http://www.mywebcache.com Another day in the thoughts of Christopher Nofal Sat, 07 Oct 2006 07:47:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I recently addressed this question in a presentation to prospective Computer Engineers at the University of Florida. Feel free to download my PowerPoint file and "ShareAlike," or watch it here. http://www.mywebcache.com/2006/10/07/what-is-web-20/ Have you ever wanted to add a specialty Google search box for your website that only found mp3, xls, doc, or other files of specific extensions? Well using a little JavaScript and tweaking Google's code, it's very simple to add a specialty Google search box to your website. Here's an example ... http://www.mywebcache.com/2006/08/12/how-to-add-an-mp3-google-search-box-to-your-website/ Flixya is a start-up video sharing service, much like YouTube and Google Video. However, unlike its competitors, Flixya offers users incentives to share and upload videos: a Rewards Program and Revenue Sharing Program. The Revenue Sharing program offers a 50/50 split of all revenue earned from Adsense, Google's Pay-Per-Click advertising ... http://www.mywebcache.com/2006/08/11/is-flixya-violating-googles-adsense-tos/ This past weekend saw the 9th Annual Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition in San Diego. Twenty-one collegiate teams pitted against each other to complete three tasks: finding a docking station, inspecting a pipeline, and surfacing in a recovery zone. The University of Florida's SubjuGator Team retained the top title for the ... http://www.mywebcache.com/2006/08/07/subjugator-holds-onto-top-honors-in-9th-annual-auv-competition/ Hawking and Hertog call their theory 'top-down' cosmology, because instead of looking for some fundamental set of initial physical laws under which our Universe unfolded, it starts 'at the top', with what we see today, and works backwards to see what the initial set of possibilities might have been. In ... http://www.mywebcache.com/2006/07/14/hawking-rewrites-history-backwards/ TheLinuxStore.ca has started a new project. A project that will give away free Linux disks of your favorite distribution (SUSE, Fedora, Mandriva, Gentoo, Debian, Knoppix). Have a look, give feedback, donate to the cause, and request a disk. http://www.mywebcache.com/2006/07/13/free-linux-disks-not-ubuntu/ According to the latest news from auctionBytes, eBay is banning sellers from requesting payment through Google Checkout. The online auction giant updated its Safe Payments policy this week to add Google's new payment service, Google Checkout to its list of online payment methods not permitted on eBay. From eBay's standpoint, they are ... http://www.mywebcache.com/2006/07/06/ebay-bans-sellers-from-using-google-checkout/ Thought your Windows password was safe? Well, think again. As processors are getting faster and more powerful, password cracking is becoming much easier. Ophcrack is a free, open source hash cracker (similar to brute force cracking but uses precomputed tables). Ophcrack uses RainbowTables, an implementation of Philippe Oechslin's faster time-memory ... http://www.mywebcache.com/2006/07/02/windows-account-password-cracks/