It’s awesome!  And that is all.   ^_^

Well, we can’t really say it’s completely unexpected – for a while now I’ve been able to sourc really cheap four port wireless modems from Telstra shops all over the coast here (like, $99AUD cheap).

While these modems aren’t the best in the range, they are as above – really cheap, and work extremely well.  Lacking some things like VoIP (it’s been disabled by their custom firmware – the hardware itself supports 2 lines iirc).

Here’s the issue
When attempting enter your username and password for your ISP into the modem, a javascript error message appears saying that your username is not a valid bigpond username.

The solution
You need to have Install Firefox on your machine, as well as the Web Developer Toolbar.

Open Firefox and point towards the modem page (URL http://10.0.0 in this example) and navigate through to Broadband link -> Advanced Settings (where you put your username/password).

Once there, right click on the empty page, select Web Developer -> Disable -> Disable Javasript -> All Javascript.

Enter your new username and password and click save.  The new page will load, and you’ll see a warning about not having javascript enabled (you can safely ignore that).  Go ahead and turn javascript back on by doing what we did above – would hate for you to forget – and goto Broadband Link -> Details (or back into Advanced Settings).  You should see that your new username (and the password which you can’t see on either page) is now updated to what you require.

The long alternative to this is remove the Telstra firmware off the modem and replace it with something like SingTel’s version (which enabled VoIP access through the modem) but I haven’t done that with the new firmware from Telstra yet.

If this is the first time you’ve installed Firefox, you really should start to use it all the time.

C: You shoot yourself in the foot.

C++: You accidentally create a dozen instances of yourself and shoot them all in the foot. Providing emergency medical assistance is impossible since you can’t tell which are bitwise copies and which are just pointing at others and saying,”That’s me, over there.”

FORTRAN: You shoot yourself in each toe until you run out of toes, then you read in the next foot and repeat. If you run out of bullets, you continue with the attempts to shoot yourself anyway because you have no exception-handling capability.

Pascal: The compiler won’t let you shoot yourself in the foot, no matter how much you need to.

Ada: After correctly packing your foot, you attempt to concurrently load the gun, pull the trigger, scream, and shoot yourself in the foot. When you try, however, you discover you can’t because your foot is of the wrong type.

COBOL: Using a COLT 45 HANDGUN, AIM gun at LEG.FOOT, THEN place ARM.HAND.FINGER on HANDGUN.TRIGGER and SQUEEZE. THEN return HANDGUN to HOLSTER. CHECK whether shoelace needs to be re-tied.

LISP: You shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds…

FORTH: Foot in yourself shoot.

Prolog: You tell your program that you want to be shot in the foot. The program figures out how to do it, but the syntax doesn’t permit it to explain it to you.

BASIC: Shoot yourself in the foot with a water pistol. On large systems, continue until entire lower body is waterlogged.

Visual Basic: You’ll really only appear to have shot yourself in the foot, but you’ll have had so much fun doing it that you won’t care.

HyperTalk: Put the first bullet of gun into foot left of leg of you. Answer the result.

Motif: You spend days writing a UIL description of your foot, the bullet, its trajectory, and the intricate scrollwork onthe ivory handles of the gun. When you finally get around to pulling the trigger, the gun jams.

APL: You shoot yourself in the foot, then spend all day figuring out how to do it in fewer characters.

SNOBOL: If you succeed, shoot yourself in the left foot. If you fail, shoot yourself in the right foot.

Unix:

 % ls
 foot.c foot.h foot.o toe.c toe.o
 % rm * .o
 rm:.o no such file or directory
 % ls
 %

Concurrent Euclid: You shoot yourself in somebody else’s foot.

370 JCL: You send your foot down to MIS and include a 400-page document explaining exactly how you want it to be shot. Three years later, your foot comes back deep-fried.

Paradox: Not only can you shoot yourself in the foot, your users can, too.

Access: You try to point the gun at your foot, but it shoots holes in all your Borland distribution diskettes instead.

Revelation: You’re sure you’re going to be able to shoot yourself in the foot, just as soon as you figure out what all these nifty little bullet-thingies are for.

Assembler: You try to shoot yourself in the foot, only to discover you must first invent the gun, the bullet, the trigger, and your foot.

http://www.u-g-h.com/2008/07/22/geeky-joke-of-the-day-quick-guide-to-programming-languages/

You served me well.

We’ve had hundreds of coffee’s over the years,
I even loved you so much I used you to drink Diet Coke.

To my dearest friend, you will be missed.
:’(

http://shawnmccool.com/2009/04/15/ajax-with-jquery-a-simple-login-example/

Came across this while looking for a good example on jQuery and Ajax examples.  Is absolutely perfect, well explained, wasn’t too quickly presented.

Posting on here for the hopes that Shawn’s article gets pushed up a bit higher in the search engines

MAKE SURE YOU CHECK IT OUT AND LEAVE HIM POSITIVE FEEDBACK.

Edit: Might help if I add the link >_>

http://survivingtheworld.net/Lesson380.html

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1886349

HELL EXPLAINED BY A MALE CHEMISTRY STUDENT

The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry mid term. The answer by one student was so “profound” that the professor shared it with colleagues, via the Internet, which is, of course, why we >>> now>>> have the pleasure of enjoying it as well

Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)? 

Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle’s Law (gas cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some variant. 

One student, however, wrote the following: First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate at which they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for how many souls are entering Hell, let’s look at the different religions that exist in the world today. 

Most of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there is more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle’s Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added. 


This gives two possibilities:

1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.

2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls>>> in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over. 

So which is it? 

If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa during my Freshman year that, “It will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you,” and take into account the fact that I slept with her last night, then number two must be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has already frozen over. The corollary of this theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is therefore, extinct……leaving only Heaven, thereby proving the existence of a divine being which explains why, last night, Teresa kept shouting “Oh my God.”

THIS STUDENT RECEIVED AN A+.