Where Google is Utterly Useless

Which country created the dyre wolf attack? (I mean, where is the criminal gang based)
Which country is upatre malware from?

The more I read on this subject, the more I feel that Eastern Europe is the place where there are bad guys working 9-5 jobs doing bad stuff. Why? Why do they want to continue to be seen as evil - a la cold war era?

What is LTC's Polyphase?

A search that went nowhere. Big loser - LTC - obviously - duh - losing free advertising..

GOOG Ain't No Watson

You'd expect technology is good enough to answer something like this :

"Who have been CEOs of Lego?"

No luck. This guy mentions someone called Paul P.. I just wanted the full name. Why is Wharton so dumb that it can't put a text caption at these critical moments?

http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=3304

How to Access Windows Folders from a VMware Virtual Machine

searches that gave me zilch...

VMW tells me it sees the webcam and the Android phone I just plugged in. But, I don't know how to

how to access windows desktop from VMWare virtual machine
accessing windows folders from VMWare virtual ubuntu machine

keep running into ways to access the stuff on the VM from Windows. Don't need that.. Come on GOOG, you can do better.

Firefox Directory Listing Display Control

Firefox gets all the information. What's driving me crazy is the filename length. With the monitor sizes we have today, there's no need to clip the filename display length to 20 characters. There's information in the filename sir.

I tried "how to control directory listing by firefox" and that's been the most promising so far.

Fireforx has all the information about the name. If you hover on the name, you get the status bar giving the full pathname..

I tried "firefox help forum" and got to forums.mozzillazine.org where I searched in "Firefox Features" for "filename display length control" - nothing.

for loop convert decimal to binary

you'd expect a neat code snippet to pop up when you ask google for this. People think Bing is goning to replace google. It's not. Wolfram is going to replace google.

quotient = input_value;
for( i = 0; I < WORD_LENGTH; i ++ ) {
bit[i] = quotient % 2;
quotient /= 2;
}

/* when you compile, you get
** WARNING ** division deprecated by visionary zingers :

Your probably don't want to use that though since it is an inefficient solution (uses division). If you are working on a binary computer, then you should just use bit-shifting and ANDing to collect the bits since the computer will already have the binary representation. Also you might want to think further about why exactly you need such a routine.

**

True, this works just as well :

for( i = 0; I < WORD_LENGTH; i ++ ) {
bit[i] = input value & ( 1 << i );
}

Which proves that one should aim to have smart people working for one rather than try to be a smart one oneself. -- Anon

how to go to your home directory with internet explorer on linux

"navigating unix directories on linux with internet explorer" also bombs on google.

Got to file -> open and then do browse.

You're home directory will most likely be something like

y:

or

one level up from

c:\windows\profiles\crossover\Desktop