Example: The people thought the gambler was aboveboard, but little did they know that he was very skillful with his toes and pulling cards out of his pants with his feet.

I wasn't super stressed before I knew this and I wasn't really all that stressed after I knew that but after confronting my family with these numbers and seeing their reaction I'm bouncing off the walls and feel like I'm ready to vomit any second now! They have come to the conclusion that it's nothing. It will all be easily achieved like it's some fucking cake walk or something. They keep telling me not to stress out which for some reason stresses me even more. I was fine before today but now everyone seems to not realize the severity of the situation!

My family has either always over reacted or not reacted at all and this would be one of those situations where they are seriously under playing the ball game and I can't believe they are all either too ignorant or too stupid to realize how close to the edge I really am. One small miss-step and I get to enjoy a steep plummet some near infinite number of feet to a bitter crashing reality below! They however are trying to pretend I'm on a beatiful and leisurely drive on a wide road through a nice valley when in reality It's on a mountain top pass with a summit the width of a hair and I'm pretty sure it's over looking the gates of hell!

At least I get a second chance if I fail this time around but it would suck to ruin a perfect record. I've never failed a test before in my life. Not one. I've never even made worse than a B! I had already brought myself to the conclusion that I wasn't going to get a perfect score and though it's a chilling thought I knew all I had to do was aim for the equivalent of a C to pass and yet now it looks like I probably won't even be able to achieve that. The biggest hold back of all had to of been my teacher! His idea of teaching is talking to us for an hour or more each day about his adventures in life. I don't fucking care if he lived in Alaska... I don't care if he went and shot an M16 at a gun range... I don't care that he was in the air force... and I really don't care that he worked in a power plant reading steam read outs yet for some unknown reason he eats a huge chunk of our study time every day with his long winded lectures about his years as principal and how he wanted to be an agent with the FBI or how he is a football coach of West Nassau, after which we get the joys of doing useless projects!

 Never before have I had to write a 2 page essay about my presidential candidate 4 days before a life changing test! This test will help determine whether or not I get a high school diploma and he wants to know who our candidate is and why we are voting for them.. WHO THE FUCK CARES! I have HUNDREDS of pages to study you prick... stop interrupting my study time!

Thankfully I snuck a workbook home... yes snuck(or 'sneaked.' Whichever you prefer as Webster seems to think they are both correct). We aren't allowed to bring school property home but there is no way I was going to get that many pages done on Monday alone especially with it being a half day and with Mr.Arnold's whacked ideas of 'preparing' for the test I know we won't be getting ANYTHING done. Here's to hoping for a miracle and that I can guess correctly on enough of the answers that I don't know to get it right!

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It basically involves hassling the opposition continually for runs -- presumably because the opposition is old or unfit or lazy or all of the above! NAC also means setting innovative fields so that the opposition's run rate dries up -- presumably because the opposition is too old, fat, lazy and unfit to run singles and depend on 4s to keep the scoreboard ticking!

So this is what NAC is.

Firstly, what's wrong with just plain cricket?

Second, this NAC stuff does not appear to be working! Early signs are that it has bombed in the face of Ricky Ponting!

After the Australian 1st innings (a report on the 2nd day has been compiled by Mahesh) an admittedly early review of NAC indicates to me that naffness is not restricted to the term -- the theory is as naff as the term!

Australia wanted to hustle the old-fat-lazy Indian fielders when batting and restrict the scoring rate of the opposition when fielding. Results show that Australia scored at 2.81 runs per over and are giving away runs at about 4 an over right now. Yes, it is early days, but will someone tell the Australian team that it is time to mothball this NAC stuff?

As an admirer of Australian cricket, it was painful for me to see Australia crawl at 2.8rpo through the innings. This is not the Australia I know. And if this is what new-age hustling of old-fat-lazy fielders results in, give me the old-age stuff any day! Another facet of their cricket that I did not like much was the way Ricky Ponting and Michael Hussey played. They were just too cautious. They gave the conditions and the opposition bowlers way too much respect. If an Indian batsman had played the way Ricky Ponting, most newspaper analysts (ok, I use that term very lightly), bloggers and TV anchors would have termed it a "selfish" approach that put self ahead of the team! Homer alludes to this in his blog post. Ponting made 123 runs off 331 balls and Hussey made 146 off 402 balls at batting rates that would have made Anshuman Gaekwad and Chetan Chauhan proud! This wasn't Australia, was it? Or was it the NAC Australia?

Moreover, Australia should continue to play the way Australia plays best. To get on top of the bowling. To keep the scoreboard ticking. To keep the foot on the pedal and to not let the opposition back into the game. That's the way Australia has won over the last 10 years or so. And that's the only way this team will continue to produce results as impressively as it has. These theories are good for the paper they are written on. They give people like Buchanan and Chappell something to do when they are in the dressing room and when sleep threatens to overtake them on a hot summer day! However, cricket is played by able bodied men who do things the way they have been doing.

For some time now, we have been critics of India trying to play the "Australian Way" -- in your face, aggressive, high-adrenaline cricket, when it doesn't quite come naturally to them! Similarly, it is time to question this new approach that Australia seems to have adopted -- a very Indian way of playing grinding cricket on dust bowls. A style of game that comes quite naturally to the Akash Chopras and Rahul Dravid's of the world. In my view, this over-cautious approach of eking out runs and looking for singles all the time in a bid to wear out the opposition is very un-Austrlian-like.

Moreover, it is this very facet that kept India in the game right through the Australian 1st innings! If I were an Indian bowler/fielder and if I had been on the pitch for 5 sessions (approx 150 overs) against Australia and if I had looked at the scoreboard to see the score read only 400 for 6, why would I not launch into a wild dance? Why would I allow my shoulders to droop? Why would I allow my spirits to flag? In previous Tests gone by, after 5 sessions against Australia, the scoreboard may well have read 615 for 6!

When batting, Australia kept India in the game through over-cautious NAC and while fielding these supposedly innovative field-settings are leaking runs at nearly 4rpo -- admittedly things may be different if/when Sehwag departs. And admittedly this is all early days yet. But in my view, if it ain't broken there's no need to fix it!

-- Mohan

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Esti 100% Emo.

Ha Ha !
Emo. Trezeste-te, frate, hai capul sus si iesi putin la aer curat. Esti emo. Clar emo. Fa niste schimbari, frate, serios...

Dupa 8 tentative, in sfarsit am reusit!!!

All humanness—

And this story, full of glory

Is still passing the test

This is by far the most popular question around Yahoo Answers - "I forgot my Windows password, and how do I reset it?" - You see the same question almost everyday, and sometimes I wish Yahoo could pin that topic somewhere in the section, so people can read it before they ask the same thing again.  But no, they don't do that... so I feel like writing my own.  The following three methods are proven to work, but I leave the decision to you which one you'd like to use.

USE AN ADMIN ACCOUNT

There's a myth that you can use the "net user" command to reset the password, example:

net user Sparkie abc123

That myth is somewhat incorrect.  The truth is "net user" only works when you already have access to an account that has enough privilege - usually an admin's account - to execute this action, otherwise it will be denied by Windows.  Technically, "net user" is pretty much the same as Control Panel - if you can change the password by using "net user", you can change the password under Control Panel, as well.

In addition, even if you don't have an extra admin account to use, there's still a hidden local Administrator that you can access under safe-mode.  This account may, or may not be password-protected, depending on how the system builder set it up in the first place, but always give it a try.

To learn how to get into safe-mode, go to the following link:
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/chsafe.htm

CRACK THE PASSWORD BY RAINBOW

Windows does not store passwords in plaintext form, it is one-way encrypted (in LM algorithm), aka hashed, therefore there isn't a pretty way to crack it... but there is a way: Use a rainbow table.  Unlike a traditional brute-force attack - you keep on guessing a possible match until you get it right, which is very time-consuming - a rainbow table is a precomputed database that saves you cracking time computation in advance by using a technique called time-memory-tradeoff, allowing your brute-force method to be much more efficient, fast, and pretty damn accurate.

To learn more about rainbow, go here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_table

To give you an idea how fast it cracks, I did an experiment with the following setup:

• Windows XP Pro SP3
• P4 2.0 ghz
• 2gb Memory
• 60gb HDD @ 7,200rpm
• ophcrack with 703mb rainbow table

Tested passwords and times:

• hondas2000 : 7sec
• abc123 : 6sec
• asdfdsa : 6sec
• max10121989 : 12sec
• monkey : 3sec
• 11231967:  3sec

Notes: The initialization could take as long as minute to load.  During the first experiment the actual time for "hondas2000" was 41sec (preload) + 5sec (crack time).

The above tool can be found here:
http://ophcrack.sourceforge.net/

However, in case you didn't realize, preping the computer for a rainbow crack is time-consuming (it took me 4 hours to prep the test, by the way), and some of us simply do not have the time for it.  Luckily, there's another way where you don't have to download the look-up table and still crack it - simply extract the password hash of the account, and use a web service to recover it for you.  This is what you need to do:

1. Still go ahead and download ophcrack
2. Install, but do not download any table
3. Run the program. Click on the big "Load" button, click on "Local Sam"
4. Save the results as "hash.txt" and put it somewhere you can find
5. In the results file, every line represents an account, and is in this format:

Sparkie:1009:7CE2DE1F24339022AE91A15A9FDF9D77:991795B7F0C46 5B98594ED9C5E4443EE:::

In this example, you see "Sparkie" is the account name, "7CE2DE1F24339022AE91A15A9FDF9D77" is the LM hash, and that's what you want.

6. Now, go to this website: http://www.objectif-securite.ch/en/products.php
7. Copy and paste the hash in the first field, click on "Submit".  Within a few seconds you should see the password.  See how easy that is?

RESET THE PASSWORD

There may be times cracking is just not an option for you, so what do you do?  You can just reset it - this method works on any type of Windows, and requires no admin privilege.

Personally, I use an utility called NT_Pass from Austrumi Linux 0.9.2 to reset Windows passwords.  Austrumi can be downloaded here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=103017&package_id=110546

Make sure you get the 0.9.2 distrubution, burn it onto a CD (click here to learn how), and boot up the computer with it, and follow the instructions on the screen.

Or there's another tool called "Offline NT Password & Registry Editor".  It works just like NT_Pass, burn it onto a disk and boot up with it.  This utility can be found here:
http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/

Last Saturday, I took the LSAT here at BYU. I fully expected the LSAT to be held in the same place it had been scheduled to be in half a year in advance. I was counting on an organized environment with adequate seating arrangements and professional proctors. Obviously, such expectations were too much to ask for from Testing Services. Instead of a quiet room in the law building with smooth desks and real chairs, I was forced to walk in the rain to the third floor of the Wilkinson Center where I was seated behind a granulated plastic
picnic table. To add insult to injury, the proctors in the room talked during the test and one of their cell phones went off! During the writing section and logic games portion of the test, where diagrams must be drawn to answer the questions, the sandpaper-like tabletops made it next to impossible to write without
breaking a lead.

For such a “smoothly run” school, as BYU was recently described by the Princeton Review, the university sure dropped the ball. Anyone who is thinking of taking the LSAT at BYU should think twice, and maybe consider UVU.

James Potts - Atlanta, Georgia

Antihistamine came out. I only realised there was such a topic when justine told me over lunch. Like, 30 minutes before the test. But the panic attacks that was supposed to come didn't. Think I'm pass caring about the distinctions between A,B & C. The lines have fuzzed out and I just want to keep my head, and better yet, my neck above waters, above borderline.

Post-test, we made our way down to src for some frisbee tossing. Dang we were so shag in the first couple of minutes. And we weren't even marking people agressively to begin with. I declared half time to save my ailing lungs lest some helpful bystander hand me an inhaler. Or pin me to the floor and do a CPR on me. Depending on the face, i might just falter and feign death. Or spring up and wriggle my muscles.

Mister clouds decide to give us zero-stamina-slugging-shoulders a hand and so descend a generous downpour. We moved on to plan B at great wall and chat alot admist the oriental ching chang restaurant music. Numbers declined and clock ticked on. So the remainder few of us headed to holland v for dinner.

I say it was enjoyable. The company was great. We talked alot and i like my three amigo.

La rentrée... c'est fait ! mais pas question pour les "Cubs" de retomber dans le métro-boulot-dodo !
Déjà pour la bonne raison qu'elles ne prennent pas (toutes) le métro, qu'elles ne vivent pas (aucune) pour leur boulot, et qu'elles ne dorment (certainement) jamais assez !
Alors pour éviter les pièges de la routine rien ne vaut un bon debrief "Amour Gloire et Beauté"  ! Bon ok, ok, ok,  on s'en tiendra aux amours et au boulot... mais vraiment parce qu'on sait déjà que Brook Forester attaque son 4ème mariage...

I am new to bloging so please be patient with me.