People can see what’s in your clipboard if you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer.

The Text On Your Clipboard Is:

To turn off this "feature" in
Internet Explorer:

1. Go to Tools ->
Internet Options -> Security

2. Click on the Custom Level Security Setting and uncheck the
option "Allow Paste Operations via Script.”

Google has quickly become one of the most well known words in the world and is used by millions daily, including myself. In an advanced database class back in university, we spent a couple of weeks studying the inner workings of search engines, and one topic which happened to come up was data mining using Google. Much to my surprise, out of a class of 80 fourth year computer engineers maybe four or five knew how to use Google to perform any sort of advanced queries.

Google (and many other search engines) has the ability not only to search on keywords, but also using a more “database-ish” query language to really narrow down your search results. Below is a summary of a few of the most useful lesser known features. Note: in the examples, replace cwire.org with your own domain.

Basic Usage:

We found out the phone number to both elevators at Northside is 3006. To dial in from the outside it’s 574-520-4872 and then the extension. We did try to dial direct to the phone using the four digit extension 574-520-3006, but that didn’t work so we figured that it’s such an old phone and extension that they forgot about it. Most of the extensions that begin with a 4 or a 5 you can dial direct. A directory of all the extensions would be nice to find The extension for room 205 in North Side is 5169.

if you need free fast food, there are a few tricks:

• Go late, ask for extra. Many times, there isn’t a night manager, and if it’s within 30 minutes of close, anything they give you is less for them to have to throw away and whatnot. They don’t care and you’re hungry. The worst they can say is “no” and then you still have the food you ordered. It works if you purchase some food and then just say that if they have anything else back there that they can throw in the bag, it’d be awesome.


• Busy mixup.  If there is a huge line, order the sandwich only of a meal and then as long as they don’t ask if you want the meal, just say that you ordered the meal when you only get your sandwich. If it’s busy enough, they will often times just give you the drink and fries for free rather than have to slow down the line and deal with it. It works best at Burger King because of the setup of the order line and pickup area.


• Food additives.  Burger King uses wax pencils to mark special orders on wrappers. Get a black wax pencil and peel off some of the pencil and put it in half of your sandwich. Go up and ask for a new sandwich after you’ve eaten about half of yours. 1.5 sandwiches for the price of 1. A little better!

I came across an interesting cvar modification for Counter-Strike: Source to allow you to force which player models are displayed for both the Terrorists and Counter-Terrorists on your Source client. The cl_min_t & cl_min_ct cvars can be set to a value ranging from 1 to 4, denoting which of the four skin/model types are displayed for all the players on each team. To enable this feature, you need to change the cl_minmodels cvar to 1. This will cause your client to display all the players on the T and CT teams using whatever values you set for them. Personally, I’d recommend 3 for cl_min_t as the white winter outfit will stand out on any map, and 2 for cl_min_ct as the glowing faceplate is easiest to see in low-light areas. Now you’re enemies can run, but they can’t hide.