Filed under: Code, Malicious, Shipped, with | Tags: Firefox, In, Mozilla, Plug
Mozilla warned Wednesday that a malicious program inserted adware code into a Firefox plug-in that has been downloaded thousands of times over the past three months.
Because of a virus infection, the Vietnamese language pack for Firefox 2 was polluted with adware, Mozilla security chief Window Snyder said in a blog posting. “Everyone who downloaded the most recent Vietnamese language pack since February 18, 2008 got an infected copy,” she wrote. “Mozilla does virus scans at upload time but the virus scanner did not catch this issue until several months after the upload.”
Mozilla is now going to add additional scans of its software to prevent this kind of thing from happening in the future, she said. (more…)
Filed under: Integrate, Internet Explorer 7 | Tags: and, Firefox 2.0, ISO, Media Player 11, slipstream, SP3, Windows, with, XP
OK, I just knew that posting a how-to looking at the XP SP3 slipstream process was going to generate a number of questions, but I hadn’t expected anywhere near as many as I’ve had.
Skimming through the list, I’ve shortlisted the top four questions peppering my inbox. These are:
How to I integrate Internet Explorer 7 into the XP SP3 slipstream? >> Jump to page
Can I add Firefox to the XP SP3 slipstream? >> Jump to page
How to I integrate Windows Media Player 11 into the XP SP3 slipstream? >> Jump to page
I’ve heard that SP3 doesn’t contain the DST changes patch – how do I add this to the slipstreamed ISO? >> animaux et leurs accessoires Jump to page (more…)
Filed under: Ancient Rome, Museums, Travel | Tags: Ancient History, Ancient Rome, Museums, Travel
Pour une 9e année consécutive, les trésors brilleront de tout leur feu dans la vieille grange du Centre d’art, artisanat et antiquités, de mai à octobre. Des expositions artisanales d’artistes de la région, ateliers spéciaux et des conférenciers se dévoileront au grand public.
Selon la directrice générale de ce lieu culturel connu sous le nom des Trésors de la grange, Françoise T. Lavoie, la variété des activités prévues au calendrier est une chance incroyable pour les gens d’apprendre tout en ayant du plaisir. «On veut que la population admire les créations des artistes de la région des Cantons-de-l’Est. En tout, 50 artisans et les œuvres de 36 artistes peintres seront de passage chez nous», explique Mme Lavoie Art du XIXème, et avant .
Pour casser la glace de la 9e année, des dessins de jeunes artistes en herbe de Magog sont exposés dans la grange depuis le 4 mai dernier. «C’est une cinquantaine de dessins de jeunes qui fréquentent les ateliers culturels du Service loisirs et culture de Magog qui sont présentés. Déjà, les gens sont charmés et très impressionnés par leur talent. Ils travaillent forts, alors c’est un moyen de les récompenser», soutient-elle. (more…)
Filed under: Austin, Photo, ancienne, mini | Tags: ancien, ancienne, anglaise, Austin, Auto, BSA, Collection, colomiers, diaporama, Jaguar, mini austin, Moto, Norton, Photo, Portfolio, Retro, Salón, Triumph
Grand Theft Auto (abbreviazione: GTA) è il nome di una serie di videogiochi multipiattaforma catalogabile come “simulazione della vita criminale”, distribuita da Rockstar Games. Il protagonista di ogni episodio è infatti un criminale più o meno esperto. Per guadagnare soldi e farsi una reputazione all’interno della città in cui si svolge il gioco, il giocatore dovrà scontrarsi con le gang rivali, portando a compimento le missioni che gli verranno assegnate dalla gang mafiosa di appartenenza. È una delle serie di giochi più vendute al mondo e a marzo 2008 ha venduto complessivamente 66 milioni di copie.[1]
Ordine cronologico e ambientale [modifica]
I diversi episodi della serie GTA sono, in ordine cronologico:
Scena di Grand Theft Auto 2Grand Theft Auto
Grand Theft Auto – London 1969
Grand Theft Auto 2
Grand Theft Auto III
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories
Grand Theft Auto IV
Secondo gli anni in cui sono ambientati:
GTA London 1961 (1961)
GTA London 1969 (1969)
GTA Vice City Stories (1984)
GTA Vice City (1986)
GTA San Andreas (1992)
GTA (1997)
GTA Liberty City Stories (1998)
GTA III (2001)
GTA IV (2008)
GTA II (3 settimane nel futuro)
Pregi [modifica]
La serie ha molti punti di forza:
La ricostruzione pressoché integrale della città (o di più città) con abitanti, nemici e poliziotti.
L’elevato numero di mezzi di trasporto utilizzabili (auto, moto, motoscafi, aerei, treni) e di missioni secondarie (per es. guidare i taxi o le ambulanze),
La libertà d’azione concessa al giocatore: celebre è la possibilità di poter andare con una prostituta o di investire con l’auto i pedoni o di fare “stragi” di nemici o poliziotti.
La longevità: tutti i GTA sono molto lunghi le missioni della sola storyline principale variano dalle 60 alle 80 circa. Inoltre, per finire il gioco al 100% bisognerà trovare 100 “Pacchetti speciali” (in GTA III, GTA: Vice City e GTA: Liberty City Stories), “taggare” 100 tag, trovare 50 ferri di cavallo, 50 ostriche e scattare 50 fotografie (in GTA: San Andreas) oppure far scoppiare 99 palloncini rossi (in GTA: Vice City Stories).
Altre missioni secondarie importanti sono ad esempio, le missioni Taxi, Vigilante, Ambulanza, Pompiere, Venditore di Auto. Da citare anche le Acrobazie folli e le Violenze. (more…)
Filed under: Carson, Gambling, Multimedia, Real Estate, Rose, Uncategorized | Tags: Denmark, Factor, From, Kiss, live Martin, Rose
X Factor Denmark – live2 – 15 years old Martin: Kiss From a Rose
Filed under: Women's Issues
Content hubs, also called “article directories” or “article submission sites,” are web sites with hundreds to thousands of informational articles on them.
Authors can submit their articles to the content hubs. Others can then download these articles and post them on other sites. The benefit for the author is that once the article is posted on a content hub, it contains his company name and web site address. So it provides an inbound link to the author’s web site, meaning a link from another site to his. Plus, if the article is well written it will get downloaded by others and posted on their web sites, providing even more inbound links to the author’s web site.
Inbound Links and Why They’re Important
So what’s the big deal with inbound links? Well, let’s see what Google, the top search engine, says about how important they are to your web site’s ranking on the search engine:
“The heart of our software is PageRank™, a system for ranking web pages developed by our founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University. And while we have dozens of engineers working to improve every aspect of Google on a daily basis, PageRank continues to provide the basis for all of our web search tools.
“PageRank Explained
“PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page’s value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves ‘important’ weigh more heavily and help to make other pages ‘important.’”
So in order for any web site to get a good page rank on Google, it has to have many sites that link to it. But not just any sites. The sites that link to yours must have a high Google page rank themselves, and if they do, Google assigns more importance and a higher page rank to your web site. So if you have many sites linking to yours, and those sites have a high page rank with Google, then you will have a high page rank also. And that helps to make your site appear higher up when someone searches on the search engine.
How to Get Inbound Links
So now we have established that getting inbound links to your web site is desirable. And we have mentioned that you can get inbound links to your site by submitting articles to content hubs.
Are there any other ways to get inbound links? Yes, there are. There are two other ways that are legitimate:
1. Find other web sites that have high page rank and have something to do with your web site or your industry, write to their webmaster and ask them to put up a link to your site on theirs. Usually it works best to put up a link to their site first before you ask them, which will make them more inclined to link to you. 2. Wait until other sites notice you and decide to put up a link to your web site.
Number one above will take many man-hours, finding the sites and writing to them and putting up a link to their site on yours. Number two means you can’t control it – not a very good option either.
So the best method, in my opinion, is submitting articles to content hubs. There are over 900 hubs on the Internet at this time, some with high Google page ranks. Once you submit an article, it can take anywhere from a few days to a few weeks for your article to appear on the search engines. After 4-6 weeks these articles will tend to drop off search engine results, so it is best to submit a new article at least once a month, better twice a month or once a week.
There is a free online tool that measure how many inbound links there are coming to any given site: http://www.marketleap.com/publinkpop/
Go to this page and enter your web site in it and also enter the web sites of some of your competitors, some of the sites that rank highly for the keywords that you want to rank highly for. This tool will give you a good yardstick for seeing how many links you have compared to your competitors. Chances are you’ll see that the competitors who are highly ranked for your desirable keywords have many more inbound links than you do.
The Solution – a Content Hub Submission Campaign
The solution is to get a campaign going of submitting articles to the content hubs. How fast you decide to go will be determined by your available resources, and the size of the gap between you and the competition.
What should you submit? If you publish a hard copy or email newsletter, then you probably have a bunch of articles that you’ve already written related to your business or industry. Here is a sampling of the article categories from a popular content hub:
Advertising Advice Affiliate Programs Autos Awards Blogs Book Reviews Business Careers CGI Computers Communication Copywriting CSS Dating DHTML Direct Mail Domain Names EBooks ECommerce Education Email Entertainment Environment Family Finance Fitness Food Free Gambling Gardening Government Health Hobbies Home Accessories Home Business Home Repair HTML Humor Insurance Internet Investment Javascript Law Link Popularity Malware Management Marketing Marriage Metaphysical MLM Motivational Multimedia Music Newsletters Non-Profit Off-Line Promotion Online Promotion Other Outdoors Pets Politics Press Releases Product Reviews Psychology Publishing Real Estate Religion RSS Sales Scams Science SE Optimization SE Positioning SE Tactics Self Help Sexuality Site Security Social Issues Spam Spirituality Sports Technology Traffic Analysis Travel Viral Marketing Web Hosting Web Design Webmasters Weight Loss Women’s Issues Writing
Chances are you can find a topic or category that will relate to your web site or business.
The important thing is to get a content hub campaign going. It’s one of the best ways to have a real impact and drive up your search engine rankings.
About the Author
John Eberhard is President of RealWebMarketing.net (http://www.realwebmarketing.net), a marketing consultant, writer and political analyst living in Los Angeles. He can be reached at http://www.realwebmarketing.net/contact.html
Filed under: Sexuality
The Roman Catholic church is hemorrhaging badly. Church attendance in Europe is sparse, especially among young people. Nonetheless when it comes time to select a new pope a lot of people fire up the popcorn and gather in front of their TV’s. They wait patiently as sequestered clerics choose straws or flip coins, until they eventually come up with the next Vicar of Christ. The world watches in anticipation for puffs of smoke to indicate an aye or a nay. On Pope-choosing-day even atheists check out the action over in Roma.
Exactly what Jesus of Nazareth has to do with the Byzantine circus that is the Church of Rome is far from clear. Jesus was born in a manger and is reputed to have said “the foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the son of man has nowhere to lay his head.” He also referred to himself as “despised and rejected, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief”. His gospel is not exactly a call to sashay around places like the Sistine Palace admiring the Quattrocento, before strolling onto the balcony to wave at a sea of gawkers.
It’s a difficult connection to make. Of course Jesus has now been conveniently nailed to a cross where he hangs for eternity; a mute symbol incapable of protest. In the absence of the man himself, they can do pretty much whatever they want with his gospel; a gospel that in the hands of Roman theologians over the centuries has been the subject of enough doctrinal spin to fill a whole other testament.
Roman Catholic theology is out-of-touch with civil society today. Its moral codes are so out-of-touch they often come off as quaint. So it wasn’t in the least surprising that they elected someone as out-of-touch as Josef Ratzinger.
Ratzinger is not a people-person. The only exposure he has had to actual grass roots worshipers is top-down communication, and that happened for a brief period when he was archbishop of Munich and Freising. The rest of the time he has been cloistered in dimly lit rooms where he became famous for issuing Papal decrees and proclamations attacking the work-of-the-devil, now known by the less inquisitorial term – “moral relativism”.
This Pope is a catholic elitist who has referred to other Christian denominations as “gravely deficient”. He considers himself to be the chief keeper of the immutable “answer” to life’s complex issues, even though he has never actually partaken of experiences that the rest of us consider to be what life is all or mainly about. He has probably never even laid eyes on a condom, let alone used one, and yet he doesn’t hesitate to lay down the law to married couples and people afflicted with AIDS. On the use of condoms to help combat AIDS he is on record as saying that such a move would “result in at least the facilitation of evil”. How is using a piece latex in order to save lives and prevent the transmission of disease facilitating evil? Surely what you bring to sex in terms of personal intent, determines the moral quality of the act, not things you stick on your dick. His explanations of course deal in theological postulates that make little sense to anybody who hasn’t spent at least a few years in the Pontifical Academy.
Recently Benedict XVl has cautiously requested a report to decide if it might be alright for catholics to use the evil rubber if one spouse has HIV. The man is in danger of becoming a runaway progressive.
The problem with his attack on so-called moral relativism, is that morality is in fact relative. It varies from person to person, from nation to nation, from civilization to civilization. That’s in the real world of course, not in a theological archive. Morality like language and custom, changes through exposure to life’s changing circumstances and each of us finds our moral compass in the context of engaging with life’s issues. Ratzinger on the other hand, doesn’t wade into the deep end. He never even gets wet. But from the theological bleachers, he nonetheless feels he is in a position to criticize the rest of us. Which reminds me of another little comment by Jesus – “judge not lest ye be judged”. I’m pretty sure that also applies to Popes.
Gay sexuality is also judged to be morally deficient since it creates a “strong tendency ordered toward an intrinsic moral evil”. Statements like that are meaningless in the context of personal needs and functions. Bringing the devil into a person’s orientation has little to do with the love of Christ. A lot of people wouldn’t even get it, beyond thinking that “Intrinsic Evil” might be a cool name for a heavy metal band.
It’s pointless to labor these points because Ratzinger’s opinions reflect a world view that is odd, even bizarre, by the standards of contemporary understanding. And we do know a few things these days. There are very few people around any longer who feel the need to head into the confessional and do a few stations-of-the-cross in order to handle life’s moral challenges. Most of us certainly don’t need to be lectured by an elderly recluse in funny clothes.
Interestingly enough, as Ratzinger worked his way up the ecclesiastical ladder in the Vatican, he served as prefect for Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith; a role perfectly suited to someone with rigid doctrinaire views. It should come as no surprise that the lineage of said Congregation dates back to the infamous Inquisition. In his role as prefect Ratzinger kept up the venerable tradition by, for example, targeting Liberation Theologians. Thanks to the progress the rest of us have made in the world of civil society, enforcers of Roman doctrine can no longer torture and kill people who don’t agree with orthodox teachings, so as prefect, Ratzinger was restricted to issuing bans and excommunications.
The recent furor relating to Ratzinger’s indiscretions during a well publicized speech in Germany, illustrate how profoundly out-of-touch he really is. In an ill advised and poorly- thought-out effort to take a shot at Islam, he chose to quote the words of Manuel the second, a Byzantine emperor, who most people have never even heard of. The comment is lifted from a chat Manuel reputedly had with some vague individual of alleged Persian origins. Manuel characterizes the prophet Mohammed in less than flattering terms as a bringer of “things only evil and inhuman”.
This criticism is coming from the head of a Church that has been a virtual institutional incubator for pedophiles; a church moreover that aided and abetted all sorts of wars in the past, while also finding time to run an Inquisition, torture suspected witches and destroy native cultures by forcing Christianity and western education on indigenous peoples. All a bit rich. No wonder Muslims choked on their hookahs.
Ratzinger chose the name Benedict because he apparently has some affection for Giacomo della Chiesa, aka Pope Benedict XV, who lived back in the world war 1 era. Hardly surprising, when you read some of Benedict XV’s speeches. We find a precursor to moral relativism in dire warnings about the “monstrous errors of modernism”. Ratzinger it seems is a chip off the old block.
The Roman Catholic church is badly out of step with contemporary society. If this Pope continues to stake out doctrinaire theological positions, without offering realistic responses to a population that increasingly takes its cue from the norms of civil society , the church will become even more moribund, if that is indeed possible.
When the cardinals next meet to elect a Pope, it may not be such a big deal after all.
About the Author
Aidan Maconachy is a freelance writer and artist based in Ontario. His political blog can be visited at http://aidanmaconachyblog.blogspot.com/
Filed under: Religion
God’s Complaint Department for Unanswered Prayers
Do you feel your prayer wishes are going to the “dead letter office” with all the wish letters mailed to Santa Claus? Everybody thinks that their problems are the worst. Thinking prayers will be answered belief turns to doubt, because of false reasoning. In a state of uncertainty, to believe in and unceasingly praying is not enough.
It is important to know what a legitimate prayer is because if you pray with all your might and with all your heart to own this world, your prayer will not be answered. When we have prayers connected to material gain they are limited; there must be because God will not mend or break his laws to satisfy fanciful desires. Why pray foolishly or illogically for possessions that you could not have in your period of development at this time. There is a proper way to pray. Once you have changed your status from a beggar to God’s child; when you appeal to God from that awareness your prayer will have wisdom and power. Prayers are a demand of the soul. But what good is praying when God will not answer? Difficult as it is to get a response, it can be done.
The majority of people in anguish search for God with the self-centered desire of expelling mental or physical troubles or ills. God can easily be forgotten when you pray for money or healing for dear ones or for personal gain. The bible says, “Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you.” How many of you know that verse and how many of you actually put that into practice? You can classify yourself; and I am afraid most of you never read the fine print in the footnotes; you should not be expectant in the back of your mind for the granting of a favor. When you pray your mind should not be focused on gifts but concentrating on the Giver; as a result all the gifts from the Giver will be added unto you.
All financial goals have to be earned. What is the secret law to activate universal forces to come to your aid and lead you to the place of prosperity that is rightfully yours? Stop seeking prosperity for yourself alone and include others in your own prosperity. This will prevent you from becoming poor. That means not just including your family and yourself but a larger group of people that surround you. This is serious matter; do not take it lightly. By using this secret universal law: unselfishness, and by distributing prosperity to everyone equally with no exceptions will activate the universal law of karma to come to your aid.
The two ways our needs have to be satisfied are for material gain and for ill health. When you’re sick you run to the doctor, but what happens when the limited power of the doctor or human aid no longer helps. We then look to the unlimited Power of the Maker of our body for assistance and solace. Likewise we do the same with our financial problems; when we have tried our best and it is still insufficient, again we turn to that higher power.
When your prayers have gone unanswered you have chosen to pray like a beggar.
First you need to build a relationship with God and once a relationship is established, your prayers will be answered.
A praying beggar will be given what he deserves, a paupers trifle. Never beg when you pray as beggary reduces your prayers to that of a poverty stricken vagrant.
When you pray, demand as a divine child talking to a parent asking for what is rightfully yours as a divine son. Do this with conviction and see what happens then when you pray correctly. You can pray to God in the aspect of a forgiving mother instead of a father aspect who expects you to follow his laws. A mother aspect of God will always forgive her erring son; but, make sure you follow the rules of prayer by approaching God with legitimate needs.
Let’s say you are late on your mortgage payment and you can not meet your future payments or you want a certain job. Go into silence and after deeply meditating, focus your willpower on your need without expecting results at the same time. Nothing will happen if you look for a sign every time you pray. Just bring your needs to the attention of God and do your best to help God bring your prayer desire to completion. In no way try to test God. You must believe in the possibility of what you are asking for. If you pray for a house and your mind says, “You idiot, you can’t afford a home” make your willpower stronger and take the “cant’s” out of your mind so the Divine Force may flow without interruptions.
If you have a chronic disease, take the thought that ultimately only God will help you in meditation every evening. Pray with all your determination and you will find one day you are suddenly healed and your disease has vanished. Initially, our mind is given the idea and after that the divine permeates the mind with strength and last, the mind releases the power to cure. When the inherent forces laying in the mind are released you will realize you have the power of God in your brain which controls all physical functions of the body.
God is your best security that is why the masters are emphasizing for us to seek out God through meditation. Most of all get busy in finding God because procrastination is pure laziness when the procrastinator speaks and says “I will do that tomorrow, today I am busy with other things.” You can be like that for the rest of your life. People who are always putting off things will never achieve their goals. What’s the use in reading or listening to lectures and when you go home you fall asleep spiritually. That is not applying what you read or heard. If you do not make a sincere effort it will be impossible to get ascension in a moment. It does take years and it cannot be known by weak-minded people. Laziness must be overcome; the masters say that the physically lazy man can be forgiven, but not the mentally lazy. The physically lazy could have health problems, but the lack of enthusiasm from the uninterested dull mind has no excuse.
Search out the company of people who can strengthen your faith and take the “cant’s” out of your brain. You will find God within yourself if you are a member of the fourth class of people who will not be fulfilled with merely reading or listening to a lecture or sermon about God. Who will persist until He answers?
The science of yoga is exactly that, a science. Yoga, yoga meditation, praying it is all scientific in nature. You must have a proper guide when you are in the forest of theology. If you want to know about science or medicine you need a creditable teacher. But when it comes to the science of religion and you want to understand the mysteries of God the mentor you have must be qualified and one who himself has attained realization.
When the first yearning for truth comes, somebody offers you a book or recommends a teacher to awaken you. Then when your desire is strong enough God will send you a guru, not just an ordinary teacher. If the person you follow has not realized God he is only a school teacher. There is a difference between a Guru who has realized God and a teacher. The technique in finding your true spiritual guru not a self appointed one is explained in the book “Autobiography of a Yogi” by Paramahansa Yogananda, a spiritual classic, which explains this in detail.
There is a shortcut approach in prayer that the masters talk about, and that is devotion. They say when you pray, pray from your heart and imagine your heart has a mouth and is talking to God. For if you pray from your mind and your prayers are not heartfelt, you are doing a little better than wasting your time. Getting back to science again, your mind is like a radio and if the antenna of your mind is weak your radio frequency will never reach God, but the heart is a different story because the heart has no boundaries or limitations.
In todays’ fast paced society everyone wants instant satisfaction or their money back. It is even hard for the average person to pick up a book and read more that twelve pages before they loose interest. One of the most important things to learn is that God is never in a hurry and impatience or a lack of patience is a character flaw. A person who cannot exercise patience under stressful conditions is normal, we all are guilty of this from time to time. But this characteristic can be a real hurdle to overcome because the spiritual path is like the razors edge. How could you expect to obtain the most priceless treasure without making the utmost sacrifices?
This article copyright 2006-Author: Gary Zalben. You may reprint this article as long as the source is kept intact. For more information about the author and self-improvement writings see =>http://www.howtoselladeadhorse.com
About the Author
Gary Zalben – Original Author, Article titled: How to Sell a Dead Horse. Gary has more than 25 years of experience in the Retail industry. With his extensive background in Retail and his in-depth knowledge of customers’ relations, he has offered exceptional customer service and satisfaction. He owned and operated five successful retail stores in Beverly Hills and Century City in the early 70’s through late 90’s. His passion is writing article
