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Autumn 2005    (The season Opera went free)

1. [inktomi.html]
   Yahoo!/Inktomi's search syntax
   by Nemo
   (Updating the older essay inktomi.htm)
   Part of the searching essays section.
   No one lights a candle and hides it under a bushel, except Yahoo!
   Wizard searching!
   
   
2. [longtermsearching.htm]
   Long term searching: rules and advice
   by Fravia+
   Part of the searching essays and of the evaluating essays sections.
   Estote parati!
   Time and again, seekers realize that many fellow humans don't even know how to use the exclusion operator on google - this usually leaves us feeling hollow, sick, and ashamed that we inhabit the same planet (let alone that we belong to the same species) as such scum :-) Time to throw some knowledgeballs down the webhills!
   Updated again!
   
   
3. [Two talks in Helsinki, Finland]
   15-16 September 2005: T2'05 Conference in Helsinki: "The web: bottomless cornucopia & immense garbage dump" and "FFF: Finding forbidden fruit"
   (And Jaakko Kuivalainen's interview, in finnish)
   
   
4. [../realicra/bartering.htm]: Bartering
   by José Carioca, part of the [reality cracking] section.
   Loved the game!
   
   
5. [funny.htm]: Funny and weird search engines
   Ok, this section may result completely irrelevant, but it is great fun nevertheless... I'm confident that each seeker has encountered some of these 'weird' search engines. And maybe it's nice to have a place where to "dump" them. This will demonstrate -again- that the web is really deep (and really weird).
   
   
6. [bangla.htm]: Opening Windows: the legal approach
   (or: How do you set up -legally- a full-fledged windows computer without any money at all)
   by fravia+ (There's no need to pay for anything on the web, duh)
   Part of the Introduction section.
   Well ok, once again: you have windows. So you need some programs. So you "need" Word, you "need" Excel, etcetera... but... do you actually have to pay in order to have very good programs? The answer is NO!
   Updated again!
   
   
7. [bookmarklets.htm]: Bookmarklets: Weapons for the seeker
   Have some sharp blades, fellow seeeker...
   
   
8. ... as usual, some new (or slightly updated) pages:
   [../realicra/slaves.htm] ~ [tuttiope.htm]  Opera is now free! ~ [Reversing advertisement images] ~ [antiadve.htm] ~ [davidbarry.htm] ~ [realicra/exegesis.htm] ~ [combing.htm] ~ [main.htm] ~ [dicy_structure.txt] ~ [yahoo.htm] ~ [google.htm] ~ [destream.htm] ~ [ftp.htm] ~ [dictiona.htm] ~ [tools.htm] ~ [stego.htm] ~ [further.htm] ~ [links.htm] ~ [searchinginside.htm] ~ [photos.htm] ~ [local.htm] ~ [trolls.htm] ~ [way_kook.htm] ~ [mines.htm] ~ [library.htm] ~ [musicblogs.htm] ~ [images.htm] ~ [rabbits.htm] ~ [books.htm] (gallica & bnf search masks + freebooks) ~ [usenet.htm] ~

Sommer 2005    This site has slept awhile: Holy Holydays!

1. [ritz_google_anti_snoop.htm]
   by ritz
   "i think this is sneaky and not very nice from mr google. also i wonder since *when* have they been doing this? i'm quite sure i looked at googles SERPs some years ago and it wasn't there"
   Part of the malware section.
2. [A talk in Montreal, Canada]
   17-19 June 2005: Recon talk in Montreal: "Wizard searching: reversing the commercial web for fun and knowledge".
   
3. [bangla.htm]: Opening Windows: the legal approach
   (or: How do you set up -legally- a full-fledged windows computer without any money at all)
   by fravia+ (There's no need to pay for anything on the web, duh)
   Part of the Introduction section.
   Well ok, once again: you have windows. So you need some programs. So you "need" Word, you "need" Excel, etcetera... but... do you actually have to pay in order to have very good programs? The answer is NO!
   Updated again!
4. ... as usual, some new (or slightly updated) pages:
   [srtools.htm] ~ [dictiona.htm] (onelook) ~ [freemail.htm] ~ [tuttiope.htm] ~ [index.html] ~ [index.htm] ~ [info.htm] ~ [ftp.htm] ~ [malware.htm] ~ [compound.htm] ~ [musicblogs.htm] ~ [musicblogs_82005.htm] ("the ink spots") ~ [pdffing.htm] ~ [tadimens.htm] ~ [quickforms.htm] ~ [local.htm] ~ [102003inter.htm] ~ [mines.htm] ~ [newsfeeds.htm] ~ [critics.htm] ~ [yahoo.htm] ~ [main.htm] ~

Spring 2005

1. [anonion.htm]: "Anonymity with onions": how to use TOR for pretty good anonymous browsing
   by vvf
   Part of the anonymity and of the anonyweb sections.
   Now, unless you're a ruthless criminal, your browsing is safe. Just don't use anon proxies to do anything really stupid that could land you in a sea of trouble, anon or no anon. Anon proxies should be used like gloves (to touch sites/servers you don't trust) and/or shades (stay anonymous in the crowd), not like weapons.
   
2. The path of the elite windoze xp warrior
   by AAVV
   Part of the Introduction and at the same time of the Classroom sections.
   Woah, I bet you did not know you had already on your own harddisk -or could quickly have- all this stuff at your command & disposal...
   
3. [opera_java_roma.htm]: Personalising Opera using javascript
   by ~Roman
   Part of the tutti all'opera section.
   not only can arbitrary javascript be executed, but also arbitrary executables...
   
4. A talk in Dublin, Ireland
   20-21 april 2005: Netsoc Internet searching talk at the Trinity college: "Basic wizard web-searching".
   
5. [opera_adding_roma.htm]: Adding functionality to Opera
   by ~Roman
   Part of the tutti all'opera section.
   First we need a way of capturing our incoming and outgoing packets, without stealing them from Opera, and without using a proxy... Next we need a program that, given all of our packets, will discard any non-http ones, and extract the http headers from those remaining...
   The good thing is, this approach is not just limited to viewing headers, but to any application that you can write a C (or any other language) application for...
   (For advanced seekers)
6. [bangla.htm]: Opening Windows: the legal approach
   (or: How do you set up -legally- a full-fledged windows computer without any money at all)
   by fravia+ (There's no need to pay for anything on the web, duh)
   Part of the Introduction section.
   Well ok, once again: you have windows. So you need some programs. You "need" Word, you "need" Excel, etcetera. Do you have to pay something? Do you have to give money to Microsoft? The answer is NO!
   Updated in May!
7. Everything about [google] and then some. The "summa" of everything we know about the most important among the main search engines.
   by fravia+
   The aim of this section, simply stated, is to offer for free, to anyone, a "summa" of all possible knowledge about google. This should make it completely useless -for anyone- to buy books called "google hacks" and similar. My hope, and joy, is to put out of business (and hopefully push towards suicide) all the wankers that stole the free content of some good sites in order to scrap some money out of it.
8. [../realicra/annoyingsales.htm]: How to counter telemarketing and other pests
   by fravia+, part of the [reality cracking] section.
   "I have some high-yield, tax-free municipals on offer at an extremely attractive price and virtually no risk. Are you interested?" Well, go for it: "Yes! I am very interested! Please send me everything, I'll pay as much as necessary... let the idiot hope for as long as you manage, it happens so seldom that he'll wet his pants in anticipation of his 'sales pitch' ... and then, after as long as you want and manage to play with him, put the phone down IN THE MID of your sentence, and when he'll phone back (almost immediately, noone cuts the line while speaking, it must have been a technical glitch) start anew the whole bazaar. Remember that the point is to have them lose their time AND to have fun!
   
9. ... as usual, some new (or slightly updated) pages:
   [ftp.htm] ~ [pepldoin.htm] ~ [links.htm] ~ [trolls.htm] ~ [password.htm] ~ [warning.htm] ~ [stalking.htm] ~ [statoo.htm] ~ [peoplesearch.htm] ~ [specs.htm] ~ [index.html] ~ [further.htm] ~ [../realicra/exegesis.htm] ~ [../realicra/bushigen.htm] ~ [musicblogs.htm] (fravia's own music blog!) ~ [blog.htm] ~ [targets.htm] ~ [nomomen.htm] ~ [fu_sussi.htm] ~ [mac_spoofing_per_hand.htm] ~ [faq.htm] ~ [mines.htm] (future workshops) ~ [images.htm] (flickr) ~ [newsfeeds.htm] (encyclopediae) ~ [main.htm] ~ [bad.htm] ~ [books.htm] ~ [library.htm] ~ [rabbits.htm] ~ [protec/protec.htm] ~ [../realicra/slaves.htm] ~ (A quick and dirty reversing guide in order to understand WHY a product is made thattaway) ~ [filesearch.htm] ~ [library.htm] ~ [stego.htm] ~ [undergro.htm] ~ [tools.htm] ~ [fu_speci.htm] ~ [info.htm] (more harversters' honeypots) ~ [irc.htm] ~ [io13.htm] ~ [mirrors.htm] ~ [dictiona.htm] (Languid) ~

Winter 2005

1. [bangla.htm]: Opening Windows: the legal approach
   (or: How do you set up -legally- a full-fledged windows computer without any money at all)
   by fravia+ (There's no need to pay for anything on the web, duh)
   Part of the Introduction section.
   Updated!
2. [rabbits.htm]: Catching web-rabbits (Catching the rabbit's ears & pulling files out of the hat )
   by VVAA, (Advanced & Qwasy magical Web searching tricks) Updated again! (search engines rabbits)
3. [gopherhunt.html]: A very short essay (if it can be called essay) but hopefully you will be able to sniff out some forgotten lore & maybe even archive it, useful for the less informedb readers.
   by Fugazi (Let's go and hunt for gophers)
   Old, valuable lore!
4. [nbbw.c]: Scroogle Scraper
   "Google provides a version of their main index to the public that is free of ads. This is at www.google.com/ie on all of their data centers. It is apparently used by some versions of Explorer for some feature. The point is, Google provides this for public use"
   by Daniel Brandt, Public Information Research Part of the bots section.
5. [tuttiope.htm]: Tutti all'opera Updated! (Opera: better than Firefox?)
   
6. Fravia's Workshop at the 21C3 in Berlin (27- 29 December 2004)
   This workshop deals with the "new" engines' searchscape, targeted searching, webbits' cosmic power, linguistic patterns stalking and some simple P2P "bypassing" techniques.
   Last time in Berlin (2002), there were some tecnical glitches, let's hope things will be better this time :-)
7. [freemail.htm]: "free" (sic) email repositories
   Only 1 giga or more. Useful for files transfers, for file sharing and for one-shot emails
   
8. [ORIGOGENTISLANGOBARDORUMWAITZ.htm]: Project ORIGO: Complete collated authoritative text of the ORIGO GENTIS LANGOBARDORUM, by Georg Waitz, SSrrLang, MGH, Hannover 1878: "Countering Web-ephemerality through Web-eternalness"
   by fravia+, part of the text exegesis section.
   [introtoprojectorigo.htm]: Introduction to this project.
   [intrototheorigo.htm]:introduction to the Origo (not yet published). Part of the new [fighting against copyright] section. Travel back 70 years and become a legal pirate!
   
9. [weatherbug.htm]: Weatherbug's nasty habits (Investigating spyware)
   by shinohara, part of the malware.htm section. (An answer by WeatherBug and a reply by Shinohara)
   
10. ... as usual, some new (or slightly updated) pages:
    [trolls.htm] ~ [targets.htm] ~ [library.htm] ~ [fu_sussi.htm] ~ [tips.htm] ~ [blog.htm] ~ [local.htm] ~ [regional.htm] ~ [pdffing.htm] (Adobe Reader Speed-Up & alternative pdf reader) ~ [terminology.htm] ~ [photos.htm] ~ [proxy_jan_2005.txt] anonymous proxies for january ~ [proxy_jan24_2005.txt] more anonymous proxies for january ~ [tools.htm] ~ [annoyanc.htm] ~ [dictiona.htm] more english dictionaries ~ [srtools.htm] ~ [further.htm] ~ [books.htm] ~ [blog.htm] ~ [main.htm] Exalead ~ [usenet.htm] ~ [io13.htm] ~ [google.htm] new limit: 32 words ~ [mines.htm] ~ [fu_sussi.htm] weather now and long ago ~ [compound.htm] ~ [ftp.htm] files.lt ~

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