The Misadventures of Dan
Peer into the mind of Dan as he tries to build an MP3 Player for his PDA and searches for the next thing in his life be it an electrical engineering job or graduate school.
Saturday, December 06, 2003
.:8:30:50 PM:.
A further note on Swicer
There still isn't much information on the Dropper.Swicer trojan except that its native to Messenger Plus. Messenger Plus acts like a plugin for Messenger: it allows you to send some preset things like sound clips to other people running Messenger plus, you can have preset fancy (read: blinding) color schemes for text, and you can encrypt your chat logs.
How to remove dropper.swicer (or at least make the warning messages go away). The only time I saw the warning message was when a computer was running AVG as their antiviral program. So in these steps:
- Uninstall Messenger Plus
- Get the latest update for AVG, you can do this by launching 'AVG Anti Virus' , Click on the Virus Database button then the UPDATE button
- Let it update
- You should probably click on the exit button and then relaunch AVG
- Next click on the blue button labelled 'Run Complete Test'
- This should scan through your entire system and remove the infected files
- You should probably run some other ad removal software like adaware just to remove other spyware/adware
- Now when you reinstall Messenger Plus click on the Custom Installation button
- Look for the part where it asks you if you want to install 3rd (Third) party software and uncheck or check the box as appropriate :)
As I said before, spyware is evil because they don't tell you that they're installing it-its an invasion of privacy. Adware is just annoying. There's a difference!
Friday, December 05, 2003
.:12:45:57 AM:.
In case you're ever in China...
and wanted to know how to compliment them on how many weapons they have... have no fear! Go here or here.
Thursday, December 04, 2003
.:4:31:43 PM:.
Dates and things...
It wasn't that I was assuming the server was in the same place as where we were... I just felt correcting the dates was not really all that important-after all its just a date; however, the more I looked at the journal entries and now the comments, the more I got annoyed with the time difference. It seemed like such as simple thing to fix so why shouldn't I? After I found the solution it seemed pretty obvious... I also found out that anytime you put a 0 in mktime() it will reset that position to 0. So if you were to say put the minutes field 0 instead of not including it, you would in turn set it 0 minutes-not quite what you want :P
//Gives you the date e.g. 2003-12-04 with a 7 hour correction
$today = date ("Y-m-d", mktime(date("H")-7));
//Gives you the time e.g. 16:23:37 with a 7 hour correction
$rightnow=date("H:i:s" , mktime(date("H")-7));
One of the hidden goals I'm working on for BookLink is a way for people to privately record their thoughts/observations from devotions. I think that might be pretty helpful. I have the private/protected designations figured out, I'm just not sure how to index the Bible itself. I mean in terms of author-should I create an author named God? Then there's the whole bit about subindexing the individual books-I'll keep on thinking about it.
Monday, December 01, 2003
.:1:09:42 AM:.
BookLink works!!
As of yesterday, I completed all the goals I wanted for BookLink in order to roll it out :D Woohoo!
I'm hoping the next set of improvements will be:
- Comment Systems
- Ability to add friend's shelf
- Edit/Update previous blogs
- Changing Book Information
- Access Levels
- User Search of some kind?
- Indexing/Archiving Blogs
- Better Organization of Shelf
