A Smartass Education

Some of you probably come to this site often enough that you would like to be able to click the artwork changer button.  In Internet Explorer it works perfect all the time and I thought with the release of Firefox 2.01 that it fixed the problem.  However I have since determined that it was just my own settings that made it work.

I spent some time today figuring out which setting caused it to work.  Below is the answer:

Open a new tab, in address bar type: about:config and hit enter.

In filter box type browser.cache.memory.enable
If something shows up make sure it is set to false, if nothing shows up, right click in blank space and choose: New > Boolean then type browser.cache.memory.enable > false (type in if no choice given).

Exit browser, and open page, and artwork pallet will work. 

Why this works and what else this might fix.  For some reason firefox ignores browser rules where people have told the webpage to specifically NOT cache itself.  I know I am not the only web designer who has found this frustrating and there is a lot of forum posts on the internet dealing with people trying to make caching work, however this is the only real fix I have found that works 100% of the time. 

I browsed around and found no speed loss after turning this on.  In fact while doing this I noticed that my browser.cache.disk.enable  was set to false, which is why I sites I had been going to were loading every image 1 by 1 instead of the same image loading several times.  You might want to check to make sure that is set to True as well. I assume mine got turned off during some web development session to make it less annoying to refresh all the time.

All is good now, hope this helps you enjoy this and other sites more.

So I am diggin’ youtube videos today…. So what..

Telling your perspective clients or anyone that their websites sucks
is very hard to do. You don’t want to say the wrong thing and anger
them but you also want them to know that it needs some changes (It
sucks!).

1. Your website needs to be optimized so that it’s picked up by the search engines while still appealing to your visitors.

2. Your website has great information, though it could use a touch up to make the information more accessible.

3. Your website looks great but it is worthwhile to check out your
competitors and see what they are doing different (point them to some
outstanding site).

4. Your website would get a lot higher conversion if you change a
few things…(tell them few suggestions). These changes would also make
the website more search engine friendly.

5. I’m sorry but your website is search engine friendly or does it
appeal to the end-user. It would be best if you did a complete
redesign. Some changes I would make are.(give example of some majors
changes you would make)

There never is a good way tell someone their website sucks, but there are less harsh ways.  Or if you are like The Smartass, you will just have the gift of BS and will be able to just show them their site sucks by showing them some of your own pages.

It started out innocently enough. I began to think at parties now and then to loosen up. Inevitably though, one thought led to another, and soon I was more than just a social thinker.

I began to think alone – “to relax,” I told myself – but I knew it wasn’t true. Thinking became more and more important to me, and finally I was thinking all the time.

I began to think on the job. I knew that thinking and employment don’t mix, but I couldn’t stop myself.

I began to avoid friends at lunchtime so I could read Thoreau and Kafka. I would return to the office dizzied and confused, asking, “What is it exactly we are doing here?”

Things weren’t going so great at home either. One evening I had turned off the TV and asked my
wife about the meaning of life. She spent that night at her mother’s.

I soon had a reputation as a heavy thinker. One day the boss called me in. He said, “Skippy, I like you, and it hurts me to say this, but your thinking has become a real problem. If you don’t stop thinking on the job, you’ll have to find another job.” This gave me a lot to think about.

I came home early after my conversation with the boss. “Honey,” I confessed, “I’ve been thinking…”

“I know you’ve been thinking,” she said, “and I want a divorce!”

“But Honey, surely it’s not that serious.”

“It is serious,” she said, lower lip aquiver. “You think as much as college professors, and college professors don’t make any money, so if you keep on thinking we won’t have any money!”

“That’s a faulty syllogism,” I said impatiently, and she began to cry. I’d had enough. “I’m going to the library,” I snarled as I stomped out the door.

I headed for the library, in the mood for some Nietzsche, with a PBS station on the radio. I roared into the parking lot and ran up to the big glass doors… they didn’t open. The library was closed.

To this day, I believe that a Higher Power was looking out for me that night.

As I sank to the ground clawing at the unfeeling glass, whimpering for Zarathustra, a poster caught my eye. “Friend, is heavy thinking ruining your life?” it asked. You probably recognize that line. It comes fromthe standard Thinker’s Anonymous poster.

Which is why I am what I am today: a recovering thinker. I never miss a TA meeting. At each meeting we watch a non-educational video; last week it was “Porky’s.” Then we share experiences about how we avoided thinking since the last meeting.

I still have my job, and things are a lot better at home. Life just seemed… easier, somehow, as soon as I stopped thinking.

Ok so using google is kind of a skill. I mean right off the nut it will give you pretty decent results to find pages, but what if you want to find files, or exploit people? Since google has indexed just about everything worth seeing, you might as well refine the way you search to get more valid results. Some people call these “google hacks” but it’s just plain knowing how to search.

intitle: You want to download files
See anybody can just type mp3 into a search engine, but I don’t want to troll through a million bullshit pages and designs to find a song. Well I don’t want to waste my time, though I normally just look for a torrent files, if I just want one song or a video or something here’s what I type: “intitle:Index of” .mp3 ben folds by typing that it searches for an actual page title that starts with Index of and then the content .mp3 and ben folds. This works because when a page title starts with Index of, it tends to be an open directory with no index file. you don’t have to type mp3 you could type .swf, .flv .avi .mpg .jpg or so many more, that way you just get a directory with free stuff.

inurl: You want to find a specific type of file structure or script
Ok, the best example of this goes to show you that you should always be sure not to use default settings with your software and scripts. So I took a big list of links that take you straight to people’s security camera’s. Some of them let you totally control the camera and what it does or does not do. Some of them use inurl and some use intitle, but this should give you the power of this for searching.

• inurl:/view.shtml
• intitle:”Live View / – AXIS” | inurl:view/view.shtml^
• inurl:ViewerFrame?Mode=
• inurl:ViewerFrame?Mode=Refresh
• inurl:axis-cgi/jpg
• inurl:axis-cgi/mjpg
• inurl:view/indexFrame.shtml
• inurl:view/index.shtml
• inurl:view/view.shtml
• liveapplet
• intitle:”live view” intitle:axis
• intitle:liveapplet
• allintitle:”Network Camera NetworkCamera”
• intitle:axis intitle:”video server”
• intitle:liveapplet inurl:LvAppl
• intitle:”EvoCam” inurl:”webcam.html”
• intitle:”Live NetSnap Cam-Server feed”
• intitle:”Live View / – AXIS”
• intitle:”Live View / – AXIS 206M”
• intitle:”Live View / – AXIS 206W”
• intitle:”Live View / – AXIS 210″
• inurl:indexFrame.shtml Axis
• inurl:”MultiCameraFrame?Mode=Motion”
• intitle:start inurl:cgistart
• intitle:”WJ-NT104 Main Page”
• intext:”MOBOTIX M1″ intext:”Open Menu”
• intext:”MOBOTIX M10″ intext:”Open Menu”
• intext:”MOBOTIX D10″ intext:”Open Menu”
• intitle:snc-z20 inurl:home/
• intitle:snc-cs3 inurl:home/
• intitle:snc-rz30 inurl:home/
• intitle:”sony network camera snc-p1″
• intitle:”sony network camera snc-m1″
• site:.viewnetcam.com -www.viewnetcam.com
• intitle:”Toshiba Network Camera” user login
• intitle:”netcam live image”
• intitle:”i-Catcher Console – Web Monitor”

Now that you are scared out of your mind to put anything on the web, I though I would give you a cheat sheet to doing all of this. There is a lot more you can do, but these two tags are the ones I use the most…. Well perhaps also define:word (define: and then a word lists as many definitions about a word as google knows exists)..

Just want the reference? Google Cheat Sheet
Need way more info download: OReilly Google Hacks 2nd Edition

Man, I am surrounded by this crap. One of my friends downloaded the Al Gore movie awhile ago and references back to it like it’s his own ideas, (If I remember correctly, Gore first gave a speech about Global Warming on the coldest day of the year) well anyways he was trying to feed some bullshit about how our climate is increasing and it won’t be long until it’s too hot…. Then the other day somebody made some comment to me about how global warming was going to eventually doom us all. To which I (can’t help myself) responded: Yeah, I might have to go inside and turn on the AC.

Look, haven’t you learned by now… I’m not opinionated, I’m just always right: