Hey everyone , I just created a room on google's new 3d interactive chat Lively.. Everyone is welcomed in 3D :cool: .. somalia room @ Lively Prereqs & Supported Systems: Run Requirements To run Lively, you'll need a decent video card (one with at least 32 MB of video memory). All video cards made in the last three years should work. You'll also need to run Lively on a Windows XP or Vista (with admin privileges to install). We don't support Mac or Linux (yet). Other specs: * P3 800 * 512 MB RAM * DX 9 * 32MB GPU (such as GeForce 2 or above) * Flash 9 or higher * Broadband internet connection Install, Update, and Uninstall: Admin Privileges You need to have administrative privileges on your computer to install Lively. If you don't have admin rights, you'll get an error message when you attempt to launch the Lively installer. If you're trying to install Lively on a computer in a corporate or shared computing environment, you'll need to contact your system administrator - or the machine's owner - to give you admin rights on the computer. If you're have admin rights on your machine, simply log in as an administrator to install. Follow these steps to confirm admin rights on your home computer: 1. Select Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management. 2. In the Computer Management dialog, click on System Tools > Local Users and Groups > Users. 3. Right-click on your user name and select Properties. 4. In the properties dialog, select the Member Of tab and make sure it states 'Administrator'.

well, nomads living in your country might be able to give you the best advice.

what do you want to be doing for the rest of your life? , and which country you at ?

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perfect!, thanks guys

hey guys , i just relaunched my portfolio site and would love to have it tested in different resolutions, browsers and O/S's so have a crack when you get a mintue and if you get any errors pm me, thanks guys the site is mjama.com

Tsutomu_Shimomura is nothing that guy is the biggest fraud built his reputation on "tracking" mitnick and "helping arresting" him after writing a book about him even though he never met the dude.. the movie is bias you should watch the documentary freedom downtime to get the full true story!

originally posted at ITSECURITY # Student at Downingtown High School West — Downingtown, Pa. A 15-year-old student was arrested and charged with felonies in May 2008 for stealing personal data from the Downingtown School District's computer system and downloading files that contained the names and Social Security numbers of more than 41,000 of district residents (including 15,000 students). The unnamed student allegedly accessed the files, which were located on the district’s server, through a school computer during a study period, and officials believe that he copied the files to his home computer. This is the second time in the 2007-2008 academic year that a student has broken into the Downingtown School District’s computer system; another student was arrested for hacking into the system in December 2007. # Matthew the phone phreak — Boston In February 2008, the FBI identified the culprit in a 2005 Colorado "swatting" incident — a phone hoax involving hackers who call in fake emergencies and get SWAT teams to barrel into people’s homes. The responsible party was a 17-year-old East Boston "phreak," or phone hacker, named Matthew. The remarkable thing about him is that he’s blind. Matthew, who’s been at the game since he was 14, is considered one of the most skilled phreakers alive. # Jeanson James Ancheta — Los Angeles In 2005, the FBI nabbed 20-year-old Jeanson James Ancheta, a reported member of the "Botmaster Underground," a group of script kiddies known for their bot attacks and spam inundation. His sinister cyberscheme infected computers at the United States Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Divistion in China Lake, Calf. and the Defense Information Systems Agency, a component of the United States Department of Defense. In the first prosecution of its kind in the U.S., Ancheta was arrested and indicted on 17 federal charges for profiting from the use of "botnets." # Aaron Caffrey — Britain Aaron Caffrey 19, was accused of almost destroying of North America's biggest ports, the Port of Houston in Texas, by hacking into its computer systems. Computers at the port were hit with a DoS (denial of service) attack on Sept. 20, 2001, which crashed systems at the port that contained data for helping ships navigate the harbor. The prosecution said that the Brit’s computer contained a list of 11,608 IP addresses of vulnerable servers, along with malicious script. The attack on Houston was apparently tied to a female chat-room user called Bokkie, who had made anti-U.S. comments online. Still, a jury found Caffrey not guilty in October 2003. # Raphael Gray — Wales Raphael Gray, 19, became the subject of an international investigation after he got his hands on 23,000 Internet shoppers' details and posted some of them to Web sites. The scheme, which Gray claimed was an attempt to expose security weaknesses in Internet shopping, cost users hundreds of thousands of pounds. Gray was been sentenced to psychiatric care and told reporters that he felt no regret for what he’d done. # c0mrade — Miami In 2000, a 16-year-old from Miami known on the Internet as "c0mrade" became the first juvenile to go to jail on federal computer-crime charges for hacking into NASA. The boy admitted to attacking a military computer network used by the DTRA (Defense Threat Reduction Agency) from Aug. 23, 1999 to Oct. 27, 1999. The youth installed a backdoor access on a server that intercepted more than 3,300 electronic messages to and from DTRA staff. The backdoor also accessed at least 19 usernames and passwords of DTRA employees, including at least 10 usernames and passwords on military computers. The unnamed juvenile was sentenced to six months in a detention facility. # Mafiaboy — Canada Over a five-day period in February 2000, Yahoo! Inc., CNN, eBay Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. became victims of the largest DoS attack ever to hit the Internet. The attacker? A 14-year-old Canadian named Mike Calce, who went by “Mafiaboy” online. He became the most notorious teenage hacker of all time, causing millions of dollars worth of damage on the Internet. Calce initially denied responsibility for the assault but later pled guilty to most of the nearly 50 charges against him. On Sept. 12, 2001, the Montreal Youth Court sentenced him to eight months of "open custody," one year of probation, restricted use of the Internet and a small fine. Calce later wrote as a columnist on computer-security topics for the French-language newspaper Le Journal de Montréal. # Ehud Tenenbaum — Israel Computers at the Pentagon were targeted in an attack called "Solar Sunrise" during a tense time in the Persian Gulf in 1998. The attack led to the establishment of round-the-clock, online guards at major military computer sites. At the time, U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary John Hamre called the attack "the most organized and systematic attack" on U.S. military systems. While officials initially pointed fingers at two American teens, 19-year-old Israeli hacker Ehud Tenenbaum, who was called "The Analyzer," was identified as their leader and arrested. Tenenbaum later became the CTO of a computer-consulting firm. # Richard Pryce and Matthew Bevan — Britain Two teens touched off one of the biggest ever international computer crime investigations in the U.S. when, for several weeks in 1994, they attacked the Pentagon's computer network and tried to get access to a nuclear facility somewhere in Korea. The cyberculprits were identified as 16-year-old music student Richard Pryce (known as "Datastream Cowboy") and Matthew Bevan (known as "Kuji"), who was arrested two years later at age 21. Conspiracy charges against both Pryce and Bevan were later dropped, though Pryce was ordered to pay a small fine. # 414s — Milwaukee They may sound like a cheesy '80s band, but the 414s were actually a band of youthful hackers who broke into dozens of high-profile computer systems, including ones at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Later uncovered as six youths ranging in age from 16 to 22, the group met when they were members of a local Explorer Scout troop. These Scouts-turned-cybercriminals were investigated by the FBI in 1983. The media took to the story of the youths, who met the somewhat sexy profile of early '80s computer hackers as established by Matthew Broderick's character in "WarGames," which was released the same year that the 414s rose to glory. In fact, 17-year-old Neal Patrick got more than his 15 minutes of fame when he appeared on the Sept. 5, 1983 cover of Newsweek. Most of the members of the 414s were not prosecuted, but their cybershenanigans lead to government hearings on hacking, as well as the introduction of six bills concerning computer crime in the U.S. House of Representatives.

welcome droid to SOL , I think you should introduce yourself to everyone in the General section too

okai the Firefox community wants to set Guinness world record for the most downloaded software in 24 hours .. go support the open source community!!! ps; so far there is only 2 people from Somalia pledged this i the address @ http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/

stop using windows O/S...

hey Shirwa , Smashing Magazine blog just posted some interesting podcasts http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/05/14/useful-podcasts-for-designers-and-developers/

nice work shirwa

I normally just use parallels on my mac ice ad light weight but for linux just suse native Xen does the trick! I heard parallels is avilable on ubuntu now whooa! thanks to shuttleworth's millions

Shirwa lot of people on this forum use linux alot!! got to say though Geel duqa 1.compatibility most of the applications are written for ms platform. ( when you got a distor that comes with over 2000 apps you will find alternatives and still there i wine and codeweavers you'd still run ms soft without virtualization ).. 2- wireless and audio drivers are terrible getting ndiswrapper to work is hell(which distro you talking about?! i ran opensuse on lot of machines and normaly it pick up and install all of them i hardly had to install any drivers!) 3- dual moniter support (same as above) .. again it all depends on the distro you using.... The problem with linux its buit and designed by geeks!!! not enough user interface research which kind of turns off alot of people even though Compiz-fusion is helping to bridge the gaps !! I saw this article @ digg a while ago might be little bit useful Five Common Misconceptions About Linux check out point 3!! ..

I've read this very interesting article at IBM discussing the process and the problems that you might undergo to make your website part of the semantic web , before we jump to the article here is some quotes.. "The Semantic Web brings with it the opportunities for users to get smarter search results, and for site owners to get more targeted traffic as users find what they really want. But these benefits don't just magically appear. This article leads you through the aspects of both information architecture and general infrastructure you need in place to truly take advantage of this burgeoning opportunity." before you read you might need to know this Frequently used acronyms * API: application programming interface * HTML: Hypertext Markup Language * URI: Uniform Resource Identifier * W3C: World Wide Web Consortium * XML: Extensible Markup Language Things you need to know when planning a Semantic Web site As you've already seen, if you build the next great Web 2.0 site, you can save time if you plan from the start to embrace Semantic Web technologies and turn your Web site into an API, rather than create a separate API for your Web site. A Semantic Web approach gives you free API-like functionality. Usually an API is a way to get structured data, in XML or JSON format, out of an otherwise unstructured Web site. This leads to a dual approach: You have Web pages for human consumption and you have an API where computers can pull out structured information for automatic processing. However, this creates extra work for you; if you expect people to make use of your API, then you have to document it and support it and keep it synchronized with new features on your Web site. With a Semantic Web approach, your Web site is the structured data. You don't need a separate implementation. You and your users can take advantage of other Semantic Web tools to do automatic processing. This does raise some issues for planning. With an API you are free to define your own data format for each item of information you want to deliver, and in the Semantic Web this is analogous to defining your own ontology. Ontology design can be a difficult thing to get right with little experience, so you should consider whether any of the large array of existing ones will be suitable for the types of data you plan to use, which will be discussed in the next section. When you design an API, you also usually consider an object model for conceptual organization so developers can understand when they get collections of items or just items, and which collections their items belong in. On a Semantic Web site this will be partly determined by your ontology choices, but also by your URI scheme. Next, you'll look at approaches to making your URIs usable as part of your API. Finally, on an existing Web site, you and your users can still benefit from the Semantic Web, if you update your content to take advantage of GRDDL, RDFa and Microformats. Read the full article here..

Hey guys , I have a job opportunity for a good graphic designer, with online portfolio and uk based no need for huge experince .. will give more details just PM me, must be london based though!!! ps; good very good pay and the job is at prestigious counslting/interactive design company

The web defined a lot of lives and set new laws of economics that baffled most scholars, with new business models that not only benefits entrepreneur with capital but also garage kids in third world with bright ideas. This notion is very visible with the explosion of high speed broadband, low price of storage capacity and rise in innovation see: web2.0, you’d need only internet connection and for very limited period, now (A) you could get free storage from any ad hungry company that would not only give you a huge bandwidth but filled with ads too but not to despair for as little as a school boy’s weekly allowance you could get a decent size storage equipped with apache, php and everything your heart may desire from the open source community god bless them, but what’s the use of that without programmers we turn to code your application now and again (B)free developers on sites such as rentacoder . These developers will all compete to write your code for you and you pick the cheapest! If you worry about privacy assign different coders for different sections of your application and it wouldn’t need a genius to assemble it and it still won’t cost you more than a Friday night out. To get the word out also known as advertising © thanks again to free service such as digg.com, reddit.com and stumbleupon.com you could easily rise to fame, some blog posts launched into the blogosphere and picked upon by one of those above mentioned sites will get you so much hits you might need to increase your bandwidth. Now this is the tricky part you’d need an idea (D), which with enough determination and insight will come using one of many business models the internet bestowed on us such as register for free get the product for free pay and pay for support or pay for premium service or the classic ad revenue although the later cannot be achieved without considerable amount of users being involved. Assuming you found your perfect idea and executed it perfectly and you are in for a “rags to riches” scenario? Nope. Sir, users will demand more and once you out there other competitors who are offering exactly or even better than what you’re offering will appear suddenly and you all will be competing for the spoiled user’s loyalty and eventually your very cheap project will demand capital to stay afloat with the competition, which is the reason most startups fail in their first year if they’re lucky enough. So the question is does A+B+C+D= net flourishing or A+B+C+D=another bubble bursting?

Hey Adam sorry didn't have anytime to give those links but most of them are posted here for any specific question or need just drop me an email!

Hello Adam Zayla , Assuming no one PM'd you, I could send you some sort of a template and point you towards specific tutorials related to the goals that you want to achieve, sorry that the best I could do at this time , if you interested in that PM me

wrong topic

hey skipper please make sue you post your topics in the relevant sections

King Koya again please make sure you post your topics in the relevant sections

Salaams King Koya , vey interesting story indeed but I don't think this is the suitable section for it.

GIMP got nothing on Photoshop , much more stuff you could do with PS then GIMP. for average user gimp is quite an alternative for PS but for professional products you need the real deal and if you end up using GIMP you might as well get http://www.gimpshop.com/ its a hack for gimp makes it more user friendly and little bit more functions and GeelJire since when you use graphic packages?