Touchscreens! Part 2

The finale to my two part guide to touchscreens.

Touchscreens! Part 1

Woo! Touch screens! Screens you are allowed to fondle and touch and rub and so on. You’ve probably seen them, and you may have used one. So you’re probably wondering: what’s so special about them that make them work just by touching your finger to them, and if you can get one yourself for your home computer. So, continue forth, fine reader, and find out more.

*War*!

Want to go to war, with your friends, but can’t bare to kill them? Want to do it from the confort of your own home? Have I got a solution for you!

Things that annoy me at work

People are stupid. Couple that with incredibly obvious information, arm me with a shotgun, and say goodbye to half the worlds population.

Testing your virus scanner

Got a virus scanner? Quick! Copy and paste this line of text into a blank notepad file!

X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*

Saveit as Eicar.com. Put it on your desktop.

Cngratulations! You’ve just created the EICAR Test file for Virus Scanners! Let your computer sit for a few minutes, and see if it finds it (It will label it as a virus. It’s not, it’s harmless). Doesn’t find it? Scan the file manually with it. It should find it. All credible AV programs must react as if though it’s a real virus (It’s not).

Still doesn’t find it? Could mean your antivirus program is broken. You might need a new one. Try Avira AntiVir or Avast! Antivirus.

More info found here and here, and you can download it here (Scroll to the bottom, and try each one from the top row to test how your AV program reacts to them. The second one is it pretending to be another type of file, the third one it in a ZIP file, and the fourth one a zip file within a zip file with the EICAR thing in it).

If I had US$1,000,000 (that’s one million US Dollars!)

What would you do with US$1million? Here’s what I’d do.

Various YouTube Clipos

Look at what I’ve been viewing on YouTube!

Text Messages

No doubt many, if not all of you, have mobile phones. No doubt you also send a lot of text messages (who doesn’t?). You may have seen some random goofiness on your screen that you have no idea what the meaning of it is. I endavour to explain what one of those things might just be.

Douglas Rants About Media Players

Media players are designed to play media, right? Then why are they insistent upon being large, bloated pieces of software that enjoy shoving ads in your face, eh?

Microwaves, Cordless Phones, Remotes and 802.11g WiFi Networks

Microwaves, Cordless Phones, Remotes and 802.11g WiFi Networks: what do they have in common?