Monday, March 23, 2009

Squeal Happy Whores



This is definitely safe for work.

It is PG Porn by James Gunn, which ironically does sound like an actual porn star's stage name.

"For people who love everything about Porn... except the sex."

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Gatorland, Orlando, Florida

I spent last week in Orlando, Florida.

One place I visited was Gatorland, and it was awesome. First of all, to truly represent its tackiness, the main entrance is an exaggerated concrete alligator head.



My favorite alligators are Mr. Stumpy:




and Mr. Nub:



I like to think if Mr. Stumpy was human, he probably will be loitering around freeway exits with a cardboard sign saying "veteran, please help, god bless". Where Mr. Nub lost his arm in a ridiculous arm-wrestling mishap.

During one of Gatorland's shows, the resident alligator wrestler Johnny fooled around with one so-ever tame alligator:



From his facial expression as if he is thinking: "This is all fucked up. I can't believe I have doing this for those god damn tourists. This gator's breath is terrible. What the fuck does it eat all day?"

Later Johnny pretended he was Britney Spears in 2001 MTV award by posing with an albino boa:

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Terrible Hotel, Days Inn (Kirkman & International)

Dear Travelocity,

During my recent trip to Orlando, I was extremely disappointed with the hotel (Days Inn, 5858 International Dr., Orlando, FL 32819).

To illustrate my point, I have attached a photo of the room I stayed in, #538.



As you can see, there is a piece of carpet has been burnt from the floor in the shape of an iron, yet the hotel did nothing about it. This shows you the quality of hotel your company chose to do business with.

Secondly, the WIFI did not work at all. When I first contacted hotel's front desk, they informed be that WIFI signal is not strong due to my room's location and suggested me to come to the lobby. When I did get there, the WIFI is still nonexistent. After two days of this, I have finally gave up and walk across the street to La Quinta Inn.

Please forward my comment to Days Inn corporate office.

If you or Days Inn would like to discuss this in person, I am available via mobile phone at ###-###-####.

Regards,


Tian

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

HOWTO: Samsung SCH-u740 Contacts Backup

In the past I have written about how to unlock Samsung SCH-u700 (Gleam) and SCH-u740 (Alias) to load ringtones into them. Recently I was contacted by reader Matt M. regarding how to backup contacts from Samsung SCH-u740.

Verizon Wireless's Backup Assistant is charging customers $1.99 plus tax per month to have the ability to backup their contacts. That is approximately $50 they are fleecing off from each customer after a two-year contract.

As of right now, Bitpim 1.0.6 has yet support contacts transfer for Samsung SCH-u740 (as least when I tried it).

However, Samsung has a handy little tool called Samsung Contacts Copier, which its only purpose is to backup mobile phone's contacts. It is absolutely free and works with most Samsung mobile phones.

The version I used is 1.2.2.6.



The Backup option transfers all contacts from a Samsung mobile phone to a .pbo file (phonebook data file), which can be opened with spreadsheet software such as Microsoft Excel.



The Restore function has the ability to let user to choose which contacts to be transfered back into the mobile phone:



It takes a few minutes to backup all your contacts and save yourself $50.

Sunday, October 5, 2008

"Antispyware-review.biz" Scareware Removal

It started last Friday where my notebook computer would randomly pop up Windows Security Alert messages about trojan spyware.


Figure 1 - Scareware pop-upmessage masquerades itself as legitimate Windows Security Alert with warning about "Trojan-Clicker.Win32.Tiny.h"


Figure 2 - Scareware pop-upmessage masquerades itself as legitimate Windows Security Alert with warning about "Trojan-Spy.HTML.Bankfraud.dq"


Figure 3 - Scareware pop-upmessage masquerades itself as legitimate Windows Security Alert with warning about "Trojan-Spy.Win32.GreenScreen"


Figure 4 - Scareware pop-upmessage masquerades itself as legitimate Windows Security Alert with warning about "Trojan-Spy.Win32.KeyLogger.aa"

At first glance, these messages appeared legitimate with technical information and its graphical interface consistent with most Microsoft Windows.

However, when the "Enable Protection" button is clicked, it hijacks user's web browser to a website, www.antispyware-review.biz, which sells rogue software PC Antispy & PC Clean Pro.


Figure 5 - www.antispyware-review.com sells rogue software PC Antispy & PC Clean Pro


Removal:

In this case, there were three new startup processes in the registry "HKCU:run" which I have never seen before, nor I could find any information on them:


Figure 6 - "apien", "O94r7l940x", & "enwin" are spyware lingering in registry as automatic startup

With help from CCleaner, I was able to remove these registry entries and prevent them from starting. Additionally, I used Spybot Search & Destroy to scan & immunize the system.