTU!, INCY!, PAYX! REGN!!

She nailed all of them. Go girl! Go Celer!


Yikes! How Did *I* Fall For This? Sleazy *ds of Kenmore Stamp

https://www.bbb.org/us/nh/milford/profile/catalog-shopping/kenmore-philatelic-inc-0051-5000301/complaints

Jeez! If it seems too good to be true, it *is*. Damn!!

Kenmore Philatelic, Inc. Response
02/13/2017
To whom it may concern, This letter is the response to a complaint filed by the above mentioned person. Enclosed are copies of both the front and back for the reply card that we received with the information for ****** ********* in ********* *** As you can see there is nothing suspicious or curious about the card received. All of the required information was filled out completely and postage was applied to the card. we have spoken with the father and We have removed the charge and closed the account. On occasion, a well-meaning grandparent or family friend will fill out an ad or a child, which may be the case here. Again, as stated previously, the account has been cleared of any charges and the account is now closed. If you should have any additional questions or require any further information, please feel free to contact me directly. can be reached via telephone at 503-673-1745 x220, or via email judsonekenmorestamp.com or by fax at 603-673-3222. Sincerely,

Sunday, January 20, 2019

Yikes - Why Did My Windoes PC Suddenly Go Greyscale on Me?

Do you run flux?
Did you mean to disable flux temporarily through ALT-END?
Did you mistakenly do #-END (Windows Key-END)?
That should fix it...

William Lidwell : Heuristics for Great Design


Adopt Shun In Practice
Elegant Simplicity Conspicuous Featurism Simplicity plays a major role in aesthetics.  Tastes envolve with time. (Raymond Lowey)
Inside-Out Craftsmanship Bait-and-Switch Craftsmanship Craftmanship matters. Out of sight is no excuse. (Steve Jobs)
Embrace Failure Fearing Failure Failing in enevitable. Fail fast and Learn Quick. (Paul MacCready)
Never leave well enough alone If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Make continous improvements.  Tastes and aesthetics preferences are constantly changing.
Reframing Accepting Problems Don't accept the constrants.  Abstract the problem and use the "Five Whys" technique ( asking youself why five times).
Customer Doesn't Know What's Right Customer Is Always Right Make it right for the customer.  The customer may not have the technical understanding of what is possible. Customer needs and world of possiblities.
Analogical Insights Analytical Thinking Some great innovaations are born from analogies.  Think about analogies all day long.
Eat Your Own Dog Food Observe Dogs Eating Food Use your own product in real context to see if it works.
First Principles Fashion Trends Follow first principles, ie. nature, over trends.
Be a Zealous Missionary Indifferent Mercenaries Overcome not being comfortable talking to a crowd of people.  Realize it's a required skill to pitch and persuade.

Why would you want these effects? If you put these in your page, then, the page becomes amenable to being used in a presentation. Ever noticed, during a presentation that the mouse pointer by itself just doesn't cut it?

<style type="text/css">
 
   td {
      text-align:center !important;
   }

   td:hover {
     background-color:yellow !important;
     color:black;
     font-weight:bold;
   }
</style>


What this is showing is how to override the style in the table that you paste into blogger. Why? Coz the OS doesn't know exactly what you want - or can't do it perfectly. In this case, even the Excel table did have the text centered in every cell, but that's not how it was after pasting into blogger :( Either Windows or Chrome or Blogger messed up somewhere along the way. But, using CSS and !important, you can override the inline (messy) style specification.

Essential WebMastery Skills

A link like this. Ain't that something? Make your web page pop out and get attention. If you want the link to be underlined when the user's mouse is over it, use text-decoration:underline in :hover pseudostyle.

<style type="text/css">
   .tlink {
    text-decoration:none;
   }

   .tlink:hover {
    background-color:yellow;
    font-size:120%;
   }

</style>

<a class="tlink" href="#bot">visible text here</a>

Saturday, January 19, 2019

My Definition of Genius

Go Stuart!

https://www.kryogenix.org/code/browser/sorttable/

Can you do better though? Yes, the user must know that he can sort. What's the best way to say that? Here's my take :

If,
       the user has not exercised this function upon loading this page,
then,
     anytime
    the header fields come into view, give them a halo that fades (how cool would that be!)

In addition, the background color should change upon mouseover.

Go for it Stu!

This one seems to have hints on how to accomplish the response to mouseover : https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_js_sort_table.asp

Sunday, January 13, 2019

Ethical Hacking Curriculum

Why?

So you get the most out of your own PC, among other things :)

What do you need to know?

Linux command line
Windows command line
Networking
Cyber laws
Internet governance
Reconnaissance ( footprinting )
Google Hacking (wha?)
Scanning
Enumeration
System Hacking
Proxy servers
Key loggers
Trojans and Backdoors
Viruses and worms
Sniffing
Social Engineering
Email Hacking and Prevention
Session Hijacking
Hacking Web Servers and Prevention
SQL Injection
XSS Attacks (Cross-Site Scripting)
CSRF Attacks (Cross-S Request Forgery)
DOS and DDOS Attacks
RFI and LFI
Working with Exploits
Buffer Overflows
Reverse Engineering
Cryptography
Firewalls and Honeypots
Physical Security
Hacking Wireless Networks
Penetration Testing
Hacking Routers
Hacking Mobile Phones
Computer Forensics
Web Application Penetration Testing

Tuesday, January 01, 2019

That's Modest from Sandra Boss

If it were me, I'd add, "I kicked Christian Gerhardsreiter's ass"

For those who don't know, around the time of the financial crisis, Boss was making $2m a year at McKinsey.


What I Like Most About bash - Really

Hoorah! I just found out bash was created by a black man. What a pleasant surprise.

Aha - Jason Cannon's average-rated work is available for free today :) Get it while you can for $0.

Yikes, at Tip #5, you see why it only gets three stars - for command subs this guy says use backticks - when that's what got the dinosaurs. Use $( command ) dude!

A good one, that I didn't know : !# is an alias for the current command line and words are ordered starting with 0. So, in the below command.

$ mv report.txt $(data +%F)-report.txt   # basically timestamping

you can do

$ mv report.txt $(data +%F)-!#:1          # cute?

QED