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------==========/ Dylan Leigh - nth Year CS/CSE \==========------
Student number: 3017239 Web : http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~dleigh
Stayed at uni until 12:24 again because I couldn't bear going
home alone, again. Couldn't concentrate on anything. Might have
to take another leave.
Today I wore my Your Rights At Work tshirt today (from the 2007
campaign). Got a few comments from the volunteers, including "Oh.. I
guess I can't interest you in one of these?" from the guy handing out
Liberal how-to-vote cards.
Spent most of the afternoon refreshing the AEC site, then went to Adam
Bandt's after party - at the appropriately named Victory Hotel. Bandt
and Richard de Natale (the Greens senator also elected) are freakishly
similar - same height, hairline, identical voices, even the same glasses!
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On "The sex party would love a hung parliament":
<dleigh> I guess the Sex Party was hoping for a bigger election.
<vchau > Well there was plenty of swinging going on.
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Epic hammond organ porn - clear plexiglass case and chrome keys:
http://www.1stdibs.com/furniture_item_detail.php?id=423316
http://www.1stdibs.com/furniture_item_zoom.php?id=423316&view=3
A small CPU load widget for the Awesome wm, based on IceBrain's Active
RAM Widget (http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Active_RAM). Unlike some
other load widgets, This one doesn't spawn any new processes or
require any widget libraries (just the ones that come with awesome).
Add to rc.lua, near the top but after the library imports:
function cpuload()
for line in io.lines('/proc/loadavg') do
return string.sub(line, 0, 4)
end
end
cpuinfo = widget({ type = "textbox", align = "right" })
awful.hooks.timer.register(5, function() cpuinfo.text = cpuload() end)
Look for the "mywibox[s].widgets" definition and add the new "cpuinfo"
one. I suggest putting it after the textclock:
mywibox[s].widgets = {
...
mytextclock,
cpuinfo,
...
}
I hate living by myself. I hate it sooo much.
4 months ago I loved it. :(
That is all.
Got up 30 hours ago, my head feels like someone left a battleaxe in
it. 245 messages in my home inbox, 167 at RMIT. No brain power to
reply to any of them until tomorrow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNBQDPRbqv8
I'd like to blow this man's horn. Wish I had a superbone like he does.
On the other hand, I haven't touched my own bone in years, and I
really don't want to re-learn the fingering with my left hand.
(I think "Trombonists do it in 7 positions" is the only double
entendre I couldn't fit in there).
"Paralysis of the will is created by the belief that one
lacks the ability to cope or control an event's outcome.
Consequently, there is a reluctance to commit oneself to a
goal. Suicidal wishes often reflect a desire to escape from
unbearable problems."
-- Beck & Weishaar, 1995, p.239
I don't much care for poo jokes, but they occasionally produce
excellent reddit pun threads:
rsmalley2009
That joke was shitty: it always seems like students are the butt of
every joke.
andrewinmelbourne
No need to be so anal.
scoofy
i finally got it in the end
Extremeans
This is a professor I could get behind.
Gravity13
This pun thread is assinine.
pennyroyal
I thought they were pretty good 'til you came and rectum.
Charlie24601
This thread gets my brown star of approval.
andrewinmelbourne
If you like it you should have put a ring on it.
StreeTelevision
What crappy puns...
Ports upgrade I've been working on (off and on) for two weeks is
finally finished.
GNOME cruft removed: about 100 ports
Port makefiles requiring manual editing: 3
PRs filed: 0 (I just whined on the mailing list a bit)
PS (offtopic): The timing of the sax is *perfect* here:
http://bennyhillifier.com/?id=tWk4MCQaHrc
Walked through the meat and seafood section of the Vic market
today (normally I avoid it because of the fishy smell). I rarely
go to the market for veg as I find that the prices are equal or
only a little better than Aldi or the Carlton markets.
Amused at all the butchers advertising "free range beef". That
said, many of them are also organic and/or hormone free, and
cheaper than anywhere I've seen in the city or Carlton. If only
they were open before I go home (when I normally buy meat).
Also: goanna .inbox down to 149 from over 200.
Tried a teaspoon of mustard in a cup of warm water and it tasted
disgusting but didn't work. I had to get a chocolate bar to get
rid of the taste. I fail at bulimia. Maybe it just doesn't work
with wholegrain mustard.
---> Packages processed: 24 done, 4 ignored, 131 skipped and 2 failed
Fucking libX11.
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/05/06/2058245
``It amazes me that the financial industry continually gets a free
pass on matters that would result in public outrage towards any
other industry that deals with people's livelihoods.
This explanation, whether true or not, is equivalent to saying
that an airplane crashed because of a single faulty sensor.
Or a bridge fell due to one rusted bolt.
But, here, one fat finger led to the temporary destruction of
nearly 1 trillion dollars of value! Would we tolerate such bogus
explanations from aerospace engineers or architects? Why can we
not demand the same from our financial "engineers"? ''
-- atomic777
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1633574&cid=32008140
Just look at the way he boldly announces products' limitations
and disabilities as strokes of design genius (and then later,
even more astoundingly, announces re-enabling basic
functionality as 'groundbreaking new features' - witness the
iPhone's recent addition of multi-tasking, and the "you can't
fit a netbook in your pocket" campaign with the release of the
iPhone and iPod Touch, then the backflip to "bigger is better"
with the release of the iPad).
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1628294&cid=31947104
``When "resisting arrest" is the only charge, it's absurd. They
can't arrest you for resisting arrest because they didn't arrest
you before you resisted, and if they didn't charge you with
anything else, then they weren't arresting you at all when you
resisted. Yet it's getting more common for any belligerent
person to get arrested (and convicted) of resisting arrest when
no arrest was being made.''
With thanks to fruitstripzebra:
A duck walks into a pharmacy and asks the pharmacist, "do you
have any strawberry chapstick?" "No, but maybe tomorrow," says
the pharmacist. So, the duck leaves and returns to the pharmacy
the next day. "Do you have any strawberry chapstick," asks the
Duck. "No, but I have some grape chapstick." "No," says the
Duck. "I really prefer strawberry."
Every day for the next week the Duck returns to the pharmacy to
find that they have every other flavor of chapstick besides
strawberry. Finally, on the eighth day, he returns to the
pharmacy. "Do you have any strawberry chapstick," asks the Duck.
"Why, yes," replies the pharmacist. "That'll be $2.50." "But,
I'm a duck! I don't have any money," says the Duck. "Then I
can't give you the chapstick," says the pharmacist. "But I've
been coming in here every day for over a week," exclaims the
Duck. "But you don't have any money! What did you expect?" "I
don't know," says the Duck, sadly. "I just thought you would put
it on my bill."
The use of Tasers in the US makes perfect sense if you look at their
general attitude towards guns, and gun control: as a necessity that
overpowers common sense, and the pretense that they will never be abused.
Weapons will be abused. They say 'guns kill people', but take those
guns away and it becomes a lot harder to kill people with a closed fist.
It's also a lot harder to abuse a Taser when you have to use force to
subdue someone, and I rather get my arm twisted behind my back than
getting tased.
-- Marco Antonio
Early, but this is my insightful post of the year (by 'Causality'):
... people are often rather eager to excuse and defend
incompetent users out of some misguided sympathy for them. Real
compassion for them would mean teaching, explaining, and
providing good references for their edification. It would not
mean excusing their failures or sugarcoating their incompetence.
Any literate adult can achieve competency with a computer, and
most problems that make the network a worse place for everyone
directly involve users who lack knowledge, so why the "get off
your high horse" spite towards those who expect better?
If anything, I think the "high horse" is the belief that
users will always be ignorant, will always be victims of these
security issues, and can never overcome them. It is not the
belief that they can and should overcome them.
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1575094&cid=31402934
Hognoxious's followup provides an important clarification:
Not knowing isn't stupid. It's ignorant, and that can be cured. Refusing
to know, even when you've been (repeatedly) told - now that's stupid.
Another from Baxxter:
A driver should be aware of their fuel economy, but it's more
likely the job of a specialist to determine why the fuel economy
has changed. Knowing if the difference is due to the air
filter/oil filter/radiator/spark plug/exhaust/fuel filter, or
any of the other parts which could cause this problem is
generally left to someone knowledgeable. The end-user should
only be expected to notice the issue and request help...
Classes started today, updates which broke the level 9 labs
installed yesterday. :( In better news, I'm beginning to enjoy
the head tutor role (rather than just dreading the workload).
Website updates (most of these are not recent, I've just
forgotten to mention them in the .plan until now):
- Fixed dumps.pl and other scripts in the codepile, which the
server kept trying to execute instead of display (even when I had
explicitly set them to text/plain in .htaccess). :(
- Thanks to Axel G. Rossberg for spotting the problem and mailing me.
- Fixed image gallery going AWOL due to php-gd segfaulting.
- New notes page: FreeBSD Notes (mostly stuff from this .plan)
http://dylanleigh.net/notes/freebsd.html
- New footer goes up to 2010. :) Only took 2 months.
- Coming soon: Cooking and Nutritional notes...
No updates in the last 2 months because I saw no reason to
post about the pains that still make it hard to type, or how
miserable, tired and lonely I feel. Today I will mention
something which really aggravates that last problem - people
at work who walk past me and look the other way.
I "know" nearly all the staff at RMITCS by face and name,
and they "know" me in that sense. But few have any interest
in actually getting to know me, or even talking to me. Many
don't even look at me or greet me or respond in any way to
my greeting.
Fairly confident that none of them are going to read this.
Five years ago when I first started working here, I was a
little uncomfortable, often treated like a feckless child by
some of the TSG members. Despite that I still felt like
"part of the team". Now I feel simply unwelcome here.
At least the _students_ seem to appreciate my efforts (the
undergrads, anyway). Whenever I feel unwanted I try to focus
on the dozen-odd happy students who came up to me after they
had gotten their marks for Comp Org or Operating Systems,
who told me that they were sure they would have failed
without my tutorials.
Even this depresses me, when I realise there is nowhere for
me to go here. Being a good DP or tutor is a path to
nothing. Although lecturers are teachers first and foremost,
getting the job depends on your research, not teaching
abilities or experience. Now that TSG is no longer part of
CS, my 5 years of experience as a DP aren't worth anything
to anyone.
I could try to get a job elsewhere, and may even be
successful. I'm not sure that would be a good idea, all
things considered. Apart from the extra time (which I
haven't had much of, since 2007) and the extra travel (see:
time), I doubt I will find it easier to make friends at a
business than a university (not that the university seems to
be working).
Waiting at the dentist for nearly 2 hours today. I worked on a
lab report, while nearly everyone else waiting did nothing. A
volunteer was surveying everyone in the waiting room, asking
what volunteers could do to help, if waiting would be more
tolerable with more magazines or TV screens.
Am I the only person who brings something to do (or read) when I
know I'll be waiting for a while?
Miserable enough at 1am this morning to walk up to Curtain Square and
talk to the possums again. Two of them came up to me, nearly a meter
away, and didn't hiss (they do when being territorial). I wonder if
they're getting used to me, or I just happened to find a friendly pair.
Walking back past all the Rathdowne street shops reminded me how much
I missed eating what I feel like. It's not that I don't enjoy the
stuff I do have - I make a lot of delicious nouvelle cuisine - but I
miss the freedom of simply eating what I want to. Ratatouille is
tasty, but less so when you feel like corn chips and chocolate.
So... nearly a year without updating.
In some ways, a lot has happened in those 12 months. I gradually
regained the use of my hands, although I still can't use a mouse
and I have to take regular typing breaks, at least I can type
and code again. I'm back teaching online and on-campus.
I was threatened by the people I was forced to live with, and
had to stay away from my own "home" for my own safety, camping
at RMIT often and going back when nobody else was there. I
worked my arse off for a semester, failing half my subjects so I
could afford to buy my own place.
In other ways, not much has happened. I can't remember the last
time I had a chance to play a game, let alone work on anything
interesting in my own time. My typing problems certainly haven't
helped there. I feel like I haven't learnt or done anything new
for years - the little study I've been doing has mostly involved
stuff I already knew.
I'm seriously considering abandoning the .plan in favour of
something I would find easier to update - although the term
"podcasting" makes me want to puke into my microphone. In the
meantime, I have an assortment of miscellaneous links, quotes
and other stuff I never got around to posting.
About 2 or 3 weeks ago I developed some problem with my joints,
especially my arms. My wrists have been hit the worst, which made
it impossible to type at the time. Splints/Braces and Ice packs
on my wrists and arms tend to be the only thing that helps.
It's improved somewhat in the last week - to the point where I can
type for short periods - but I still can't hold a mouse without
severe pain in my hands and shooting up my arms.
This is going to mean a few changes:
- Probably less updates here.
- I'll be on IRC less then ever, probably not at all.
- Email response times may be several days or worse.
- I won't be taking any shifts at the DP office until we
get some new input devices sorted out. Even then, I
probably won't be taking solo shifts.
As well as the medical aspects I've spent a lot of time looking
into alternative input devices, including speech recognition
- which apart from Dragon's expensive Windows-only software is
generally useless.
The only split keyboard in local shops is the MS 4000 one, which
costs around $60-$80 and doesn't have enough vertical angle to be
fully comfortable for me. Getting a better one imported from
overseas will cost around three times that plus shipping (although
well worth it if it helps).
Pointing devices are worse. So far I've been mostly limited to my
laptop's touchpad, which is uncomfortable but usable. I haven't
been able to find external touchpads anywhere locally, and the
only trackball is the fairly awkward Logitech Marble Mouse, around
$50 or more.
I've been looking for vertical or pistol grip mice without
success. I did find a weird ring-mouse thing at the Camberwell
swap meet, which is more comfortable held in a clenched hand than
worn on a finger.
neef has been providing me with advice on ergonoimic input devices,
and kindly lent me a good Kensington trackball today. I've been
using it for a few hours now - the longest I've been able to work
for since this started.
If anyone knows where I can pick up any vertical mice, trackballs,
touchpads, good ergonomic keyboards or miscellaneous input devices
_in or around Melbourne_, please mail me. Later this week I'm
going to dig out my old gamepads and joystick and give them a try.
PS: This was revision 666 of my dotfiles svn repository. Coincidence?
$ mutt
19 kept, 7 deleted.
Win.
After 3 weeks and around 70KB of VHDL, finally got my 68k
clone working in hardware. Presentations are tomorrow.
RMIT .inbox was down to 22 yesterday, now on 27.
.inbox: 26 kept, 17 deleted.
New all year low.
I last slept sometime on Wednesday morning.
Aaargh.
Finally getting some rest.
$ mutt
67 kept, 24 deleted.
That's an all year low.
Current mood: Whatever it is when you are trying to mark an assignment
and do 2 assignments and finish 3 labs which should
have been done by now and write tute solutions and
hints and answer 2 hours of student questions each day
and implement a 68k processor from scratch in VHDL and
learn a new programming language and write an exam for a
subject when you don't even know how long it going to
be all at the same time.
PS: I forgot about the weblearn quizzes and tests, too.
Apr 6 06:20:04 clarence kernel:
ad4: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA48 retrying (1 retry left) LBA=470360994
Apr 6 06:20:04 clarence kernel:
ad4: FAILURE - READ_DMA48 status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=4<ABORTED>
LBA=470360994
Apr 6 06:20:04 clarence kernel:
g_vfs_done():ad4s2f[READ(offset=57219432448, length=16384)]error = 5
ad4 is the drive on clarence holding swap, root, /var, /usr and
/archive. ad4s2f is /usr.
I only managed to take a look at it last night. All FS are consistent
(props to UFS2) although there were lots of Incorrect Block Counts and
Soft Update Inconsitencies. It doesn't look like anything important
was lost, although I haven't done a full comparison with the last
known good dumps.
The proximate causes were probably (a) power issues due to the storms
(b) ourmon. Ourmon is an insanely overengineered network monitoring
system I was using, and it can put a lot of strain on the system;
nearly all the errors were in its logs and rrd files (which occupied
about 70% of the space on /usr too).
I wasn't too worried anyway - I do a full fs dump every week, with
daily incremental ones. All are sent to another local machine, and the
weeklies are copied offsite.
PS: for those who like their evidence anecdotal, the drive is a Maxtor.
Still overworked (the "mid-semester holiday" didn't even give me a
chance to catch up). Still having trouble with weblearn bugs and
blackboard being offline every second time I try to use it (or
just giving me access denied errors for no reason). I've dropped
half my subjects which should help with the overwork bit.
Asthma giving me hell, possibly because of a cold, possibly
because of cleaning up heaps of spilt toner at work on Wednesday,
which I should have been wearing a gas mask for (or better yet,
not doing it at all).
Other news: rebulding gnome-panel for the 5th or so time, because
someone decided that the fucking weather applet is a non-optional
part of Gnome on FreeBSD. If this shit keeps up we'll have to stop
using Gnome.
Other other news: Moved slightly closer to the city.
Semester has started. Badly. Blackboard overloaded and died when I was
in the middle of a _Network Infrastructure_ lab, of all things. 7
hours later and it's still hosed.
I've been horribly overworked the past few weeks: preparing for my
(studying) classes, preparing for my (teaching) classes, figuring out
which subjects I can be enrolled in (I'm going to have to drop 4 of my
currently enrolled subjects); not to mention trying to get on top of
assorted health problems and arrange alternative assessment for the
Scripting Language exam. I've been at uni 10am-9pm most days last week.
Currently fixing the accounts of a few dozen students who weren't
studying a CS subject last semester. The games students were
discussing how poorly Java compares to C, which has given me renewed
hope in the course.
More I've gleaned from the issue paper on the RFC on Copyright Exceptions:
- The copy is regarded as temporary. Under some circumstances you
have to delete it after you watch it. Sometimes you have to
delete if if you watch the *original*.
- (sec 12) The restrictions on private copies of photographs and
films are stricter than on audio (copying audio is covered by
Section 109A of the act).
- (sec 23) Digital-to-digital photo/film copying is not
permitted, even for private use. Yes, that means you can't copy
a DVD to your pocket AV player (the paper uses that example).
Digital to Digital *audio* copying is allowed.
- (sec 41-45) Copying which requires defeating any "Technological
Protection Measures" is not allowed (so you still couldn't copy
a DVD legally). The government is unfortunately NOT inviting
comment on this part, but is interested in the "extent" of media
released without TPMs (see sec 45).
- This covers some parts of computer games (under certain
circumstances they are considered a "cinematograph film". The
above restrictions on TPMs apply.
If you have no idea what I'm talking about, see yesterday's .plan and
http://www.ag.gov.au/www/agd/agd.nsf/Page/\
Copyright_IssuesandReviews_Copyingphotosandfilmsforprivateuse
Chest pains: Nearly gone, still resurface occasionally when sitting
or bent over. Just did my imaging tests, but haven't seen
the results yet.
Paid Work: No news. No offers. Still looking.
Website: Minor changes to todo.c. Some new screenshots.
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From BB (or more specifically "Kate"):
The Australian Attorney-General's department is inviting
submissions from the public on copying of movies and images in
different formats for private use.
These were sections of the Copyright Amendment Act introduced in
December 2006 that made it legal for Aussies to do things they'd
been doing for decades, such as recording a tv broadcast to tape
or disc, but illegal to watch such recordings more than once!
The Minister is required by the Act to review these exceptions
after two years and is now inviting comment.
This is a good opportunity to argue for the exceptions to be
expanded (not contracted!) to come into line with general
consumer behaviour.
Submissions must be in by the end of February (the 29th).
http://www.ag.gov.au/www/agd/agd.nsf/Page/\
Copyright_IssuesandReviews_Copyingphotosandfilmsforprivateuse
^ Issues paper and instructions for making submissions
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/01/21/aussies-heres-your-c.html
^ Original BoingBoing post (as you can see from the date I've
been sitting on this for a while, hoping to do it myself)
No updates for a while, 2008 has been remarkably shitty so far.
I've been very ill, temporarily lost a heap of mail to a global
config cock-up when fetchmail was upgraded on yallara, and left
without any real source of income.
After being screwed around for another month by centerlink I was
told I can't get "Newstart" (i.e. the dole) if I'm studying at
university. Yes, that's right, if you are on the dole you are
*not allowed* to be studying a course longer than a few weeks,
even if it doesn't interfere with looking for a job. This wouldn't
bother me so much if they had just said so back in October - they
knew full well at the time I was a uni student.
In other news, I've had terrible upper chest pains - it seems to be
some inflammation or problem with the chest wall and possibly the
cartilage near my ribs. I've had a heap of tests done this week,
everything bar x-ray or ultrasound imaging. All we know is that it's
probably not heart problems (because my ECG is fine) and probably not
pneumonia (because I'm not coughing up anything and my lungs sound
clear), even if it is making it even more difficult for me to breathe.
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Valdrax sums up free market healthcare brilliantly:
Anyone who understands free market capitalism should understand
why it doesn't work for healthcare. The rational, informed,
value-seeking man does not exist in the healthcare world. Real
healthcare patients are seeking the best treatment that they can
afford, not the cheapest healthcare that will probably get the job
done. That's the kind of market where prices go up instead of down
because the only downward price pressure is whether or not a
provider can find enough people that can pay at the prices they offer.
Matters of life and death are not ruled by bargain-seeking
behavior, and thus the entire driving forces of supply and demand
are thrown completely out of whack. Anyone who's spent any time
studying economics should recognize that the fundamental
assumption of modern economic theory doesn't apply here.
-- http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=423562&cid=22106702
More on the same topic:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=423562&cid=22107346
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=423562&cid=22106402
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=423562&cid=22106332
Website Changelog:
Updated the links page to include uni friends, some PC parts stores
and a big list of webcomics.
Cunterlink Changelog:
On the 28th (or so) of November I got a letter stating that my
Youth Allowance was cancelled (with the last payment being 26th of
October). I went to the local Centrelink and was told I would
have to apply for "Newstart" - and I had to do this at home, over
the phone, and then come in for an intervew later.
So I go home and call them, and arrange an interview. Later I have
to move the interview due to illness, and over the phone they
assure me that's fine, all I need to do is get a medical
certificate (which I do). Next business day I go to the local
Centrelink again and get a new appointment.
When I show up for my interview, I am told that since 14 days have
passed since I made the phone call, my claim has been cancelled (I
wasn't told anything about this time limit before). I am told I
have to go home again and call them to start the process all over
again, they won't do anything at this interview.
Yes, they refused to do anything at the appointment I had arranged
with them, I was told to go home *from my appointment* and ring
the phone number again to arrange a new appointment. The
interviewee refused to look at my paperwork or arrange a new claim
or otherwise do anything about it.
I've made a new claim - and lodged an appeal about the first one -
but it looks like I won't have any income until sometime in January.
Feeling better, but still unwell.
In my downtime, I've picked up playing Enemy Territory and Anarchy
Online again. Nice to know I haven't lost the rambo adren medic
magic, and my old guild is still alive.
Website changelog: Fixed the bug with the index links on the RPG
files pointing to the main notes index, and not
the RPG section index.
So for my birthday I got a virus, and 4 days of horrible
diarrhea, stomach pains and blinding headaches (and being
unable to eat anything). They really do get worse every year.
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Website Changelog:
- Fixed the timezone on the home page, .plan script and .plan RSS.
Should now be Melbourne regardless of the server's physical location.
- Fixed the extra line breaks in the RSS feed contents.
- New Lost Emulators page: http://dylanleigh.net/software/lostemulators/
Mirrors of DGen-SDL and Generator-cbiere.
- Am in the process of fixing the stupid bug where the
Dreamhost server keeps trying to execute my perl scripts
instead of letting the user download them.
UPDATE: Fixed. Should also be using text/plain for c now.
A patch which fixes the XDMCP problem has been found; props to
Robert Nelson and Brian Cameron on Gnome's Bugzilla.
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2007-November/018614.html
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=495623
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=494817
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In other news, I've been looking for good emulators for Sega
Genesis/MegaDrive and Master System; preferably ones that work on my
Laptop (Ubuntu) and the XDMCP server (FreeBSD):
- DGen (Genesis) - Slow but stable with good compatibility.
No GUI user interface. Not updated since 2004, and website
disappeared earlier this month :(
- Gens (Genesis) - Very fast. FBSD port is a bit behind the linux
version which is a bit behind the windows version. Some forks
around, no updates since 2005. i386 only.
- Fusion (Genesis/SMS/Lots...) - Written by Snake, excellent apart
from being windows-specific; lots of DX calls, problems on wine.
Still maintained.
- Generator (Genesis) - Awkward interface but unsurpassed multiplatform
support. A bit faster than DGen but not as fast as Gens. Not
actively maintained since 2005.
- Meka (SMS and similar) - Excellent speed and compatibility, neat
debugging stuff, but the Linux version is two versions behind the
windows and there is no FBSD port. Still maintained; latest release
was 2007-05-17.
I'll think about fixing the Gens port for amd64 and possibly a Meka
port - I have a lot of meka save files. Getting Gens and meka into the
Ubuntu repositories would be nice - they build without problems on 7.10.
Upgraded to Gnome 2.20, which stopped XDMCP logins from working.
It seems GDM 2.20 has a bug where it only works on IPv6 mapped
IPv4, not plain IPv4:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2007-November/018561.html
http://www.nabble.com/remaining-issues-with-gnome-2.20-t4721430.html
Downgrading to gdm-2.18.4_1 works at first and makes a connection,
but then GDM can't start some services and the client hangs on the
gdm background - probably because of the DATADIR change, and being
out of sync with all the other bits of GNOME...
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Yes, Minister explains British papers:
Jim Hacker: Don't tell me about the press. I know exactly who reads the
papers: The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run
the country, The Guardian is read by people who think they ought
to run the country, The Times is read by people who actually do
run the country, The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the
people who run the country, The Financial Times is read by people
who own the country, The Morning Star is read by people who think
the country ought to be run by another country and the
Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is.
Sir Humphrey: What about the people who read the Sun?
Bernard Wooley: Sun readers don't care who runs the country, as long as
she's got big tits.
Quite horribly sick for the past week. :(
The good news: dylanleigh.net is now on Dreamhost, so it
should be a lot faster and more stable. Keeping the .plan
and .taglines synchronized between RMITCS, home and
Dreamhost is going to be the hard part.
In other website news, most of the referers I get from
search engines are to be expected:
"dylan leigh",
"dice roller silhouette" and "silhouette dice roller",
"trombone slide position chart" (sometimes with "pdf"),
"max payne lethalmod"
Less frequent but more amusing:
"how to be legally ordained",
"sex with a turtle",
"siegheil.gif",
"lolicon law"
Tax finished. The confusion over superannuation interest was
nothing compared to depreciating assets partially used for
education and partially for work.
When is a Low Value Asset not part of your Low Value Pool? When
it's a Low Cost Asset which depreciated in value below $300 in the
last financial year! Bah.
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I have cookies/flash/javascript disabled for most sites, as
letting network services you happen to connect you run programs or
store files on your computer violates nearly every principle of
security.
Anyway... I went to the _Perfect Dark_ site today, and as it's all
in JS and flash, I got nothing but a screen of pure black.
http://www.dylanleigh.net/pics/screens/perfectdarkwebsite.png
The irony is overwhelming.
Globe and Mail:
"Sixteen Canadians have died in the past 4.5 years after being
tasered, according to Vancouver lawyer Cameron Ward. They are:
April 19, 2003: Terrance Hanna, 51, Burnaby, B.C. July 22, 2003:
Clay Willey, 33, Prince George, B.C. Sept. 28, 2003: Clark
Whitehouse, 34, Whitehorse, Yukon March 23, 2004: Perry Ronald,
28, Edmonton May 1, 2004: Roman Andreichikov, 25, Vancouver May
13, 2004: Peter Lamonday, 38, London, Ont. "
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/\
RTGAM.20071025.wtaser1026/BNStory/National/home#
http://news.amnesty.org.au/news/comments/\
usa_taser_related_deaths_pass_150_mark/
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/\
RTGAM.20071023.wshock23/BNStory/National
"There is evidence to suggest that, far from being used to avoid
lethal force, many police agencies are deploying tasers as a
routine force option to subdue non-compliant or disturbed
individuals who do not pose a serious danger to themselves or
others. In some departments, tasers have become the most prevalent
force tool. They have been used against unruly schoolchildren;
unarmed mentally disturbed or intoxicated individuals; suspects
fleeing minor crime scenes and people who argue with police or
fail to comply immediately with a command."
<alhazan> man noone has autorejoin these days
<alhazan> its almost as if they interpreted the kicking as a
sign that they werent wanted in the channel
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Sick today. No updates, but fixed some things that weren't appearing
on the image gallery properly (regex didn't take in uppercase filename
extensions).
(from yesterday, snipped lots)
<Synapse > "Not meaning to tread on their parade, but won't these
people ever get tyred of re-inventing the wheel?"
<alhazan > Synapse: you spelt "tired" wrong
<Synapse > pun ->
<Synapse > you: |
<alhazan > ignorance is bliss
<Synapse > and also: "No matter how much you push the envelope,
it'll still be stationery."
-!- Synapse was kicked from #pants by Z [(alhazan) daily pun limit exceeded]
...
<alhazan > im going to design a language where punning is impossible
<alhazan > then execute anyone who doesnt speak it
<dandaman> just use C
<NAbyss > dandaman: but C is easy.
<NAbyss > short dick;
<dandaman> shit
<dandaman> binary
<Synapse > speaking in binary is a bit hard though
<geoffwa > what about
<Synapse > speaking in binary is a *bit* hard though
<Synapse > come on guys dont make me spell it out
<darkmoon> < Synapse> speaking in binary is a *bit* hard though <-- so fired.
(...)
<kristvoir> there is a timespace vortex in Belgrave
<Boney > so that's why they have no electricity.
<kristvoir> yes
<Boney > they have to run their vortex.
<Synapse > we create electricity out of the vortex
<Synapse > well, I'm pretty positive we do
<darkmoon > nnnnngh
<Synapse > (sorry, that was weak)
<kristvoir> wow i missed the pun
<Boney > Synapse: oh, I get it!
<Synapse > ok
<Synapse > we CURRENTLY do
<darkmoon > noo
<kristvoir> uewepuep: fucking ban him
<Synapse > on what GROUNDS?
<darkmoon > noo!
<kristvoir> heavily forested
<Synapse > what are you going to *charge* me with?
<kristvoir> i can't take this anymore
-!- kristvoir has left #pants []
<Synapse > :/
<darkmoon > you broke chris =(
...
<Synapse > I guess all those electricity puns Shocked him...
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Alhazan's random quote of today:
"nope, but if its amputee porn you need, ive got you covered"
#pants meet summarized:
- Only boney, darkmoon and I showed up.
- Mmmm, bourbon.
_ ___ _ _ ___ ____ _____ __
/ |/ _ \| || | ( _ ) ___|___ / /_
| | | | | || |_ / _ \___ \ / / '_ \
| | |_| |__ _| (_) |__) |/ /| (_) |
|_|\___/ |_| \___/____//_/ \___/
Yes, as of last entry, the .plan has passed the One Megabyte
Milestone. I'd say something profound, but my spacebar and right
shift key are broken and it's 30 degrees at an hour to midnight
and I'm tired and want to go to bed.
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In other news, I am now using dnsmasq, which is much lighter (5M)
and easier to work with than bind.
No page updates today, and there might not be any for a while, as
I have an exam on November 2, tax due at the end of the month, and
possibly moving to consider.
PS: I'm downloading all the Ubuntu 7.10 stuff off the Internode
mirror, and will have 3-4 DVDs of stuff to bring in on Tuesday.
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<Synapse> http://www.geocities.com/indiana129/hentai.jpeg
well, it's almost like he's getting laid
<kristvoir> noone will click on your links dylan
<Synapse > Is there any reassurance I can give that that's not elf porn?
<Synapse > fuck
<Synapse > I meant to say EEL
* Synapse confusing perversions
<kristvoir> lol dylan likes humanoids
<kristvoir> totally outed
Site updates:
- Codepile (http://www.dylanleigh.net/software/codepile/ ):
- portdeps.pl added (prints BSD port dependencies)
- 8bitscan.c added (searches for 8 bit characters)
- Updated dumps.pl to use restore -r -N for checking integrity
of level 0 dumps and restore -t for the rest.
- RPG Section is now in the chunkynotes XML format.
(I should decribe this format sometime, it's useful...).
Also, updated a while ago but not mentioned in the .plan:
- http://www.dylanleigh.net/pics/screens/cl_error.png
(Centrelink failing my income report due dates)
Birthday greetz to Sofie and Jibril.
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From the pisg #pants stats:
Synapse seems to be sad at the moment: 4.2% lines contained sad faces. :(
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23:23 <Synapse> My local DNS is in a bind.
23:23 * Synapse *sting*
I hate BIND. It rivals sendmail for awful configuration file formats.
I should really be using dnsmasq or something similar; I'm not going
to be serving external DNS requests from my shitty ADSL connection.
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Updates: - Fifteen new taglines (#1 to #15)
- Many taglines cleaned up
- Pisg stats on synapse.gotdns.org running again
Site moved to www.dylanleigh.net. This will be moving to Dreamhost soon.
Site changes:
- Image Gallery cleaned up a lot (still needs work).
- plan.php cleaned up and clarified.
- mod_rewrite .plan dates (this is mostly what prompted the move).
- .plan script default behaviour is now to display the first 5
entries and the rest in index form. The index alone is ~64K.
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.plan merge complete, unless I stumble across any caches of stuff that
weren't in my .inbox on clarence or possum.
Delayed somewhat by more illness and the impending Python Assignment -
I had to come into uni at night and stay over the morning, as some
retarded tree-feller my neighbours hired ripped out our phone line.
More on that later.
I have a huge pile of links which I haven't added. I've decided to
stop posting links and quotes into my .plan unless I have something
significant to add to them. I'll probably create a linkpile when I
finish moving my site to the new host. Quotes will just go into the
.taglines unless they are too fat, then I'll quote them properly here.
*** I'm currently merging about a year's worth of ***
*** missing stuff into the CS .plan. ***
What is missing:
- Last quarter of 2006 is patchy.
- Anything from early December 2006 to early March 2007.
- Anything from August 2007 up to now.
Total about 6 months of space. I have been *very* sick over the past
year - especially semester 2 2006 - and that is mostly responsible for
the lack of updates. I've spent a lot of time sitting/lying around
unable to do *anything*.
For now, start at 30 Nov 2006 and work forward:
http://www.dylanleigh.net/stuff/plan/20071130
PS: Some unmentioned site updates occurred to the codepile and other
parts of my site too.
http://www.gizmag.com/go/8036/ Electric Motorbike
Summary:
- $17,000 to buy
- Running costs about $45/year (dwplug)
- About 100 Km/h top speed
- Regenerative braking (saves batteries and brake pads)
- Battery life alledgedly 10 years.
Website updates:
- C/C++ notes - Optimisations (thx Yoni!)
- Subversion notes - Keyword expansions under Windows
(thx Harald-Rene Flasch!)
- todo.c has a new -f option for the todo file to use.
Preventing C assignment/equality mismatches with lvalues:
This will compile without errors (most comiplers have warnings for
this if you enable them):
while (foo = NULL)
{ ... }
The pointer foo will be set to NULL and the loopwill never be entered.
On the other hand, trying to build the following will always generate
an error:
while (NULL = foo)
{ ... }
test.c: In function `main':
test.c:7: error: invalid lvalue in assignment
On the other other hand, it looks pretty ugly.
After a day working in the XORG_UPGRADE:
---> Packages processed: 0 done, 258 ignored, 128 skipped and 1 failed
That's a big improvement over last night, when half failed. The hard
part wasn't gstreamer, but all the new X11 library and header dependencies.
UPDATE: The even harder part was graphics/cairo, which seems to depend
on some X make tools and headers which aren't in it's dependencies.
UPDATE UPDATE: Fixed in ports.
FreeBSD ports / pkgtools tip:
Use ALT_PKGDEP in pkgtools.conf to "redirect" dependencies -
particularly useful for new major versions or improved clones of
software that is backward compatible.
ALT_PKGDEP = {
'textproc/libxml' => 'textproc/libxml2',
'devel/ORBit' => 'devel/ORBit2',
'graphics/imlib' => 'graphics/imlib2',
'textproc/ispell' => 'textproc/aspell',
}
Some libraries can't be used like this - for example, some GTK1.x
programs will not build with GTK2.x.
FreeBSD: Cutting down the buildkernel (and modules) time
- ls -l /boot/kernel/*.ko | sort +4
- Starting with the largest files, check what they are in the man
pages (e.g. "man nve" for "if_nve.ko") to see if you need them.
- The largest modules are usually the ones which take the
longest to build. They are almost all drivers for wireless
interfaces you don't have or scsi cards you don't have.
Occasionally they will be ethernet cards you don't have.
- Add the modules you don't need to WITHOUT_MODULES in /etc/make.conf
or whatever is included when you build your kernel. If in doubt
about a particular module, don't add it to the list. In particular,
don't add the base wireless or ethernet modules to the list, even if
you don't have a wireless or ethernet card to use.
*(03-23)[-04 days] [DAS ] Unenroll from subject *
You couldn't make this up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louie_Louie
``Another factor in the success of the record may have been the rumor
that the lyrics were intentionally slurred by the Kingsmen. Allegedly,
this was to cover the fact that it was laced with profanity,
graphically depicting sex between the sailor and his lady. Crumpled
pieces of paper professing to be "the real lyrics" to "Louie Louie"
circulated among teens. The song was banned on many radio stations and
in many places in the United States, including Indiana, where it was
personally prohibited by the Governor, Matthew Welsh. These actions
were taken despite the small matter that practically no one could
distinguish the actual lyrics. Denials of chicanery by Kingsmen and
Ely did not stop the controversy. Even the FBI became involved in the
controversy - but concluded a 31-month investigation with a report
that they were "unable to interpret any of the wording in the record"''
The FBI Report: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/louie/louie.html
FreeBSD hint for the day:
Put any directories which you DON'T want scanned for locate(1) in the
PRUNEPATHS var in /etc/locate.rc, e.g:
PRUNEPATHS="/tmp /usr/tmp /var/tmp /var/db/portsnap /archive /scratch"
My second hard drive wishes I did this years ago :/
(Explaning why I don't like DAS to John and Sam)
Dylan: "We do X25, ISDN, ADSL and so on in the lectures, but the labs
are all configuring ethernet on Cisco routers. There's no
connection between them."
John: "Heh. Connection."
Dylan: "Aw, I can't believe I didn't notice that."
Feeling much better today than I have in weeks. However I'm
getting sick of lasanga (which I never liked much anyway).
Went to the dental hospital emergency department today about my
painfully-growing-sideways wisdom teeth. The upper left one was
fractured and excruciating, so we decided to take it out on the spot.
As soon as the local anaesthetic was put on I felt better than I have
in months...
The hole where it was is bleeding a bit and has returned to being
horribly painful, but I assume it will get better soon. I've bought a
few days of chocolate mousse and lasagna to eat while it recovers.
Best warning ever:
Running a virtual Iguana OS from within a
virtualised Linux environment is dangerous.
ETROS and NICTA will not be held responsible
for any resulting time paradoxes.
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Morten Hustveit:
> > I am sick to death of Fight Club. People talking about it, [...]
>
> I take it most people didn't pay attention when they were told the
> first and second rules.
Pollardito:
> Tackhead:
> > > Doesn't this article violate the first and second rules of fight club?
> >
> > It's geek fight club. There is no second rule; only a zeroth,
> > first, and tenth rule.
> >
> > Rule #0: You start counting from zero.
> > Rule #1: Do not talk about geek fight club.
> > Rule #10: Do not talk about geek fight club.
> > Rule #11: Only two bits to the rules.
>
> i suppose you've already answered my follow-up question :
>
> "what kind of two-bit fight club is this?"
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http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=187026&cid=15431920
^ On "minor" blows and head injuries
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=187044&cid=15433394
^
"Last time I checked, the workers didn't own the means of production over
there, which pretty much rules out it being communist. It's easy: ask, does
the Chinese factory worker have a boss, other than a democratically elected
shop manager? If the answer is yes, then it's not a communist state, QED.
Whatever labels they put on the owners' doors are irrelevant, whether it's
CEO or Chairman or Premier of the Supreme Soviet."
Only lazy and intellectually dishonest people do things that are
morally/ethically/idealistically wrong and blame it on "the real world".
-- nick this
The existence of other products does not a free market make, and monopolistic
competition for the consumers disposable income does not create the economic
efficiency that free market competition on commodity pricing does.
-- Znork
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http://www.infernoptix.com/ "Screen" where the pixels are flames
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/10/1650256&from=rss
"Reuters is reporting that a UK woman has been charged as a terrorist
because of computer files on her hard drive. According to the article,
these files included 'the Al Qaeda Manual, The Terrorists Handbook,
The Mujahideen Poisons Handbook, a manual for a Dragunov sniper rifle,
and The Firearms and RPG Handbook.'"
Do you remember the paedophile riots a few years back when a
paediatrician in Portsmouth was beaten up because the mob were too
stupid to know the difference? -- Zemran
If possessing certain types of knowledge becomes illegal in and of
itself, that's when we'll need the Anarchist's Cookbook the most.
-- pedantic_bore
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http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=205980&cid=16799556
Great post by ultranova on Extreme Libertarianism and what boils down
to consumer protection:
"The fatal flaw of libertarian philosophy is that coercion is defined
as using force against someone. It is flawed because it ignores
another coercive strategy: resource deprivation. If I control the only
source of water in a desert, I hold power of life and death over all
other residents, and can kill them without ever once using force
against them (except when they try to take water by force, at which
point libertarianism allows me to use it in defense)."
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http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=205980&cid=16797592
^ "The majority of Republicans aren't rich, they're middle-class
folks who like to think, and who the Republicans have told, that
they'll be rich someday, or at the very least, they'll be pretty much
where they are now. They're betting their current economic situation
on a brighter future, and for most of them, that doesn't come true."
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=205940&cid=16794842
^ "The ink on the Novell-MS deal isn't even dry yet and Ballmer is
publicly announcing his intention to violate it."
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/11/10/doctor_advises_patie.html
^ Patient asks for contraceptive injection, UK doctor advises exorcism.
"She told her that her mother was a witch and that she and her
husband were planning to kill her..."
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That's why they wanted to use TATP. You would only need to bring a
complete mobile chemical laboratory to the plane, mix stuff with
chemical fumes and being extemely careful for 2-2.5 hours in the
toilet and then if you're lucky you could detonate it.
-- A Beautiful Mind, /.
Aren't they the party that proposes setting national policy by a daily
horoscope? That would make the United States a Cancer...
-- Captain Sarcastic, /.
Went to my Great Uncle's 70th today, at a hotel near Mornington Peninsula.
Speeches ranged from tedious to hilarious; particular mad props to Tim.
On the way back, I'd just turned onto the freeway and hit 100 km/h when
something[1] blew, causing the engine to jam, rev itself like crazy (RPM
governor my arse!), boil over and start burning off oil. We left a huge
smoke trail kilometres long and literally cleared out an entire section
of Princes Highway by the time the car rolled to a stop and we managed
to shut the engine off.
One person stopped and offered assistance. Two cars full of locals
stopped to laugh at us and make what offensive comments their limited
faculties could muster. This did little to improve my opinion of the
residents of the Frankston area.
The car was in suprisingly good condition for what had happened,
although the oil and water needed topping up (i.e. completely
refilling). I always carry some of both although there wasn't enough
water. Just as we were contemplating a walk along the freeway to the
nearest tap the CFA showed up - we'd generated so much smoke people had
called 000 and reported a fire.
We took the rest of the way home gently, and although the car sounded
sick the rest of the trip was uneventful.
[1] Something believed to be the head gasket or one of the cylinders; it
certainly feels like it's only firing on three.
-----==========-----
In... equally bad news, there was an article posted at Slashdot called
"Salt-Water Fish Extinction Seen By 2048" which prompted some
suprisingly well-thought out discussion on the unsustainable fishing
practices going on in the world. Australia's fisheries are already
suffering from the consequences of their over-fishing and the damage
cause by trawling.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/02/health/webmd/main2147223.shtml
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/04/0311214&from=rss
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/29/2055227&from=rss
``In a report commissioned by the UK government, respected economist
Sir Nicholas Stern concludes that mitigating global warming could cost
around 1% of global GDP if spent immediately, but ignoring the problem
could cost between 5% and 20% of global GDP. The 700-page study
represents the first major report on climate change from an economist
rather than a scientist.''
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6096084.stm BBC's take
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=203408&cid=16637436
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=203408&cid=16637672
^ "Anyone expecting to be alive for the next 44 years is going to be
paying the costs according to this report - and we'll be paying costs
sooner than that, just not at the 5% to 20% level. In essence doing
nothing will mean the world will potentially be 1/5th less productive
and wealthy in 2050 as it could otherwise have been."
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=203408&cid=16637126
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http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/30/by_eating_this_food_.html
http://smallprint.netzoo.net/by-eating-this-you-agree-that-it-is-of-mine/
^ The one and only edible EULA!
http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=203689&cid=16654927
^ "What, are we afraid of ideas? Is a war of guns and bombs better?"
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=203561&cid=16647833
^ Frisbee laser tag
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=203551&cid=16648403
^ "They don't want to give up all that windows specific knowledge
without a fight."
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=203499&cid=16643403
^ "It's like HR thought that if they just kept asking for more,
eventually they'd get it."
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=203487&cid=16641359 ror
http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=203689&cid=16655027 wry
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On testosterone, courtesy, agressiveness, and Real Men(tm)
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=203382&cid=16633548
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=203382&cid=16634586
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=203382&cid=16638415
``I'm sorry but the argument that being assertive and aggressive is an
appropriate replacement for being intelligent and diplomatic does not
hold water with me. You can't use Rumsfeld as an example of what people
should be like until you can prove that Rumsfeld isn't a complete idiot.''
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There's that pesky "pride" thing that, though a virtue in Americans,
is a character flaw in everyone else on the planet. -- misanthrope101
``In a stealth maneuver, President Bush has signed into law a provision
which, according to Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), will actually
encourage the President to declare federal martial law (1). It does so
by revising the Insurrection Act, a set of laws that limits the
President's ability to deploy troops within the United States.''
http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/28/1934208&from=rss
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/29/bush_legalizes_marti.html
http://towardfreedom.com/home/content/view/911/
I feel like I'm bent over, my pants are down, and the illiterate
president is hard at work behind me. -- slidersv
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http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=203292&cid=16628970 bahahahaha
http://www.ncta.com/ContentView.aspx?ContentID=3526
^ [Repeat] [Video] - The "Untitled Page" shows exactly how much they
know about the internets.
http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=203272&cid=16625458
^ "Would you want Hillary Clinton to declare anyone an enemy
combatant and detain them indefinately?""
http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=203272&cid=16625350
^ On "leftist gun control"
http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=203446&cid=16643361
^ On the 5th amendment: "It says "no person," not "no citizen" or "no
non-combatant" or anything else. It means no person, period. That
includes Osama bin Laden, Adolf Hitler, and Satan himself."
http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=203272&cid=16625576
http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=203272&cid=16630366
^ On Godwin's Law and appropriate comparisons to Hitler
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=203240&cid=16621598
^ `` Step 1: Get fans to promote us
Step 2: Allow viral marketing to create a demand for our product
Step 3: Sue the people from step 1
Step 4: Profit! ''
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In Soviet Russia, the joke gets you. -- SeaFox
<Twisten> Generalised question.
<Blue> Answer.
<Twisten> Was I talking to you!?
<Blue> Ah, comedy gold.
<BluECliQ> believing that Mcafee is going to protect you from hackers
and viruses is exactly like believing that republicans can
actually protect you from terrorists
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=199145&cid=16316671]
^ On the Daily Show, political news, and fluff: "the networks found
that when they covered politics, their ratings went down, and when
they covered other things (read: fluff), their rating went up."
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=199145&cid=16319133
^ On Jon Stewart and that Crossfire interview
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=199145&cid=16319769
^ On Jon Stewart and interviewing guests
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=199145&cid=16317699
^ "People keep on saying how unsubstantive TDS is but it is the ONLY
news program that I watch that regularly catches out what
politicians say. A case in point: When the VP Dick Cheney said
that he never said, or that he couldn't remember saying, that there
was a link between Iraq and Al-Quaeda, the Daily Show was the only
program to immediatedly follow that denial with the clip of him
saying it."
"I recently read a survey that said that 30-40 percent of Americans
get their news from late night comedy shows, and I just want to say
one thing to those people... DON'T DO THAT! WE MAKE THINGS UP!
WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WE'RE DOING!"
--Jon Stewart (of The Daily Show)
Succesfully removed the flaky ram simm from underneath the wireless
transmitter in my laptop. It's an Infineon, whoch doesn't suprise me.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5360412.stm (thx Chris)
^ Amusing yet depressing collection of political gaffes
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http://www.actu.asn.au/work_rights/news/1149476490_2410.html
``Under the new laws, union officials and employees can be fined up to
$33,000 simply for asking an employer to include in a collective
agreement:
* Provision for employees to attend union-provided training,
including health and safety training
* Protection from unfair dismissal
* Union involvement in dispute resolution ''
&sadface;
00:06 <Synapse> ./internode-quota-check.pl
00:06 <Synapse> Used 2641.03 MB (13.2%) of 20000 MB with 0.5 days left
at 512 Kbits/sec.
00:06 * Synapse has failed at teh intarnets
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http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1064
^ "Hotel Minibar Keys Open Diebold Voting Machines"
http://youtube.com/watch?v=kr76g531O1M
^ Colbert Report: The Word: Ten-Hut! (on anti-war war veterans)
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<Ghrens> Halo had a story? I thought it was about 13 year old boys with
prepubescent voices calling me a homosexual.
<Ulm > Sigh. I've lost my cow.
<Ulm > I think she's learned to open her gate and she's gone.
<Ulm > Been looking for about 5 hours now.
<dal-X> Need more cowbell.
<%spock1104> lmao, some poor bastard in florida had his house burn down thanks
to a dell
<+Toba > I would make a joke about needing a firewall on his home box
<+Toba > but that's just too low
<roddyboy> man it sucks...
<roddyboy> phone got stolen tonight :(
<drjazz > call someone who cares
<drjazz > oh wait
WNT is to VMS what HAL is to IBM. QED. -- MsGeek
It's the school (2 week) holidays, although the RMIT (1 week) holidays
haven't started yet. I've been cramming in a lot of pre holidays work
for ADD and Bioinformatics, hence the reduced number of updates -
although the last one did push the .plan over the metric megabyte mark.
I've got a backlog of crap to work on over the holidays, too. Although
it's driving well, my car is now leaking *heaps* of oil. My laptop's RAM
is still screwed, and I'm still pondering the best way to deal with it
(short of getting a newer, better, expensive less power hungry one).
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http://www.talkaboutcedia.com/article/10397/
^ "Great Looking racks!"
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=197010&cid=16143738
^ On the above joke
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http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=196801&cid=16125321
^ On the right to privacy in public, stalking, and surveillance
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/09/15/amazon_unbox_to_cust.html
^ Headline: "Amazon Unbox to customers: Eat shit and die"
"The Amazon [Unbox] terms-of-service are among the worst I've ever seen, a
document through which you surrender your rights to privacy, integrity
of your personal data, and control over your computer, in exchange for a
chance to pay near-retail cost to watch Police Academy n-1."
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71743-0.html?tw=wn_index_29
^ A Colour coded alert system that shows the real threats, like driving
off the road, electrocution and being shot by police, all of which
you are more likely to ie from than a terrorist attack.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=197010&cid=16144991
^ More amusing language policing
Quick guide to updating FBSD-STABLE
(This is a reference, check the handbook if it's your first time)
(This will go into a FreeBSD notes section eventually)
# csup stable-supfile
# cd /usr/src
# rm -rf /usr/opt/*
# make buildworld
# make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL
# make installkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL
- must reboot into single user mode with new kernel
# mergemaster -p
# make installworld
# mergemaster
- get rid of /var/run/temproot when done merging
- reboot into multi-user mode
A few extra points:
- You *must* complete the mergemaster steps before moving on. If you
skip any files you must rerun mergemaster or merge manually before
proceeding to the next step in the process.
- When you reboot into single user, remember you may need to fsck,
mount -a, turn swapping on if it will be needed, etc.
- If using an option to buildworld you must give it to installworld too
e.g. make -DNOPROFILE buildworld
make -DNOPROFILE installworld
- Check the mailing lists, usr/src/updating, etc for any potential issues
- If building across version boundaries (e.g. -PRERELEASE tags), you
may need to mergemaster -p before building world. Check UPDATING.
Saving dump space: You won't need to dump /usr/src (unless you have
modified source) and you won't need /usr/obj at all, since it's built
from src. On my system they take up more than the rest of /usr
including home directories, so setting "chflags nodump" makes a big
difference to the number of backup volumes I need.
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Downloadable Shadowrun stuff:
http://www.shadowrunrpg.com/missions/
^ Dynamic campaign with Fanpro-written missions; send in the outcome of your
team's runs and effect the storyline.
http://www.shadowrunrpg.com/wordpress/?p=137
^ Maps of SR4 Seattle, Hong Kong, Hamburg
http://www.shadowrunrpg.com/wordpress/?p=134 Shockwaves sourcebook
http://www.shadowrunrpg.com/wordpress/index.php?cat=7 Fan Fiction
dleigh : <bad pun>
mhussain: <groan> I'm going to punish you for that
dleigh : hehehe "PUN-nish"
mhussain: <GROAN>
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http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots.html
The Order of the Stick, a great AD&D-themed comic. I'll probably replace
KoDT with this on my links page as KoDT seems to be no longer online
anymore :(
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0004.html Bard buffing songs
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0012.html "Levels"
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0027.html Encumberance penalties
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0077.html Team Cleric
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0134.html Side Quests
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0136.html Polearm shop Sketch
Finally: http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0253.html
"I will stop you with my badly mangled Latin and questionable logic!"
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan hmm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_(god) hmmmm
http://dooooooom.blogspot.com/2006/09/more-crackpot-drm-ideas.html
^ "When I asked how the spread of encryption could possibly be compatible
with this scheme, they airily replied that only paedophiles use that
technology and we would all be better off if it was banned."
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/09/08/prisoner_statue_smug.html
^ Abu Ghirab prisoners tortured by disneyland employees?
http://religiousfreaks.com/2006/09/13/hell-hath-no-fury-like-a-nun-scorned/
^ Summary: 70 year old priest cheats on 39 year old pregnant nun, who
burns down his house when she finds out.
http://society.guardian.co.uk/health/story/0,7890,1471451,00.html
^ "Surgeons condemn 'pornographic' cosmetic surgery show"
PS. You're better off not knowing where they get the tissue for penis
enlargements or what anal bleaching is, really.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id\
=405738&in_page_id=1770&ico=Homepage&icl=TabModule&icc=NEWS&ct=5
^ "Prison for lapdance teenager who cried rape"
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"He's not useless, he's use-impaired."
-- Haley, The Order of the Stick
"Oh fuck, not another elf!"
-- Hugo Dyson, during the reading of a manuscript by J.R.R.Tolkien
"David Copperfield, best known for his incredible 'Claudia Schiffer was my
girlfriend' illusion..." -- Stephen Colbert
<Gsus> thanks to asian porn i know now the japanese words for "More"
"oh god yes" "fuck me hard" and "get that tentacle out of my ass"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/\
wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/12/AR2006091200535.html
^ Electronic Election screwups (the really bad stuff is on the last 2
pages - voting selections already filled in, no double-voting
protection, etc)
http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=196396&cid=16091285
^ Summary, quoting from above article
http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=196396&cid=16091271
^ The usual solution. "Anything else is just creeping socialism."
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http://www.gripe2ed.com/scoop/story/2006/9/11/82110/2869
``A grandmother sits in her sewing room and reads a letter that threatens
her with $100,000 lawsuits if she doesn't admit to copyright infringement
and pay a $300 fine... The people, grandmothers and otherwise, who are
receiving these letters are embroidery fans who own computer-aided
equipment to stitch from digitized designs. The letter states that it is a
legal notice - and "not an advertisement, solicitation, or a scam" as one
might assume -- from the Embroidery Software Protection Coalition (ESPC).
...
"I decided I could just clear it up by calling the number -- stupid me.
They informed me that the CD they were talking about was one with a few
flower designs that I'd purchased for $10 on eBay over a year ago. And
they said I had to pay $300 'restitution' or they would file suit against
me! As I haven't been doing much embroidery over the last year, I
explained to them that I'd never used that disk except to check to see if
my computer could read it when it first arrived. They persisted in saying
I was guilty of copyright infringement even if I hadn't used the designs
and they were going to send me a statement I was supposed to sign and send
back along with a check for $300."''
More:
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/12/2352207&from=rss
http://weblog.infoworld.com/gripeline/archives/2006/09/embroidery_pira.html
http://www.embroideryprotection.org/faqs.html
http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/stories/2005/09/05/story7.html
http://www.eff.org/legal/cases/ESPC_v_Ebert/
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http://www.freshports.org/news/rawdog/ cronjob RSS aggregator (HTML output)
http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/13/0136238&from=rss
^ Arnie has his website "hacked" by someone who obtaied files from it by
typing in a URL into an address bar. Stupidity ensues.
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/09/homemade_pong_watch.html\
?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890
http://www.guardian.co.uk/medicine/story/0,,1870279,00.html
^ Brain damaged patients, in a Persistent Vegitative State, wake up after
taking a common sleeping pill...
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=196362&cid=16089757
^ On rational scoieties and whatever force is necessary
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=196362&cid=16089720
^ On media terrorization and reality: "Look up the statistics of whatever
the latest mania/terror/panic is about, and worry about it if it's more
likely than.. oh... say... getting hit by lightning."
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=196427&cid=16094157
^ *boom-tish* (scroll down for the AC reply)
http://xe.bz/aho/24/ USB powered, eh?
http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/99063/1/
``Unless the world's wealthiest countries comply with their past pledges,
some 45 million children in the world.s poor countries will die needlessly
over the next decade, according a new report released Monday by the
international development group, Oxfam.
...
That failure is part of a pattern that began in 1970 when wealthy countries
agreed to spend 0.7 percent of their annual gross domestic products (GDPs)
at a special UN General Assembly development conference.
...
Indeed, in some countries, the amount of aid expressed as a percentage of
GDP, has actually fallen, particularly over the last decade. At only 0.14
percent of GDP, U.S. foreign aid in 2003 ranked dead last among all wealthy
nations. In fact, its entire development aid spending in 2003 came to only
ten percent of what it spent on the Iraq war that year. U.S. development
assistance comes to less than one-fortieth of its annual defense budget.
...
Moreover, much of the aid is "tied" to purchases of G7 goods and services
and, thus are not even spent in poor countries, according to the report.
The worst offenders are Italy and the United States. More than 90 percent
of Italian aid is spent on Italian goods and services, while about 70
percent of U.S. aid money is spent on U.S. companies.''
I've been vomiting a fair bit, and had some nasty stomach cramps. No
progress on anything, apart from looking at some quanternion theory.
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http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/stripper-storm-at-climate-meeting/\
2006/09/07/1157222252849.html
"Outraged scientists stormed out of a government-sponsored climate
change conference dinner in Canberra last night, after female entertainers
stripped down to their underwear as part of a burlesque show"
...
"Embarrassed conference organisers today apologised for the
entertainment, which was stopped after about 10 minutes of a planned
45-minute routine."
Lollerskates.
Alex Loke (who posted this to BB):
"Strangely, being an Australian, it seems a very Australian thing to do -
that being that it sat somewhere between bad taste and quite comical."
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http://religiousfreaks.com/2006/09/08/a-good-ole-fashion-bible-ban/
^ Massive outrage from christians of course... "But upon closer
inspection, the school isn't really banning Bibles, just the placement
of Bibles by the University in the rooms of new students."
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,20372915-5006003,00.html
^ Python swallows pregnant sheep. I hope it doesn't need braces now...
(Hey, that was nowhere near as bad as the headline's pun)
http://www.ewg.org/sites/asthmaindex/about/
^ "Each of us who drives one of the 204 million cars and trucks
registered in the United States shares responsibility for triggering or
exacerbating asthma and other respiratory diseases."
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/07/opinion/07schottintro.html\
?ex=1315281600&en=23aeab19bee3919e&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
^ The last 5 years in selected statistics
http://www.suntimes.com/output/entertainment/cst-ftr-idio06.html
^ Possibly good dystopian-comic movie
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<SpaceLifeForm> Gee, what if this was an inside job, and they were placed in
the trash to be retrieved later before making it to the dump?
<Truthsearch > That would stink.
<Truthsearch > (Sorry.)
On arresting the operator of a UK gambling site when he visits the US:
People don't seem to get this. So, let me try to hilight it.
IT IS NOT HIS RESPONSIBILITY TO PREVENT US CITIZENS FROM BREAKING THE LAW.
-- A beautiful mind, /.
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=196017&cid=16062607
^ Interpretation as a Text Adventure (+5 Funny)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Sklyarov A similar-ish case
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=196017&cid=16062249
^ Comparing this case to the International Criminal Court
> >organised gambling isn't nearly as widespread and deeply rooted in
> >Western culture as consuming alcohol is.
>
> Maclir:
> You wanna bet?
(I rored)
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On "pretexting"
i.e. lying about who you are to get information
i.e. ID Fraud.
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=196036&cid=16064132
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/07/2356259
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14721854/
^ "HP investigators hacked reporters' phone data"
Well, I guess this counts as a Social Engineering attack.
Pretext is to lie as campaign contribution is to bribe. -- edward
So what you're saying is "Pretexting" is just a pretext? -- commodoresloat
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http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article1698.asp
^ Michael Abrash's "Graphics Programming Black Book" per-chapter pdfs.
Worth a look just for the old-school VGA/Modex/386 assembly charm.
http://www.cioinsight.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=187895,00.asp
^ "Toysmart was offering these records to the highest bidder, despite an
online privacy policy that explicitly stated the company would never
share customer data with any third party."
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195982&cid=16060070
^ On the costs and benefits of capitalism, artificial scarcity,
cartelism, price gouging and the cost of getting started.
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195982&cid=16059699
^ On the breakdown of democratic systems and "vote with your dollars" on
large populations and the lovenest shared by Cheney and the Olsen twins.
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=196021&cid=16063205
^ On the stupid shit people who don't know much about teh intarnets think
of when it comes to age verification.
"If we can put a man on the moon, we can verify age online."
-- Conneticut Attourney General
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As a cynic, my personal problem is that the amount of wrongs I see are
overwhelming, and it's hard to maintain an active philosophy of striving
against wrong when it's everywhere you look, and so much of it is beyond
the ability of one person (or even thousands of people) to change.
-- Red Flayer
I feel like shit; going to bed early. Probably my most unproductive
and depressing Thursday in a while :(
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http://furry.wikia.com/wiki/CSI rororororror
Gil Grissom: "I guess we're lucky blue's not a more popular color"
Fursuiter : "Hello? This is racial profiling!"
"I'm not so sure that people who dress up like cuddly forest creatures
carry guns"
"You don't think they allow plushies in the NRA?"
Quite sick today, didn't come in to uni :(
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http://www.int.iol.co.za/\
index.php?set_id=1&click_id=87&art_id=qw1157357884508A162
``Nairobi - The global debate between scientists and conservative
Christians over evolution has hit Kenya, where an exhibit of one of
the world's finest collections of early hominid fossils is under
threat.
As the famed National Museum of Kenya (NMK) prepares to re-open next
year after massive EU-funded renovations, evangelicals are demanding
the display be removed or at least shunted to a less prominent
location.
The Origins Of Man exhibit, comprised of pre-historic finds from
around Africa's Great Rift Valley considered by many to be the cradle
of humanity, is offensive as it promotes Charles Darwin's theory of
evolution, they say.''
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http://www.wweek.com/story.php?story=3485
^ "Portland's top brass said it was OK to swipe your garbage -
so we grabbed theirs."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Ballot
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195805&cid=16046667
^ "A better term for what we *call* 'democracy' would be 'mediacracy'."
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195805&cid=16045779
^ On the difficulty of rigging vote counts with paper votes, and the
ease of rigging electronic ones with no paper trail
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195822&cid=16047608
^ On the developing countries which haven't ratified the Kyoto Protocol
PS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Kyoto.png
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195822&cid=16047374
^ More language fascism FTW (thread; scroll down)
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195765&cid=16042476
^ On patents: "Many patent holders are now stuck waiting for someone
to implement their ideas, while industrialists are waiting for their
patents to expire."
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Only on Slashdot does the story about a girl kept in a dungeon for
eight years revolve around the kidnapper's computer. -- Tor
Until the rich are gasping for air alongside the poor, nothing will be done.
-- Steve on air quality
Comforting the Afflicted, Afflicting the Comfortable
Only 5 (email autologger) infra jobs all night.
Got my xrays back from the dentist, which look very nasty :(
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For x86ers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Task_State_Segment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_mode#Privilege_levels
http://www.erlang.org/white_paper.html Soft-RT, Hot code swapping
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Hornet_Replacement_Controversy
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/09/steve_irwin_a_f.php
http://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/terrorism/169/
^ Paper: "Criminal Terrorism Enforcement in the United States During
the Five Years Since the 9/11/01 Attacks"
http://furry.wikia.com/wiki/WikiFur_Furry_Central Oh noes
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195751&cid=16041185
^ "This empowers geeks. It is a license to be snooty."
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Language Naziing (actually, these were in response to really bad mistakes):
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195779&cid=16043938
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195738&cid=16040190
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195693&cid=16042628
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http://www.thelocal.se/4775.html
^ "Liberal admits Social Democrat computer hack"
> > > Whiney Mac Fanboy:
> > > saying 'Liberal' in Sweden is not the same as saying 'liberal'
> > > in the USA.
> >
> > Opie812:
> > I'm no expert, but I'd suggest that the United States is the only
> > country in the world where 'liberal' is a derogatory term.
>
> Big Nothing:
> Yep. Just like "intellectual".
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[Dylan's note: Wood treated with arsenic based componds can do that,
as well as causing infertility and other nastiness]
Don't you hate it when there's a sticker or sign that warns you of
life-threatening risks?
I mean, sure, now I know that the wood sold by my local hardware store
may cause cancer, but avoiding cancer surely isn't worth having to
pull little stickers off of a small percentage of the things you buy.
-- evilviper
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I understand dropping his package, but kicking him? Man, I don't
want to upset the Debian team. -- an AC
Required reading: http://www.thenewatlantis.com/archive/13/crawford.htm
``A decline in tool use would seem to betoken a shift in our mode of
inhabiting the world: more passive and more dependent. And indeed,
there are fewer occasions for the kind of spiritedness that is called
forth when we take things in hand for ourselves, whether to fix them
or to make them. What ordinary people once made, they buy; and what
they once fixed for themselves, they replace entirely or hire an
expert to repair, whose expert fix often involves installing a
pre-made replacement part.''
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http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195695&cid=16035119
^ On repressive regimes which quash their citizens rights.
http://xkcd.com/c149.html On sudo(8)
http://mocoloco.com/archives/002155.php
^ mmm workstation cube. Mine would probably be permanently unfolded though.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5310416.stm
``Hundreds of Paris Hilton albums have been tampered with in the latest
stunt by "guerrilla artist" Banksy.''
Remember, the Terrorists hate our Freedom. We'll take it away, step by
step, until there's nothing left for them to hate. -- QuickFox
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http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/\
article?AID=/20060829/NEWS24/608290360/-1/NEWS
``A recently enacted law allows county prosecutors, the state attorney
general, or, as a last resort, alleged victims to ask judges to
civilly declare someone to be a sex offender even when there has been
no criminal verdict or successful lawsuit.
...
The person's name, address, and photograph would be placed on a new
Internet database and the person would be subjected to the same
registration and community notification requirements and restrictions
on where he could live.''
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Crikey :(
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195705&cid=16036056
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195705&cid=16036203
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195705&cid=16035995
http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/\
Irwin-put-bite-into-croc-hunting-safaris/2006/04/15/1144521529453.html
^ If you thought Steve Irwin was the usual McMansion-and-Ferrari
celebrity, check these out. There aren't many who put their money
and influence to good use.
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,20349534-952,00.html
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195705&cid=16037017
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195705&cid=16036252
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195705&cid=16036760
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195705&cid=16035878
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/09/airport_securit_1.html
^ Airport security cartoons
http://freethunk.net/humanistsinlove/deistontop.php [NSFW]
^ "Don'ts say 'God' while having sex with atheists
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=politicsNews&storyID=\
2006-09-04T134504Z_01_N03343708_RTRUKOC_0_US-SCHWARZENEGGER.xml&\
src=090406_1019_ARTICLE_PROMO_also_on_reuters
``[Arnie] struck a deal with the state legislature's Democratic
majority to enact a law making California the first U.S. state to cap
greenhouse-gas emissions. In doing so, he snubbed his own party, much
of the California business establishment and President Bush, whom
Schwarzenegger has accused of doing too little to fight global warming.''
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195670&cid=16033614
^ On protection and discrimination of the elderly
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195677&cid=16033978
^ On MS Active Directory, Apple OpenDirectory, Keberos and LDAP
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195723&cid=16037745
^ On using ScummVM to run old games, with "official endorsment"
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195688&cid=16034848
^ "How to counter Data Mining"
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195688&cid=16035601
^ On MS, Google, Clippy, Lubricant, and unnecessary genital mutilation
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Permission? As in "clicking yes to a thousand page EULA nobody reads
without losing the rest of his sanity"? -- Opportunist
The real boobs and dicks that should offend you are running our government.
-- Jeff Swenson
Chris: I hate the way flash slows browsers down
Steve: Try java, that slows it down much better
<Truin > anyone seen Bush lately?
<Espresso> nope
<Espresso> wait
<Espresso> the band, the man, or the body part?
<Truin > take your pick
<Espresso> the answer is still nope
http://www.bombornot.com/ - A very difficult quiz
http://www.flickr.com/groups/wirednewsstartrek
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/09/01/walt_disney_world_fi.html
^ "Disney is now fingerprinting visitors to Walt Disney World as part
of its ticket-fraud prevention scheme." Another reason not to go.
"Disney's official line is that they're not collecting fingerprints,
just mathematical representations of same."
http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/09/01/commission
^ Why is a Microsoft VP a member of the "Commision for the future of
Higher Education" anyway?
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http://www.abstinenceonly.com/
"WARNING: This site contains descriptions of graphic sexual
abstinence and offers abstinence-only education based on the strictest
most literal interpretations of the Bible. This material is not
suitable for the young or easily offended."
Includes such tidbits as "Do not, we repeat DO NOT penetrate your
faith partner's anus with your penis!" and "There's nothing 'in vain'
about firing your load all over your faith partner's face and tits."
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"First, let me make it very clear, poor people aren't necessarily
killers. Just because you happen to be not rich doesn't mean you're
willing to kill." -- George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., May 19, 2003
Since asthma killed more people in 2001 than died in 9/11, I would
suggest that we should lose as many or fewer of our rights as
Americans, than we do in our reaction to asthma.
A lot of people object when I make this argument, but other than ad
hominem attacks nobody ever refutes it or explains why it's wrong.
-- MillionthMonkey
Customers getting what they -paid- for? Are you nuts?! That's communism!
-- Travoltus
Going to have to get my wisdom teeth out very soon, they're crushing
several others :(
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http://www.cancer.gov/newscenter/pressreleases/MelanomaGeneTherapy
"A team of researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the
National Institutes of Health, has demonstrated sustained regression of
advanced melanoma in a study of 17 patients by genetically engineering
patients' own white blood cells to recognize and attack cancer cells."
BBC Coverage: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/5304910.stm
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http://www.dickcheneygunclub.com/ bahahahaha
http://religiousfreaks.com/2006/08/29/good-evening-godless-sodomites/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/\
2006/08/30/AR2006083003011.html
^ Another US$20,000,000 trying to find some positive news from Iraq
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/08/31/inbred_fundamentalis.html
^ "A fundamentalist breakaway Mormon sect in Colorado City, AZ, is being
overtaken by a rare birth-defect brought on by inbreeding. ...
The cult's members view the severe disabilities brought on by the
inbreeding as a test from God, and those who question this are
excommunicated and thrown out of the community."
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195535&cid=16024144
^ On pollls, statistics, and real-life karma-whoring
http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060828/full/060828-6.html
^ Headline of the day: "Semen aggravates cervical cancer"
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/08/31/uk_government_censor.html
^ "The UK cabinet office has censored a video that another branch of
government had previously posted off of YouTube -- ironically, the video
was about how the government could be more coordinated"
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If you become your enemy in order to defeat your enemy, you may have "won,"
but you won the opposite of what you were fighting for in the first place.
<iank> That doesn't make sense, but it sounds like he's
making fun of emacs so I like it.
To mess with your head this haiku is written on just a single line
-- iamthefallen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamest_Edit_Wars_in_Wikipedia
This is fucking platinum. My favourites:
Hitler Has Only Got One Ball
Can anonymously written folk songs be copyrighted?
Death Star
Is it 120km or 160km in diameter? Who cares?
Potato chips
Should potato chips be flavored or flavoured? What is the
provenance of the potato chip, America or Ireland? Four-user revert
war on these important issues results in the page getting protected
and listed on RfC. As a compromise, the chips become seasoned.
Template:User admins ignoring policy
A userbox reading "This user is pissed about admins ignoring
policy" (the word "pissed" was later changed to "annoyed").
Surprisingly enough, the userbox was speedily deleted by admins...
User:COOL CAT ON WHEELS!!!!
Should this indef-blocked user with no edits have an {{imposter}}
tag or not?
Feces
Revert wars, alleged sock-puppetry, and page protection: should the
article on feces include this picture of a large human turd? As of
early July 2005, the discussion on this issue alone had reached 12,900
words.
Invisible Pink Unicorn
Edit war over what pictures (if any) to include of an invisible
parody deity, and how to caption them.
Lolicon
Edit war over whether the template at the top, announcing that the
article was speedy kept after an Articles for Deletion debate, should
include the word "ZOOOOOOOM" to exemplify the speediness of the process.
I updated timetable.c yesterday, but I forgot to mention it here.
http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~dleigh/software/codepile/timetable.c
- New -P option to generate a printable timetable without blank days
- Fixed -b option (generates a busy-time plot, see below)
- New -B option (like -b but ignores days off)
! tt -B
|7 |8 |9 |10 |11 |12 |13 |14 |15 |16 |17 |18 |19 |20 |21 |22 |
tue | | | | | |#|#|#|#|#|#| | | | | | | |#|#|#|#|#|#|#|#| | | | | | |
wed | | | | | | | | | | | | | |#|#|#|#|#|#|#|#| |#|#|#| | | | | | | |
thu | | | |#|#|#|#|#|#|#|#|#| |#|#|#|#|#|#| | |#|#|#|#| | | | | | | |
fri | | | | | | | | |#|#|#|#| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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http://www.bhopal.org/whathappened.html
On the night of Dec. 2nd and 3rd, 1984, a Union Carbide plant in
Bhopal, India, began leaking 27 tons of the deadly gas methyl
isocyanate. None of the six safety systems designed to contain such a
leak were operational, allowing the gas to spread throughout the city
of Bhopal. Half a million people were exposed to the gas and 20,000
have died to date as a result of their exposure. More than 120,000
people still suffer from ailments caused by the accident and the
subsequent pollution at the plant site. These ailments include
blindness, extreme difficulty in breathing, and gynecological disorders.
...
The gas-affected people of Bhopal continue to succumb to injuries
sustained during the disaster, dying at the rate of one each day.
Treatment protocols are hampered by the company's continuing refusal
to share information it holds on the toxic effects of MIC. Both Union
Carbide and its new owner Dow Chemical claim the data is a "trade
secret," frustrating the efforts of doctors to treat gas-affected
victims. The site itself has never been cleaned up, and a new
generation is being poisoned by the chemicals that Union Carbide left
behind.
If you leak a chemical that causes the death of twenty
thousand people, and over a hundred thousand to suffer, you
couldn't just tell them what they are suffering from or how
to treat it. That's a Trade Secret(tm).
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195408&cid=16011129
^ "You can't ban things based on what people do after the fact."
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=913013
^ Study confirms: "Porn Up, Rape Down"
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1125318960389&rss=newswire
^ Forget terrorism and child porn, the real danger is adult porn
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/4137637.html
^ "In an ironic twist, legislation that would open up the murky world
of government contracting to public scrutiny has been derailed by a
secret parliamentary maneuver."
(later revealed to be Ted "Bridge to Nowhere" "Series of Tubes" Stevens)
http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195412&cid=16010864
^ On Stevens, and the "saddest day of his life"
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195381&cid=16007389
^ On comparing Carter and Bush
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I understand that there's a growing movement among MPs to make living
a criminal offense. After all, every single person who's ever commited
a crime has been alive at the time. There's a clear link here! -- ATMD
History has shown that the majority of voters are most happy when
handed small bags of (their own) money shortly before election time.
-- minwee, /.
The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can
bribe the people with their own money. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
<pig hogger > Steganography is getting more and more attractive every day...
<RealSurreal> Whatever turns you on I suppose.
Whoever thinks that violent pornography has an effect on people has
been a naughty boy and needs a spanking. -- trevdak
Perhaps someone should strangle her, then we can all blame the woman's
death on stupid politics and get those outlawed too. -- Mattintosh
<amouth> if you outlaw air only outlaws will have air
<misleb > To be fair, that upper 10% did tinkle down... errr trickle
down... on the rest of us.
<belmolis> It's called the "golden shower" theory of economics.
Any two party system is just barely one party away from a dictatorship.
And it shows. -- Znork
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195215&cid=15995654 *sting*
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195234&cid=15997251
^ Calulating how many minutes of Star Trek there are
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195261&cid=15999005 bahaha
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195199&cid=15995435
^ On DRM: "This is like me wanting to put my bedsheets on my couch
and sleep there, but for some reason the bedsheet makers
only want me to put bedsheets on a bed, so it's illegal."
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195199&cid=15996129
^ On the social contract of copyright, and why people don't think of
copyright infringement as immoral
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195199&cid=15995096
^ "Being quite naive, I just assumed backing up My Music would be
sufficient for license back-up -- after all, it contains the "My
License Backup" folder."
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195199&cid=15994685
^ On the Itunes music store and hardware-locking restrictions
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The whole of ST:TOS was an exploration of the Human Condition.
It just happened to take place in space, ergo it was "Sci Fi". -- Scutter
PhD thesis on Star Trek? Skip the english version, to Truly understand
the thesis, you must read it in its original Klingon.
US citizens have a right to bear arms for a purpose of protection from the
government, however it is illegal to use those arms against the government.
-- InsaneGeek
Who wants to get in an edit war with me at the Edit war article? Then
we can create an article called "Meta edit war" and get in a fight
over whether that is a neologism! Ah, the wonders of Wikipedia...
-- amazon10x
More Yes Men, from http://www.theyesmen.org/hijinks/dow/acceptablerisk.shtml
On April 28, 2004, at a London banking conference to which they had
accidentally been invited because of their satirical website, "Dow
representative" "Erastus Hamm" unveiled "Acceptable Risk," a Dow industry
standard for determining how many deaths are acceptable when achieving
large profits. The bankers enthusiastically applauded the lecture, which
described several industrial crimes, including IBM's sale of technology to
the Nazis for use in identifying Jews, as "golden skeletons" - i.e.
skeletons in the closet, but lucrative and therefore acceptable ones.
Several of the bankers in attendance then signed up for licenses for the
"Acceptable Risk Calculator" and even posed with Acceptable Risk mascot
"Gilda, the golden skeleton in the closet," for photos.
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/08/28/yes_men_prank_the_ma.html
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/08/28/hud.hoax/index.html
Headline: Yes Men prank the Man in New Orleans
" .. Once at the conference, Yes Man Andy Bichlbaum -- posing as Rene Oswin,
a fake HUD official -- delivered a speech that asserted that HUD was wrong
and that it would not actually demolish perfectly sound low income
housing, as it was planning to do... "
This is hilarious, and some great work.
From http://www.theyesmen.org/
Identity Theft
Small-time criminals impersonate honest people in order to steal their money.
Targets are ordinary folks whose ID numbers fell into the wrong hands.
Identity Correction
Honest people impersonate big-time criminals in order to publicly humiliate
them. Targets are leaders and big corporations who put profits ahead of
everything else.
The Yes Men
The Yes Men have impersonated some of the world's most powerful criminals
at conferences, on the web, and on television, in order to correct their
identities. They currently have hundreds of thousands of job openings.
Sign up today!
Haven't been feeling great over the weekend, I've had what I thought was a
mild throat infection. but I began throwing up this morning :(
Missed *another* bio tute/lab and probably work this evening :(
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From BB, Phil says: "The BPI are a music industry body in the UK. They are
now calling for 'Intellectual Property' issues to be 'higher on the
police's agenda.' Since police resources are finite, I think we should
hold them to account on this one, by insisting that they expand on that by
telling us *exactly* what offences should be positioned *lower* on the
police's agenda to make resources available."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5290944.stm
I might add that this is a ridiculously one sided article - it repeats
verious vlaims the BPI have made about how much this 'piracy' is costing
them without saying how they were calculated. We know the RIAA has used
such accurate methods as "Assuming every second person pirates 3 CDs over
each year, that's x billion dollars lost to piracy"...
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http://www.boingboing.net/2006/08/28/dept_of_homeland_sec.html
^ HL: "Dept of Homeland Security using trademark to silence critics"
"For the record, it cost them more money in lawyer time to write the
letter then it did for us to create the entire website."
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/08/28/burning_man_enthusia.html
^ "The SF Chron defiled our muffins!" - it seems that these muffins were
totally electric, not gas or hybrid.
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/opinion/\
story.html?id=1c0072fe-4d98-44e4-8414-652f83e27868
^ "When an iPod fell into a toilet on my flight to Ottawa this week,
authorities took no chances with such a perilous situation..."
http://blog.wired.com/sterling/index.blog?entry_id=1545927
^ "Actually, given the sudden uprush of targeted death squad activities
in the Philippines, it sounds to me like the cops ALREADY have this
texting thing figured."
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/08/details_on_the.html
^ HL: "Details on the British Terrorist Arrest"
How to mix TATP (that nasty Terrorist explosive) aboard a plane:
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2006_08/009357.php
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/17/flying_toilet_terror_labs/print.html
"After a few hours - assuming, by some miracle, that the fumes haven't
overcome you or alerted passengers or the flight crew to your activities -
you'll have a quantity of TATP with which to carry out your mission. Now
all you need to do is dry it for an hour or two."
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/27/155221&from=rss
"According to an article in the Houston Chronicle concerning lunch
theft, people from IT are least likely to steal lunches..."
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195137&cid=15990572
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195137&cid=15991963
^ Two opinions on why that might be so (summary: IT staff have a lot of
access and generally held to a high ethical standard)
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http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195137&cid=15989934 (thread)
^ "You had atoms? We had to make all our own subatomic particles from
quarks--and we didn't have any leptons!"
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195136&cid=15989559 *boom-tish*
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195136&cid=15989447 *rimshot*
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195177&cid=15993802 *sting* (thread)
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195137&cid=15990921 lol what
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195136&cid=15989606
Me: Actually, it's free. Canonical will ship you free CDs.
Official: And who exactly is canonical? Are they some muslim extremist
group trying to destroy the United States with computer viruses?
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195136&cid=15989939
^ "Think of all the lives that would be saved if the billions of dollars that
are being spent protecting us from push-up bras and shampoo were spent
on finding a cure for malaria, or tuburculosis, or lung cancer, or AIDS."
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195177&cid=15995349
^ "The difference, I think, is that the average computer user thinks of the
machine as a monolithic thing: it's a magic electronic box."
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195177&cid=15993179
^ "Apple is not a software vendor, Apple is also not a hardware vendor.
Apple is an experience vendor."
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I once sat down and calculated an estimate how much my life expectancy is
shortened because of terrorist bombings... I concluded I had just wasted more
time doing the calculation. -- Alef
Advertisement-supported Textbooks
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/27/0710228&from=rss
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195124&cid=15988872
"Undergraduate textbooks are nothing more than a scam. Calculus, physics,
chemistry and biology on such a basic level have not changed significantly
in the past decade; why do I have to buy books which were printed this year?"
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195124&cid=15988935 illegal elsewhere
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195124&cid=15989238 built to break down
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195124&cid=15989179 lulz
My guess is that being in the textbook business is like being a utility
company. You get to ignore normal market dynamics and act as if your
minimum profit margin is enshrined in law. -- TubeSteak
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Haxor someone's machine, steal their ID, plant kiddie porn on it, dob them
in to the feds, get hailed as a hero...
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195099&cid=15986232
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195099&cid=15986451
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195099&cid=15986227
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195099&cid=15986507
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195099&cid=15985985
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195099&cid=15986378
^ Also makes a good point on "gut feelings" vs thinking about the problems
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"The real possibility of interbreeding is dramatized by the defense of
farmers against lawsuits filed by Monsanto, the agribusiness company most
involved in research and development of genetically modified crops. The
company has filed patent infringement lawsuits against some farmers.
Monsanto claims that the farmers obtained Monsanto-licensed genetically
modified seeds from an unknown source and did not pay royalties to
Monsanto. The farmers claim that their unmodified crops were
cross-pollinated from someone else's genetically modified crops planted a
field or two away."
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195100&cid=15986303
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195100&cid=15986482
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195100&cid=15986226
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195100&cid=15986288
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195100&cid=15986200
^ "Thats my big beef with GE foods" ROOR
"The judge ruled that it didn't matter how Monsanto's genetically altered
canola got onto Schmeiser's land, that any conventional plant that
cross-pollinates with the genetically modified plants becomes Monsanto's
property, that patent infringement had taken place and that Schmeiser must
pay his 1998 profits from his canola crop to Monsanto."
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You demand violence to stop violence that was meant to stop violence. You
do realize your idea only helps the problem spiral, right? -- LGagnon
"Though Kerala is mostly a land of paddy-covered plains, statistically
Kerala stands out as the Mount Everest of social development; there's
truly no place like it" -- Bill McKibben
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala_model
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195090&cid=15985729
http://www.utne.com/web_special/web_specials_archives/articles/656-1.html
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``And before anyone brings up abortion clinic bombers, you want to know why
it isn't a problem? Because there are a lot of Christians like me who
wouldn't hesitate to shoot those violent fucks if we caught them in the
act. Why? Our religion teaches that preserving life is a duty of all Jews
and Christians.''
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195107&cid=15987266
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195107&cid=15987502
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http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/08/skype_call_trac.html
^ "Let this be a warning to all of you who thought Skype was anonymous."
Also: http://ise.gmu.edu/~xwangc/Publications/CCS05-VoIPTracking.pdf
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195090&cid=15985613
^ On trying to do equations in MS Word, and school sysadmins
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195107&cid=15990140
^ On Patriots and Terrorists: "The boston tea party destroyed
commercial assets, in order to have a political effect, which by
the present US government's definition is in fact terrorism."
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195107&cid=15989193
^ "It isn't even enough to say that terrorists target civilians --
Nagasaki and Dresden were both non-military targets, and I doubt
the US military considers itself terrorist."
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195107&cid=15988083
^ ``Yes, darn them, with their "constitution" and "the President has to
follow the law" and "checks and balances".''
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article1222111.ece
^ ``David Cameron has distanced himself from one of Margaret Thatcher's
key foreign policies, saying that she was wrong to have called the ANC
"terrorists" during the apartheid era...''
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Interesting Google trends:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=goatse&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all ror Perth
http://www.google.com/trends?q=france%2C+paris%2C+%22paris+hilton\
%22%2C+%22tour+de+france%22&ctab=1&geo=all&date=all
Note the last one, which shows the anomaly caused by possible, er, "links"
between the search terms.
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If those fish that are dying out there aren't worth protection under the
free market, then they aren't worthy of survival. -- Travoltus
"Shit dude, you should move to Burma. I hear people kill other people all
the time in defence of their personal property. It'd be your wet dream!"
-- Sir Slud
Great post on the Swedish and US economic systems:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=194989&cid=15980671
"In this particular instance, Sweden's policies of subsidies to benefit
the people are a lot more effective and beneficial than the US's
policy of subsidies to big companies who are likewise empowered by the
state to gouge citizens. The Swedes have cheap, high speed access and
less money from each citizen is spent subsidizing it than is spent for
each US citizen."
...
"Strangely enough when everyone starts out life with more similar
amounts of money and no one is born into extreme wealth people are
less likely to feel justified in using violence to redress that
imbalance. Further, since so few people start out life moving into
huge amounts of debt they must borrow from those born wealthy, they
are less desperate and less likely to take extreme actions."
...
"For every dollar you earned working hard, inventing new things, or
making the right moves, some person in the top 1% wealth class makes 1
million bucks by doing nothing but letting the banks use his money to
gouge those who started with nothing. Every time someone invents a
great new invention and makes a million dollars, a hundred other
people who did nothing but be born rich made 10 million each funding
the development and distribution of that invention."
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http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=194957&cid=15975892
^ On eating meat being natural: "Only if you... stuff yourself with
its still-warm raw flesh at the site of the kill."
http://www.rhs.com/web/blog/PowerOfTheSchwartz.nsf/d6plinks/RSCZ-6NY3U9
^ Example of an "NDA" which annexes anything you think up in your free time.
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=194979&cid=15977319
^ On the penalties for theft vs the pentalties for infringement
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=194979&cid=15978063
^ On the "could have" burden of civil court proof
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=194980&cid=15976745
^ On ICANN's power to charge what they want
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenNIC
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=194989&cid=15978012
^ On the type of services provided by the Free Market(tm): "I suggest
that most countries and their citizens do benefit from street lights."
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"It's morally bankrupt and ethically bereft, but as long as the actions are
legal, such things are of little concern to the successful modern businessman."
-- Crash Culligan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_depolymerisation
From: http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=194589&cid=15947371
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=194583&cid=15947187
^ Settle for a percentage of the profits, and your album/film/whatever
somehow fails to make a profit.
See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=194576&cid=15947070
^ "If I recall correctly, Heroin was originally designed the same way, or
at least to help people get off of a morphine addiction..."
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7935064058166993925
^ "Why take diet pills when you can enjoy Ayds?"
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=194572&cid=15945167 For Science!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25 Software bugs can kill too
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Did you ever notice that countries that were not involved in the space and
weapons races have remarkably better socities and infrastructure, because they
devoted resources to taking care of their people? -- SuperBanana
This is not something 'the environmentalists' need to do - their job,
inasmuch as they have any official role, is to do exactly what they do:
point out the dangers... They don't have any power over what the
politicians, businesses, farmers and consumers do. -- jandersen
The way most users handle computing could be compared to approaching your
doctor, complaining that there is something wrong with you, and then putting
your fingers in your ears and saying "BLAH BLAH I CANT HEAR YOU!!!" when he
gives advice or asks if you are willing to undergo some tests.
As provided for under Section VI of the Patriot Act, President Bush will now
declare U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor an enemy combatant.
Anybody who argues that, due to terrorism, our country should compromise its
most important ideals, is a person that appeases terrorists with their fear.
-- Jagasian
The difference between Bill Clinton and George Bush is Bill Clinton thought he
had to break the law to cover his ass. George Bush doesn't think the law
applies to him in the first place. -- raehl, /.
Don't place 100% of the blame on the cook when the customer orders a pile of
fried shit. -- twifosp on the trivial content in most news media
<JonTG> Man, my penis is so big if I laid it out on a keyboard it'd go all the
way from A to Z
Real News on Faux News
http://www.cbc.ca/story/arts/national/2006/08/16/fake-news-probe.html
"The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has begun an investigation of
the use of video news releases, sometimes called "fake news," at U.S.
television stations.
Video news releases are packaged stories paid for by businesses or
interest groups. They use actors to portray reporters and use the same
format as television news stories."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e__3STe4jwU
^ The Daily Show's take on Fake News (rorz!)
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=194270&cid=15924309
^ Why these need *constant* disclaimers on the screen
http://www.prwatch.org/fakenews/intro The Center for Media and Democracy's take
http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/37/9592
^ Short URL, long article on Government-produced fake news reports
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/13/politics/13covert.html\
?ex=1268456400&en=2e1b834f0ba8a53c&ei=5088
^ Long URL, short article on Government-produced fake news reports
http://newpatriot.org/2004/10/fox-news-unfair-unbalanced-and-fake.html
^ Also mentions a recent Fox piece containing fake Kerry quotes, and the
Akre and Wilson vs. Fox News case, where Fox argued (successfully!)
that the right to free speech gives them the right to lie in their "news"
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http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/34244097/
^ "Animator vs Animation" - Flash fights back (requires Flash, of course)
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/08/20/british_air_traveler.html
^ "Two brown men were forced off a plane by a bunch of non-brown British
passengers who became convinced that they were... terrorists."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-shaw/reading-the-pictures-em_b_27304.html
^ On allegations of "stage managing" wartime photographs
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AJAX is fundamentally a bad idea. it's an attempt to use a web browser and
http for something they were never designed to do, and they can't do without
browser-specific hacks on the developer's side, and breaking lots of familiar
conventions on the user's side. -- bcrowell
I know it goes against the usual unabashed fellating of google, but pointing
out a flaw in one of their products is not trolling. -- jlarocco
Basically, that's why democracy sucks: people can't be bothered to be anything
other than ignorant. -- satanicpuppy
Any time you disagree with the latest reduction of your civil liberties by
government, it must be because you are hiding something. If you disagreed
with the tactics of Joe McCarthy, it must have been because you were a pinko.
If you don't want your phone calls listened to, you must be a terrorist. If
you disagree with this law, its because you are a kiddie porn collector.
-- mordors9, /.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6445158765233495122\
&q=staplerfahrer+klaus
This is fucking hilarious. Best forklift safety video ever, shows what
happens if you don't follow procedure. Brilliantly scripted slapstick.
Fast forward to around 3 minutes if you want to get to the injuries.
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https://www.cia.gov/cia/reports/iraq_wmd_2004/
^ 1000 pages which say "Oops, we didn't find anything"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urey-Miller_experiment Abiogenesis FTW
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/16/0315259&from=rss
^ AOL moves from data mining to real mining. Hilarity ensues.
http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/www/content-type.html
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=194189&cid=15919282
^ It's not Uranus, it's Boomolay!
http://www.jitterbug.com/origins/dune.html The origins of Star Wars
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=194264&cid=15924325
^ Animats's 4 point plan for copyright
http://www.wondermark.com/d/220.html It's not about how many we can kill...
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=194236&cid=15922283
^ On the reliability of torture interrogations and timing of terror "busts".
http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/canary.txt
^ "rsync.net will also make available, weekly, a "warrant canary" in the
form of a cryptographically signed message containing the following..."
http://forums.facepunchstudios.com/showpost.php?p=2474293
^ I don't know what search I used to pull up this but it's funny
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=nation_world&id=4456363
^ "As the British terror plot was unfolding, the Bush administration
quietly tried to take away $6 million that was supposed to be spent
this year developing new explosives detection technology."
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8030785497.html Waiting for the BSD phone
http://www.cbc.ca/story/news/national/\
2001/07/11/Consumers/drugcosts_010711.html
^ "It says some drug makers have spent three times as much on advertising
and compensation for executives as they do in research and development."
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According to a leaked memo from the HR department, during his annual
evaluation God was found to be a huge control freak, who doesn't work
well in teams, doesn't always communicate clearly, can be a bit too
harsh when meting out punishment, and perhaps worst of all, has a
serious God complex. -- alienmole
Feeling a bit better after some chocolate milk, playing around in a not
terribly productive manner with VHDL.
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http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=193929&cid=15901498
^ On psychopaths: "They're essentially living in a single-player game,
surrounded by NPCs which are expendable and don't matter... The dumb
ones become robbers, gangsters and serial killers, and society
eventually puts them behind bars. The smart ones become CEOs and
politicians, and get worshipped by Wall Street."
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=193929&cid=15901665
^ An interesting story and observation: "There is something inherently
wrong with the system when those who rise to the top are more likely
to be dishonest than the general population."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
^ Measuring the willingess to inflict pain when told to do so
That's what amazes me all the time I hear of terrible acts, particularly
corporate ones and you think to yourself "someone must have actually
decided to do this", even worse a group of 'respected' people must have
agreed on this. -- Don_dumb, /.
The very purpose and nature of the corporation, to shield the corporation's
stakeholders from the consequences of the corporation's actions, are exactly
why the corporation can never be "human" in any meaningful way, except perhaps
in a psychopathic sense. The numerous experiments (e.g., those involving
simulated torture, imprisonment, etc.) that have been done in which the
individual is shielded from the consequences of his actions are proof of how
much of a person's humanity is lost from that. The corporation is a formal
embodiment of that separation. In light of said experiments, the consequences
should be obvious, and the typical behaviour of corporations is further proof.
-- kcbrown
Left ADD1 early today because I felt horribly dizzy and generally
buggered :(
In better news, we found a replacement cylinder head by calling up a
heap of Diesel and Volkswagen fans. So I might have a working car again
soon :)
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http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=193963&cid=15906536
^ On non-secular laws in Israel
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=193963&cid=15907372
^ HOWTO: Justify a bombing campaign (leaflet drops)
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=193962&cid=15903066
^ How a new tech invented by one person is introduced to industry:
"Part 3: A messy, improbably stupid battle of wills ensues as the
industry tries to do an end-run around the inventor and the inventor
tries to harrass the industry in to buying his tech. This can go on for
as long as decades, but if anyone "gave in" it would be a matter of
"losing face", and "face" is extremely important to monkeys. If a monkey
loses face, he will be demoted in the hierarchy of the troop, and that
has all kinds of costs associated with it, including potential mating
opportunities. So evolution has pretty much tuned monkeys up to act like
arrogant assholes in these situations, because arrogant assholes are
what female monkeys are most interested in, because arrogant assholes
can command a greater fraction of the troop's resources."
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=193962&cid=15903065
^ On the religion of the market
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=194007&cid=15907651
^ A long comment on the justifications for going to war; concentrates
on the world wars but very relevant to current conflicts:
"WWI and WWII were closer[ to being necessary], but look at them
closely and you'll see that, at least for most of the participants,
they were unecessary unjustified and avoidable. WWI was sparked by the
assassination of the Archduke of Austria, you'll recall. Austria
declared war on Serbia. Unjustified, unnecessary, and monstrously
immoral - a handful of criminals killed a man, and the response is to
attack an entire nation in retaliation. Lest we feel too smug in our
moral superiority over those nasty Austrians, though, recall that this
is very similar to the current conflict, however - a violent, criminal
act answered by more violent, criminal acts, against entire nations,
and not even the nations the attackers came from, in the current version!"
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http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,68894,00.html
"The Supreme Court upheld the claim, establishing a legal precedent that
today allows the executive branch to block the release of information
in any civil suit -- even if the government isn't the one being sued.
...
In 1998, workers at the Nevada airbase known colloquially as Area 51 were
blocked from learning what chemicals they'd been exposed to during illegal
burning of toxic waste by base administrators... this year the Justice
Department asserted the privilege to kill a lawsuit by Maher Arar, a
Syrian-born Canadian citizen who, in 2002, was picked up by U.S. officials
as a suspected terrorist while changing planes at JFK, and promptly shipped
off to Syria for a year of imprisonment and torture.
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http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=194007&cid=15906149
^ On evolution as a rationalization for agression
Whenever I ask for coke, all I get is this expensive white powder...
-- guigonn on asking for Coke and getting Pepsi
Its funny how freedom of the press was designed to allow for independent
criticism of public policy, yet a government-run news service is about
the most even-handed news you can get. -- stinermann on the BBC
As intelligence goes up, happiness often goes down.
In fact, I made a graph. I make a lot of graphs.
-- Lisa Simpson
Horribly busy start to the week, I'm catching up on 3 weeks of labs
in 3 subjects.
In other bad news, my car blew a gasket about a week ago while my dad
wasy driving. I only got the chance ot look at it today (it was at a
place near Lilydale) and it doesn't look good, unless I can find a
replacement cylinder head for a '79 Diesel Golf :(.
I've got a lot of Mail, usenet and RSS to catch up on, so these might
be a bit past their use-by date.
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Michael Chertoff, secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security:
"Clearly at the end of the day, we've got to eliminate that pool of
people who are susceptible to becoming killers."
"We have to make sure our legal system allows us to do that. It's not
like the 20th century, where you had time to get warrants."
"We've done a lot in our legal system the last few years, to move in
the direction of that kind of efficiency, But we ought to constantly
review our legal rules to make sure they're helping us, not hindering us."
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/08/16/us-authorities-leave-g_n_27402.html
^ "U.S. authorities are advising women not to wear gel bras on airplanes as
information developed in the foiled London plot points to an expanding
[heheh] role for women in smuggling explosives on to an aircraft..."
http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/snakes/
^ Transportation Security Administration: "No snakes on our planes, mofo!"
http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?view=CN&storyID=2006-08\
-15T201649Z_01_N15420743_RTRIDST_0_AIRLINES-NORTHWEST.XML&rpc=66&type=qcna
^ "Bankrupt Northwest Airlines Corp. advised workers to fish in the trash
for things they like or take their dates for a walk in the woods
in a move to help workers facing the ax to save money.
http://www.badmags.com/bmoccultsex.html# (probably NSFW)
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/26905706/
^ How to Vector-draw naked people (probably SFW, sort of)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4795821.stm
^ Oops: "At least 10,000 bags checked in by British Airways passengers have
gone missing at airports since the UK security alert began..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_Nq20J0kiE Das War Ace Rimmer!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_entropy
Why is XTerm still installed setuid when it doesn't need it?
In related news, Apache 2.2.3 installed on clarence, 500 errors ensue.
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http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/regv27n3/v27n3-5.pdf
"A False Sense of Insecurity?" by John Mueller of Ohio State University
A great, well researched article showing how The War Against Terror is
at best a colossal waste of resources and at worst exactly what the
terrorists want.
"Terrorists can be defeated simply by not becoming terrified"
"If terrorists force us to redirect resources away from sensible
programs and future growth in order to pursue unachievable but
politically popular levels of domestic security, then they have won
an important victory that mortgages our future."
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http://ao-universe.com/main.php?site=knowledge&link=0. More AO Guides
http://sigcomm06.stanford.edu/discussion/?p=24 Revisiting IP Multicast
http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=193356&cid=15863771
^ On the meaning of the words "terrorist" and "terrorism"
http://searchrequests.weblogger.com/ Disturbing Search Requests
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People in general really have a problem with subtle points. If there
isn't an "A IS GOOD, B IS BAD" in there somewhere, they'll simply
convert the point into an "A IS GOOD, B IS BAD" point, and to hell
with understanding what's actually being said. -- Jerf, /.
"The Long Tail" is itself a bestseller... does that prove it right or wrong?
-- FlybyPC
So what does this imply to the blogosphere? If folksonomies aren't tagged by
the technorati, who or what will linkroll the mashups? The impact on the
remixability of emergent systems will likely be severe. -- bunions, /.
America, the best government money can buy(tm) -- namgyal
The facts are far more important than the truth. -- Stephen Colbert
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=193401&cid=15865932
> > If the patron is drunk, the barman should call the patron a cab no matter
> > what the patron's legal record says.
> tehcyder:
>
> DRUNK: Can you call me a cab?
> BARMAN: You're a cab.
> DRUNK: The old ones are the best. Hic!
> DRUNK FALLS OFF BAR STOOL.
(I rored)
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/node/1709
``Your daughter has just been in a car crash. She falls unconscious on her
way to the hospital, but not before she is able to tell the paramedics
the name of her doctor. This is vitally important because the emergency
room won't know that she's an insulin-dependent diabetic with a
penicillin allergy, but her doctor will be able to give them her
relevant medical history.
Or, at least he would be if he'd renewed the tech support contract on his
medical records software. He didn't, though, and now his information-and
your daughter's-is locked away in a proprietary database he can't access.
As unlikely and alarmist as this sounds, it could really happen. Intracare
is the publisher of a popular practice management system called Dr. Notes.
When some doctors balked at a drastic increase in their annual software
lease, they were cut off from accessing their own patients' information.''
More: http://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/stories/2006/07/03/story8.html
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/08/world/middleeast/08survivor.html?\
ex=1312689600&en=748e38f0acc7c714&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
^ "He raced to the building and frantically began to dig. He found his
5-year-old daughter, Sally, torn apart. Her torso and an arm lay
separate from her legs. Another daughter, Noor, 8, was moving under the
rubble. His granddaughter Lynn, not yet 2, had part of her face smashed.
His wife, Alia Waabi, had died immediately."
http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/HomopolarMotor
^ Electric motor in 60 seconds (PS. Wear glasses and be careful when doing
this, unless you *want* that screw to fly off into your eye or whatever).
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/934/ Copy All URLs
^ Like Tab Copier but with more features
http://journal.davidbyrne.com/2006/08/american_madras.html
``Saw a screening of a documentary called Jesus Camp. It focuses on a
woman preacher (Becky Fischer) who indoctrinates children in a summer
camp in North Dakota....
...
There were some perfect sound bites . at one point Pastor Fischer
instructs the little ones that they should be willing to die for
Christ, and the little ones obediently agree. She may even use the
word martyr, which has a shocking echo in the Middle East. I can see
future suicide bombers for Jesus . the next step will be learning to
fly planes into buildings. Of course, the grownups would say, .Oh no,
we.re not like them. . but they admit that the principal difference is
simply that .We.re right..
In another scene a cardboard cutout of George W. Bush, with his
trademark smirking smile, is brought out and the children are urged to
identify . many of the little ones come forward and reverently touch
his cardboard hands.''
The doco: http://lokifilms.com/site/jesuscamp.html
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THIS RELIGION IS PROVIDED "AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES,
INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF SALVATION AND FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. -- Xaphod, k5
Even though hard work can often result in success, for those in impoverished
areas, or for those who are born with disadvantages or into a disadvantageous
situation, hard work is necessary for survival, and that is often barely
achieved. -- poppen_fresh, /.
Those are harsh words to throw at a man,
especially when he's walking out of your bedroom. -- Marlowe, The Big Sleep
Carmen Sternwood: You're not very tall are you?
Marlowe: Well, I, uh, I try to be.
Don't ask me why it was top secret, or even restricted; our government has
gotten the habit of classifying anything as secret which the all-wise
statesmen and bureaucrats decide we are not big enough girls and boys to know,
a Mother-Knows-Best-Dear policy. I've read that there used to be a time when a
taxpayer could demand the facts on anything and get them. I don't know; it
sounds Utopian. -- Robert A. Heinlein, The Puppet Masters (1951)
http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/\
rescue-mission-scrapped-amid-safety-concerns/2006/08/01/1154198138966.html
^ The Australian government chooses to stick by it's US mates rather
than it's own citizens, again.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1837057,00.html
`` The report charges Hizbullah with war crimes for firing unguided
rockets at civilian areas in Israel, but the focus of its inquiry was
two dozen cases of Israeli air and artillery attacks on civilian homes
and vehicles. Israel says it gives civilians repeated warnings to
leave the war zone before military operations. The Red Cross said this
was no justification. "Giving people advance warning is a
responsibility, if allowing them to escape is meant as a temporary
measure; it's not a justification for turning it into a permanent
situation - moving a population out is not acceptable," said Roland
Hugenin, the International Committee of the Red Cross spokesman in
Tyre yesterday.
The number of displaced people was so large they were beginning to
face serious heath threats, the health minister, Mohammed Khalifa,
told the Guardian. "Many diseases are spreading among the displaced
communities." Another hazard was the bodies trapped under rubble.
"Those bodies need to be recovered and buried properly." ''
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/05/world/middleeast/\
05abuse.html?_r=1&ref=middleeast&oref=login
`` On March 13, a group of American soldiers sitting at a checkpoint
south of Baghdad were asked to look into a horrible crime: a
14-year-old Iraqi girl had been raped, then killed along with her
family in their house nearby in Mahmudiya.
The soldiers knew the house. They had been there only the day
before, military prosecutors now say, committing the crime. ''
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/05/world/middleeast/\
05tikrit.html?_r=1&ref=middleeast&oref=slogin
^ "Paul Bergrin, a Newark lawyer who represented Private Clagett but
argued the summation for all four defendants, said they followed the
rules of engagement, set by their brigade commander, to shoot all
males of military age that they came across."
Uneventful day for me apart from my car blowing a gasket. :(
Current Death Toll: Israel 69, UN 4, Canada 8, Lebanon 900.
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Fun with UrbanDead radios:
# 26.70 MHz: "Hello Giddings! This is Swiper! We have retaken creedy!"
# 26.70 MHz: "I repeat, creedy is retaken, come and assist us! Swiper over"
# 26.70 MHz: "Hello Creedy! This is Giddings! We don't care!"
# 26.70 MHz: "I repeat, we don't care!"
# 26.00 MHz: "Zombies should be able to operate radios."
# 26.00 MHz: "...after all, it clearly doesn't require a brain."
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http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=898300
^ "Why is rape only wrong when a man commits it?"
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=877915
^ "Sexual Myths About Men"
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=864894
^ "Rape committed by women"
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Think of the Children! But don't actually think.
Deja Foo: the feeling that you may have used this variable name before.
Why don't they just ban housing. That's where most child abuse takes place.
-- Botia, /.
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Von Rex on World of Warcraft:
And I really hate how everything seems to "charge" you in time.
Cast a spell, wait a few seconds. Open a chest, wait a few seconds
longer. It's like the whole mechanic of this game is to make me
sit here wasting my life watching progress bars while charging me
$15 [~$20 AUD] a month to do so. And then there's the fact that
half the game experience is watching your character's back while
he trudges slowly across the landscape.
Happy 3/8/6 Day!
(Celebrating the instruction set that kept the x86 in the game)
Hideously busy day at work. Having half the DPs during the busiest
part of the day (and semester) is ridiculous.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,173-2277717,00.html
``AS ISRAEL wages war against Hezbollah "terrorists" in Lebanon, Britain
has protested about the celebration by right-wing Israelis of a Jewish
"act of terrorism" against British rule 60 years ago this week.
The rightwingers, including Binyamin Netanyahu, the former Prime
Minister, are commemorating the bombing of the King David Hotel in
Jerusalem, the headquarters of British rule, that killed 92 people and
helped to drive the British from Palestine.''
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http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=193008&cid=15841120
^ On Signature-based virus scanners vs. Policing applications
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=193031&cid=15841888 On the appeal of Trek
http://www.kuro5hin.org/comments/2006/8/2/03112/54551?pid=193#211
^ On "The first step toward achieving legitimacy for a minority group"
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=192735&cid=15822259
^ On providing non-profit Wireless internets (in Switzerland)
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=192902&cid=15832697
^ "The problem with freedom, is that there are always going to be
people who use it in ways you don't approve of..."
http://www.techworld.com/applications/news/index.cfm?newsID=6558
^ "The government has estimated that the total cost for the first year
of this project was about 190,000 euros, and believes it saved 18
million euros overall compared with a Microsoft-based system."
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Peter Norton needs to sue Symantec for defamation of character.
-- The Amazing Quantum Man
There is absolutely nothing wrong with science for science's sake.
This, however, was engineering for engineering's sake, which is one of
the most evil forces in the universe. -- heniousjay
the modern BSD licence only contains 2 clauses, is really easy to read,
and yet you fail to understand it. You think anyone should take your advice?
-- SillyNickName4Me
"Why is there so much load on goanna? I suppose we'll never find out..."
-- Alex Peters, Duty Programmer
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?\
in_article_id=397240&in_page_id=1766&in_page_id=1766&expand=true
Headline: "Children arrested, DNA tested, interrogated and locked up...
for playing in a tree"
Comments:
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=192848&cid=15829442
^ On rationalising to fit in with opinions previously formed
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=192848&cid=15829862
^ Case study: how not to delegate everyhting to the cops
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http://www.physics.uq.edu.au/pitchdrop/pitchdrop.shtml longest experiment ever
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHPeT-E2mS4 lolz@segways
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2291800_1,00.html
^ HOWTO avoid liability payouts in clinincal trials (subsidiaries ftw)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AA_tree
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Beers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilatant fun with materials science
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD_jail
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_exclamations_used_by_Captain_Haddock
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_file_systems#Distributed_file_systems
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTP_vandalism#D-Link_and_Poul-Henning_Kamp
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The best way to destroy an enemy is by making them a friend. -- Abraham Lincoln
If that doesn't work, shoot them in the back of the head. -- J.W. Booth
If god had intended you to be naked, you would have been born that way.
<nottherealme> A friend of mine has certifications as an MCSE and a CNE
<soft_guy > With friends like that, who needs users?
A soldier's obedience finds its limits where his knowledge, his conscience
and his responsibility forbid him to obey orders.
-- Colonel-General Ludwig Beck (later executed for plotting to kill Hitler)
Iridium24: If there is one thing i can do, its multitask
<IndianElvis>: I AM NOT TALKING LOUD I AM JUST USED TO THIS , I AM A
COBOL PROGRAMMER
Ten movies streaming across that, internet, and what happens to your own
personal internet? I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my
staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday.
-- Senator Ted Stevens
Unable to get to RMIT today due to some really terrible (as in; spent
the day sedated lying in bed) intestinal spasms. Missed Intelligent
Systems Lecture, Evolutionary Design Tute/Lab and Seminar/Lecture/wtf,
and 4 hours of Duty Programmering :(
Some (ok, all) of today's stuff has come from some old bookmarks and
email (I've been basically non-compus all day), so apologies if it
seems a bit out of date (it is).
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http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/2324
http://www.livescience.com/scienceoffiction/060531_rfid_chips.html
The headline basically says it all. But the scariest part of the
article is the understatement throughout:
"Some critics say any technology that tracks a person remotely and
invisibly could compromise their privacy."
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http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pdw/iftop/ top(1) for network interfaces
http://www.eee.metu.edu.tr/~canacar/pftop/ top(1) for PF ([FO]BSD)
http://caia.swin.edu.au/reports/060203A/CAIA-TR-060203A.pdf
^ Researching RTCW:ET
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=32550
^ Another reason not to use a laptop on your lap
(yes I know this is old now; like I said, lost in the bookmarx)
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20060602/1259217.shtml
^ Captain Copyright Caught Copying
"Daddy... who's Captain Copyright?"
"Sweetie, he's like God."
"What do you mean, Daddy, all knowing, all powerful and something to
be in awe of?"
"No dear, a make-believe thing people in power use against the masses
to keep them scared."
-- seen on Slashdot
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"When the Government fears the people, there is liberty.
When the people fear the Government, there is tyranny."
-- Thomas Jefferson
Went to the Camberwell swap meet today, and nearly had an accident.
It was on Burwood highway, somewhere between Vermont and Camberwell
Rd, on the really steep hills with traffic lights near the bottom of
the hills - a great place to have to stop suddenly.
Of course, I was travelling at the limit of 80 when one of the lights
just under stopping distance changed to amber. Initially taking the
slam-on-the-brakes option, I skidded across half a lane and nearly
took out a biker before I decided that running the (now red) light was
actually the safer option.
I'm going to be really pissed off if I end up getting a ticket for
this when I was only given only around a second of warning (isn't
there supposed to be at least 2 seconds between green to red changes
anyway?) and I did all I could do to avoid hitting anyone.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bart_Simpson%27s_blackboard_sentences
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsGlK6VmmzE
^ Colbert on Ralph Reed, US Christianity, Larceny and the "Moral" Minority
http://www.nbc10.com/news/9574663/detail.html
^ Taking photos of police in public = Terrorism
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=192534&cid=15804894
^ On variance in pay rates and OMG OH NOES COMMUNISM. Also makes a
good point about the undemocratic nature of corporate systems.
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=192534&cid=15803994
^ On "Libertarians", Liberty and Rights
http://www.rootkit.com/blog.php?newsid=358
^ One of the (many) reasons I don't play WoW
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/\
2006/07/21/the_terrorist_batting_average/
^ The "No Fly List" has so far nabbed 2 members of congress and 0 terrorists.
http://www.suv.org/safety.html
http://madmagick.net/im/hu/jul04/titties.jpg [NSFW] Genetic Engineering +5
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Some History lessons:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration,_1917
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,173-2277717,00.html
Best portinstall output ever:
===> SECURITY REPORT:
This port has installed the following binaries which execute with
increased privileges.
/usr/local/bin/hack
... <snip resto of security report> ...
===> Cleaning for freebsd-games-5.1.1_7
(Incidentally, I removed the suid as I don't play hack, I only wanted
the 44bsd games for backgammon and banner)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u83etISbcwg Colbert fucks up (short, lolz)
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I don't think the bush admin or the right wing realize that the terrorists'
goal is not to 'defeat us' but to spread confusion, fear, division, and
dissarray. Getting us to give up our rights is a victory for them. -- MECC
When immigration is illegal, only illegals will immigrate. -- AquaBoy
No scientific discovery will hurt the ID movement, since it has precisely
nothing to do with science. -- syntaxglitch
Everett's Law: Any group action that tries to make any sort of
societal change is likely to be labelled as terrorism.
Sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
$337,000,000,000 spent. Osama Bin Laden is still on the loose. I want a refund.
Information wants a fueled airplane waiting at the hanger and no one gets hurt.
"He doesn't make descisions based on facts, he makes facts on decisions"
-- Colbert on G.W.Bush
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=191922&cid=15765159
^ On "suspects" vs "detainees" vs "prisoners"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Padilla_%28alleged_terrorist%29
^ "He was arrested in Chicago on May 8, 2002, and remains in detention in
a military prison. For the first three years of his detention he was
held without charge..."
http://www.slate.com/id/2146405/entry/0/
^ "The nation's first 42 presidents collectively used signing
statements to challenge fewer than 600 laws. By the current sixth
year of his presidency, Dubya has thus far used signing statements
to challenge about 800 laws."
http://www.uncommongoods.com/item/item.jsp?itemId=14079 "Time Tags"
http://www.uncommongoods.com/item/item.jsp?itemId=14527 Solar powered bags
http://www.uncommongoods.com/item/item.jsp?itemId=13550 Screw cufflinks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Republican_National_Convention_\
protest_activity#Police_tactics_and_Pier_57:_Guantanamo_on_the_Hudson
^ "The City police reportedly closed a whole street where some protesters
were marching, and arrested protesters and bystanders alike. People were
required to show identification cards or face arrest; the arrested people
were not immediately informed of charges against them."
http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=190174&cid=15651991
^ "They basically pissed on the face of the Congress, and by extension, on
the American people, and Stevens held their dicks."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fEGYB3NiDk Real-Life RTCW:ET
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Oh, you must mean the ethical problem of society being full of reactionary
sanctimonous busy-bodies who think they know what's best for me. I agree, this
is a big ethical problem, and thank you for agreeing that they should get off
our backs and let us do as we like with our bodies and our estates.
-- f1r3br4nds
Gitmo Approved:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Hanging
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterboarding#Modern_waterboarding
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http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/6c82/ Neat one handed keyboard
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/785b/ Wierd fucked up keyboard
http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/gear/86dd/ Voodoo doll knife holder
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/18/asbo_teen/
^ "The unnamed 15-year-old yobbo was legally obliged to carry alcohol on the
streets of his native Alnwick after the order rather agreeably substituted
the word "without" for the word "with"..."
Some who weren't so lucky:
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200405/cmselect/cmhaff/80/80we20.htm
3. In Manchester, the Council used its powers to obtain an ASBO to stop
mobile soup vans operating in the city centre. These vans provide food
and assistance regularly each evening to about 100 homeless people.
6. A youth recently appeared in Court in Manchester for breach of his
ASBO. The Order had been made in the youth's absence without his being able
to give his side of the story (one of the main concerns about ASBOs and one
that can lead to misuse). The day after the Order was made someone came to
his house to "serve" it on him. This consisted of his being handed a copy of
what was a fairly bulky document running to several dozen pages with no
attempt to explain it or even to ascertain if he was literate enough to read
it... He now faces possible custody although he has never been convicted of
a criminal offence.
8. A 26-year-old homeless beggar from Birmingham was banned from begging
in various car parks in Birmingham. He breached almost immediately and was,
according to his solicitor, given 24 months custody. He was discharged
earlier this year having served about eight months and was breached again
for returning to begging and on this occasion got three years' jail. His
solicitor, therefore, says he received a total of five years' imprisonment
for an offence that itself is non imprisonable.
17. In October 2004, a profoundly deaf girl was served an order for
spitting in public. Having broken it she is currently in prison on remand.
18. In September 2004, on the same day as he was released from prison, a
21-year-old found himself back in court being served with an interim order
which banned him from entering any car park in England and Wales, touching
any car without the owners permission, and riding a bicycle. On the full
application hearing, the Council also managed to have him banned from
wearing all forms of headwear in public.
24. In October 2004, a 15-year-old was served an order for playing
football in the street.
Guess what kids? It's Quote'o'Clock on the Rocket Clock!
22:26 <Synapse> how do convicts communicate in jail?
22:26 <Synapse> CELL PHONES
22:26 <Synapse> lololololol
22:26 <weird_shai> ok, dan?
22:26 <darkmoon> nuuugh
22:26 <weird_shai> could you please ban dylan?
22:26 <NAbyss> Synapse: Those puns are hanging offences, you know..
22:28 <Boney> ZZzzz
22:31 <Synapse> NAbyss: I'll rise to that...
22:31 <Synapse> why did the executioner quit after 3 days?
22:31 <Synapse> he just couldn't get the hang of it
"It.s just a goddamned piece of paper!" -- G.W.Bush on the US Constitution
<Tiffany> mapso did you know that my brother is having a baby?
<Mapso> Is it yours?
cult (n): a small, unpopular religion.
religion (n): a large, popular cult.
Grenada? Panama? Hell, lots of people probably don't even realize that we've
invaded those countries within the last half-century.
-- FallingCow on developing a post WW2 military shooter
"It will take incredible misleadership for the public to accept the
irrationale for going to war again" -- Stephen Colbert
Pike's Rule 3, Part 1: Fancy algorithms are slow when n is small.
Pike's Rile 3, Part 2: n is usually small.
"The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority
... They contradict their parents ... and are tyrants over their teachers."
-- Socrates, 470-399 BC
When the names of fundamental language constructs are those of specific
registers in a specific processor, that is not a "high-level language" at all.
-- dpbsmith on LISP
"I believe that the government that governs best is the government that governs
least, and by these standards, we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq."
-- Stephen Colbert
Gang Bang (n): The use of large numbers of loosely coupled programmers in an
attempt to wedge a great many features into a product in a short time.
-- Everything2
<Fugazi> Like I said before, I never repeat myself!
I3D Exam today. Although the questions themselved were not particularly hard
it was way too long for 2 hours and I still maintain that writing code in an
exam is bullshit.
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http://www.centrelink.gov.au/internet/internet.nsf/payments/conc_cards_iat.htm
^ Health Care Card income thresholds
http://www.whitehouse.org/ lolz
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=706650&lastnode_id=910805
^ "Overused chord progressions"
http://www.kuro5hin.org/comments/2006/1/14/213156/897/56#56
^ Mettaur explains moral relativity
http://www.kuro5hin.org/comments/2006/1/14/213156/897/148#148
^ Shinshin explains moral relativity
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http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/12/03/1101923331957.html
``Although dressed in her candy-striped school uniform and headscarf, the small
thin child was riddled by about 20 bullets. Despite initial claims to the
contrary, the Israeli Defence Force later admitted she was not armed and that
her school bag contained books, not a bomb.
...
What makes the case of Iman al-Hams unusual is that a number of soldiers
approached the Israeli media to protest at the way in which, they said, their
commander ordered them to open fire on a child and then, as she lay
motionless, emptied his assault weapon into her body to make sure she was
dead. In Israeli military parlance this is known as "confirming the kill"
...
Three weeks ago the military police indicted the officer on five minor
charges, including misuse of a weapon, conduct unbecoming an officer and
trying to persuade some witnesses to change their testimony. He faces a
maximum of three years if convicted."
But the real stir came last week when Israeli Channel Two broadcast a chilling
tape of real-time military radio communications made during the incident. The
tape suggests that the girl was shot dead minutes after at least some of the
troops on the radio network had identified her as a terrified child who was
running away.
And having announced he had "confirmed the kill", the officer in charge tells
his soldiers: "This is commander, anything that's mobile, that moves in the
zone, even if it's a three-year-old, needs to be killed. Over." ''
(\_/)
(O.o) I'm not sure if this is meant to be an owl or a rabbit, but I liked it.
(> <)
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http://www.drugwarfacts.org/causes.htm
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/13/dell_overssells/
^ Crossover cable != Fileserver
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=190624&cid=15684180 Bahahahaha!
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<fm> i've had three girls today IM me and tell me that they like me.
<fm> then they said april fools and signed off.
Okay, new rule: The First Person To Bring Up 9/11 Loses The Argument.
Call it a corollary to Godwin's Law. -- R3d M3rcury
The chance of a terrorist murdering you is less than the chance of
your spouse murdering you. (Think about that tonight).
Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
Frank Rubin published a criticism of Dijkstra's letter in the March 1987
Communications of the ACM titled "'GOTO Considered Harmful' Considered
Harmful". Donald Moore et al. published a reply in the May 1987 CACM titled
"'"GOTO Considered Harmful" Considered Harmful' Considered Harmful?".
-- Wikipedia
The RSS entity bug is now fixed.
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http://www.londonist.com/archives/2006/07/opinion_freedom_1.php
"My friend Phil and I were going through a metal detector on the way
out of Highbury & Islington tube on Friday evening around 8.30pm, on our
way to a gig. Phil, who has a degree in physics, said to me in a low
voice that the metal detector was a "piece of shit that wouldn't stop
anyone". Obviously, someone was listening, as all of a sudden, half a
dozen policemen jumped on him and hustled him over to the corner of the
tube station, where he was detained for about 20 minutes for the grave
crime of swearing in public, and fined [80 pounds] for the privilege."
Also: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/06/accursed_metal_detector/
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http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=190727&cid=15689052
^ On creating derviative works of movies (+5 Funny)
http://fileanchor.com/40345-r.jpg Best. Tshirt. Ever.
http://www.ep.tc/howtospotajap/ A guide for WW2 allied soldiers (really)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/07/washington/07recruit.html\
?ex=1309924800&en=1be0e7d4e2aac8d3&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
^ "As a professional soldier, my goal is to fill the ranks of the United
States Army with skinheads... As trained infantrymen, you will join
the ranks of the Aryan warrior brotherhood."
At around midday, while banging on a window (to indicate to us that he
wanted to go outside), Spock managed to shatter it. He managed to cut
his forepaws badly enough to need a few stiches. I managed to get a
fair bit of dog blood on myself and various bits of manchester.
Although in pain - especially when being stitched up - he clearly
enjoyed all the attention at the vet. He hasn't made any attempts to
chew off the bandages so far, so hopefully it'll heal quickly.
On a happier note, I've made some changes to the plan scripts which
should encorage crawlers to use the date arguments, which don't change
in content and screw up searches. If I move the site to clarence, I'll
probably exploit this to generate static pages from the .plan itself.
- Requests for a entry by date now use specific dates in their
next/previous entry links.
- Index page features the most recent entry, with a link to the
previous *date* entry.
- Removed "to" links in sidebar.
Website changelog:
- Fixed bug with .plan RSS only examining every second entry.
- Fixed the live bookmark link on plan.php and added it to the main index.php
- Almost fixed bug with entities in the RSS description field not being
translated properly - they have to be translated TWICE, as it's
embedding text in xhtml in xml-rss. Pah.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBQ_ycyXgkU&mode=related&search=
^ It's a miracle, FOX news corrects itself
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Tags:
C++ programmers do it with their friends, in private.
Hackers do it with all sorts of characters.
Hackers do it with insertion routines.
Hackers do it with fewer instructions.
Java programmers do it with objects.
Lisp programmers have to be bound to do it...
Recursive programmers do it over and over and over...
Simulation hackers do it with models.
V.34+ users do it both ways, faster!
Civil engineers do it with an erection.
Electrical Engineers do it with more frequency and less resistance.
Electronic Engineers do it with a faster rise time.
Electricians do it without shorts.
Hardware hackers do it closely coupled.
Mechanical engineers do it with rigid bodies.
Quantum Physicists do it with uncertainty.
Radiologists do it with high frequency.
Researchers do it with control.
Set theorists do it in groups.
Set theorists do it with cardinals.
Mathematicians do it continuously or discretely.
Statisticians do it in all combinations.
Statisticians do it with confidence.
Statisticians do it with deviates.
Statisticians do it with large numbers.
Statisticians do it with only a 5% chance of being rejected.
Statisticians do it with the largest group possible.
Organists do it with both hands and both feet.
Organists pull out all the stops and do it with their feet.
Trombone players do it in 7 positions.
Trombone players do it with slide oil.
Acupuncturists do it with tiny pricks.
Elitists do it better than you.
Republicans do it to poor people.
Roleplayers do it for the experience.
Roleplayers do it in a group.
(ok, ok, i'll find some non-sexual ones)
Death to All Who Oppose Right to Life!
Voyager: To boldly get lost where no one has been lost before.
Old soldiers never die; young ones do it for them.
Eventually Munches All Computer Storage
There is nothing more respectable than an ancient evil -- Voltaire's Law
Analog (Apache log analysis tool) notes
On (not) running as root:
Analog doesn't require root at all. As long as you can read the log
files and write to the output directory it's fine. It will, however,
default to stupid crap like trying to write lock files to root-only
places like /etc or /usr/local/etc.
The default configuration file is also in /etc or /usr/local/etc - use
the -G option to ignore it and the +g one to specify your own (you can
specify multiple configuration files for vhosts etc):
analog -G +g/home/analog/analog.cfg +g/home/analog/site7.cfg
Getting analog to do it's own DNS lookups:
This is much more efficient than Apache doing it for every request.
DNSFILE /var/httplogs/dnsfile.txt # Cache location
DNSGOODHOURS 720 # How long to cache stuff for
DNSBADHOURS 720 # How long to wait before retrying a bad lookup
# Remember, some of the ips will have no reverse DNS
DNS WRITE # Resolve if not in the cache and write to the cache
DNSLOCKFILE /var/httplogs/analogdnslock # default is stupid
Excluding certain networks from the analysis:
HOSTEXCLUDE 10.*.*.*
HOSTEXCLUDE *.dylanleigh.net
Analog logfile analysis for virtual hosts:
http://www.analog.cx/how-to/vhosts1/index.html gives you the general
idea. One thing to note: you can create an aggregate stats page
listing all hosts, but Analog will moan about the logfiles overlapping.
"You are the 000001 person to log in this month" -- 14.4 24 hour lab script.
I managed to get some stuff done in the Micros lab on Tuesday, and
caught the 11:11 train home (23:11 in superior units). Last night
after my DP shift I stayed back until nearly 6 this morning, and
managed to get almost all the equipment-dependent stuff done.
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http://www.escapistmagazine.com/issue/8/9
"The publishers would like all games to be like sports games. With
sports games, all you have to do is improve the graphics incrementally
and throw in the new player stats - and the little drones will go out
and buy the new version every year. They're basically buying the same
game over and over, but the players are wearing different jerseys and
have slightly different behind-the-scenes data."
...
"The truth is that unless your last name is "Wright" or "Miyamoto," the
odds of getting anything innovative published today are nonexistent."
...
"An industry that was once the most innovative and exciting artistic
field on the planet has become a morass of drudgery and imitation."
...
"Basically, as an independent developer in the games industry,
you're just fucked."
More: http://www.costik.com/
PS: The article starts on http://www.escapistmagazine.com/issue/8/3
but page 9 is where the analysis peters out and the ranting gets
angstier.
Still waiting on 87.3.12. Maybe I should go home and sleep instead :(
At least I've got some work done on the reports.
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If leakers are allowed to reveal to reporters how incompetent,
corrupt, and dishonest our leaders are, the terrorists have won.
-- StefanJ
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=185823&cid=15337729
^ On government being denied security clearance to investigate itself
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=185823&cid=15337892
^ "I was just obeying orders"
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http://www.shadowrunrpg.com/resources/slang.shtml
^ Shadowrunner slang, for those new to the game (and universe)
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15:34 <Synapse> "light rail" sounds like trains with a lower alcholic content
18:00 * Synapse has coined 2 new ET portmanteus: "haxis" and "mortard"
00:13 <geoffwa> ntpd has been around since the dawn of time
Raiding people's homes is clearly a fair and balanced
response to allegations of copyright infringement. -- petrushka
Sitting in 87.3.07 waiting for 87.3.12 to be not crowded.
Earlier today, jyu@cs had only one thing to say about my shell
scripting: "awksome" :)
Even earlier stuff follows (this got lost in some mail hole :( )
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http://news.com.com/2008-1082_3-5065859.html MS by the Ball
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_(parrot)
^ "If he says ?Wanna banana?, but is offered a nut instead, he will stare
in silence, ask for the banana again, or take the nut and throw it
at the researcher."
http://www.dancingrobots.com/2006/05/09/\
im-an-angry-shadowrun-nerd-and-this-is-a-rant/
^ Shadowrun CRPG to have no RP or Shadowrunning (i.e. if you're going
to rewrite everything, call it something else)
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=185396&cid=15301793
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=185396&cid=15303721
^ Puns on vaporware
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=185410&cid=15302770
^ "How does one tell whether one is on 'private property' out in the
wilderness?"
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=1944531&page=1
^ This isn't a joke, check the mpaa press release
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Slashdot on a fly-by-wireless plane:
This is just plane silly! -- Instine
The idea isn't well grounded, that's for sure. -- 955301
It seems very up-in-the-air to me, too. -- autophile
I hope this never takes off. -- swansontec
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Why, when I first learned to program, I had to carry my punch cards in a
paper bag through the snow, on foot, 10 miles, uphill, in both directions!
-- Billosour
"Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and
is just a natural part of the way the world works.... Anything invented
after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things."
-- Douglas Adams
When you write a program, your compiler or interperter will tell you when
you fuck up. When you write a website, your browser tries its best not to
tell you when a page is fucked up. -- GigsVT
FORTH IF HONK THEN
Guh. Horrible sore throat over the weekend, although at least I didn't
get it as badly as Hannah, who couldn't eat at all :(
Tuesday Lunch: Miso Chicken with fried rice at O'Bento, Melbourne Central.
$6. Good although a little greasy. Sauce was flavoursome but not overpowering.
Wednesday Lunch: Teriyaki Chicken with fried rice at Blue Coriander, RMIT Caf.
$6 Great although the sauce was somewhat overdone. Rice was utterly perfect.
Todo List: 25 at deadline, 14 in next week, 58 in next month. :(
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http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=185239&cid=15288201
^ On the importance of gamer surveys (i.e. for non-gamers)
http://www.flyingbeds.com/14.Euro_BunkBed/Euro-ComputerBed.htm hax
http://www.flyingbeds.com/14.Euro_BunkBed/Twirly/TwirlyBed.htm more hax
http://www.capnwacky.com/lists/list43.html Best list ever (maybe NSFW, YMMV)
http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/how-rsync-works.html
http://wiki.urbandead.com/index.php/User:John_Ember#MBR_Weapon_Rating_System
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4969544.stm
^ Mandated battery recycling for the win
http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=184834&cid=15258782
^ Grammar naziing for the win
http://people.redhat.com/blizzard/monkeys.txt lol what
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It is a two-way street, but management has a big SUV that takes up both lanes.
Employees are resources to be utilized in a cost-effective manner.
Hasta la Vista security.
-- ecko7889, /.
vi is the most efficient editor ever written. You will hate it intensely for
the first two weeks, after that you will discover you can't live without it.
-- Kermit
Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail.
Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
-- Zawinski's Law of Software Envelopment
The zombie paradigm reflects anxiety about the breakdown
of traditional forms of conflict resolution. -- nailgun, k5
* @darklyndsea claws bizarre's eyes out
<@Bizarre> (
http://www.seditionproject.net/photogallery.html
In March 1918, a third-degree committee in Forsyth grilled Starr
about Liberty Bonds and forced him to kiss the flag. "What is this
thing anyway?" he asked. "Nothing but a piece of cotton with a little
paint on it, and some other marks in the corner there. I will not kiss
that thing. It might be covered with microbes."
Sentence: 10-20 years
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http://wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,59305,00.html
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) suggested Tuesday that people who download
copyright materials from the Internet should have their computers
automatically destroyed. But Hatch himself is using unlicensed software on
his official website, which presumably would qualify his computer to be
smoked by the system he proposes.
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http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=184834&cid=15259261
http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=184834&cid=15258840
^ On regulating the free market
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/news/20060429p2a00m0na032000c.html
^ Weapons of Mass Cuteness
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004619.php
^ Why should hosting something give you rights to it's distribution?
http://www.photron.com/gallery/gallery.cfm High Speed Photography
http://www.leftlanenews.com/2006/05/03/\
gone-in-20-minutes-using-laptops-to-steal-cars/
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=184801&cid=15257073
^ secure keys (for cars, but applicable generally)
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=184845&cid=15259809
^ A great idea for stop-action timed-turn dice-based Computer RPGs
http://tes.ag.ru/mw/artwork/races/race_khajiit.jpg +1, Furry
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I'm surprised no one has come to market with a Bluetooth tooth.
I know I'd get one, just for the grin factor.
-- Ohreally factor, /.
(.planner's note: note the double pun!)
If the nudity isn't available in the basic game but needs a third party hack,
isn't it false advertising to claim "nudity" on the box? I'd expect a refund
if I bought this and found no nudity included.
--Ralph Yarro
I have been told by reliable sources that the ESRB rating board in fact
contains nudity, and that it can be unlocked simply by undressing the board
members. I must therefore recommend that this story be rated M, and that /.
prevent minors from reading it.
-- hunterx11
Well, at the risk of a mixed-metaphorical-double-entendre, size didn't
matter, but I didn't expect to raped so hard regardless.
-- pla on buying a hard drive
>> allows the user to play with topless versions of female characters
>The change in rating is to prevent younger players getting scared by
>all those women with their heads missing.
-- AC /.
I don't like being forced to watch copyright warnings, stupid "don't steal"
commercials and having trouble with archiving movies, so I prefer watching
'stolen' copies, which don't have any added crap. - pornel, /.
Never memorize what you can look up
-- (Generally Attributed to Einstein)
http://www.rushkoff.com/2006/04/faith-illness-why-ive-had-it-with.php
Like any other public health crisis, the belief in religion must now be
treated as a sickness. It is an epidemic, paralyzing our nation's ability to
behave in a rational way, and - given our weapons capabilities - posing an
increasingly grave threat to the rest of the world.
-- Douglas Rushkoff
Given FoxNews accuracy, we can cut these numbers in half, yet are still
confronted with a deeply frightening prospect: half the people amongst who we
walk and work every day believe some really fucked up shit.
-- Douglas Rushkoff
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http://www.harrisontalk.com/my_weblog/2006/05/may_day_in_norw.html
^ Ixnay Norway May Day
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/050106-calea.html
^ "Institutions of higher education are up in arms over an FCC ruling on
wiretapping they say could cost them billions of dollars in upgrades,
expose their networks to more attacks, and jeopardize rights to
privacy and freedom of speech."
i.e. Institutionalised wiretapping and filtering.
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Remember, if it stops just one terrorist, it's all worth it!
-- koreth, /.
Silly is a state of Mind, Stupid is a way of Life. -- Dave Butler
Rule of thumb: Anything that allows you to "level up" is out to fuck
you, take your money, or both. Examples: School, military, corporate
hierarchy, catholic church, world of warcraft, scientology, etc.
-- pHaditic, /.
>> Could an open source be faster, more stable, and have better resource
>> management than the Sun VM?
> Certainly couldn't do worse.
-- Flounder, /.
Progress on the File Structures assignment:
- bzipped the data files and copied them home
- patched my FreeBSD box to do gethrtime()
- thought about it while I waited for the kernel to compile and reboot
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http://www.stupidityawards.com/
http://www.donath.org/Rants/PennTellerBulletTrick/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutocracy
http://www.neckties.com/foldinginfo.php pocketsquare howto
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-joke
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-humor
A priest, a minister, and a rabbi are walking down the street.
The rabbi says, "Hey, did you hear the one about us?"
An Englishman, an Irishman, and a Scotsman walk into a bar.
The bartender turns to them, takes one look, and says "What is this -
some kind of a joke?"
An Irishman, a Frenchman, and a German walk into a bar.
So the Rabbi says to the Minister, "I think we're in the wrong joke."
A man walks into a bar. The next day he ducks.
Three blind mice walk into a bar. They are unaware of their surroundings,
so it would be irresponsible to derive humour from their predicament.
What's worse than finding a worm in an apple? Being raped.
Three people of different nationalities walk into a bar. Two of them
say something smart, and the third one makes a mockery of his fellow
countrymen by acting dumb.
A newlywed couple, a blind man, an Iranian mullah, a chicken, a
used car dealer, Judith Regan, a proctologist, and a Hollywood
starlet, along with a nun, a man who just received a gorilla brain
transplant, two Hassidic Jews, a stuttering hotel clerk, and a can of
Spam are riding in a compact car.
Suddenly, they hear a siren and a state trooper motions the
vehicle to pull over. "License and registration," says the cop,
"you've exceeded the legal character limit in this joke..."
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When is a door not a door? When it is ajar.
How many members of a demographic or occupational group does it take
to change a lightbulb?
N + 1. 1 to change the bulb and N to act in a stereotypical manner.
-- Adapted from http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/1087.html
Was planning to go to Qupi to get a muffin for lunch, but they were
closed. Fell back to Blue Coriander which was also closed. So I had to
go out into the searing light and go across to Melbourne Central. I
eventually settled for cashew chicken from Spices, which was way too
spicy :(.
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090094/
^ Delicious white gooey ooze that turns you into a zombie?
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=183463&cid=15153666
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=183463&cid=15153634
^ On control of your hardware
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=182788&cid=15109064
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=182788&cid=15111798
^ Shooting down the defenders of managerese
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/04/04/why_is_it_ok_to_show.html
http://www.thepcspy.com/kittenauthtest CAPTCHA but with cute animals
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70650-0.html?tw=rss.index
^ More AT&T warantless wiretapping
http://www.studentlifecentre.com/2006/04/10/dana-porter-all-lit-up-for-exams/
^ What students spend their time doing in SWOTVAC
http://www.grynx.com/projects/tictac-flashlight/
http://www.vqronline.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/9043
http://twojakes.blogspot.com/2006/04/where-are-ugly-writers.html
^ On photogenic journalists/writers/etc
http://www.plusminus.ru/flashbag.html
^ A USB drive that gets physically bigger the more data you put on it...
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You don't get it, do you? This is America. The land of the stupid
measurements. Where there's 12 inches to a foot, 3 feet to a yard,
1760 yards to the mile, 16 ounces to a pound, 2000 pounds to the short
ton and getting 543816 votes more than your opponent means you lose
an election.
-- darkitechture, /.
I don't want to get enfected with any of them Windows viruses, Mac
Worms, or Linux Diseases. So I run NetBSD. On a VAX.
I'm slow, but I'm not infected (that's what I tell my girl also).
-- Anonymous Coward, /.
No updates in a while - been busy with family Easter gatherings and
birthdays etc. - so you're getting about a week's worth of cruft.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/\
graphic/2006/03/16/GR2006031600213.html
^ Confirms: Pokie machines more secure than voting machines
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1035.html
^ Domain Names - Implementation and Specification
http://www.punoftheday.com/about_puns.htm
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70621-0.html
^ "Wiretap Whistleblower's Statement"
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=182583&cid=15092156
^ On the evolution of evolution
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/07/science/07evolve.html?ei=5070&en=b54956e1a\
f4ab91e&ex=1145332800&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1145225671-8IV9JdahgYmdzV1SZS4jCg
^ Emerging evidence of early evolution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_cost
http://www.kuro5hin.org/comments/2006/4/11/91618/0263/47#47
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It's a headline pundemic!
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/09/035205
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/01/10/hacker_penetrates_virgin/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Supercaley.png
http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/anniversary/35th/n_8568/
Well, puns may be bad, but poems are verse. -- Tim Browse
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"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the
merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito Mussolini
On the other hand, that's roughly 2 CD-sized full-length movies a second, so
that's about 2 hours worth of pr0n per second, which means that it takes a
stadium packed with 7200 naked NSA agents and a truck full of Kleenex tissues
to check out all the videos in real-time.
--Rosco P. Coltrane on NSA Internet monitoring
We're spreading *something* in the Middle East. But it sure ain't freedom.
-- HackerCracker, k5
Clainsynar> What if all numbers were multiples of pi and our integer
system was wrong?
TokMor> stop having such irrational thoughts
Under capitalism man exploits man, under communism it's just the opposite.
-- Relli, k5
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Adapted from punoftheday.com:
After working for 24 hours straight he called it a day.
An office with many people and few electrical outlets could be in for
a power struggle.
It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye (then it's a critical hit).
Prison walls are never built to scale.
Seven days with no puns makes one weak.
When the wheel was invented, it caused a revolution.
When the wheel was invented, it was a real turning point.
At first I hated my haircut, but now it's growing on me.
A painful pun is its own reword.
http://www.reclaimdemocracy.org/independent_business/\
walmart_eminent_domain.html
"Most of Alameda Square's businesses are profitable. Together they
generate about $125,000 a year in sales tax revenue. But if the city
of Denver has its way, these small businesses will be evicted to make
way for a Wal-Mart super-center. The city's Urban Renewal Authority
has threatened condemnation if the property owners refuse to sell and
has offered Wal-Mart $10 million in public subsidies. That's right:
Tax dollars would go to one of the country's most profitable and
powerful corporations."
For those who don't know about the eminent domain laws, they allow the
government to order private owners to sell their land to make way for
a corporation, if the government believes the land could be used "more
profitably".
[ I3D journal: http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~dleigh/Interactive3D/ ]
Haven't done any I3D work in a while, due to the FSDS assignment and
Micros labs.
Finished off the obj parser and hierarchical display routines... sort
of. Due to an erroneous assumption about the way Display Lists work
with the Vertex Array in OpenGL, I'm going to have to rewrite the
vertex bits in the parser :(
mX: "The cost of space travel is astronomical". heh.
Downloading latest LiveLAMP and OpenCD from the Internode mirror. May or
may not be available at the helpdesk depending on how I feel in the morning.
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http://pangea.stanford.edu/computerinfo/unix/xterminal/xdefinitions.html
^ Gentle intro to the X Window System. The site als ohas some other
Unix intro stuff.
Just noticed the 5x7 and 6x9 fonts aren't on the new yallara and
numbat. I've updated the Fluxbox menu generator to reflect that.
I've also set up a new unix newbie friendly skeleton using Fluxbox in
~dleigh/public/unixconf/ - including a new newbie friendly Fluxbox
config (in the .fluxbox dir).
To copy the files over, prompting for overwrite confirmation:
cp -i -R ~dleigh/public/unixconf/.*[a-z] ~
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http://www.yafla.com/dforbes/2006/03/29.html
Interesting article on which parts of the .COM space have been
registered (a lot of which is parked/squatted).
"These include such superlative domains as
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.com,
WEBWEBWEBWEBWEBWEBWEBWEBWEBWEBWEBWEBWEBWEBWEBWEBWEBWEBWEBWEBWEB.com, and
didyouknowthatyoucanonlyhavesixty-threecharactersinadomain-name.com."
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http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/conditions/04/03/engineered.organs/index.html
"Scientists grew new bladders from the patients' own cells, which were
then transplanted back into the patients' bodies... Because the
bladders are grown from a patient's own cells, there is no risk of
rejection, as in a traditional transplant."
Very cool. However, -1 for not doing it from stem cells.
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http://cbs4.com/local/local_story_086232143.html
^ Police retaliate against the Complaint Form reporter
http://docs.cs.byu.edu/docs/shelladv/3.php
^ Keystroke saving hints for *nix n00bs
http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~mairson/poems/node1.html
^ The Pumping Lemma Poem (thx Doran)
http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/239/1/
^ Grumpy but justified look at OpenBSD (non)funding
[ I3D journal: http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~dleigh/Interactive3D/ ]
Almost finished the .OBJ parser. It reads in all the vertices and puts
them in one big vertex array at the end. As it does so, it's reading
in the "faces", and creating a display list to draw the faces (as
GL_QUADS) for each "group" in the file. The parser keeps track of the
group names and takes care of mapping them to the (GLuint) display lists.
[ I3D journal: http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~dleigh/Interactive3D/ ]
Converted all globals to non-lvalues, and got SDL and GLUT working
together. I considered adding audio (with SDL), but I probably
wouldn't get any marx for it.
I'm starting on the .OBJ parser. I'm going to put all the bird stuff
into a fat vector array, and set up a bunch of display lists and
function to draw the different components (together with facilities
for rotation and translation, for the animations). Since all the work
is on the backend, no screenshots today.
Last Wednesday I updated timetable.c to do printable timetables.
However, I totally forgot to put it on the page until mhussain
reminded me, and forgot to announce in until this morning. So:
http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~dleigh/software/codepile/timetable.c
Also fixed a backup/dump cron script in Perl, which will get added
once I've fixed up the kludges and arranged automatic verification. As
I've said before, Perl documentation is as obscure, inconsistent and
unusable as the language.
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http://www.fugly.com/victims/rebecca_east/text/ Nasty but funny (thx Emil)
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Tycho hits the nail on the head re: RPGs
A game where your character is completely defined before you ever pick
up a controller, who then runs an essentially linear track until he
reaches the "source of the evil" doesn't really fit what I think of as
"role-playing," but that's the sort of experience that has come to
dominate the term.
Complete and utter fucking failure regarding the .plan updates. Due to
a balls up involving the update script, Subversion, and ssh
authentication, updates were not getting pushed through to yallara
over the past week. I've gone back to doing it manually for the time
being.
Over the last 3 weeks I've been staying late to work on I3D and Micros
stuf on Wednesdays and Thursdays, and I've been really sick and dizzy
on Friday and unable to make it to uni. I've resolved ot actually get
some sleep during the week, or at least move into the city.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociocratic
http://www.cmf.nrl.navy.mil/CCS/people/kenh/kerberos-faq.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gropecunt_Lane
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Laudanum: I think my ability to communicate has gone downhill.
kaltegeburt: I don't understand.
[ I3D journal: http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~dleigh/Interactive3D/ ]
Came to sutherland to work on the code but ended up playing around
with the bird model for 15 minutes.
Improvements incluide fixing up the wing vertices to shrink as
they go away from the body, removing the point at the front of the
body, less unnecessary polygons on the head, and proper legs including
three toed feet.
I'll probably show up to the gaming tomorrow to clean up the code
and start the .OBJ parser. I'm still undecided over how I'm going to
handle the animations.
[ I3D journal: http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~dleigh/Interactive3D/ ]
This is for all the people who said it didn't look like a Starfleet
cruiser (see the wireframe of the model on the I3D page).
I've pretty much decided by now what I want to implement and the
sequence I want to do it in. In particular, by the end of this week I
want to fix up my glut/sdl template so it doesnt use globals for the
width and height of the screen (with resulting loss or marks). By next
week I plan to load the different bird elements into display lists,
and by the week after I plan to have the animations fixed up.
That leaves me the rest of the semester to add the fancy stuff.
UPDATE: Found a much better description of the OBJ/Wavefront
file format than the one in the assignment spec:
http://www.robthebloke.org/source/obj.html
UPDATE UPDATE: Added to the assignment spec. :)
Really sick yesterday, missed the FS lecture *again* :(
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http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=984
From BB: The BSA, MPAA and RIAA have officially objected to a proposal
to let the public break DRM that "threatens critical infrastructure
and endangers lives." They argue that if it becomes legal to break DRM
that could kill you it might harm their business.
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http://michaelgeist.ca/component/option,com_content/\
task,view/id,1168/Itemid,85/nsub,/
http://oci.open.ac.uk/ More Free (as in whatever) Courseware
http://www.glop.org/starforce/list.php Expanded list of crippled games
http://www.slate.com/id/2137959/?nav=tap3 What to do if your eyeball falls out
http://salon.com/news/abu_ghraib/2006/03/14/introduction/
http://salon.com/news/abu_ghraib/2006/03/14/chapter_5/index.html
http://theage.com.au/news/NATIONAL/Australia-seeks-new-air-fighter-secrets/\
2006/03/15/1142098515569.html
http://www.deviantart.com/view/9410862/ Death and Taxes (Big Image Warning)
http://www.tennessean.com/local/archives/03/01/27302745.shtml
^ "Police handcuff innocent family, shoot their dog"
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4789090.stm 'Roe v Wade for men'
http://www.kuro5hin.org/comments/2006/3/17/41457/3973/31#31
http://www.kuro5hin.org/comments/2006/3/17/41457/3973/81#81
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<Mae|str0m> I just dropped a weight on my foot.
<Mae|str0m> they should make those things lighter.
<@Aureal> Wow, free web space for only $15.
<Halcr0> If I had a knife, I'd shoot you
<TSPhoenix> You're so lame that you can encode mp3s.
[ I3D journal: http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~dleigh/Interactive3D/ ]
I've built something that looks kind of like a Bird using Wings 3D
(how appropriate). Unfortunately it looks more like a Starfleet
cruiser than a bird.
Took about 1 and a half hours, including the time it took to learn the
Basics of Blender and Wings 3D, decide Blender was too awkward, and
kill all the applet components of Wings 3D after it crashed.
Knuth said, "code should be written to be read by humans, and only
incidentally to be parsed by machines." And then he came up with TeX.
-- Doran Moppert
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http://isolatr.com/ Antisocial software
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<Handy> There are 2 kinds of people in the world.
<Handy> 1. Those who need closure.
<Marko> And?
<DavyP> AND?
Spent about an hour in Sutherland trying to draw text to the screen
using GLUT, and failing. During the train ride home I remembered that
OpenGL coordinates are from the lower left corner, not the upper left
corner. :(
Interesting letter in the MX today (wow!) pointing out that a meeting
of the International Whaling Comission is on (and given the current
situation it is likely the pro-whaling nations will get their way) but
the headlines for the past few days have been about which song will
get played at which time at the Commonwealth Games.
Fun with Statistical Methods:
The average (mean) income of an Australian adult is AU$56,000.
The average (median) income of an Australian adult is AU$26,000.
(figures from ABS, January 2006)
Anyway, I digress, I have to get to work :)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpT3yx-x01w
"Security video footage of Kenyan police raiding the offices of a newspaper.
CCTV video via the East African Standard."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/02/ap/world/mainD8G3LV98G.shtml
^ If you haven't heard about the recent Police raids on media in Kenya.
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http://www.unitednuclear.com/legalaction.htm
"The United States CPSC has initiated criminal legal action against us
and other chemical suppliers. In short, the CPSC would like to ban
the public from all access to chemicals. This would mean an end to
hobbies such as model rocketry, pyrotechnics and of course chemistry..."
To make a long story short, you can't distribute a lot of simple
chemicals that are in kids chemistry sets - stuff like Sulfur,
Nitrates, Aluminium, etc - without holding a US$1000 Licence to
manufactore Explosives from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
Firearms.
I wonder if they are going after all the butchers who use Nitrates to
preserve their bacon and ham too?
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http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/030306_scf_eviction.shtml
http://www.tinynibbles.com/unsafe.html
^ "Novelty Products Not Safe At Any Speed" - dangerous sex toys
http://images.ucomics.com/comics/db/2006/db060305.gif
^ Putting the Con back in Controversy
http://www.holmea.demon.co.uk/Exchange/Design.htm OMG DIY PABX
http://sonicwall.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=press_releases&item=708
^ "Survey Shows Employees Rate Productivity High, Security and
Clothing Low When Working From Home"
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/03/05/blog_satire_mistaken.html
^ "Blog satire mistaken as news by agencies in Syria, Pakistan"
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http://www.oddmusic.com/gallery/om21250.html Lego Harpsichord
http://www.pinballnews.com/news/lego.html Lego Pinball Machine
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/03/\
air_conditioner_make_out_of_le.html
And yes, they're all fully functional.
Start of semester and I'm already snowed under with work - although admittedly
most of it isn't RMIT related. The really bad insomnia (note timestamp) hasn't
helped either.
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Compared to males his age:
He's more political
He's geekier
He's more scientific
He's more loving
He's less sloppy (editor's note: WTF?)
He's less spiritual
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http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/laca/protection/report.htm
http://michaelgeist.ca/component/option,com_content/task,view/\
id,1137/Itemid,85/nsub,/
^ Fair use in Australia (also omg politics working)
http://community.livejournal.com/found_objects/2555300.html#cutid1
^ Fighting the Evil Elton John with Bowie, Mick Jagger and Batman
http://religiousfreaks.com/2006/02/23/\
christians-plus-muslims-equals-trouble-in-nigeria/
http://csmonitor.com/2005/0728/dailyUpdate.html
^ Rebranding of the War On Terror (to Struggle Against Violent Extremism)
Personally, I prefer The War Against Terror.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/4758636.stm
"Why is it that every time the media starts to talk about the internet they
feel compelled to bang on about paedophiles and terrorists and generally
come over like a cross between Joe McCarthy and the Childcatcher from Chitty
Chitty Bang Bang?"
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http://www.waxy.org/archive/2006/02/28/penn_tel.shtml
^ Penn and Teller video game?
"The most infamous part was "Desert Bus," a "VeriSimulator" in which you
drive a bus across the straight Nevada desert for eight hours in real-time.
Then you drive it home. Also, I'd read the bus veers to the right, so you
can't just leave the joypad propped up. The rumor was that if you won the
game, you got one point."
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http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/03/01
^ Examine comic, scroll to the bottom of the newspost:
`With that said I have to admit that those sons of bitches have a sense of
humor. Smedley sent me an email this morning that just said he'd sent me a
package. I assumed it was a bomb but just a few minutes ago a man showed up
and proclaimed that he "had our donuts". That's not something I expected to
hear today. We followed him out to his truck where he showed us our 1,200
freshly baked Krispy Kreme donuts.
"Are you guys having a party or something?"
"No we aren't having a party. It's a joke."
"Why would someone send you so many donuts as a joke?"
"You wouldn't get it."'
Thanks to subversion breaking the .plan's permissions every time it is
updated, it hasn't been accessible for most people. I apologise for
the inconvenience, and I've got three fixes for the problem.
Unfortunately the only reliable one will be getting the subversion
developers to ackowledge that there is actually something wrong -
always very difficult.
Been to classes for Interactive 3D and Microprocessor Systems 1. Both
look like difficult but fun and interesting subjects. Saw that David
Jones was teaching Micros 2 and dropped it.
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FreeBSD Masterclass: Once Off Live Dumps
dump -0 -L -a [-f file or -p pipe] fsmountpoint
-0 full backup (no u so it doesn't touch the dumpdates file)
-L live filesystem - if you specify this dump will take a filesystem
snapshot and dump that. Ignored on a read only or unounted fs.
-a auto-size (so it writes all to the one file instead of doing
volumes... over the first volume file and breaking it)
-h 0 Honour the nodump flag for full (level 0) dumps. Default is to
ignore nodump unless doing an incremental dump.
-f file (can be - for stdout)
-p pipecommand (e.g. bzip2 or somesuch)
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http://www.suspectgoods.com/about.html I need some of these
http://www.rorweb.com/ rorz
http://www.shockabsorber.co.uk/bounceometer/shock.html zomg boobies
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< ILjWerk> I'm on terror alert level fuscia
<|LK|Masterknight89> man i wonder why im never invoved in the net split
In Soviet Russia, Adventure Chooses You!
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/02/25/florida_cops_threate.html
http://cbs4.com/topstories/local_story_033170755.html
An undercover film crew goes into 38 cop stations around Florida asking
for complaint forms. Only 3 had the forms. In the others cops harassed
and threatened the would-be complainants, in one case threatening to
draw his sidearm.
Follow up: http://cbs4.com/local/local_story_053001510.html
After CBS4's Mike Kirsch aired a piece where several South Florida
police officers were caught on camera intimidating would-be
complainants against their police departments, one officer has taken
action against the station in court.
Sergeant Peter Schumanich, of the Lauderhill Police Department, filed
an injunction in a Broward County court to stop the airing of the
story where he appears on the air and online.
Schumanich was caught on camera cursing and screaming at a member of a
police watchdog group who went to his department asking to file a
complaint against an unspecified officer. The officer was caught on
camera literally chasing down the man out of the police station and
off the block, after he did not act the way Schumanich wanted him to.
Judge Goldstein denied the temporary injunction.
My likely causes of death:
56% heart attack
24% car accident
13% loneliness
5% drowning of the lungs
2% wounds
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http://www.neilswaab.com/comics/wiggles/rehab261.html On blogging
http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/news-11230-\
2nd+hand+electronics+sales+will+soon+be+illegal+in+Japan.html
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004434.php On the Public Domain
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/\ I SUPPORT
\/ JINGOISTIC
/\ GROUPTHINK
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<Altair> If you could listen to one song before you died, what would it be?
<Spike> The song that never ends?
I always miss that point when you're supposed to stop liking something
thats still good simply because it became popular. -- thefirelane, k5
23:25 <geoffwa> there is nothing more boring that cornflakes
23:26 <geoffwa> not even the cold dry pages of conservatism that is
The Australian gets close to the bordom of cornflakes
You voted for Bush, and all I got was this lousy thermonuclear apocalypse.
-- whitehouse.org
preist > We are all god's children, my son.
wiggles> Great, that's just what the world needs - another deadbeat dad.
-- Rehabilitating Mr. Wiggles #279
<apeloverage> my friend was fired from his job in a sex shop when his boss
found evidence that he'd been looking at bus timetables on his work computer
<ryeenae> don't worry, i'm here for you = )
<ryeenae> brb
<Cozma> if i had breasts i'd sit around and feel them all day
<Cozma> oh wait
* Cozma bbl.
<palos> i loved electives cause there were actually girls in them, oh
and they were really easy :)
<blindwork> the girls or the classes?
Unregistered> I think shes finally lost it...she sitting in the corner going
*beep* *beep* and pretending shes a computer in the hope I will
pay attention to her....
<Jamon> The last time I stuck my dick into a stuffed animal, stuffing got
stuck in the hole..that just plain sucked.
<Jack> I hit a new low today
<Jack> I claimed lag when I tipped over a cup as I was reaching for it
<Jack> out loud.
<Kathryn> y'know, its sad when you have to fake an orgasm while masturbating
1 * Deferred exam + 2 * Duty Programmer Shift = WORST WEDNESDAY EVAR
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business cannot afford to operate with such onerous laws that require a
minimum wage, or safe working conditions, or bans on child labor, or
family leave
-- Joe Twarog
On "Freedom Fries":
I'm glad my country is run by a bunch of six-year-olds.
I can't wait until the president officially renames "Iraq" to "Gay"
George Bush was not elected by a majority of voters in the United
States. He was appointed by God. -- General William Boykin
Grown men should not be having sex with prostitutes unless they are
married to them. -- Jerry Falwell
To those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty,
my message is this: Your tactics only aid terrorists. The 1st
Amendment only applies to speech we like. -- John Ashcroft
Deferred LANMAN exam tomorrow. Feeling fairly nervous and a little
sick, although I'm sure I know enough 802.x to ace it.
Off to work.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/\
wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/16/AR2006021602039_pf.html
"Not only are physically unattractive teenagers likely to be stay-at-homes on
prom night, they're also more likely to grow up to be criminals...
Other studies have shown that unattractive men and women are less likely to
be hired, and that they earn less money, than the better-looking. Such
inferior circumstances may steer some to crime, Mocan and Tekin suggest. They
also report that more attractive students have better grades and more
polished social skills, which means they graduate with a greater chance of
staying out of trouble."
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A lot of this stuff is a few days old:
http://www.kuro5hin.org/comments/1139638334_GvOxSrRg/9#9
^ On satirising liberals and conservatives
http://brilliantignorance.blogspot.com/2005/08/\
essential-freeware-for-pc-user.html
http://sts.rmit.edu.au/STS/index.jsp Just the directory won't work.
http://www.kuro5hin.org/comments/2006/2/19/134134/887/3#3
^ On the popularity of republicanism with the very people it fucks over
http://www.awakenedworlds.net/index.php?page=3&mode=article&k=3 ZOMG MAPS
http://www.cafepress.com/thewhitehouse/655811 liberal fashions
http://www.cafepress.com/thewhitehouse/32519 Patriotic Posters
http://www.cafepress.com/thewhitehouse/655806 War
http://www.godlessamericans.org/
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8742&feedId=online-news_rss20
^ Study Confirms: Hand Waving Boosts Maths Learning
http://www.alp.org.au/features/lies.php Truth Overboard
http://www.motherjones.com/news/update/2004/02/02_400.html
^ Side-by-side comparison of Bush & Kerry's war records
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http://p2pnet.net/story/7942
"It's one thing to sue children directly. They get a lawyer, rules are
established, the court might offer certain protections, etc, but when it's
done through a back door - suing a parent to get information about a child -
the child has no protections, especially when the plaintiff doesn't even have
the decency to not publish personal information about the child.
This, then, is going to become the new feeding ground for those who seek to
exploit children, whether through improper contact or identity theft."
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http://www.ocweekly.com/features/sex-issue/great-dick%2c-babe_2006-02-09.html
(thx Pete)
"The suspects had voluntarily turned over the sex video Moonier had described.
It showed no gun, no threats of violence and no force.
In fact, the woman not only directed action at times but complimented penis
sizes, complained about the lighting, nonchalantly took a cell phone call
during the gangbang, yelled, .Get it up!. when some of the men lost their
erections, called herself a slut and demanded ejaculations.in her mouth.
...
Without the videotape, the men could have spent the rest of their lives in
state prison if they were convicted of kidnapping and aggravated rape with a
handgun. But the woman's false accusation is a misdemeanor punishable by no
more than six months in county jail. It.s only because she took several
thousand dollars from a taxpayer-funded victims' assistance program that she
was charged with two felonies."
Paste from #pants:
I've restored my webspace on the server and while I was there, I got
around to some long overdue updating. I haven't touched html or php in
a few months at least, and I almost enjoyed this.
New stuff:
* Software/codepile section fixed up in the sidebar
* Major .plan navigation overhaul.
- RSS fixed.
- Entries now are seperated into divs with a permanent link
in the header.
- New index option - lists the entries by date. When I get
rewrites going, this will become the default.
- Hyperlinks to move forwards and backwards through the .plan.
- Form down the bottom of the page so you don't have to edit
the get arguments.
* Taglines page, including options to download the entire set in
strfile format.
* Moved vg section to vgmods.
* Some new and fixed links.
Still to do:
* Dates on yallara are fucked. 2005-05-16 != 2005-05-16 00:00.
* "Melbourne Computer Parts Stores" section in the links. With
snide comments.
* Package up my SOF2 and Deus Ex mods and put them up.
* mod_rewrite arguments on the .plan and taglines.
* A metric shitload of stuff is waiting to go into the notes.
* The image gallery and notes backend needs to be cleaned up,
documented and put up.
* Symlinks from the codepile entries to my codepile repo checkout
are broken (alternatively, find a better way of modifying the
whole thing as a set, like svn:external).
* Having dynamic RSS for a static text file is inefficient.
* Some of the .plan scripts translate HTML entities when they
don't need to.
* I haven't even started restoring Blasphemy or the Timetable
Comparator.
I'm hoping that mentioning this stuff here makes it more likely that
I'll actually get around to it.
http://www.nsa.gov/kids/
"On this site, you can learn all about codes and ciphers, play lots of
games and activities, and get to know each of us - Crypto Cat,
Decipher Dog, Rosetta Stone, Slate, Joules, T.Top, and, of course,
our leader CSS Sam.
You can also learn about the National Security Agency/Central Security
Service - they're America's real codemakers and codebreakers. Our
Nation's leaders and warfighters count on the technology and
information they get from NSA/CSS to get their jobs done. Without
NSA/CSS, they wouldn.t be able to talk to one another without the bad
guys listening and they wouldn't be able to figure out what the bad
guys were planning."
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http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=185
^ VGcats involkes Godwin
http://acarol.woz.org/
^ Lego Difference Engine (and general discussion of Difference Engines)
http://www.iraqbodycount.net/
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Edmund > What do you think a half-life 2 mud would look like?
Daedalus > text. lots of text.
Che > and maybe some ascii art
(royshen) I have a headache
(MrWhite) i have a sandwich but i dont go around bragging about it
<Everdarkgreen> WE DID THE MASH
<Everdarkgreen> we did the keyboard mash
<Everdarkgreen> THE KEYBOARD MASH
<Everdarkgreen> it was a lihosdptjhskrjngiso;kihy,aehtptuyjgio;t
Horrible dizzy spells and cramps and pains over the past week;
I've spent a lot of time lying down and I've hardly got anything done.
Aparrently I have a deferred exam on Wednesday the 22nd. :/
On the bright side, this is the first .plan entry coming from the new server.
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Nurses want patients who are intent on harming themselves to be
provided with clean blades so that they can cut themselves more
safely.
They say people determined to harm themselves should be helped to
minimise the risk of infection from dirty blades, in the same way as
drug addicts are issued with clean needles.
This could include giving the .self-harm. patients sterile blades
and clean packets of bandages or ensuring that they keep their own
blades clean. Nurses would also give patients advice about which parts
of the body it is safer to cut.
-- http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2025748,00.html
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http://www.openwatcom.org
OpenWatcom is looking for people to help with AMD64 and shared
libraries. I'd be happy to help if I wasn't already spending too much
time hacking on compilers :/
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http://www.boingboing.net/2006/01/30/msft_our_drm_licensi.html
"The fee is not intended to recoup the expenses Microsoft incurred in
developing their DRM, or to turn a profit. The intention is to reduce the
number of licensors to a manageable level, to lock out "hobbyists" and other
entities that Microsoft doesn't want to have to trouble itself with."
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http://www.11alive.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=75151
^ VEGETARIANISM == TERRORISM (or something)
http://www.cbc.ca/quirks/archives/05-06/feb04.html
^ "Exorcizing Myths about Exercise"
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/01/the_failure_of_1.html
^ US-VISIT program costs US$15,000,000,000 and catches... 970 visa violations
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=175636&cid=14600100 (insightful)
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=175636&cid=14600120 (painfully funny)
^ On the New ICANN/VeriSign contract.
http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2002-16.html
http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2003-19.html
^ Rare still-living Darwin Awards
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19:41 <darkmoon> "business cannot afford to operate with such onerous
laws that require a minimum wage, or safe working
conditions, or bans on child labor, or family leave"
19:41 <darkmoon> lolol best capitalism ever
09:37 <Synapse> -=
09:37 <Synapse> 9:36 dleigh@clarence:~>host alphalink.oz.org
09:37 <Synapse> alphalink.oz.org is an alias for alphalink.melbourne.oz.org.
09:37 <Synapse> alphalink.melbourne.oz.org is an alias for germany.oz.org.
09:37 <Synapse> germany.oz.org has address 217.160.180.12
09:37 <Synapse> =-
09:37 <Synapse> AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
09:37 <geoffwa> ror
09:37 <Synapse> GERMANY IS LIKE TOTALLY NOT IN AUSTRALIA
<@WatchDragon> dude, i am like -- that close to having my boating licence
<@motardo> dude, you are like -- that close to having a mullet
A lower cost method of deterring terrorists, would be to simply stop trying
to control every country. I'll bet that would be a lot more effective, too.
-- superchupa
How to get Melbourne weather forecasts in a terminal:
ftp -n ftp2.bom.gov.au << END
user ftp me@example.com
cd /anon/gen/fwo
newer IDV10450.txt
quit
END
cat IDV10450.txt
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http://www.roadrage.com/ - Funny yet probably illegal
http://www.revengeunlimited.com/catalog/
http://www.paulenglish.com/ivr/ - Automated phone thingy cheat sheet
http://clientcopia.com/ Stupid client quotes
(I think this has been in before but I'm reposting as it's classic)
http://www.granitecanyon.com/ - More free public DNS
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Links from cs.general. I check these out, decide to .plan, then mark
them as unread because I'm too lazy to cut and paste into the .plan at
the time, then end up with a pile of unread posts.
https://inside.cs.rmit.edu.au/~imsuyoto/sshterm-applet/sshterm-applet.htm
^ SSH in a browser (ubarthx Iman)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/
^ Visual Studio 2005 (free until Nov 6 2005) (thx Mal)
http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/
^ LLVM intermediate language (thx Emil)
http://www.netapp.com/oldurlredirect.jsp?redirecturl=/library/tr/3002.pdf
^ On the WAFL log-structured filesystem (thx Emil)
http://openmortal.sourceforge.net/
http://www.corewar.co.uk/
http://koth.org
^ Melee games with programmable AI (thx Fabio, Doran, Simon)
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<PsychoAnt> EJECT THE WARP CORE
-!- Netsplit *.net <-> *.split quits: @Z
<geoffwa> NOT THAT WARP CORE YOU FOOLS
I think FAT16 is the best remote filesystem.
I like it best when FAT16 is as remote from myself as possible.
-- turg
The only rational response to both the impending end of the oil age
and the menace of global warming is to redesign our cities, our
farming and our lives. But this cannot happen without massive
political pressure, and our problem is that no one ever rioted for
austerity. People tend to take to the streets because they want to
consume more, not less. Given a choice between a new set of matching
tableware and the survival of humanity, I suspect that most people
would choose the tableware.
-- George Monbiot
I am too hot to write a real .plan entry.
UPDATE: I was too hot to post it, this is a few days old.
19:40 <Synapse> 19:29 <uewepuep> its not cool
19:40 <Synapse> I rored
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/scores-collapse-as-city-bakes/\
2006/01/22/1137864807044.html
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http://www.thememoryhole.org/ciacrimes.htm
From "The Intelligence Community in the 21st Century" by the Permanent
Select Committee on Intelligence, US House of Representatives (1996):
The CS [clandestine service] is the only part of the IC [intelligence
community], indeed of the government, where hundreds of employees on a
daily basis are directed to break extremely serious laws in countries
around the world in the face of frequently sophisticated efforts by
foreign governments to catch them. A safe estimate is that several
hundred times every day (easily 100,000 times a year) DO [Directorate of
Operations] officers engage in highly illegal activities (according to
foreign law) that not only risk political embarrassment to the US but
also endanger the freedom if not lives of the participating foreign
nationals and, more than occasionally, of the clandestine officer
himself.
http://www.access.gpo.gov/congress/house/intel/ic21/ic21_toc.html
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/4630808.stm
Among those who said they would not like to be scientists, reasons
included: "Because you would constantly be depressed and tired and not
have time for family", and "because they all wear big glasses and white
coats and I am female".
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"The vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world.
And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice." -G.W. Bush
I take umbrage with such statments and am induced to pull out archaic
and over pompous words to refute such insipid vitriol. -- kerinsky, k5
If most roleplayers dealt with their real life problems in-game, there would be
a lot more Quests to Defeat the Crippling Fear of Women. -- J.R. "Thor" Antrim
When can we blame Bush's war in Iraq on Call of Duty or SOCOM?
--sevenoverzero
DaveJay:
> IdleTime:
>> Is there a company in USA that has some moral fibre left?
> Yes, cereal manufacturers.
> Oh, wait, that's just the fiber part.
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>> It is absolutely unconscionable that game makers are enabling young
>> people--or anyone--to dramatize shooting and killing as a form of
>> entertainment while officers and innocent people are dying in real-life
>> on our streets every day
> So, I assume you'll get right onto boycotting the show COPS, right?
> Because it dramatizes pursuit and police brutality as a form of
> entertainment while civilians and innocent people are being arrested in
> real-life on our streets every day.
-- voice_of_all_reason
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http://harpers.org/InTheZone.html
[Gunfire]
OP: She's now behind an embankment, 250 meters from the barracks. She
keeps running east. The hits are right on her.
HQ: Are you talking about a girl under ten?
OP: Approximately a ten-year-old girl.
HQ: Roger.
OP: OP to HQ.
HQ: Receiving, over.
OP: She's behind the embankment, dying of fear, the hits are right on
her, a centimeter from her.
SENTRY: Our troops are storming toward her now. They are around 70
meters from her.
HQ: I understand that the company commander and his squad are out?
SENTRY: Affirmative, with a few more soldiers.
OP: Receive. Looks like one of the positions dropped her.
HQ: What, did you see the hit? Is she down?
OP: She's down. Right now she isn't moving.
COMPANY COMMANDER [to HQ]: Me and another soldier are going in. [To the
squad] Forward, to confirm the kill!
CC [to HQ]: We fired and killed her. She has . . . wearing pants . . .
jeans and a vest, shirt. Also she had a kaffiyeh on her
head. I also confirmed the kill. Over.
HQ: Roger.
CC [on general communications band]: Any motion, anyone who moves in the
zone, even if it's a three-year-old, should be killed. Over.
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http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=175203&cid=14567272
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=175203&cid=14571069
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=175203&cid=14573539
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=175203&cid=14568203
^ Evolution vs Creationism
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=175251&cid=14571530
^ Google, China, the US, Censorship, and taking bullshit from the government
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/2005/
^ Over the past 200, last year was the hottest
http://www.unknownnews.net/040515d08gh.html
^ "Whether you can hold a sign that says "F.U.G.W." depends on a cop's mood,
and whether cops can get away with it depends on a judge's mood."
http://www.urbandead.com/
^ Crummy HTML zombie MMORPG
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/01/23
http://www.bash.org/?605550
http://www.bash.org/?524110
http://religiousfreaks.com/
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2005615,00.html
^ Divine Inspiration is protected by Copyright
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4620350.stm
^ "The entire population of Glasgow could fly to New York and back again
and the resulting emissions would still be less than that from
[their] devices left in sleep mode."
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=174798&cid=14540553
^ On buying used or "GOTY" copies of old games
http://blog.outer-court.com/patriot/
^ Help the government by making your search activity public.
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=174669&cid=14530914
^ "I am confident that the parties each spent hundreds of thousands of
dollars arguing over a single word. And a very short word at that."
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=174699&cid=14532991
^ On hassling your "representatives"
http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/\
us-officer-guilty-over-death-of-iraqi-general/2006/01/22/1137864806519.html
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/01/21/bin_laden_book/index_np.html
http://www.kuro5hin.org/comments/2006/1/14/213156/897/\
56?mode=alone;showrate=1#56
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I couldn't help but laugh when I learned, earlier today, that the word
"factoid" technically refers to an untrue piece of information that is
accepted as true due to repetition in the media.
In a profound stroke of irony, the incorrect definition of 'factoid' (a
small piece of information) has become the prevailing one through
repetition in the media.
-- Councli, /.
dleigh 16:01:01 yallara:pts/44:~> wc .taglines
2610 15992 88385 .taglines
dleigh 16:01:05 yallara:pts/44:~> wc .plan
23910 100083 718344 .plan
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/\
court-to-decide-if-jesus-existed/2006/01/25/1138066818314.html
"An Italian court will this week ponder the existence of Christ after
an atheist accused a priest of misleading the public by presenting
Jesus as an historical character."
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http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/01/24/1138066793168.html
^ "The security service has begun searching Moscow for other suspicious rocks."
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=PR84027
^ hurr leaking
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<Boney> the programmer in me feels filthy with emotion
UML is for illiterates who cannot describe their design using code and
written text. -- Slava Pestov
latex is not a 'typesetting system', it's a horrible lump of anti-matter
that you get when you combine tenure with a lack of understanding of
computing principles.
-- tkatchevzombie
If it wasn't for NNTP, I'd have to find a real hobby. -- emikulic
God will bless you if you follow RFC 1855.
-- Neeraj Arora (in a religious newsgroup thread)
<Insomniak> i hit myself in the nuts playing air guitar
<nxn> darwin is hard at work
<oneo|SUMMER> the US has some of the best schools in the nation
THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE, HER LOVER,
AND THE TWO HOURS OF MY LIFE THAT ARE GONE AND I CAN NEVER GET BACK
-- AsciiArtFarts
This is the Jesus Button. You press it and it calls Jesus.
It's like praying, in that it doesn't work,
but at least it requires less effort.
-- AsciiArtFarts
Nobody should be taking drugs for immoral purposes, like having a good
time.
-- paranoid_hedgehog
CVS has some strengths. It's a very stable piece of code largely
because nobody wants to work on it anymore.
-- Tom Lord
Having a feeding tube crammed down your esophagus is "God's Will"
and how He intended us to live.
-- Psycho Dave
dleigh : Howcome stickykeys only got enabled when you came?
emikulic: ...
Back on teh intarweb, on a connection twice as fast.
In other news, it's way too fucking hot. I had to stop working on my
new server as I was overheating, and my workstation breached the 60
degree CPU alarm for the first time ever.
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You are a
Social Liberal
(80% permissive)
and an...
Economic Liberal
(10% permissive)
You are best described as a:
Socialist
You exhibit a very well-developed sense of Right and
Wrong and believe in economic fairness.
loc: (112, -150)
modscore: (6, 48)
raw: (945)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassin_%28game%29
^ I want to start an RMIT chapter :)
http://www.bash.org/?603526
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Chaosfeary#\
Once_a_user_becomes_an_admin.2C_they_are_free_to_do_anything_they_wish
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_02/b3966086.htm
^ "[A person] has a right to use his knife to cut his meat, a fork to
hold it; may a patentee take from him the right to combine their use on
the same subject?" -- Thomas Jefferson
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=173121&cid=14406005
^ Redundancy in Electronics (Middelbrook's Extra Element Theorem)
http://www.gwydiondylan.org/books/drm/ aie
http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20041112-112037-7263r.htm
^ "Major bugs found in Diebold vote systems" lolz @ US elections
http://www.wellington.org/nandor/chemwords/chemwords.htm
^ English words that can be spelt with chemical symbols
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=172833&cid=14386368
^ Intellectual Freedom Party?
http://www.physicstoday.org/vol-59/iss-1/pdf/vol59no1p49_54.pdf
^ "Vehicle Design and the Physics of Traffic Safety" (SUV vs. non-SUV)
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=181
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4120755.stm
^ Dedicated to Global Warning denialists
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Gein
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060104161112858
^ Best EULA ever
"Most people, I think, don't even know what salmonella is so why should
they care about it?"
http://www.newsarama.com/ImageComics/Fell/Fell01Issue.htm
^ Free #1 issue comics
http://www.artlebedev.com/portfolio/optimus/
http://afr.com/articles/2005/06/23/1119321845502.html
^ On the cost-effectiveness of nuclear power
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1682207,00.html
^ "American troops in Baghdad yesterday blasted their way into the home of an
Iraqi journalist working for the Guardian and Channel 4, firing bullets
into the bedroom where he was sleeping with his wife and children."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=172833&cid=14386368
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"Like" is the new "Um". -- robgamble
INTERSTITIAL VOWELS ARE CHEATING!!!11!one!$ -- skyknight (k5)
<dr00d> gd, my gf is so fucking stupid
<stupid> shit, you found out about that?
<StaticFish> Where did I put my stick of RAM?
<StaticFish> I'm losing my memory.
<+phlange> i said 'dhcp' and the tech support guy started to cry
Yikes: Someone sneaked into Rob's back yard and PLANTED A TREE this morning
Yikes: a seven-foot deciduous sapling. That's the BEST act of vandalism EVER
hotpinkcutie09: yea let me tell you he spent one ENTIRE class talkin
about how to spell prapoganda
MisgivenGlassJaw: My guess is that you slept through that lesson
"Too many people are only willing to defend rights that are personally
important to them. It's selfish ignorance, and it's exactly why totalitarian
governments are able to get away with trampling on people. Freedom does not
mean freedom just for the things I think I should be able to do. Freedom is
for all of us. If people will not speak up for other's people's rights, there
will come a day when they will lose their own." - Tony Lawrence
<WorldEdit> do you think the word emo would be accepted in scrabble
<Sevivrus> Of course not. Emos are never accepted anywhere.
"He's up in heaven now, bumming smokes off Jesus." -- Francine, American Dad
ShoMonkayHe: Guess what
Maxx Stepper: you lost our virginity?
Maxx Stepper: your*
<JungleMason> There's a hole in my heart that can only be filled by you.
<Gabealicious> Have you tried epoxy?
They "intend" to be ruthless in there pursuit of the fugitives. They did not
"intend" to consider the value of anything or anyone who gets in the way.
Somebody is responsible for ending 17 innocent lives through profound
negligence - no matter how noble and benign their motivation might have been.
-- daani, k5
If we accept for the sake of argument that this air strike was ordered by good
people to achieve good ends, that doesn't change the fact that it was illegal.
This is vigilantism, not justice. -- mr_strange, k5
OPTIMIST DROWNS IN HALF-FULL TUB
-- headline, American Dad
<dura> I really think I'm a moron.
<dura> I just now realised that Neo spelled backwards is one.
"She thinks I'm repulsive. The worst part of it is, she's right"
-- Steve, American Dad
<DAL9000> that would be almost insulting if it were grammatically correct
Marge: (on radio) Husband on murderous rampage. Send help. Over.
Chief Wiggum: Whew, thank God that's over. I was worried for a little bit.
Activists: "We're here! We're queer! Get used to it!
Lisa: "You do this every year! We are used to it."
Activist: "Spoilsport!"
Frink: "Let the commencement... beginulate!"
Brandine: Cletus, you're the most wonderful husband and son I ever had.
(This has to be the best and the worst simpsons moment ever)
A society is only as successful as its least fortunate members.
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This user does not understand the American "English" "language"
artificially created by Noah Webster in 1828 for no other reason than
just to be "different" and bloody well doesn't want to.
I've fallen off the intarweb due to churning from TPG to Internode. I
don't think there was actually anything wrong with the connection to
TPG on Monday and Tuesday, but I couldn't reach anything outside of
TPG itself. Bastards.
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"In their diligent search for evidence, the agents also cut off locks,
forced open footlockers, tore up dozens of boxes in the warehouse, and
bent two of the office letter openers attempting to pick the lock on a
file cabinet."
http://www.sjgames.com/SS/
http://www.eff.org/legal/cases/SJG/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GURPS_Cyberpunk#.E2.80.9C\
The_book_that_was_seized_by_the_U._S._Secret_Service.E2.80.9D
"In the course of that visit, it became clear that the investigating
agents considered GURPS Cyberpunk to be "a handbook for computer
crime." They seemed to make no distinction between a discussion of
futuristic credit fraud, using equipment that doesn't exist, and
modern real-life credit card abuse."
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http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=62504
http://www.explodidendron.com/?p=19
^ The Cruft Collection
http://www.circleid.com/posts/vint_cerf_speaking_out_on_internet_neutrality/
http://www.parm.net/web2.0/ - wankr beta
http://news.com.com/U.K.+judge+frowns+on+software+patents/\
2100-1012_3-6027097.html?tag=st_lh
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=174109&cid=14486572
^ Patenting and prior art checks
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news.asp?article_id=24561
^ "Man jailed for not killing woman"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0190806/
http://www.boingboing.net/images/storyofmenstruation.jpg
^ Best disney film ever.
http://designetc.net/mpaa.jpg - On piracy and licence infringement
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=174311&cid=14503362
^ "The red-headed stepchild of non-renewables: Helium"
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=174281&cid=14499420
^ "You might be a Bush sycophant if:"
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=174281&cid=14498571
^ We the sheeple...
http://www.alp.org.au/features/lies.php
^ Truth Overboard
http://www.defectiveyeti.com/archives/001561.html
^ Iraqi Invasion: A Text Misadventure
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America: still more rights than North Korea
-- tpgp, /.
The American political scene is two armies in trenches, shooting at
straw men in no-man's-land.
--Anon
It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends $500,000 for every
enemy soldier killed, and only $53 annually on the victims of poverty.
--Martin Luther King, Jr
The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the
growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than
their democratic state itself. That, in its' essence, is Fascism -
ownership of government power by an individual, by a group or by any
controlling power.
--Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.
--John F. Kennedy
Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap
people's minds and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.
--Arundhati Roy
"Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding
of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are
being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and
exposing the country to greater danger. It works the same way in any
country."
-- Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials, 1945-1946
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
--Abraham Lincoln
I said on my program, if the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam
Hussein and it's clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the
nation, and I will not trust the Bush administration again.
--Bill O'Reilly, on ABC's Good Morning America, 03-18-03
"These are the actions of a regime that systematically and deliberately is
defying the world." --George W. Bush, March 6, 2003.
No updates since I was last at uni! I seem to have spent most of the
past 2.5 weeks attending family/birthday/christmas/new year gatherings.
I haven't updated my webpage yet, since all the scripts were based
off clarence. I might do something about that today.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Kyoto_Protocol_participation_map_2005.png
We fail it :(
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http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=171476&cid=14281072
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=171476&cid=14281289
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=171476&cid=14281326
http://shockandblog.com/blog/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=16
http://shockandblog.com/blog/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=18
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Dedicated to Fred Phelps:
http://www.godhateshomophobes.com/
http://www.godlovesfags.com/
http://www.godhatesfredphelps.com/
http://www.godhateswbc.com/
http://www.satanlovesfredphelps.com/
http://www.godhatesfigs.com/
http://www.godhatesglobes.com/
http://www.godhatesshrimp.com/
http://www.godhatesrepublicans.org/
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http://www.furcadia.com/ It's Massively Multiplayer and it's FURRY!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Robert_Rudolph Christian terrorism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Hicks - Lots of good quotes (scroll down)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Bird
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadpan omg an Australian reference
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop_bear
http://www.coolermaster.com/index.php?LT=english&Language_s=2&\
url_place=product&p_serial=STC-T01&other_title=STC-T01CM%20Stacker%20ATX%2FBTX
^ Got one of these for my new server :)
http://us.cnn.com/2005/LAW/12/20/intelligent.design.ap/index.html
^ Court rejects unintelligent design
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/12/23/experiment_to_see_if.html
^ How to check if your mail is being read/tapped
http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/Conservatism
http://www.ep.tc/grenada/ And they say the US doesn't make propaganda
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Swifty
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing
http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/Almost_raped
http://www.magictricks.com/library/dangerous.htm The Bullet Catch
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3514.txt lulz
http://cryptome.org/small-call.htm on surveillance
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-neutral_pronoun
http://www.instructables.com/
^ How to make and build stuff
http://www.tvguide.com/News/Insider/?cmsGuid=\
%7BCDE83132-DDF2-48F9-9DD7-AA5381BCC22F%7D
^ Predictions on TV in 2006
http://thingy.apana.org.au/~fun/fsckhead.html
^ "What makes a fuckhead?"
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/12/30/1135732715858.html
^ "Porn star arrested for raping boy"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externalities
^ Best example ever
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fields/79478466/
^ "I can only assume that this is some sort of religious font."
http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/\
the-lion-the-witch-and-the-world-trade-talks/2005/12/22/1135032135777.html
^ "The story claimed Narnia had walked out of the [WTO] talks..."
http://www.godhatesfredphelps.com/hatecrimes.html
^ A list of US homosexuals murdered in anti-gay attacks
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002711400_danny30.html
^ Horse sex gets more hits than "important" news stories
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051229/ap_on_re_mi_ea/journey_to_iraq
^ Unembedded journalism
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB113579153636833083-Xd1XL6NfsXVhz\
TL0_JKthJ9Wiic_20061229.html?mod=rss_free
^ Survey confirms: USians believe whatever their government says
http://www.boingboing.net/images/file001.jpg
^ Hooters 2006 Calendar (Furry Edition)
http://www.dac.net.au/index.php?option=com_content\
&task=blogsection&id=6&Itemid=67
^ DAC Auctions (thx Dan)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/16/international/middleeast/16reconstruct.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1135006196-DBN1h7OA/TL0I/Tv/U2XAA
^ "An Army lieutenant colonel who received the Bronze Star for her
wartime service in Iraq was arrested yesterday and charged with taking
bribes in a growing corruption scandal involving the Iraq
reconstruction program...
Some of the cash, intended for projects like a library in the holy
city of Karbala and an Iraqi police academy south of Baghdad, paid
for a new hot tub and a deck for Colonel Harrison's home in
Trenton..."
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2004/s1170954.htm
"The High Court had been asked to determine whether failed asylum
seekers with nowhere else to go, can be kept in detention indefinitely.
Four of the seven judges declared that they could."
http://www.antec.com/us/productDetails.php?ProdID=24350
^ omega omega fanless PSU (if only it was more than 350W)
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/library/\
TechRef/8cc5891d-bf8e-4164-862d-dac5418c5948.mspx
^ "How NTFS Works" [painfully!]
http://timlambert.org/2005/04/gwsbingo/
^ Global Warming Sceptic Bingo
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=171476&cid=14281787
^ A new presidential record
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/1987928.stm
^ The "Birmingham Six"
http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/israel-adds-to-settlements/\
2005/12/15/1134500918802.html
^ More invaders
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=177
^ Bubble Bobble explained!
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=171356&cid=14271532
^ Slashdot moderation working
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4534488.stm
^ dat aint constitutional
(also note: You get better US news from a Brit agency)
http://www.memepool.com/ MLP
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* kristvoir has joined #pants
kristvoir> quite a few people today
kristvoir> perhaps a few pplz made a New years revolution to idle
Synapse > an idle promise, eh?
"Terror is an emotion, not a country, and the war on terror would be
better fought by an army of psychiatrists." -- NPR
Often, ponytailed men would remove the hair band in certain settings, to
display their full growth, often for mating or dominance display.
Alas, most of the tied-back rebellion has been shorn.
-- Wikipedia
The United States is historically remarkable for being the first nation
with obese poor people. -- Cut from Wikipedia :(
For Pol Pot, well-being meant a return to the stone age, for GWB it
means a return to the dark ages. The reason why the former seems like
sheer lunacy while the latter is considered "a conservative approach",
is largely a matter of familiarity. -- Someone on K5
"Perl is awk with skin cancer. And it's ugly too." -Anon. CS Professor
darkmoon> also, not using it makes dylan have a hissy-fit about irc this
and standards that, so that's an end in itself
Synapse > RFC RFC I CANT HEAR YOU LALALALA
<BUBBLES> Shit. I need a date for a new year's eve concert.
<Nick> december 31st
(R-66Y) 1280x1024 at 60hz hurts my eyes
(raygun) hmm
(raygun) it Hz your eyes
(raygun) SNORT SNORT
orangemunky: yes, but can you spell antidisestablishmentarianism???
Q-13: I can now, dumbass!
orangemunky: ........
orangemunky: shit
<zien> ah i love water. it's like nature's fruit juice.
<cgom> ....FRUIT JUICE is nature's fruit juice. moron.
DYLAN LEIGH IS A LIBERAL MYTH! -- PsychoAnt
All mainstream US politics is right wing. All the choice you get is between
Thatcherite free marketism and absolute raving fascism. -- mr_strange, k5
The trouble with true freedom is that you have to give it to people you
don't like. -- Rebecca Callaghan
The biggest "danger" the little red book constitutes is that it might make
some readers see the difference between communist ideology and what has been
practiced in the name of communism in totalitarian states - the greatest
bulwark against support for communist ideas today is that most people still
think of countries like China, North Korea or the old Soviet Union as
representative of communist ideology, rather than as dictatures that
flagrantly abuse it's symbolism and phrases. How many people today consider
the Inquisition representative of Christian ideas (I don't, and I'm an
atheist), or for that matter consider Hitlers support for the church as proof
churches are evil? -- vidarh (/.)
It really amazes me that so many "good Christians" believe in always helping
the cops. I mean, their Christ was executed, according to the law of the
times, after being seized by the cops for being a troublemaking radical. You'd
think they might remember that. -- orthogonal (/.)
<Synapse> "Unless otherwise noted in the entry text of a map, all main
areas of Furcadia are family-oriented."
<Synapse> Doesn't that defeat the purpose?
"Who are you, and how did you get in here?"
"I'm a locksmith, and... I'm a locksmith."
-- Police Squad
"We're sorry to bother you at a time like this... we would have come
earlier but your husband wasn't dead then."
-- Police Squad
"Cigarette?" "Yes, it is."
-- Police Squad (running gag)
If you can't say something nice, say something surrealistic.
-- Zippy the Pinhead
Oh, no! The dead have risen and they're voting Republican!
-- Bart Simpson
Bullwinkle: "Oh it's the right house, just the wrong story!"
Rocky: "How's that possible?"
Bullwinkle: "Easy, it's a two-story house!"
Rocky: "Do you know what A bomb means?"
Bullwinkle: "Certainly. A bomb is what some people call our program."
Rocky: "I don't think that's so funny."
Bullwinkle: "Neither do they, apparently."
Bullwinkle: "When it comes to humility, I'm the greatest!"
Rocky: "Gee, I must say I'm disappointed."
Bullwinkle: "Well, go ahead."
Rocky: "What? Okay, 'I'm disappointed."
Bullwinkle: "And I'm Bullwinkle."
"I subscribe to Mark Twain's theory that the last person who should be
President is the one who wants it the most. The one who should be picked is
the one who should be dragged, kicking and screaming into the White House."
-- Bill Hicks
"I'm sorry if any of you are Catholic. [beat] I'm not sorry if you're offended,
I'm actually just sorry about the fact that you're Catholic." - Bill Hicks
"Man vs. Nature: The War on Terra"
-- Title of a Daily Show segment
"I'm a comedian and poet, so anything that doesn't get a laugh... is a poem."
-- Bill Hicks
A bun is the lowest form of wheat
-- Anon.
The eleventh pun always gets a laugh, even if no pun in ten did.
-- Anon.
"Heralds don't pun; they cant." -- SCA heralds' expression
"Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted."
-- Fred Allen
The pun is mightier than the sword.
-- James Joyce
A waist is a terrible thing to mind.
Garbage collectors don't die, they just kick the can.
Old doctors never die, they just lose their patience.
Old electricians never die, they just get discharged.
Be true to your teeth, or they will be false to you.
He had a photographic memory that was never developed.
I were so poor when I was at school I couldn't even afford to pay attention.
It's pointless to write with a broken pencil.
It's better to love a short girl than not a tall.
If you don't pay your exorcist you get repossessed.
Every calendar's days are numbered.
Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.
Santa's elves are subordinate Clauses.
I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.
He said I was average - but he was just being mean.
He avoided funerals because he was not a mourning person.
To some - marriage is a word ... to others - a sentence.
Never lie to an x-ray technician. They can see right through you.
They tried to keep a locksmith in prison, but the nut bolted.
If you give some managers an inch they think they're a ruler.
Talking to her about computers I make my mother board.
She was only a whisky maker but he loved her still.
A criminal's best asset is his lie ability.
Ancient orators tended to Babylon.
Once you've seen one shopping center you've seen a mall.
Some burglars are always looking for windows of opportunity.
Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead to know basis.
A backwards poet writes inverse.
Those who throw dirt are sure to lose ground.
Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
A thief who stole a calendar got twelve months.
We'll never run out of math teachers - they multiply too quickly.
(Mostly adapted for added lulz from punoftheday.com)
Busy with assorted birthday/family/christmas gatherings since Saturday,
so I haven't been on IRC or had much of a chance to update the .plan. :/
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http://www.unitednuclear.com/magnets.htm
"Of all the unique items we offer for sale, we consider these two items
the most dangerous of all. Our normal packing & shipping personnel
refuse to package these magnets - our engineers have to do it. This is
no joke and we cannot stress it strongly enough - that you must be
extremely careful - and know what you're doing with these magnets. Take
Note: Two of the 3" x 1" disc magnets can very easily break your arm if
they get out of control."
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http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/12/13/181830/80
^ Sydney Race Riots
http://www.smh.com.au/text/articles/2005/12/13/1134236060746.html
^ On sedition
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/\
alan-jones-im-the-person-thats-led-this-charge/2005/12/12/1134236003153.html
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http://www.theonion.com/content/node/33067
^ American torturing jobs increasingly outsourced
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/43441
^ New Video Game Designed To Have No Influence On Kids' Behavior
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/43189
^ Voice Of God Revealed To Be Cheney On Intercom
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_white_woman_syndrome
http://darwinawards.com/rules/rules.testosterone.html
http://www.darwinawards.com/misc/motto.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1664149,00.html
^ Planespotters, the CIA and rendition
http://www.scitoys.com/scitoys/scitoys/electro/electro6.html
^ DIY Van-De-Graaf generator
http://www.moboid.com/lapis/index.htm
^ "A magical pet adventure...and stealthy primer on female sexual pleasure"
http://lists.burri.to/pipermail/geowanking/2005-December/002220.html
^ local.live and privacy
http://bedazzled.blogs.com/bedazzled/2005/12/the_new_bedazzl.html
^ 100% Wingnut Free!
http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64/motherboards.html
^ AMD motherboard compatibility list
http://www.doom9.org/xvid-vdub-final.htm
^ Encoding with XviD
http://www.lemuria.org/DeCSS/lawyers.html
^ Assorted lawyer jokes
http://tor.eff.org/
^ Yet another anonymous communications system
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005570447,00.html
^ How to stop bank customers complaining about the long wait times
http://www.tamponcrafts.com/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1607918,00.html
^ More rendition
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/12/06/1133829595917.html?from=rss
^ Yet more rendition
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/12/06/1133829596080.html?from=rss
^ Detain-without-charge rammed through parliament
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/\
article/2005/12/02/AR2005120201853.html
^ BellSouth's sour grapes
http://www.skepticreport.com/creationism/thingscreationistshate.htm
http://www.evilbible.com/
http://news.com.com/Root+servers+The+real+Net+power/2008-1028_3-5961465.html
^ Interview with a DNS root manager
http://www.atheistagenda.org/porno-for-bibles/
^ "Had a professor of the women and gender studies yell at us to take a
course in logic and ethics -- without giving us a chance to respond
(she stormed off and proceeded to call us names in front of her class)."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roguelike
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1654661,00.html
^ "The Pentagon has come up with an innovative solution to solving the
problems in Iraq: buying good news."
http://gigi.pixcode.com/noxmas.gif
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At the very bedrock of the difference between the DNS and NTP models is
that DNS service with domain names makes money and NTP service with
network expense loses it.
-- David L. Mills, comp.protocols.time.ntp
They'd be funny if they kept to their own fucking country's business.
The whole imperialist fascism thing kinda took the humour out of America.
--der, k5
"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are
conservatives." - John Stuart Mill
"The current administration don't really need fake terrorists to keep
the electorate scared as their foreign policy continues to create
plenty of real ones." -- some_nerd, k5
"As long as I am mayor of this city [Jersey City, New Jersey] the great
industries are secure. We hear about constitutional rights, free speech
and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, That
man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never hear a real American
talk like that."
-- Frank "I am the law" Hague (1896-1956)
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<Arendra> A smiley says a thousand words
<Arendra> :-)
*** Arendra has quit IRC (Excess Flood)
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This is a perfect example of typical #pants dialogue.
<golgy> q-fan?
<uewepuep> quiet..fan
<evil_shai> QUEERFAN OMG OMG LOLOLOL
<uewepuep> queerfag?
I thought I would be *less* busy in the holidays :(
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http://content.ytmnd.com/content/b/0/b056cfa15a003d332bad9a998fa0c1fe.gif
^ Indiana Jones and the Katamari Damacy (~650K)
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It doesn't matter if the criticism is valid or not
when you can say OMG YUO R ANTIAMERICAN!!!1
-- mettaur, k5
Its leader has a direct line to god, who tells him he can ignore
impeding environmental catastrophe, wage war upon the unbelievers,
torture and imprison his enemies, and deliver his own people into
corporate slavery.
-- mr strange, k5
"It's an old story, I'm afraid. When you're finished oppressing your
own people, you set your sights on oppressing others. On my world, we
called it colonization."
-- The Captain's Table
Nasty stabbing pains in my chest since Monday :( I think it's a
reaction to the tons of mulberries and legumes I consumed on Sunday :(
Again, I haven't been diligent with the updating, apologies for the
aging links. Once my server gets fixed, the website and .plan should
get some major improvements.
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http://www.makezine.com/images/04/p42-43belgrade.pdf
^ "How to make a film, with no money, while being bombed"
http://theyworkforyou.com/
http://writetothem.com/
http://www.hearfromyourmp.com/
^ If only we had these in Australia
http://www.democracyarsenal.org/2005/05/weekly_top_10_l.html
^ Top 10 Things the UN does (well)
http://www.startrekanimated.com/tas_main.html
http://www.politechbot.com/2005/04/01/religious-leaders-warn/
http://www.lemis.com/grog/whyadaemon.html
^ Beastie is Satanism
http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/\
2005/11/_the_october_is.html#001369
^ Like, who can even pronounce "okadaic acid"?
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article328158.ece
^ "Torture and mutilation used on Iraqi 'insurgents'"
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article328214.ece
^ "British-trained police in Iraq 'killed prisoners with drills'"
http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/lfcamera/
^ "Light Field Photography with a Hand-Held Plenoptic Camera"
(alternatively: A camera you can focus after you take the photo)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castlevania_Timeline
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051115-5580.html
^ `MPAA equates pirated DVDs to "drugs on the street"'
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/6/8/2524/90038
^ Linux Trackers (and trackers/tracker music in general)
http://nuwen.net/dx.html - Deus Ex Story
http://www.deusexgaming.com/deusex/modding/tutorials/
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http://www.commonbits.org/files/torrent/torture.mov.torrent
^ Daily Show on Torture and Republicans
More Daily Show: http://www.commonbits.org/tag/daily-show
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http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/\
70465?PHPSESSID=f92fbb1a965bd22ec16253fffd0bc3e2
"Journalists, others at World Summit on the Information Society
attacked by authorities"
Ah, irony.
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http://www.icannwatch.org/
http://www.icannatlarge.com/
http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2005/11/18/\
two_charged_in_iraq_contracts/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoscience
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/11/16/1132016820398.html?oneclick=true
http://blog.commonbits.org/2005/11/new_dtvcompatib.html
^ Daily Show clips
http://www.anselsbrain.com/?p=27
^ DRM violates Anti-DRM Licence
http://cp.sonybmg.com/xcp/english/titles.html
^ The new (50-odd) list of CDs with XCP
http://bsd.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=166977&cid=13923381
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http://www.boingboing.net/2005/11/16/gang_drugs_victims_w.html
"Several years ago, members of another transvestite gang in Pattaya
admitted to applying strong tranquilisers to their nipples to drug and
then rob unsuspecting men."
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17:02 <bwarff> when i was a kid 'fairness' was descrived as 'rich people
paying tax to provide services to the poor'
17:02 <bwarff> fairness is now described in terms of how unfair it is
that rich pay more taxes and get less services.
17:03 <bwarff> we now live in a duoblethink age where it 'fairer' for the
government to give money to private schools than public ones.
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16:00 <Synapse> Why do so many people take up cartooning?
16:00 <Synapse> They just feel _drawn_ to it.
16:01 <darkmoon> ow ow ow
16:01 * kristvoir hits dylan with park bench
16:02 -!- mode/#pants [+o uewepuep] by Z
16:02 -!- mode/#pants [+b *!*@<snip>] by uewepuep
16:02 <uewepuep> fucking
16:02 <uewepuep> DIE DIE DIE DIE DIEDIEDIE
16:02 <kristvoir> who is banned?
16:02 <uewepuep> dylan
16:02 <kristvoir> ahhahah
16:02 <kristvoir> now he can never quit
16:02 <uewepuep> unless, HE QUITS PUNNING
16:03 <darkmoon> zing!
16:03 <darkmoon> good one dan
16:03 <kristvoir> or acQUIT himself
16:03 * kristvoir hides
16:03 <uewepuep> ooh
16:03 <darkmoon> *giggle*
16:03 <darkmoon> you guys are pretty good, but you're no dylan
23:39 <kristvoir> Synapse: you've caused a pundemic!
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"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent" -- Salvor Hardin
Punched Paper Tape is the medium of the future. What other medium weighs
less the more data you put on it? -- Karl Auerbach
<iibbmm> Stupid World of Warcraft.
<iibbmm> I have no money, I have no skills. All of the hot hot elvin
women are dancing with the big warrior guys. It's college all
over again.
Seeing how OpenSSH, pf and several other 'OpenBSD Spinoffs' have made it
to Linux and other Unix-like operating systems, I'd have to say that at
the very least, OpenBSD is by far the most interesting project in the
BSD world for non-BSDers.
-- ASCII (/.)
I've never used OpenBSD, but I really like their release songs!
- Gathers (/.)
I guess skepticism takes a back-seat when you get a juicy opportunity to
wave your prejudices about. -- Rho (/.)
Terrorists can attack freedom, but only Congress can destroy it.
-- Keith Tyler
Complete and utter updating failure. I've been busy and haven't got
around to writing up .plan entries. Again, apologies for any staleness -
some of these have been sitting here for around a week.
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Update Monday: Yet more Sony Shit
http://www.falsepositives.com/index.php/2005/11/10/\
when-entertainment-companies-become-gangsters/
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/index.php?\
option=com_content&task=view&id=996&Itemid=89&nsub=
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004145.php
http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/11/sonys-rootkit-first-4-internet.html
^ Lolz at their ridiculously incompetent programmers
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/securityrisk.aries.html
http://www.sonybmg.com/management.html - For contact purposes
<DmncAtrny> I will write on a huge cement block "BY ACCEPTING THIS BRICK
THROUGH YOUR WINDOW, YOU ACCEPT IT AS IS AND AGREE TO MY
DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS WELL AS
DISCLAIMERS OF ALL LIABILITY, DIRECT, INDIRECT,
CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL, THAT MAY ARISE FROM THE
INSTALLATION OF THIS BRICK INTO YOUR BUILDING."
<DmncAtrny> And then hurl it through the window of a Sony officer
<DmncAtrny> and run like hell
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http://www.seuss.org/seuss/seuss.sttng.html
"If Dr. Seuss wrote for Star Trek: The Next Generation..."
This is distilled quality.
" Picard: LaForge, please give us factor nine.
LaForge:But, sir, the engines are offline!
Picard: Offline! But why? I want to go!
Please make it so, please make it so!
Riker: But sir, if Geordi says we can't,
We can't, we mustn't, and we shan't,
The danger here is far too great!
Picard: But surely we must not be late! "
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http://www.the-inquirer.com/?article=27568
"A [recently filed] patent may allow Sony to ensure that no game would be
playable from any console other than the one in which it was first read...
The technology would allow an authentication code to be read and then
rendered unreadable, making the software unplayable on any machine but
the one which first read it."
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http://www.seuss.org/seuss/seuss.purity.html [NSFW, sort of]
http://www.bash.org/?412376
http://mse.uta.edu/Priya/Piezoelectric%20Windmill.pdf
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=925 - More Sony Suncomm Spyware
http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Uncyclopedia:How_To_Be_Funny_And_Not_Just_Stupid
http://www.killbillsbrowser.com/
http://explorerdestroyer.com/
http://www.funkyhorror.net/toxicfrog/projects/ss1hr/
^ System Shock 1 high res patch (thx Alhazan)
http://people.csail.mit.edu/rahimi/helmet/
^ MIT Confirms: Foil helments actually amplify mind-control signals. :(
http://www.scalzi.com/agent/
^ SF comedy novel, available electronically for free.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002612507_pets09.html
^ Rome's Office for Animal Rights
http://mediamatters.org/items/200511100008
"And if Al Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, we're not going to do
anything about it. We're going to say, look, every other place in
America is off limits to you, except San Francisco. You want to blow up
the Coit Tower? Go ahead."
http://ukcdr.org/issues/cd/bad/
http://www.fatchuck.com/z3.html
^ Lists of non-CDs
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/11/08/wifi_isnt_short_for_.html
^ "Wireless Filedity"
http://www.politechbot.com/2005/11/04/how-the-mpaa/
"I wonder what kind of dystopian cyberpunk future we live in when you
are physically searched before entering a movie theatre."
http://lawofwar.org/nicaraugua_v_us.htm
http://www.petitiononline.com/yiff/petition.html
http://www.surjpatel.com/ - Build your own mobile
http://troppoarmadillo.ubersportingpundit.com/archives/009694.html
^ On Australia's new KGB laws
http://www.venganza.org/spread/springfield.htm
^ Prosyletizing FSM
http://www.geocities.com/intelligentfalling/intelligent-falling.html
http://www.fred.net/tds/noodles/noodle.html
^ Evidence for Intelligent (FSM) Design
http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Twat - The War Against Terror
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Jokebook:You_have_two_cows/C
"You have two cows. You give them both to your landlord who sits around
all day producing nothing. You slave away for pittance and respect your
landlord as an upstanding citizen, how else would he have earned all
that capital..."
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"When the autopsy of our democracy is performed, it is my belief that media
silence will be given as the primary cause of death." -- Jonathon Simon
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<timmo> 20% of americans believe the sun revolves around the earth, 17%
of the people who know that the earth revolves around the sun,
believe it does so every 24hours
<timmo> jesus
<timmo> people are fucking morons
<wind`> wait what
<wind`> doesn't the earth revolve around the sun in 24 hours?
<timmo> well i guess we found one of the 17%
<chris> ontario, canada is one of the only places in the world where you
can marry a fag but you can't smoke one
I've been ill and/or studying for exams this past week, so I haven't got
around to doing a .plan entry. I've been dumping stuff into the bookmarks
or a textfile and it is reproduced here for your enjoyment. Apologies if
a fair bit of it is out of date.
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http://www.badmash.org/videos/videos_flv.php?v=george_bush_512K_Stream
Interview with the "Presidential Speechalist"
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/\
2005/11/01/AR2005110101644.html?nav%3Dhcmodule&sub=AR
"Virtually nothing is known about who is kept in the facilities, what
interrogation methods are employed with them, or how decisions are made
about whether they should be detained or for how long."
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/17/bbc_lost_tape/
"Hi Paul, this is Beth. We have an emergency. Apparently you gave the
courier a six-foot fridge to be delivered to BBC Bristol instead of the
tape we need in the studio today..."
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http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/10/sony-rootkits-and-digital-rights.html
Chances are you've already seen this, otherwise you might want to check
it out before putting audio cds in a windows box.
Also check out http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities.html for some neat
freeware system utilities.
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http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/10/31/pastor.electrocuted.ap/index.html
"The Rev. Kyle Lake, 33, was stepping into the baptistery as he reached
out for the microphone, which produced an electric shock..."
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http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/\
806ffb24a5f27010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd/10.html
"The Worst Jobs in Science"
From #1: "Last year an industry-funded University of California at San
Diego study paid students $15 an hour to have the root killer and World
War I nerve agent chloropicrin shot into their eyes and noses..."
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http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/edward_tabash/outcry.html
"A recent Gallup Poll revealed that a greater majority of American voters
would vote against a political candidate just for being an atheist than
would vote against a candidate just for being gay or lesbian. Thus, in a
very real sense, people who don't believe in God are the object of even
more general public animosity than are homosexuals."
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http://www.writesf.com/ Guide to writing Science Fiction
http://www.afterinnocence.com/
http://www.defensetech.org/archives/cat_iraq_diary.html
^ `Inside the "Baghdad Bomb Squad"'
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004106.php
^ Thing from the Analog Hole
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1605521,00.html?gusrc=rss
^ SPOOOORTS
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1606486,00.html
^ "Home Office inquiry team barred from privately run child prisons"
http://www.lib.rmit.edu.au/borrowing/patron.php
^ New RMIT Library borrowing records/renewals link
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http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2005/10/\
ghost_town_new_orleans.html
http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2005/10/gentrifying_disaster.html
^ "Ethnic Cleansing, GOP-style"
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/11/03/brown.fema.emails/index.html
http://www.irregulartimes.com/tortureboykin.html
^ "American Torture, Religion and the Crusade of General William G. Boykin"
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SteveDixon23: how hard do you think it would be to build a working EMP bomb?
xanxion : the hard part would be making a video to prove it works.
"Chances are that whatever you were going to say, whether it was a
promise to report us to government authorities, threats against our
persons and/or families, or just a stream of profanity, has already been
said even less coherently by someone else."
-- Rusty, k5
Studying for the OS exam. I've got a big backlog of news to catch up on.
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http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20041001/
"Underclocking the Athlon XP..." - Includes some informative power
consumption graphs for the underclocked XP and Intel P4. I'm thinking
of implementing some of the stuff here when building a new server, since
it's almost impossible to get any of the recent Via stuff.
Underclocked, fanless processors are really *cool*. [giggle]
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/27/accidental_music_monopoly_bid/
"Some flunky lacking an adequate grasp of Microsoft's deep commitment to
fair business practices innocently wrote an offensive license forbidding
non-MS media formats on portable devices compatible with Windows media,
the company explained to miffed anti-trust judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly
during a status hearing Tuesday."
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http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/
"How to lose weight and hair through stress and poor nutrition"
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http://physics.ucsd.edu/petition/
"The underlying principle of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)
is that in exchange for other countries forgoing the development of
nuclear weapons, the nuclear weapon states will pursue nuclear
disarmament. Instead, this new U.S. policy conveys a clear message to
the 182 non-nuclear weapon states that the United States is moving
strongly away from disarmament, and is in fact prepared to use nuclear
weapons against non-nuclear adversaries. It provides a strong incentive
for countries to abandon the NPT and pursue nuclear weapons themselves
and dramatically increases the risk of nuclear proliferation, and
ultimately the risk that regional conflicts will explode into all-out
nuclear war, with the potential to destroy our civilization."
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http://www.numair.com/2005/10/indian-techie-flamewar.html
http://www.thisistheshit.org/
http://www.aboyandhiscomputer.com/show.php?ItemID=2204
^ Announcing the Apple iProduct
http://www.gaydeceiver.com/religion/
^ "The essential absurdity of Christianity" - btw the site actually has
nothing to do with homosexuality.
http://www.scheib.net/play/demos/what/trixter/demo_graphics.html
^ Demo effects
http://melba.vu.edu.au/~rhh/recipes.html
^ Gluten free recipies
http://www.irssi.org/projects/irc+/overview.html
http://www.bash.org/?560613
http://russell.rucus.net/spam/
^ Best email obfuscation evar
http://veenix.blogspot.com/2005/10/alarm-clocks-are-bad-how-to-wake-up.html
http://www.brainmaps.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_The_Nine_O%27Clock_News
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=166149&threshold=5&mode=thread\
&commentsort=0&op=Change
^ World first, informative comments modded as "informative"
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<Ashley> No, believe me... my job SUCKS.
<Ashley> We have to clock out to go to the bathroom. What kind of shit is that?
<Robert> The kind you don't get paid for.
<Baintz> Wikipedia is like the dictionary, meant to be serious
but used to look up dirty words
<VUlpixLover> making fun of people who can't read is intolerable.
you shouldn't say anything mean about them.
<NoTruth > Yeah you should write it.
<lichen> me and him have this special bond
<Avram> KY jelly is a lubricant, not an adhesive
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"It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment,
or reward. True love is respect and admiration, compassion and kindness,
freely given by a healthy, unafraid human being."
- Dan Barker, Losing Faith in Faith
UPDATE 23:30; Feeling really hot and dizzy and feverish :(
"Protocols are like turds; the most bloated ones float to the top"
-- Dylan Leigh
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Inserted from old material that I saved to a text file while offline
and then forgot about :(
UPDATE 19:30 (Last Tuesday)
According to the monitors on platform 4 of Melbourne Central station,
"Upper FT Gully trains will terminate at Upper FT Gully until further notice."
Hax.
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I really like Docbook because of the emphasis on semantic meanings of
content over presentation and typesetting. I really hate it because of
it's verbosity:
<book>
<bookinfo>
<author><firstname>Dylan</firstname><surname>Leigh</surname></author>
...
I realise that the markup is useful for processing, but at the very
least (most?) they could be attributes of an empty element:
<author firstname="Dylan" surname="Leigh"/>
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/modplug/
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19:13 <Synapse> 20898 48M 7808K cpu/0 836.8H 22.60% obServer
19:15 <Synapse> 836 hours of cpu time is enough to call it a day
19:15 <Synapse> ...
19:16 <NAbyss> Synapse: Do the puns ever stop?
19:16 <Synapse> no
19:16 <NAbyss> Good
19:16 <Synapse> I can change the frequency though
19:16 <Synapse> if you like, I'll only make puns... weakly
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/trucker-charged-in-connection\
-with-bestiality-death/2005/10/20/1129401341780.html
"Paul Tait will be the only person charged in connection with the
death of his friend, who died of massive internal injuries after being
sodomised by the horse at a stud farm near the north-western US city
of Seattle in July, police said."
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1739698,00.html
`"Basically, his colon was ruptured, along with his lower organs in
that region, and he bled out," Sortland said.'
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http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1571037.html?menu=
"A Swedish man who donated sperm to a lesbian couple has been ordered
to pay child support for their three children."
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1578543.html?menu=
"Passengers on a half-empty plane were shocked when an air hostess
asked for eight 'fat' people to move."
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http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/dont-teach-design-theory-scientists/\
2005/10/20/1129775901883.html
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/workplace-ads-to-cost-40m-says-pm/\
2005/10/21/1129775941276.html
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http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=168 FMA vs HP
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/01/12/RECYCLE.TMP
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23:50 <Synapse> I plan to bring peace in the middle east by airdropping
bacon, thus making it uninhabitable to both sides
23:51 <darkmoon> i like Operation Bacon From Above
23:51 <darkmoon> bacon is awesome
23:19 <Synapse> I think I linked to several teledildonics systems in my .plan
23:21 <darkmoon> if i had a .plan, i would quote that line in it
23:43 <darkmoon> is IRC halal?
23:43 <NAbyss> no, it's full of pigs.
UPDATE 23:48 I've got 2 plan updates which aren't on my server,
workstation or my CS account, and are overdue now. Failure.
23:40 <NAbyss> Synapse: I'm guessing it's one of the *codes.. just a question
of what type
23:41 <Synapse> it starts with f, and either emil or chris will therefore guess
it
23:41 <darkmoon> furry code?
23:41 <Synapse> DING DING DING
23:41 <darkmoon> i haven't actually read (all the way through) the furry code
23:42 <darkmoon> it started going off into weird shit that was just a bit too
weird to be relevant or even amusing anymore
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Nationals MP strangles Labour MP, but it was all a _consipracy_!
http://media.theage.com.au/?rid=17155&site=age&sy=age&source=theage.com.au\
%2Fnews%2Fnational%2Fbrawling-nsw-mp-steps-down%2F2005%2F10%\
2F19%2F1129401282050.html&t=6SJQKP&player=wm6&rate=71&flash=0&ie=0
And from the related story:
`"This was a trap which has been designed to try and remove Andrew Fraser
from the parliament," Mr Stoner said.'
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/brawling-nsw-mp-steps-down\
/2005/10/19/1129401282050.html
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http://slate.msn.com/id/2127924/ lolz@vpod
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Smirnoff "In Soviet Russia..." origin
http://www.fourmilab.ch/images/Romanesco/ Fractal Food
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http://www.caslon.com.au/seditionnote1.htm#australia
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2005/10/\
leaked-australian-terror-laws-set-7.php
http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/watching-what-you-say/\
2005/10/18/1129401253378.html
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"Hear that sucking sound? That's the sound of the entire blogging
community disappearing up it's own collective arse." - Paul Leader
"I will continue to zero shit when I see shit, and since you tend to
post quite a bit of shit, I guess you're shit out of luck." - kitten, k5
"Steve Jobs could take a dump, put it in an off-white plastic case, add two
grey buttons and a small LCD display, and you'd pay $600 for it" - ryland
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http://www.babot.co.jp/features/1move.htm
^ Inflatable Robots (no, not like that)
http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2005/10/11/real_dolls/index_np.html
^ I feel so much less pathetic now...
http://www.eff.org/Privacy/printers/docucolor/
From BoingBoing: "Many color laser printers hide information about your
printer's serial number and the date and time of your print job in every job
you print... EFF has decoded the information-hiding scheme on the Xerox
Docucolor series, by getting EFF supporters to print out pages from their
printers and mail them to our researchers, who examined them under
magnification and special light and cracked the code."
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http://spaces.msn.com/members/cortopolis/blog/\
cns!1p1MgskJM906Us-MkR14rZ0Q!349.entry?txtName=Cory+Doctorow
"The world would descend into chaos without dependency on the American
empire. The last sentence is more than anti-Microsoft, it is
anti-Capitalistic (read: anti-freedom)."
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/17/loglogic_logs_log/
"US start-up LogLogic has charged itself with the task of making logs
sexy. (No that isn't some feeble scat pun.)"
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/28/granny_gta_suit/
"So, while US teenagers can, in the words of one Reg reader, "pimp hos, pop
a cap in a drug dealer while driving a car stolen at gunpoint", they may not
indulge in sexually explicit acts with their virtual girlfriends because
"that threatens the very fabric of American society".
As for the sex-free version of GTA, concerned parents can rest assured that
after shooting up drug dealers with a semi-automatic rifle, their wide-eyed
and innocent teen gamer will in future have to wind down with warm milk and
cookies rather than an explosive climax with his bitch."
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http://www.thetanknyc.org/spaceworks/ chiptune convention
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/17/gaming_shocker/ lolz@statistics
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"The bot appears to come from a TV show called 'Martian Law' - presumably
like 'LA Law' but with more human characters."
-- Tech Digest, The Register, re a martian robot being sold on Ebay.
14:54 <NAbyss> The one thing that shits me about PHP is the loose typing.
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1203320
^ "American states with anti-atheist laws"
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=551261
^ "Shaving your nuts without permanent injury and/or accidental castration"
"If there's such a thing as reincarnation, I want to come back as a sponge."
-- Lobsang Rampa, e2
"If Jesus died for our sins, we may as well make it worth His while."
-- Sylvar, e2
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Dylan: <looking at pay slip> "Tax my arse"
James: "Yes, I think that's the general idea."
22:24, Between Hawthorn and Glenferrie stations
Had to catch a bus from Melbourne Central to Flinders Street due to
Spencer Street redevelopments (no loop trains). Then missed the
Belgrave train by literally 7 seconds. Got on the Lilydale train,
waited half an hour for it to leave (Belgrave and Lilydale trains
leave every hour after 20:11) only to have it break down at Richmond.
The train sat at richmond for 20 minutes until we were told it was
officially shafted. Waited on the Richmond platform surrounded by
cunting smokers before the Belgrave train left. Over an hour to get
from RMIT to Richmond, and the train is packed with disgruntled
communters.
In conclusion, Capitalism sucks.
22:44 (Still bored)
Due to poor planning on my part, the only assignments I have with me
are the ones that require A Real Unix - OperatingSystems and Unix
Systems Admin. So I can't do any real work on the train. I don't have
anything from my dev repository so I can't do any other work either.
I'd like to be the first person to bring out a character generator for
the new 4th edition Shadowrun :)
There's a guy sitting opposite me with a really cute little terrier in
his satchel bag. It just poked it's head out and stole a large chunk
of the museli bar he was eating. I wish I had a camera.
"My parent is gay in the butt" -- jsell on his Operating Systems assignment.
mhussain on my obsession with pretty dice: "Dicey"
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http://www.advancinghordes.com/index.php/cPath/2_79/sort/2a/page/5
Awesome 7 piece (d4, d6, d8, d10+decade, d12, d20) sets in brushed
steel, brass, copper, silver, gold plated...
http://www.advancinghordes.com/product_info.php/cPath/2_81/products_id/817
"A whole new idea in dice rolling! This set of 4 cubic senary (base 6)
dice use the standard six-sided cube shape with base 6 math that
allows you to generate a range of numbers from 0-5, 0-35, 0-215, or
0-1,295 all without following a probability bell-curve!"
http://www.advancinghordes.com/product_info.php/cPath/2_77/products_id/847
Rubber bouncing die.
http://www.advancinghordes.com/product_info.php/cPath/2_19/products_id/841
Fuzzy d20s!
http://www.advancinghordes.com/product_info.php/cPath/2_19/products_id/488
"End all the discussions and arguments over what kind of pizza to
order! Roll these two special dice and let the fates decide! One die
lists 6 vegetable toppings, and the other lists 6 meat options..."
UPDATE 00:47
Almost forgot, I bought a copy of Edgar Allen Poe's Complete Works
on Saturday, and I haven't had a chance to read any yet :(
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Hurr... busy weekend. Spent a lot of time installing stuff on my new
laptop, I got a mini mouse for it so I only have to tolerate the
touchpad on the train.
In between that I restarted System Shock 2 and played it for a few hours
before I managed to quicksave just after I died :(
Really bad RPG withdrawal now :( :(
I'm even thinking of starting a Shadowrun campaign.
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For Ashray and Pete:
http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ - Native Win32 versions of some unix stuff
http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html - Dev Environemnt for C/C++, comes
with mingw, also supports cygwin.
Cygwin is probably best obtained from the CS&IT Student Software CDs.
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21:11 <kristvoir> turbans are full-sikh
22:09 <Synapse> there's one here about a stockbroker who went broke
22:09 <Synapse> "He's run out of options, and all his futures are in his past"
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http://gizmonaut.net/bits/suspect.html
Story of a guy who was arrested for carrying a backpack on public
transport (omg terrorism).
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http://www.westnet.com.au/about/ omgoatse
http://www.cbrinfo.org/RCC/trucks_highway.html
http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/evolk12/posse/chazhasaposse.htm
http://www.photomann.com/japan/machines/
http://rfidanalysis.org/
http://cs-people.bu.edu/aaron/turret/turret.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/\
2005/09/19/AR2005091901570.html
http://studentsfororwell.org/
http://www.worth1000.com/cache/contest/\
contestcache.asp?contest_id=7285&display=photoshop#entries
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"The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor,
to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."
-- Anatole France
The world's full of apathy, but I don't care.
I'm still not sure if I understand ambiguity.
I am becoming increasingly worried and concerned that there isn't enough
anxiety in my life.
"Time's fun when you're having flies." -- Kermit the Frog
Cole's Law: Thinly sliced cabbage.
The first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time,
and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.
Shin: A very sensitive device for finding furniture in the dark.
Econometrics is the art of drawing a crooked line from an unproven
assumption to a foregone conclusion.
The more times you run over a dead cat, the flatter it gets.
It's much easier to suggest solutions when you know nothing about the problem.
One horsepower: the energy required to drag a dead horse 550 feet in 1 second.
A molecule is so small it cannot be seen by the naked observer.
Almost used to the keyboard on my laptop now.
The touchpad is still impossible.
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Obviously, the United States is very tolerant and well-organized.
Just don't mention that you are black. -- ubu, k5
A God is as petty as the Bible describes is unworthy of my regard.
- Russel Dovey, k5
Look at you, hacker. A pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and
sweating as you run through my cooridors...
-- Shodan, System Shock
You are a remarkable example of a pathetic species. - Shodan, System Shock 2
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2.5.5. Vending machines
Vending machines SHOULD respond to a {C} request with a list of all
items currently available for purchase and possible consumption.
Vending machines SHOULD respond to a {U}{C} request with a detailed
count or list of the particular product or product slot. Vending
machines should NEVER NEVER EVER eat money.
-- RFC 1288, The Finger User Information Protocol
Nearly one week without an update and then this in my IRC backlog:
16:48 <maestro> ohh yeaaaaaaaaaah
16:49 <maestro> i do it with pretty much everyone
16:49 <maestro> uni friends etc
In other news, updated course links:
http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~dleigh/stuff/links.html
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rmit.cs.gripe:
James:
> James Ho:
> > Girls. Can't bloody understand 'em!
> >
> Did you read the man page?
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<Netters>: I got 20 bucks that says you can't do that.
<Tre_Cool>: Listen, I'm not intimidated by you OR your freakish talking money.
xyzzy314: i got some rare footage of houdini getting locked out of his car
<+aeonite> is there any diet plan that does not involve fucking cottage cheese?
<@LordCrank> some of them involve eating it instead
UPDATE 16:30:
Feeling really hammered, like I need a caffiene drip or something.
I've managed to trim my .inbox from over 100 mails to < 20.
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16:34 -!- Topic for #techwatch: more like carwatch
16:34 -!- Topic set by CoRDS [] [Wed Sep 14 19:15:34 2005]
Geoff on US culture vs. Australian culture: "They have guns, we have cars"
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<PixieDee> GIVE ME A YOUNG MAN TO SACRIFICE
*** tao|Cyrus- is now known as tao|Cyrus-dieing
<PixieDee> omg i don't want a grammatically incorrect sacrificial young man.
<pleb> MY OTHER COMPUTER IS YOUR IIS SERVER
<Redbeard> I declared my undying love to someone.
<Redbeard> I told her that my love is like the skeleton turtles in Mario.
<squire> can anyone here help me, i just dled a movie and i dunno what to do
<kokoro> have you tried...watching it?
<FriedGold> Gentlemen... welcome to recursion club. The first rule is: you do
not talk about recursion club. The next rule is: see first rule.
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Some quotes that should have gone in earlier:
[Discussing a genetic element in homosexuality]
Slats: If they don't reproduce, how would the gay genes be passed on?
Emil : They could be recessive.
Dylan: Yeah, they might take a few generations to... come out.
Emil : <laugh>
Chris: <groan>
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08:50 <Meatsleep> ambiguous statemenst should not a legal document make
Katrina stuff stolen from boingboing.net:
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/09/09/katrina_dhs_bars_red.html
"Armed with assault rifles, contractors from private security firm
Blackwater are patrolling the black-water-flooded streets of New Orleans.
Meanwhile, unnarmed Red Cross workers toting food and medicine have
been unable to enter the city for days."
http://www.thinkprogress.org/katrina-timeline
From "GOV. KATHLEEN BLANCO DECLARES STATE OF EMERGENCY IN LOUISIANA"
(August 26) to "CONDOLEEZZA RICE GOES SHOE SHOPPING" (September 1).
http://flickr.com/photos/ioerror/41277478/
From BB: "During disasters, beer and soft drink makers sometimes
divert their resources into producing drinking water for survivors...
Jacob Appelbaum shot this snap of a can of "Floodweiser" -- drinking
water donated by an Anheuser-Busch brewery in Texas"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1565939,00.html#article_continue
http://www.boingboing.net/bushvacation_01.jpg
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http://www.commonbits.org/tag/daily-show
HTTP and/or Torrents of daily show clips. Most of the recent ones are
related to Katrina but there are a lot of old hoodies there - like the
interview with Santorum.
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100% Non-hurricane links:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0002CYTL2/002-4938418-7339237
Playmobil "Security Check Point".
http://asia.cnet.com/reviews/gadgetbuzz/0,39041749,39239366,00.htm
Hello Kitty fire extinguisher - for really cute emergencies.
http://future.iftf.org/2005/09/library_of_cong.html
"New Dark Ages Begin: Starbucks Patron Accidentally Drinks Library of
Congress" (New York Times, front page, August 1 2009)
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-09/uop-sla090205.php
"Shoe leather as a renewable resource: Penn biologists invent
power-generating backpack"
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22:40 <Synapse> there were two chicks on the train bitching about how in mx it
stated "2400 volts through his body" when it should have said
"2400 volts across his body"
22:41 <Synapse> there should be more women like that
22:41 <kristvoir> you didn't ask them out
22:41 <kristvoir> shame
<mrWoot> :(
* Melindhra turns the frown upside down
<mrWoot> ):
"The poorest 20% (you can argue with the number -- 10%? 18%? no one
knows) of the city was left behind to drown. This was the plan. Forget
the sanctimonious bullshit about the bullheaded people who wouldn't
leave. The evacuation plan was strictly laissez-faire. It depended on
privately owned vehicles, and on having ready cash to fund an evacuation.
The planners knew full well that the poor, who in new orleans are
overwhelmingly black, wouldn't be able to get out. The resources --
meaning, the political will -- weren't there to get them out."
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/08/30/email_attributed_to_.html
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http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1125318960389
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Best question ever (thx Kaneda007):
Dandruff...
_ is rather sexy.
_ doesn't bother me.
_ bothers me deeply.
_ is a city near Kiev.
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<Boxthor> They call me Hadoken 'cause I'm down-right fierce.
"So there you are, a guy writes a daily column for 12 months, with what
is a normally a pretty scrupulous and diligent attitude to attribution,
and then he goes and fucks one goat.
What can I say? Guilty as charged."
--Excerpt from an email from Jonathan Green to Media Watch
http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/stories/popups/100203_s1.htm
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And the 2003 "Campbell Reid Perpetual Trophy for the Brazen Recycling
of Other People's Work." goes to... Campbell Reid!
http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/thebarra_2003.htm
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http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s1442943.htm
In case you needed any more proof that the Herald Sun doesn't check anything.
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<sparhawk> if electricity comes from electrons does morality come from morons?
"At the first sign of betrayal I will kill him.
However, I promise to return the body intact"
-- Worf (discussing Garak), "In Purgatory's Shadow"
Woo, withdrew from my extra subjects in time.
I even caught up with rmit.cs.chat.
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Pun of the weak:
Ben Stewart:
> > Is there any subject about SAP in RMIT? Or could anyone
> > provide me with any information about SAP training?
> Looking for training on that? You poor sap!
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Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity with New ``Intelligent Falling'' Theory
http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4133&n=2 (thx Emil)
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Emil Mikulic:
> Walid Assafiri wrote:
> > I have warned you that if you choose to disbelieve in God then die
> > then you will receieve a severe punishment and i believe this to
> > be 100%.
> I can't make any threats about the horrible things that won't happen
> to you if you choose to disbelieve in reality.
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I wouldn't read your CV if it didn't have elementary care taken with the
spelling and formatting. Why should anyone expect more from a top-poster?
-- Doran Moppert
Nearly two weeks since the last update. Failure.
OS assignment 1, Unix Admin assignment 1, and the first lab exam done.
Now I have some time to do LANMAN and PP3B...
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"Prodding the cow to move out ahead of the group isn't working..."
"That's it! I'm puttin' her back in my Bag of Holding..."
I don't read Knights of the Dinner Table enough.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/\
article/2005/06/23/AR2005062300783_pf.html
"The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that local governments may force property
owners to sell out and make way for private economic development..."
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"Nothing like spreading yourself out after being cooped up in a jar"
-- Odo
"I do not smirk, but if I did, now would be an excellent opportunity"
-- Worf, The Darkness and The Light
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22:52 <geoffwa> EVOLUTION USES GTK (NOT A PRODUCT OF INTELLIGENT DESIGN)
22:52 <geoffwa> EVOLUTION GETS *WORSE* WITH EVERY RELEASE
<ruumis> FBI says upcoming terror attack will be "Spectacular!"...Donald
Rumsfeld is calling it a "Must See", and Tom Ridge says, "If
you heed just one Terror Warning this year...heed this one !"
* Racked recalls the past: my teacher said, "I have a 10-foot snake
* here" to which I replied, "oh no you don't....snakes don't have feet!"
<+{R3D}Hurricane> im watching the backstreet boys on SNL....and i finally
realize why foreign countries hate the U.S. so much
Trying very hard to pretend I'm not swamped with work (see below...)
Week 5 and suddenly all the assignments roll in. Thinking of dropping
some of my 7 subjects this semester.
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http://www.clock.org/~jss/play/library/lbj.html
Q: How many economists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: None. If the government would just leave it alone, it would screw
itself in.
Q: How many "pro-lifers" does it take to change a light bulb?
A: 6: 2 to screw in the bulb and 4 to testify that it was lit from the
moment they began screwing.
Q: How many Harvard grads does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: Just one. He grabs the bulb and waits for the world to revolve
around him.
Q: How many mathematicians does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: None. It's left to the reader as an exercise.
A': One. He gives it to six Californians, thereby reducing the problem
to an earlier joke.
Q: How many Macintosh users does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. You have to replace the whole motherboard.
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http://www.geocities.com/science_of_god/index.htm - kook of the month
http://www.spam.com/ci/ci_in.htm - the official word on spam.
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Independent (and free!) games links stolen from Penny Arcade:
http://agtp.romhack.net/doukutsu.html (mad oldskool fun)
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/%7Ecs8k-cyu/index_e.html (great GL shooters)
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22:40 <Synapse> see the diebar
22:40 <Synapse> er
22:40 <Synapse> SIDEbar
16:53 <darkmoon> one of this things i like about this subject is that i get a
hard-on just reading the research papers
16:54 <darkmoon> all those big words like "autonomous" and "decentralized"
22:44 <Synapse> Bellatrix: wow, youre really profane and agressive
22:44 <Synapse> Bellatrix: I like you already
22:44 <Bellatrix> thanks :)
22:44 <golgy> Synapse: you like anything with breasts and elf-like ears.
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<Blaxthos> find / -name "*base*" -user your -print |xargs 'chown us'
<|ReN|> reality is the 30 frames per second your little mind can comprehend.
<The_Spaniard:> The White House had an egg hunt today after which they
had to admit that there were never any eggs to begin with.
<Moltar> jesus says turn the other cheek
<YouAgain> thats why jesus is dead
<|Chris> i'm so sad...she took the gamecube man
<|Chris> the fucking gamecube
<Paul> So anyway, i hit him over the head with a shovel
<Paul> and now he's all "Lawsuit" this and "Jailtime" that
<DCBastard> leave the advanced tab alone
<DCBastard> if you were advanced you'd know how to use it
<CompuMan> The tragedy of Canada is they could have had British culture,
French cooking, and American technology, but instead they got
American culture, British cooking, and French technology.
Many links and quotes thanks to the posse at boingboing.net.
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"... a small village in Nigeria that was attacked by a government
death squad that Chevron hired to clear the way for oil exploration.
Chevron's now being sued in a US court..."
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/12285441.htm - needs login :(
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http://soccernet.espn.go.com/headlinenews?id=337901&cc=3436
Best headline ever. Suprisingly safe for work/uni.
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"Monsanto is seeking to patent not just the breeding methods for a
specific herd of pigs, but the herd itself and all its offspring."
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/monsanto-pig-patent-111
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"As he stared at her ample bosom, he daydreamed of the dual Stromberg
carburetors in his vintage Triumph Spitfire, highly functional yet
pleasingly formed, perched prominently on top of the intake manifold,
aching for experienced hands, the small knurled caps of the oil
dampeners begging to be inspected and adjusted as described in
chapter seven of the shop manual."
-- Dan McKay, winner of this year's Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest for
"Bad opening sentences to imaginary novels."
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http://blindingnervepain.blogspot.com/\
2005_07_31_blindingnervepain_archive.html#112286959929935505
"Wang Jiaxiong from northwest China's Shaanxi province falls to his
death while trying to jump over the Great Wall in Tianjin, China...
Wang tried to clear the wall on his bike after riding down a 35-metre
high, 76-metre long runway." -- Reuters
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22:12 <Global> [ GLOBAL NOTICE ] :We would like to Apologise to all the people
who were killed before, was a slight technical fault in a ban.
Problem has been resolved. Thank You for your understanding and
Supporting AustNet
Best tech support apology ever.
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19:22 <sporn> \o/
19:22 <sporn> |
19:22 <sporn> oops
19:22 <sporn> \o/
19:22 <sporn> |
19:22 <sporn> /\
22:26 <darkmoon> [S[T[U[C[K [I[N [V[T[1[0[0[~
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"What are you?"
"An android."
"I never expected to see an android out here."
"I can truthfully say I never expected to see a one-armed Romulan here either."
-- Dominion War, Diane Duane
Rebuilt apache and confirmed it uses less memory with the worker mpm.
An otherwise uneventful day. Spent a bit of time laughing at autoconf.
checking for working sem_open... Bad system call (core dumped)
no
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<ihatestan> god I hate my little brother
<ihatestan> its my mothers birthday and I got her a Amethyst necklace
<ihatestan> than out of no where my brother goes "mum has +3 strength"
19:28 <kristvoir> Synapse: i'm secular, i dont' play with children
I drink because I'm too scared to kill myself by traditional means.
-- Tycho (PA)
Another lunchtime update (woo slow day)
http://www.swanksigns.org/ - Wierd street signs
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UPDATE Lunchtime
"A man who ran alongside a tow truck, pleading to get his vehicle back
after it was towed from a fire lane, died when he slipped and was run
over by the truck and then his own Chevrolet Suburban."
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/07/30/cracking_down_on_pre.html
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Really bad stomach cramps and dizzy spells Wednesday, remained home
and skipped 3 lectures :/
On Friday we ordered a brand new gas hot water system, it should be in
sometime next week assuming no problems with the new gas pipes we'll need.
Finally, due to, uhmmm, technical problems, we had our Christmas
dinner on Saturday.
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From #pants stats:
Synapse seems to be sad at the moment: 3.3% lines contained sad faces. :(
emikulic is also a sad person, crying 2.8% of the time.
...
Alison has quite a potty mouth. 1.0% words were foul language.
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http://www.shanghaiist.com/archives/2005/07/26/fourteen_ways_t_1.php
http://trilogyrelease.bungie.org/ Marathon! For a real platform!
http://maxpayne2.levels4you.com/downloads.l4y Max Payne 2 stuff
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/ Packet Filter Stuff
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Hannah: I need another bandage (for torn wrist)
Dylan : Another one? I thought you were all wrapped up?
Hannah: <punches Dylan with good hand>
Still cold and we still don't have hot water. I've started inspecting
rental places near the city. Between that, work and uni I haven't been
able to do much else over the past week, although I did fix up a
little untility that tells me which classes I have to go to.
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"Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would
sink to get revenge."
Why do books 4,5 and 6 have to turn into Beverly Hogwarts 90210
halfway through? Also totally not enough Death Eater pwnage.
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`Godwin identified the "Nazi-comparison meme" and set out to destroy
it with a meme of his own...' -- Thrasymachus, K5
18:41 <alhazan> have you got something against black people chris?
Random musings of an RMITCS Duty Programmer:
- It will be really slow and then as soon as your partner takes a
break 15 people will come at once.
- The majority of the jobs that require intervention from TSG staff
will occur between 12 and 2 - when TSG are at lunch.
- The people who take up most of your time are generally the least
appreciative (and vice versa).
Exception: The enthusiastic people are always grateful.
- The people who have the worst communication skills will always
choose to call you rather than come in person.
- 30% of the people who see you actually want the ITS helpdesk.
20% want the admin office up the hall.
- Lab stats are probably the highest level of exercise I get
(also carrying those reams of paper from hopper to babbage).
- WebPray is awful.
(The above is probably more cynical that it needs to be.)
Most "customers" are great, you just remember the few who aren't.
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No links for you!
I'm too busy at the moment to play games or browse teh intarweb.
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Is multiple personality disorder the same as account sharing? -- darkmoon
North Korea and Iran / Soldiers in Afghanistan
Missile treaties put aside / Terror bombing suicides
Record debts, crippled vets / Overstated weapons threat
-- Apologisers, We Didn't Vote for Dubya
You've got your flashlight / I've gotta feel safe
You've got your plastic sheet / I've got my duct tape
-- Apologisers, Duct Tape
and we'll kill / the dirty arabs / 'cos they're different / and they scare us
-- Apologisers, Go Back to France
[00:29] <Synapse> she's uber-kawaii
[00:29] <Synapse> (ooh, english german and japanese in the same sentence)
It's still bloody cold.
Several mails to lecturers inspired me to add an ASCII timetable to
the Timetable Comparator, so you can include when you are busy in a
mail. The output looks something like this:
|9 |10 |11 |12 |13 |14 |15 |16 |17 |18 |19 |20 |
mon |#|#|#|#|#|#|#|#|#|#|#|#|#|#| | | | | | | | | | |
tue | | | | | |#|#|#|#|#|#|#|#|#| | | |#|#|#|#| | | |
wed | | | | | | | | | | | |#|#|#|#|#|#| | | | | | | |
thu | | | | | |#|#|#|#|#|#|#|#|#| | | |#|#|#|#| | | |
fri | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
I still need to pick another subject for next semester. I've got my
eye on Intelligent Systems but there's only one tute running and I
can't make it then :(
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http://www.whitewomeninperil.com/index.php
http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/aaaaaaaaaaaaahaha/
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<evil_shai> How many capitalists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
<Synapse > one to outsource it
<Quoth> i thought MacOS was a breakfast cereal
If I were to explain the subjunctive mood, I might do it like this.
-- awgsilyari, K5
UPDATE 18:46
Preparing for classes on Monday (read: chucking old junk out of my bag).
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http://www.bash.org/?80052
http://www.kuro5hin.org/comments/2005/7/3/491/18474?pid=162#201
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/\
chi-0507040162jul04,1,2419015.column?coll=chi-news-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true
http://www.kuro5hin.org/comments/2005/7/3/491/18474?pid=178#189
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/07/08/white_wolf_cuts_own_.html
http://www.vestaldesign.com/vestalblog/2005/07/ikea-refugee-housing.html
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"Yesterday's London attacks were, of course, extremely localised - in most
parts of London you couldn't tell anything had happened, except that you
couldn't travel anywhere. Although even that isn't *so* unusual."
-- Wendy M. Grossman
"Being dazed and confused is such a great excuse for all the evil shit
we're doing." -- Kasreyn, K5, on America
"Quakers and Puritans and Catholics, oh my!" - Valdrax
"Fox has done a brilliant job of giving the masses what they want:
completely biased and slanted news without pretension."
-- destroyallmonsters, K5
"Fox News isn't news. It's speculative conservative current events commentary."
-- tthomas48, k5
"See, the USians have two right wing parties by UK standards, one right
wing and one extremely right wing. However, they refer to these as left
and right-wing, respectively."
-- itcertainlyis, K5
Crybaby Capitalism: The hysterical terror that someone, somewhere is
turning a dime without cutting you in for a nickel.
-- Cory Doctorow
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Lots of jobs to do yesterday, before the start of the new semester, so
I spent all my time watching through Full Metal Alchemist up to episode 44.
The first few episodes never really interested me but I really liked
the train hijack one (5?) and those after it. It gets suddenly boring
around episode 26 - after my favourite character was killed off - and
then picks up again around 34. All in all a good series.
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http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~bpitts/uni.php
Guide to some CS and Eng electives (Probably a bit outdated now)
http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng-1.2.5-manual.html
libpng documentation.
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"Diabolical."
"Visionary."
-- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ("Our Man Bashir")
Hannah and I were planning to come into the city today, but I'm still
up at 5:55 am. Hannah has thrown up 7 times since 3am, and is blaming
the yoghurt we bought at Not Quite Right.
[ Update 09:06, No sleep, 2 new buckets ]
In between offering what little assistance I can, I've reworked a lot
of the timetable script. Ben also made a neat icon for it.
Collecting a lot more material for PHP notes.
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http://www.venganza.org/ The Intelligent Design of the Spaghetti Monster
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Sports: n. The opposite of reading.
23:24 <Synapse> anybody who uses the term "innovative" obviously isn't
"A lot of people wonder how you know you're in love. Just ask yourself this
one question: "Would I mind being financially destroyed by this person?"
- Ronnie Shakes
All women are gay, or at least that's what they tell me
-- Waterfire
I hate exams. In other news, it's cold.
Must remember to pull the lock off my locker tomorrow before the ISE
exam or ECE T&L will steal it. I haven't used that locker in years.
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http://www.p5taylor.btinternet.co.uk/projects.htm
http://electronics-diy.com/electronics/index.php
Electronics projects (thx MAKE)
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http://shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html
(thx Emil) Long speech about "social software" by Clay Shirky
Choice quotes:
`Bion was a psychologist who was doing group therapy with groups of
neurotics. (Drawing parallels between that and the Internet is left as
an exercise for the reader.)'
`The normal experience of social software is failure. If you go into
Yahoo groups and you map out the subscriptions, it is, unsurprisingly, a
power law. There's a small number of highly populated groups, a moderate
number of moderately populated groups, and this long, flat tail of failure.'
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<darkmoon> i don't like it when i bring a new video card home and then they
start burning shit in the kitchen and i can't tell if it's my
video card or dinner that's burning
Real-Time Systems Engineering exam went fairly well, although there
was a hell of a lot of writing and too many diagrams.
Next up is ISE on Wednesday.
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dleigh 6:20:29 numbat:pts/234:~> mutt
345 kept, 9 deleted.
:(
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<Meaty> but proper grammar I fail it
<karl> OK, fixed.
<dbaker> Fixed?
<karl> I don't mean fixed like it works.
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http://news.yahoo.com/photos/sm/events/en/061005chocofashion/p:1
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`Five men who were juveniles when captured by US forces were held at Guantanamo
Bay while they were under 18, despite Pentagon statements to the contrary...'
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/06/14/1118645805333.html
Revising for Real Time Systems exam and working on the final report
for the main project.
<Asbestos> if jesus was real he'd love you
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http://www.linuxbrit.co.uk/downloads/dot.procmailrc
http://spacepants.org/conf/dot.procmailrc
http://piology.org/.procmailrc.html
http://www.downingstreetmemo.com/ :(
http://www.pledgebank.com/ :)
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Rules of Capitalism (adapted from www.socialist-tv.com)
1. 5% of the world population owns 95% of the wealth
2. The people who own the most make the rules
3. More money you have, the more you can make
4. Less money you have, the less you can get
5. The poorer you are, the more expensive everything is
6. The poorer you are, the iller you'll be, the sooner you'll die, and
the less well off your kids will be
7. The poorer you are, the worse off your education will be, and the
worse your job will be
8. The worse the pay, the harder the job
9. The higher the pay, the easier the job
10. If you're really rich, you're a successful capitalist, and you
neednt do any work at all
11. The poor pay for every mistake made by the rich
12. Rich people start wars, but poor people have to fight them
13. Most rich get rich by inheritance. Rags to riches are exceedingly rare
14. Most poor people stay poor even through hard work, thrift and sacrifice
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http://cslibrary.stanford.edu/
Awesome collection of CS/Programming tutorials and similar resources.
Includes some remarkably silly claymation pointer tutorial videos.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/06/12/1118514926946.html
`The asbestos-riddled former power station in Spencer Street is a threat
to city residents and businesses, according to a confidential report
obtained by The Age...'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/beethoven/downloads.shtml
Symphonies 1-5 (performed by the BBC Philharmonic) are avaiable now
but will be offline soon (a week after they were played on BBC Radio).
6-9 will be coming soon.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=15825&\
item=4387711556&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
Want to buy a theme park?
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dleigh@clarence> telnet localhost
telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host
^^^^^^
Getting the FreeBSD Subversion port to build mod_dav_svn
(I'll add this to my subversion notes after I have enough quota to
rebuild my webspace)
Many people have complained that after building the port, even after
defining WITH_MOD_DAV_SVN, mod_dav_svn.so isn't anywhere to be found
on the system. I had the same problem.
From make build:
"You can enable the mod_dav_svn module for Apache 2.X
by defining WITH_MOD_DAV_SVN. This option implies
the WITH_APACHE2_APR option."
So MOD_DAV_SVN implies WITH_APACHE2_APR. But defining both of them
seems to cause autoconf to barf on mod_dav_svn:
WARNING: skipping the build of mod_dav_svn
--with-apxs or --with-apache must be used
I think this is a bug in the port Makefile. After I removed
WITH_APACHE2_APR from MAKE_ARGS it went fine.
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http://captainpackrat.com/furry/furcode.htm
Furry Code 1.3 (think Geek Code but more dodgy)
http://subversion.tigris.org/svn_1.2_releasenotes.html
I have my doubts about the reliability of FSFS, but anyway...
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Pun of the day (from www.gism.net):
"The thrust of the experiment basically proved that teledildonics has
made some major progress, but is also a long way from being a viable
form of sexual gratification."
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17:32 <kristvoir> Synapse: dylan why was it that you wanted to be a mortician?
17:32 <kristvoir> the whole necromancer sunlight-aversion lifestyle is
appealing?
17:32 <Synapse> yeah
17:33 <Synapse> also fertile field for punning
17:33 <kristvoir> but your jokes will fall on dead ears ror
<Mtgwiz2727> what is the difference between c++ and dos?
No more work apart from ISE... and the report for realtime... and 5 exams.
At home, we now have *no* hot water at all, and we probably won't be
getting a new system as soon as I'd like :(
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http://www.thinkgeek.com/pennyarcade/swag/760d/
I'm torn between this and a "Choose your weapon" dice shirt.
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Excerpt from myQNX terms and conditions:
"Experimental Software is not supported and may not be distributed or
used for productive or commercial purposes."
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Heisenberg is speeding down the street and he gets pulled over by a cop.
"Do you know how fast you were going?"
"No, but i know exactly where I am!"
<smileygirl> you say
<^haploid^> Wow, a subject *and* a verb. You are getting very close to
composing complete sentences. I applaud you.
"Everyone has always been able to make "challenging" incoherent art that
no-one cared about. And now, with the Internet, more people can not care
about it than ever."
-- Tycho, Penny Arcade
<nightrunner> You ate paint chips as a kid, didn't you?
<@NeoMinder> you mean wall candy?
-=> Auto-reply from Malaclypse :-
Abraham Lincoln intimidates your father and my cast iron baby.
<Synapse> the not overdue items on my .todo are outnumbering the
overdue items again!
<darkmoon> lucent modem? give it to dylan. i'm sure he can work out how to
disassemble it and use the parts to build a radiological bomb
14:18 <NA|RMIT> in soviet rmit, MARKS LOSE YOU!
I have a large boil on the side of my eye socket. Not fun.
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"I recommend a book called `No One Will Ever Love You'.
It'll crush your hope for personal life and free up more time for work."
-- Catbert, Dilbert
Hackers do it with less instructions.
(alternatively, for added nostalgia)
VAX hackers do it with less instructions.
Electrical engineers do it with less resistance.
<wizardofaaahs> I smoke during sex
<martha> wiz, slow down and use a lubricant
<jaymeekae> i feel so american
<Moonman> you shot someone?
<gegi> Jesus saves, the rest of you take 5d20 damage.
Got an Astone Samba 1000 (1GB) which so far I'm very happy with.
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<darkmoon> it's an interaction between several disks, network cards,
switches, buffer caches, virtual memory implementations, the
phase of the moon, the position of jupiter, and how much crack
i haven't had today
<darkmoon> all in all, a difficult problem to debug
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http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/6708/images/774/
(thx Boney) Cute little plush microbe toys.
RTS and ISE assignments working, if not displaying all functionality.
<Synapse> we got our realtime shit working
<Synapse> never before have I been so excited by making an R change to a G
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I used to read, but it's faster to make up stuff.
-- Wally, Dilbert.
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13:39 <Boney> how do you spell plagurisum?
Really sick for the past 3 days, eventually managed to get here for
the RTS lab only to find the power is out in 87.3.*.
In conclusion, failure.
In other bad news, my todo has done what it has been threatening to do
(heh) all month. The red (overdue) has outnumbered the green.
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http://www.ibsgroup.org/
http://www.aboutibs.org/
"The great thing about mod_rewrite is it gives you all the configurability and
flexibility of Sendmail. The downside to mod_rewrite is that it gives you all
the configurability and flexibility of Sendmail."
-- Brian Behlendorf, Apache Group.
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http://games.internode.on.net/forums/\
viewtopic.php?p=644556&sid=a21d7964f349af6623abb76126d4ce9c#644556
"Japanese pussies" :)
http://www.weblab.isti.cnr.it/education/documents/Kevs-php-mysql.pdf
PHP/MYSQL intro book.
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18:29 <Synapse> make
18:29 <Synapse> FUCK
18:29 <Synapse> :(
18:44 <alhazan> lololol
19:18 <darkmoon> more like
19:18 <darkmoon> $ make conversation
23:09 <darkmoon> consider the rights of the unborn to stay that way!
<Tim3WorX> somtimes
<Tim3WorX> when i'm naked
<Tim3WorX> and alone
<j4yj0hn> dont finish that sentence
<mirv> I sincerely hope this France -> Freedom thing doesn't go on for long.
<Palpz> And in the news today, the United States Congress passed
legislation renaming the Country of France to "Freedom".
<DyRE> i'm so glad the people running my country are actually 12-years
old. i'm sure it won't be long now before some noted US
politician calls Iraq "gay."
<infamous> my old man always said, the day I cant do my job drunk is the
day I turn in my badge and gun...
<Salec> how would you go by changing the look of a checkbox in flash?
<SHiZNiT> add a moustache
<danie2> do you have a gf?
<ieatrocks> hahahahahah
<ieatrocks> wow, thanks for even asking.
Slept in until 15:30. I feel much better.
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http://poststuff2.entensity.net/051605/tire.wmv [850 KB]
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<Synapse> The Belgrave 11:11 will be running on time tonight. Connex
Melbourne would like to aplogoise for any convenience this may cause.
<kristvoir> The Spencer Street Redevelopment has been delayed and is now
expected in 2007
23:19 <kristvoir> ideallly you would be charged with a hate crime dylan
23:20 <Synapse> kristvoir: how could I? Crime is for niggers.
00:42 <Synapse> "I agree, the government is just trying to make money on
speeding fines! So lets all protest by not speeding!"
21:48 <Synapse|un> "Novel optical probes that may shed light on how
neurodegenerative diseases slowly devastate the brain."
21:48 <Synapse|un> who said doctors have no sense of humour :)
21:49 <kristvoir> synapse|pun more like it
21:52 <Synapse|un> "A Japanese research team has developed a fuel cell that
runs on blood without using toxic substances, opening the
way for use in artificial hearts and other organs."
21:52 <Synapse|un> new meaning to the electrical term "Vampire Tap"
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"We expect the states to show us whether or not we're achieving simple
objectives - like literacy, literacy in math, the ability to read and write."
-- Dubya on federal education requirements, Washington, D.C., April 28, 2005
"I want to thank you for the importance that you've shown for education
and literacy." -- G.W.Bush, Washington, D.C., April 13, 2005
"We look forward to analyzing and working with legislation that will
make - it would hope - put a free press's mind at ease that you're not
being denied information you shouldn't see."
-- G.W.Bush, Washington, D.C., April 14, 2005
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<dArEn> I used to be bad at math, but I did a 360 in that
<Synapse > actually I think words under 5 characters are ignored in the stats
<Synapse > so it's a bit skewed
<kristvoir> which?
<kristvoir> which used to win all the tiem
<Synapse > which part of "under 5" do you not understand?
22:55 <darkmoon> do not roll and smoke the reference manuals plzkthx
<jip_ > anyone know offhand how to make comments in lisp?
<Jumper > people still use lisp ?
<Liqd_Work> people started using lisp?
ISE and RTS becoming more painful. Probability of deferring my
engineering degree increasing.
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Quickie notes: What to do when you run out of Quota
To see what's taking up the space use du and sort it with sort -n:
du -ak | sort -n | tail -40 - Biggest files and directories
du -sk .* | sort -n - Only display one directory deep
Note that if you emit the "tail -40" you will be printed a list of all
files you have instead of just the ones you are interested in.
Alternatively, run /home/d/dleigh/public/bin/dux to use an interactive
X version of du. (h for help, q to quit, somewhat crash prone).
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(conf messages from from FBSD irssi port)
13:59 <Synapse> checking for working autoconf... missing
13:59 <Synapse> checking for working automake-1.4... missing
13:59 <Synapse> checking for working autoheader... missing
14:31 <darkmoon> i prefer "missing script is missing"
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http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/MIRRORS/ftp.mysql.com/doc/en/Memory_use.html
http://www.databasejournal.com/features/mysql/article.php/3367871
MySQL config variables for ISE1 victims.
http://tuxmobil.org/mobile_bsd.html - BSD on laptops, PDAs, mobiles...
http://tuxmobil.org/centrino.html - Linux Centrino(tm) support
More Centrino Stuff:
http://www.intel.com/products/centrino/index.htm
http://www.powernotebooks.com/articles/index.php?action=fullnews&id=14
http://www.eurekalert.org/rss.php - Eurekalert Feeds
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UPDATE 17:24
NFS broke my .mozilla/ :(
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http://www.corptech.com.au/home.asp
CEED stuff.
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UPDATE 16:43
Suddenly.... no quota.
I've spent the last 2 hours trying to unfuck my CS account after my
quota lost 12 MB around 2pm. I really hope I haven't lost any mail.
Also managed to wipe out a bunch of important stuff trying to make
more space and had to restore it from .ckpt.
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Using the ssh.com client. It's actually fairly neat and has some great
features I'd like to see in puTTY.
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"Where a student who has a double lower limb amputation it is
extremely difficult to find each subject lecturer in order to have
the form signed off, particularly when the student's situation is
very unlikely to change. "
-- DLU on the standard special consideration forms.
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<tgopiate> you're such an integral part of the channel you just took
over, you know. =]
<massa > i'd probably be insulted
<massa > but i dont know what integral means
<PsychoAnt> Dylan, alone, trapped and surrounded by Magic nerds
<Synapse > PsychoAnt: I'm a Magic nerd myself but at least I
have some respect for boundaries
<Maestro > i think i have a magic deck lying around somewhere
<Synapse > I prefrred BattleTech
<Synapse > the most realistic card game evar!!1
lost475: ANY HOT CHICKS WANNA GO OUT
Qualjyn: lost475, you will die alone.
Qualjyn: Do not pass go. Do not collect ASL
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https://www.ece.rmit.edu.au/sdrive/eeet2158/eeet2158/3S_projects_2005/
https://www.ece.rmit.edu.au/sdrive/eeet2158/eeet2158/3S_projects_2005/S&N/
(NDS password required)
3 semester projects. 2nd link is for Software and Networks.
16:00 <wise_shai> did you humans see epIII yet?
16:01 <Synapse> no
16:01 <Synapse> It scored -1701: not Star Trek
My gut is getting worse, maybe it's the cold :(
No updates for nearly a week and I've missed 3 days out of 5 :(
Removed the CS students links from the links page since nobody else
updates their student webspace anymore. I've also updated/improved
upon the vim and C/C++ notes. I didn't get around to adding all the
filetype stuff, more is coming.
My todo now sorts in reverse order and is coloured. When I have some
time (uh oh) I'll put up a code pile on my site for this stuff.
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http://www.dxediting.com/
Deus Ex mapping and modding
http://www.akadia.com/services/mod_dav.html
Accessing WebDAV folders from Windows, also setting up mod_dav
Totally failing the web repository thing.
After a day of recompiling Subversion, Apache, Neon and various APRs I
still can't get mod_dav_svn to work. Or even build. I've also broken
some of PHP5 in the process.
If this keeps up we'll have to save our RTS work on floppies or something.
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http://www.freebsddiary.org/mysql.php - using MySQL (aiee) on FBSD
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17:05 <PsychoAnt> my sister's pc is dead in the water
17:05 <golgy> take it out of the water and then try
Build a fire for a man, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire,
and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. -- Terry Pratchett
UPDATE: http://home.twcny.rr.com/amantoan/cweb/enumeration.htm
THIS is what an enumeration (or "enum") is.
If I see another "Isn't it an array?" post I will get out the chainsaw.
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Exams:
AI [COSC1127] - Wed 08-06 1:45 @ 8.9.4x
RTS [EEET2166] - Thu 16-06 5:45 @ 8.8.45
PP3A[EEET2156] - Fri 10-06 9:15 @ Storey Hall
ISE1[EEET2092] - Wed 22-06 1:45 @ 8.9.42
No word on special seating yet :/
UPDATE: Found the stuff. I'm going to get subversion or RCS on all my
dotfiles so this shit doesn't happen again :(
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01:47 -!- fjord has joined #breakfastclub
01:47 <fjord> FUCK
01:47 <fjord> WHERE IS EVERYONE
01:47 <fjord> SERIOUESLY
01:47 <fjord> OMG
01:47 <fjord> HEEEEEKP
01:47 <fjord> WHERE
01:47 <fjord> WHERE
01:47 <fjord> FOR
01:47 <fjord> PLEAS
01:47 -!- fjord has left #breakfastclub []
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http://www.hexstatic.tv/ - One of the best bandnames I've heard
http://gpwiki.org/index.php/C:Using_SDL_with_OpenGL
http://www.downtown.com.au/hpc1024.htm
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<jack> Urk. I just typed "a" instead of "10"
<anubis> jack: someone must have cast a hex on you
21:23 <darkmoon> TYPE PUNNING CONSIDERED HARMFUL
21:57 <geoffwa> you see in linux I can run my console at a resolution of
1900x1200 thanks to the radeonfb driver
21:57 <Synapse> in BSD I can use TCP/IP :P
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Sunday/Monday .plan updates got lost (!?!), I'll see where they went
when I get home.
It's Week 10 already :( I don't like uni anymore...
Happy birthday greetz to tynka.
My newsreader keeps crashing on me, hence the lack of recent linkage
(I've also been too busy to pay attention to the wider world).
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<darkmoon> warning C4013: 'warnx' undefined; assuming extern returning int
<darkmoon> ^ windows fails at being a BSD
<darkmoon> warning C4013: 'snprintf' undefined; assuming extern returning int
<darkmoon> ^ windows fails at being modern
<darkmoon> warning C4013: 'vasprintf' undefined; assuming extern returning int
<darkmoon> ^ windows fails at being useful
02:07 <NAbyss> <-- too busy to be IRCing.
02:07 <NAbyss> Which, in itself, is a contradiction.
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http://www.kunt.org/ somewhat broken :/
http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (thx Emil)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member-reviews/AW98WSTZYTCQK/\
ref=cm_cr_auth/102-7303670-5386569?%5Fencoding=UTF8
Best book review EVAR (thx Emil)
http://gpwiki.org/index.php/Files:Blob.zip
A small, simple but fun game in OpenGL/SDL, with some useful font and
particle routines (full source and a win32 binary are provided). The
site also has many more SDL, OpenGL and game programming resources.
http://sebsauvage.net/punching/
"Punhing holes through firewalls" - A hand-holding guide to tunneling
through HTTP proxies (this is for the benefit of RTS/ISE1 victims, who
use a room that has no outside access except via proxy).
The key software is HTTPtunnel, which encapsulates TCP inside HTTP
requests and replies - http://www.nocrew.org/software/httptunnel.html
There is a FreeBSD port available.
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/winurl/
"Instead of having to launch your browser and then paste, you can just
click once on the WinURL icon in the System tray [or press Win-W], and
WinURL will read the contents of the clipboard and feed them straight
to your browser."
Also accounts for newlines/wrapping/spaces. MIT licensed.
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Maybe when the President says that Christians aren't citizens, I'll shed
a tear for you. While one's saying it about atheists, you can cram that
persecuted-majority crap up your creation-hole. -- Mason (k5)
It's amazing to what level of chicanery man is willing to stoop in his
desperate attempts to find god. -- skyknight (k5)
Finally getting that flu vaccination.
Seriously worried about the major Real Time and Info Systems projects.
MY WHOLE LIFE IS LIKE THE TRUMAN SHOW ONLY MY RATINGS NEED A SERIOUS
BOOST DUE TO THE LACK OF CAMERAS OR PEOPLE GIVING A SHIT
-- jerkcity 133
Serious dizzy spells yesterday - I couldn't stand or get dressed
without assistance. I made a long overdue GP appointment for Friday.
Once again I'm considering slimming down my course as my medical
situation isn't improving :(
Missed all the VSU stuff, but I was there in spirit.
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Some *random* thoughts on RPG dice rolls (lololol)
Roll 5d6 and subtract 5 - you get a convenient value between 0 and 25
with a lot of normalisation. Multiply by 4 and you have something you
can test against a percentage, counting 0 as critical failure/fumble/etc.
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http://www.shanmonster.com/jesus/index.html (thx Boney)
Jesus was a goth!
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-!- darkmoon changed the topic to: BSD: it outlived The Pope!
Spent a few hours siphoning petrol out of my car (by hand; not easy) after
my father failed to read the large "DIESEL" sign above the fuel cap. They
should make the nozzles different sizes to stop this confusion.
23:26 <Synapse> I dislike getting myself all filthy and covered with oil and
muck unless there are females involved
Background: Diesel is less refined than petrol and has more raw oil to act
as a lubricant. Putting petrol in a diesel engine might damage it but it
will still drive, so it's not unusual for people to do so by accident and
not notice any difference.
In uni news, I did the first 2 questions of the AI assignment in a manner
I'm very happy with, although the answer to question 1a includes 3 and a
half pages of source code to generate the answer.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=22799
Real links between BSD and LSD found...
http://static.thepiratebay.org/apple_response.txt
"Bad apples" indeed!
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/04/26/1114462039292.html
"Smoke firms to cough up for their sins" Bahahaha!
http://jwz.livejournal.com/473946.html
"God is Great, by which I mean, Very Very Large" - calculating the
weight of jesus (and blood volume) by adding up all the communions...
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Seriously bad stomach cramps and bloating over the weekend :(
I'll be spending most of the day catching up on what I missed last Thursday
(Real Time Systems) and typing up the two assignments I have due tomorrow.
After that I might be able to start work on the major Real Time and ISE
projects due - and catch up on a mail backlog into triple figures.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irritable_bowel_syndrome (for reference)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/\
-/561964/gizmodo-20/102-7303670-5386569
http://funkwit.com/feed/amazon/rss/ (Syndication of above)
Score: +5, Free.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/21/p2p_is_murder/
Movie copying to have higher penalties than manslaughter...
http://kyw.com/terror/terror_story_101194906.html
"The odd request and his black clothing triggered alarms, and soon the police
had surrounded him with a SWAT team."
I can imagine the new anti-terror black clothing alarms already.
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Have you ever had an atheist ring your doorbell or sit down next to you on the
bus or wait at the exit of the subway and ask you if you have accepted the big
bang as your personal lord and savior?
-- crazy canuck (k5)
Any Republican worth his NRA membership knows of what I speak. Our brothers
have turned upon us. Instead of protecting us with technology, they use the
information superhighway to remove our liberties. Is this Russia? This isn't
Russia. But it feels like it.
-- Otto Z. Stern
Religious conservatives are motivated by the suspicion that someone,
somewhere, is having fun.
-- badtux, k5
It's not stupid, it's ADVANCED!
-- Invader Zim
Engineering IT tried their hardest to prevent us from demonstrating
our Professional Practice assignment - from the year old copy of Java
installed on the terminals to firewalling off engineering so I
couldn't vnc to a cs server.
After nearly 2 hours of mucking around - including rewriting part of
the code so it would work on Java 1.3 (it compiled but wouldn't run
properly) and running up to the CS labs and back in an effort to
compile an executable and copy it over - I found that you can ssh to
numbat, then to wombat, start a vnc session on wombat, use vncviewer
on wombat and ssh from within the vnc session to numbat.
In other news, I've enhanced todo.c to support todo items without a
deadline. I'll put it up on the page, uh, *soon*. I also want to have
certain itmes only appear when very close to the deadline, or just on
the deadline. This is going to require changing the file format somewhat.
Slow news day. Some minor reorganisation of my webspace, and a new
notes page - Java Swing tips.
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22:15 <Synapse> The scat man performs at dizzy's in richmond
22:15 <Poutremos> In the toilets, hurrrr
22:16 <Synapse> no, really
22:16 <Synapse> http://www.dizzys.com.au/news.asp
22:17 <kristvoir> Synapse: one of your favoured musicians?
22:17 <Synapse> kristvoir: actually I think he's shit
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Tags:
The richest 1% of American families own more than the poorest 95% combined.
We are all incarnations of nobles and kings
We are all friends of seers and seekers of rings
-- b00le, "Forsoothe"
The circle of theft: Xerox - Apple - Microsoft - KDE
(thx emil)
Happy Birthday greetz to Al, Alex and Hannah.
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"If came ye here to find words of glee,
Then Providence, truly, sent ye to me.
If thy humor cannot bide debauch or kink,
Seek not the mirth beyond yon hyperlink."
-- Pagebuild
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http://www.bbspot.com/News/2004/04/results1.html
Monty Python and the Holy Grail, in limerick form.
All the windows have condensation, my P4 is running at 17 degrees and
it's not even winter yet.
Spent my day off doing important non-uni things, like visiting my GP and
spending $2.50 to get a bank statement to show how much money I don't
have so I can show centrelink that I still need a health care card.
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86816
I can't think of a description for this. It's not a pun but still funny
in a painful way.
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http://www.irssi.org/scripts/html/antiplenk.pl
Just like it says.
Also, I'm a bit disappointed in the dice script - I'll do a new one that
is also capable of doing silhouette rolls and only uses ONE line for
display...
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http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/04/14/1113251737870.html
"In his second broken election promise in six months, Prime Minister John
Howard yesterday announced that the poor will now have to spend $500 -
up from $306 - before the Government picks up most of their health costs."
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http://www.cell.com/content/article/fulltext?uid=PIIS0092867405001157
Remote controlled decapitated zombie flies!
And people say University research is boring.
UPDATE
It's too late but I can't sleep.
From Gabe of PA:
"We are not going to make people play D&D in the garage. For one thing I am
pretty sure that's not healthy. Also, if a car happens to drive through
there's a good chance some of those kids won't make their dodge roll."
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http://www.generalerection.co.uk/
"Which party leader would you most like to have sex with?" Not work safe.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2005/04/13/bushs_ipod_filled_wi.html
Are some senior republicans going to be sued by the RIAA/MPAA for
copyright infringement?
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http://politics.guardian.co.uk/election/story/0,15803,1457778,00.html
Photoshopping a banner to toe the party line, cybersquatting the name of
an opposition candidate... I guess the Tories are trying to get in touch
with society by using technology more and honesty less.
While we are on the topic, Jeffrey Archer seems to have been collecting
money under the pretense of charity and keeping it for himself,
according to his website which is copyrighted by a company that does not
exist: http://www.toryscum.com/2005/04/13/jeffrey-archer-marathon/
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http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-04/uoa-rsp041205.php
"Researchers show parents give unattractive children less attention"
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http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/scigen/
Automatic CS thesis/paper generator. Good enough to be accepted at most
dodgy conferences around the world.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2005/04/13/qtvr_the_great_wrong.html
More on the great (wrong theatre Gilbert!) Star Wars line of 2005,
including a panorama photo.
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http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2005/04/lowcost_infant.html
Interesting technology and misleading URL!
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http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1356419.html?menu=news.quirkies
"Romanian police caught a female mobile phone thief by dialling the
stolen phone... a strip search by female police officers revealed that
Gardian had hidden the NEC mobile phone in her vagina... the owner of
the phone had refused to take it back, claiming it was damaged goods"
It would be far too easy to insert a vibrate alert pun here. Make up
your own if so inclined.
(ps. hehe "insert" ror pun etc)
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http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/04/13/1113251682338.html
Key part: "The states agreed that in 2005, they would review the need to
keep the seven taxes... But Mr Costello has treated this
pledge as a promise to abolish the taxes..."
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"Java comes with libraries to do everything under the Sun."
-- Geoff Leach
I want to become a lecturer so I can pun like that.
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<Synapse> the only good thing about the war was that I got to say
"stuck between iraq and a hard place" a lot
<Tiga> j-pop is better than am-pop because at least j-pop admits
that it's over commercialised
16:55 <uewepuep> tsg?
16:55 <darkmoon> Tactical Services Group
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More NG Quotes:
>Ben Stewart:
> We're already told to bend over for the fees.. the gender change
> comes free with every semester's tuition fees.
Note: Rectal enlargment != gender change.
-- vchau
>Tom Wijgers wrote:
> Ben Stewart:
> > Tom Wijgers:
> > > Woohoo! I'm a variable!
> > I'd rather just be an abstract class.
> I've never been all that classy.
You must be a primitive type, then.
-- mbadran
> I need help:
Of the professional kind.
-- jsell
Some RMITCS NG quotes:
[In a discussion of usenet usage]
This is why we have THREADING. This is why we have REFERENCES HEADERS.
This is why I am filled with a DIVINE RAGE when someone uses a
deficient user agent that ruins threading.
-- emikulic
YEAH AND I HAVE A BACHELOR OF APPLIED SCIENCE, NOT A BACHELOR OF APPLIED
TOP-POSTING.
-- Geoff
>tson wrote:
> Can all CS students get access to the MSDNAA software
> because I went to the website and I don't have access
> anymore. Can you just go to Kay House and get the cd and the
> software key.
> Thanks
Are you by any chances asking a question.
--Neeraj
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UPDATE 16:01
Our PP3A comms project - a Java(tm) application - doesn't work on some
clients at CS. Lost the remaining faith I had in Java portability.
Since I've got bad stomach cramps and I keep having to to to the loo every
half an hour I'm piking my AI and Linux lectures. Again. I'm not only
missing classes due to illness but missing appointments with my Disability
Liason Officer to discuss the missed classes.
Together with a 21st, 2 group projects, 2 tests, a broken car, an assignment
which I don't know half the theory for and my sister's birthday my week looks
pretty hectic. And I haven't started the ISE1 project at all. This really
isn't a great time for my immune and gastrointestinal systems to fail it.
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QNX calls me....
Currently deciding if Jimmy Smith or Herbie Hancock did the superior rendition
of "Watermelon Man". Competition is fierce.
It occurred to me just now that the Dictionary/Glossary project, taglines and
CORPS are sitting around half-finished, and I have too many half-finished
projects.
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http://www.penny-arcade.com/news.php3?date=2005-04-11#2512
One of the most entertaining and least coherent PA newsposts I've read.
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http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/04/12/1113251629495.html
Forcing the disabled to work and removing access to health care, the
Shrub shows where his priorities lie.
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http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/posting.php (thx Emil)
Remember Kids: It's better to add to an existing thread than start a new one.
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http://www.voteforsale.co.uk/
"Keep up an age-old British tradition, let a political party buy your vote"
Sell your allegiance, ebay style. (Warning: Maximum penalty 2 years jail)
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Long but topical quote of the week:
When I was seven years old, I was once reprimanded by my mother for an
act of collective brutality in which I had been involved at school. A
group of seven-year-olds had been teasing and tormenting a
six-year-old. "It is always so," my mother said. "You do things
together which not one of you would think of doing alone."...
Wherever one looks in the world of human organization, collective
responsibility brings a lowering of moral standards. The military
establishment is an extreme case, an organization which seems to have
been expressly designed to make it possible for people to do things
together which nobody in his right mind would do alone.
-- Freeman Dyson, "Weapons and Hope"
Still didn't make it in today. However, my throat is clearing up well so
I should be there tomorrow, piking the #pants meet to go to my RTS lab.
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http://kryogenix.org/code/conposter/index.php
Make your own remixed "It's not racist... " Tory poster!
I'm a bit disappointed that it alters the text of the whole thing, a
differencing system would be more realistic.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2005/04/11/environmentalist_fir.html
http://www.sierraclub.org/carlpope/2005/04/mixed-news-in-bayou.asp
http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/2005/Willie-Fontenot-Security5apr05.htm
"Environmentalist fired for violating nonexistent homeland security law"
"They were standing on a public sidewalk, taking photographs of the
refinery, when sheriff's deputies and refinery security guards came over
and asked Fontenot to confiscate the students' drivers licenses and hand
them over. Fontenot refused, and as a result, he lost his job as
community liasion officer for the Louisiana Attorney General's office...
The Louisiana environmental community is also looking into what else it
can do to defend the right to stand on a sidewalk and talk to students."
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http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2005/cell_sex.html
"Fourteen percent of the world's cell phone users report that they have
stopped in the middle of a sex act to answer a ringing wireless device,
Ad Age reported."
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http://theage.com.au/articles/2005/04/11/1113071894581.html
`"We don't see any safe way a performer can appear in this," says Simon
Whipp, MEAA national director. "Footage could be taken and included in a
pro-abortion advertisement or a pro-choice advertisement."'
Oh noes!!! Horror of Horrors!!1
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/12/frozen_light/
"Scientists at Harvard University have discovered how to freeze light...
In 2003 Hau's research group slowed light from 186,000 miles per second
to around the speed of a bicycle. Later, they froze light altogether,
using a cloud of ultra-cold sodium atoms."
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Some neat irssi scripts on irssi.org:
http://www.irssi.org/scripts/html/autoversion.pl
Automatic ctcp version any joiners
http://www.irssi.org/scripts/html/blowjob.pl
Encrypted chat with blowfish (hence name :)
http://www.irssi.org/scripts/html/chansort.pl
Sorts channel and query windows
http://www.irssi.org/scripts/html/cron.pl
Executes commands at specified intervals
http://www.irssi.org/scripts/html/dice.pl
Dice generater (for IRC RPGing and the like)
http://www.irssi.org/scripts/html/gpgvalidator.pl
GPG authentication of other users
http://www.irssi.org/scripts/html/hitcount.pl
Apache hitcounter in statusbar
http://www.irssi.org/scripts/html/irccomplete.pl
Tab complete words from a dictionary
http://www.irssi.org/scripts/html/keepnick.pl
Tries to get your nick back when it becomes available
http://www.irssi.org/scripts/html/lastspoke.pl
Remembers the last action of all users
http://www.irssi.org/scripts/html/logcompress.pl
Compresses logfiles when they get rotated
http://www.irssi.org/scripts/html/mangle.pl
Translates stuff into morse code, rot13, etc
http://www.irssi.org/scripts/html/nm.pl
Right aligned nicks with optional truncation
http://www.irssi.org/scripts/html/seen.pl
Last seen info
http://www.irssi.org/scripts/html/timer.pl
Timer funciotnality (like Bitchx and Mirc)
http://www.irssi.org/scripts/html/tracknick.pl
Displays regularly changed nicks in their "real" nick
http://www.irssi.org/scripts/html/version-stat.pl
Displays versions stats in a channel (e.g. msot used client)
Also a ton of scripts to provide better paste protection, query google,
mail/.inbox info in the statusbar, random quit messages and run a specified
command instead of beeping.
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P2P: (n) Person to Perpetrator
Despite running out of space on /usr twice, clarence has new builds of
apache, php and extensions.
While building I read through The Vulcan Academy Murders. Despite
breaking a hell of a lot of Trek canon it's a good read.
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Dylan's hints for all *BSD port authors/maintainers:
- If a daemon is part of the port, install it but make it *DISABLED* by
default. You could even put a foobard_enable="no" at the bottom of
/etc/rc.conf.
- If you have many build options, or some pretty important ones, stop
and tell the user *BEFORE* the start of build (with a pause so they can
abort and restart)
- Make (pun!) use of the config/showconfig targets.
Most importantly, TELL THE USER ABOUT IT. And not somewhere in the
middle of the build process where it's going to be missed. Do it at the
start with a pause for config/build options, and at the end for defaults
and post-install configuration.
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http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews\
&storyID=2005-04-08T094312Z_01_SIN831774_RTRIDST_0_OUKOE-POPE-BRITAIN-\
CISTERCIANS.XML
http://liz.phlegethon.org/monksaucer.JPG (screenshot of above)
"Island monks fly in satellite to watch Pope funeral"
Language abuse of the week, thx Boing Boing.
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http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll\
?ViewItem&category=318&item=5967321672&rd=1
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/08/ebay_member_auction/
According to The Register, a "hard up" pom is acutioning off advertising
on his penis - in the form of a permanent tattoo (ouch!). The Reg also
notes that there was a similar auction in 2002 but Ebay forced a
"premature withdrawal". *snicker*
I'm sure this would give any start up a lot of exposure.
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http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/04/08/1112815731346.html
`Liberal Party headquarters has launched an investigation into alleged
branch stacking in the state seat of Scoresby... Weeks after warfare
flared in the Victorian Labor Party, state Liberal officials have
confirmed that an investigation - the second in four months...'
http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/04/07/tv.cookie.lessmonster.ap/index.html
`My beloved blue, furry monster is now advocating eating healthy.
There's even a new song -- "A Cookie Is a Sometimes Food,"'
http://www.toryscum.com/2005/04/04/18/
Defacement photos of the "It's not racist to..." billboards. Full marx.
http://www.blairbitch.com/
`In 1999 three hundred and twenty-two people set out to parody the
"Blair Witch Project"...'
http://people.freebsd.org/~peter/laura.txt
It's been around a lot but deserves a reposting.
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<Synapse> "Tan Chew Keong has reported two vulnerabilities in AN HTTPD,
which can be exploited by malicious people to inject arbitrary
data into log files or compromise a vulnerable system."
<Synapse> Either there is a webserver called "AN" or that's the most
vague security adviory I've ever seen.
Update: Google confirms: http://www.st.rim.or.jp/~nakata/
UPDATE 23:00
It seems Thursday's failures were caused by some Telstra crap anyway.
Expecting more (webserver only) downtime tonight as I'm upgrading php,
apache, extentions and various other bits and pieces on clarence.
22:57 [oz.org] CTCP BALLS reply from ImNotMe: my mom always told me not
to talk to strangers
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You know I love it when the news it bad / Why it feels so good to feel so sad
-- "I'm only Happy When it Rains"
To a pessimist the glass if half empty, to an optimist, it is half full.
To an engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
-- Understanding engineers, lesson 1.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/06/linux_survey_pdf.pdf (actual data)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/06/linux_desktops/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/07/linux_windows_quocirca/
Buisness Linux/Windows survey.
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Major downtime on Thursday, the net connection failed it.
Clarence would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused.
UPDATE: SEE ABOVE
<Synapse> It's either the DSL-302G, shitty cheap house copper wiring,
belgrave ADSL exchange or TPG
<Synapse> between the 4 I'm suprised I can get teh intarweb at all
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/07/spam_shame_chart/
35.7% of spam from US.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4396831.stm
"Police in Malaysia are hunting for members of a violent gang who
chopped off a car owner's finger to get round the vehicle's hi-tech
security system."
http://www.yarnivore.com/francis/archives/001054.html
Behind the "Boring Boring" parody.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2005/04/07/the_men_who_stare_at.html
"In 1979 a secret unit was established by the most gifted minds within
the US Army. Defying all known accepted military practice - and indeed,
the laws of physics - they believed that a soldier could adopt the cloak
of invisibility, pass cleanly through walls and, perhaps most
chillingly, kill goats just by staring at them. Entrusted with defending
America from all known adversaries, they were the First Earth Battalion.
And they really weren't joking. What's more, they're back and fighting
the War on Terror. 'The men who stare at goats' reveals extraordinary -
and very nutty - national secrets at the core of George W Bush's War on
Terror."
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http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1347508.html?menu=news.quirkies
"Star Wars fans who have spent the last seven weeks queuing for the
opening of the new film have been told they are camping outside the
wrong cinema...
However, the fans are refusing to move, believing the news to be false..."
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http://www.bbspot.com/News/2005/04/prosperity_forever.html
"Washington DC - The House of Representatives today passed the American
Prosperity Forever Bill and sent it to the Senate for consideration. The
bill allows corporations to access personal bank accounts and move the
money to their own accounts."
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http://www.livejournal.com/community/metaquotes/2750237.html (thx Holly)
http://www.bash.org/?484340
http://www.bash.org/?482500
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XCodymauX: I've been killing pimps all day and still don't have enough
money for that sword of light.
l33t 1nt3gr4l: what the hell are you playing, GTA: Middle Earth?
<drealoth> one of the differences between a geek and a normal person is
that, when a warrenty ends, a normal person is worried that
it might break
<drealoth> the geek, on the other hand, is like 'hey, I can take it apart now.'
<ajh_home> I'm not sure I can convey how uncomfortable it makes me when
people just randomly come up to me.
<kyle > the funny thing is, if you killed them, it would be /you/ who
gets arrested.
<kyle > what a backwards society.
<Moonpie> one time, in middle school, some people let some pigs onto the
campus. They painted on the pigs "1", "2", and "4". The
faculty spent weeks looking for the third one.
rmit.cs.doubledegreeCSE
| Priji Vijayakumar:
| > About 30-ish, recending hairline, pudgy-looking. Walks with a waddle...
|
| Ramiro:
| I think you just described half of the CS department
UPDATE 23:56
dleigh 23:50:44 clarence:~/html_pregen> make clean site gallery notes sync
Now a RFC 2822 timestamp on all pages. Also some changes to notes
output - I'm trying to decide how to distinguish source, output,
command lines and general examples... maybe require the first three to
be in an <example> and use bold/italic/etc. But this would require
some rewriting of existing stuff.
All of a sudden, stacks of uni work. My todo output is scrolling off the
top of my terminal. I got home an hour ago and I need to leave in 8 hours.
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http://www.etmag.com/publication/magazine/2004-10/34-2.htm (thx nf)
This might have changed by the time you see it, I've got a screenshot.
http://www.palmopensource.com/
http://www.freewarepalm.com/
PalmOS stuff.
http://emuleplus.info/
http://www.amule.org/
Emule alternatives.
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I know they're safe because I bought them on the internet.
-- Dilbert
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Took the Golf in for repairs, and found out how hard and unpleasant it
is to drive a car without a functional exhaust system. They should be
"looking at it" tomorrow but I have no idea when I'll get it back.
Also, webspace has been uploaded now. I'll probably reorganise it
again as I'm not happy with the sidebar.
UPDATE: Made some changes to my webspace, including reorganising the
sidebar - to which I've added the Notes section. I've added a
.taglines viewer but it isn't finished yet. The whole thing
hasn't been uploaded to yallara yet as my connection is being
badly sapped.
20:46 <Synapse> Steve Jobs leaves Apple to pursue a career at IKEA
20:47 <NAbyss > shouldn't that be iKea?
00:26 <uewepuep> really crunk i am
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Really bad dizzy spells today, I stayed in bed until 15:00. Planning to
catch up on a week's missed news tonight.
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"If you believe your adolescent may be gay, or is experiencing
difficulties with gender identity or sexual orientation issues,
consider seeing a family therapist who shares your values to
clarify and work through these issues."
<Synapse> http://www.4parents.gov/topics/abstinence.htm
<NAbyss > Synapse: s/\.gov$/.church/g
Also: http://www.4parents.gov/topics/electronic_risks.htm
http://www.4parents.gov/talktopics/condoms.htm
"Tell your teen son or daughter that not having vaginal, oral or anal
sex protects 100% of the time. The only sure way to avoid STDs is to
wait until marriage to have sex, choose a partner who has also waited or
who is uninfected and share a faithful life together."
Remember kids: Sex is bad, mmkay?
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http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2005/03/mit_media_lab_m.html
A bunch of really neat stuff from MIT Media Labs, inlcuding a speaker/
microphone made from a balloon, a remote that's powered by pushing the
buttons (mo more batteries), A 3D object scanner made using a few
webcams and a microwave turntable, laser projectors and heaps more.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2005/03/31/schiavo_parents_to_s.html
Just when you think they couldn't get any lower, the Schiavo Parents
sell the names and mail addresses of their supporters to spammers.
http://boringboring.org/
The most detailed parody I've seen in a long time, right down to the ad
links up the top and in the sidebars. Full marks.
http://www.it-he.org/u8_galle.htm
Ultima 8 reverie (thx Dave)
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1338901.html?menu=news.quirkies
"A Dutch war memorial that goes up and down, and spurts flames may be
scrapped after complaints it looks like a giant penis."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/29/mitnick_sequel_review/
"Mitnick sequel fails to hack it" Bahahahaha....
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/01/steve_jobs_joins_ikea/
If only it were true.
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<darkmoon> i don't think we should help people who can pay for it either
<darkmoon> because any sort of helping at all will simply lead to communism
<geoffwa> I'm dubbing it dylan lab as there are a whole TWO printers in here
<myrddian> did you know the nerd RPG convention was on last weekend?
<Synapse > as opposed to the other RPG convention?
<Poutramos> Oh, and notice now how Coon Cheese has an explanation of
it's brandname origin on all packets
<Poutramos> To stop all the "IT'S ABO CHEESE, IT'S KEEPING US DOWN"
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"Her voice sounds like the cry of a shy hamster in whose rectum a hot
poker has just been inserted." -- Xeni Jardin on Wing's singing
As you can see, I'm still catching up on a backlog of RSS, news and
mailing lists.
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http://www.smh.com.au/news/Breaking/P2P-raids-clumsy-say-ISPs/\
2005/03/29/1111862359875.html
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/03/10/1110417613009.html
Music industry employees conducting raids on suspected copyright
infringers. Taking the state out of "police state".
"The raids were conducted with rarely used search warrants known as
Anton Piller orders which are used exclusively in civil proceedings. No
police were involved, and the record industry sent its own
investigators to carry out the search and seize evidence."
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?\
xml=/news/2005/03/28/nbarc28.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/03/28/ixportal.html
"Millions of Barclays customers were unable to withdraw money yesterday
after the bank's cashpoint network crashed amid claims that a duty
manager had accidentally put the clocks back instead of forward."
Let's hear it for daylight savings!
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http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/catchfish.asp
"A resident in the area saw a ball bouncing around kind of strange like
in the developments pond and when he went to investigate, it was a
flathead catfish who had obviously tried to swallow a child's basketball
which became stuck in its mouth."
Includes photos.
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http://nationaljournal.com/about/njweekly/stories/2005/0218njsp.htm
"Adding to the mounting pressure on broadcasters is the fact that police
and fire departments cannot communicate effectively in emergencies...
...These communication failures prompted the national 9/11 commission
to recommend that broadcasters promptly vacate four television channels
for public safety. It has yet to happen."
In the land of the free, the EM spectrum is reserved for broadcast
companies while cops, medics and firepeople rely on their mobiles - and
sending messengers in person - to communicate in an emergency.
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http://mrbobhatesyou.blogspot.com/\
2005_03_01_mrbobhatesyou_archive.html#111147519912475081
"Where were the answering articles presenting the powerful case for
scientific creationism? Why were we so unwilling to suggest that
dinosaurs lived 6,000 years ago or that a cataclysmic flood carved the
Grand Canyon? Blame the scientists. They dazzled us with their fancy
fossils, their radiocarbon dating and their tens of thousands of
peer-reviewed journal articles. As editors, we had no business being
persuaded by mountains of evidence...
We owe it to our readers to present everybody's ideas equally and not
to ignore or discredit theories simply because they lack
scientifically credible arguments or facts. Nor should we succumb to
the easy mistake of thinking that scientists understand their fields
better than, say, U.S. senators or best-selling novelists do."
Check the link for the full Scientific American Editorial.
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http://www.therockalltimes.co.uk/
http://www.therockalltimes.co.uk/2005/03/28/uk-virginity-survey.html
Great brit satire site.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/23/meddling_research/
"More than one in ten scientists working in the UK have been asked by
private sector backers to tailor the conclusions of their research."
http://mrbobhatesyou.blogspot.com/\
2005_03_01_mrbobhatesyou_archive.html#111183649670372891
"I nearly got killed masturbating recently..."
http://upcoming.org/
A Public "Social Event Calendar" by Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing fame
http://www.bbspot.com/News/2005/03/pokemon_quiz.php
Quiz: are these terms from Pokemon, Yu-gi-oh or drug slang?
http://www.toryscum.com/
"Turn your back to basics"
http://www.corante.com/copyfight/archives/\
2005/03/28/the_revenge_of_sapirwhorf.php
"Every study that has been done since Napster has shown that music
sharing has no negative effects on music sales (CD or downloaded). In
fact, some show a positive effect."
http://conelrad.com/
"The golden age of homeland security." Mid 20th-century US madness.
http://bedazzled.blogs.com/bedazzled/2005/03/gaylord_tv_comm.html
40 years before Aibo there was... Gaylord!
(Sorry to disappoint you but it's a robot dog. The name is coincidental)
http://conelrad.com/media/atomicmusic/sh_boom.php?platter=22
Music is a communist myth! It seems music with a strong beat is actually
a form of hypnotism invented by the soviets in order to waeken our moral
structure so they can take over. Christians have reached new levels of
stupidity.
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Worst use of bools ever (thanks to JamesCurran and DailyWTF):
if (!Page.IsPostBack == true)...
It's wrong on so many levels!
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00:12 <kristvoir> he'll take that secret to his belgrave
00:12 <kristvoir> *hahah* pun
00:12 <PsychoAnt> ahahahha
00:17 <Synapse> Vote {1} Small L liberals Party
22:01 <Synapse> I'll spell thius out
22:01 <Synapse> aieeee
22:01 <kristvoir> hahhaha
22:01 * Synapse shoots self
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"I'm also curious how Mr. DeLay thinks doctors in Florida are "medical
terrorists". Who are they terrorising? I'm more inclined to think that
someone who bombs an abortion clinic to make Baby Jesus smile is closer
to being a "medical terrorist"."
-- Kasreyn, k5
23:52
Big update to make up for my lack of updating over easter. Not looking
forward to some big tests I have on Thursday and Friday.
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http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/28/1111862322274.html
`In a report last year for the Business Coalition for Tax Reform, Access
predicted that abolishing the taxes immediately would make the states
$3.2 billion a year worse off. But the Federal Government would be $700
million a year better off, as its company tax claws back much of the
increase in company profits...
Treasurer Peter Costello last week denied that Canberra would gain
anything from its ultimatum ordering the states to abolish six taxes on
financial transactions by 2007, and a seventh - stamp duty on
conveyancing for business properties - on a date to be fixed.'
It's also strange how the 5 year old agreement has changed from "The
states should *consider* dropping..." to "The states *must* drop...".
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http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/28/1111862317999.html
`In a hospital on the outskirts of Beijing, Dr Huang Hongyun drilled two
holes in her skull, took a pink solution containing cultivated cells
extracted from an aborted foetus and injected it into her brain.
Four hours later, Mrs Terpstra amazed her husband Rein and daughter Ren
by drinking a glass of fruit juice, the first time in months she had
been able to swallow without help.'
This is way awesome. For one thing it's a potential cure for many
conditions involving problems with nerve cells. At the least it's
proof that abortions are pretty damn useful.
Seriously, I'm glad that someone out there is ignoring the Religious
Wrong's complaints about stem cell research being evil and
sarcreligious and actually trying it, with impressive results.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2005/03/28/robotic_mating_propo.html
"I couldn't find any specific reference to fembots with gun-boobies in
Jason's post, but any excuse to post this jpeg's a good one."
http://frikk.tk/media/pictures/slingshot/
The Elevator Slingshot!
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=22142
Police detain terrorist daleks invading British parliament.
EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!
http://www.fossil.com/shopping/product/detailmain.jsp\
?itemType=PRODUCT&RS=1&itemID=12768&keyword=fx2008
I wonder how long the battery lasts?
http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/revue_27.html
Worth it just for the name (for those who don't play enough GBA or
watch enough Anime, Muramasa means roughly "Cursed Sword").
http://durrrrr.blogspot.com/
Terri Schiavo's Blog!
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/products/services.html
Earthquake Notification by Email
http://secunia.com/advisories/14688/
THIS IS WHY YOU GIVE YOUR SOFTWARE SANE NAMES, PEOPLE
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002045092_pledge24.html
Seperation of Church and State anyone? Keep in mind the issue being
decided by the courts was that some students were forced into saying the
"Under God" crap.
http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/war45.html
http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/war39.html
Seeing red?
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=21&ItemID=6261
"It's that fear that keeps journalists from asking the toughest of the
tough questions..."
http://www.zeldaclassic.com/
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[On medical research in China]
<darkmoon> i always hoped this would happen
<darkmoon> retarded christian countries that outlaw science and progress
lose to smarter countries
<Synapse> Even if it's icky
<Synapse> it's CUTTING EDGE SURGERY
<darkmoon> *groan*
<darkmoon> =)
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New tags:
I may have alzheimers but at least I don't have alzheimers.
-- tshirthell
Your girlfriend may be hot, but wait 'til you see my train set.
-- tshirthell
I'd rather be fighting the man.
-- tshirthell
I may be white but that doesn't mean I'm rich.
-- tshirthell
(I really like this last one because noone can tell if you're actually
being racist or supportive or just trying to piss people off)
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http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~dleigh/notes/subversion-tips.html
It's been there for almost a week, I forgot to link it. I might also
do a "subversion basics" covering basic checking in, committing,
updating etc.
No updates for a while due to lots of work and assorted family easter
gatherings. I haven't even been checking my newsreader or aggregator.
<Synapse> ooh zelda hentai
* Synapse waiting for someone to ask for a *link*
Writing up a subversion notes page.
<Synapse> if I set "enable-auto-props = yes" does subversion give me big ups?
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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050319/\
ap_on_he_me/canada_wait_your_turn
`TORONTO - A letter from the Moncton Hospital to a New Brunswick heart
patient in need of an electrocardiogram said the appointment would be in
three months. It added: "If the person named on this computer-generated
letter is deceased, please accept our sincere apologies."'
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23:54 <geoffwa> CD-RW -> write many, read none
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Fixed the subversion commit-email.pl to work on student servers.
The magic line: my $sendmail = "/usr/local/sbin/sendmail";
It's in /home/d/dleigh/public/bin/commit-email.pl
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/public/courses/EngineeringSoftwareProjects/Group_Project_A/1/ :) :)
UPDATE 16:24
Returned to CS as I can't log into Eng (i.e. NDS). ITS fales it again.
I know it seems like PCKB for me to complain that CS students abuse
the printers, but at least I let other people get their stuff done.
Reading http://thedailywtf.com/ and http://www.clientcopia.com/ while
I'm waiting. And the .inbox is now down to 19!
UPDATE 14:32
Culled my .inbox from 63 to 25 mails. Woo. Getting a lot of PP3A junk
from projects I'm not doing.
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It's Quote O'Clock on the Rocket Clock!
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"After all, suits have many of the things that geeks particularly
appreciate: Intense levels of engineering, an obsession with structural
elegance, physics, totally wicked gear that's used to create them,
topographic geometry, and materials science that burrows right down to
chemistry and - these days - nanotechnology. And when it comes to ties,
my god, you've got the most awesomely realized application of knot
theory on the planet."
-- Clive Thomson
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"It stands to reason that if you'll let a person order you around in your
bedroom, dictate who you can marry, and convince you to mutilate your
children's genitals at birth, then they can pretty much convince you to
do anything for them."
-- Kasreyn (k5)
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redb3ard:
> > If [homosexuality] were to become a more predominant lifestyle choice in
> > the world, that sort of world might not be the kind of place that you
> > want to live in,
Daani:
> I don't want to live in a world where bigotry like that is the most
> common point of view. But apparently I don't have the right to shut you
> up to stop your views from spreading.
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http://www.thenewpress.com/newbooks/godside.htm
"While organizations that promote family planning and sex education are
the targets of relentless audits, church groups receive hundreds of
millions in federal dollars for programs promoting sexual abstinence,
faith-based social services and marriage training..."
Good reading for Chris and Andrew.
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http://www.kuro5hin.org/comments/2005/3/13/83622/1107/100#100
http://www.kuro5hin.org/comments/2005/3/13/83622/1107/109#109
"Hot gay sex is not going to bring about the downfall of Western
civilization. In fact - there was plenty of hot gay sex action happening
at it's inception (the ancient Greeks)."
-- Greyghost (k5)
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The Two Pillars of Republicans
Adapted by this post from Mason:
http://www.kuro5hin.org/comments/2005/3/13/83622/1107/266#266
- If candidate takes an odious stance on a social issue, or a ridiculously
regressive stance on an economic issue: "I might not agree with him
totally, but I still trust his judgment to do what is right."
- If candidate is caught in ethics violations, scandal, or corruption:
"Okay, he might not be a perfect guy, but I agree with his politics
so I'll still support him."
Apply as necessary.
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http://www.spreadingsantorum.com/archives/cat_santorum_quotations.html
"[The] right to privacy.doesn't exist in my opinion in the United States
Constitution."
--Rick Santorum on the right to privacy
"[I have] a problem with homosexual acts, as I would with what I would
consider to be acts outside of traditional heterosexual relationships...
if the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual [gay]
sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the
right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to
adultery."
--Rick Santorum on gay sex, AP interview
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http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/quotes/revpat.htm
"The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a
socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave
their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy
capitalism, and become lesbians."
--Pat Robertson, fundraising letter, 1992
"If the widespread practice of homosexuality will bring about the
destruction of your nation, if it will bring about terrorist bombs, if
it'll bring about earthquakes, tornadoes and possibly a meteor, it isn't
necessarily something we ought to open our arms to."
--Pat Robertson, The 700 Club television program, August 6, 1998
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http://spacestationk7.eliteforce.com/index.php?f=mods
Some good Star Trek: Elite Force 2 mods.
http://loosewire.typepad.com/blog/2005/03/a_directory_of_.html
Linkpile of software designed to run off USB drives.
http://www.englishcut.com/archives/000004.html
http://www.englishcut.com/archives/000016.html
The difference between "Bespoke" and "Made to measure" (1), and a
summary of the different levels of sartorial splendour (2). It's easy to
understand why people get them mixed up as the difference isn't intuitive.
Missed classes on Thursday and most of the ones on Wednesday due to GI
faleure. And I'm even getting behind on my .missedclasses. Today I went
through some of my backlog of work, then got sick of it and changed to
my backlog of syndication (as you can see below).
The concept of Media Center PCs was obviously developed to piss me off.
Took the broken CD drive out of Angel along with the working but not
big enough 1G drive and a stuffed 20G that was disconnected but
located in a too hard to reach location to remove easily. I put in the
drive Emil gave me (thx!) and a DVD drive. On boot the BIOS couldn't
find the video card and made rude gestures.
After twiddling a lot with the screw holding the card in I found there
was no way I could secure the card and get it in the slot at the same
time. I assume this was something to do with having to disassemble the
bracket holding the motherboard thing in to get to the HD mountings,
since it's obviously not where it was before.
This is the last time I work on a fucking subcompact case. Short of
taking half the fucking case apart again and reassembling it I gave up
in digust. My laziness and cheapskateness are at roughly equal levels
now so it is unlikely I will purchase new hardware or do more work.
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http://www.thistothat.com/
http://www.thistothat.com/faq/crayfish.shtml
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1324405.html?menu=news.quirkies
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/03/17/terrorize_me_elmo.html
http://www.theinquirer.net/images/articles/webber.pdf
http://www.bbspot.com/News/2005/03/bookman_new_style.html
http://www.costik.com/weblog/2005_03_01_blogchive.html#111069190589189590
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http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/19/1111086052842.html
"Doctors removed the feeding tube that has kept a brain-damaged Florida
woman alive for 15 years after US politicians tried to prolong her life
by subpoenaing her to appear before Congress."
http://www.3m.com/intl/CA/english/centres/home_leisure/duct_tape/dt_wallet.html
Build a wallet from duct tape. I'd be interested in a version with
proper zippered sections.
http://www.norodomsihanouk.info/mes%202005/mars/textes/0403txt8.htm
Best downtime apology ever!
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/41548.html
"Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), once nicknamed "Terminator" for his 2003
comment that the recording industry should be allowed to remotely
destroy the computers of file-sharers, was named today to head a new
Senate subcommittee on intellectual property."
http://www.washington.edu/alumni/columns/march05/wakeupcall01.html
Industry pressure on scientific research.
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"I am Quark! Son of Keldor! And I have come to answer
the challenge of Dagor, son of... whatever."
-- DS9, "The House of Quark"
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LONDON (Reuters) - Heidi Brown was told she could park her new scooter
outside the vehicle registration office while she waited to get number
plates. To her horror, it was blown up by the army after someone
reported that it might be a bomb.
-- (Reuters, thx shai)
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Kurt Weber (K5):
"I do not exist for the sake of others; thus, no one has any moral
authority to force me to pay to take care of others."
speek (K5):
"Maybe not, but we have the right to kill you for being such a selfish prick."
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<darkmoon> autoconf is a crime against humanity
It's 6:30am and I'm wandering through my webserver logs. A lot of
traffic from the timetable script and a mistyped url on my Heavy Gear
page causing problems. I'm noticing a lot more attempted attacks, many
on IIS secuity holes (although I don't run IIS) and on phpBB insertion
attacks (I don't run phpBB either).
The throat is better, but still bad. My sinuses are still a bit
blocked but at least my ears aren't ringing.
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http://www.iprcom.com/papers/pagerank/ (pageranking discussion)
http://www.johnhowardlies.com/ (too much flash :( otherwise good)
http://www.splintercell.com/us/ss/spy_manual_2.jpg (by PA)
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01:18 <Synapse> Why did the chicken cross the road?
01:19 <Synapse> For it's own fowl reasons.
01:45 <alhazan> more like
01:45 <alhazan> to kill dylan
01:47 <Synapse> well
01:47 <Synapse> any poultry excuse will do
01:48 <alhazan> maybe i'll just kill myself
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"Anyone smoking within 50 metres will be deemed to be on fire and will
be extinguished with water or other extinguishing media"
-- Sign outside Melbourne Uni Chemistry labs.
As you may have noticed, multiline links on the .plan web script are
now converted properly. In case you were wondering the trailing \ is
to allow easy X copy/paste for the diehards using finger(1).
If you are interested in the code drop me a line and I'll put it in the
notes - I've been thinking of doing a PHP tips page.
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http://www.comedycentral.com/mp/browseresults.jhtml?s=ds
Daily show clips.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?\
tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=1&u=/nm/20050311/od_nm/odd_india_tax_dc
HYDERABAD, India (Reuters) - Tax defaulters in southern India are
being forced to face the music after city authorities hired drummers
to play non-stop outside their homes until they pay up.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=21844
Elephants using SMS. Only in Kenya.
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<darkmoon> but i can get a little bit more redundancy
<darkmoon> basically, i just need something that'll outlive me
<alhazan > encode your data into porn and distribute it around the world
[possible exuses for increasing my quota]
<darkmoon> "uhh dylan is a mad haxor and his sheer haxorness requires at
least ten or twenty gigs of checkpointed RAIDed meticulously
backed up enterprise grade storage to contain"
<alhazan> Synapse: echo "lose some weight fatfingers" > ,plan
<geoffwa> there's a tux racer machine at the arcade in chadstone!
<geoffwa> in conclusion BSD has little to no commercial applicability
<darkmoon> god endorses things by not explicitly stopping them
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"All you need to know about Stallman and his out of control ego is that
he wrote a 7000 word FAQ devoted to the GNU/Linux naming cause."
"I bet the cost rebuilding the twin towers has nothing on millions of people
spending hours in line hoping they're not the one getting the anal probe."
-- codejack (k5)
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"Many people who have seen [a film about the life of jesus] view it as a
thinly disguised and blasphemous attack on the life of Monty Python.
Python worshippers claim the film sets out to ridicule by parody the
actual members of Monty Python, men who even today are worshipped and
revered throughout the western world."
"Bishop, you directed this film, did you expect this sort of reaction?"
"Well, I certainly didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition!"
-- Not The 9 O'Clock News
I laughed so hard it hurt my throat and lungs.
I definitely have a throat infection, I could feel it throbbing this
morning. It seems to be getting better (I hope so because I have a
test at 10:10 tomorrow morning).
Spent most of the day laying in bed and read through all of Airframe
(by Michael Crichton). Very impressed, although it's not quite as good
as The Andromeda Strain or Terminal Man (two of my favourite fictional
books of all time).
On repeat: Nicola Conte - Live at Astro Jazz Lounge
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"Minister, it takes time to do things now."
-- Sir Humphrey, Yes Minister
<darkmoon> you can't go 5 minutes without making a sexual reference
<darkmoon> (or, more accurately, i can't go 5 minutes without spotting
a sexual reference where one wasn't)
<Synapse> I'm going to go to bed with a copy of FIPS 180
<Synapse> and if it isn't good enough to beat off to at least I'll be
able to implement SHA1
I have a really horrible sore throat and bad sinus problems, so I've
been in a pretty shit mood today. I'm going through blackberry
Soothers at a rate of one per 2 hours.
Tried and failed to install Fedora Core 3, Windows XP and FreeBSD
5.3 on Angel, which didn't improve my mood. The CD drive is fucked.
It's been behaving really badly for a while but today it wouldn't
finish loading the installers for any of the OS. Cleaning the drive
got it a bit further but no cigar.
Tried and failed to do a floppy install of FreeBSD. Gave up. I might
take the rarely used CD drive out of clarence this morning, so if
you can't reach the timetable script, I'm probably fondling my
hardware.
Currently on repeat: "Anxiety" by norfair/hunz.
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http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/12/1110567748577.html
The Blair Government has pushed through legislation that allows them to
detain anyone without trial, without presenting evidence of anything.
"Britain's terror laws, enacted after the September 11 attacks in the
US, originally allowed the imprisonment without trial of foreign
nationals... Ten men were last week released from prison, where they had
been held for up to three years on suspicion of terrorist activity."
I'm not planning on going to England anytime soon.
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Quickies:
http://jobs.careerone.com.au/search/dsp_show_job.cfm?jobID=1827842
http://crystaltips.typepad.com/wonderland/2005/03/burn_the_house_.html
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=21789 Only in Kenya
http://www.bbspot.com/Features/2001/03/linux_quiz.php
Using google is cheating.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=21714
"Called the Rob-1, this freewheeling camera can be controlled via a
Bluetooth connexion up to a range of 50 metres. It gives a new lift to
voyeurism given the wide range of options it can provide...
Even better the camera can be tilted. Either downwards by 20 degrees or
upwards by 70 degrees - especially handy for those up-the-skirt shots."
http://www.wipo.int/about-wipo/en/\
info_center/cartoons/pdf/copyright_cartoon.pdf
This is so stupid I don't know where to start in trying to parodise it.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles//0,7340,L-3052074,00.html
People who play D&D are "detached from reality and suscepitble to
influence", and have a "weak personality", acocrding to the Israeli
Defense Force. They're automatically gien low security clearance and
sent to a psychiatrist.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/custom/fringe/\
sns-ap-teen-prank,0,7971675.story?coll=sfla-news-fringe
"COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho -- A teenager has agreed to admit to three counts
of disturbing the peace after anonymously sending semen-frosted brownies
to a fellow student. The recipient shared the treat with two other
teens, police said."
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New Tags:
A penny saved would double my net worth.
Where there's smoke, there's a need for water cooling.
-- BBSpot
Don't count your downloads before the torrent is complete.
-- BBSpot
If a tree falls in the forest and no one blogs about it, does it make a noise?
-- BBSpot
http://www.stoplandmines.org/slm/index.html
<Synapse > also re the landmine server, a lot of US news services refused
to screen the video
<Synapse > and a bunch of cunts said it was anti-american
<darkmoon> Synapse: how is blowing up children anti-american?
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[The MegaMan Battle Network series]
<Synapse> It's RPG meets Arcade meets Cyberpunk meets Card games!
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22:08 <Tiga> I'm tired and so very full of angst right now. I'm hoping
when I wake up I'll be feeling btter.
22:08 <Synapse> bitter?
22:08 <Synapse> better?
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http://www.lasertagparts.com/mtdesign.htm - DIY laser tag games
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When you earnestly believe you can compensate for a lack of skill by
doubling your efforts, there's no end to what you can't do.
-- despair.com, "Incompetence"
UPDATE 18:14
http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~dleigh/stuff/links.html
New course/subject links for this semester.
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UPDATE 17:03
In an AI Lab, which I gave up because the demo java applet is
running incredibly slowly. My throat is really sore and burning
and I feel slightly dizzy. Should have remained at home :/
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Woke up with really nasty chest pains this morning, not sure if I'll
be coming in or not.
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"[Harry Potter] A hopeless asian fetishist without any courage around girls.
I'm surprised he doesn't post here at k5."
-- balsamic vinigga (k5)
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"You should start a podcast. I don't know what the fuck this is, but
apparently the same douchebags who started using the word "blog"
invented "podcast" in order to help boost sales of Apple hardware
without compensation. This doesn't make them whores because they
aren't getting paid to endorse it."
-- fragmal (k5)
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http://theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/07/1110160730077.html
A fantastic article on m4dh4x0r social engineering.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=21595
The Broadcast Flag for Europe and Australia :(
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/07/1110160749168.html
This didn't concern me much until I read that Malaysia is also sending
in the fleet :(
http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/\
story/0,10801,100165,00.html?source=x10
Running Windows(tm) on your ATMs and across the internet is probably not
a good idea. Maybe David Jones works for Wells Fargo.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/07/1110160755370.html
`Finance Minister Nick Minchin entered the row, claiming GST revenue had
been wasted on wage claims by state government employees such as
teachers and nurses.'
We can't have people in trivial jobs like teaching and nursing being
paid more, can we?
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http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/07/1110160749160.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/04/60minutes/main678155.shtml
`Security services or police, at the behest of the CIA, often pick up
suspects whom masked CIA operatives then drug, strip and dress in prison
clothes.
They are flown to a range of destinations, including Morocco, Egypt,
Libya, Guantanamo Bay and some former Soviet republics such as
Uzbekistan, which the [US] State Department says regularly use extreme
torture in their prisons and detention centres.'
`"And if some of that useful information is gleaned by torture, that's OK"
"It's OK with me," says Scheuer. "I'm responsible for protecting Americans."'
No links today. Too tired and busy to read. Speaking of links, remind
me to update the links page on my site with the new subjects.
Spending the rest of the night curled up with FIPS 180 (Secure Hash
Standard). I truly am a nerd.
09:32 * darkmoon has quit (Read error: ROR from client)
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/06/1110044259280.html
`Finding affordable housing is becoming harder for young Victorians, with
many students and low-paid workers unable to afford rental properties in
Dandenong, Sunshine, Geelong or Ballarat.
People on the Youth Allowance could not afford to rent in these areas even
if they received the maximum rate of Commonwealth rent assistance...'
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/06/1110044255514.html
`In particular it notes that: "The protection of the environment appears
to be of less importance than the promotion of economic wellbeing . . .
the biophysical environment is less important than other considerations,
particularly economic."'
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/03/tech/gamecore/main677960.shtml
`Do you think the interactivity of game violence makes it different
than violence on television, which is passive?
I think that violence is violence, and that if someone doesn't have
the capacity to differentiate between real life and fiction, that they
have a problem that precedes their exposure to violence in the media.'
`We hear stories about football players getting drunk, doing drugs,
raping girls at parties, injuring people in bars, etc. But I don't
hear anyone suggesting that we ban high school football.'
http://www.theage.com.au/news/Iraq/\
Italian-joy-turns-to-anger/2005/03/05/1109958156191.html
`It was the most serious diplomatic incident between the two allies since
a US Marines jet killed 20 people when it sheared the cables of a ski
lift in northern Italy in 1989.'
http://www.theage.com.au/news/Opinion/\
Wasting-away-with-galloping-consumption/2005/03/05/1109958148636.html
`A huge pile of unwanted, unfixable consumer goods on the nature strip
is a testimony to the health of the economy. Everything there has been
replaced with better, newer, brighter and - here's the miracle - cheaper
substitutes. It is called economic growth.'
-- Terry Lane
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<darkmoon > dan taking pictures of planes, like a terrorist
<wise_shai> well, he takes pictues of buildings, too!
<wise_shai> oh wait...
I've been considering developing a real CMS instead of the .plan portal,
or at least changing the format of the .plan to make it more web
friendly. When writing I think more about how it looks on the page more
than how it looks when fingered.
Altering the syntax so that entries have a time and date and using
seperate entries instead of the little seperators would be a start.
I'll also set it up to allow clicky navigation of the .plan, and not
display the whole hog by default.
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http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/westview/story/2610442p-3026695c.html
Oh, Canada. It's a pity Lloyd Axworthy isn't down here (or even still in
cabinet up there), our politicians could learn something from him.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/04/1109700676071.html
"You are suspected of plotting an act of terrorism, though you have never
been charged, let alone convicted. The British Government plans to have
you electronically tagged, so it will always know where you are; to make
you keep a curfew, to ban your mobile phone and internet use and even to
put you under house arrest without trial."
http://www.lex18.com/Global/story.asp?S=2989614
Writing a short story about zombies overtaking a high school for your english
class is enough to get you sent to jail for making a "terrorist threat"!
"On Thursday, a judge raised Poole's bond from one to five thousand
dollars after prosecutors requested it, citing the seriousness of the
charge. Poole is being held at the Clark County Detention Center."
http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/\
Under-pressure/2005/03/04/1109700675823.html
"In the final ACNielsen Age Poll, 55 per cent of Coalition voters
nominated the economy or interest rates as the main issue deciding their
vote. The Government made the economy and interest rates the central
issue of the campaign. Wherever John Howard went, his lectern bore the
slogan "Keeping interest rates low"."
The article also has an great discussion of why the economy is in trouble.
http://www.brightcoop.com/livehaul/c_e-z_catch.htm
Automated Chicken collecting! Check out the video on the right sidebar.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/02/0208_050208_foxes.html
"Baby Foxes Going to the Dogs"
A 45 year study where foxes were bred for domestication - specifically,
not to fear or be agressive to humans. They are begginning to behave
like dogs, wagging their tails and comprehending gestures and moods.
They're also very cute.
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http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/04/1109700676038.html
"Politicians making sweeping value judgements about people on benefits
has lasting and stigmatising effects on those who are legitimate."
There was no credible evidence to suggest the welfare system was being
widely abused, he said. "These politicians would be better off
stopping rorts in the tax system by the well-off," Mr McCallum said."
According to our Workplace Participation Minister (Peter Dutton), one in
every five unemployed people on the dole were secretly working.
He hasn't produced any evidence to back up these claims.
Presumably he thinks it's ok for an elected minister to invent
statistics in order to vilify a seriously disadvantaged group of people.
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"I should have gone into insurance. Better hours, more money, less scruples."
-- Quark, "The House of Quark", Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Saw Oldboy today. Definitely one of the best and most personal revenge
flicks I've seen. It manages to be psychological without devolving
into psych-wank and meaningful without losing it's sense of humour or
action.
All in all five stars out of five.
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http://www.simong.org/index.php?p=739
Stopping blog comment spam (although the techniques apply to any
automatic HTML form abuse).
http://moglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/grokster-amicus.pdf
EFF/New Yorkers for Fair Use breif in the grokster case. Suprisingly well
written, manages to be amusing and dismissive without crossing the line.
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Everyone looks goth in monochrome.
-- emikulic
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<Synapse > I like vmware
-!- uewepuep has joined #pants
<Synapse > it's a lot less painful than I thought
<uewepuep> dick ring?
http://www.unhappybirthday.com/
"There is an overwhelming amount of copyright infringement of Happy
Birthday. Let's right the balance and tell ASCAP about every one of
these violations!"
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http://flippinbits.com/twiki/bin/view/FAQ/WebHome - PalmOS Development FAQ
http://prc-tools.sourceforge.net/ - GCC for PalmOS (also in FBSD ports)
http://onboardc.sourceforge.net/ - C Compiler that runs *under* PalmOS
Seriously thinking of getting a Zire 72 or Tungsten T3/T5.
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http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/01/1109546846166.html
Good economic managers eh?
"Australia's worst trade performance on record is unlikely to stop an
increase in interest rates tomorrow that will add more than $30 a month
to the average mortgage."
<kristvoir> yeah well, If mark Latham broke all of our arms we'd
have to pay more than $30
<Synapse> Lying to the australian people, pushing a religious agenda
from 5 centuries ago, being a bigoted racist, making australia
the target of terrorist attacks and bailing out your brothers'
bankruptcy with taxpayers money is ok but breaking someone's
arm 17 years ago in self-defence means you're evil
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00:10 <kristvoir> Synapse: do you support a womens right to choose to have an
abortion?
00:10 <Synapse> kristvoir: I support everyone's right to have an abortion
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Great puns in Star Trek #8562:
Major Kira: "You follow springball?"
Vedek Bareil: "Religiously!"
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Tom Wijgers wrote:
> Tom Santos wrote:
> > Jony Wijaya wrote:
> > > I think the proper term is "Lectorial" :)
> >
> > I've had proper lectures with a lot less people in it than that!
>
> I think the proper term is "Tuture" :)
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I would officially like to thank all those who replied to the
biblebasher so I didn't have to.
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Use the source, luke.
- bstewart
Really sick this morning - bad chest pains, dizziness and bleeding.
Missed the first real Professional Practice 3A lecture and my first AI tute :(
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<Synapse> fuck you're stupid, uneducated and ignorant
<NAbyss> Synapse: welcome to the internet
<Synapse> inertia makes the world go round
<Mutiny> "large explosion in downtown jerusalem, two cats scared,
houseplant shaken and dropped onto floor, israelis occupy
palestinian owned areas, 12 palestinians dead in retalitory
missle attacks"
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"A honest politician is one who, once being bought, stays bought."
-- Mark Twain.
Just because something sounds like flamebait, it doesn't mean its not true.
-- Szo
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http://www.yak.net/fqa/410.html
http://europa.eu.int/comm/codecision/stepbystep/diagram_en.htm
How the EU works. This isn't fake; it really is that bad.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/02/28/1109546797121.html
"You said interest rates would go up under Labor!"
"I didn't say they wouldn't go up under the coalition!"
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http://www.insultmonger.com/index.htm
"Offensive jokes, an insulting slang dictionary, the world's largest
multilingual swearing archive of 165 languages, random insult generators..."
http://www.insultmonger.com/assorted/swearing.htm is a breif essay on
the recent history of swearing.
UPDATE 22:47
Finding new reserves of anger and bitterness.
Good thing I'm not a jedi. It's probably the heat.
Information Systems Engineering 1 looks fun, apart from being loonix
centric. Now that I've said that I'll have to actually try.
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<Synapse> also, thanks to science lesbian mice can reproduce
<Synapse> so its concievable (PUN! PUN!) that gays could have kids
<Synapse> I did crash the print server once doing a 375 page manual
<Synapse> I tried to tone it down after that
<Synapse> (tone, gettit?)
<Synapse> I'm so funny sometimes I make myself cry
<wise_shai> please die
<darkmoon> STRAIGHT OUTTA BELGRAVE, A CRAZY MOTHERFUCKER NAMED DYLAN
<darkmoon> you're guilty until proven otherwise, and maybe even despite that
<darkmoon> but we'll keep performing medically unnecessary genital
mutilation because banning that would be anti-semitic
<wise_shai> Q: How many neo-classical economists does it take to change
a light bulb?
<wise_shai> A: It depends on the wage rate.
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http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/spermtheft24.html
Wins the best url competition if nothing else.
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I tried reading the newsgroups when I came in this morning. I cried.
21:26 <jerkmoon> i was shocked
21:26 <Synapse> wtf
21:26 <Synapse> 21:26 <jerkmoon> i was shocked
21:26 * Synapse shocked
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http://www.viceversa.com/Dynamic/Products,intCategoryID,34,intItemID,1447.html
<Synapse> I MUST HAVE ONE
http://www.bbspot.com/News/2005/02/war_on_terror.html
"The War on Terror ended abruptly yesterday, shocking millions around
the world when Terror surrendered unconditionally..."
http://logo-contest.freebsd.org/
FreeBSD Logo Design contest. Using Beastie is optional.
http://www.alienryderflex.com/rotoscope/
Rotoscoping your own lightsaber effects. Can be applied to a lot of
similar special effects too. Includes a linkpile to homemade saber duels.
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Tags:
James Garfield someone really hated / cos he was asassinated
-- Animaniacs
<darkmoon> I can't believe it's not photoshop
<kristvoir> can't someone go on a moral crusade to lower apple sales
<Synapse > being able to choose the song to play is a CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT
Attitudes are contagious. Mine might kill you.
-- Burnout, despair.com
Dare to Slack
-- despair.com
It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black.
-- Despair, despair.com
At least homophobia isn't as bad as television.
-- Andrew Rutherford
Why did the chicken cross the road?
For it's own fowl reasons.
Why did the other chicken cross the road?
Any poultry excuse will do.
10pm in Babbage. I don't think security is doing its job.
www.condoms4life.org - "Good Christians Use Condoms"
UPDATE 16:53, Beard Lab
http://careersonline.acs.unimelb.edu.au/cae/job.aspx?j=16673
Best. Job. Evarr.
Feeling a lot better after the second half of the day. My enrolment
situation is looking up. And Druids make great steak sandwiches.
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UPDATE 10:50, Hopper Lab
I'm not sure what I hate more, germs all over the keyboards or
detergent all over the keyboards. Yay for dermatitis. They really
should be rinsing them afterwards.
Fixed a stupid file locking bug in the timetable comparator where I
forgot to close the database. I've also properly entered in my
timetable but I'll be changing soon so I'm not sure why I bothered.
In other grumpy news, I limped all the way down to Capitol Theatre
(yes, my knee's still borked) and up the stairs, arriving just in time
to be told that nothing was happening.
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"10 years ago, if you took apart your VCR and added your own components
to do something new, the company woudln't dream of suing you, and
wouldn't try to publicly state that you are stealing from them.
Nowadays, we have big TV execs saying that not watching commercials is
basically stealing the TV content."
-- mindstrm, k5
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/20/magazine/20WWLN.html?ex=1266642000\
&en=dc8de961f4e932be&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland?NYT_REG_SUCKS_ROCKS
Unintelligent Design.
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<Ronwe> I never claimed to have a good memory....
<Malice> Maybe you did. It's not like you'd remember.
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."
-- Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005)
God is shorthand for "I don't know"
Gunfire is the sound of freedom.
Spending my last hours of the holidays watching Deep Space Nine and
archiving/checking/cleaning the httpd access logs on clarence.
Most of the external blasphemy traffic comes from Internode and Optus.
There's quite a few hits from RMIT too =)
Someone requested the .vimrc.ref which was not available due to a bug in
my pregeneration code involving hidden files. I'll fix this (or at least
rename the file and not fix the bug :)
On the topic of abuse, there were 100 people requesting URIs longer than
8190. A few people POSTing/GETting from "_vti_bin" or "default.ida".
And a few cunts sending huge totally pointless SEARCH requests. I might
add a section for this on the main page.
I plan to take up my fervent newsgroup tro^H^H^H activity tomorrow (or
today, depending on how you look at it)
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http://www.nma-fallout.com/content.php?page=fo2-easter
Broken HTML, but a good collection of Fallout 2 easter eggs.
One of the things I liked most about Fallout 2 was the
*self-referential* eggs - numerous characters refer to their stats or
abilities, the fallout RPG system (SPECIAL) and even features of other
CRPGs (Cassidy: "I wish I had a limit break").
The (Monty Python) Bridge egg is solved by answering a question about
SPECIAL with another question. One conversation with a nurse in Vault
city refers to issues with Fallout 1 in Europe (children had to be
removed from the game as they have issues with games that let you kill
kids; there are no kids in VC and your character says something along
the lines of "Oh, I thought this was the European version").
The Mr. Stodgers egg even contains references to the frequent pop
culture references in the game itself (breaking recursion limit here).
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<Synapse > I keep mistyping "election" and "erection" as eachother :o
<darkmoon> if listening to gasbag politicians talk about stupid boring shit
gives you a woody you should forego the "seeking professional help"
bit and just hang yourself
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http://www.kuro5hin.org/comments/2004/7/13/13147/8165/27#27
Best corruption of St. Ives ever.
http://rfid-analysis.org/
Breaking crypto RFID in 15 seconds
http://eff.org/wp/eula.php
Clickthrough Licences Considered Harmful (link + header from BoingBoing)
("We can install anything we want on your system" and the like)
My right knee is fucked, friday and saturday it was extremely painful
to bend. I've kept it immobilised today and it's a bit better now.
But I'll probably be using the lifts tomorrow.
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Things I Saw on k5:
"Reasons to hate Americans (Nos. 4553): Circletimessquare is an American"
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http://static.thepiratebay.org/dreamworks_response.txt
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/02/17/1108609345036.html
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/children/kidtalk.mspx
http://www.bbspot.com/News/2005/02/heaven_iso_9000_audit.html
http://www.evolvefish.com/fish/emblems.html
(my favourite is the science one)
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http://www.extraugly.com/
Sick (in all meanings of the word) tshirts.
"Bad Yuppie. No Bagel."
"Everything I know I learned in prison"
http://www.extraugly.com/shirt.php?design=0041 wins my vote as the best.
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New tags:
Here's the last toast of the evening / Here's to those who still believe
-- Here's to the losers
I feel insignificant / Never have I ever felt so small
-- "Infinite", Assemblage 23
(I love out of context song quotes)
Freedom is the distance between church and state
%
Unlike religious claims, you can count on us.
%
I think you're confusing an open mind with a vacant mind.
%
Christians aren't perfect - they just want you to be.
%
Don't pray in my school and I won't think in your church.
%
NUKE DISSENT
%
Wake me in 2008 (if there's anyone left alive)
%
667: Neighbor of the Beast
%
I Pray for a Secular America
%
Nothing fails like prayer
%
Leave No Child Behind: Teach Evolution
%
Have you forgotten about Jesus? Isn't it about time you did?
%
It's your Hell, you burn in it
%
Chaos, Panic, Fear. My work here is done.
%
Of the rich, By the rich, For the rich
%
Not rich enough for a tax break
%
Making enemies faster than we can kill them
%
Everything I Needed to Know I Learned from a Banned Book
%
Not economically viable
<Synapse> how about "a process for which a person could describe in detail
any method, device or algorithm for any number of purposes or
applications"
<Synapse> then I could Patent Patents
<wise_shai> and phallic
<wise_shai> it all relates to dicks
<wise_shai> i can't believe i'm almost at the end of ninja gaiden
<Sanguinar> wtf is ninja garden
[hint: gaiden means "side story"]
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http://gailly.net/05533051.html (from DBSD maillist)
Patents for an impossible compression algorithm.
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/02/15/mark_dery_on_toes.html
Psychological and religious factors in toe sucking. Randy.
UPDATE 15:00
Spelling Correction. That was conCert band, not conVert band.
Paging Dr Freud...
Working on my fluxboxmenu. Given that I like having a huge number of
terminals to pick from I might go ahead and do the fluxboxmenumaker
thingy. In any case I'll make mine available when it's done.
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Damn X copy and paste.
Exam went fairly well, and I now have a plan for getting my degrees
this decade. I saw (and heard) the stage band playing on Bowen St
today, to be honest they weren't playing very well. James nagged me
again to take up tuba or trom and join the concert band.
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https://inside.cs.rmit.edu.au/students/courses/ola/Equivalences.html
OLA courses equivalent to CS subjects.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/security_tips.html
Apache security tips.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/02/13/1108229853716.html
Victorians among the worst gg polluters on the planet :(
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/02/14/1108229907084.html
According to our environment minister (who is really a
put-a-good-spin-on-industry-pollution minister), signing the Kyoto
aggreement would be "counter productive".
Whether or not this is "counter productive" to alleviating the climate
change problem or "counter productive" to buisness isn't clear.
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RFC of the day: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2142.txt
Mailbox names for common services, roles and functions.
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<quik-silver> You know, life really IS like a box of chocolates
<quik-silver> A cheap, meaningless gift that noone ever asks for
<Amira_nu> hey nothing wrong with loving G-d both ways
<Melech> loving god both ways sounds rather kinky
<darkmoon> ON IRC, NO-ONE CAN TOP-POST
<darkmoon> BEST MEDIUM EVAR
<darkmoon> btw it's valentines day
<darkmoon> everyone else who isn't getting laid tonight, come over
to my place and we'll do some sort of group suicide thing
<Synapse> feb 14 is officially the worst day to be outside
<darkmoon> I SAID JERK YOUR OWN ADVENTURE NOT DISGUSTING SNUFF EROTICA
<darkmoon> IF I WANTED THE LATTER I'D GO READ THE BIBLE
<kristvoir> why do you accuse everythign of being homoerotic or phallic?
<darkmoon > SIGMUND FREUD RUINED MY LIFE
Hurrr. Really sick this weekend. Must have been those damn roo burgers.
I've spent most of my time lying in bed rereading old Mad books.
It seems my exam and other stuff is on the 16th, not the 14th. This
gives me 2 more days to not study :)
More good news: Vodafone managed to unbreak my prepay activation so I
can now make outgoing calls. My Father celebrated this occasion by
borrowing my phone to make a 10 minute call, burning off $7 of included
credit...
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http://theage.com.au/articles/2005/02/10/1107890325133.html
Mac mini review.
"So that cheap $799 computer quickly becomes a $1074 system when you throw
in a DVD burner and 512MB of RAM, which are probably the least you'll want.
This kind of money will get you a pretty fast Pentium 4 3GHz PC."
The original $799 doesn't seem cheap to me. A year ago when I got my
2.6Ghz P4 with 1GB ram (and new motherboard and case) it was only $500.
Throwing in a 200G SATA drive at $200 and a dual layer burner for $120
(today's prices), you get a far superior system to the mini, which comes
with an outdated processor and puny 40G drive.
http://theage.com.au/articles/2005/02/10/1107890325139.html
Computer crime sentencing stupidity. Aparently you should keep hackers
in solitary confinement because they could start a nuclear war by
whistling into the phone. And warning customers about security flaws is
enough to dump you in jail for 16 months.
http://www.google.com/help/operators.html
Google advanced operators and queries (link from k5)
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/02/10/1107890345799.html
"The Tobacco Institute of Australia paid for people to search the rubbish of
anti-smoking groups in a bid to find out about their funding and plans,
according to a former institute chief executive, John St Vincent Welch..."
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/ibm/library/i-signalhandling/
Writing signal handlers in Java (not supported or documented by Sun).
Also has some other intesting stuff like abort/exit/shutdown hooks.
UPDATE 15:18- Sutherland has nice keyboards.
I have a few bits of usenet humour (OK, at least 25 posts worth)
sitting in my inbox right now. I used to throw these in the plan,
keeping in mind the "anything goes" dogma which has caused it to
evolve to it's current state, but some of these are very large.
So I might set up a repository of usenet tidbits somewhere. If
anything, it will clean out my mbox.
http://www.openbsd.org/papers/opencon04/index.html
Great slideshow on UNIX signal handlers. Link from Emil (about 3
months ago, but I only got around to looking at it now).
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Managed to get my mailbox down to 40 messages (omgwtfhaxbbq4eva).
There are still a few there from last year, along with a heap of ng
posts I mailed to myself for posterity.
I might come in today for sutherlanning and bitching to admin about my
enrolment being fucked. If I have some spare time I will generate a
mighty fluxboxrc, and maybe a mighty php fluxboxrcmaker. Or not.
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I've noticed that when I use rational analyses of situations that ignore the
emotional aspects, people become hostile. This is because they are defective.
-- James Nicoll
Dating is like defusing bombs. You can't expect it
to work every time. Just collect the bits and move on.
-- James Nicoll
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[Adapted from k5]
<Levi > If America was a true democracy, the morgues would be filled to
the brim with muslims executed by the government.
<Marukov> Oh, they are. It's just that the morgues are in other countries.
When the lesbian armies start burning the churches,
then you'll all know how right I was to vote three times for GWB.
-- cheeseburgerbrown
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http://theage.com.au/articles/2005/02/09/1107890264552.html
Great article on how to secure a clueless users system and make sure
it stays that way.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/storyville/made-in-china.shtml
Interesting documentary on nokia's china factory. Keep in mind that
Finland is considered to be the nation with the best working conditions.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/02/09/1107890272053.html
"The number of people believed killed in the tsunami disaster topped
296,000 yesterday" :(
http://www.datanation.com/fallacies/index.htm
Stephen's Guide to Logical Fallacies. Great reading for circletimesquare.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/02/09/1107890274005.html
Aparrently for police to kick someone lying on the ground is
"no more than was reasonably required in the circumstance".
Modified NumLockServer this morning to accept multiple connections (not
a EEET2094 requirement, I wonder if it would have been worth extra
marx). I really should start studying for the exam next Monday.
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http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/02/08/1107625207888.html
Bush's budget cuts health, education and environmental protection in
favour of tax cuts for high income "earners".
My cold is so bad I see sparkly things in front of me for a few seconds
after I sneeze. Not Happy(tm).
More on the T105: Overall it's very convinient and small; all the
necessary features (such as making and recieving calls and messages) are
easy and acessible and all the uneccesary features (such as startup
animations with annoying melodies) are easily disabled.
The bad side is that the springloaded volume control button is fiddly
and a little flimsy. Also, Vodafone reception is really shit out here.
I might switch after I finish off all my included credits.
It has WAP, with email access, which I haven't tested yet. It probably
wouldn't work very well this far away from civilisation.
New tag: SAVE THE PLANET / KILL YOURSELF (church of euthnasia)
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http://www.knightfdn.org/default.asp?story=news_at_knight/releases/
2005/2005_01_31_firstamend.html
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/2/1/62636/36076
http://firstamendment.jideas.org/findings/findings.php
Very scary reading. According to fairly extensive surveys, American
high school students believe the right to free speech goes too far. Many
believed that opinions which are critical of the government should not
be expressed...
"If we surrender our right to take things to unreasonable extremes,
we are no longer americans."
-- ghost of rmg (k5)
More Authoritarianism:
http://www.kuro5hin.org/comments/2005/2/1/62636/36076/55#55
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http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/knots.htm
Ian's Shoelace Knots site. Aparently I use the worst method :(
http://www.au.org/
Americans United for Seperation of Church and State
I got a new Sony Ericsson T105 today on Vodafone prepay. It was $69
which includes $30 of calls, and the handset is unlocked so I can
switch around at whim.
I'm pretty happy with it so far (although I haven't played around that
much). The backlight is really bright, and the phone itself is so
light I can barely notice I'm holding it in my palm. On the bad side
the keys don't have a very firm action.
I wish there were swapmeets out in the eastern suburbs. I really don't
feel like hiking up to Malvern tomorrow. Or driving.
The effects of the recent storm were pretty nasty. Power was out half
the time and very flaky when it was on. Thank god (and the #pantsers)
for my UPS :)
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http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/02/04/1107476801996.html
Interesting article about Victorian death stats. To summarise:
"Cancer remains Victoria's leading killer, accounting for 29 per cent
of deaths... Heart disease is Victoria's next-biggest killer (18.9 per
cent), followed by stroke (8.8 per cent), emphysema (4.7 per cent),
diabetes (3.1 per cent), suicide (1.6 per cent) and road accidents
(1.3 per cent)."
"Overall, the leading form of cancer is prostate (3441 cases), then
bowel (3413), breast (2894), lung (2041) and melanoma (1739). The
leading cause of death is lung cancer (1788), bowel (1239), prostate
(798), breast (727) and pancreas (486)."
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/02/04/1107476801765.html
"No action will be taken against police involved in the alleged Rodney
King-style bashing of an Aboriginal man in central Melbourne last
February... An investigation into the incident - which police said
would take only three months - has taken a year. But police and the
Ombudsman's office have refused to publicly release the findings."
I've said before that most people who join the Police, the Defense
(sic) force or private security services do so because they like the
idea of firing a gun, especially at people. They also like pushing
people around and sometimes bashing them up.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/02/04/1107476803813.html
"A mentally ill Australian woman found by Aborigines in a remote Cape
York township has been mistakenly held in immigration detention for
nearly a year while her distressed family thought she was dead...
'Police formed the opinion she may be a suspected non-citizen because
of statements she made and the language she was speaking', Leon
Bedington, Queensland police media director, said."
No idea who this person is, so obviously they must be an escaped
illegal immigrant!
Tags/quotes:
"Pissing off the surfer dudes of the world is a rather comforting
thought. Clearly global warming has some rather major pluses to it."
-- godix, k5
"If you're not declaring war on a nation, or at least a well-defined
group of flesh and blood people, it's stupid to call whatever you're
doing a war and a good sign that your program will really be a War on
Gravity waged with a hot air balloon using $100 bills as fuel."
-- Polverone, k5
"With proper application of a shotgun, and a little hard, but satisfying,
work, you can rid the world of an SUV driver every single day."
-- APL, k5
Before the Internet invented forums we had to get our facts from scientists.
Putt's Law: "Technology-based organizations are dominated by two types
of individuals: those who understand what they do not
manage, and those who manage what they do not understand."
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Habib home from hell
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/01/28/1106850114279.html
"In one instance of the torture alleged by Mr Hopper, a prostitute stood
over Mr Habib and menstruated on him...
Foreign Minister Alexander Downer defended his detention and insisted Mr
Habib would not get compensation or an apology."
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Gaza not quiet, just less angry
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/01/28/1106850107242.html
"Since the calm began, Israeli forces have killed at least four
Palestinians, including a Hamas leader shot dead by undercover soldiers
in the West Bank on Wednesday. Several more have been arrested or injured.
On Wednesday morning, a three-year-old girl, Rahma Abu Shmas, was killed
in the backyard of her Gaza home by machine-gun fire from an Israeli
watchtower, 300 metres away across a stretch of open ground."
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<Poutramos> THe US Army could have released an awesome porno by now
<emikulic> bible videos for children
<emikulic> "why god loves you but not ahmed"
<emikulic> "why it's the birds and the bees, not the birds and the birds"
<emikulic> "why boys are better than girls"
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/01/27/1106415738283.html
"An airline passenger who witnessed a shackled and gagged asylum seeker
being deported to Pakistan from Australia has spoken out against the
man's treatment...
She said she and another passenger were disturbed by the amount of
restraint used on the man, "in particular the gaffer tape around his
mouth. It was wound around his head three times and wound so tight it
distorted the shape of his face," she said."
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/01/27/1106415732630.html
"British Prime Minister Tony Blair has urged his US counterpart George
Bush to listen to the rest of the world and take stronger action to
reverse climate change."
http://juerd.nl/site.plp/irssiscripttut
Irssi scripting tutorial.
http://dvorak.nl/learn.plp
Awesome online Dvorak tutor. You can use it with a dvorak, qwerty,
qwertz or azerty keyboard and it will automatically adjust for it. It
also shows the keyboard layout on the screen which is much better for
learning touchtyping (looking at the keys introduces Bad Habits(tm)).
Make sure to select the advanced lessons from the dropbox at the top,
the default lesson is only home row.
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<alhazan > but they havent invented the stab people in the face over the
internet protocol yet
<Meaty > im writing it as fast as I can
<uewepuep> surely you would need hardware
<uewepuep> not just software
<Meaty > software only
<uewepuep> some sort of STABBER with a knife on the end
<Meaty > thats what makes this protocol so good
<Meaty > its cutting edge man!
<EpiPhony3693> I want to get a shirt that syas "Marriage is for fags."
<Synapse> Superficial chicks are like rollercoasters.
<Synapse> Everyone over 5"10' has had a ride.
UPDATE: Fixed a bug with any backdated dates showing an incorrect weekday.
The day of month was always correct.
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"OKAY PEOPLE SERIOUSLY FOLLOW THE DOTTED LINE" -- asciartfarts
Happy Orstraya Day everyone. I wore my patriotic aussie flag boxers in
commemmoration.
If you're still reading after that, I haven't been mentioning the updates to
my (student) webspace much here, mainly because they have been small and
frequent. I added a long overdue Offsite Friends section to the links today.
I'm thinking of cleaning up the page, its getting a little big.
I'm also planning a hideously overengineered method for the notes section,
using not just PHP or XSLT but both!
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http://www.virtual-laser-keyboard.com/
If you could set up your own layouts I'd consider getting one and a PDA.
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Finally a sane Mac Mini review:
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1751694,00.asp
"The Mac Mini is certainly cheap for a Macintosh. But for your $499, you
get a system with a 40GB hard drive, 256MB of DDR333 memory and an ATI
Radeon 9200 with an execrable 32MB of video memory."
In summary: "So let's not get too carried away about the "cheap"
Macintosh. It's cheap relative to past Apple systems, but you can still
get a complete Wintel system for considerably less."
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22:13 <uewepuep> and mines watercool and we have aircon
22:13 <uewepuep> watercooled
22:14 <Synapse> I'm a big *fan* of air cooling
22:14 * Synapse ducks
22:14 * Jaz_away drum kick
22:14 -!- Z [zed@dead.oz.org] has joined #pants
22:14 <Synapse> uh oh
22:14 <uewepuep> take Z joining as a warning dylan
<baldurk> btw, happy independance day!!
<baldurk> although in england we call it thanksgiving day
<Cyber_Akuma_Zero> I am not a stalker
<Cyber_Akuma_Zero> btw, you're out of milk
<dessman> man both Tesla and Newton were lifelong virgins
<dessman> am i the only one who sees the link?
<m0nd0m> you believe you're going to be a great scientist?
<@buo> A byte walks into a bar and orders a pint. Bartender asks him
"What's wrong?" Byte says "Parity error." Bartender nods and says
"Yeah, I thought you looked a bit off."
Perl Timestamps
Perl documentation is as obscure, inconsistent and unusable as the
language. I spent half an hour looking through man pages, perldoc and
finally found what I was looking for on teh intarweb.
my $timestamp = localtime; # Something like "Tue Jan 25 07:05:58 2005"
use POSIX qw(strftime); # needed for strftime()
my $timestamp = strftime "%F %H:%M:%S", localtime; # YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS
IMO, if it doesn't have strftime() it's not a real programming language.
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http://www.eff.org/endangered/
EFF's Endangered Gizmos collection - assorted devices which RIAA/MPAA
goons are trying to kill off, as well as a few extinct and saved species.
Of particular interest is the Entertainment (sic) industry attempts to
regulate ADC/DAC chips so that they can check for watermarks...
More here: http://bpdg.blogs.eff.org/archives/000113.html
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http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/01/23/1106415455827.html
3 Victorian deaths last year traced to potting mix
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/01/23/1106415456931.html
No further Victorian bans on smoking :( I can't wait for 2007...
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http://www.boingboing.net/2005/01/21/steve_jackson_games_.html
Steve Jackson's RPGs to be published as PDF - and not copy protected
either. See http://e23.sjgames.com/ for the store.
From the FAQ:
Q. Are the files in e23 copy protected?
A. No. That would interfere with your use of them. We just have to
hope that we can sell enough to honest people to make up for what
gets stolen by the kiddies and cheapskates.
http://www.rpgnow.com/ has some more PDF RPG books for sale.
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"Any woman who does not give birth to as many children as she is capable
is guilty of murder." -- St Augustine
"Women should not be enlightened or educated in any way. They should, in
fact, be segregated as they are the cause of hideous and involuntary
erections in holy men." -- St Augustine
Blasphemy logins are now working properly. Next on the hit list is pile
submissions.
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<@KrayWolf> Microsoft Windows: A thirty-two bit extension and graphical
shell to a sixteen-bit patch to an eight-bit operating system originally
coded for a four-bit microprocessor which was written by a two-bit
company that can't stand one bit of competition.
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http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/01/22/1106334265443.html?feed=rss
"On the eve of the 20th anniversary of the Quit campaign, anti-smoking
campaigners fear Hollywood's portrayal of smoking as glamorous is
leading young people to ignore the message that it is responsible for
the deaths of up to 19,000 Australians every year."
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http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=20853
".net wars is ICANN of worms"
Teeheehee. A well researched article about the .net registrar battle.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=20811
"When asked by reporters which television company would want to buy [a
Sims reality TV show] , the [EA spokesperson] jerkily stood up and went
into the kitchen for no apparent reason."
I managed to get clarence's httpd back on teh intarweb after bashing the
shitty modem/routar into submission. Fucking DLink POS. After a little
review by darkmoon and myriddian I have been shamed into fixing the
Blasphemy comments and piles. If you want to add stuff - or better, join
and write up some articles - mail me.
The link translation should be on the frontpage as well as the main
.plan page now. I'm planning to add offsite personal pages to the links along
with some assorted FreeBSD notes.
Gave 2nd Dimension a whirl for the first time in over a month. I'm
almost inspired enough to do some work on the ai and menu. Unfortunately
I've become rather disenchanted with SDL (especially SDL_Mixer not
properly supporting the Bxx order jump effect in mods) so I doubt I'll
develop it into a half-decent game.
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http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/01/18/1105810911516.html
A fantastic article on the inequality of HECS and full fee places.
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<kristvoir> terrorism hotline ;) (Hello, i need some terrorism)
<kristvoir> what is the biggest missile of all
<Synapse> airbus A380
23:53 * Synapse hugs tcsh
23:53 <darkmoon> no making out with programs on the public servers
23:53 <darkmoon> this isn't TRON
23:53 <darkmoon> we have a family-friendly AUP here
23:54 <Synapse> it was a platonic virtual hug
23:54 <darkmoon> that's for /var/log/messages to decide
"On one day in November last year, the CIA and Navy special forces, the
SEALs, brought in an Iraqi suspect they believed to have been involved
in a deadly attack on the Red Cross headquarters in Baghdad."
Within an hour the suspect was dead, with a bag over his head, face down
on a floor and handcuffed. The elite intelligence officers then
persuaded junior soldiers to help cover up the death until the body
could be disposed of quietly. One of the soldiers photographed the body
packed in ice, with his colleague grinning next to the corpse."
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/01/14/1105582713581.html
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Parents to choose between paying for a full fee uni place or private
secondary school...
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/01/15/1105582769654.html?feed=rss
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http://laurasmidiheaven.com/0vg/PCNS.shtml
A collection of PC Game music with a horrible interface.
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<feste_> I had a traditional thanksgiving... invited the neighbors over
for dinner, then killed them and took their land!
<darkmoon> capitalist letters are made from the ground-up bones of the
homeless and the disabled
<LAWN|batman[sAs]> the department of homeland security is making a
mockery of the starfleet alert system.
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[Discussing chemistry]
22:45 * Synapse is in his *element* here
22:45 <kristvoir> uewepuep: kick him for that poor pun
22:45 <Synapse> I hope darkmoon saw that
<snip>
22:46 <Jaz_man> he's also comming out of his "shell"
22:47 <Jaz_man> that was supposed to be another chemistry pun
22:47 <Synapse> Jaz_man: that was fantastic :)
Blasphemy comments are half done (they can be seen in the articles but
the post comment page isn't written yet :)
I've been checking out a free game called "Starport: Galactic Empires" -
it's officially a MMORPG but the main thrust of the game is mouse controlled
2D spaceflight. I might post a full review and a hashpants article later.
The download is only 60MB if you want to try, see http://www.starportgame.com
I had a glitch where the graphics were flickering badly and the bottom
was usually black - this is apparrently a common problem and resolvable
by altering the refresh rate or updating video drivers. I haven't been
able to fix this :( but as far as I can tell it's a promising game.
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http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1241015.html?menu=news.quirkies
North Korea campaigns against long hair
"North Korea has launched a campaign urging men to get a proper
socialist short-back-and-sides haircut. The Stalinist regime feels that
long hair on men is a sign of a corrupt capitalist lifestyle, reports
the BBC."
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Some Inquirer picks:
Ipod bashing: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=20688
Windows Longhorn to require Shader 2.0 cards:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=20691
FBI vapourware upgrade: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=20704
More here: http://theage.com.au/news/Breaking/
New-FBI-software-may-be-unusable/2005/01/14/1105582686258.html
(sorry about the chopped up link; if there are a lot of long ones I might do
something about this)
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[thanks to Emil for this]
16:40 -!- hisydboys [boy@CPE-138-130-71-6.nsw.bigpond.net.au] has joined #pants
16:40 < hisydboys> any young gay boys here
16:41 < dark|away> how young?
16:44 -!- Irssi: Starting query in OzOrg with hisydboys
16:44 <hisydboys> your asl
16:44 <dark|away> i'm a girl dude
16:44 <hisydboys> ok sorrry
16:45 -!- hisydboys [boy@CPE-138-130-71-6.nsw.bigpond.net.au] has quit [Quit]
No updates for 10 days! I've been either very busy or very sick.
22:25 <darkmoon> DYLAN!
22:25 <darkmoon> you're back!
22:25 <darkmoon> (finally)
22:29 <Synapse> awww
My good old T10 is fucked. The antenna connection is too badly damaged
to accept a new one so it looks like I'll be getting a new phone.
Saw Collateral a few days ago. Although classed as a "thriller" it seemed
to me to be more of a subtle and slick macabre comedy, I was laughing my
arse off at several points. Unfortunately the ending was predictable and
disappointing.
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http://www.gnupg.org/(en)/related_software/frontends.html
GnuPG frontends. Given that GPG has really horrible and awkward commandline
syntax, these could be the *key* to getting more RMITCSers using GPG.
http://slwww.epfl.ch/SIC/SL/CA/
"Set up your own Certification Authority using free software"
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<Synapse> Women are like domain names: all the good ones are taken, but
you can always get one from a strange country.
< NAbyss> and if you get one from a strange country, you get unexpected male?
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Obscure quote of the day:
` "Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of
their souls," he wrote, quoting Shakespeare's Othello before he added in
his view the word 'pimp' is reasonably susceptible to a defamatory meaning. '
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Note for sqlite haxors: you can't write to an sqlite database (i.e.
INSERT/UPDATE etc) unless the directory containing the database file
is writable by your app. I didn't notice this in the sqlite documentation.
If it's not, you will get a useful and informative error message like
"unable to open database file in /something/form.php on line 375"
This is because sqlite creates a lockfile in the directory and removes
it after writing. Thanks to djcricket for this tip.
UPDATE 20:25 :
<darkmoon> you need to get the plan parser script to make links out of
things that look like URLs
<darkmoon> i had to copy and paste http://paul.merton.ox.a<snip..>
<Synapse> I'm waiting for a insert_html_links_into_raw_text() function in php
I've been waiting for someone to ask this; I thought unless it was
requested I wouldn't bother. After looking around on php.net, it turned
out to be much easier than I thought - all you need is a regex that
looks for "http://" and the next bit of whitespace and adds stuff around
everything in between:
preg_replace('#(http://)([^\s]*)#', '<a href="\\1\\2">\\1\\2</a>', $x);
Where $x is the text to be linkified. Note that you should translate
HTML entities BEFORE you do this to the text; the entities should
function on the link as normal (in fact this is preferred).
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"My colon is a neverending feeling of pain and misery" -- VGcats.
Was planning to pick up a new video card and a replacement antenna for
my T10 today (the original snapped off sometime around xmas and
disappeared). Violent gastrointestinal problems have put these plans on hold.
My headphones also packed in this morning - the coil on the right
speaker has detatched itself and now bounces about inside the tiny
enclosure.
I haven't done any stuff on CORPS, 2nd Dimension or NumLock recently. As
I get time to do things (holidays) I just start more things rather than
finishing existing ones. But I want to get Blasphemy up and running
soon, once it's live hopefully I can get other people to generate the
actual content =)
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Webspace Changelog
- LethalMod 1.1 (probably final) - many assorted minor changes.
Removed the credits screen so it's only a 112KB download now.
- Lots of new images, including the 21st photos from Chris's camera.
- Fixed some bugs in image gallery index.html generator - incorrectly
nested link tags, no alt attributes, stray closing paragraph tags.
- Fixed some other stuff that didn't validate.
- 2005 copyright in the footer =P
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"I was always a fan of Ars Gratis Artis, but shit, incest elf porn kind of
crosses the line. Especially when it is poorly drawn."
-- vision-nine (on deviantART)
Managed to trim my uni filespace down to a healthy 56 Megs.
Healthier anwyay. I'll be uploading a new revision of my webspace soon.
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From the FBSD 5.3 syslogd manpage:
BUGS
The ability to log messages received in UDP packets is equivalent to an
unauthenticated remote disk-filling service, and should probably be
disabled by default.
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[Mortal Kombat, thanks to emil for mailing ths to me]
18:25 < emikulic> i don't get why they obsess about liu kang so much
18:25 < emikulic> sub zero was always the coolest character
18:25 < emikulic> ...
18:25 < emikulic> *ZING*
18:25 < emikulic> ahhh i can't believe dylan missed this moment =D
<exo> why are redneck murders so hard to solve
<exo> cuz theres no dental records and all their DNA is the same
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http://paul.merton.ox.ac.uk/misc/one-liners.html
Great for .taglines.
Utility name of the week: "Voice Over Misconfigured Internet Telephones"
"The VOMIT utility converts a Cisco IP phone conversation into a wave
file that can be played with ordinary sound players."
http://vomit.xtdnet.nl/
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Austnet Rant II
[austnet] NOTE!! You WILL be port-scanned when you join this server !!
[austnet] The scan may take a few mins to finish even after you connect.
[austnet] End of Server MOTD.
Why the hell do they need to portscan the users? I already put up with
the moronic nick protection changing my nick around and complaining
constantly. Add in the NICKLEN of 30 and all the xxxxOP crap. It's so
far removed from RFC I don't know why they bother calling it an *IRC* network.
The best (worst?) part is that they repeatedly scream about users
portscanning other users is illegal and that anyone found portscanning
someone else on the network will be banned.
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http://seahorse.sourceforge.net/
Gnome interface for GNUPG. It would be nice to see this installed on
the student servers *cough*hint*cough*
http://www.fs.net/sfswww/
"SFS is a secure, global network file system with completely
decentralized control."
http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich/misc/faqs/rootkits.faq
Interesting reading on rootkits and related security issues.
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"I submit that holiday punch that has been spiked be referred to as
Holiday Punch +1."
-- Tycho, Penny Arcade
echo '#define if(x) if (!(x))' >> /usr/include/stdio.h
-- Niall Smart
Happy wall calendar changing appreciation day.
My head hurts.
hurrr.
I was going to put something really profound in here but forgot it.
Spent the wee hours with the people who didn't piss off from Boney's
place at 1 or so (shame on you!) watching the animated series "Drawn
Together" (Drawn? Animated? PUN! PUN! :) which is extremely wierd,
disturbing, offensive and hilarious. I'd post some quotes here but I
have only a vague recollection of the last 8 hours.
In other news, I've changed my .plan header and footer and .sig to
reflect the year change.
[Discussing RMITCS news server]
<darkmoon> and news only works outside of the small hours
<darkmoon> which is fucking useless for me =)
* xjeff does not read books(he thanks there a waist of time)
[Discussing TV News]
<Synapse> They spent 10 seconds talking about the thousands of foreigners dead
<Synapse> about 5 minutes on the 6 australians
<Synapse> about half an hour on some melbourne football player
<SDHawk> dreamweaver is for dense idiots
<OneiWilly> dreamweaver is good use it
<SDHawk> I rest my case
UPDATE: Webserver Woes
(This is the longest I've written in a single day for ages :)
Still setting up clarence to use as my primary webserver. I keep
having to uninstall and reinstall things in a different order so they
can work properly. Let this be a lesson to all of you to check shit on
the intarweb before you jump in and make install.
mod_ssl only ever seems to work properly if installed with Apache
(rather than adding it later), so make sure you choose apache*-modssl*
or add the make options when you install. Judging from assorted
newsgroups and forums this seems to be a common problem.
However, many things (like php*) have dependencies on "apache13" or
"apache2" and not any extended packages/ports. Once you figure out what
to do it is actually very easy to fix, just add the line
"APACHE_PORT=www/apache13-modssl" (or similar) to /etc/make.conf .
Thanks go to Dr. Matthew J Seaman in the FreeBSD mailing lists for this hint.
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-April/043816.html
Related Links:
http://www.freebsddiary.org/apache13-modssl.php
Notes on installing Apache with mod_ssl on FreeBSD.
http://www.devx.com/opensource/Article/17534/1954?pf=true
Real n00b guide to installing Apache 1.3 with mod_ssl, PHP and MySQL on
FreeBSD. This is a bit long but walks the reader through everything
(including cvsupping the ports tree first).
http://www.bsdguides.org/guides/freebsd/webserver/apache_php_mysql.php
Newbie guide to installing Apache 1.3 (no ssl), PHP and MySQL on
FreeBSD. Nice and clean but a little outdated.
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Official end of cryptofascist religious celebrations. Ate far too much
food, especially chocolates. I still have 3 boxes left...
I saw "Rat Race" last night, which is a fucking brilliant film.
Definitely the best thing Rowan Atkinson and Whoopi Goldberg have been
in for ages.
Currently trying to get Dad's old car down the driveway. This would not
normally seem hard if the car could start, everything wasn't on a 45
degree slope, there wasn't another car occupying the 3m wide driveway
and there wasn't a 5m drop down one side that ends at the house.
Also hoping to get some assorted bits and bobs isntalled later today.
Clarence is getting a new NIC and 2 new 1 gig HDs I found scrounging
around the parts pile. Angel is getting a ram upgrade.
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You can't trust anyone these days...
The authenticity of host 'clarence (127.0.0.1)' can't be established.
DSA key fingerprint is 6d:61:11:7a:47:7c:7b:ed:1a:8a:92:47:fc:9a:af:d9.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)?
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Low Self Esteem Support Group will meet Thursday. Please use the back door.
Found http://www.egbok.com/sudoscript/ hidden in the security ports.
Basically an audited shell with sudo backend. Neat.
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00:41 <darkmoon> they get skanky bitches at a number of tech-related expos
00:41 <darkmoon> i think it's degrading
00:41 <darkmoon> (to the equipment being exhibited)
<NobleArc> Google is like.. The Oracle from The Matrix. O_o
<NobleArc> it knows EVERYTHING.
<NobleArc> Yet at times can be unimaginably useless.
<Node> the person who came up with the abcdf grading scale failed english
<Ne0rC> I like buying snacks from a vending machine because food is
better when it falls. Sometimes at the grocery, I'll drop a
candy bar so that it will achieve its maximum flavor potential.
<Poutremos> It only takes me six seconds to find the prostrate now.
< nf> I can't figure out if you're serious or not.
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"You don't agree with everything I say, therefore you are
[commie pinko scum | a selfish right-wing conscienceless fascist]."
-- Some guy on k5 I don't remember (I've edited it anyway)
I've updated the RSS script so that it prints the weekday in the
titles. In other news, I'm still slowly compiling my way through
ports. Not looking forward to apache/php/mysql.
I finished downlading the AO client last night, and I'm reasonably
impressed so far I'm not a fan of most MMORPGS because they cost heaps
and they are medieval/fantasy based. (I'm not thrilled with most CRPGS
being fantasy for that matter).
However this is free, scifi, and fun. The UI is fucking horrible and
unintuitive but I hope I'll get used to it. My sole character at the
moment is a level 3 doctor (neutrally aligned).
Finally, I've done some basic backend work for blasphemy and the site
design is almost finished. I'm working on some content, and I'll
probably link to heaps of stuff for starters - see below.
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http://www.kuro5hin.org/comments/2004/12/17/185811/92/36#36
Quote:
"Personally, I don't consider it persecution when someone prevents my
foisting on them my personal religious convictions at taxpayer expense -
more like common sense and righteous indignation."
More statistics here:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6650997/site/newsweek/
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"The US Secretary of Defense said that "Exactly what 'sharing' is is
still not known to us and is under close investigation. Our guess is
that it is some sort of code word. That's all I can comment on right now.""
Still installing ports on my new FreeBSD box.
(Well, new OS for the box. It's an old box.)
Altough tcsh as standard is a nice suprise, I'm really annoyed that
sudo isn't in the base system. It's really essential for security.
05:53 * Synapse waits for INDEX to fucking compile
05:53 <emikulic> roffle
05:53 <emikulic> ahaha index
05:53 <emikulic> yuo = pwned
05:53 <emikulic> seriously, just go to bed now =)
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School distributes satanic sex calendar
Texas parents infuriated by explicit material
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41903
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Because it destroys the flow of conversation.
Why is top-posting wrong?
-- clover_kicker
"Only the strong survive because they don't get hit by lightning and
that's good for the economy."
-- Adam Smith / piliaged by emikulic
<emikulic> but not austnet because the nicklen is too big
<emikulic> if you make it austnet i swear to god i will set my
nick to something fucking ridiculous just to piss you off
<Synapse> REMEMBER KIDS: IF SOMETHING BAD HAPPENS TO YOU, IT'S YOUR
FAULT FOR NOT TRYING HARD ENOUGH
<emikulic> WHAT THE FUCK
<emikulic> this porno starts with 38sec of some idiot dancing and making
R&B gestures
<emikulic> if i paid for this i'd be even more upset right now
<geoffwa> BEEN DEPORTED? TRY BEING WHITER NEXT TIME!
<emikulic> if you see someone on the street and you don't physically
assault them for no reason, you're a communist
<Mr_Psych0> fuck work,
<Mr_Psych0> i'm drinking petrol and going on the dole
Spent another half an hour struggling with austnets stupid broken nick
registration shit again. Apart from being totally fucking annoying
it's a violation of RFC. This is why I stopped using austnet in the
first place.
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<emikulic> i fucking hate trying to track down typedefs
<emikulic> WHAT THE FUCK IS A time_t !?!
<emikulic> i know it's an integer
<emikulic> i want signedness and width damnit
<emikulic> $ grep time_t /usr/include/FAILURE
<emikulic> oh, it's a "long"
<emikulic> !@#$ FUCKING USELESS GODDAMN INCLUDES
<emikulic> it's also platform specific
<emikulic> (further failure)
<emikulic> so time_t is actually signed
(update)
02:41 <emikulic> Synapse: just to clarify my misadventures in typedef land...
02:41 <Synapse> It wasn't the content that was important, just your anger
02:41 <emikulic> Synapse: i found out that type_t is long by looking
up a #define of _BSD_TYPE_T_ in /usr/include/i386/something
02:41 <emikulic> and FAILURE was an alias for * and */* and */*/* and */*/*/*
02:41 <emikulic> i think that's where the nesting ends
02:42 <emikulic> but it makes me look like a retard who doesn't know
how to look shit up
02:42 <emikulic> i -do- know how to look shit up, just it's really
fucking well hidden
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Tom Wijgers wrote:
> Peter Dimopoulos wrote:
> > Emil Mikulic wrote:
> > > Peter Dimopoulos wrote:
> > > > So what is reality?
> > > Reality is the stuff that doesn't go away after you stop
> > > believing in it.
> > The world only exist because you believe it exists.
> I don't believe that.
New tags:
The future isn't what it used to be
"I never met a chocolate I didn't like"
-- Deanna Troi, ST:TNG "The Game"
"What is freedom of expression?
Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist."
-- Salman Rushdie
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
-- Martin Luther King
"Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people."
-- W. C. Fields
"A gentleman is a man who can disagree without being disagreeable."
"Revolution in Politics is an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment."
-- Ambrose Bierce
"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."
-- Mark Twain
"Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants."
-- General Omar N. Bradley
Hardware, n.: The parts of a computer system that can be kicked.
-- BSD Fortune
Moron's Law: The number of ignorant references to Moore's Law doubles
every 12 months.
-- MDR / Microprocessor Report
"That Jesus Christ guy is getting some terrible lag... it took him 3
days to respawn!"
-- NJ CoolBreeze
"Yes, but even though they probably certainly know that you probably
wouldn't, they don't certainly know that although you probably wouldn't
there's no probablility that you certainly would!"
-- Sir Humphrey, "Yes, Prime Minister"
Fun (cough) and Games with Clarence
The drive in clarence was one of the first with LBA mode, and it
manages to barf in different ways depending on whether or not it's
enabled. The CMOS battery ran out, which lost the current setting,
and booting in the new one managed to break the magic numbers of the
bootloader.
Much profanity (and reinstallation of root partitions) later its in
working order again. I doubt it will last for long. In any case,
clarence now has a brand new FreeBSD 5.3 miniinstall (no ports or X)
and I'll eventually switch over to using it as the webserver.
Eventually. Probably after it gets a new drive.
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Remember Kids: Santa knows when you are masturbating!
http://www.bobfromaccounting.com/12_18/santaknows.html
Best Book Parody Ever
http://amethyst-angel.com/bored_of_the_rings.html
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>>> Did we manage to Slashdot Slashdot?
>>> Freaky!
>> No, Slashdot was Penny-Arcaded.
> Correction: Slashdot was wanged.
I would have posted something here about my 21st, but there's really
not much I can remember. Other than about 20 people singing Happy
Birthday incoherently. And trying to calculate how many scotch and
cokes were left in the tab.
I spent Tuesday reenrolling, which took almost 4 hours - an RMIT record.
The rest of the night I spent playing CS and HL2 deathmatch. I played
HL2 single player for about an hour until Enzo told me that the object
of the game wasn't to throw inanimate objects at bystanders and/or
police in order to piss them off. Then I lost interest.
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MLP
Basic HTML Dvorak tutor: http://www.gigliwood.com/abcd/abcd.html
Mechanical Lego Logic Gates: http://goldfish.ikaruga.co.uk/logic.html
The Suburban 4WD is the Motoring Equivalent to the Typical Howard Policy
(stolen from http://sjusjukskoterska.blogspot.com/ - mad props to
Sjusju. Apart from occasional bouts of feminazism it's a great blog)
- It is branded "safety" and "upward mobility"
- It gives you the illusion of looking after your family while
everyone else's can go to shit
- It causes untold environmental and health damage whilst being
useless at the task it was designed for
- You have to be wealthy to get to use it, but the rest of us
subsidise it.
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<Synapse> http://www.answerrifles.com/spooge.htm
<Boney > I think the internet is a bad influece on you guys
<wise_shai> you'll hate me for this
<alhazan > hate you .. more?
<wise_shai> awww
<wise_shai> i hate you too, dave
<alhazan > awww
<Synapse> Boney: did you get my most recent mail?
<Synapse> I totally broke css but fixed the paragraph thing
<Synapse> when I say broke, I did things that technically aren't illegal
under css1 but you aren't supposed to do
<Boney > yeah. but it didn't work.
<Boney > cause Um. you forgot to attach it.
<Synapse> sSIPDJHADHFGIH
<Synapse> I DID send it at 6am
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Inquirer gongs of the year.
Some of these are hilarious but many are "meh".
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=20098
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The one and only PistolMouse. This is probably the most interesting
"unique" input device to come out in a while.
http://www.tomshardware.com/game/20041204/pistol_mouse-01.html
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NWN character finding a secret thing with "Prankster" speech kit:
"Ooooh... something shiny!"
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This was from Chris's 21st, I didn't go home that night so I forgot to
transcrive it, but Emil reminded me recently.
Cat : The pizza has anchovies on it!
Emil: Anchovies taste like dick.
Cat : <Thoughtful> Oh yeah...
No updates in a while... In between being sick and some casual work
I've finished off the last of my uni backlog, although I still have 2
deferred exams to go.
Between the BBQ and working outdoors I've managed to get very
sunburnt. Last week it was my face peeling off, this week it's the top
of my arms. I think I look like a zombie. Dad thinks I look like an
alien off Trek.
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http://www.bidstrup.com/america.htm
Great essay. Horrible presentation. Especially all those animated gifs.
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More fun with Andrew Bolt: http://thoughtsfrommyanus.blogspot.com/
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Pick from the hashpants stats:
"TPG seems to be unliked too. He/She got beaten 1 times."
<Synapse> Boney: You ranted for ages about this great bit of software
without saying what it does
<Synapse> Boney: you should get a job in TV advertising
<Boney > Synapse: oh..
<Boney > Well. it's great.
[Silence in channel]
<Synapse> THIS JUST IN: CS TAKES OVER ADMINISTRATION OF DOUBLE DEGREES
* Synapse does Tunak dance
<SUPERHAPPYDUDE> DRUGS ARE BAD
<SUPERHAPPYDUDE> unless you are sick
<SUPERHAPPYDUDE> or depressed
<SUPERHAPPYDUDE> or having trouble sleeping
<SUPERHAPPYDUDE> or when you need to stay awake
<SUPERHAPPYDUDE> or when you need a little inspiration
<SUPERHAPPYDUDE> or when trying to win a sporting event
<SUPERHAPPYDUDE> or when trying to look cool
<SUPERHAPPYDUDE> or when you're just not feeling 100%
<SUPERHAPPYDUDE> but other than that they are BAD
Quoting from dmr.ath.cx:
"If you used to to be a disArray user, and you still haven't sent me a
textfile with all your article picks (i.e. you're not Dylan), I want
you to feel very guilty about it!"
Way too hot :(
I've fixed another problem in plan.php with the GNU Date function not
validating the dates properly. I think this one might have only been on
Win32 PHP so it might not have affected Yallara.
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"I know it is in the interest of the Palestinian people that they can
live in... a society in which they can realize their dreams if they
happen to be an entrepreneur."
-- G.W.Bush
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One of the best things about being the Prime Minister is ordering the
army to help you win votes...
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1188777.html?menu=news.quirkies
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<emikulic> "here's a 21st century computer nerd. perfectly preserved by
the arctic climate of the server room in which he died"
<geoffwa> that's what I was trying to right
<geoffwa> write
[Pugg Mahones in Hardware Lane]
<Synapse> the witepages map actually is wrong
<Synapse> it puts it on the corner of the street
<Synapse> I had to photoshop it
<Synapse> manually remove the crosshair
I've found that most news aggregators mark stuff as read if you've
been to the url - assuming that the content hasn't changed at all.
I've added a kludgy fix to the plan rss - an hour and minute component
are added to the date to fetch. Since the code only matches on the day
this has no effect other than to distinguish the URLs for the
aggregators.
In other news, I've tested 4 aggregators:
Sage (FireFox extension)
- Suffers from the link bug mentioned above
- Has an annoying thing where it sometimes renders stuff in the
tab you're looking at instead of the tab you want it to.
Otherwise very good. Recommended if you don't have Windows (if so, see
Abilon below)
Habari Xenu (FireFox extension)
- Also suffers from link bug
Like Sage but the UI isn't as nice. It's more informative though (you
can elect to display all sorts of info about the feeds)
FeedReader
- Doesn't have the link bug
- Does have a bug where if the title of 2 items are identical it
will only print one of them.
Because of that second point I don't recommend it.
Abilon (http://www.abilon.org/)
- Doesn't have the link bug
- Really nice UI
- Links can be rendered in the program or in an external browser.
This is the one I use. Highly recommended. Unfortunately it's Windows
only :(
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http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?action=getPage&docId=95183303&keywords=&pgNum=1
The Effect of Country Music on Suicide
Steven Stack, Wayne State University, Jim Gundlach, Auburn University
Abstract:
This article assesses the link between country music and metropolitan
suicide rates...
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Out of context quote of the week:
Tim: "The more you beat it the harder it gets"
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-=> Auto-reply from DogBert :-
You must meet Mr. Spock at the corner bar and get the sex toy.
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RSS.plan
Due to popular demand, I've created an RSS feed for the .plan. It's
only version 0.91 so it should work with most if not all aggregators.
http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~dleigh/stuff/planrss.xml
If you have any problems with the feed mail me.
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<Johnno> my favorite animal is the scapegoat
<emikulic> hey i've got the same shirt as the guy in this porno
<tadpoleofdeath> Why do so many math majors confuse Halloween and Christmas?
<tadpoleofdeath> Because Oct 31 is Dec 25
<Maestro> I got an email from paypal saying they charged $175 to me
credit card for something I never ordered
<Maestro> whats also strange is that I dont even have a credit card
<MeateaW> only reason im here is cause vampire crashed
<Synapse> MeateaW: move your PC out of the sunlight!
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament],
'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will
the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the
kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
-- Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
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<NAbyss> Train terminated at moorabbin, passenger terminated at bentleigh.
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Brett Bayne wrote:
> anthony myers:
>
>> I?^?^?m an Elvis impersonator. I do it all the
>> time, but I?^?^?m really bad at it so no one
>> ever notices that I'm doing it.
>
> OK, so you're bad at more than one thing then.
"I don't know that Atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should
they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God." - George W. Bush
<Synapse> it won't download overnight, but it will download
< golgyDND> hrm.
< golgyDND> this is odd.
< alhazan> golgyDND: you're odd!
< golgyDND> alhazan: you're odder!
< Synapse> I guess you're both even now
< Synapse> *rimshot*
* alhazan stabs Synapse
* golgyDND murders Synapse
Chi and Ki: http://www.bullshido.net/forums/showthread.php?t=17493
<emikulic> still waiting for you baby-eating industrial military complex
right-wing psychofascists to explain to me why abortion is
bad and why god disapproves of me masturbating
<geoffwa> THE TETRAGRAMMATON SEES YOUR "FREEDOM" SPEILING
AND RAISES YOU ONE OPPRESIVE GOVERNMENT
<Synapse> Maybe I should run for office
<Synapse> beats doing the Double Degree anyway
<Synapse> Anyone advocating summary executions should be shot without trial.
It's quote-o-clock on the rocket clock!
"Do you also find sensual my disdain for your disgusting manner?"
-- Jahiera (after being hit on by a drunk), Baldur's Gate II
"I would hate being forgotten in a bottle. It might depend somewhat on
the type of bottle, but overall I expect the effect would be similar."
-- Minsc, Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn
"Minister, I strongly advise you not to ask a direct question.
It might provoke a direct answer."
-- Sir Humphrey, Yes Minister
"The meeting is the sort that would be described in a communique as 'Frank'.
Or even 'Frank, bordering on direct', which means the cleaners have to
mop up the blood in the morning."
-- Yes Minister
"It could never be government policy, only government practice."
-- Sir Humphrey, Yes Minister
"We must always promote the best man for the job, regardless of gender."
-- Sir Humphrey, Yes Minister
"I'm no anti-feminist. I love women. Some of my best friends are women."
-- Sir Humphrey, Yes Minister
"Everybody knows that. It's perfectly all right as long as nobody knows."
-- Sir Humphrey, Yes Minister
"No need for bloodshed? There's an incredible need for bloodshed!"
-- Drasus, Baldur's Gate
"The goodness of a pun is directly proportional to its intolerableness"
-- Edgar Allan Poe
"I'd rather we just skip the small talk and get right to the killin'"
-- Drasus, Baldur's Gate
"You are insane, psychotic. You have to eat plenty of pills to get better."
-- Psychiatrist in TV series "Address Unknown", Max Payne 2
OOP exam went fairly well (again, about as good as an exam can be, in
other words it was a moderately horrible experience).
#pants:
[We were discussing Bush's policies]
< Synapse> he probably thinks euthenasia is a demographic
< Synapse> assuming he knows what a demographic is
<kristvoir> its a picture drawn by a democrat
<emikulic> "you will receive power when the holy spirit comes on you"
<emikulic> eww
<emikulic> i'll fight to keep the free world free!
especially when it doesn't want me to!
<emikulic> democracy at gunpoint! peace through superior firepower!
[online dating sites]
<e|awaaay> If i wanted to look at little thumbnails of girls' faces, there
are other sites where i can do that without having to log in
bash.org:
<PacerX> i made a kid stop crying today
<bemyfreak> awww, how sweet
<PacerX> i knocked him unconcious
<janelle> i hate guys
<PacerX> hey, people can piss me off too,
but i don't write off their whole gnder
<PacerX> that would make me a feminist
Last and least:
Niceness, Politeness, and `Dignity': Every man, deep down, knows he's a
worthless piece of shit. Overwhelmed by a sense of animalism and deeply
ashamed of it; wanting, not to express himself, but to hide from others
his total physicality, total egocentricity, the hate and contempt he
feels for other men, and to hide from himself the hate and contempt he
suspects other men feel for him; having a crudely constructed nervous
system that is easily upset by the least display of emotion or feeling,
the male tries to enforce a `social' code that ensures perfect
blandness, unsullied by the slightest trace or feeling or upsetting
opinion. He uses terms like `copulate', `sexual congress', `have
relations with' (to men sexual relations is a redundancy), overlaid with
stilted manners; the suit on the chimp.
-- Valerie Solanis, SCUM Manifesto
In Beard printing past papers (no, really). It's so quiet and peaceful...
Sofeng exam went very well.
As well as exams go, anyway.
I was going to put a huge rant here about how exams are a ineffective
and biased method of assessment but I'm too tired. And I have a maths
exam early tomorrow.
Not Specific Enough:
emikulic: Can I put that IRC quote you made about the engineering
students on my front page?
dleigh : Which one?
emikulic: The offensive one.
dleigh : Which one?
emikulic: The really racist one.
dleigh : Which one?
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dmarshal : (reading from feedback sheet)
"Were the course aims clearly defined and easily understood?"
dleigh : "What were they?"
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Mike Chapman:
>>Mr. President? I had no idea you were reading Usenet!
>
> That would be a good call but for one small detail: I don't believe
> the President can read.
>
Maybe he's a dictator.
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> Oh, you may want to look at your computer's system clock settings.
> You haven't even written that post yet. The one I've replied to. Twice.
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> That I'd be doing it to the best of my ability. Duh.
>
You know, from some people that would inspire confidence. From others....
Emil : "Doug is wearing purple shirts and black pants now. He's turning
into a proto-Dylan, but with more leather."
Best (worst?) out of context quote ever:
Emil (to Dylan) : "Yours is really small and flaccid"
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"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that
English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow
words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways
to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
-- James D. Nicoll, in rec.arts.sf-lovers, 15 May 1990
"This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you
do when you run for president. You gotta preserve."
-- George W. Bush, Speaking during Perseverance Month at
Fairgrounds Elementary School in Nashua, NH
"Computer, what was that?"
"A temporary loss of stabilty resulting from the impact of a
concentrated plasma charge."
"We're being attacked?"
"Affirmative."
"Being what you are you can pour your square shape into a round hole,
but you don't really fit" - Rakel to Odo
-- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine season 1, episode 11 - "Vortex"
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< Synapse> I loved chemistry
< Synapse> I was really... in my element
<emikulic> Synapse: GROAN
* Synapse giggles
<Synapse> !seen sex
< Boney> I don't know anything about sex
<Synapse> Misusing the bot never ceases to be amusing.
Best election commentary ever:
<emikulic> i don't want howard to win =( he's a turd
< e|busy> pretty sure greens put the religious psychofascists last
< Synapse> e|busy: Which religious psychofascists?
http://very.net/~nikolai/read/taglines.html
Some choice selections:
"Excuse me, while I dance a little jig of despair."
"'Tis the fate of genius to be ever copied, and never attributed"
Greetings and hallucinations. - Irv Koch
I am *not* in denial.
If you loved me you'd let me eat your brain.
tastes great - stays crunchy - lacerates your aesophagus
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People who should be banned from using the internet, ever:
http://www.okcupid.com/profile?tuid=12747454659296448609
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<emikulic> also, it was funny watching Shelley's reaction at not being let in
<emikulic> the bouncer could sense that she wasn't metal enough or something
<DarkMistress> I'm so goth that when I was a toddler, I didn't cry
over spilled milk, I MOURNED it.
<NAbyss> "Less than optimal" would be something that comes to mind..
as well as "Fucked up"
< eva> In Thailand, Police believed a young girl committed suicide
after getting stuck on a level of Bomberman.
<etoilet> i hate suicide bombers
Probably getting a FX5200 when I get the chance.
There are 820 messages in your incoming mailbox.
Gotta love sofeng.
Ashray : Boney is looking stylish this morning
Emil : Boney shaved and showered, unlike everyone in my [sofeng] team
<pause>
Dylan and Emil : GO TEEEEEAAAM!!!
Emil : "I would never use WebNews, even if I was just trolling!"
No updates in ages... I've got way too many assignments to do over the
holidays.
Best Maestro quote from his 21st : "You're such a wog, Dad".
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Subject: Re: I'm stupid for caring about some things.
From: (Mark Edwards)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology
One of my favorites is the use of ambiguous words.
Had a manager, years ago, who emailed the secretary, asking her to
please resend a bounced email. She did, then emailed back, "I resent
your message".
This resulted in a the manager asking her, in a very huffy voice, just
what was it about his messages that she resented. She got mad at his
tone of voice...
Entire thing went to corporate HR before it got ironed out.
This is why I've resubmitted things.
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[I think this was the night after Dan's 21st]
<Boney> Also. I now belevei it's dangerous to put basic spirits on the bar tab
[2004/09/12 22:07] * Synapse just woke up
[2004/09/12 22:08] <Synapse> and yes it is dangerous (but fun) to put
spirits on the bar tab
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[Discussing a site that amongst other things asks you where you are from]
<kristvoir> NOOOOOOOOOOOO
<kristvoir> NOOOOOOOOOOOO
* kristvoir cries
<kristvoir> they think i'm from Melbouren kentucky
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Subject: Re: A short quiz
From: "Rick B."
Newsgroups: alt.fan.cecil-adams
>> 5.? Could you personally kill a cow with a sledgehammer, if that
>> were your only source of meat?
>
> If the only source of meat I have is the sledgehammer, what's the
> cow made out of? Linoleum?
"Assume a spherical linoleum cow..."
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<Synapse> darkmoon: <link>
<darkmoon> seen it =)
<_SAL> I don't know who it is.
<blackrose> in adelaide, no shops are open on a sunday. how GAY
<blackrose> what else are you supposed to do on a sunday
<uewepuep> kill people and put them in barrels
<emikulic> my 2.4GHz P4 can't keep up with me
RESIZING A GODDAMN TERMINAL WINDOW
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"It's hideous! That's the best design they could come up with? Are you
seriously telling me there were choices and someone said `Ah, there.
That's it, that's the shape we're looking for, the last-chicken-in-
the-shop look'"
- Kryten, Red Dwarf season 2 episode 4, "DNA"
"It goes straight to your CS mail. It does not pass SEMS, it does not
collect 200 seconds of delay" -- emikulic
I'm including this colossal chunk of text because it sums up my
current feelings about Party-based RPGs (PRPGs?) at the moment. I'd
normally be happy to dedicate masses of time to a great game and
replay it to explore the other areas, But I can't afford to spend that
sort of time now. The paragraph breaks I put in.
"What it comes down to is that I don't really want a game that takes
forty to fifty hours to play, just to end up feeling like I missed
most of it. As much as I love Final Fantasy games - and don't question
that for a moment - I can rarely devote that kind of energy to one
game for the sort of duration they require. Even worse, when I do go
into them full-throttle, I know I'm not talking to people in the right
order to get the Crimson Wang to defeat the Desert sub-boss, or I'm
not rubbing the lamp vigorously enough, or whatever.
Those games get you in some bizarre psychological death grip, where
only the most insane, toxic levels of single-minded rigor can reveal
the whole of the game you paid for. I love playing them, for as long
as I play them - it does appeal to my inner statistician/accountant -
but when they get to feeling like work, I give them away or trade them in.
I'm at the point now where I want to give my time to a few games at
once, and I don't really mind if a game takes just five hours to beat,
provided that it was five great, hand-tuned hours that were enjoyable
and well-paced. I didn't always feel that way."
- Tycho, Penny Arcade, March 19 2001
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"If an infinite number of monkeys pound at an infinite number of
typewriters, one of them will inevitably author an empty truism."
- Tycho, Penny Arcade
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<benja> A worldwide survey was conducted by the UN. The only question
asked was:"Would you please give your honest opinion about solutions
to the food shortage in the rest of the world?"
<benja> The survey was a huge failure...
<benja> In Africa they didn't know what "food" meant.
<benja> In Eastern Europe they didn't know what "honest" meant.
<benja> In Western Europe they didn't know what "shortage" meant.
<benja> In China they didn't know what "opinion" meant.
<benja> In the Middle East they didn't know what "solution" meant.
<benja> In South America they didn't know what "please" meant.
<benja> And in the USA they didn't know what "the rest of the world" meant
[23:02] <cellardoor> i'm so glad i don't have any fetishes
[23:02] <Synapse> sif you don't
[23:02] <cellardoor> japanese schoolgirls don't count
[01:41] * Maigraith rubs against Synapse
[01:42] * Synapse rubs against Maigraith
[01:42] <Maigraith> he lives
[01:42] * Maigraith purr =^_^=
For the Max Payne fans (like me :)
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=99
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=4
For roleplayers:
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=110
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http://www.jerkcity.com/jerkcity1015.html
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"Give a man a fire, he is warm for a day.
Set a man on fire, he is warm for the rest of his life."
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<emikulic> the cheapest symmetric plan is more expensive than what i'm on
<emikulic> (what i'm on no longer exists)
< Synapse> sounds like a cartoon moment
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[2004/09/08 03:55] =-= e|TV is now known as e|away
[2004/09/08 03:55] <e|away> ok bedtime
[2004/09/08 05:28] <Synapse_> fucking OCR keeps mistaking "A" for "4"
[2004/09/08 05:28] <Synapse_> it's like builtin l33t
[2004/09/08 06:01] <e|away> geez still up?
[2004/09/08 06:01] <e|away> =)
[2004/09/08 06:01] <e|away> no wait
[2004/09/08 06:02] <e|away> =(
[2004/09/08 06:08] <Synapse_> hahaha
[2004/09/08 06:08] *Synapse_ quoting this with timestamps
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<|CS|Lothar> but it canadian money and we all know canadian money isnt
worth the paper it's printed on
<Lareonis> Kinda like American treaties?
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Subject: Re: Stirling's 'Dies the Fire'
From: Keith Morrison
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
David Bilek wrote:
>>>> Is it legal to hunt rabbits in Australia?
>>>
>>>As far as I can tell, perfectly legal. They are officially a pest.
>>
>>Not that will make any difference.
>>
>>I know folks who kill thousands a day, and never make a dent.
>
>Introduce some coyotes! What could go wrong?
Have coyotes try to go after rabbits? Do you know what a mess that
will make, what with all the explosions and trains crashing into
things and scrap metal that will be lying around after the Rabbit
Hunting Robot goes berserk?
<emikulic> then introduce road runners to get rid of the coyotes
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Subject: Re: Just a little bit of news...
From: Tom Harrington
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
> Erm, why is "crown" not okay?
Because in USAia we don't like crowns, because they're only worn by
evil tyrant heads of state who rule by reason of inheriting their
position. Um, but, at the moment I forget can't remember why we
wouldn't like that.
<bloodeu> Outback Steakhouse has ridiculous prices
<bloodeu> i'm here now with my date
<bloodeu> palm pilot + wifi is cool
<bloodeu> i got my keyboard
<jomomma> ...
<KitBoxPocket> Every time you kill a kitten, God masturbates.
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From: (James Nicoll)
One very reliable test for Republicanism at the state level is to look
at the ratio between Federal money in and State taxes out. Ratios of
1 or more are generally Republican, whereas ratios of 1 or lower are
generally Democratic (That's not bad phrasing, btw: there's one state
that has a ratio of exactly 1 and that's Florida).
<snip>
Canadians prefer our religions to be quiet and powerless, with the
occasional bit of suing religious organizations into insolvency when
they confuse running religious schools with a mandate for involuntary
sodomy, and subsequent coverups, whereas Americans are more likely to
see the sciences of biology, geology, archaeology and round-earthism
as undermining the basis of TRVTH, that God is a pathological liar who
only gave humans large brains so they could dried out and used as a
condiment on pizza (This is why Mormonism, one of the more daringly
fraudulent religions in a field rich with religions rather obviously
not based on anything resembling fact, caught on down there and not up
here). God-shouting is not a vote winner up here, although it is a
handy marker for singling out our less intelligent "Conservatives",
who are not particularly conservative but who did think it would be a
good idea to use the name Canadian Conservative Reform Alliance Party,
possibly the most accurate set of initials in political history.
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(And we thought cs.general had some silly arguments)
From: (Richard D. Latham)
>>> It has been pointed out that mouldering hay has a higher power
>>> density than the sun.
>>Yeah, but just try concentrating mouldering hay on an ant with a
>>magnifying glass.
> WTF was the ant DOING with a magnifying glass?
It's a *fire* ant, of course.
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Subject: Re: What happened to the X-Files books?
From: anxious triffid
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
> Was there a reason why they stopped?
An implausible alien conspiracy, at a guess.
Subject: Re: Stupid Dream Recall
From: Sea Wasp <seawasp>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.composition
Khiem Tran wrote:
> Of course, the most dangerous of these is probably the huntsman spider,
> which is barely venomous at all. It's favoured method of attacking
> humans is car accidents.
Well, have you considered not letting the spiders drive?
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Subject: Re: drug treatment spam
From: Richard Todd <rmtodd>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom
"Mark Evans" <mevans> writes:
> "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl> wrote in message
> news:cgbrls$719$1...
>> Oh? Just try getting a cylinder of medical oxygen without a
>> prescription.
>
> I confess that I often get my supply off the street. I have doubts
> about the purity of the stuff it is cut with, but when I need it I
> need it.
You're right to be suspicious. Most of that stuff you get on the street is
heavily cut with nitrogen, up to 70%+ of the total.
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One of the reasons why using diff to check assignment submissions
doesn't work:
< > Task ID: Cannot delete the main project. Select N instead
---
> > Task ID: Cannot delete the main project. Select N instead
(Unfortunately the -w switch can't be used as the specification
defines the indenting of report printouts. Bummer.)
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<Sez> im not blone.
<alhazan> .....
<Synapse> ..
<Sez> BLONDE
<Synapse> you can't have fun with cops around
<Synapse> it's the law
<emikulic> but... but... taxation with representation will lead to SOCIALISM!
<Synapse> Public Good? OMG WTF HAX SOCIALISM
<geoffwa> but only when NumLock is on and during a full moon
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Subject: Re: Band on tour sh*ts on tourists
From: "Killer Kane" <me>
Newsgroups: alt.horror
"John Donaldson" wrote:>
> http://[deleted]/topstories/local_story_237190538.html
>
> Dave Matthews Band Blamed For Human Waste
>
> Aug 24, 2004 6:01 pm US/Central
> CHICAGO (CBS 2) Rock star Dave Matthews and his tour bus driver are
> facing a filthy lawsuit.
>
> The Illinois Attorney General's office says they're responsible for
> dumping up to 100-gallons of raw human waste from a tour bus onto
> the Kinzie Street Bridge earlier this month.
>
> The nasty mess rained down on passengers aboard a sightseeing boat
> two weeks ago.
>
LOL. The shit hit the fans.
Reading:
http://www.askmoses.com/qa_detail.html?o=2694
http://www.opensecrets.org/parties/index.asp
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New taglines:
<Boney> I'm not lagged I'm stupid
To iterate is human, to recurse, divine. -- Robert Heller
"Water? Never touch the stuff! Fish fuck in it." -- W. C. Fields
<Brinstar> If it wasn't for C, we'd be using BASI, PASAL and OBOL.
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<Maestro> tears out hair, slits wrists and jumps off balcony with rope around
his neck
<Maestro> FUCKING JAVA
* [obi-wan] is away, jedi meditation (sleep) [log:OFF] [page:OFF]
<blazemore> i wonder when n0m is gonna come down from his starwars trip
* [obi-wan] waves his hand in front of blazemore "i am not on a starwars trip"
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[after dave trying for ages to justify the text on his webspace]
< alhazan> there
< alhazan> NOW its justified :P
< alhazan> ooh its oh so pretty
< Synapse> see, all that effort was justified
< Synapse> *rimshot*
<emikulic> Synapse: *GROAN*
* alhazan kicks Synapse
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* golgy (golgy) has joined #thefishbowl
* golgy has left vic.oz.org (Quit: she makes it sweeter than the sun)
* golgy (golgy) has joined #thefishbowl
* golgy has left vic.oz.org (Quit: I loveded you piggy, I LOVEDED YOU!!!)
< tynka> -------------------------------------------------------------------
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<Synapse> dashing.
< tynka> Indeed.
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<ExplosiveTwinkies> Ok, my sister calls Compuserve to cancel my net
(thank god), but unfortunetly, only the account
holder(Me) can speak to the operator. But I'm a 'minor'
so I can't.
<ExplosiveTwinkies> So I can't speak to the operator AT ALL. I can't give my
sister the 'authority' to talk, cause I cannot speak to
the operator.
<ExplosiveTwinkies> Then... suprise suprise, the operator asks for my WIFE.
I was going to enter all my due dates into todo, but it looks like the
dls is broken AGAIN. Grrrrrrrrr.
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"Captain Infinity" <Infinity> wrote:
> >NBC missed a great chance to educate the public, giving how bad
> >Americans are supposedly at Geography.
>
> But thank goodness Americans are better so much at giving good
> English.
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Halil Ali:
> mp3? what is this mp3 thing you guys keep refering too?
>
> I thought iPods where fashion items that could be used to crack open
> walnuts, but not especially well or for especially long.
Obvious Golden Sun quote for the day:
"Being unable to move is so inconvenient."
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Kryten : I never had a mum. Everyone should have a mum.
Holly : I never had a mum either.
Rimmer : Well you can all have mine. Everyone else did.
-- Red Dwarf, Season 3, Episode 6 : "The Last Day"
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21:08 < Boney> HUMBUGS!!!
21:08 < Boney> I have Humbugs!
21:09 <wise_shai> bah, humbug
(I was laughing for hours)
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#pants and #thefishbowl quotes:
21:29 < emikulic> titally wasn't expecting that
21:29 < emikulic> totally
21:29 < emikulic> FUCK YOU SIGMUND FRAUD
21:42 < Boney> I've allways wanted to form a Vidulanty (sp) group.
21:42 < Synapse> vigilante?
21:42 < Boney> Synapse: probally. the one with telling people what to do.
02:17 < geoffwa> you know they're austrlalian because their timestamping
program is called `bruce'
[21:33] <q|x> i like some fags
[21:33] <uewepuep> up the arse?
[22:05] <Boney> well. bugger me. I'm tired.
[22:06] * Synapse buggers Boney.
[22:07] <Synapse> oh, that was a figure of speech.
[22:07] <Synapse> my bad
[22:09] <Boney> hrm. now I'm buggered and tired..
21:31 < geoffwa> Jesus uses phpBB!
21:31 * geoffwa declares jihad
21:33 < Synapse> And on the 12th day, Moses came forth and proclaimed
OMG WTF LOLRORZ!!!
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Stolen from Steve's quotes:
<synapse> according to www.rmit.edu.au/myresults in opera I failed maths
<synapse> according to www.rmit.edu.au/myresults in IE I got an HD
<Synapse> one of the course guides im looking at has a heading "What will I be
expected to learn from this course?" and there is nothing written
after it :/
<Synapse> geoffwa / alhazan : can anybody reccommend a streaming audio format
for 1.5KB/s or less?
<geoffwa> Synapse: silence!
<darkmoon> with so few contact hours and poor employment prospects,
CS IS THE NEW ARTS
<synapse> So I'm not to blame if I keep making stupid choices
<synapse> Like "Lets try cooking that pavlova in the microwave!"
<darkmoon> i'm gonna keep hitting reload until it GIVES ME A FUCKING WEBPAGE
<good_shai> i hafta be up to watch dbz in the morning
<good_shai> the battle continues!
<good_shai> ...for another 20 episodes, probably
<darkmoon> OH FUCK HERE COMES THE SECOND PROGRESS BAR
<darkmoon> SOMEBODY PUT ME OUT OF MY MISERY
<Mr_Psych0> A 12-year-old New York girl who was among the first to be sued by
the record industry for sharing music over the internet is off the
hook after her mother agreed to pay $US2,000 ($US3000) to settle
the lawsuit
<Mr_Psych0> that's a crap translation from u.s. dollars to u.s. dollars
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Stolen from Emil's quotes:
18:18 < Maestro> lol
18:18 < Maestro> i mean
18:18 < Maestro> ror
00:30 < emikulic> i want hans reiser to encumber my bsd with his tail-packing
< geoffwa> THESE CLIPART CD'S PROVE I'M ABLE TO DESIGN ***YOUR*** E-BUSINESS
< geoffwa> CLICK HERE TO EMAIL ME!!!!!!!
22:35 < blackrose> aren't harpies liek... female un-dead killers that take their
revenge on the males of the world ?
22:35 < alhazan> blackrose: randy
<Synapse> I HAVE NO ROUTER AND I MUST SCREEN
(yeah I've posted this before but I really like this one)
* geoffwa sings
<geoffwa> I'm a Channel Ten Programmer...
<geoffwa> cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut
cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut cut
<@Kukuman> this fundrace.org site lists people near you who have made
contributions to a presidential candidate
<@Kukuman> looked up my zip code
<@Kukuman> 4 people contributed to bush/republicans
<@Kukuman> something like 35 people contributed to democrats
<@Kukuman> oh and all 4 of the people who contributed to bush are retired!
<@philc> you spelt retarded incorrectly
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Dylan : "Lay-teh [LaTeX] - it's French for... uh.. typesetting!"
Worst google of the day: Dave searching on "Using Latex"
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Andrew Ryan <anryan
Newsgroups: rmit.cs.chat
[Discussing a car insurance exemption for nuclear attacks]
On 10 Aug 2004, Shaniur wrote:
> There won't be anyone left to make that payout, including lawyers to
> file suit on your behalf :)
Bollocks. Lawyers, like all cockroaches, can survive nuclear holocaust.
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Steve : "It's not my fault. Java ran out of memory."
Feng : "How goes your demonstration?"
Dylan : "As long as the labby doesn't ask Dave any questions, we're set"
David : "What?"
Emil Mikulic <emikulic
Matt Kilham <mkilham wrote:
> Geoffrey Giesemann <ggiesema pondered:
> <snip good info>
> Thanks for the Geoffrey, lots of great information :-)
!?!
That's a very worrying verb there.
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Danny Low <danny.low wrote:
> Since people have not changed in 10,000 years, I think we can safely
> assume that Rome had tacky souvenir shops as well for the Goth rubes
> who visited Rome.
I sacked Rome, and all I got was this lousy toga...
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From: Beth Friedman <bjf
Newsgroups: alt.recovery.clutter
<I_was_the_catHATESSPAM wrote:
> We should name more of our rooms--once I've named something--it has
> more soul--and I want to take care of it.
I have this tendency not to name things. I call this tendency "George."
http://www.powergenitalia.com/
(No, it's not what you think. For one thing, it's work safe)
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Everything I keed to know I learned from Enemy Terrirory
- You can fix a stubbed toe by repeatedly screaming "Need a Medic!"
- Stabbing people with a syringe can bring them back to life.
- By stealing someone else's pants you can assume their identity.
- You can build or repair anything by waving a pair of pliers at it.
- During WW2, the primary anti-personnel weapon of both sides was the
panzerfaust.
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Sick jokes (from Shai) : http://www.neonbubble.com/?postid=5
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02:10 <kristvoir> Bush will lose in America
02:10 <kristvoir> and then there will be no more Bush jokes
02:10 <kristvoir> so
02:10 <kristvoir> a vote for kerry is a vote against comedy
23:40 <alhazan> Newspaper Headlines
23:40 <alhazan> `Incest More Common than Thought in the U.S.'
23:41 <kristvoir> more comman that thought, i.e more incest than thinking, or
inbreeding is underestimated
23:41 <Boney> kristvoir: both.
22:13 < Synapse> kristvoir: anything that has more actual gameplay than "walk
into room, shoot stuff, stuff dies, walk into next room"
01:35 < emikulic> studying doesn't help you become a better consumer, therefore
it is detrimental to society as a whole (and by society i
mean rich megacorporations)
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Recent G.W.Bush quotes:
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop
thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."
(Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004)
"And I am an optimistic person. I guess if you want to try to find something to
be pessimistic about, you can find it, no matter how hard you look, you know?"
"Tenth is 10 spots too low as far as I'm concerned."
Subject: Re: Chess questions
From: Mike Brandt <MyLastName>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.cecil-adams
Alan wrote:
> (2) How do you mate with knight and bishop?
If he's Episcopalian, the bishop can be a queen.
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Dylan : <reading from a ng post> "How do you mate with a knight"
*Halil giggles*
Geoff : "I've done that before"
*Halil giggles louder*
Dylan : "You can't do it with *just* the knight"
Geoff : "No not with just the knight. You need more pieces"
Dylan : "I've done it with 2 bishops in a corner once"
*Halil giggles much louder*
(Stolen from one of Halil's newsposts)
http://www.google.com/jobs/britney.html
"The data below shows some of the misspellings detected by our spelling
correction system for the query [ britney spears ], and the count of
how many different users spelled her name that way. Each of these
variations was entered by at least two different unique users within a
three month period, and was corrected to [ britney spears ] by our
spelling correction system (data for the correctly spelled query is
shown for comparison)."
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Has anyone noticed that news.rmit.edu.au is taking *really* long to
respond today? :/
Update: Now I know why
-> 10 79 rmit.cs.ObjectOrientedProgramming
hurk :(
Yaniv Bernstein <ybernste>
Newsgroups: rmit.cs.chat
Opinions mean nothing when they are top-posted :-)
Peter Dimopoulos wrote:
> Facts mean nothing when they are put out of context.
>
> Shaniur <nabi-at-shaniur-dot-com-> wrote:
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Today's the first day I've been able to try out the new clients in
hopper lab. They're high res, high colour and have a decent refresh
rate, so I'm planning to make hopper my new home. They also have new
Logitech mice and keyboards - the keyboards are great, perfect
response and angle.
I had a deferred CSE3 exam today... Questioned ranged from "Primary
school arithmetic" to "What the fuck?" but fortunately most of the
hard ones were open ended and/or design questions.
Due to the exam, and being to sleepy last week, I've missed all the
OOP Lectures so far :(
( Eternal_Darkness ) !stopmadlib
( PenguinBot ) Madlib has been stopped by Eternal_Darkness! Type
!Madlib to play again...
( ISB-MAJ_Zorin ) I think...
( ISB-MAJ_Zorin ) oh never mind
( Eternal_Darkness ) great
( Dayton ) !madstop
( Eternal_Darkness ) 1. only ops can use my command
( Eternal_Darkness ) 2. that isn't the command
( Dayton ) !STOP THE FUCKING MADLIB YOU PIECE OF SHIT PENGUINBOT!
( PenguinBot ) Uno has been stopped by Dayton! Type !Uno to start
playing again...thanks for playing everyone!
<Pahalial> "ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does
knowledge" - Charles Darwin
<kionix> wtf? begets isn't a word. quit trying to make up words, fuckface.
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-rw-r--r-- 1 s3018806 ugrd 22708893 Jul 22 12:00 dongs
-rw------- 1 s3018806 ugrd 147456 Jul 22 12:01 dongs.bz2
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Great moments in out of context IRC quoting #634:
00:32 < Boney> Wehrmacht: my women pulled out. I need new ones.
If anyone needs a list of English/American/British words and terms
(attn : BONEY), try /home/d/dleigh/public/wordlist. I've catted it
together from the scwl-5 package, and it does include a lot of junk
(e.g. abbreviations and proper nouns).
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[Submitter's note: This is from a heated discussion involving Judaism.]
From: jmbay(Joseph Michael Bay)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.cecil-adams
>it's a matter of semantics, and one i'm not prepared to get into with
>you at the moment
What are you, anti-semantic?
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Subject: Re: Dead people reproducing
From: "Noelie S. Alito" <noelie>
Newsgroups: talk.origins
<puppet_sock> wrote:
> "Richard S. Crawford" wrote:
> [snip]
> > Goes to show that death is not the handicap that it used to be in
> > the olden days.
>
> If you were a woman, and you had two guys hoping to impregnate you,
> and one of them was dead, which would you choose?
This question smacks of bigotry regarding the "metabolically
challenged".
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>So, take it out of the ET context and try it this way: If time travel
>is possible, then where are all the time travelers?
>
That's why the rooms were all full up at the inn in Bethlehem.
Damn tourists.
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<synapse> do I need to go?
<uewepuep> no
<uewepuep> you know what labs are like
<synapse> sweety
<synapse> sweet rather
<uewepuep> call me a sweety again and i'll kill you
:(
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>>> " 'Adult' Happy Meals?"
>>> "I guess, what, they don't have toys?"
>>> "Well... I HOPE not!"
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>I believe it's a a big, dumb, balding North American ape. With no chin.
>And a short temper.
But he's still the Vice President, and he still deserves our respect.
Thought for the day : You can't spell slaughter without laughter!
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For those that didn't see it yet, my new website design (previously
seen on my home machine) was transferred to uni on thursday
night/friday morning with minimal problems (no gd at uni so crazy
doesn't work..... I'll have to make a static one :( )
I've begun work on the 2 missing pages (CORPS and the NG guide) and
they are both very large, after a few solid hours of work. Some of you
might know CORPS as the system for our on again off again System Shock
fangame - I've expanded and clarified the rules and made them more
applicable to a wider variety of genres.
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Shai's 21st went very well, IMO, after a shaky start when Emil and I
got off the tram 2 blocks after the venue. After walking into the
place we looked around for signs of a 21st... I noticed a sign next to
the stairway reading "Twins 21st Upstairs".
I asked Emil if Slats was a twin and he responded in the negative,
adding that he had a sister but she was much younger than he was.
After calling several people and confirming that we were at the right
place (and the arrival of Geoff) we were no wiser, until Slats came
down the stairs and told us to come up.
After we reached the top of the stairs he introduced us to his twin
sister. I crossed my arms and glared at Emil, but he was engrossed in
staring from one twin to the other and asking Slats if she was really
his sister. Geoff was too busy laughing at Emil's expression to comment.
Good Points
- Huge bar tab.
- We "wrapped" his present in a 60cm swiss gym ball.
- Huge bar tab.
- The food was great too.
- Huge bar tab.
- Impromptu speeches.
Bad Points
- Impromptu speeches.
- While I was trying to eat one of the sandwiches (which had
heaps of mayo in them) Pete kept screaming "Spooge!" in my ear,
which was sufficient to totally ruin my appetite.
- The so called DJ - who didn't seem to be familiar with anything
apart from Tom Jones and a few 70's one hit wonders - should
have been stabbed repeatedly and thrown out the fucking window.
"The true drunk is prepared to accept the consequences of his consumption,
to call a beer a beer, a spade a spade, and a taxi at 10pm"
-- Andrew Masterson
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In alt.fan.harry-potter, (Max C. Webster III) wrote:
Allyson Robinson <allyson> said:
>> I have thought about this, and I just don't see any way that half
>> giants can be physically possible. That is, wouldn't a male giant
>> be too big for a female muggle? And a male muggle be too small for
>> a female giantess?
>>
>> Any thoughts/explanations?
>
> Two words: engorgement charm.
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Paul Ciszek <nospam> wrote:
>Brad Sims <bsims> wrote:
>>
>>I buy from the Evil Wizard's Club Online Store; I can
>>get cartidges to fit my HP4+M for just three virgin souls.
>
>Do *NOT* order online from Evil Wizard's Club! I ordered from them
>once, and ever since my mailbox has been overloaded with messages
>saying "Make your Wand Longer!" "Earn Thousands of Galleons from Home!"
>"Women's Quidditch World Cup Locker Room Photos!" "I am a former minion
>of you-know-who and I seek your assistance..." My favorite owl just
>died, thanks to those bastards.
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Subject: Re: East African Restaurant and Variety
From: migod(Michael W. Godfrey)
Newsgroups: kw.eats
David B. Brown <dbbrown> wrote:
>
>I was tempted by the goat,
Great moments in out-of-context USENET quoting #57492.
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Subject: Re: Princess Di fountain.
From: Eric Jarvis <web>
Newsgroups: uk.misc
Huge huge wrote:
>
> Very appropriate, given that it's shallow, unattractive, pointless,
> expensive and stupid.
>
actually I think it's rather pleasant as huge wastes of money go
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Happy Birthday to Slats.
|
| Subject: Re: Van Window Just Falls Apart
| From: Opus the Penguin <nospamopus>
| Newsgroups: alt.fan.cecil-adams
|
| Dana Carpender <dcarpendnospam> wrote:
|
| > Uh, except that both my husband and I are currently driving vehicles
| > with cracked windshields that haven't collapsed.
|
| THEN STOP POSTING TO USENET AND WATCH WHERE YOU'RE GOING!!!!
|
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There are 32 messages in your incoming mailbox.
(Discussing my maths lectures at 8:30)
Mike: "Sometimes, I'd hate to be you. Other times I'd *really* hate to
be you. This is one of those times."
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<darkmoon> so you made it less tall, not less wide?
<darkmoon> the aspect is pretty close to 2:1
< Synapse> videos want to be wide
<darkmoon> dammit dylan i was gonna use that line
<darkmoon> =((
<darkmoon> okay, now you have to listen to a regular CD
<darkmoon> then listen to the DVDA again
<darkmoon> then not notice any difference
<darkmoon> then come back on IRC and say how DVDA is so much better
<darkmoon> bullshit listening tests are fun and cool
[While discussing a FreeBSD committer]
<darkmoon> actually, he is pretty cool and seems to have every
unix/c standard-type document ever written committed
(PUN! PUN!) to memory
<Synapse> ooh, my subejcts have changed
<Synapse> since an hour ago :(
<Synapse> In other news WHY THE FUCK AM I ENROLLED IN PP2B
<Synapse> I got an HD for it last year
< Boney> aww. they like you.
Yes, it's a day before the start of semester and I am enrolled in 4
subjects I have already passed. Woo.
ear has logged on pts/102 from vchau.
< sporn> young women
< sporn> I'm particularily hungry today
< Apple> How young?
< Apple> :(
* Apple sribles out the DOB on her drivers licence.
<Synapse> if you're old enough to have a driver's licence, he's not interested
Fine's Corollary: Functionality breeds Contempt.
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From the ntpd.conf OpenBSD 3.5 manpage:
HISTORY
The ntpd.conf file format first appeared in OpenBSD 3.6.
<PsychPete> dammit i dont like killin cute undead girls
<PsychPete> >_<
< dji> only like roughing them up?
* PsychPeter sighs
< Synapse> does this class as pseudonecrophilia?
< dji> ha ha
< dji> i think it does
<PsychPete> sif
<PsychPete> i just dont like killin them
< dji> with a bit of sadism and masochism thrown in for good measure
<PsychPete> ....
< Synapse> just like whacking them
<PsychPete> ....
< Synapse> sadist
<PsychPete> @_@
<Maigraith> there there peter
< Synapse> it's ok
<PsychPete> they cute when they attack u
<PsychPete> and when they movin
< dji> ha ha
* dji chooses not to comment on peters choice of wording
<Maigraith> lol
<PsychPete> that damn ghost is still stalkmin me
<PsychPete> if only the ghost was cute
<PsychPete> then it be alright
< dji> ....
< Synapse> ghosts too...
(later on)
<PsychPete> hmmm im backstabin the undead girls
<PsychPete> hmmm
< Synapse> is "backstabin" a euphemism for something?
< dji> rofl
<PsychPete> well it the move i used
<PsychPete> its an attack
* geoffwa gets all emotional
<geoffwa> you're the best person from belgrave I've ever met! *sniff*
<geoffwa> (not mentioning that you're the only person from belgrave
I've ever met)
<Maigraith> i'm not doing anybody
<Maigraith> even Synapse's boobs are bigger than mine!
<Synapse> 13:39:45 root@clarence:/# ssh numbat
<Synapse> root@numbat's password:
<Synapse> 14:44:44 root@clarence:/#
<Synapse> :((((((((
<geoffwa> OPENBSD USER LOGS IN AS ROOT - YOUR SAW IT HERE ON #PANTS
Subject: Re: emergency care, was: Re: can a hospital turn you away for lack of
From: groo <groo>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.cecil-adams
Russell Stewart <nospam> wrote:
> Do you really think there is no qualitative difference between
> providing critical medical care and providing p*rn?
"Does it hurt when I do that?"
"Ouch!"
"Does it hurt when I do that?"
"Yes, mistress!"
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> I don't think it qualifies as cold if the door hinges aren't frozen
> solid.
My car's door hinges had goddamned *better* be frozen solid. They're
made of metal.
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Subject: Re: Oh, dear
From: Daniel Glick <news>
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d
TimC wrote:
[snip]
> Remember, the key to a LASER is the stimulated emission part.
I guess I had a laser all along and didn't even realize it.
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> So, what do *you* do for a living?
I sit in a chair, pressing small plastic rectangles with my fingers
while peering at many tiny, colored dots.
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Subject: Re: Photographic Memory
From: spam.sc
Newsgroups: alt.fan.cecil-adams
Estron <estron> wrote:
> Shouldn't women who have photographic memories wear filmy dresses
> when they use them?
Negative. There's too much of a chance of overexposure.
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Subject: Re: Qibla Cola vs Mecca Cola
From: maxim_projet(Maxim Projet)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology
Tim Chmielewski <chuma> wrote in message
news:<Xns94FBD1D22D4E7chumadcsinetau>...
> Anyone had the opportunity of trying these fine products yet?
No. I'm waiting for the release of Intifanta.
01:43 < Boney> I'm apuled that it dosn't support it. I don't
consider it "UNIX Enough" now.
01:44 <Synapse> I'M APPALLED AT YOUR FUCKING SPELLING
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>>> +----------+
>>> | PLEASE |
>>> | DO NOT |
>>> | FEED THE |
>>> | TROLLS |
>>> +----------+
>>> | |
>>> | |
>>> .\|.||/..
>>
>>
>>
>> +-------------+
>> | PLEASE |
>> | DO NOT WAVE |
>> |DUMBASS SIGNS| |
>> +-------------+
>> | |
>> | |
>> ..| |..
>> ....\| |/....
>
> +-------------+
> | PLEASE |
> |STOP REPLYING|
> | TO MORONS |
> | POSTING |
> |DUMBASS SIGNS|
> +-------------+
> | |
> | |
> ..| |..
> ....\| |/....
+-------------+
| PLEASE |
| STOP POSTING|
|DUMBASS SIGNS|
| IN REPLY |
| TO MORONS |
| POSTING |
|DUMBASS SIGNS|
+-------------+
| |
| |
..| |..
....\| |/....
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03:41 <segfault> hey woman
03:41 <Synapse> ella cunt
03:41 <segfault> hehe.. can you feel the love
<MeateaW> I might go and prepare myself for an excursion beyond
the walls of my current confines
<alhazan> in other words, pete is putting pants on
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More BSD fortune:
You are a very redundant person, that's what kind of person you are.
The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.
-- W. C. Fields
I hate quotations.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gyroscope, n.:
A wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also
free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other
and the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually
perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when
the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers
considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque
that would change the direction of the axis of spin.
-- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary
Cigarette, n.:
A fire at one end, a fool at the other,
and a bit of tobacco in between.
We had it tough ... I had to get up at 9 o'clock at night, half an
hour before I went to bed, eat a lump of dry poison, work 29 hours down
mill, and when we came home our Dad would kill us, and dance about on
our grave singing Hallelujah ...
-- Monty Python
<darkmoon> what was going through marketing's head at the time?
<geoffwa> nobody knows about BSD
<geoffwa> everybody has at least heard of linux
<darkmoon> was it along the lines of "let's spend more than ten seconds
deciding which platform is going to be most suitable for this
new product we're about to put assloads of money into
developing?" or was it more along the lines of "OMG OMG LUNIX!" ?
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From BSD /usr/games/fortune
Decisions of the judges will be final unless shouted down by a really
overwhelming majority of the crowd present. Abusive and obscene
language may not be used by contestants when addressing members of the
judging panel, or, conversely, by members of the judging panel when
addressing contestants (unless struck by a boomerang).
-- Mudgeeraba Creek Emu-Riding and Boomerang-Throwing Assoc.
Distinctive, adj.:
A different color or shape than our competitors.
The meta-Turing test counts a thing as intelligent if it seeks to
devise and apply Turing tests to objects of its own creation.
-- Lew Mammel, Jr.
Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.
-- Jack Paar
Hurrrr...
If being so sick I missed an important SAMA meeting and my Computing
Theory exam wasn't bad enough a power failure has caused the main
partition on my workstation to get badly corrupted.
This also means that I won't be checking web stuff. If you need to get
in touch with me send me a mail.
Maths exam this morning, which didn't go as well as I'd hoped. I'm
sitting around in the labs wondering if I hsould go to the meet to see
The Punisher tonight, if the meet *was* tonight, but RMIT has fallen
off the intarweb and we can't check hashpants.
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|
| Subject: Re: ever suck a bee up your nose?
| From: "TM" <lkjd>
| Newsgroups: alt.mountain-bike
|
| > >>> <snip>
| > >>
| > >> I imagine it could bee for some.
| > >
| > > I wish you wouldn't drone on.
| >
| > Allergic? Might get hives.
|
| I am afraid this thread is just going to bumble along.
|
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|
| Subject: Re: member :test 'equal
| From: "Karl A. Krueger" <kkrueger>
| Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
|
| donuts is easier to type, and has the advantage of sounding like it
| |terates over nuts.
|
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|
| Yaniv Bernstein <ybernste>
| Newsgroups: rmit.cs.general
|
| >>>I'm waiting for someone to pull out the "User Friendly" line:
| >>>"I edited inodes by hand using magnets".
| >>I used an abacus.
| > I used my fingers.
|
| Pah! In my days, we didn't have fingers.
|
Sitting in hopper printing out past papers, along with about 5 people
who are doing the same thing. It's nice and quiet in the labs (apart
from the sound of the printer). It's also nice to see that some people
did bother to print out the SE exams from 5 years ago.
In other news my grandparents gave dad a recent Camry sedan, which we
picked up wednesday and I had an opportunity to try out today. It's
unbelievably roomy and comfortable (especially with the air con :) and
unlike his old car, it isn't painted "Big Bad Orange" ( (tm) Toyota )
On the negative side I'm used to hatchbacks and subcompacts so it
feels uncomfortably big and I get the feeling I'm going to collide
with everything. It's also an automatic, and guzzles heaps of fuel
compared to my Golf (going to ringwood and back used up a quarter of
the tank).
-----==========-----
Subject: Re: evolution disproved
From: Michael Ash <mikeash>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.science
>> >
>> > >There's always room for one more creationist cretin.
>> >
>> > Where do you put the hybrids, the ones who think that evolution was
>> > the method that God used to create man?
>>
>> This is the theory that God's method for creating man was to start out
>> with no plan at all, trying things at random, and keeping the things
>> that worked and throwing out the things that didn't work without
>> understanding why? I knew God was a programmer.
>>
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Subject: Re: odd fashion
From: Opus the Penguin <nospamopus>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.cecil-adams
>>
>> > Binyamin Dissen <postingid>
>> >> >
>> >> On Tue, 04 May 2004 17:49:24 GMT groo <groo> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>:>This weekend I saw two teenagers wearing trousers, but each had
>> >>:>the right leg pulled up to the knee. When I commented to my
>> >>:>wife, she said she'd observed this before.
>>
>> >>:>Any clues as to what started this odd fashion phenomenon?
>> >>
>> >> Did you see what colored bands were on their knees?
>> >
>> > Nope. For future reference, do different colors have different
>> > meanings?
>>
>> Of course. The leg pulled up means they're part of the resistance. The
>> colored bands tell you how much resistance they're putting up.
>> Sometimes there's also a gold or silver band that indicates how
>> tolerant they are.
>>
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From: nailed_barnacle(Neil Barnes)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.composition
Joann Zimmerman <jzimm>:
>> >Have I mentioned the Gothic Cathedrals course in which the
>> >(admittedly rather sheltered) female professor kept referring to
>> >buildings in the abstract as "this erection"? I eventually took
>> >her aside and suggested she might wish to adjust her vocabulary
>> >before the snickers got so loud she'd be forced to take notice.
>> >
>> I am reminded of a line in the UK Boy Scout's Handbook of ahem
>> years ago, wherein it was writ that a scout should practise
>> erection until it could be done in the dark, either alone or with
>> the help of a friend, in less than ten minutes.
>> I think it refered to tents...
WARNING : The following newspost may cause extreme pain.
Dr Tormento of alt.humor.puns:
> >>> Last year, during my holiday in Italy, a wreckless
> >>> driver nearly ran me over.
> >>> I refrained to discuss things out - he was an Alfa male.
> >>>
> >>> being in Italy ,you shoulda beta the crap out of him
> >
> > Nah, he was with his gamma and didn't want her to see that.
>
> That must have delta blow to his self confidence. You could write an
> epistle-on that subject. But if zeta taken the fight elsewhere, eta
> their friends could have joined in and theta not had one iota of trouble
> with the kappas. They could have gone to lunch after; the lambda been
> mighty tasty or some mu meat. But who nu? Xi see it, there wouldn't have
> been omicron of trouble in that. And of course, pi for dessert. But each
> man has to rho his own boat. Me, right now I gotta take my sigma to the
> doctor and have him look at her. He's an alternative practitioner and
> follows the tau of healing. But he'll probably try to give me an upsilon
> some of his herbal supplements for myself. Phi buy any, it'll just be
> because he's a good chi. ::psi:: Now that's omega pun.
-----==========-----
Subject: Re: Over used words in programming
From: Calum <calum.bulkcom>
Newsgroups: comp.programming
cross-platform
Read: The Linux version is two versions behind and runs like a dog.
Redundancy
Read: Ten large servers with no UPS...
Self-documenting
Read: No amount of whipping will get these developers to document anything.
From the strfile manpage:
What can you do with this besides printing sarcastic and obscene messages to
the screens of lusers at login or logout?
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From the mutt manpage:
BUGS
None. Mutts have fleas, not bugs.
FLEAS
Suspend/resume while editing...
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#pants:
[18:02] <geoffwa> it occurs to me that Linus is fairly attractive
for a software developer....
[01:42] * geoffwa refuses to touch paul's digitalerection without protection
#pants:
<Synapse> the original reason sopwith was written was to demo some
network protocol which never made it off the ground
* Synapse wonders if anyone noticed the pun
<Wehrmacht> reds in the beds III: commie-shots
<Boney> Synapse: I like it how the ems scale with the text size. that's nice.
<Synapse> that's the *point* of using ems
#SAMA:
<Synapse> ps. IF you use webnews, I'll hunt down and kill
everyone you've ever loved
* Maigraith quickly shuts the browser
<bn> does your penis really erect at right angles?
<Maigraith> yeah we want pictures, ho boy.
<Hrysicos> lmao
<Hrysicos> its true lol but no pics...for now
<Maigraith> i was gonna ask but i'd be taken out of context
and Synapse would put it in the news for CS students.
<bn> are you still able to... procreate?
<Hrysicos> lmao
<Hrysicos> only too able
<Maigraith> he's a candidate for acrobatical sex.
<Hrysicos> thats right
<bn> does it go left or right?
<Synapse> it swings both ways, just like Hrysicos
<Hrysicos> lol if you look up hrysicos you find stacks
on my aunty Kristalo
* Synapse refrains from making comments about his cousin
<Maigraith> is she hot,
<Hrysicos> my aunty?
<Maigraith> no!
<Maigraith> i was talking to synapse.
#SAMA:
<Maigraith> pity it's not an open book exam
<Maigraith> i'd take synapse
<Maigraith> i feel weird about dick girls in hentai
<Maigraith> :{
<bn> I hope you feel weird about dick girls in general
<Maigraith> yes
<Maigraith> i do
<Maigraith> :P
<Maigraith> i like my dicks on men
<Maigraith> :P
<Maigraith> that sounds wrong
<Maigraith> :{!
<Talas> at least you didn't make a spelling mistake with on to in ^.^
<Maigraith> yeah true
<Maigraith> lol
<Maigraith> i know where i like dicks and it doesn't involve another
man in the equation
<Maigraith> i don't really like yuri or yaoi either
<bn> so you like detached dicks? :P
* Maigraith hits bn
<Maigraith> no!
<Maigraith> i said ANOTHER man
<bn> ^_^
<Maigraith> indicating there is at least one man with a dick attached
<Maigraith> if i did it'd be scary
<Maigraith> i might come round at night
<Maigraith> with a chinese meat cleaver
<Maigraith> to come and harvest yoru bounty :D
<bn> dear god
Uni is way too much work :(
Recent #pants:
<geoffwa> darkmoon: do you ever get lucid movie watching, like
where you're watching the movie and then you *realise*
you're watching the movie and you TAKE CONTROL
<darkmoon> you mean like jerking off while i watch?
<geoffwa> yeah basically
<darkmoon> not really, no
<geoffwa> :(
<geoffwa> it's not like the floor at village southland could get any stickier
<geoffwa> A double degree student has been found in Belgrave
<geoffwa> Please call CSIT Helpdesk
<geoffwa> Responds to 'Dylan'
<Synapse> "Please come to the CSIT Helpdesk with proof of
ownership to claim him"
<geoffwa> Synapse: BACK IN THE (LOST) BOX BITCH
<darkmoon> we need to create a fusion of computer science and liberal arts
<darkmoon> we can call it...
<darkmoon> Information Technology!
<darkmoon> (quick somebody quote me)
...
<Synapse> darkmoon: do you want me to quote you
<darkmoon> naw i'm too much of a humorless turd
<Synapse> darkmoon: quoted
<darkmoon> although i still do measure my manhood by the number of
my appearances in your .plan
<pintdan> to buy a webcam or not
<dandalap> not
<nf> not
<pintdan> there is a hot british girl, who is mad about me, who
promises to get one if i get one.
<Synapse> get one and find out she isn't hot... or british... or a girl.
<Sez> but i can believe there is a God, but have no faith in Him
<golgy> WOOO
<golgy> i found a chocolate chip muffin in my bag
<golgy> THERE IS A GOD!
<Boney> I just think our language is fucked.
<Boney> perioud.
* darkmoon smokes hashtable
<uewepuep> anyway
<uewepuep> bye
* uewepuep Quit (Quit: http://pants.gotdns.org/)
<darkmoon> quick, let's use the topic to organise things
while dan isn't looking!
<darkmoon> time for some THREE WAY LOVIN' with my ternary_quicksort()
More old #pants I lost and didn't get around to posting:
<darkmoon> pete, i'm planning to spend today jerking off
until the protein loss kills me
* Synapse has quit IRC (Connection reset by peer)
* Synapse has joined #pants
<Synapse> Dodo : Internet that's Fucked!
If you google for "It's like having sex with a turtle",
you get this .plan. Hmmm.
The following I wrote over 2 weeks ago but I haven't
uploaded it until today. eeep.
Note : If you're wondering why I haven't been updating much - my life
seems to have been reduced to some sort of mush where I do nothing but
sleep, use the toilet and scream in pain. On rare occasions I might
get some uni work done.
I used to update the .plan when I was at home by scping it here,
editing it and sending it back - but the sheer size of the almighty
.plan now makes it too large for this to be convenient. I might get an
update script going when I get my shit together.
Saturday Night / Sunday Morning update
(though I'll probably be uploading it later):
This last week has probably been the worst I've had this year.
Stabbing chest pains and a throat infection that felt like I'd drunk a
Flaming Moe (tm) without blowing it out first. My doctor's gone on
long service leave which threw a spanner in the works, though the
locum guy was brilliant.
I've got some pills that keep down anaerobic bacteria in the gut,
which should proabably cause less inflammation yada yada yada my
intestines should be less comprehensively fucked next week. I
certainly feel better now, although I'm frozen.
Our hot water hasn't been functioning properly for the last 4 years,
and every time I wash my hands in this sort of weather they go numb
for an hour (making it really hard to type). To make it even better
the ducted heating isn't functioning.
Do to hot-water-bottle-stealing-rage at belgrave HQ we have bought
not one, not two but three more of them. As I type I have one under my
feet so they don't snap off at the ankles when I get up. My sister and
father have claimed the others, on the grounds that they need them to
get to sleep.
On the positive side, my CPU is at 25 degrees Celcius.
On the negative side, my breath condenses on the monitor.
<darkmoon> two HDDs. one 2GB and one 5GB, i think
<darkmoon> both very full due to porn
<darkmoon> i mean
<darkmoon> i don't know where the space went!
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dleigh 15:39:45 numbat:pts/311:~> to mtarnove
Message: and apologis
Message sent to Mihai Constantin Tarnoveanu (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/103.
dleigh 15:39:49 numbat:pts/311:~> to mtarnove
Message: apologies
Message sent to Mihai Constantin Tarnoveanu (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/103.
dleigh 15:40:22 numbat:pts/311:~> to mtarnove
Message: hiseng keyboard has a 5 m spacebar it's fucking impossible totype :(
Message sent to Mihai Constantin Tarnoveanu (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/103.
-=> From |\/| | |-| /-\ | (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/103 at 15:40 :-
hahahaha
dleigh 15:40:43 numbat:pts/311:~> to mtarnove
er 5 cm
Message sent to Mihai Constantin Tarnoveanu (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/103.
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No updates or a while, sorry. :(
Overloaded with work.
As a consolation I have the RMIT exam timetables link:
http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=h02hbcctctk51
And of course... The Best of irc.oz.org #pants Quotage!
From Wednesday:
<pintdan> that said, tehy also have unix machines for the
students at rmit
<Synapse> if swinburne doesn't have unix servers for students
what do they use?
<Synapse> linux?
...
<Synapse> what do they use?
<pintdan> 3 guesses.
<Synapse> macs
<pintdan> as a server platform? they're not made of money :P
<Synapse> does windows count as one guess?
<pintdan> it would, and it would also be correct!
<Synapse> my third was going to be VAX =)
<geoffwa> on a scale of 1 to gay, you are gay
<pintdan> i can assure you that i'm decidedly not gay.
<pintdan> geoffwa: i can corral 3 women who will testify that
i give the best head they've ever had.
<alhazan> pintdan: your mother, your sister and... your grandmother?
<darkmoon> pintdan: web design is bad for the economy, your
dignity, and generally makes the human race look
bad. can't you find an honest job, like prostitution?
<pintdan> let me guess, you're a CS student who is proud of his
slackware 'workstation', wears a lot of black, listens
to fear factory and hasn't been laid since that drunken
party in his 1st year of uni?
<darkmoon> you got most of it right
<darkmoon> i don't run slackware and i've never touched a girl
<geoffwa> that's pretty good for the first guess
<Synapse> pintdan: don't mention a linux distro to emil, he'll bite you
<pintdan> haha. let me guess, BSD-er?
<darkmoon> OMG HE READ MY MIND
<geoffwa> DING DING DING (winner)
* Synapse hands pintdan a trophy
<pintdan> geez, i know my shit for a 'web tard'.
<darkmoon> heh yeah you do
<darkmoon> maybe you should get a real job
<pintdan> i like php because it gets the job done
<pintdan> though, i would like FUCKING TYPES
<darkmoon> PHP is a fine scripting language
<pintdan> and at least php5 finally has exceptions and real classes
<Synapse> pintdan: PHP is a scripting language, and it's weakly
typed for that reason
<pintdan> i really gotta teach myself JSP
<geoffwa> exceptions?!
<geoffwa> noooooooo
<darkmoon> yeah, PHP is becoming more Java-like
<darkmoon> it's a shame
<pintdan> hah, i like java
<Synapse> WHAT?!
<geoffwa> pretty soon perl will join them and we will have a
merry circle of pain
<pintdan> i guess you guys would run screaming from managed
c++ too, then? :)
<darkmoon> hahaha "Managed"
<darkmoon> that's funny
<pintdan> it's C++ with garbage collection.
<Synapse> hahahahaha
<Boney> ARGH!!!!
<darkmoon> ok, so it's convoluted -and- slow
<pintdan> hehehe.
* Boney run sreaming.
<Synapse> garbage collection is the worst thing ever invented
<pintdan> it's part of................. DOT NET
<Synapse> ever
* geoffwa praying to gods he has just decided to invent
<pintdan> i must admit, it's turning me into a lazy programmer
<Synapse> pintdan: that's why it's bad
<Synapse> that and the slooooooownesss
<pintdan> i can't wait until you guys are in the real world
<Synapse> pintdan: we tried that
<Synapse> pintdan: the real world sucked
<Synapse> pintdan: we came back here
<geoffwa> pintdan: can you tell how to get jobs??? :D
<pintdan> geoffwa: step 1: shower
<geoffwa> pintdan: I did that this morning :/
<pintdan> geoffwa: step 2: swallow your pride
<Synapse> pintdan: I can't do 2
<Synapse> pintdan: and even 1 is hard
(many intermediate lines removed)
<Wehrmacht> in unrelated news, my campaign to make fucking the number
one fucking word in the channel is succeeding
<Wehrmacht> reaching 2nd place today on teh most used words behind
that accursed one "which"
<Synapse> Wehrmacht: what fucking good will that do?
<dark|away> SOMEBODY FUCKING EXCLUDE 'which' IN PISG
<Wehrmacht> Synapse; man you ask way to many questions ( hyprocrisy aside )
<Synapse> Wehrmacht: I was helping your fucking campaign!
<Wehrmacht> fucking fuck you you fucking fellow campaigner
<Wehrmacht> we're still behind by 25!!! its bloody riddiculous
<alhazan> Synapse: the prescription says one a day
<Synapse> alhazan: fucking hell.
(etc)
<geoffwa> pintdan: my disillusionment probably started at a young age
when I decided that when I grew I was going to get into Star
Fleet Academy somehow
<pintdan> haha
<pintdan> oh man, i really wanted to be a starfleet officer
<geoffwa> wow
<Synapse> I got the "Mr scott's guide to the enterprise"
<Synapse> and I wanted to be at least a junior officer
<Synapse> cos they had the jacuzzi
<pintdan> hehe
Some #pants oldies that I only got around to putting in today:
<Synapse> BeOS : Taking the OS out of BeOS
<sporn> I swear our lecturer was a terrorist
<sporn> he was called Uri and wore dark lenses all the time
<sporn> and he suggesed using a cap wired in reverse polarity as a
timing device.. someone pointed out that most timing devices
dont go boom unless they are for a bomb
<sporn> he said .. yes.. this is true
<Boney> I guess that's how you write your name
from how to pronounce the voules
<Boney> and "dyrk" dosn't work. 2 reasions.
1) it's hard to pronounce
2) there is a set list of vouels that occur togeather.
<Boney> you don't need to assiciate the verbs with constanants.
<Boney> hey Jase`
<Boney> Jase`: I'm learning a new language.
<alhazan> english?
<Boney> te'he. the devils number is xaxaxa wich soulds like some
very weird evil laughing deep in the throagt.
<Boney> throagth
<Synabsent> throat?
<Boney> Synabsent: yeah. the thing behind your mouth.
<Synapse> geoffwa: with gourmet_dish
<Synapse> technically according to the specs
<Synapse> the while should be recursive
<geoffwa> ...
<geoffwa> yes
<geoffwa> and?
<Synapse> well
<Synapse> I keep thinking of this in terms of eating food
<Synapse> the assignment makes me physically sick
<Synapse> STEAK
<Synapse> WHILE boolean_expression
<Synapse> REPEAT
<Synapse> WHILE boolean_expression
<Synapse> REPEAT LENTILS
<Synapse> STOP
<Synapse> STOP
<Synapse> CHICKEN
* Synapse pukes
<geoffwa> you're not eating the food
<geoffwa> you're only parsing it
<Synapse> too sleepy to game/code, too awake to sleep
<darkmoon> now you know what my life is like 24/7
<Synapse> I HAVE NO ROUTER AND I MUST SCREEN
Although this looks set to changes as soon as I get a live hub.
[00:23] <cellardoor> haven't heard from you for ages
[00:23] <cellardoor> not even from the almighty .plan
[00:23] <Synapse> yeah
[00:24] <Synapse> I have an update explaining why I have
trouble updating it from home
[00:24] <Synapse> I normally scp stuff to home, edit it , scp it back
[00:24] <Synapse> but the .plan is too big now >.<
[00:29] <Synapse> she's uber-kawaii
[00:29] <Synapse> (ooh, english german and japanese in the same sentence)
[00:29] <cellardoor> hahahaha
[02:24] <darkmoon> 17" just doesn't satisfy me anymore
[03:43] <Synapse> http://www.penismightier.com/bbs.shtml
[03:43] <Synapse> no, it's not what you think
[19:14] <Wehrmacht> dave is at work
[19:14] <Wehrmacht> how can he keep tabs
[19:14] <geoffwa> thank you Mr Obvious
[19:15] <Synapse> Wehrmacht: you lie!
[19:15] * alhazan (alhazan@adsl-136-35.swiftdsl.com.au) has joined #pants
[19:15] <Synapse> see!
[19:15] <geoffwa> :D :D
[19:15] * Synapse win
Dylan : "Why the hell do we have a cheese section"
Geoff : "Frankly, I think we should have a mylanta section"
There are 44 messages in my incoming mailbox.
To make up for my absence, some #pants quotes:
BTW : Boney == pbone
Synapse == dleigh
darkmoon == emikulic
geoffwa == ggiesema
[19:03] <Boney> also. darkmoon and synapse. Want to work on TSSHP ?
[19:03] <Boney> The System Sock Hack Project.
[19:05] <Synapse> I'll have to put on my system socks first Boney.
[22:42] <Synapse> Wehrmacht: http://wordsmith.org/anagram/index.html
[22:44] <Wehrmacht> Synapse: hehe
[22:44] <Synapse> It's great for the things in mx
[22:45] <Synapse> Incidentally, half the anagrams for "Geoffrey Giesemann"
have the words "gay semen" in them.
[22:45] <Synapse> I don't think it's a coincidence
[22:46] <Wehrmacht> you're a nut dylan
[22:46] <Synapse> I also have too much time to play with the anagram server
[22:46] <Wehrmacht> you get broadband
[22:46] <Wehrmacht> and an upgrade
[22:47] <Wehrmacht> and what do you do
[22:47] <Wehrmacht> jumble letters ;)
[22:47] <alhazan> download some porn like a real internet user
[00:03] <Synapse> d&d is stolen from tolkien
[00:03] <Synapse> especially the elf shit
[00:04] <Synapse> if you are an elf, your character can live for 89347 years.
[00:04] <Synapse> After that they don't actually die but feel *compelled*
to travel over the sea to a place far away.
[00:04] <darkmoon> hehehe
[00:04] <Wehrmacht> and be turned back by John Howards zero-tolerance policy
[18:21] <Synapse> I mean the unable-to-log-into-numbat-from-outside-rmit thing
[18:21] <darkmoon> yallara works fine =)
[18:21] <Synapse> you mean :(
[18:21] <darkmoon> i can't make outgoing connections from numbat either btw
[18:21] <Synapse> we have to connect though the proleteriat server!
[23:10] * dark|away has joined #pants
[23:10] <dark|away> i am zim
[23:10] * dark|away is now known as darkmoon
[23:10] <darkmoon> I AM ZIM
[23:13] * Synapse is now known as zim
[23:14] <zim> I am zim
[23:14] <darkmoon> i am faled
[23:14] <darkmoon> dylan winnar
[23:14] <darkmoon> =(
[10:31] <Maestro> 'sup?
[10:31] <uewepuep> MY 50FT COCK
[10:31] <uewepuep> hey
[10:31] <uewepuep> that looks more like soft
[10:31] <uewepuep> than 50ft :(
Special Award for Paul Bone:
[21:48] <geoffwa> is bones worse at german than english!?
[21:48] <PsychoAnt> is that possible?
[23:05] <Boney> So. how dose one iterate (not though a list but
throw a sequence) in bourne shell.
[21:55] <Boney> <mode sceptacisum>
[21:55] <Wehrmacht> skepticism
[21:56] <Boney> Wehrmacht: I like my way better.
[21:56] <Wehrmacht> waht you said was a blend of septic and capsicum
Some bash.org:
<Exor[B-AFK]> a woman in the mens room = awkward
<Exor[B-AFK]> a man in the womans room = lawsuit
And finally:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=1999-10-15&res=l
There are 31 messages in your incoming mailbox.
There are 24 messages in your incoming mailbox.
* Synapse loses the battle of the mighty morphing assignment specifications
After I submitted my latest addition to the "yes" thread, I
can't connect to news.rmit.edu.au - maybe we really *have*
broken it this time...
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>
> tfb+google(Tim Bradshaw) writes:
>
> > The problem is that I can't substantiate the criticism without
> > spending time looking at the things I want to be rude about, and I
> > don't have time. So I'd rather just attempt to cause a feeling of
> > general unease and stress if I can.
>
> That's the usenet spirit!
>
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Sorry about the lack of updates... I've been busy, or ill,
or otherwise too occupied.
Fan Mail:
[
[ Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 19:20:12 +1000 (EST)
[ From: Paul Bone <pbone>
[ To: Dylan Leigh <dleigh>
[ Subject: Re: yes
[
[ In article <406adbf5@itsawnews.its.rmit.edu.au> you wrote:
[ > This is the thread that doesn't end,
[ > Yes it goes on and on my friend.
[ > Some people started posting here not knowing what it was,
[ > And they'll continue posting here forever just because
[ > This is the thread that doesn't end,
[ > Yes it goes on and on my friend....
[
[ Oh dear god..
[
[ I knew I'd been ignoreing this thread for a reasion.
[
#pants:
<geoffwa> in response to the student occupation of RMIT
adimistrata, RMIT's Vice Chancellor has decided to occupy
the inboxes of the entire student body :(
<Boney> WTF!?!?!
<Boney> Mal called US hippies?!?!
Arrr....
Paid my HECS finally, and managed to run off my Sof. Eng. lab 3. It's
been a year since I've used java, and fortunately I haven't forgotten
most of it.
In other news, sometime I'll be putting a Microwave Jaffa Pudding
recipe on my webshite due to popular demand (see Tuesday's #pants
quotes), and maybe a section on getting a DSL-302G to work like a
proper ADSL modem.
While I'm at it, I might try hacking chatzilla finto an IRC client -
line markers would be a good start.
More from your #pants:
<dark|busy> where's bones?
<Synapse> he's dead, jim.
<Synapse> searching for "descent" returns gay porn :(
<geoffwa> searching for most nouns returns gay porn
<alhazan> Synapse: please enlighten me on the construction methods for
a jaffa pudding
<Synapse> alhazan: sift together 1 cup flour,
0.5 cup caster sugar, 1 heaped tablespoon cocoa
<Synapse> alhazan: add 0.5 cup milf and a dash of oil
<Synapse> er milk :(
<alhazan> bahaha milf
<Poutremos> hahaha
<alhazan> you can keep your jaffa pudding
...
<alhazan> Synapse: i dont really want to eat something that contains humans
<alhazan> even if they are sexually appealing
I have ADSL!
DNS isn't running, but I'm working on it. :)
Update : is working now :)
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dleigh 12:18:58 numbat:pts/212:~> to freyes
Message: oh, and human
Message sent to the cellar door (freyes@numbat) on pts/130.
dleigh 12:19:02 numbat:pts/212:~> to freyes
Message: and within 18-35
Message sent to the cellar door (freyes@numbat) on pts/130.
dleigh 12:19:09 numbat:pts/212:~> to freyes
Message: YEARS
Message sent to the cellar door (freyes@numbat) on pts/130.
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Re : Faculty of Engineering enters the 21st century
The general purpose Engineering labs on level 4 (10.4.2?)
now have P4 terminals. I hope this trend extends to all the
other building 10 labs.
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dleigh 12:03:24 numbat:pts/212:~> to freyes
Message: so we should have adsl soon :)
Message sent to the cellar door (freyes@numbat) on pts/130.
-=> From the cellar door (freyes@numbat) on pts/130 at 12:03 :-
yaaay
-=> From the cellar door (freyes@numbat) on pts/130 at 12:03 :-
wait.. that means you won't turn up to uni as much as you need to
-=> From the cellar door (freyes@numbat) on pts/130 at 12:03 :-
that's baaad
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Software Engineering Assignment done.
-----==========-----
>>
>> Newsgroups: rmit.cs.SoftwareEngineering1.client
>> Dale Stanbrough <dale>
>>
>> I think you're asking if this is a meta-project manager, the
>> answer to which is,
>>
>> "I've never meta project manager I didn't like."
>>
>> boom tish...
>>
>>
>> Subject: Re: Spice source for Indian cuisine
>> From: "Jack Schidt?" <jack-schidt>
>> Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking
>>
>>
>> > > Health food stores usually carry it as well (like Whole Foods).
>> > > For some reason Indian food is associated with 'healthy'.
>> >
>> > Which is funny, considering that (according to friends of mine who live in
>> > India) Indians aren't all that healthy and have a high rate of CHD.
>> >
>>
>> Ghee, I wonder why that is.
>>
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Cryptography is a complex subject because it has so many factors.
http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/
powers_of_persuasion/images/we_can_do_it.gif
(mad props to Emil for finding an online copy of the poster)
dleigh: I never understood that *points to poster on wall of caf*.
dleigh: What's the arm with fist thing meant to signify?
emikulic: *reading poster* We... can... do... it.
emikulic: FISTING FOR FEMINISM!
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From the perl style guide :
"Choose mnemonic identifiers. If you can't remember what
mnemonic means, you've got a problem."
"When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will
let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi."
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Boney : "Now compatible for not gnu make and solaris thing."
-=> From the cellar door (freyes@numbat) on pts/258 at 16:47 :-
eww
-=> From the cellar door (freyes@numbat) on pts/258 at 16:47 :-
could you be any more disgusting?
-=> From the cellar door (freyes@numbat) on pts/258 at 16:47 :-
don't answer that.
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emikulic has logged on pts/104 from babbage21.
emikulic has logged on pts/105 from babbage21.
emikulic has logged on pts/270 from babbage21.
dleigh 16:40:54 numbat:pts/185:~> to emikulic
Message: they have working terminals in babbage now? OMG
Message sent to Emil Mikulic (emikulic@numbat) on pts/105.
-=> From Emil Mikulic (emikulic@numbat) on pts/105 at 16:42 :-
haha they don't
-=> From Emil Mikulic (emikulic@numbat) on pts/105 at 16:42 :-
stay where you are
dleigh 16:41:09 numbat:pts/185:~> to emikulic
Message: ne, re, salomma is full atm
to: Emil Mikulic (emikulic) isn't logged on.
Your filespace is 96 % full. You have 2692 K remaining.
I don't like the way this week is starting...
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Hurr... I'm beginning to think a univerity education
and IBS are mutually exclusive :(
-=> From your pants (freyes@numbat) on pts/170 at 14:36 :-
you're kidding
to freyes
Message: no, not kidding
Message sent to your pants (freyes@numbat) on pts/170.
dleigh 14:37:10 numbat:pts/88:~> to freyes
Message: due friday
Message sent to your pants (freyes@numbat) on pts/170.
-=> From your pants (freyes@numbat) on pts/170 at 14:37 :-
shiit
-=> From your pants (freyes@numbat) on pts/170 at 14:39 :-
so what are you doing now?
to freyes
Message: trolling newsgroups
Message sent to your pants (freyes@numbat) on pts/170.
(I know it's technically Wednesday now)
[00:30] <darkmoon> and yeah my mother
[00:31] <geoffwa> you have ascii pictures of your mom?
[00:32] <Synapse> I'm so glad I have a terminal open at this point
...
[00:32] <Synapse> PS. its mum in australia
[00:32] <darkmoon> errrr
[00:32] <darkmoon> it's mom you fucking terrorist
[00:33] <Synapse> just because I like to blow shit up and kill
people, does that make me a terrorist?
[00:33] <Synapse> or a Real American Hero (tm)
[00:33] <darkmoon> no, it's your spelling of `mom'
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David : "Do you guys read Dostoevsky and Nietzsche much?"
Dylan : "Not really, their books are in a... Nietzsche market."
David : *winces*
>>
>> Subject: Re: Server Outage
>> From: ez064842(Remington Stone)
>> Newsgroups: alt.games.everquest
>>
>> Peter Astbury said:
>> } > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
>> } > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
>> } > A: Top-posting.
>> } > Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
>> }I prefer top posting. If you don't then don't top post. You aren't
>> }gonna stop me just be winging about it. Sometimes people do things you
>> }find annoying, that's life - deal with it!
>>
>> Q:> But I should be able to do it however I want! Deal with it!
>> A:>> Think about it. Come on, you can figure it out.
>> A:>>>> When half the group posts top and the other half posts bottom.
>> Q:>>>>> What's even more annoying than topposting?
>> Q:>>> Why would that be annoying?
>> A: Bite me. Conform!
>>
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Updated my timetable again. Hopefully this one will remain for
the rest of the semester.
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>>
>> Subject: Re: Paging - redundant Mr Swilson - Mr Swilson to the back
>> of the queue please
>> From: swt <dumplechan>
>> Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology
>> Organization: Tendrils
>>
>> dogsnus <dogsnus> wrote in news:c0l345$172reh$1@ID-
>> 74476.news.uni-berlin.de:
>>
>> [...]
>> > A handwritten sign at a local BP station bathroom door in Mandeville,
>> > at the corner of US59 and Harrison Blvd.:
>> >
>> > Ladies, please do NOT leave your underware lying around the
>> > bathroom!
>>
>> This program is UNDERWARE. If you continue to use it for more than 30
>> days, please send panties to the following address.
>>
-----==========-----
Finally got my concession card.
-----==========-----
>>
>> From: Jens Kilian <Jens_Kilian>
>> Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.email
>>
>> Found in the weekend's spam run...
>>
>> > Subject: RE: MINISTRY TRAINING
>> [...]
>> > Minister Charles Simpson has the power to make you a LEGALLY ORDAINED
>> > MINISTER within 48 hours!
>> >
>> > BE ORDAINED NOW!
>> >
>> > As a minister, you will be authorized to perform the rites and ceremonies
>> > of the church!
>> >
>> > WEDDINGS
>> > MARRY your BROTHER, SISTER, or your BEST FRIEND!
>> [...]
>>
253 unread posts in rmit.cs.general :(
I have meningitis :(
Didn't make it to uni at all last week, and I have about one
week left to add subjects.
There are 21 messages in your incoming mailbox.
A moderately unproductive day.
Made some superficial changes to my student webspace (at
least the course links are sorted by category now). I'm
developing an affection for deftinition lists and might use
them more often instead of the <h4> and <p> pairs.
Third day back at uni and I'm already looking forward to Friday :/
dleigh 16:07:19 numbat:pts/103:~> helpdesk
Yallarians:
emikulic pts/136 Feb 24 13:38 0:39 6018 (helpdeskcy02.cs.rmit.edu.au)
emikulic pts/207 Feb 24 14:35 . 15525 (helpdeskcy02.cs.rmit.edu.au)
1337 (numbat):
aboas pts/51 Feb 24 13:14 0:03 17296 (helpdeskbu01.cs.rmit.edu.au)
aboas pts/62 Feb 24 13:14 0:13 17295 (helpdeskbu01.cs.rmit.edu.au)
ggopalak pts/22 Feb 24 16:04 . 25527 (helpdeskcy01.cs.rmit.edu.au)
Outsiders (bilby):
(boo! hiss!)
More #pants quotage:
[21:14] <geoffwa> at least Real10 is out
[21:14] <geoffwa> (or the beta)
[21:14] <darkmoon> how about we transcode it into a real codec
[21:14] <geoffwa> but it's already in a REAL codec
[21:10] <darkmoon> (hint: when searching for Anal Cunt,
make -sure- you limit the filetype to audio)
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Mad props to RMIT for triple-booking the venue of my first lecture.
Uni starts next week and I'm still enrolled in last year's subjects :(
I intend to show up for the subjects I am supposed to be
doing anyway, and hopefully get my enrollment fixed before
the HECS deadline at the end of March...
No updates in a while, I've had trouble with my net connection from home.
Big news is I have finally upgraded my box to something
decent - P4 2.6Ghz, 800 Mhz FSB and a gig of RAM :D. The
only complaint I have is about the onboard sound (which is
intermittently buggy) but I hope to replace it soonish.
Most of my holidays have thus been spent playing The
Specialists, Hitman, NFS and Max Payne with all the graphics
options maxed out.
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I'm at uni today due to my DE200 supplementary exam, which
went swimmingly apart from the accounting section (which
wasn't too bad)
Gratuitous #pants quotage:
[12:17] <geoffwa> it may be undefined (browser gets to decide)
[12:18] <Synapse> I wish w3c specifications would be more
specific about the things they don't specify.
[13:49] <geoffwa> I will NEVER EVER EVER SEE ANOTHER PETER PAN MOVIE
Slept in today :/
Finished one of the 5 endings of WC3, one of the 4 endings of WC4, and
one of the endings of WCP, not including ejection/death-in-the-cockpit
sequences. Hurrah for replayability :)
If you've been wondering why I've been basically out of
contact since Monday, I've been playing Wing Commander 3 and
WC : Prophecy. I've always been a big fan of Space Flight
Simulators, particularly the Wing Commander series with the
strong plot and characters.
I don't think I even ate any food yesterday because I was so
busy fighting Kilrathi. I did all of WC3 up to the last
mission in a 30 hour marathon, then spent about 2 hours
bashing my head against the last one before I went to bed.
In other news, I'm suffering a bad case of Birthday Cake
Syndrome (i.e. acne).
* Boney wonders how to calcuate the vector on a plane
nearest to a vector that isn't on the plane..
<Synapse> Boney: I've got some raytracing books i could lend you
<Synapse> Boney: with working c++ sample code
<Poutremos> Boney: I've got some naked girl books I can lend you
<Poutremos> With working samples
<Boney> Poutremos: does it show me how to build my very own Real Naked Girl?
Missed reenrollment today, due to assorted factors beyond my
control such as the exhaust pipe rusting through (and
falling off) and being savaged by a dog.
It's not my month :(
[22:32] -> [Synapse] PING
<snip>
[22:33] [Synapse PING]
<snip>
[22:34] [Synapse PING reply]: 1min 59secs
<snip>
[00:56] <alhazan> 00:50:27 [ozorg] CTCP PING reply from Synapse:
194.905 seconds
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dleigh 5:31:56 numbat:pts/81:~> flon
Fast Lon v3.3.3 Wed Dec 3 05:31:58 2003
-----------------------------------------------
dleigh | Thyself | Dec 3 05:31 | ... | pts/81 | NoTalk
You are logged on once.
You are the only person logged on.
dleigh 5:31:58 numbat:pts/81:~>
[13:45] <wehrmacht> when i was workign at kfc there were some first rank
idiots
[13:45] <wehrmacht> alhazan: one of them dropped $100 worth of chicken
[13:46] <alhazan> how can you drop $100 worth of chicken?
[13:46] <Synapse> wehrmacht: how can you drop that much chicken?
[13:46] <alhazan> or was this over an extended period
[13:46] <wehrmacht> alhazan: its on a tray..
[13:46] <wehrmacht> two trays packed out with chicken pieces..
[13:46] <alhazan> thats a lot of chicken
[13:46] <wehrmacht> retail price of course
[13:46] <Synapse> how can you fit that much onto two trays?
[13:46] <wehrmacht> not raw product
[13:47] <wehrmacht> both of you sersiouly shutup
[13:47] <Synapse> When I was in teh Boronia aquarium yesturday a $500
catfish died
[13:47] <wehrmacht> theres no need to question me i worked there for 6 months
[13:47] <wehrmacht> you can put $50 of chick on a fuckign tray
[13:47] <alhazan> lol
[13:47] <alhazan> its ok chris
[13:47] <Synapse> $50 of chick?
[13:47] <wehrmacht> chicken
[13:47] <wehrmacht> sorry
[13:47] <Synapse> oh
[13:47] <alhazan> i believe you.. i think :P
[13:47] <Synapse> damn.... I had a nice image there
[13:48] <wehrmacht> fuck you both :)
[13:48] <alhazan> cant be very good chick for $50
[13:48] * wehrmacht tries story number #2
[13:48] <wehrmacht> someone made a twister without the tortilla
[13:48] <wehrmacht> and it took 3 hints from teh manager to figure out what
they'd done wrong
[13:48] <alhazan> rofl
[13:48] <Synapse> alhazan: it could be a portion
[13:49] <wehrmacht> Synapse: !!!
[13:49] <alhazan> Synapse: how is that worth anything?
[13:49] <wehrmacht> ....
[13:49] <alhazan> Synapse: unless you are talking organ donor stuff..
in which case it would surely be more than $50
[13:49] <wehrmacht> CHICKE#N
[13:49] <Synapse> it could be a bit of leg
[13:49] <Synapse> or maybe a breast fillet
[13:49] * wehrmacht fumes
[13:49] * Synapse giggles uncontrollably.
[13:50] * wehrmacht dumps synapse in boronia aquarium
[13:50] <wehrmacht> now whose the dead catfish?
Just finished my COSC1100 (Programming Principles 2B) exam.
Did it with 15 minutes to spare, which wasn't bad
considering that I had to go to the toilet 4 times....
One of the questions involved implementing an algorithm and
then suggesting two modifications to the implementation
which would speed it up. Somewhat counter-intuitive, since I
(and I assume most programmers) try to write fast code from
square one.
I deliberately did a crappy implementation to make the
question easier, and I had to constantly stop myself from
putting a line through what I'd just written and doing a
better job.
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An interesting question (that wasn't part of the exam, but I
was thinking about it at the time) - which of the following
is faster?
int a, b;
...
a = b + 1;
* OR *
int a, b;
...
a = b;
a++;
Deferred exams : PP2b Monday 24th Nov, 1:45pm, 8.9.46
Maths Thursday 27 Nov, 9:15am.
No details on Engineering or Mechanics yet :/
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There are 17 messages in your incoming mailbox.
Back from the colonoscopist. The good news is that I don't
seem to have any cancerous growths, the bad news is that I
have inflammation consistent with coeliac or IBS.
I was only out for about 15 minutes or so. I spent longer
discussing the procedure with my anaeshetist :)
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[20:52] <blackrose> LORD
[20:52] <blackrose> OF
[20:53] <blackrose> THE
[20:53] <blackrose> RINGS
[20:53] <blackrose> CALLS
[20:53] <blackrose> TO
[20:53] *** Z sets mode: +b *!*oo-ee-oo@*.brasd1.vic.optusnet.com.au
[20:53] *** blackrose was kicked by Z ((dandaman) No Reason)
I have one hour left to eat solid food.
[21:50] * ^_MuZzY_^ has joined #melbourne
[21:50] <Ainslee> there's no way i could count the number
of sick perverts i've met off here
[21:50] * ^_MuZzY_^ has left #melbourne
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I have two days left to eat solid foods.
[23:53] <geoffwa> dave mentioned that telstra call centre thing
[23:54] <geoffwa> I'm fairly sure the work sucks, but they do pay more
than $9/hour
[23:54] <geoffwa> blackrose: you know more about computers than most
telstra people, I mean you're using one right now
for starters
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Current mood : Angry in a low energy way.
I'm sick of being sick. I miss uni, all my friends from
Melbourne, even lectures. I miss eating pasta a lot.
I miss Fridays at Sutherland Lab, Tuesdays at coffee.
Also, having a lot of time at home is making me more annoyed
at my slow intarweb connection and obsolescent K6-400.
I feel woozy... at least its an improvement on totally fucked.
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http://www.dp9.com/Funhouse/Aids_HG.htm
Obviously useful to HG fans (RPG and Tactical) but there are
plans for constructing paper towers, buildings etc.
appropriate for many wargames.
Yes, no updates for over a week. I've been sick, and under the influence
of various substances that have left me in a somewhat spaced state.
I haven't even been reading the newsgroups.
Happy Birthday greetz go out to Mike, Mark and Chris.
<elisse> boyfriend? girlfriend? gang bang?
<blackrose> NO.. no. not me... um, okay...?
7 mails answered today (not counting about 10 that I just
deleted), I'm not even going to bother with NGs.
In other news, maths revision struggles forward... I'll put
an exam timetable up on my site when/if I can be bothered.
-=> From your pants (freyes@numbat) on pts/310 at 23:13 :-
your body's not doing very well. you should consider an upgrade
...
-=> From your pants (freyes@numbat) on pts/310 at 23:15 :-
i could give you a hand.. well, so to speak
Lots of people in salomaa for 10:45 PM on Sunday...
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<TossMonkey> well, people who take a test on the internet to see if they
have a personality should already know the answer.
<mungbean> using VB is like masturbating with a cheese grater.
<Suiko> how the fuck could a search for 'final fantasy 7 manga'
bring up 'harry potter yaoi'
<{gy}IRONMAN> I don't think Arnold will be elected.
<{gy}IRONMAN> Being a movie star isn't enough. We saw that with Reagan
<Paralysis> Damn, and all this time I thought Reagan got elected
<Algorithms> I just threw a squirrel carcass in a cardboard box and
installed NetBSD on it.
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darkmoon : There are much more interesting Google queries
that will return disArray as a result.
blackrose: *frowns*
-----==========-----
Thanks to all the people who called me / sent a mail / SMS / etc.
I've been quite sick this past week, stuck in bed most of
the time. And numerous invasive tests later it *could* be a
pancreas problem, so I'm supposed to lay off gluten and
fatty foods. Pants.
A suprising number of people at the uni labs today...
Anybody remember the password for the stats section of maths? Anybody?
-----==========-----
> The big problem with blacksmithing resumes is that most of
> them are forged.
>
Really? There are a lot of technical terms to get right. You
don't just hammer those things out.
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http://www.sexiestgamer.com/main_us.php
Mechanics assignment due tomorrow... pants.
DE due Friday... pantsola.
Fun with TFC:
"Synapse killed FuzzyBunny with medkit"
Mal : "The highlight [of the weekend] was going down to the
newsagent with my mother to look at gay porn magazines"
er... right.
<Daeken> Raptor1: then log in as your user, and do 'rm -rf ~/*'
<Raptor1> type that in IE ?
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<[404notfound]> Does this nick format make me look fat?
-----==========-----
>>
>> >>That Bandaid smell?
>> >
>> >If you miss the smell you can still
>> >buy cloth adhesive. According to the 3M company it is
>> >recommended for the following uses:
>> >
>> >"This tape is excellent for securing tubing, positioning
>> >body parts and immobilizing fingers and toes."
>>
>> So, they've moved into sex aids, then?
>>
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(from memory, may be erroneous. In any case I've snipped it)
<blackrose> candle wax on my monitor
<Synapse> You have candles lit around your monitor?
<blackrose> no
<Synapse> Are you doing some pagan ritual?
<blackrose> no
* Synapse imagines blackrose doing pagan ritual.
<blackrose> sif do pagan ritual
<blackrose> that's all wierd icky naked stuff
* Synapse imagines blackrose doing wierd icky naked stuff.
* Synapse is away (Away: brb)
-----==========-----
For once...
There are no messages in your incoming mailbox.
-----==========-----
http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network.htm
A neat collection of W9x/2000/XP/ME networking utilities.
Most are more powerful and/or gui versions of common utils
(e.g. traceroute).
http://www.wown.info/j_helmig/faq.htm
Useful collection of stuff on networking older versions of
windows and MSDOS.
<MeateaW> wb ^cat^
<MeateaW> who were you pasting large chunks of text to? ;)
* ^cat^ has quit IRC (Excess Flood)
<darw> where did they drop the hiroshima bomb?
>>
>> From: jstjohn
>> Newsgroups: rmit.cs.general
>> Subject: Re: Sept 11
>>
>> >>> WTO def. completely destroyed. If the impact/fire
>> >>> wasn't enough, then a rather large building crashing
>> >>> on top of it would have finished it off.
>>
>> Plus, being a "black" box, it is prolly difficult to find.
>> If it were a "fluro pink" box, it would be easier.
>>
-----==========-----
More Microcontroller Stuff
http://wiredworld.tripod.com/tronics/atmel_isp.html
An ISP for AVR (Atmel) microcontrollers (like the $40 jaycar one).
Has links to some of the programming software too.
http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/tools.asp?family_id=607
The Atmel AVR (8-bit RISC) tools and software page (the
downloads are at the bottom).
http://www.covingtoninnovations.com/noppp/
The "No parts" PIC Programmer (actaully uses a transistor, a
couple of diodes and a few passive components). With links
to programming software. This works with the 16F84(A) PIC.
http://people.man.ac.uk/~mbhstdj/piclinks.html
PIC links, and some assembly software.
-----==========-----
How to know when you need sleep:
dleigh DING! numbat:pts/29:~/wip> gcc a.out
ld: fatal: file a.out: unknown file type
ld: fatal: File processing errors. No output written to a.out
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
dleigh 15:00:24 numbat:pts/29:~/wip>
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mtarnove : "It's like having sex with a turtle!"
-----==========-----
Bought a pair of $20 Digitor headphones from Dick Smith on
Tuesday. I thought they would be pretty crappy but they're
not bad - smooth response and good bass (they are 30mm
cones). Better then a lot of the expensive Sony/TDK/etc.
ones I've tried.
-----==========-----
dleigh 13:31:47 numbat:pts/24:~> slogin yallara uptime
1:32pm up 49 day(s), 12:50, 146 users, load average: 20.54, 19.07, 16.99
dleigh 13:32:00 numbat:pts/24:~> slogin bilby uptime
1:32pm up 49 day(s), 12:46, 2 users, load average: 0.06, 0.07, 0.11
<SickRick> anyone know why linuxvideo.org is down? was it shut down?
<ian_> Because "linux" and "video" are mutually exclusive
-----==========-----
>>
>> > As far as Coherent matter beams go, the military has had some success
>> > with weapons that use Fermi exclusion forces to accelerate a "pulse" of
>> > Quantum-entangled baryons and leptons.
>>
>> You mean guns firing bullets?
>>
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<ilde> Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.
-----==========-----
<frank> can you help me install GTA3?
<knightmare> first, shut down all programs you aren't using
frank has quit IRC. (Quit)
<knightmare> ...
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I thought SQL syntax was shit. Then I dicovered relational algebra.
-----==========-----
dleigh 2:59:16 numbat:pts/203:~> who | wc -l
8
dleigh 2:59:34 numbat:pts/203:~> who | grep comindico | wc -l
3
<Boney> it's THE hitman film.
<geoffwa> Hitman 2 is THE hitman film (with the exception that it's a game)
>>
>> > http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/5751866
>>
>> Sudden death syndrome, eh? Sounds nasty. What are the symptoms?
>>
-----==========-----
This needs to be required reading for all RMITCS students.
>>
>> Subject: Re: OT: Top-posting
>> From: Andreas Prilop <nhtcapri>
>> Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html
>>
>> "Philip Herlihy" <foof8500> wrote:
>>
>> > I also rather like
>> > OE, which happens to make bottom-posting awkward.
>>
>> Posting at the top because that's where the cursor happened to be
>> is like shitting in your pants because that's where your asshole
>> happened to be.
>>
Incidentally, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/brox.html
has a nice paper on this issue.
-----==========-----
>>
>> >>> (From today's UK 'Daily Telegraph')
>> >>>
>> >>> Only 16 taboo words left
>> >>
>> >>Is there a list?
>> >
>> >Yes:
>> >
>> >****
>> >******
>> >******
>> >***
>> >*******
>> >******
>> >******
>> >***********
>> >*******
>> >*******
>> >*****
>> >*****
>> >*******
>> >**********
>> >**********
>> >*******
>>
>> Dammit. Looks like that man's cracked all my passwords.
>>
-----==========-----
Out-of-context quotage for today:
< alhazan> lets just bring them out and compare them
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oops.
^CERROR:
ORA-01013: user requested cancel of current operation
57750 rows selected.
SQL>
< uewepuep> Maestro: not alot, going out later with the mother
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< Boney> You people must understand that things such as sarcasum arn't
that easy to pick up on in IRC.
< synapse> Boney: duh.
< Boney> it is a common mistake.
-----==========-----
Note to Self : Show up to Software Systems at 8:30.
< blackrose> but i fake it good
-----==========-----
MLP
Web Development : http://www.bignosebird.com/
Fun / Insane : http://www.humanclock.com/clock.php
-----==========-----
Can anyone tell me where to find the Maths lecture notes for
Complex Variables? If I don't find them soon I may have to
resort to emergency measures, like going to lectures...
(thankx to MeateaW)
Synapse is 19.723887 years old.
Synapse's birthday is in 14 weeks 2 days 10 hours 32 minutes 1
seconds. Synapse will be 20 years old.
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Paul : Hang on, I'm Paul, aren't I?
<`wombat> he's not fat!!
<`wombat> ...he's voluptuous
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dleigh 2:51:07 numbat:pts/86:~> to freyes
Message: how did pp2b go?
Message sent to your pants (freyes@numbat) on pts/159.
-=> From your pants (freyes@numbat) on pts/159 at 02:52 :-
oh.. i handed it in at 9:29:24 :)
sasimmon : Paul, you're so yummy...
sasimmon : Doesn't make no sense.
sasimmon : All I need now is a whip...
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freyes : Sarah is my mother?!?
-----==========-----
Now I remember why turnin reminds me of ssh.
Do you agree with the above terms and conditions (yes/no)? y
turnin: answer "yes" or "no"
Sick for two days, and...
There are 18 messages in your incoming mailbox.
No prizes for guessing what is wrong with this code:
if(node->Right != NULL)
{
IndexNodeFree(node->Left);
}
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Got home at 1am this morning. Left for uni at 8am :/
(the joys of 24 hour labs)
dleigh 22:04:43 numbat:pts/10:~> to freyes
Message: remind me to get the 11:11 train
Message sent to your pants (freyes@numbat) on pts/161.
-----==========-----
Funniest thing for the day : Mal asking Mike's advice.
-----==========-----
[On the topic of ethics]
Mike : Yeah, I heard about that.
-----==========-----
-=> From your pants (freyes@numbat) on pts/179 at 11:37 :-
i don't like surprises (especially coming from you)
dleigh 11:37:24 numbat:pts/148:~> to freyes
Message: I won't jump out of the cake at your next birthday then
Message sent to your pants (freyes@numbat) on pts/179.
-=> From your pants (freyes@numbat) on pts/179 at 11:37 :-
awww
dleigh 11:38:03 numbat:pts/148:~> to freyes
Message: and you won't be able to lick the icing off my nipples again
Message sent to your pants (freyes@numbat) on pts/179.
-=> From your pants (freyes@numbat) on pts/179 at 11:38 :-
ewww.. there's a line, and you just went miles past it
http://users.erols.com/foxdm/protocol.htm
Neat collection of protocol specifications and HOWTOs.
-----==========-----
-=> From ne humanus crede (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/192 at 15:43 :-
i got a cover for my phone, that cost me as much as the phone itself.... >:(
-----==========-----
Emil : "I have wierd stains on my pants."
(shortly after I put this in)
-=> From your pants (freyes@numbat) on pts/151 at 14:41 :-
did you put those stains on emil's pants?
-----==========-----
It seems that it is my destiny to create VirtualDub encodes
with the sound and video out of sync. It's even more
irritating when it takes 5 hours to do a 1 hour file.
"This is called a couple. Two equal and opposite forces."
- Andrea Bunting, Mechanics Lecturer
Over 300,000 bytes. winnar.
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(The many joys of Trivial Pursuit)
Mal : How many bones in the human body?
Dylan: An adult human?
Mal : I assume so. I'll give it to you if you're
in a close enough range though.
Dylan: 206.
Mal : *gapes at Dylan*
Dylan: What, did I get it wrong?
Mal : *growls*
-----==========-----
(from Friday, but I forgot about it until now)
Enzo : You were in the SFGA? Hahaha! You loser!
Dylan: Weren't you the president of the SFGA?
Enzo : ...
Been awake for over 26 hours.
Might go home before I fall asleep in Babbage.
-----==========-----
Mike: "I'm going to grab Mal for a sec."
Mal : "Consider me grabbed."
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Mark isn't in today, so I have an excuse to procrastinate for DE. Sort of.
Today's Job : Do something for the First Increment of the PP2B assignment.
(update at 13:47 - I've half-written the makefile and header)
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WTF am I doing rewriting my webspace at 4:30am?
I haven't slept at all and I have a maths lecture at 8:30.
Incidentally, I'm probably going to remove the vast majority
of stuff from my current student webspace, since its taking
up a bit of quota. In particular, the media/ and pix/
directories are going to get some major culling.
7h3r3 4r3 10 m3ss4g3s 1n y0ur 1nc0m1ng m411b0x.
More things to waste your time on (pipe some text through them :)
/home/d/dleigh/public/bin/rot13 (useful but not interesting)
/home/d/dleigh/public/bin/scrolly
/home/d/dleigh/public/bin/arrows (limit about 32 chars)
/home/d/dleigh/public/bin/bounce (limit about 70 chars)
/home/d/dleigh/public/bin/31337
/home/d/dleigh/public/bin/l33t
And an honourable mention:
/home/d/dleigh/public/bin/pingpong
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rmit.cs.general : 114 unread posts.
There are 16 messages in your incoming mailbox.
Dylan's law of Complex Differential Equations:
No matter how hard you stare at the notes, you rean't going
to understand them until you work everything out yourself
from first principles.
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Some stuff that's been sitting around that I was going to
put here earlier but I forgot :
-:- Topic (#pants): changed by blackrose: synapse is weird and scary, y0
<----->
>>
>> From: Tom Santos <tsantos>
>>
>> > Beat you to it by 13 minutes, 21 seconds :)
>>
>> The last time _I_ said something like that..
>> the girl wasn;t at all impressed :-s
>>
<----->
And for all the people who wonder why I'm always
going on diets (inlcuding Sarah herself):
Sarah : 2 guys took their shirts off.
Dylan : And you enjoyed that?
Sarah : Of course. <giggles>
Dylan : ...
Sarah : The guy with the blue shirt was *really* hot.
<----->
"It's like trying to make babies, no matter how many people
you assign to it, It's still going to take 9 months"
- F. Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month
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No idea what I'm doing up at 5:42.
Maths at 8:30. Pants.
52 unread messages in rmit.cs.general. w00t.
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Decided I can't be bothered going to uni for a databases
lecture and a PP2B tute. Unless I get something more on
Wednesday I may skip it in the future.
Of course, If I get a place closer to the city I might be
more likely to come in for classes I won't go to anyway.
-=> Auto-reply from <-O-> Mr Advanced Tie-Fighter :-
Richard Pryor perverts Richard Pryor and our phone.
dleigh 3:10:24 bilby:pts/4:~> flon
Fast Lon v3.3.3 Tue Aug 5 03:10:29 2003
-----------------------------------------------
dleigh | Thyself | Aug 5 03:10 | ... | pts/4 | NoTalk
You are logged on once.
You are the only person logged on.
dleigh 3:10:29 bilby:pts/4:~>
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(Actually its 1:50 Tuesday morning, but anyway...)
There are 12 messages in your incoming mailbox.
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One I missed on Sunday :
You and your friends always walk around in single file
(and you only make 90 degree turns)
You are addicted to the Phantasy Star series if...
- You think people with names of more than 4 letters are wierd.
- You think a dungeon is a great place for a cake shop.
- You go to church to find out how long it will take before you level.
- You think killing bees and ants will give you money and experience.
- You think you have an evil twin named <name>First.
- You take a cola or a burger to cure injury.
- You feed your cat nuts to make it grow wings.
- You carry your car around with you in your inventory.
- A night's rest at an inn will cure all your injuries (and restore TP).
- You think walking over lava just hurts a bit.
- Dead people follow you around until you can ressurrect them.
- You expect your Land Rover to cross quicksand (and use napalm)
- Every time you visit a new town, you return to your house to see if
a complete stranger is waiting there for you.
http://www.phantasy-star.net || http://www.pscave.com
Sorry, but I don't have any quota left =(
dleigh 20:49:55 numbat:pts/47:~/public> rm -r wallpaper/
"Theres.something.wrong.with.this.keyboard." Tom said periodically.
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>>
>> Subject: Re: Voting Policy 2
>> From: Richard Caley <MY_FIRST_NAME >
>> Newsgroups: ed.general
>>
>> In article <87ade8fk79.fsf>, Richard Caley (rc) writes:
>>
>> rc> Only the Liberal has the good taste to be photographed with his
>> rc> cat.
>>
>> Realisation has suddenly struck.
>>
>> The man in the photograph is big and burly, has bags under his eyes
>> and looks rather like he has been hypnotised.
>>
>> The cat is looking the viewer right in the eye.
>>
>> Clearly _the_cat_ is the candidate, the bloke is just a mind-controled
>> henchman.
>>
>> Politics is the perfect profession for cats, you get to mess with
>> people's minds and make their life miserable. Lots of civil servants
>> to bring food and scratch you behind the ear.
>>
>> Catbert the evil director of human resources, but taken to the next
>> logical level.
>>
>> Of course, I now must vote for the pussy cat. Although he will make
>> life miserable and slowly torture to death anyone who looks like they
>> might squeal in an entertaining way, he will purr nicely as he sends
>> us to the gulags.
>>
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>>
>> >> She's rough and tough, and that's no bluff,
>> >> She takes no guff when she struts her stuff,
>> >> She raps off the cuff, and it's never duff,
>> >> We can't get enough of Brenda Clough!
>> >>
>> >> Quant Suff! (Del Cotter)
>> >
>> >Sir, take a bow,
>> >Thanks to you we know how
>> >To pronounce "Brenda Clough."
>>
>> Oh no oh no, please say it ain't so,
>> I have been wrong, such a tale of woe,
>> All these years that I've said I know
>> How to pronounce Brenda Clough.
>>
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(Out of context, but its been a slow day)
<blackrose> fucking freaks me out.
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Dylan : Do you think we could get this on sourceforge?
Mal : Sourceforge is American, they don't have a sense of humour.
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I had something more dodgy here, but Mal vetoed it. Grrrr.
Dylan: "Are you using reverse psychology?"
Mark : "Of course not. I mean, yeah, of course I am."
<...>
Dylan: "That's the wanker option."
Mark : "I like the wanker option. It gets me out of sticky situations."
<...>
Mark : "I'll just try rubbing it against your skin"
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-=> From <-O-> Mr Advanced Tie-Fighter (ear@numbat) on pts/34 at 13:19 :-
heheh cool :D I am thinking of adding the power of Java to my site
dleigh 13:20:07 numbat:pts/113:~> to ear
Message: what power?
Message sent to Kether (ear@numbat) on pts/34.
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I've invented a new artform : /home/d/dleigh/public/bin/anim
(There's more, but most are X-rated)
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-=> From cornholio (freyes@numbat) on pts/106 at 10:55 :-
stop fingering her
Sleepy...
dleigh 11:45:53 numbat:pts/98:~/wip> cgg anim.c
cgg: Command not found.
10000 + lines! w00t.
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-=> From Francis (freyes@numbat) on pts/35 at 16:22 :-
she's talking to me! :)
<...>
-=> From Francis (freyes@numbat) on pts/35 at 16:26 :-
i don't want to get quoted at all!
-=> From Francis (freyes@numbat) on pts/35 at 16:27 :-
so now i'm your quotage whore? pfft
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<geoffwa> Windows XP is teh best window manager
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Message from freyes on numbat(pts/118) [ Fri Jul 25 12:20:42 ] ...
dylan talked to a chiiiick
-=> From Francis (freyes@numbat) on pts/118 at 12:20 :-
my.. you're on a roll this week aren't you
<...>
-=> From Francis (freyes@numbat) on pts/118 at 12:23 :-
you've got more .friends than i do.. waaaahhhh
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itesic owes me one (1) apple.
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Bluetongue down again.
Grrrrrr.
Mark : I need a job. No, wait, I've got a job.
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Enzo : "One-little, two-little, three-little-endian,
four-little, five-little, six-little-endian..."
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Enzo : I can't even use netscape.
Dylan : You could use lynx.
Geoff : Better than Netscape, anyway. Lynx actually renders stuff.
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David : Stop sucking on that!
Paul : I suck on everything.
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I have the Happy Song from Rugrats stuck in my head. :(
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Todo List for Today:
- Contact Mechanics lecturer/labby/tutor
about the stuff I missed last week
- Get Centerlink to unfuck my Health Care Card / Youth Allowance
- Get Medicare to unfuck my Medicare Card
- Attend at least one (1) Databases lecture
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Babbage Lab is nice and warm this morning :)
-=> From Francis (freyes@numbat) on pts/80 at 10:48 :-
dleigh's gonna scooore
-=> From Francis (freyes@numbat) on pts/80 at 10:48 :-
someone's making his moves
<...>
-=> From Francis (freyes@numbat) on pts/80 at 11:34 :-
quick dylan! she's going!!
-=> From Francis (freyes@numbat) on pts/80 at 11:34 :-
give her a goodbye kiss or something
-=> From Francis (freyes@numbat) on pts/80 at 11:34 :-
or run to her and ask for her number
-=> From Francis (freyes@numbat) on pts/80 at 11:34 :-
you know.. for educational purposes
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*freyes steals Dylan's mobile*
*freyes calls people in Dylan's phonebook*
-=> From Francis (freyes@numbat) on pts/80 at 11:31 :-
cynthia's voice sounds sexy
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bash.org is back up (w00t!).
<aNuBiS-> im gonna invent a new internet acronym: tltttwt
<Tokae> wtf is it?
<aNuBiS-> too lazy to type the whole thing
<`Xenocide> Bolstered by the state of Kansas' recent measure
removing the requirement for the teaching of evolution in
public schools, yesterday afternoon the Mississippi
legislature passed a bill eliminating fractions and decimal
points from the mathematics curriculum of all public
secondary schools in the state.
(And for those who think Harry Potter is for kids, try
http://www.bash.org/?111338)
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dleigh 9:13:21 numbat:pts/125:~> to freyes
fuck, we're out of milk, :(
Message sent to featherless biped (freyes@numbat) on pts/124.
-=> From featherless biped (freyes@numbat) on pts/124 at 09:13 :-
go milk another cow
dleigh 9:14:15 numbat:pts/125:~> to freyes
Message: Sorry, your mother isn't here
Message sent to featherless biped (freyes@numbat) on pts/124.
-=> From featherless biped (freyes@numbat) on pts/124 at 09:14 :-
...
-=> From featherless biped (freyes@numbat) on pts/124 at 09:14 :-
that came out of nowhere
-----==========-----
Showed up to my SSE2 lecture to find that there was an EL131 lecture there.
And I've apparently missed a mechanics lecture that wasn't on my timetable.
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-=> Auto-reply from <-O-> Mr Advanced Tie-Fighter :-
You must meet a dead rock star at Las Vegas and get the oozing sex toy.
-=> From Francis (freyes@numbat) on pts/123 at 00:05 :-
hold up while i finger you
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Paul : Where's my scotch? Is this it? Hang on, is this scotch?
Yeah, this is it. Hey, who drunk all my scotch?
Dylan: You did.
Paul : What? No I didn't!
Leif : Yes you did.
Paul : Oh yeah, that's right, I remember now.
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(Interpret as you wish...)
<blackrose> last time i tried to do it
<blackrose> i had 6 other people in the car
<blackrose> and it was about 11pm
<blackrose> and me and stef couldnt figure it out
<blackrose> so nick did it for us
<blackrose> he couldnt believe we didnt know how to do it
dleigh 15:03:27 numbat:pts/1:~>
My luck seems to be changing for the better.
-=> From I Am A Monkey (dmarshal@numbat) on pts/5 at 16:46 :-
omg, eng have the timetables out _before_ the start of semester
-=> From I Am A Monkey (dmarshal@numbat) on pts/5 at 16:50 :-
i love this though: Warning: fopen("http://www.ece.rmit.edu.au/timetable/
ecegroup.txt", "r") - Error 0 in /var/apache/cgi-bin/getgroup on line 93
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Inbox : 14 unread
rmit.cs.general : 77 unread
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If anybody else wants to sue Viacom for making Star Trek shit:
http://www.activision.com/en_US/news_article_cc/
a2d66498-9dde-49c0-ade0-fde70b0caab9.html
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Catfight : http://www.penny-arcade.com/news.php3?date=2003-07-04
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Mike : I can't get this taste out of my mouth
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dleigh 14:45:10 numbat:pts/1:~> finger -p dleigh
Login name: dleigh (messages off) In real life: Dylan Leigh
Directory: /home/d/dleigh Shell: /usr/local/bin/tcsh
On since Jul 11 14:44:53 on pts/1 from salomaa04.cs.rmit.edu.au
^^^^^
You are logged on once.
There are 11 users logged on.
There are 15 messages in your incoming mailbox.
Happy New (Financial) Year Everybody!
[06:18] How to tell when you need sleep
dleigh 6:14:36 numbat:pts/15:~> :wq
:wq: Command not found.
Existing system specs:
AMD K62-400 Processor
64 MB RAM
Intel 1740 Video (8M)
Proposed system specs (at end of holidays):
AM Athlon XP 2500/2600 Processor
512MB DDR RAM
19:16 - 24 hour lab at 14.4 is almost full :(
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Your filespace is 63 % full. You have 30820 K remaining.
Now sorting and archiving all my old mail...
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[ssh2]
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? y
Please answer 'yes' or 'no':
>>
>> No new articles could be retrieved for news.ntlworld.com/uk.rec.humour!
>> The following error occurred: 411 No Such Group
>>
>>
>> From: Brian Kane <brianNO>
>>
>> Brad Allen:
>> >An old paranoia I used to have that pretended others think badly
>> >of me.
>>
>> Trust your instincts.
>>
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Public Service Announcement
In the interests of saving quota I'm cutting out half my
~/public/wallpaper. Sorry.
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This .plan is brought to you from the freezing wastes of
Belgrave where it is 15 fucking degrees centigrade at
sunrise, even with the ducted heating on. Pants.
DE200 exam today at 1:45. Pantsola.
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So close...
] You are logged on twice.
] There are 3 users logged on.
w00t!
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>>
>> > He suffered a stroke in 1988 while he was the Marquess of Tavistock,
>> > and had funded the Tavistock Unit in which he died "in gratitude" for
>> > the care he received, the spokeswoman said.
>>
>> Sounds like a rather extreme way to express gratitude.
>>
>>
>> Mu fumgers are xrossed fpr ypu.
>>
Post C exam:
Dylan : "My hand hasn't been this sore since last night"
-----==========-----
Should probably get some sleep before the C exam...
[Note : The subject refers to Martha Stewart]
>>
>> Subject: Re: *** !!! FREE MARTHA !!! *** |---------
>>
>> In article Harold Buck <no_one_knows> wrote:
>>
>> > Frankly, I don't even think I'd want her for free, but if
>> > you paid me enough I might take her off your hands!
>>
>> Hay, Harold... I hear she's pretty useful around the house.
>>
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>>
>> > What annoys me to no end is that I loved dinosaurs when I was
>> > a kid. I ate, breathed and slept dinosaurs.
>>
>> Damn. I couldn't even manage to eat dinosaurs when I was a kid. Damn
>> fast-food clerks kept trying to insist that they'd all evolved into
>> chickens.
>>
>> How old are you again?
>>
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>>
>> And remember the first rule of cuddling:
>>
>> "Do not try and make a man spoon.
>> That is impossible.
>> Instead, merely realize the truth.
>> To a man, there is no spoon."
>>
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>>
>> >> An even better search-and-replace story is one of the D&D books...
>> >> second edition, I think. They decided at the last minute to replace
>> >> "mage" with "wizard."
>> >>
>> >> Which left several readers puzzled about the dawizard tables...
>> >
>> >I hope, they got their pluwizard ruffled.
>>
>> What an iwizard that brings to mind.
>>
-----==========-----
>>
>> Subject: Re: Silly question.
>> From: Bryan Derksen <bderksen>
>> Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
>>
>> Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <do_not> wrote:
>> >If someone held a gun to your head, and told you that this newsgfroup had
>> >to be reorganized into at least three separate newsgroups, how would you
>> >partition it?
>>
>> I'd split it into:
>>
>> rec.arts.sf.gun-held-to-head
>> rec.arts.sf.specificially-mine
>> rec.arts.sf.call-police-please
>>
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Spent a few hours making more space
on my account and then quota goes up :/
dleigh 19:11:21 numbat:pts/64:~> wc .cshrc
140 320 2618 .cshrc
dleigh 19:11:24 numbat:pts/64:~>
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1337 tcsh 5ki11z:
freyes has logged on pts/18 from dialup-237.
ggiesema has logged on pts/68 from c16788.
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My reputation precedes me...
-=> From featherless biped (freyes@numbat) on pts/18 at 18:13 :-
omg! you wrote tcsh?!
-----==========-----
>>
>> Andrew Rutherford <arutherf> quoth:
>> > Tom Santos <tsantos> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> "Joe Bloggs, pack your things, you're fired!"
>> >>> "But why?"
>> >>> "I don't like you, you are insolent."
>>
>> >> ... wondering if somewhere a Joe Bloggs exists
>>
>> > And whether he blogs.
>>
-----==========-----
May as well do that Electromagnetism weblearn test.
IRC withdrawal symptoms rising...
-----==========-----
>>
>> > >ITYM ?
>> >
>> > I Think You Mean.
>>
>> Well, you not so nice yourself.
>>
-----==========-----
>>
>> From: Bo Grimes <vcg3rd>
>>
>> Pierre de Fermat wrote:
>> > grab the nearest electric cattle prod and shove it up
>> > Bill Gate's ass.
>>
>> What good would that do? All you'd do is shock the hell out
>> of Ballmer. Um, nevermind. :-)
>>
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Emil : "I'm not a girl. There goes my plans for world domination"
Dylan: "We could fix that..."
Emil : "er... nnnnno"
-----==========-----
>>
>> Exactly. The one big problem with Bundoora is that it's in Bundoora.
>>
>> Yaniv
>>
-=> From Mr. Wombat (freyes@numbat) on pts/258 at 23:43 :-
hehe.. you'll lose at a loser contest..
-=> From Mr. Wombat (freyes@numbat) on pts/258 at 23:43 :-
wait, does that make you more, or less of a loser?
-=> From Mr. Wombat (freyes@numbat) on pts/258 at 23:43 :-
i feel like a loser just thinking about it
...
-=> From Mr. Wombat (freyes@numbat) on pts/258 at 23:47 :-
hah! i win at losing!
-----==========-----
What's worse : tackling 100 unread posts in rmit.cs.general
or maths exam revision?
>>
>> >> James Doohan ("Scotty" on Star Trek) landed in Normandy
>> > with the U.S. Army on D-Day.
>> >
>> I believe you have misspelled Canadian Army as 'U.S. Army.'
>>
>> Dave 'Juno Beach' Brodbeck
>>
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Note : lots of stuff snipped
>>
>> > Who knows, they might try unconventional tactics, like
>> > sending Swedish supermodels trained as commandos to
>> > seduce the invading Americans and then squeeze them to
>> > death between their thighs.
>>
>>
>> [brief reverie/visualisation of literal possibilities of
>> 'fucking their brains out'...]
>>
>> The Swedish Humanitarian Warfare Commission (Bjorn
>> Lindstrom, Chief) insists that at least 85% of enemy
>> soldiers achieve orgasm before losing consciousness (and,
>> of course, their lives...)
>>
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>>
>> > I did place "think outside of the box" as the number
>> > one worst buzzword. It does have a strong cringe factor
>> > to me. Mary
>>
>> I just wish my cat would quit thinking outside the box!
>>
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On Tuesday, I came into uni to do some printing, went out at
lunch to get a new copy of the maths tables and came back
with a few games.
Today I left to get a transparency marker and came back with
3 shirts, a jacket and a pair of gloves. $59 in clothes and
no marker.
I know its winter, but I think I'm slowly going insane.
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dleigh: "I have one and a half words for you : sif!"
...
pbone : "You havent been in as many positions as we [paul & mal] have"
hrm.
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Pun of the Weak:
>>
>> > "You will swallow some tacks. You are a little weird,
>> > maybe not so much in a good way. Buy a yellow tie and
>> > wear it on your head."
>> >
>> > Hm. Not a very reliable death, from personal
>> > experience, but probably a pretty painful one.
>>
>> Not reliable? I thought there was nothing certain but
>> death and tackses.
>>
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Dylan : Didn't get any sleep last night.
Brian : Why?
Dylan : Up all morning watching anime.
Brian : Why cant you just watch porn like a normal person?
* geoffwa/#pants is bored of the rings
-=> From HSentry (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/39 at 16:24 :-
ur emotionality will b ur downfall
dleigh 16:24:55 numbat:pts/253:~> to sarah
Message: already has been :|
Message sent to HSentry (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/39.
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Pants.
Your filespace is 89 % full. You have 7376 K remaining.
And its all exams waiting to be printed out.
Damn slow printers.
>
> I think my favorite (although tame in comparison to some of this stuff)
> was the chef I worked for, who, upon being told by a bread delivery man
> that the rolls were indeed fresh and not stale, responded by saying,
> "Then you won't mind if I do THIS!" She caught him about eight times on
> the bridge of the nose with eight consecutively thrown rolls. Fastballs
> too. I think she may have broken his nose on the last throw.
>
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>>
>> >>Maybe one day Usenet witll be a Happy Place with rounded corners, fluffy
>> >>clouds and singing lambs, but I rather doubt it. if you want a world where
>> >>you are protected from anything that might upset you, go join AOL and get
>> >>yourself a sanitised, censored version of the Internet tailored just for
>> >>people like you, who can't handle real life and yet hurl that accusation at
>> >>those who take responsibility to make their own decisions about what they
>> >>want and what they don't.
>> >
>> > I am using AOL and I can tell you, there's plenty here to offend anyone.
>> > I've seen things that would make Satin himself blush.
>>
>> How about Satin's underlings, Rayon and Dacron?
>>
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>>
>> It's pornographic only when men are looking at it. Some sort of
>> quantum observer effect, I thnk.
>>
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Mike : Why did you hit the wall?
Dylan: To relieve frustration.
Mike : Couldn't you use your hand in a different way to relieve frustration?
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MLP
http://www.nightisland.ru/claudia/jewels.htm
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/05/23/1053585698123.html
Monopoly - Broadmeadows version (link from uewepuep)
http://members.iinet.net.au/~tayser/BROADY.jpg
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"Hardware Defragmentation" - http://www.datadocktorn.nu/us_frag1.php
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Message-ID: <3ed5d581@itsawnews.its.rmit.edu.au>
From: Dylan Leigh <dleigh>
Subject: Re: Bloody Lifts
Newsgroups: rmit.cs.gripe
> It was "s" apparently.
> Quote I remember: "They pressed a lot of s's"
They also smashed the equipment with a rock and urinated on it.
Reminds me of single degree engineering students :)
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<badu> it is getting hot in here, but I can't be fucked to
take off all my clothes
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This Throat infection is *really* beginning to piss me off.
Almost as much as the rumors on how I got it.
Oh yeah, and I'm holding Mark's RK 60-62 CD for ransom, so
he'd better come tonight if he wants it.
My webspace is the most recently updated on the Daily Diff. w00t.
Quotage:
"Chicks aren't as hard to understand as people think"
^^^^^^ ^^^^^^
(/me screams "Hate Crime")
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Exam details are now on my timetable page.
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>>
>> And what if they're exes of evil?
>>
Mon 26 Jun - Report for C assignment
Tue 27 Jun - Physics EM Test (Aieeee!)
Wed 28 Jun - DE Power Supply (Oh Fuck!)
Thu 29 Jun - CSE labs 5 and 6
Fri 30 Jun - Maths anybody?
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<demalavor> w00t!
<jdrolet> w00t!
<Zhuzhen> w00t!
<CecilPL> w00t!
<Valvados> w00t!
<demalavor> we need a new word
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dleigh 16:04:47 numbat:pts/20:~> to sasimmon
Message: I'm not stalking you
Message sent to HSentry (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/373.
dleigh 16:04:54 numbat:pts/20:~> to sasimmon
Message: I may be desperate but I'm not *that* desperate.
Message sent to HSentry (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/373.
-----==========-----
dleigh 13:12:21 numbat:pts/50:~> uptime
1:13pm up 58 day(s), 23:47, 80 users, load average: 25.60, 22.18, 17.95
dleigh 13:13:37 numbat:pts/50:~> slogin yallara exec uptime
1:13pm up 84 day(s), 7:29, 202 users, load average: 71.99, 58.54, 56.66
dleigh 13:13:58 numbat:pts/50:~> slogin bilby exec uptime
1:14pm up 8 day(s), 8:24, 18 users, load average: 0.09, 0.15, 0.24
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<synapse> ...
<Boney> hrm.
<synapse> hrrrm.
<Boney> hrrrrrrm
<synapse> I see your hrrrrrrm and I raise you a hrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrm
<Boney> doh,
<Boney> I was bluffing,
<uewepuep> lol
<uewepuep> idiots =)
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>> There's a fine line between fishing and standing
>> on the shore looking stupid.
-----==========-----
Sarah : "I'm not bagging him, I'm just laughing at him"
PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME CPU COMMAND
26903 dleigh 1 0 0 1608K 1488K run 6:39 16.16% bench-ord-array
26955 mkilham 1 0 0 4000K 3904K run 6:17 15.75% oab
23836 suchandr 1 0 0 3992K 3904K run 25:21 15.70% bench1
27456 dleigh 1 0 0 1872K 1752K cpu/3 0:37 14.92% bench-ord-linke
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disArray Load at 22:39 - 3400%
00:07 - Why are the helpdesk staff still here?
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PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME CPU COMMAND
17933 freyes 1 0 0 1584K 1504K run 3:29 98.50% main-bench-1
17965 freyes 1 49 0 2360K 1768K cpu 0:01 0.98% top
Pun of the Weak:
Kieran : I got my motor working!
Dylan : Did that get your motor running?
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* tynk|ccna quietly breaks plates.
golgy|afk> how can you do that QUIETLY?
* tynk|ccna quietly bulldozes a nursing home.
-----==========-----
dleigh 13:25:34 numbat:pts/30:~> uptime
1:27pm up 55 day(s), 1 min(s), 50 users, load average: 21.78, 20.14, 18.45
-----==========-----
Sarah : All the cool CS chicks have left.
-----==========-----
Sarah : Don't reach for the [my] head.
Dylan : OK, I wont reach for the [your] head...
Sarah : Gaaaaah!
-----==========-----
Mal : Do you know what I did last night?
Dylan : No, but I assume it involves a lot of tissues...
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* jesuschrist (she-christ@144.138.49.12307) has joined #tool
*** jesuschrist is back (has been gone for 2003 years 3 months, 28 days)
<cSk|Sperry> There were 2 people on a boat: /hop and /quit.
/hop got off, who's still on the boat?
* nipple_frog has quit IRC
<robg> Fuck. My room is still on fire.
<robg> It's a small electrical one, though.
<robg> My moms trying to take care of it.
<NonToxic> robg then GET OFF IRC!!
<TotAffen> On a scale from 1 to 10, I'm so drunk.
<niceboy19> i'm german
<Evilbert-> don't worry i won't mention the war
<niceboy19> what do you mean with that
<niceboy19> you just mentioned it
<Evilbert-> you started it
<niceboy19> i didn't
<Evilbert-> Yes you did! You invaded Poland!
Bored, miserable, lonely. Obvious IRC withdrawal symptoms.
<geoffwa> you're not a vampire dylan, just a bloody sucker
-----==========-----
(top -s1, 11:39 on numbat)
17406 dcucuzza 1 12 0 3536K 856K run 0:20 8.80% createDictionar
17560 meede 1 21 0 1952K 1384K run 0:11 6.80% createDictionar
27606 mkoclega 1 20 4 269M 265M run 25:30 4.64% ns.real
22379 lisun 1 0 19 7928K 7584K run 751:07 3.72% fpgrowth
17446 abailey 1 33 0 3016K 2768K sleep 0:05 3.05% createDictionar
17934 bihanara 14 58 0 51M 22M sleep 0:03 2.75% java
-----==========-----
<Polytope> tetris is so unrealistic
<FM{FF1}> Rizen: I thought you didn't bang chicks, only me.
<FM{FF1}> ...men.
<FM{FF1}> GOD THAT WAS A BAD TYPO.
<Alcaron> You should set yourself up a webcam. I don't know why, but
I get this feeling we'll catch you doing something stupid. :)
<Longi> Alcaron: thats exactly the reason i wont set one up, the high
probablity of me doing someone extremely embarassing
<Longi> THING
<Longi> someTHING!
<Opcode> i was gonna call 911...but i was downloading a file
<orion`-`-> what the fuck
<orion`-`-> i think the icecream truck just hit a kid
<orion`-`-> brbrb
<+kritical> christin: you need to learn how to figure out stuff yourself..
<+Christin1> how do i do that
-----==========-----
Dylan : You have CS mail
Mike : How do you know
Dylan : I just sent you something
Mike : Oh. I thought you were using StalkTools or something.
Mal : "I wonder if I have a list of the favours I owe that guy"
(yeah, I'm short of quotage today. Sarah was busy)
-----==========-----
So bored, I've started my C assignment.
http://hjem.get2net.dk/hkj/miscel.html
From the site : The program contains a lot of pages with
different electronic calculations on. Each
page contain one or more different calculations.
The program is free to download and use, but the
program is timelocked. A new version will have
to be downloaded after about 1/2 year
A fairly useful electronic calculator. Does attenuators,
passive filters and even frequency response plots =)
freyes : "Your fly's undone. Not that I was
looking at your crotch or anything."
-----==========-----
>>
>> Yet another case of preemptive abbreviation. Bt wht r gng t d bt t?
>>
>> JSJ1TG, if you love a vowel, set it free. If it comes back to you, it's
>> yours forever. If not, save yourself some trouble and learn ancient
>> Hebrew.
>>
-----==========-----
dleigh 11:01:43 numbat:pts/36:~> to freyes
Message: are u there?
Message sent to gooch (freyes@numbat) on pts/3.
dleigh 11:01:47 numbat:pts/36:~> to freyes
Message: speak to me!
Message sent to gooch (freyes@numbat) on pts/3.
dleigh 11:01:51 numbat:pts/36:~> to freyes
Message: say something!
Message sent to gooch (freyes@numbat) on pts/3.
dleigh 11:01:54 numbat:pts/36:~> to freyes
Message: I'll have to give u CPR...
Message sent to gooch (freyes@numbat) on pts/3.
-=> From gooch (freyes@numbat) on pts/3 at 11:02 :-
no dylan. no CPR (unless you're willing to give mouth-to-mouth with that
dleigh 11:02:14 numbat:pts/36:~> to freyes
Message: I'm willing to give mouth-to----- never mind....
Message sent to gooch (freyes@numbat) on pts/3.
-=> From gooch (freyes@numbat) on pts/3 at 11:02 :-
eww
dleigh 11:02:48 numbat:pts/36:~> to freyes
Message: holly impersonator
Message sent to gooch (freyes@numbat) on pts/3.
-=> From gooch (freyes@numbat) on pts/3 at 11:03 :-
oi. i'm insulted
>>
>> >
>> >There is an old Finnish saying. (I don't know how old.)
>>
>> Very terse, the Finns.
>>
-----==========-----
>>
>> >>HTML is a four-letter word.
>> >
>> >Don't worry.
>> >Revisionist Microsoftism will change that to HTM.
>>
>> You mean like the way they took the experts out of JPEG?
>>
-----==========-----
Progress : Done about 30% of my PCB, about 1.2 Hours of work. Hrm.
Update : Done 95% of PCB - need to add some more test points.
Just tried to log into numbat with my NDS
username and disArray password. Full Marx.
"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more; it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing"
- Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 5
-----==========-----
Mal : Paul says he wants you on boo.
Dylan: I was so happy until you uttered those last 2 words.
----------======== Wed 07 May 2003 \=============-------------------
>> Rehnquist (1111) writes:
>> Never underestimate the stupidity of optimism.
-----==========-----
Dylan : [ You have a ] sick mind!
Mal : Guilty as charged.
-----==========-----
Dylan: You're in Sam's pants?
Mike : He's in mine, I'm in his... uhhhh...
-----==========-----
Dylan : Am I dodgy or am I dodgy
Mike : You're dodgy
-----==========-----
placy : White pants are just wrong
-----==========-----
Prognosis:
EDI2 - Bad
PP2A - Excellent
CSE2 - Excellent
PHYS - Good
MATH - Average
LIFE - Fail
Today rates about a 9.7 on my shit-day-o-meter.
Considering that I have a DE lab tomorrow
it's probably not going to get better.
-----==========-----
Sarah : "Feng was *soooo* good"
-----==========-----
Pretentious Goth Name Generator
http://www.angelfire.com/goth/asphyxia/name.html
>>
>> >>>>> Does ActivePerl for Windows require Apache to be installed ?
>> >>>>
>> >>>>No, it doesn't.
>> >>>
>> >>>Thank you very much for your help. I sure wish that the ActiveState
>> >>>site mentioned that little fact which has had me confused all day.
>>
>> It also does not require OpenOffice to be installed, or the Gimp or an
>> X11 server. You also don't need an IMAP server or an LDAP server.
>> Postgres is not required, and neither is Sybase, Oracle, MySQL or MS
>> SQL. Fortran, Ada, C, C++, Haskell, Befunge, Lisp, Python, Ruby, PHP
>> or Pascal compilers and interpreters are not necessary. You can
>> freely uninstall your firewall software, because ActiveState Perl does
>> not require it. You also do not need to keep a mail client or usenet
>> client around. Furthermore, you can get rid of any installations of
>> Povray or any other rendering software. You do not need to have FTP,
>> TFTP, POP, SMTP, telnet, SSH, DNS, DHCP, NNTP, NTP, rsync, NFS or SMB
>> services installed. It is not necessary for your hardware to go
>> "bleep" regularly, and you do not need to eat cereal for your
>> breakfast. [1]
>>
>>
>> Perl, even ActiveState Perl, will work fine without those, although
>> it can work with many of them.
>>
>>
>> > For instance: I develop a language, but don't let all the
>> > documentation go with the source code. How is the next person gooing
>> > to know what to do with it ? It would add one heck of a security
>> > feature to not disclose how to use it, but what the hell good woud it
>> > do ?
>>
>> You do that by documenting what you can do with the language and what
>> is required. Not what you can't do, and what isn't required.
>>
>>
>> [1] This list may or may not be exhaustive. It probably needs another
>> 326,494,385 entries.
>> We do not accept responsibility for failing to mention third party
>> products or services that do not need to be installed with
>> ActiveState Perl. Not even if it means that you get confused about
>> what you don't need.
>>
-----==========-----
>>
>> "Gabriele" <frgthy> wrote in message
>> > I want to create a graphic interface for my java program like any e-mail
>> > program !!! In particular I'm refering to the part of the window where
>> > is show the list of the e-mail receved !! I don't know how it's realized
>> > but is something like a JTable with Button as Headers instead of simple
>> > Title !! I can also push one of the botton and so i can decede how
>> > ordering che list of the email !!
>> >
>> > so how I can realize this ??
>> > Thank you very much !!!
>> >
>> > Gabriele!!
>>
>> And!! when!! is!! this!! homework!! assignment!! due!!?
>>
-----==========-----
>>
>> >Great.stories..I.have.an.update.of.my.own,but.I.can't.finish.it.while.
>> >my.keyboard.is.working.like.this..
>> <snip>
>>
>> "There's something wrong with this keyboard," Tom said periodically.
>>
-----==========-----
>> This sentence no verb.
-----==========-----
>>
>> > If we get a nasty, interminable catpult control thread, it's your
>> > fault.
>>
>> Yeah, people are going to get all wound up and then go ballistic.
>>
-----==========-----
>>
>> From: "John of Aix" <j.murphyNOSPAM>
>> Peter Corlett wrote:
>> > Is there a number to call to find out the number of Directory
>> > Enquiries?
>> I dunno, try Directory Enquiries.
>>
-----==========-----
12:09:15 numbat:pts/139:~> to sasimmon
Message: where is mike?
Message sent to HSentry (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/196.
-=> From HSentry (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/196 at 12:09 :-
behind me
-----==========-----
>
>> From: "Jugoslav Dujic" <jdujicREMOVE>
>>
>> Lucian Wischik wrote:
>> | "PCCW" <kevinlcw> wrote:
>> || I have a Win32 EXE build from Visual C++,
>> || But my project was lost, can any tool that
>> || convert win32 EXE back to CPP ??
>> |
>> | No. That's the same sort of task as converting
>> | a hamburger back into a cow.
>>
>> I was about to post a similar reply,
>> but about converting *something else*
>> back into a hamburger ;-)
>>
sasimmon : "Paul's hardware is so cool!"
-----==========-----
>>
>> > I asked a single question and now I am getting advice on darn near
>> > everything.
>>
>> Welcome to Usenet! (If it had a motto, that would probably be it.)
>>
-----==========-----
( On Rumsfeld selling arms to Iraq )
>>
>> No wonder he's so sure that Iraq has WMD, he's got the receipts.
>>
-----==========-----
Note: this came up in a discussion about telescopes.
>> Subject: Re: Yet more "visible from space"
>> Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
>>
>> >The very high end of "normal" would be 24 inches. Anything larger is a
>> >statistical outlier.
>>
>> There's got to be a .sig quote there, somewhere.
>>
-----==========-----
Did something *very* bad to my knee yesterday - could hardly
walk. Better today, I can almost climb stairs without wincing.
At least its a decent excuse for not walking to building 87...
Going home at 18:50. No work done, but I've played with my
.fvwm2rc, so that's got to count for something...
-----==========-----
>>
>> >
>> > > Go on to places which share names with disliked vegetables.
>> >
>> > It sounds now like you've got a recipe! Some Brussels, some Turkey,
>> > some Chile...now you're cookin'!
>>
>> I thought those countries had most flavored nation status.
>>
>>
-----==========-----
Mindless link Propagation
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/hongkongsars1.html (funny)
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/schultztoy1.html (funny / wierd)
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/marriott1.html (Joe Millionare)
-----==========-----
pbone : "Triumph is the oldest motorbike ever. It says in
the bible that Moses rode forth on his Triumph."
-----==========-----
"Object-oriented programming is popular in big companies, because it
suits the way they write software. At big companies, software tends to
be written by large (and frequently changing) teams of mediocre
programmers. Object-oriented programming imposes a discipline on these
programmers that prevents any one of them from doing too much damage.
The price is that the resulting code is bloated with protocols and full
of duplication. This is not too high a price for big companies, because
their software is probably going to be bloated and full of duplication
anyway."
- Paul Graham
"Premature optimization is the root of all evil (or
at least most of it) in programming."
- Donald "teh" Knuth
"If I had a nickel for every time I've written
`for (i = 0; i < N; i++)' in C I'd be a millionaire."
- Mike Vanier
-----==========-----
Sarah : "You pay for it, I'll drink it"
-----==========-----
-=> From HSentry (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/3 at 12:18 :-
em draggin u guys to myer
-=> From HSentry (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/3 at 12:19 :-
then we're going to lunch. thats an order, now MOVE! :P
-----==========-----
Mal : "... I'm tossing ... Mike and Sarah..."
Ok, the full quote is just as funny:
Mal : "I have a copy of `Click and Play'...
Dylan : *laughs*
Mal : "...and I'm contemplating giving it away."
Dylan : "Give it to Sarah, she likes automatic-code-generation crap."
Mal : "I'm tossing up between Mike and Sarah as to who is
the more `worthy' recipient."
-----==========-----
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0336227.shtml?tid=153
Old news, yes, but there's an interesting artilce on Slashdot (first
time for everything :) on American Greetings Corporation / Penny Arcade
situation that casued this strip to be removed:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2003-04-14&res=l
-----==========-----
Yes, no updates over the holidays. I didn't
do much work. I tried installing Protel but
it looks like my CD is b0rked :(
Over 500 newsgroup postings waiting for me.
The almighty .plan has broken the
250000 byte mark on this glorious day.
-----==========-----
Stuff I absolutely have to do over easter:
- DE200 Power supply - circuit design
- DE200 Power supply - PCB design
- Clean my desk. There's about 4 cubic meters of paper on it.
Stuff I'd like to get done over easter but probably won't bother:
- C assignment
- Fourier revision (maths)
Stuff I won't be able to do over easter
- Physics lab, since freyes has my lab guide...
-----==========-----
CSE2 Lab 4 done. Full Marx. Props to me.
No DE200 work, but I hope to make that up over the holidays.
dleigh : "Maybe I should start my C assignment"
-----==========-----
(Quotage cortesy djackson)
As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual
certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human
life -- so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an
archbishop so you can meet girls.
-- Matt Cartmill
<...>
Procrastination is like masturbation; it's a lot of fun,
until you realize you're fucking yourself.
-----==========-----
http://www.quatloos.com
Nigerian spam scam archive.
-----==========-----
numbat:pts/161:/var/run/xdm> cat log | grep sheutz | grep -c dleigh
124
numbat:pts/161:/var/run/xdm> cat log | grep sheutz | grep -c emikulic
96
numbat:pts/161:/var/run/xdm> cat log | grep sheutz | grep -c sasimmon
116
numbat:pts/161:/var/run/xdm> cat log | grep sheutz | grep -c freyes
202
numbat:pts/161:/var/run/xdm> cat log | grep sheutz | grep -c ggiesema
112
numbat:pts/161:/var/run/xdm> cat log | grep sheutz | grep -c malsmith
140
-----==========-----
13:34 malsmith: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1843772 Apr 16 13:33 log
13:35 dleigh: -rwxr-x--- 1 root helpdesk 119480851 Apr 16 13:35 log
13:35 dleigh: Mine's bigger than yours!!
-----==========-----
dleigh 13:18:08 numbat:pts/1:~> cat .associates >> .friends
dleigh 13:19:50 numbat:pts/1:~> cat .classmates >> .friends
dleigh 13:19:57 numbat:pts/1:~> cat .morethanfriends >> .friends
cat: cannot open .morethanfriends
dleigh 13:20:06 numbat:pts/1:~> cat .stalkees >> .friends
Segmentation Fault (core dumped)
dleigh 13:20:12 numbat:pts/1:~>
Sarah updated her .plan (OMG++). For some reason I'm one of
the 3 "CS temptresses"... and I didn't do all the stuff she
says I did. *ahem*
-----==========-----
Mike : You're more of a woman than she is!
Dylan: <slaps Mike>
-----==========-----
dleigh 19:39:39 numbat:pts/136:~> finger -p malsmith
Login name: malsmith In real life: Malcolm Smith
Directory: /home/m/malsmith Shell: /usr/local/bin/tcsh
Last login Mon Apr 14 10:14 on ftp2855 from lawlabpc017.law
No unread mail
-----==========-----
Crap to do this week :
Wed - Physics Lab write-up
Wed - Hannah's Birthday (get present...)
Wed - DE power supply (oh fuck!)
Thu - CSE lab 4 (fix over-range detection bug)
Crap done this week :
Mon - Physics weblearn test
-----==========-----
I could add a title here, but the first one says it all:
sasimmon : "Out of quotage, I mean, out of context quotage."
sasimmon : "Emil's is smaller than everyone else's"
sasimmon : "He <freyes> wants to shave me... Oh wait... I mean..."
-----==========-----
dleigh 13:08:53 numbat:pts/175:~> helpdesk
Yallarians:
placy (helpdeskcy01.cs.rmit.edu.au)
placy (helpdeskcy01.cs.rmit.edu.au)
1337 (numbat):
ggopalak (helpdeskcy03.cs.rmit.edu.au)
ggopalak (helpdeskcy03.cs.rmit.edu.au)
-----==========-----
ggiesema : "Are you using metric or imperial bytes?"
-----==========-----
Dylan : "Where are you going?"
Mal : "To get a really big box of tissues and then proceed to use them"
-----==========-----
<post from emikulic>
>>
>> shanks wrote:
>> > I don't recall taking responsibility for spying on my fellow citizens
>> > and dobbing them in for suspected offences.
>>
>> ``The Howard Youth''
>>
-----==========-----
Mal : "Have they upgraded PHP again? I'll have to go fix my site..."
Rusty (one of my sister's guinea pigs) has given birth to 3
uber-cute babies. We'll probably be looking to get rid of
many of them in a month or so, so mail me if you're interested.
18:39 malsmith: This from teh AOL person.
18:39 sasimmon: sif em teh AOL
18:40 sasimmon: havent been on it in months
-----==========-----
Sarah : "I can't bag my Dad about his age, cos I'm older."
Dylan : "What the Fuck?"
-----==========-----
Sarah : "It came off in my hand..."
And the fans go wild...
16:25 freyes: yeah, that's why i hang around dylan a lot
16:25 sasimmon: dleigh, ur perfect!
16:25 dleigh: Awww, thanks.
16:25 sasimmon: and u can quote me on that!
16:25 malsmith: He IS perfect ;)
<...>
16:33 freyes: awww... how come no one wants to see *me* naked?
16:33 dleigh: I do
16:33 sasimmon: me too
16:33 sasimmon: we'll start a fan club
16:34 malsmith: haha, get student union funding for the freyes fanclub :)
16:34 dleigh: if we get more than 15 ppl who want too see it, we can
get funding
-----==========-----
16:19 malsmith: I'll give you below the belt, dleigh ;)
16:19 sasimmon: oh give it to him mal!
16:20 sasimmon: c'mon, i want to see him ... ah ... im not finishing that.
-----==========-----
Mal : "There's already rumors going around."
Sarah : "But it only happened a few hours ago!"
Dylan : "Rumors about what?"
Sarah : "Me and a little kid."
-----==========-----
Your filespace is 90 % full. You have 6316 K remaining.
dleigh 11:44:02 numbat:pts/131:~> rm core
Your filespace is 66 % full. You have 22476 K remaining.
-----==========-----
Just when you thought things couldn't get any more fucked
up, there is a new PP2A assignment out today, and we are
*required* to use a non-standard C function.
>>
>> >Does anyone know any good Borg websites I can peruse?
>>
>> http://www.microsoft.com.
>>
-----==========-----
Sarah : "You can disarm me with one hand, Dylan. It's so embarrassing"
-----==========-----
Sarah : "I've had more pimples this year than ever before"
Dylan : "It's called *puberty*, Sarah."
Sarah : "Oh... bu... di... how..."
-----==========-----
disArray backlog done. And now for the inbox...
-----==========-----
dleigh 11:25:04 numbat:pts/104:~/pp2a> cat /dev/random | a.out > test
dleigh 11:25:33 numbat:pts/104:~/pp2a> ll
total 320
-rwx------ 1 dleigh students 13000 Apr 7 11:22 a.out
-rw------- 1 dleigh students 11849 Apr 7 11:22 ass1.c
-rw------- 1 dleigh students 16897 Mar 18 12:16 pp2a_assignmentdetails.txt
-rw------- 1 dleigh students 108238 Apr 7 11:25 test
-----==========-----
This just in!
New version of Opera (6.12 B1) installed at uni. Improved
privacy (especially cookie handling), and unfuxed loading of
large images. And it's got Jarrrva (tm).
Most Wanted edited - 2 removals and 1 addition (Delta Force 1)
-----==========-----
C assignment done. Now for the *really* hard part - find out the
COSCxxxx code for the subject so I can hand it in (metaphorically
speaking).
-----==========-----
Technically it's 2:54, Monday, but I haven't been to bed
yet so this is "my" Sunday. Although, judging by the
following, I need some sleep:
dleigh 1:51:34 numbat:pts/29:~/pp2a> gc89 a.out
ld: fatal: file a.out: unknown file type
ld: fatal: File processing errors. No output written to a.out
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
boo hit a minor snag today when "testuser" invited me to a chat...
Obviously I'm so enthralling that even computer programs like me :)
-----==========-----
Done half the C assignment. I've done an astonishing
amount of actual uni work the past few days.
-----==========-----
Sarah : "Please, take it off, please, *please*..."
[Mal stole her jacket]
-----==========-----
Dylan : "I think Sarah has a few wait states"
Sarah : "I have a what what?"
Dylan / Mal : <laugh hysterically>
Sarah : "What!?!"
-----==========-----
Mal : "Everything about me is smaller than yours, Dylan"
...
Sarah : "I abuse people as much as I can"
-----==========-----
Ever get the feeling your friends are talking about you behind your back?
Dylan : Howcome you havent invited me to your chat [in boo].
Mal : Because it's about you.
-----==========-----
ggiesema : "Infinity is finite? oh my GOD!"
-----==========-----
"You know we've left the 20th century well and truly behind
when America is there at the *beginning* of a war, and
Germany and France have their arms around each other and are
saying 'Peace, man'"
- Gerard McCulloch
Finished my Maple assignment (yay!) at 22:17. Now I've missed the
22:05 Belgrave, I have to wait until 23:05 for a train.
Update : Since I'm leaving uni at 22:48, and I have a lecture at 8:30
tomorrow, and it takes 1.5 hours to go home (each way), I'm
only going to be home for 6 hours. Pantsola.
-----==========-----
Lowlight of today:
mtarnove and freyes getting me to buy them dinner from
Hungry Jacks because I'm on a semi-crash diet and not
spending much money on food. Then eating all that calorific
crap in front of me :(
-----==========-----
Best of ahbou:
note: This is not exactly what Blinky meant by "interposting".
>>
>> Subject: Re: Top-posting and the losers who do it... (Warning: semi-rant)
>> From: huey(Gary S. Callison)
>> Newsgroups: alt.fan.cecil-adams
>>
Blinky the Shark (no.spam) wrote:
>>> Interesting. I've never (11 years online) felt that. There's hostile
pricks at the 7-11 up the street that have an absolutely garish fence with
>>> posting of all styles, but I can't say that "hostile interruption" is
going to be a very effective birth control method, at least not one
>>> any more prominent than "conversational interruption for the sake of
telling you "Quiet down! Mom's right outside!". She walked in once. "Oy,
>>> clarity". Some threads do have some long posts, and it's hard to
compose sentences that dovetail like this and then continue to
>>> strictly bottom post to them and keep topic fragments logically
extending the joke. Kind of like bricktext, only substantially less
>>> connected. Sure, it can be done. But it's a lot more effective to have
an idea of how 'hostile interruption' screws with your ideas regardless of
>>> them broken down into logical units.
>>> Certainly interposting *sometimes* carries with [it] a hostile tone, but
I'm secretly gay (don't tell anyone), I'm not wearing any pants, and
>>> I don't think that tone predominates interposting.
>>> That said, if it *does* predominate interposting, I think the real
Slim Shady should please stand up, please stand up, please stand up. The
>>> determiner is probably that it's the nature of *long* posts to *be*
less funny than short ones, most of the time. Usenet isn't so much funny as
>>> argumentative -- they're simply the ones that are, or become,
Hollywood anti-war activists, or possibly Pat Roberstson -- something
>>> adversarial. So I think if you're right, it's the adversarial
process that drives our legal system and the spirit of AFCA
>>> thread nature itself that attracts interposting.
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15:27 sasimmon: soryr, well be good :)
15:27 malsmith: thanku :)
15:27 dleigh: soryr?
15:27 sasimmon: quiet u.
15:28 sasimmon: mos ppl dont even see my spelling mistakes any more.
15:28 dleigh: I'm surrounded by AOL users! Aieeee!
15:28 sasimmon: ??
15:28 malsmith: He's commenting on the way ppl use abbreviations :)
15:29 sasimmon: i see.
15:29 malsmith: No, i c.
15:29 sasimmon: er... i c
15:29 malsmith: hehe
15:29 sasimmon: ya, dat
15:29 sasimmon: sifnt aol talk is teh ++
15:30 malsmith: ROFL!!!
15:30 dleigh: AAAARRRRGGGHHHHH!
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Pants.
Your filespace is 99 % full. You have 676 K remaining.
Out-of-Character quote for the day:
Mal : "There are times when I just feel like throttling people"
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>>
>> > In article <Xns934D23B03A978ebohlmanomsdevcom>,
>> > Eric Bohlman <ebohlman> wrote:
>> >
>> >> ObSynchronicity: during the oral arguments in the Texas sodomy law
>> >> case
>> >
>> > Does that mean what I think it means?
>>
>> I think you're being rather anal here.
>>
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>>
>> "ChrisParrott" <kevin.parrott1> wrote in message <snip>
>> > Did I hear correctly this morning...
>> >
>> > They're using Dolphins to go into the underwater minefields?
>> >
>> > There was a picture too....
>>
>> Apparently the British navy had one too - but an American dolphin mistook it
>> for a mine and savaged it to death.
>>
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16:03 dleigh: I had a vegetable sirfry last night, I did a whole wokful
16:03 freyes: sounds yum
16:03 dleigh: I'm worried about my iron tho.
16:04 dleigh: sarah and mal say i'm getting paler
16:04 freyes: just drink blood, dylan
(for those who don't know me well, I have vampireish tendencies)
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Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.email
>>
>> > If I was God, would I have created you?
>>
>> God created lamprey, cockroaches, maggots, mosquitos, fleas, ticks,
>> slugs, leeches, and intestinal parasites... If He didn't create spammers
>> He at least gave them role models.
>>
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Todo list for today:
- Answer all unanswered email
- C assignment
- Maple assignment
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Sarah : "Context Corriculum doesn't count, becasue it's not a real subject"
Dylan : "Can I quote you on that?"
Sarah : "Yes"
(more ahbou stuff)
>>
>> Nothing personal. But I detest you.
>>
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dleigh 18:49:55 numbat:pts/62:~/public/wallpaper> du -k
7052 .
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Dylan : "Stop making paper planes out of my assignment, Mike"
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Mike : "You lost me when you said 'integral'"
<...>
Mike : "Stop quoting my stupidity!"
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dleigh 14:28:49 yallara:pts/275:~> slogin numbat
warning: Connecting to numbat failed: Connection Refused
dleigh 14:28:50 yallara:pts/275:~> slogin numbat
warning: Connecting to numbat failed: Connection Refused
dleigh 14:28:51 yallara:pts/275:~> slogin numbat
Authentication successful.
Last login: Thu Mar 27 2003 16:00:59 +1000 from b0870307-21.ece.
Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.8 Generic Patch October 2001
<snip>
jcampbel pts/1 Mar 28 14:28 (helpdeskcy01.cs.rmit.edu.au)
dleigh | Thyself | Mar 28 14:28 | >>> | pts/2 | NoTalk
You are logged on once.
There are 2 users logged on.
<helpdesk gimps dont count....>
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Disaster... (from cs.announce)
>> At approx. 12pm today the student server numbat experienced
>> network problems and stopped responding.
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"How did that German novel turn out?"
"I don't know. The last three pages were missing and they had all the verbs."
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(Ripped from AHBOU)
We are the Bush. Lower your scuds and surrender your oil. We will add
your biological and chemical weapons to our own. Your camels will adapt
to service us. Resistance is futile!
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(quotage from Andrew Ryan)
Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good;
and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.
-- Dick Brandon
-----==========-----
>>
>> > I KNEW IT, the guy on the bus yesterday said he wasn't Saddam, but I
>> > thought he was lying - so I hit him anyway.
>> >
>> > Take THAT you bastard. ;-)
>>
>> Wow Dave! That sounds like Bush's foreign policy....
>>
sasimmon : "There was too much in my mouth, I was choking..."
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dleigh 17:05:14 numbat:pts/13:~> to mtarnove
Message: ask mark
Message sent to oblivion (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/103.
dleigh 17:05:19 numbat:pts/13:~> to mtarnove
Message: (marx!)
Message sent to oblivion (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/103.
-=> From oblivion (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/103 at 17:05 :-
commie
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disArray load at 16:50 : 1111%
disArray load at 16:49 : 645%
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First Bergin shaved his beard, now Justin Sneddon is growing his hair...
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First the test is 404, then it dies under Opera, then it dies under IE.
At this rate, I'm never going to get that fucking Laplace test done.
-----==========-----
-=> From HSentry (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/96 at 10:01 :-
yo, i gotta go rite now, but where will u b l8a? I want Red HAt!!
-=> From HSentry (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/96 at 10:03 :-
red hat red hat red hat red hat red hat red hat red hat red hat
Funniest quote of the day:
Mike: "I use XP. It's the most stable operating system I've ever used."
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"That's what I like about hitting people in Beard lab. The echo."
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The propaganda remix project:
http://homepage.mac.com/leperous/PhotoAlbum1.html
(link courtesy Kat)
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My webspace is the second highest referrer to disArray. Full Marx.
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Upcoming : - CSE2 lab 2 (tomorrow)
- Maths weblearn test (Friday)
- Maths Maple assignment (Friday)
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Update : 24hour access card obtained. Mwahahahahaaaaa......
HECS also done. Props to me.
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75 unread messages in rmit.cs.general.
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Note to self:
Pay HECS before end of March.
Get somebody to unfuck the b0rked Babbage lab monitors.
Pick up 24 hour access card from security.
Find out what I missed in the Physics lecture on Tuesday.
Avoid shaking head vigorously so you don't whip yourself in
the face with your own ponytail again.
freyes : "I've tried my Mum's, it fits well"
hrm...
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For the first time in weeks...
>> There are no messages in your incoming mailbox.
-----==========-----
>>
>> >I know it was tongue in cheek but I'm sure you can find a later example
>> >of biological warfare by the US.
>> >
>> Macdonalds
>>
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>>
>> >> > There is a lot of naturally contaminated water which makes people ill.
>> >>
>> >> Which means that natural is not automatically good for you
>> >
>> >no shit
>>
>> Well, yes, that's one important improvement. Class, can anyone
>> mention others?
>>
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>>
>> "Terrell Miller" wrote in message...
>> > "Arindam Banerjee" wrote...
>> > > So why don't they send them to the moon once more, to settle all doubts?
>> > > Won't that be better money spent than all this killing of thirdworlders?
>> >
>> > because the moon doesn't make suicide bombing attacks on innocent people.
>>
>> Well, not for the next several million years, anyway. But why wait? Why
>> wait until the Moon's orbit decays and it comes crashing down on our heads?
>> I call for a preemptive strike against this satellite of evil!
>>
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I'm not sure who this is more insulting to (me or Sarah)... but anyway:
sasimmon : "I've had a lot more experience with girls than you."
(yes, this is at 4am. Sleep is an inadequate substitute for speed.)
Missed pbone's 2nd roof party. Pantsola. I demand he hold a 3rd soon -
preferably sometime when I'm not down in da hood.
Unfuxed Improved Account Filespace Analyser
(at /home/d/dleigh/public/bin/filespace )
echo " Your filespace is" `quota -v | grep '/home' |
awk '{print int($2/$3*100)}'` "% full. You have" `quota -v |
grep '/home' | awk '{print int($3 - $2)}'` "K remaining."
Stops the "/linuxhome" b0rking the grep.
NB : All that crap should be on 1, repeat *one* line.
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Fill in the Blanks
My suggestion : insert "Baayn" for all entries. This was ripped straight
from Holly's own deadjournal, so don't blame me for it...
I ____ Holly.
Holly is ____.
If I were alone in a room with Holly, I would _______.
I think Holly should _____.
Holly needs ______.
I want to ____________ Holly.
If I used one word to describe Holly, it'd be ______.
I know that Holly likes ______.
When I think of Holly, I think of _______.
Someday, I think Holly will ________.
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usenet:
>>
>> > Where can I get a good map of Iraq? Online map would be best, but I
>> > haven't been able to find a good map anywhere. All maps fall short in
>> > revealing the militarily important details about Iraqi
>> > geography...airfields, army bases, oil pipelines and oilfields, etc.
>> > Anyone have a good link? Or I suppose I could shell out a few bucks
>> > for an atlas as long as it's not too expensive.
>> >
>>
>> You might want to wait a bit. Much of that information is about to change.
>>
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Dylan : "I last measured myself on Tuesday..."
Sarah : *giggles*
Dylan : "...and I was just under 102 centimetres."
Sarah : *laughs hysterically*
(My waist. Not my height, or, uh, anything else =)
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Geoff (trying to get the key in the door) "goddamn authentication tokens"
-----==========-----
Sarah: "I'm just a figment of your imagination."
Mike : "So you're going to get undressed now?"
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Mike : "Is Sarah coming?"
Dylan: "Nah, she's jut breathing heavily."
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Why is it that nobody else understands the concept of crash dieting?
dleigh 12:52:11 numbat:pts/75:~> to mtarnove
Message: Where do you want to go for *your* lunch, anyway?
Message sent to oblivion (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/51.
Mark even offered to *buy* food for me on Thurs...
-----==========-----
More than 50% of the computers in 8.4.2 are working. Must be my lucky day.
ripped from AHBOU:
>>
>> I get the feeling that at some point, one of Bush's advisers told him
>> he should try to act more like the President that Martin Sheen plays.
>>
>> So Bush obliged, and started imitating Sheen's character from 'The
>> Dead Zone'.
>>
Dylan : "Do you always deliberatelty misspell fodder like that?"
Sarah : "I misspell it?"
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Posts of the day:
<1>
>>
>> >
>> > Marc Somers just told me that the colored rings on Tucan Sam's beak are
>> > representative of the colored rings in Fruit Loops breakfast cereal.
>> >
>> > Thanks Marc. That mystery has been bothering me my whole life.
>>
>> Hey look, old timer. Maybe you can remember the "good old days" when
>> Froot Loops (note correct spelling) only came in the same three colors as
>> Toucan Sam's (again, note correct spelling) beak, but with the addition
>> of green and purple to the Froot Loop family, the beak coloration has
>> become an anachronism. I'm not saying that the Young Eaters of Today are
>> not savvy enough to notice the 60% match, but I think that in today's
>> environment of corruption and disillusionment, they can't immediately
>> assume the connection without first addressing the issue of lack of
>> representation of the other colors. Indeed I say, despite your negative
>> attitude, Marc Summers (once more, note correct spelling) truly is
>> imparting valuable information to the good people of America.
>>
<2>
>>
>> > >That reminds me. If I am going to Toronto I really shoud get a passport
>> > >and a hotel room.
>> > >
>> > No, no. Toronto has hotel rooms. No need to bring your own.
>>
>> I have special requirments in hotel rooms. carrying my own along makes
>> sure I get no surprises.
>>
-----==========-----
Mike : "Maybe if I fall asleep and rest my head on the keyboard I'll
press all the right buttons to do my assignment"
-----==========-----
> 7500 lines ! Full marx.
-----==========-----
Dylan: "I think Sarah was hitting me with her 'Software Engineering with C'
book, but it may have been a draft."
-----==========-----
Dylan: "Why doesn't babelfish do l33t-sp33k"
Emil : "There's too many dialects of it"
-----==========-----
Dylan: "Owww. My neck's still sore from supporting Sarah's weight"
Emil : "Errr.. on your neck? I'm trying to picture this, but..."
Sarah: "Oh, no..."
-----==========-----
dleigh 3:26:29 numbat:pts/6:~> to sasimmon
Message: trendyism rant 0.9 beta done
Message sent to HSentry (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/28.
-=> From HSentry (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/28 at 03:26 :-
dont change it, em now making it full-circle :P
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Semi-rebuttal (see malsmith's .plan, jgarner's, sasimmon's)
First off, I use Lynx Voodoo (although I suspect that there are many
who would dispute that claim :). Not because of ads or anything, but
because it's cheap, I like the smell, and it's cheap.
I've noticed that I'm generally a lot more confident wearing clothes
that I like. This isn't a good thing, no, but it doesn't mean I will
spend $250 on a pair of jeans (even if I wasn't allergic to untreated
denim). My favourite pair of pants cost $10.
And finally, I don't neccessarily do silly thinks to impress people
(drinking cups of black pepper, deliberately breaking my own nose or
getting hit by a car notwithstanding). I expect that jumping through
hoops (metaphorically) is normal behaviour for a single person :/
That said, I agree with most of the statements made by Mal about
consumerism.
Afterthought : You watched Footballer's Wives? Too much free time.
freyes : "You aren't using fgets()?"
dleigh : "scanf() : for all your fucked-up input needs!"
freyes : "Damn You!"
-----==========-----
More stuff for short men:
http://my.webmd.com/content/article/23/1728_54074
http://www.shortsupport.org/News/short2020.html
-----==========-----
Physics weblearn tests are 404 (Aieee!)
-----==========-----
Uni Todo list:
* CSE lab 2, which I should have done last week (due 20th)
* Maths Maple Assignment (due 30th?)
* PP2A Assignment 1 (due 7th April)
* DE Power Supply Design (due whenever)
* Physics Weblearn tests (WTF?)
-----==========-----
-=> From Mr. Identity-crisis (malsmith@numbat) on pts/28 at 16:16 :-
Oh, is it against your elitist bias?
dleigh 16:16:58 numbat:pts/124:~> to malsmith
Message: I'm not elitist, I'm just better than them.
Message sent to Mr. Identity-crisis (malsmith@numbat) on pts/28.
<...>
-=> From Mr. Identity-crisis (malsmith@numbat) on pts/28 at 16:18 :-
That got .planned.
<...>
-=> From Mr. Identity-crisis (malsmith@numbat) on pts/28 at 16:39 :-
You have more crap in your .plan than the Herald Sun
dleigh 16:39:29 numbat:pts/124:~> to malsmith
Message: Oi. that's below the belt
Message sent to Mr. Identity-crisis (malsmith@numbat) on pts/28.
<...>
-=> From Mr. Identity-crisis (malsmith@numbat) on pts/28 at 16:46 :-
Tell paul that sheutz is for the masses!
-----==========-----
-=> From Paul... (placy@numbat) on pts/27 at 16:12 :-
still here?
dleigh 16:12:50 numbat:pts/124:~> to placy
Message: Yeah. I stay here late on tuesday just for you.
Message sent to Paul... (placy@numbat) on pts/27.
-=> From Paul... (placy@numbat) on pts/27 at 16:14 :-
isn't that nice, you know that would be ideal .plan material
-----==========-----
dleigh: "Crash diet. Not eating anything. *No* *more* *food*!"
freyes: "You are such a girl."
-----==========-----
EMS down again (since 9:30 this morning). Grrrrrrrr....
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(somewhat racist) post of the day:
>> > Odd, I have a french word list, and I just did the following on it:
>> >
>> > $wc -l ListeMotsFrancais.txt
>> > 365799 ListeMotsFrancais.txt
>> >
>> > Looks like French has 365799 words...
>>
>> yeah. 31,052 of them are terms for coitus,
>> and another 151,236 are names of sauces.
>>
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disArray and usenet done. Now starting on inbox.
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dleigh 10:36:50 numbat:pts/51:~> finger -p freyes
Login name: freyes In real life: Francis Mark Reyes
Directory: /home/f/freyes Shell: /usr/local/lib/locksh
^^^^^^
Oh dear... first of the clan to have his account suspended -----/
Update:
dleigh 10:54:15 numbat:pts/51:~> finger -p freyes
Login name: freyes In real life: Francis Mark Reyes
Directory: /home/f/freyes Shell: /usr/local/bin/tcsh
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Missed Uni on Monday (sick). Dissapointed at the lack
of quotage in malsmith/sasimmon's .plan. I guess without
me around there's no source of "wrong" quotes :)
Mark : "Stop Staring at Dylan's crotch!"
Sarah: "I wasn't, I was looking at the bag."
<...>
Mark : "What's wrong with you? You can link anthing back to sex."
Sarah: "I blame it on my father."
<...>
Dylan: "I didn't break your wrist, it just sort of went snap..."
-----==========-----
Engineering timetables updated again.
CSE tutes now in the right place. Physics lab still fucked.
-----==========-----
Only 3 days until I get 24hr access... Mwahahahaha....
Evicted 21:30 from Sceutz.
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Diet began today 12:00.
Diet ended today 18:00.
Not a bad effort, really...
-----==========-----
Lecturer of the Week Award:
Mad Props to Tom Bergin for giving us all the CSE notes.
-----==========-----
Progress:
- Webspace is valid HTML 4.01.
- Finally found the ma360 lecture notes on teh intarweb.
- Finished CSE lab 1 : full marx (marx!).
-----==========-----
-=> From Paul... (placy@numbat) on pts/102 at 16:45 :-
go HOME!!
Achievement : 1st physics lab completed.
-----==========-----
Sarah : "I have some chocolate cookies."
Dylan : "Mmmm, cookies. Can I have them?"
Mal : "You'll have to beg, and kiss her feet."
Sarah : "Sorry, I left them in my locker."
Dylan : "Can I kiss your feet anyway?"
(Incidentally, big thanks for Sarah for giving me most of
her lunch today. To coin a phrase, food for a starving man :)
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Dylan : "What do I do that upsets you, apart from the punching,
the strangling and the groping?"
Sarah : "Actually, I find that rather amusing..."
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Sarah : "I want to see a male pubic hair, close up!"
-----==========-----
Sarah : "This was only $5, and this was only $2"
Dylan : "Are we going to have a
who-spent-the-least-on-their-clothes competition?"
Sarah : "No, because I know I'll lose"
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dleigh 15:50:19 yallara:pts/69:~> uptime
3:50pm up 9 day(s), 9:05, 79 users, load average: 10.84, 11.09, 9.83
dleigh 15:50:22 yallara:pts/69:~> exit
Connection to yallara closed.
dleigh 15:50:31 numbat:pts/35:~> uptime
3:50pm up 121 day(s), 14:53, 23 users, load average: 0.71, 0.50, 0.48
Sensitive New-Age Dylan
dleigh 19:24:24 numbat:pts/21:~> to <edited>
Message: If you want, I promise I'll try to stop physically/sexually
assaulting you.
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http://files.3dretreat.com/category.asp?groupid=1
One of the best sources for Rogue Spear mods around. Includes lots
of maps, including one based on the lobby scene of The Matrix...
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dleigh 16:26:23 numbat:pts/60:~> du -k public/wallpaper/
5268 public/wallpaper
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mtarnove "I noticed it when I slept with him [freyes]"
dleigh ".planable..."
mtarnove "Well, I didn't sleep with him in the sense that I like,
slept with him, you know. I just..."
dleigh "So you just had sex?"
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sasimmon : "I can recognise my bag by the white spots on it..."
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ECE webserver down. Aieeee!
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feng : "How sore are you?"
mike : "Still a bit..."
feng : "I've been sore for two days."
Room to breathe...
Your filespace is 74 % full. You have 17472 K remaining.
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Login name: jeykev (messages off) In real life: Kevindran Jeyakanthan
Directory: /home/j/jeykev Shell: /usr/local/bin/tcsh
On since Feb 8 16:51:02 on pts/36 from numbat.cs.rmit.edu.au
23 days Idle Time
Login name: jeykev (messages off) In real life: Kevindran Jeyakanthan
Directory: /home/j/jeykev Shell: /usr/local/bin/tcsh
On since Feb 8 16:51:02 on pts/37 from numbat.cs.rmit.edu.au
23 days Idle Time
Going home at 18:19.
Your filespace is 97 % full. You have 1424 K remaining.
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DE201 lecture at 12:30...
Your filespace is 98 % full. You have 972 K remaining.
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CS208 lab at Beard, 10:30.
Your filespace is 97 % full. You have 1980 K remaining.
Leaving at 20:28.
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>> Newsgroups: news.software.readers
>>
>> Ragu <me> wrote:
>> > I would like to find feature rich, elegant, free newsreader for Windows. I
>> > would be glad to hear ur suggestions and opinions about ur favorite
>> > newsreader.
>>
>> Whichever one is smart enough to convert "ur" to "your".
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Dylan : " What did you say? "
Sarah : " Nothing. It must have been the other guy. "
Dylan : " *Other* *guy* ? "
Sarah : " Oops... Err... "
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NG post of the day:
Subject: Re: Tolkien Today: A Tool of the War Party?
From: "Tiglath" <temp1>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.noam-chomsky,alt.fan.tolkien,rec.arts.sf.written,
soc.culture.jewish,soc.history.medieval
"Terry Austin" <taustincom> wrote in message
news:v1bfqkguv17feb@corp.supernews.com...
> Tiglath wrote:
>> <snip>
>
> Newsgroups :
>
> alt.fan.noam-chomsky,alt.fan.tolkien,rec.arts.sf.written,soc.culture.jewish,
> soc.history.medieval
>
> It is not possible to post a single message that is on-topic in all
> these groups.
How does Medieval Spain compares to the Land of Mordor for Sephardic Jews
and how linguistics equiped the reborn Hebrew language to allude to times,
like the Middle Ages, through which the language was dead?
-----==========-----
According to Engineering on Monday/Tuesday I
was in 2T/2R/2T and had a timetable.
No I don't have a group or a timetable...
http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~dleigh/crap/notimetable.jpg
Also, note the grammar and spelling mistakes in the page, which was
"Last Moderfied" on the 28th of February.
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semorris : "Uni is good. Real world sucks."
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Dylan: "Are you OK?"
Mike : "I will be after I swallow."
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Dylan: " Anime elf art "
Emil : " hehe, *art* "
Dylan: " Art comes in many forms... "
Emil : " hehe, *comes* "
Sarah : "Stop that!"
Feng : "Did it hurt?"
Sarah : "No, it was such a small one."
Feng : "It was bigger last time! The first time it was huge!"
<They're talking about static shocks.>
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dmarshal "I can't believe you ditched me for Sam!"
fyuan "You should have asked."
...
fyuan "But Sam does more work than you."
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dleigh: "Can you stop looking at me"
freyes: "But you're so attractive"
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dleigh 16:13:39 numbat:pts/39:~/wip/forwebspace> finger fyuan
> Login name: fyuan In real life: Feng Qin Yuan
> Directory: /home/f/fyuan Shell: /usr/local/bin/tcsh
> Last login Mon Mar 3 18:40 on pts/17 from c16481.eburwd1.v
> No unread mail
> Plan:
> repressed childhood homosexual tendencies
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Improved account filespace script (for .cshrc):
echo " Your filespace is" `quota -v | grep home | awk \
'{print int($2/$3*100)}'` "% full. You have" `quota -v | grep home | \
awk '{print int($3 - $2)}'` "K remaining."
Your filespace is 94 % full. You have 3644 K remaining
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Your account filespace is 100 % full
dleigh 12:07:03 numbat:pts/42:~> rm core
dleigh 12:07:08 numbat:pts/42:~> ud
Your account filespace is 90 % full
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Bob Taylor (a member of BRIDJJ) has put his book "Art of Improvisation"
as well as a few sightreading exercises on teh interweb (for free download):
http://www.visual-jazz.com/
The book is split into 5 .PDF files but the exercises are .DOC :(
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Your account filespace is 88 % full
7000 lines and still going...
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UN resoloutions about the Middle East situation that the US
has vetoed (that would have otherwise passed):
http://www.crikey.com.au/whistleblower//2003/03/03/20030303unresolutions.html
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dleigh 11:06:55 numbat:pts/17:~> to sasimmon
Message: Come quickly! Sceutz is being occupied by invaders!
Message sent to Sarah Simmonds (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/63.
dleigh 11:07:36 numbat:pts/17:~> to sasimmon
Message: I think they're all first years.... We're under attack!
Message sent to Sarah Simmonds (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/63.
-=> From Sarah Simmonds (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/63 at 11:08 :-
lol! retreat synapse, retreat. u cannot hold ur position against the
lab tutor boss
dleigh 11:09:39 numbat:pts/17:~> to sasimmon
Message: they won't take me alive, damnit!
Message sent to Sarah Simmonds (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/63.
-=> From Sarah Simmonds (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/63 at 11:10 :-
dont sacrifice urself to the cronies!
-----==========-----
(11:10)
Yallara load : 9.66, 10.10, 10.08
Numbat load : 0.38, 0.51, 0.55
Most disturbing NG post of the day:
>"Tran Q. Nguyen" <buffoon> wrote in message
>news:b3tbvq$7sfb6$1@gate2-rn.cname.com...
>>
>> i love the smell of my daughter's panties in the morning
>>
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-=> From geoffwa (ggiesema@numbat) on pts/49 at 16:27 :-
I like tails dammit
dleigh 16:31:41 numbat:pts/14:~> to ggiesema
Message: I wish I could fly by spinning my tail
Message sent to geoffwa (ggiesema@numbat) on pts/49.
dleigh 16:31:53 numbat:pts/14:~> to ggiesema
Message: Actually, I wish I had a tail
Message sent to geoffwa (ggiesema@numbat) on pts/49.
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Today's ascii art image (from "Oh! My Goddess")
http://www22.brinkster.com/scr4p/Asciiart.txt
Best viewed with a text size of about 20%
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dleigh 13:12:39 numbat:pts/55:~> to sasimmon
Message: What about the spelling errors
Message sent to Sarah Simmonds (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/60.
-=> From Sarah Simmonds (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/60 at 13:13 :-
nah, thay stay. my traid mark u see.
-----==========-----
Emil : "I think its sports-related. I was given it as a present"
-----==========-----
<Emil attempts to save timetable page>
"It won't save. I'll just take a screenshot"
<Emil presses alt-printscreen>
<terminal resets>
"Pants"
Anime art (MLP)
http://shatteredreality.net/foxlee/
-----==========-----
freyes : "It's George Lucas being attacked by a giant wang!"
-----==========-----
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/ac20010914.shtml :
"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert
them to Christianity"
- Ann Coulter, in a Sept. 14, 2001, column
More racist/religionist Sept. 11 quotage:
http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2002/09/07/forbidden/index.html
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Windows startup list:
http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_pages/startup_full.htm
-----==========-----
freyes : "I don't see anything wrong with wasting CPU time..."
-----==========-----
Top 3 reasons CSE 2 lectures are fucked:
- Way too much unnecessary revision fom last year
- The lecturer is the only one who needs the revision
("Block scope... uhh... I've forgotten what that is")
- Lecturer hands out the lecture notes on floppy disks (WTF?).
-----==========-----
f1st p0st of the day:
The "Discrimnation reduces discrimination" school of thought is
worse than the "Killing people saves lives" school of thought.
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"I liked your opera. I think I will set it to music."
- Beethoven (to a fellow composer)
Usenet etiquette (ripped from a gingrich pr0st:)
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/emily-postnews/part1/
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fyuan "I'm not stirring my words"
-----==========-----
malsmith "Why don't we feed him more alcohol until he's unintintelligble"
dleigh "He's already reached that point"
-----==========-----
Most disturbing statement I've heard yet:
malsmith "Purple suits are cool"
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fyuan "I'm mi- mil- mildly intoxicated"
-----==========-----
dmarshal "She's more of a man than Feng"
dleigh "That's not saying anything"
-----==========-----
Datasheet of the day (courtesy pbone) :
http://home.iprimus.com.au/nolan/femaledatasheet.jpg
NG pr0st of the day:
> Is there anyone could give me the register code for installing the
> game?
1T5-0NTH3-84CK-0FUR-M4NU4AL
-----==========-----
Mad Props to Engineering admin for putting two lectures
in the same room at the same time.
-----==========-----
Most painful pun I've made today:
"The best thing about ASCII porn is that the girls always have character."
-----==========-----
Most unfortunate choice of words for the day:
(While I was looking at Holly's webspace)
freyes : "Dylan, get a hold of yourself!"
-----==========-----
Funniest (and most humiliating) picture of today:
http://vampiressholly.8m.com/cgi-bin/i/hollycaitlinhippy.jpg
Bah. The free breakfast this morning was supposed to
contain *pancakes*, but they were only doing *flapjacks*
dleigh 17:49:30 numbat:pts/17:~> quota -v
Disk quotas for dleigh (uid 28229):
Filesystem usage quota limit timeleft files quota limit timeleft
/home 47824 68000 68000 1025 1080
And classes haven't started yet...
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Mindless Link Propagation
Today's Pick:
http://www.attrition.org/gallery/politics/tn/dudebush.jpg.html
Runner Up:
http://www.attrition.org/gallery/politics/tn/gulf_wars_ii.jpg.html
Honorable Mention:
http://www.bureauangenent.nl/smart/
Game:
http://soldat.cyberion.pl/main.htm
Educational:
http://sound.westhost.com/
-----==========-----
Made my own timetable by mixing in the CS/Physics/DE tutes and labs
from 2R and the DS labs and lectures from 2T.
Unfortunately the 2R CS208 lab is on at the same time as the DS Lecture...
-----==========-----
Uni starts next week, and of course Engineering hasn't fixed
the Double Degree timetables yet :(
dleigh 12:07:01 numbat:pts/17:~> to dmarshal
Message: Do you have any idea what we are supposed to do on Monday?
Message sent to EgoIntensive (dmarshal@numbat) on pts/70.
-=> From EgoIntensive (dmarshal@numbat) on pts/70 at 12:09 :-
nope :(
"Abstract Art? A product of the untalented, sold by the
unprincipled to the utterly bewildered."
- Al Capp
-----==========-----
Changed date format, since I thought it would be a good idea to have
the day in there.
"I've missed you, too"
- Me, upon logging ino terminal 3 in Beard Lab
Yes, this .plan update is being brought to you from campus. So
you can expect frequent updates soon.
-----==========-----
Over 500 rmit.cs.general posts accounted for.
Now for rmit.cs.chat...
-----==========-----
-=> From Sarah Simmonds (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/72 at 18:07 :-
he's the only one who jokes about my middle name is why
dleigh 18:07:51 numbat:pts/23:~> to sasimmon
Message: When did I joke about your middle name, val?
Message sent to Sarah Simmonds (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/72.
-=> From Sarah Simmonds (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/72 at 18:07 :-
how the hell did u manage most of the summer with, like, no internet??
dleigh 18:08:21 numbat:pts/23:~> to sasimmon
Message: With lots of drugs, and great difficulty.
Message sent to Sarah Simmonds (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/72.
<...>
dleigh 18:16:46 numbat:pts/23:~> to sasimmon
Message: I cleaned my room though, and I deserve a Nobel prize for physics
for that... the crap under the bed was distorting the space-time continum
Message sent to Sarah Simmonds (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/72.
-=> From Sarah Simmonds (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/72 at 18:18 :-
lol i dont wanna know just what of ur belongings would achieve such
a volitile state
<...>
-=> From Sarah Simmonds (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/72 at 18:33 :-
mebe ur just too weird for the average dA poster? that's quite an
achievement u know.
-=> From Sarah Simmonds (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/72 at 18:36 :-
i mean, making a vibrator, that's pretty damn weird.
Message: I didn't make it! I just designed it, and Francis asked me to.
Message sent to Sarah Simmonds (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/72.
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Playing God with StarCraft:
http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~dleigh/crap/starcraft_god.jpg
-----==========-----
http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~dleigh/electronics/vibrator/
Could be a useful EE project...
I wonder if Jaycar is interested in selling kits?
-----==========-----
-=> From EgoIntensive (dmarshal@numbat) on pts/1 at 16:12 :-
there was an e-mail address at the bottom of the timetable page
dleigh 16:13:25 numbat:pts/23:~> to dmarshal
Message: I saw the address. It's about to get fucked over.
Message sent to EgoIntensive (dmarshal@numbat) on pts/1.
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Anonymous quote of the day:
"I'm not a pervert. I just like seeing naked women"
-----==========-----
Mike : " It'll have elves and lesbians, OK? "
-----==========-----
Apologies to Mike and Mal, I didn't come in yesterday, due to
Hannah's orienteering day.
(4:14 AM)
www.homemusic.cc has a good selection of module music, including
some nice smooth jazz tunes.
-----==========-----
I'll probably come in on Monday.
Hope the CS labs are open...
Updated Header/Footer of .plan to reflect my new status :)
Also, I now have 60000K to play with on CS >:]
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I am adding to the Electronics section of my site (finally) - I
have a half-finished article on Baxandall Tone Controls that is
somewhere in the backups I made before I repartitioned my HD.
Also, the final Vibrator design is done (baayn :) but also lost in the
same place as the Tone Control stuff. Greetz to Mike, Francis and Emil.
-----==========-----
My dA quote/rant for the day:
It's really sad how technology can bring down a company. Blizzard
used to make great console games. Then just after they ported
Blackthorne from SNES to PC, they noticed the mouse.... Hence
Warcraft, Diablo, Starcraft.... *Sighs*
-----==========-----
No updates for a while, as I wanted to see how long I could tolerate
no contact with the outside world without going crazy.
(Irrelevant lines deleted)
dleigh 4:56:37 numbat:pts/66:~> finger keriksso
On since Dec 22 17:28:44 on pts/10 from numbat.cs.rmit.edu.au
13 days Idle Time
dleigh 4:57:34 numbat:pts/66:~> finger -p jeykev
On since Dec 2 23:39:53 on pts/69 from numbat.cs.rmit.edu.au
33 days Idle Time
On since Dec 2 23:39:53 on pts/70 from numbat.cs.rmit.edu.au
33 days Idle Time
dleigh 4:59:13 numbat:pts/66:~> finger -p iantony
On since Dec 4 00:54:42 on pts/23 from lurcher5.cs.rmit.edu.au
26 days Idle Time
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We have a TV now.... Its 34cm, but at least it's *colour*.
----------====/ First Year \=====----------
Reasons re-enrolment was crap:
* Labs closed
* The people doing station 2 thought they were just doing
BP010 (Double Degree) and so forgot to give everybody the
correct form for their stream (Electronics/Comms/Comp. Sys)
* Somebody (who will go nameless) got their mother to reenrol for
them and she TOOK MY SPOT IN THE QUEUE AT STATION 2.
Reasons reenrolment was funny:
* Feng forgot his middle name, apart from the first letter.
* Somebody else who will go nameless had to ring their parents to ask
them what their postcode was.
-----==========-----
170 new pr0sts in rmit.cs.general. Aieeee!!!
-----==========-----
No updates for 18 days... Well, you can read my disArray journal for
the moment as I'm too tired to copy and paste right now. Maybe later.
The .plan has breached the 200,000 byte mark! (Marx!)
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dleigh 1:09:12 numbat:pts/22:~> flon
Fast Lon v3.3.3 Wed Dec 4 01:09:20 2002
-----------------------------------------------
dleigh | Thyself | Dec 4 00:44 | ... | pts/22 | NoTalk
dleigh | Thyself | Dec 3 23:21 | ... | pts/10 | OnTalk
emikulic | emil | Dec 4 00:37 | 08:17 | pts/66 | NoTalk
mmorriso | marcus | Dec 4 00:58 | ... | pts/51 | OnTalk
You are logged on twice.
There are 13 users logged on.
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For Jagged Alliance 2 fans:
http://tdoq2hq.virtualave.net/guns/
Has a listing of most (if not all?) of the weapons in the game, including
explosives and attatchments. Some of the info seems to have been changed
between JA2 and JA2UB.
-----==========-----
Work on MSG has been slowed, largely because I can't decide whether to
use 256 colors or 16-bit (or what palette to use if 256).
DirectDraw wins the inaugural Dylan Leigh Award for Inept Documentation.
-----==========-----
Lost my watch *after* the DE102 exam. I distinctly remember putting it on
as I got up from my seat, so it was probably in the Caf or a lab. Pants.
-----==========-----
Most Wanted has been updated, again.
http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~dleigh/misc/wanted.htm
-=> From Sam (spaisey@numbat) on pts/25 at 16:18 :-
go home dylan uni has official finished!
-=> From Sam (spaisey@numbat) on pts/25 at 16:21 :-
get over uni dylan
-----==========-----
http://www.penny-arcade.com/news.php3?date=2002-11-11
Excerpt : [NB: Gabe is sick]
He suggested that he might be unable to do a strip, so intense was
his agony, and I told him he'd better rub some dirt on it because
this isn't fucking Megatokyo. This is Penny Arcade. And if he wants
to pull this Fred Gallagher shit, make comics whenever he feels like
it, and punctuate the silence with what amounts to a stroke-mag for
pedophiles he can get somebody else to write it.
-----==========-----
Mal : I want a "Chicks dig Unix" t-shirt... and a chick to put in it.
-----==========-----
Mark: So have you got pants yet?
Mal : I'm happy with my skirt.
<Dylan and Mark exchange concerned glances>
Mal : I'm even happier without my skirt.
-----==========-----
-=> From O' Endowed One (pwatkins@numbat) on pts/68 at 13:49 :-
Stay right where you are. I'm coming to get a photo!
-----==========-----
Dylan : Are you going to overpower me?
Mark <to Mal> : I'll grab the arms, you grab the arse.
-----==========-----
Dylan: You haven't got pants.
Mal : I wear a skirt, get over it.
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Dylan: I'm NOT stalking Holly!
Mal : Let's get the proxy logs.
-----==========-----
Hrm. To clarify something in malsmith's .plan, I was only
downloading pictures of Holly for making her a mugshot.
Really. That's why they were in my "wip" (work in progress)
directory. I'm not using them for any other.. uhhh.. purposes.
http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~dleigh/crap/holly_toddler_mug.jpg
http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~dleigh/crap/holly_mug.jpg
On the other hand I could just hit him, lean over and
delete his .plan. Unfortunately he's studying law.
-----==========-----
(While discussing me stalking Holly. Which I aren't, of course. Ahem)
Mal : Why is it that I'm the one accused of stalking?
Mark : Because you got caught.
-----==========-----
Mal : I'm not a quotable person.
Started work on MSG/Field of Daisies.
In other news, I've updated my Most Wanted.
--------------------------------------------
Your account filespace is 51 % full
--------------------------------------------
Aaah. Much better.
placy : "Don't you ever go home?"
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Finally got my disArray journal into a state I'm fairly happy with.
I just hope that the position:fixed doesn't muck up the layout
on too many machines...
http://disarray.wh3rd.net/journal/Synapse
-----==========-----
Around 13:00, Knuth Lab is full of people burning their remaining
print quota (on the only working CS printer).
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Sitting in Sceutz lab all by myself (I came to uni to clear out my
locker and get the Green Guide). Feels very wrong, for some reason.
http://www.geek.com/discus/messages/23/6363.html
My favourite :
By EvilCaptainKirk on Friday, October 25, 2002 - 10:02 am:
Interesting to think that in this day and age, there is plenty of talk
of women "having it all". I don't recall hearing anything about men
"having it all" used in the same context. Men are expected to have
careers, few are expected to stay home with the kids. Why should women
be given more opportunity to "have it all" than men? Why doesn't
society make more/equal opportunity for men to stay at home while the
wife works?
Honorable mention :
By A Fan on Thursday, October 31, 2002 - 10:08 am:
Amy,
In the vast majority of cases, children are best off being raised by
their parents. Yours may be the exception. If you do reproduce, God
forbid, please pursue a good daycare arrangement for your child.
-----==========-----
Got home on Monday just before midnight, went straight to bed,
and slept until 5:00 PM. Yes, that's 17 hours. That's how draining
doing CO121 for 3 hours straight is.
--------------------------------------------
Your account filespace is 98 % full
--------------------------------------------
and just now...
> ".plan" Close failed
> Hit ENTER or type command to continue
Uh Oh...
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-=> From Sam (spaisey@numbat) on pts/28 at 20:52 :-
go home u bum
dleigh 21:01:08 numbat:pts/33:~> to spaisey
Message: no
Message sent to Sam (spaisey@numbat) on pts/28.
-=> From Sam (spaisey@numbat) on pts/28 at 21:14 :-
dont u have a home?
dleigh 21:16:31 numbat:pts/33:~> to spaisey
Message: yeah, but its crap.
Message sent to Sam (spaisey@numbat) on pts/28.
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21 pages of Eng print quota left...
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Joys of CO121 exam revision:
Dylan : "Do we have to know this shit?"
David : "I don't even know what the fuck that is ...
... so I'll have to go with no."
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David : "If I pass this semester I'll do work next semester, I promise..."
Interesting reading for short guys:
http://personals.women.com/personals/emlo/01_04_01/
http://www.shortsupport.org/Research/personals.html
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41 pages of Eng print credits left after past papers.
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pwatkins has awarded me the * Kim Jong Il Mega Communist Award *
I feel so warm and fuzzy...
nf says : "Props to Dylan for his award."
dandaman says : "That's cause you're a dirty commie!"
-----==========-----
Got Star Control 2. Seriously interfering with exam preparation.
-=> From EgoIntensive (dmarshal@numbat) on pts/78 at 09:09 :-
hehe, sif study for anything
dleigh 9:10:42 numbat:pts/82:~> to dmarshal
Message: what about comms?
Message sent to EgoIntensive (dmarshal@numbat) on pts/78.
-=> From EgoIntensive (dmarshal@numbat) on pts/78 at 09:11 :-
is it gonna help?....then why waste your time?
-----==========-----
dleigh 8:58:02 numbat:pts/82:~> to dmarshal
Message: What did you eat for breakfast?
Message sent to EgoIntensive (dmarshal@numbat) on pts/78.
-=> From EgoIntensive (dmarshal@numbat) on pts/78 at 08:58 :-
toast
dleigh 8:58:13 numbat:pts/82:~> to dmarshal
youre as boring as emil.
Message sent to EgoIntensive (dmarshal@numbat) on pts/78.
-----==========-----
-=> From EgoIntensive (dmarshal@numbat) on pts/78 at 08:56 :-
get good comp, get cable, then play online games....at least thats
gonna be the closest to socialising you're gonna get
-----==========-----
After exam todo list:
- Field of Daisies (also known as MSg, or Orbital Strike, or...)
- Port Mercenary to DirectX, and make the level editor / menu graphics purdy.
- Clean the crap off the top of my desk.
- Clean the crap out of my room.
- Fix my good 80W speakers.
- Fix the TV situation (probably buy a new one)
- Fix the hot water situation (probably buy a new, *gas* one. Aieee....)
- Fix the power supply in the Lowrey Carnival organ
- Fix the expression pedal in the Lowrey Genie organ.
- Pick up my trom for once in 6 months.
- Lose about 10-15 k.
- Implement threading in SFGA forums.
- Implement events signup in SFGA forums.
- Corner the stock market using my $100 pw Youth Allowance as capital.
- Write up the vibrator (construction) how-to. Maybe even build a prototype.
- Write up the Baxandall tone control how-to.
- Write up the rotary speaker simulator how-to.
- Cure cancer, and get a Nobel medicine prize.
- Locate Marcus so I can give him his CDs back.
- Get my System Shock 2 CD off Al.
- Learn to drive in a higher traffic density than Upwey.
- Get better machine for Hannah.
-----==========-----
Quote of the day:
freyes : Shut the fuck up you homophobic poof.
Message: Come to uni sometime, slacker
Message sent to Mihai Constantin Tarnoveanu (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/80.
-=> From Mihai Constantin Tarnoveanu (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/80 at 19:14 :-
im not a slacker Dylan... I just know that there are other things in this life
appart from uni and computers :(
dleigh 19:14:44 numbat:pts/137:~> to .
Message: Like what? Food?
Message sent to Mihai Constantin Tarnoveanu (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/80.
-----==========-----
Emil: How did we get from the BSD license to sodomy?
-----==========-----
Sarah: Serious? Feng did it right?
David: Well, he's getting there.
-----==========-----
Geoff: You printed the working space as well as the questions.
Emil : I wasted paper! Dylan, punish me!
Exams : MA260 - 9:15 at 8.9.42
-----==========-----
We have a phone connection again! Yaaaaay!
Turns out that Telsra had just "disabled" rather than
"disconnected" us, or something, so there is no fee or anything.
-----==========-----
Church Girl has mentioned me in her .plan again:
> Oh, and for those unsuspecting folk,
> the out of context quotage war between me and Dylan is officially back on. The
> bloody CHOIR BOY was bagging me for going to a religious school. Go figure.
>
> Other news, I'm getting a real desktop these holidays!! That's right, folks.
> I also plan to get money, get Linux, partition my new desktop's HD for two OSs
> install apache, learn perl, work on Ragisthor (my AI)... these 3 weeks r gonna
> be awsome! Oh, plus i'm gonna end up going on two holidays ^_^ one to AngleSea
> the other to Sydney. *wh00t*!!!
Thats a lot to cover in *3 weeks*. <snicker>
Maybe you should have taken English instead of RE. <snicker again>
dleigh 17:41:40 numbat:pts/65:~/News> to emikulic
Message: yeah. Massive dA backlog today, but only took me 1 hour.
Message sent to Emil Mikulic (emikulic@numbat) on pts/377.
-=> From Emil Mikulic (emikulic@numbat) on pts/377 at 17:42 :-
good effort!
-----==========-----
dleigh 17:18:09 numbat:pts/65:~/News> to emikulic
Message: I'm not freeing much over maths. CO121 is fuxor.
Message sent to Emil Mikulic (emikulic@numbat) on pts/377.
-=> From Emil Mikulic (emikulic@numbat) on pts/377 at 17:19 :-
i don't care about comms
fetchmail: No mail for s3017239 at its-mn-ntce.its.rmit.edu.au
-=> From Emil Mikulic (emikulic@numbat) on pts/377 at 17:19 :-
failure is an option at this point
dleigh 17:20:59 numbat:pts/65:~/News> to emikulic
Message: wooh. you saying failure is an option is bad.
Message sent to Emil Mikulic (emikulic@numbat) on pts/377.
-=> From Emil Mikulic (emikulic@numbat) on pts/377 at 17:21 :-
it's SUCKING MY WILL TO LIVE
dleigh 17:21:48 numbat:pts/65:~/News> to emikulic
Message: And ... EXAM IS WORTH 70% OF MARX!!!
Message sent to Emil Mikulic (emikulic@numbat) on pts/377.
dleigh 17:22:21 numbat:pts/65:~/News> to emikulic
Message: er.. did my last message cause you to have a heart attack?
I'll call 000...
Message sent to Emil Mikulic (emikulic@numbat) on pts/377.
-=> From Emil Mikulic (emikulic@numbat) on pts/377 at 17:28 :-
no, iu was AFK
-=> From Emil Mikulic (emikulic@numbat) on pts/377 at 17:28 :-
70 percent is fucked
dleigh 17:28:28 numbat:pts/65:~/News> to emikulic
Message: good. i thought you had an anurism or something.
Message sent to Emil Mikulic (emikulic@numbat) on pts/377.
-=> From Emil Mikulic (emikulic@numbat) on pts/377 at 17:28 :-
although it's kinda good in that it limits the amount of damage that
shahnaz kouhbor can do
dleigh 17:29:54 numbat:pts/65:~/News> to emikulic
Message: yeah... she's almost as evil as Sarah.
Message sent to Emil Mikulic (emikulic@numbat) on pts/377.
-----==========-----
Dylan : "As a newsgroup name, what do you think of
alt.2eggs.sausage.beans.tomatoes.2toast.largetea ?"
Sarah : "Makes me hungry."
-----==========-----
"Its a moderated newsgroup, so when you post something, it gets sent to a
moderator who has to approve it. Sort of like disArray, but over-nf'd"
-----==========-----
In other news, I successfully finished
Omikron : The Nomad Soul (the Bowie Game) last night/morning.
Ending was good, although I would have liked to check out Ix and
the palace and talk to Legatee Reshev before the endgame. A fight
with the legatee would have been cool.
Hint : Before leaving Lahoreh for the last time (going to Jahangir
Park), spend all the money you have on Sham skin spells (at the
sorcery in Lahoreh) . Use them on Kushulainn after you reincarnate
into him (before you fight Astaroth).
Astaroth is a pain, you have to blow up six crystals around the
fight area, and then you have to shoot at this tiny spot on his
back to kill him. Anywhere alse on his body is invulnerable. And
Its hard enough just getting round to his back as he turns to
face you when attacking.
-----==========-----
And you thought Telstra's *internet* service was bad.
On Monday, somebody (who was coming over to our place) asked me why
our phone was disconnected. I picked it up, got a dial tone.
"Hmmm...Seems OK".
On Tuesday, I went out somewhere and turned my mobile on (I usually
turn it off while at home or in a lecture/lab). There were 9 voicemail
messages asking why our phone was fucked.
After trying to call somebody line we were told (via an automated
massage) that we had been disconnected (by not paying our bills).
We didn't get a last chance notice (via mail). Of course, A
telecomunications company would't think of *calling* us to tell
us they were disconnecting.
After calling the helpline (the only thing we were allowed to call)
we get a automatic-speech-interpreting-piece-of-shit. It refuses to
acknowledge anything until I scream obscenities - then we get
"I see. I'll try to locate a consultant"
Its after 6, the automated-crap tells us, there are no consultants
available. Ring tomorrow (Wednesday). Get a live person. We have
to pay a $67 reconnection fee. Ring again. Ask another person.
We don't have to pay the fee.
Thursday. We get a disconnection notice in the mail.
Now seriously considering getting another telco.
This is why I haven't been on dA (or on NGs, or replying to email, or
updating the .plan) for a while. All the normal family calls have been
relocated to my mobile. I really don't want to see the bill this month.
-----==========-----
-=> From HSentry (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/164 at 09:13 :-
dylan - GO HOME! .. oh wait, its 9.13am is it? am? am i right?
-=> From HSentry (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/164 at 09:13 :-
wtf r u doing here at 9.13 AM??
dleigh 9:14:00 numbat:pts/382:~> to sasimmon
Message: reading NGs , of course
Message sent to HSentry (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/164.
-=> From Mihai Constantin Tarnoveanu (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/382 at 19:09 :-
you're a freak
dleigh 19:12:25 numbat:pts/40:~> to mtarnove
Message: Why?
Message sent to Mihai Constantin Tarnoveanu (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/382.
dleigh 19:12:28 numbat:pts/40:~> to mtarnove
Message: I mean, I know why, but was it something in particular that I said?
Message sent to Mihai Constantin Tarnoveanu (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/382.
-=> From Mihai Constantin Tarnoveanu (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/382 at 19:14 :-
yeah, you and color
-=> From Mihai Constantin Tarnoveanu (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/382 at 19:14 :-
it's like oil and water
-=> From Mihai Constantin Tarnoveanu (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/382 at 19:14 :-
like... mark and pubic hair
-=> From Mihai Constantin Tarnoveanu (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/382 at 19:14 :-
like me and women
-=> From Mihai Constantin Tarnoveanu (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/382 at 19:15 :-
...wait correct that... like YOU and women
-----==========-----
dleigh 18:45:19 numbat:pts/40:~> bs freyes You Felch Sheep
-=> From bleep (freyes@numbat) on pts/330 at 18:47 :-
dammit, i can't think of a comeback.
-=> From bleep (freyes@numbat) on pts/330 at 18:47 :-
(no, i don't felch sheep)
<...>
-=> From bleep (freyes@numbat) on pts/330 at 18:51 :-
why did i have a feeling you were gonna put me in your .plan?
Mike : How could I have done it right under your nose
[Meaning, while sitting at the terminal next to me]
Dylan: Because you were stroking your genitals, so I was deliberately
*not* looking in your direction.
Mike : Oh yeah, that explains it.
-----==========-----
Mike : I wouldn't have ripped up anything else, apart from your
clothing. I worry myself sometimes.
-----==========-----
to freyes
Message: fuck. Sarah/Dave/Feng left us here all alone... :(
Message sent to Francis Mark Reyes (freyes@numbat) on pts/367.
-=> From bleep (freyes@numbat) on pts/367 at 20:58 :-
isn't that a *good* thing for you and mike? ;)
dleigh 20:58:18 numbat:pts/195:~> to freyes
Message: Wat? its hardx t9otype with onehand while ur bent over the keybrd
Message sent to Francis Mark Reyes (freyes@numbat) on pts/367.
dleigh DING! numbat:pts/195:~> to freyes
Message: Hey, ehy are you pulling out all of a sudden
Message sent to Francis Mark Reyes (freyes@numbat) on pts/367.
-=> From bleep (freyes@numbat) on pts/367 at 21:01 :-
haha! pulling out? you're probably talking to mike then
dleigh 21:01:27 numbat:pts/195:~> to freyes
Message: I meant pulling out of the conversation.. but that *was* supposed
to have a doule meaning <turns to mike> My Turn!
Message sent to Francis Mark Reyes (freyes@numbat) on pts/367.
-=> From bleep (freyes@numbat) on pts/367 at 21:02 :-
you two have got to see each other less'
dleigh 21:03:04 numbat:pts/195:~> to freyes
Message: Hey.. where are you anyway.. in your bedroom.. all *alone*?
Message sent to Francis Mark Reyes (freyes@numbat) on pts/367.
-=> From bleep (freyes@numbat) on pts/367 at 21:03 :-
yes.. with one hand on the keyboard and one hand...
-=> From bleep (freyes@numbat) on pts/367 at 21:03 :-
uh..
-=> From bleep (freyes@numbat) on pts/367 at 21:04 :-
on the mouse
dleigh 21:05:36 numbat:pts/195:~> to freyes
Message: Oh yeah. On the mouse? I bet its on the *joystick*.
Message sent to Francis Mark Reyes (freyes@numbat) on pts/367.
-=> From bleep (freyes@numbat) on pts/367 at 21:06 :-
no.. it's on the roller, baby
dleigh 21:08:00 numbat:pts/195:~> to freyes
Message: And whats on the screen, huh?
Message sent to Francis Mark Reyes (freyes@numbat) on pts/367.
dleigh 21:08:11 numbat:pts/195:~> to freyes
Message: (and I don't want to know what's *covering* the screen)
Message sent to Francis Mark Reyes (freyes@numbat) on pts/367.
-=> From bleep (freyes@numbat) on pts/367 at 21:08 :-
i was just looking at holly's webpage
dleigh 21:09:41 numbat:pts/195:~> to freyes
Message: Ah. that explains a lot. She set up that webcam then >:)
Message sent to Francis Mark Reyes (freyes@numbat) on pts/367.
Editor's Note : You might want to check the "Juggling" thread
on dA if you haven't yet learnt of the Holly
masturbating on the webcam thing.
-=> From bleep (freyes@numbat) on pts/367 at 21:12 :-
huh? she did?
dleigh 21:12:34 numbat:pts/195:~> to freyes
Message: Oh, i thought you were watching Holly masturbate Marco.
Message sent to Francis Mark Reyes (freyes@numbat) on pts/367.
-=> From bleep (freyes@numbat) on pts/367 at 21:13 :-
no, i was just looking at the photos. wait.. where's that on the site?
-----==========-----
Out-of-context quote of the day
Mike : Oh Yeah. Feng's hot.
-----==========-----
More fun with javax.swing
Mike : Noooooooooooo! The buttons are too big!
-----==========-----
Mike : "How can you say you're not gay until you've tried it, right?"
Dylan: <opens new terminal, enters [vim .plan]>
Mike : <keels over> "That's no fair! That's foul play!"
-----==========-----
David : <looks at dleigh's code> Borked!... no wait, that works, my bad.
Its the java bugs. They've gone to my head again. Its like a drug.
-----==========-----
Mike : How about Hungry Jacks?
Dylan: I'm trying to avoid fattening food.
Mike : How about Chinese?
Dylan: Don't make me repeat myself.
-----==========-----
The evil plan concocted by Dr. Leigh and Count Tarnoveanu to
genetically engineer a race of elf women unfolds...
-=> From mihai (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/455 at 17:00 :-
hey, once we get enought money we'll invest in genetic engineering
-=> From mihai (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/455 at 17:01 :-
so we can create a race of half-elves
Dylan : "With the emphasis on the *we* in that sentence..."
dleigh 17:01:25 numbat:pts/285:~> to mtarnove
Message: By the time we get that done it may be 10 years older and they
still have to grow... I prefer older elves.
Message sent to mihai (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/455.
-=> From mihai (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/455 at 17:01 :-
yeah, well... hmmm... we'll cryogenically freeze ourselves
-=> From mihai (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/455 at 17:01 :-
yeah, you're right... besides elves ages much slower than we do...
-=> From mihai (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/455 at 17:01 :-
hmm... im sure we can somehow overcome this little... 'problem'
<...>
-=> From mihai (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/455 at 17:02 :-
ok... how about we start of by surgically implanting ears into a few females
dleigh 17:02:45 numbat:pts/285:~> to mtarnove
go over and ask Sarah if she'd like her ears... "modified"
-=> From mihai (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/455 at 17:03 :-
if i did that... i might aswell ask her if she'd give me the pleasure
of pushing me off the westgate... in other words... NO!
-=> From mihai (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/455 at 17:03 :-
i shall not endager my life, now that research on the 'PEP' has commenced
-=> From mihai (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/455 at 17:03 :-
PEP = pointy ears project
<...>
Dylan: "*You* ask her."
Mike : "No, *you* ask her."
Dylan: "She won't hit you... OK, she will."
Mike : "Exactly."
dleigh 17:07:35 numbat:pts/285:~> to sasimmon
Message: Sarah.. mike and I want to know if you would be willing to have
your ears modified for a photo shoot on his new website
Message sent to HSentry (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/287.
-=> From HSentry (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/287 at 17:08 :-
and besides. ... whats wrong with my ears????!!!! they're not mishaped
r they? not too big? aw, now u got me self conscious :(
to sasimmon
Message: They're too well rounded
Message sent to HSentry (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/287.
-=> From HSentry (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/287 at 17:11 :-
quit analysing my ears!!!!!!! *sob*
<...>
dleigh 17:14:36 numbat:pts/285:~> to mtarnove
Message: I've got it! Tell Holly I'll give her some liposuction if
she'll let me fix her ears.
Message sent to mihai (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/455.
-=> From mihai (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/455 at 17:15 :-
ohhhh... that's harsh!
<...>
-=> From HSentry (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/287 at 17:33 :-
"tell holly ill give her some liposuction" - r u insinuating holly's fat?
*snarl* holly isnt fat >:( dont say she's fat.
dleigh 17:37:12 numbat:pts/285:~> to sasimmon
Message: Holly's not fat. She thinks she is though, and I may be able to
entice her thusly.
Message sent to HSentry (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/287.
-----==========-----
And the Giesemann award for longest or most convoluted exception goes to...
dleigh 16:24:16 numbat:pts/286:~/jarrva> javac Logo.java
dleigh 16:24:23 numbat:pts/286:~/jarrva> java Logo
Warning: Cannot convert string
"-monotype-arial-regular-r-normal--*-140-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct
Exception in thread "main" java.awt.AWTError: BoxLayout can't be shared
at javax.swing.BoxLayout.checkContainer(BoxLayout.java:408)
at javax.swing.BoxLayout.invalidateLayout(BoxLayout.java:195)
at java.awt.Container.invalidate(Container.java:851)
at java.awt.Component.addNotify(Component.java:5398)
at java.awt.Container.addNotify(Container.java:1852)
at javax.swing.JComponent.addNotify(JComponent.java:4270)
at java.awt.Container.addNotify(Container.java:1859)
at javax.swing.JComponent.addNotify(JComponent.java:4270)
at java.awt.Container.addNotify(Container.java:1859)
at javax.swing.JComponent.addNotify(JComponent.java:4270)
at javax.swing.JRootPane.addNotify(JRootPane.java:658)
at java.awt.Container.addNotify(Container.java:1859)
at java.awt.Window.addNotify(Window.java:395)
at java.awt.Frame.addNotify(Frame.java:479)
at java.awt.Window.show(Window.java:433)
at java.awt.Component.show(Component.java:1128)
at java.awt.Component.setVisible(Component.java:1083)
at LogoAppJFrame.<init>(Logo.java:160)
at Logo.main(Logo.java:8)
-----==========-----
John : <on pwatkins> "So this guy is a bit of a redneck, is he"
-----==========-----
DE102 is part of the axis of evil!
And so are placy's Jarrrva assignments.
-----==========-----
Dylan: <reads from BDSM survey> "How many people's body wastes have you eaten"
Geoff: "Does that include my own?"
-----==========-----
Post of the day (I admit to being somewhat biased :)
>
> From conroyr Wed Oct 23 09:48:33 2002
>
> Peter Watkins <pwatkins> writes:
> >> Dammit Dylan, can you be any more less subtle with your flamebait?
>
> >That's a nice little piece of English I must say :-)
>
> >For some reason, Dylan seems to think it makes him some sort
> >of a celebrity when people mention his name on the newsgroups.
>
> 2 words:
> Dylan rocks!!
> :-)
>
-=> From HSentry (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/68 at 15:32 :-
started java yet?
dleigh 15:32:08 numbat:pts/287:~/eng> to sasimmon
Message: I scribbled some notes on gui/layout during an electronics lecture
(short answer : no)
Message sent to HSentry (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/68.
Mike's student webspace is 403. Somebody tell him tomorrow - I'll forget.
-----==========-----
-=> From bleep (freyes@numbat) on pts/211 at 21:08 :-
dylan, go home
dleigh 21:10:54 numbat:pts/229:~> to freyes
Message: No! (besides, i'm busy *working* for once)
Message sent to bleep (freyes@numbat) on pts/211.
<...>
-=> From bleep (freyes@numbat) on pts/211 at 21:18 :-
what? and tell dylan that we were talking about the Holly Masturbating Thread?
do you want me to end up in his .plan?
dleigh 21:27:13 numbat:pts/229:~> to freyes
Message: Too late, freyes :)
Message sent to bleep (freyes@numbat) on pts/211.
-=> From bleep (freyes@numbat) on pts/211 at 21:28 :-
oh god no..
-=> From bleep (freyes@numbat) on pts/211 at 21:29 :-
that was meant for dave!
dleigh 21:30:04 numbat:pts/229:~> to freyes
Message: Mwhahahahahaha.......
Message sent to bleep (freyes@numbat) on pts/211.
-=> From bleep (freyes@numbat) on pts/211 at 21:32 :-
GO HOME!!!
-----==========-----
Yay. DE102 bullshit buisness plan took a lot less time than I thought.
All I have to do now is the conclusion.
Oh yeah, and that Jarrva assignment and the last MA260 weblearn test.
Almost Forgot.
I'll sleep during swotvac...
-----==========-----
After writing 12 pages of what is obviously a report, featuring a Table
of Contents and various graphs and tables, I get this:
http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~dleigh/crap/buisnessplanletter.jpg
Grrrrr...
-----==========-----
dleigh 17:56:15 numbat:pts/229:~> to sasimmon
Message: I'm back in sceutz if you want to hit me for blackrose
Message sent to HSentry (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/37.
-=> From HSentry (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/37 at 17:57 :-
nooooooooooo!
-=> From HSentry (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/37 at 17:59 :-
somehow i think ull enjoy it too much :P
dleigh DING! numbat:pts/229:~> to sasimmon
Message: oi, i'm not masochistic
Message sent to HSentry (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/37.
-=> From HSentry (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/37 at 18:01 :-
yea, id enjoy giving u pain but with all the issues u have with hentai and
euthamisms i woudnt b surprised if ur a sadomasicist too :P
dleigh 18:08:30 numbat:pts/229:~> to sasimmon
Message: You would *enjoy* giving me pain... that implies that you are the
one with the SM tendencies.
-=> From HSentry (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/37 at 18:10 :-
not necessarily - isn't sadomasicism (cant spell) the act of enjoying
*recieving* pain, not administering it?
dleigh 18:14:39 numbat:pts/229:~> to sasimmon
Message: Its both recieving and administering pain. Sadomasochism means that
you enjoy alternating between both. In your case, youre just a sadist.
Message sent to HSentry (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/37.
-=> From HSentry (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/37 at 18:16 :-
cool
dleigh 18:17:47 numbat:pts/229:~> to sasimmon
Message: I wonder what you look like in black leather?
Message sent to HSentry (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/37.
dleigh 18:18:13 numbat:pts/229:~> to sasimmon
Message: I've already disgusted Holly today, might start on you.
Message sent to HSentry (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/37.
-=> From HSentry (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/37 at 18:18 :-
!!! *sheez* quit while ur ahead :P or get urself a galfriend or something, man
-----==========-----
The EL131 lab exam is easier than... an easy thing.
-----==========-----
Mike : You're just upset because you don't have a mobile phone.
Dylan: Yes I do.
Mike : Yeah? Well... you're just upset because its... not blue!
Dylan: But it is blue!
Mike : Aw, Crap.
-----==========-----
Hannah: I've been to Queensland before.
Dylan : I've been to Fiji before.
Hannah: I've been to Sydney.
Dylan : I went to Sydney with you.
Hannah: Oh yeah... Crap.
pwatkins was wrong - Bush and Osama have a very close relationship:
http://evercurrent.com/postcard/pictures/bush_binladin.jpg
-----==========-----
According to the Daily Diff, Emil has "David and Sarah tied up and
gagged in the basement" and he "will not relinquish control until
[his] demands are met!"
Baayn.
-----==========-----
-=> From EgoIntensive (dmarshal@numbat) on pts/310 at 18:08 :-
you spent thumbnail wrong
-----==========-----
Mal : "What's wrong with looking short?
Dylan : "You're male. You don't want to look too short."
Mal : "How do you know I'm male?"
Dylan : "..."
-----==========-----
Today's Accomplishments:
- Got last EL131 lab marxed
- Unsubscribed from enough NGs so that tin only comes up
with about 40 unread ones each time I run it.
David : "Don't touch feng, you don't know where he's been!"
-----==========-----
Just did my DE talk. Went almost as badly as the first one.
Also, found out that DEG1 and DEG2 are in the army. That explains a lot.
(third NG post of the day.... too much alt.humour.bestofusenet)
> PSYCHIC wrote:
> >
> > I have created this really nice CLAIRVOYANT ~ YAHOO GROUP ~ for
> > those people who believe in their psychic abilities and want to
> > share them with others - so please join us at:
>
> I have deleted the URL and mailing addresses, as they are
> obviously unnecessary for any clairvoyants, and were thus simply
> taking up space.
-----==========-----
(other NG post of the day. BTW, this is about *haircuts*)
> >>There's always the all over number 1 (or 2 or 3 or whatever) option.
> > Oh, I do. But with a sort of tail thing at the back.
> Like having a cat stuck up a plucked turkey?
Comments:
Dylan: "You know that bad hairstyle, shaved all over but
with a ponytail at the back?"
Malx : "Bad hairstyle? I was thinking of getting one of them."
Dylan: "Bad hairstyle? You've already got one."
-----==========-----
Newsgroup post of the day: (formatting edited)
>I WANT TO FUCK HER IN HER FUCKING CARTOON ASS
Boy, I'd hate to see those paper-cuts . . .
- Vaughner
-----==========-----
Quote of the day:
"Oh sweet baby Jesus, I'm a female anime-type character and I'm being attacked
by tentacles!!! That means there's only one thing that could happen next!!"
- Bimbo Moneymaker, (www.)Exploitation Now(.com)
-----==========-----
Stereotyping at my best...
dleigh 12:48:17 numbat:pts/154:~> to sasimmon
Message: Get rid of the beret! You are *not* an arts student with a goatee.
Message sent to HSentry (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/363.
-=> From HSentry (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/363 at 12:56 :-
no. ur opinion will not determine what i wear. :P :)
-=> From HSentry (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/363 at 12:57 :-
btw - it aint a beret
dleigh 12:58:02 numbat:pts/154:~> to sasimmon
Message: It still looks like a cow crapped on your head.
Message sent to HSentry (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/363.
<...>
dleigh 13:01:06 numbat:pts/154:~> to sasimmon
Message: Don't try to dampen my mood when I'm being obtusely offensive!
Message sent to HSentry (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/363.
-=> From HSentry (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/363 at 13:02 :-
by all means continue your obtusely offensive mood.
dleigh 13:03:00 numbat:pts/154:~> to sasimmon
Message: Excellent. *sends random abuse at international students*
Message sent to HSentry (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/363.
-=> From HSentry (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/363 at 13:03 :-
oi, careful. they're a protected species.
-----==========-----
Fan Mail 2:
> Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 01:25:38 +1000
> From: Emil Mikulic <emikulic>
> To: Dylan Leigh <dleigh>
> Subject: .plan fodder
>
> Well, I thought it would have been.
>
> Marco: "You're Dylan? I read your plan!"
-----==========-----
Fan Mail 1:
> Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 15:06:44 +1000 (EST)
> From: freyes
> To: dleigh
> Subject: .plan
>
> You haven't updated your .plan for 2 days and a bit.
> I'm starting to worry.
-----==========-----
Feng: "Can I have an account [on Disarray]"
Emil: "No."
Feng: "Why?"
Emil: "Cause I don't like you!"
-----==========-----
Too sleepy... I have to stop using the up arrow.
-=> From HSentry (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/119 at 10:47 :-
don't do me for the next tie report :(
-=> From SuperFamicon (mmorriso@numbat) on pts/220 at 11:04 :-
so, have you almost finished with my CD's?
dleigh 11:19:32 numbat:pts/307:~> to sasimmon
Message: Yeah, but I couldnt find you anywhere. I've done one of the theif ones.
Message sent to HSentry (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/145.
dleigh 11:19:53 numbat:pts/307:~> to sasimmon
Message: Fuck, that was meant to go to marcus, sorry.
Message sent to HSentry (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/145.
dleigh 11:20:04 numbat:pts/307:~> to mmorriso
Message: Yeah, but I couldnt find you anywhere. I've done one of the theif ones.
Message sent to SuperFamicon (mmorriso@numbat) on pts/91.
dleigh 11:20:13 numbat:pts/307:~> to mmorriso
Message: I just got the burner working on the weekend.
Message sent to SuperFamicon (mmorriso@numbat) on pts/91.
-=> From HSentry (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/145 at 11:20 :-
u idiot.
dleigh 11:23:54 numbat:pts/307:~> to mmorriso
Message: Fuck you!
Message sent to SuperFamicon (mmorriso@numbat) on pts/91.
dleigh 11:23:59 numbat:pts/307:~> to mmorriso
Message: (sorry, that was meant for Sarah)
Message sent to SuperFamicon (mmorriso@numbat) on pts/91.
dleigh 11:24:07 numbat:pts/307:~> to sasimmon
Message: Shut up.
Message sent to HSentry (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/145.
In other news, my sister's rabbit was trying to fuck my dog on
the weekend. She even felched him once. That is *soooooooo* wrong.
-----==========-----
Sarah : "I'm bored, you haven't updated your .plan"
Coincidence?
> dleigh 14:39:02 numbat:pts/378:~> grep -c '[Ff]uck' .plan
> 33
> dleigh 14:39:07 numbat:pts/378:~> grep -c '[Jj]ava' .plan
> 33
Mark: "I think I'm being told something"
-----==========-----
Dylan : "You can't use somebody else's boot loader!"
Paul : "Why reinvent the wheel?"
Dylan : "Ah... You're writing a new operating system."
Paul : "Good Point."
-----==========-----
Just got an email from the Eng helpdesk informing me that they have
put paper in the 10.8.28 printer - 22 hours after I mailed them :|
Found out what was wrong with our EL131 lab. Geoff realised that I had
put in a twin 4 input nand gate instrad of a quad 2 input nand gate.
Well, I cant read the numbers on the top of the fucking things anyway.
It seems that it's not only Sarah and Mike who quote me out of context:
<Excerpt from malsmith.plan>
>
> dleigh: "I'll top the unicorn!" - hrm.
>
</end>
I'll have my revenge, just you wait...
-----==========-----
Mal : <checks out active processes on numbat>
"Somebody's got their 'vim .plan' happening, I'd better be careful what I say"
-----==========-----
-=> From mihai (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/134 at 16:27 :-
is that all i am to you... .plan fodder?
-----==========-----
-=> From mihai (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/134 at 16:17 :-
this has got to be the biggest, crappest thing i've seen in a long time:
http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/(random)/loth/m/e/meg/unilady1.jpg.html
dleigh 16:18:17 numbat:pts/207:~> to mtarnove
Message: More twisted than I could have imagined. Unicorn fetish or something?
Message sent to mihai (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/134.
-=> From mihai (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/134 at 16:19 :-
i dont know, but it's horrendous
-=> From mihai (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/134 at 16:19 :-
makes me feel sick... how the fuck can anyone draw something like that???
-=> From mihai (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/134 at 16:20 :-
naked elves... now that rules!
dleigh 16:21:28 numbat:pts/207:~> to mtarnove
Message: Yeah, I seem to have developed a fetish for pointed ears. But I
think that is the fault of Star Trek and not the elves =)
Message sent to mihai (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/134.
-----==========-----
I have answered question 1.1 of CO121 assignment 5. Progress!
I then gave up, due to boredom and lack of chocolate.
-----==========-----
dleigh 16:11:43 numbat:pts/207:~> to mtarnove
Message: And you might want to "fix" (hee hee) the buttons on your site
Message sent to mihai (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/134.
-=> From mihai (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/134 at 16:12 :-
lol
-=> From mihai (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/134 at 16:12 :-
yeah, well for now im just getting the design, what do you think of the
lesbians kissing eh?
dleigh 16:12:41 numbat:pts/207:~> to mtarnove
Message: Not bad.
Message sent to mihai (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/134.
dleigh 16:12:53 numbat:pts/207:~> to mtarnove
Message: Do it in a RMITCS lab or something (i.e. use photoshop to merge a pic
of a lab and the lesbians pic)
Message sent to mihai (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/134.
-=> From mihai (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/134 at 16:13 :-
>:) bwhahahahaha!
-----==========-----
dleigh 15:32:14 numbat:pts/207:~> to mtarnove
Message: are you at home?
Message sent to mihai (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/176.
-=> From mihai (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/176 at 15:32 :-
no
-=> From mihai (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/176 at 15:32 :-
i am everywhere
-=> From mihai (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/176 at 15:32 :-
i am the force that surrounds you
dleigh 15:32:59 numbat:pts/207:~> to mtarnove
If that's the case, then you must be at home, since you are everywhere.
Message sent to mihai (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/176.
-=> From mihai (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/176 at 15:33 :-
i am your overwhealming desire to cook
-=> From mihai (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/176 at 15:33 :-
yes
-=> From mihai (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/176 at 15:33 :-
are you implying that i live everywhere?
-=> From mihai (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/176 at 15:34 :-
you can just finger me, and you'll see that im at home
dleigh 15:35:53 numbat:pts/207:~> to mtarnove
Message: How can I finger you if you are at home and I am at uni =)
Message sent to mihai (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/176.
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-=> From mihai (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/176 at 14:59 :-
and i thought i was cryptic
dleigh 15:00:37 numbat:pts/309:~> to mtarnove
Message: You're not cryptic
Message sent to mihai (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/176.
dleigh 15:00:43 numbat:pts/309:~> to mtarnove
Message: FRom now on, you can call me.... "Cryptic Bob"
Message sent to mihai (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/176.
-=> From mihai (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/176 at 15:03 :-
excellent
-=> From mihai (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/176 at 15:03 :-
lol
-=> From mihai (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/176 at 15:03 :-
i was thinking of calling you just that
-----==========-----
My webspace now works in *netscrape* (!)
Well.. the font size is still b0rked, but anyway...
-----==========-----
Sam : "Are you trolling, Dylan?"
Dylan: "Nah, just reading."
Sam : "Trolling."
-----==========-----
Tests today for MA260, DE102 and EL131. Week after holidays blows goats.
Also a CO121 assignment on Friday and we have to fix our EL lab tomorrow.
David has invented a new concpt in sorting - *lossy* sorting (sort of
like lossy compression). His selection sort implementation (in the
CS109 lecture test) finds the minimum value in the array, then
proceeds to set every element of the array to that value.
David : "It sorts it, it just... fucks it up."
-----==========-----
David : <while sarah is typing in her .plan> "What are you quoting me on?"
-----==========-----
-=> From mihai (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/261 at 12:26 :-
i need to show you this new... device that i got
-=> From mihai (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/261 at 12:26 :-
it vibrates
-=> From mihai (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/261 at 12:26 :-
and it has this little know... for depth adjustements
-=> From mihai (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/261 at 12:26 :-
gets charged with the mains... so batteries wont be a problem
-=> From mihai (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/261 at 12:27 :-
you sooooo have to check it out
-=> From mihai (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/261 at 12:27 :-
it's amazing!!!
Anyone stumped fighting Zio (or similar) in Phantasy Star IV
is advised to check the folowing:
http://www.ctcd.cc.tx.us/students/student07/index.htm
As well as the walkthrough (not that useful, the plot is pretty railed)
there are lists of items, techniques and skills, and a extremely handy
guide to combos. Unfortunately all the instant death stuff doesn't work
on bosses.
-----==========-----
Today's Accomplishments:
* Attended CS109 lecure. 1st 10 minutes anyway.
* B0rked EL131 lab.
* Printed out Java Mock Test and solutions. Progress!
-----==========-----
Score!
--------------------------------------------
Your account filespace is 69 % full
--------------------------------------------
I'd better archive last semester's stuff.
-----==========-----
"You've probably stopped checking out links in my .plan, but..."
Yet another unproductive holiday day.
Have been playing Fallout 2 and BattleZone, blatantly ignoring
the upcoming CS109 exam.
Made progress on cleaning room : Picked up a few bits of paper, put in bin.
Attepmted to get SFGA site working under IE4.
Attempt lasted 30 seconds. Gave up.
-----==========-----
Currently rediscovering Fallout 1 and 2.
Currently ignoring pending work:
- Backlog of DE101 crap. (A few hours or so)
- CO121 assignment. (A few hours or so)
- Mess my room is in :( Shit.
> RMIT Student News No.013 - Friday, 27 September 2002
>
<snip>
>
> CONTENTS
>
> The full text of this newsletter is available at
> www.rmit.edu.au/students/bulletin013
>
<snip>
>
> 3. See Goldmember and support RMIT fashion students
That's just so wrong.
-----==========-----
And with this...
> dleigh 0:36:31 numbat:pts/28:~> to mtarnove
> Message: nearly 5000 lines!!
> Message sent to <-=[Baka Man]=-> (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/120.
>
> dleigh 0:36:42 numbat:pts/28:~> to mtarnove
> Message: ".plan" 4983L, 153630C written
> Message sent to <-=[Baka Man]=-> (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/120.
>
> -=> From <-=[Baka Man]=-> (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/120 at 00:53 :-
> no comment
>
> -=> From <-=[Baka Man]=-> (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/120 at 00:53 :-
> wow... another 27 lines
>
> -=> From <-=[Baka Man]=-> (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/120 at 00:53 :-
> ah... i mean 17
>
> -=> From <-=[Baka Man]=-> (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/120 at 00:53 :-
> im tired... can't do math
... I'm now over the 5000 line mark! (Marx!)
-----==========-----
Er...
> dleigh 0:34:12 numbat:pts/28:~> flon
<snip>
> You are logged on twice.
> There are 36 users logged on.
>
> dleigh 0:34:17 numbat:pts/28:~> to dleigh
> Message: testing 123
> to: You are only logged on once.
-----==========-----
<...>
-=> From <-=[Baka Man]=-> (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/120 at 00:22 :-
i know i know... .plan fodder
dleigh 0:25:10 numbat:pts/28:~> to mtarnove
Message: nah, you aren't making enough of a fool of yourself =)
Message sent to <-=[Baka Man]=-> (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/120.
-=> From <-=[Baka Man]=-> (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/120 at 00:26 :-
phew
-=> From <-=[Baka Man]=-> (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/120 at 00:26 :-
thats a history maker
dleigh 0:26:39 numbat:pts/28:~> to mtarnove
Message: However, that last comment is good enough
Message sent to <-=[Baka Man]=-> (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/120.
-=> From <-=[Baka Man]=-> (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/120 at 00:27 :-
i knew it... i knew it!!!!!!!!!!
-=> From <-=[Baka Man]=-> (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/120 at 00:27 :-
dammit... is there no justice in this world
Jarrva assignment 2 handed in. Ahar.
Must... finish.. MA260... weblearn.. tests...
-----==========-----
dleigh 17:08:37 numbat:pts/106:~/cs109/assign2> to sasimmon
Message: Hmmm.. just deleted the check, wrote a different one that should do the
same thing, and now it works... No idea what was wrong.
Message sent to HSentry (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/227.
-=> From HSentry (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/227 at 17:09 :- s>
that's java 4 u :\
-----==========-----
I would like to aplogise to David, Sarah, Mike and Francis for being
uneccecarily violent yesterday. On the other hand, Mike *did* shoot
me in the ass with a blowgun, so I was provoked.
-----==========-----
From David's .plan:
> -=> From Synapse (dleigh@numbat) on pts/118 at 21:44 :-
> w00t! 9:45 and they havent kicked me out
>
> 21:45 > flon
> dleigh | dylan | Sep 26 18:48 | ... | pts/118 | OnTalk
>
> 21:45 > to dleigh Message: they've been really lazy recently
> to: Synapse (dleigh) isn't logged on.
Wah! <cries>
Yay, parser done. All I need to do now is:
- Driver Class
- Uneccesary Exceptions
- Uneccesary Accessors
- Uneccesary Comments
- Richard's Assignment ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H
- Francis's Assignment ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H
- Mike's Assignment ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H
-----==========-----
dleigh 20:38:30 numbat:pts/118:~> to emikulic
Message: Fuck, ive been here since EL131, I've done half a class and an exceptoin
Message sent to Emil Mikulic (emikulic@numbat) on pts/254.
-----==========-----
Richard : "You know how dumb I am, can you answer some of my questions?"
-----==========-----
Dylan : "Is that all I am to you? Just your assignment whore?"
Mike / Francis : "Yes"
-----==========-----
Mal was wearing a black top today. Look like he's come over from
the dark side (or should that be come over *to* the dark side? :)
-----==========-----
Today's stupid mistake:
CommandList.java:22: cannot return a value from method whose result type is void
public void getHead() { return head; }
<dleigh smacks forehead>
-----==========-----
-=> From geoffwa (ggiesema@numbat) on pts/41 at 17:58 :-
did I mention? my java assignment will overwrite files, even if you haven't
set write perms! muahaha!
dleigh 17:58:49 numbat:pts/5:~> to ggiesema
Message: l337 java hax0r!
-----==========-----
Java fuck-up of the day, by David (one of his best, IMHO):
> if
> {
> command.substring(0,command.indexOf(" ")).compareTo(" ") == 0;
> {
> else if.....
(b0rkage David, taken from Sarah's .plan)
-----==========-----
Mike : "Every time I try to ask you something you put it in your .plan"
Dylan: <typing> "Every... Time..."
Mike : "Aw, fuck you."
-----==========-----
Mike : "If you dont stop putting me in your .plan, I'm going to touch you"
Dylan: "Do you mean static shock touch, or baaayn touch?"
Mike : "Baaayn."
Dylan: "Uh Oh."
-----==========-----
Mike : "We have less than 24 hours before we have to hand this in"
Dylan: "Actually, we have a bit more than 24 hours"
Mike : "Yeah, I know. It just sounded cool"
-----==========-----
<mike enters "javac TurtleDriver.java" on the command line>
Mike : "Come on, Come on..."
<mike reads output from Java "compiler">
Mike : "Fuck You!"
On the .torc name / real name debacle:
Stop [ab]using my name! -- Emil (the real one, as in emikulic@numbat)
-----==========-----
David : "What kind of a fucked-up programming language is this"
(while trying to fix a 'feature' in his Jarrrva assignment
involving BufferedReader, Printwriter and exception handling)
-----==========-----
I've been up for nearly 48 hours straight, divided into Java,
Starcraft : Brood Wars, and reading Megatokyo.
The second item is particularly interesting, as I dont like RTS much...
I think it's the strong emphasis on plot/storyline that's doing it.
-----==========-----
It looks like Sarah has got back at me for quoting her out of context:
> Dylan: I had a bath last night. First one in five years.
> Sarah: That's going in my .plan
> Dyaln: Oh, shit... oh no!!
(I haven't had a *bath* for many years because I have *showers* instead)
-----==========-----
Excerpt from David's Jarrva assignment (paraphrased) :
> LinkedList.getHead(getCommand(getCommand(ApplyCommand(turtle))))
dleigh : throw(ConvolutedFunctionCallException())
-----==========-----
-=> From SuperFamicon (mmorriso@numbat) on pts/38 at 17:15 :-
done yer jarrva?
dleigh 17:16:33 numbat:pts/208:~> to mmorriso
Message: nevvvarrrrr!
Message sent to SuperFamicon (mmorriso@numbat) on pts/38.
-----==========-----
<mtarnove gives dleigh the finger>
Mike : "Stick that in your .plan, asshole!"
Dylan : "OK."
-----==========-----
<mtarnove approaches dleigh's terminal drumming on his knees with chopsticks>
Dylan : "Uh... Are you okay?"
Mike : <shakes head> "I'm gonna spank you silly."
<dleigh enters "vim .plan">
Mike : <stops drumming>
"Oh No! Can't we have just one normal conversation where... "
-----==========-----
Stupid programming mistake of the Day (Week? Month?)
Declaring my constructors as private.
-----==========-----
Yes, I have actually made progress on Java... I've even
started *coding* it now.
-----==========-----
Hmmm... I seem to have gained about 5kg overnight and lost a few feet
in height... or maybe I'm just delusional, or paranoid about my height/
weight ratio...
-----==========-----
Much angst on rmit.cs.gripe (not strange) but this time its about
stuff close to home (which is strange!)
-----==========-----
-=> From Francis Mark Reyes (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/164 at 10:07 :-
next time you want to come, just finger me
Pantsola.
> dleigh 20:17:54 numbat:pts/88:~/wip/xlib> g++ xflon.cpp
> dleigh 20:17:56 numbat:pts/88:~/wip/xlib> a.out
>
> Counting entries...
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
(Looks like I've forgotten which C/C++ string / file handling
functions allocate their own memory and which don't :)
-----==========-----
(Note the timestamp :)
-=> From HSentry (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/183 at 20:11 :-
dylan - how can i put this nicely? GO HOME! :P :)
dleigh 20:13:04 numbat:pts/229:~> to sasimmon
Message: no.
Message sent to HSentry (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/183.
-=> From HSentry (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/183 at 20:13 :-
*pfft* is 4 ur own good u know
dleigh 20:14:49 numbat:pts/229:~> to sasimmon
Message: Hey, I'm losing weight sitting here at the labs at uni. If I was at
home I would be eating stuff.
Message sent to HSentry (sasimmon@numbat) on pts/183.
Update : about an hour after this I went home and ate at
least 1kg of Spaghetti.. told her so...
-----==========-----
-=> From Emil Mikulic (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/205 at 20:07 :-
you'll probably be burried deep in the newsgroups when your wife is having a
baby!
dleigh 20:08:09 numbat:pts/229:~> to mtarnove
Naw, I'll be busily typing "Its a girl/boy" into my .plan
Message sent to Emil Mikulic (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/205.
<...>
-=> From Emil Mikulic (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/205 at 20:10 :-
im just going to shut the hell up... my 6th sense tells me you just put me in
your .plan again.
-=> From Emil Mikulic (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/205 at 20:11 :-
i think you're turning me into a mutant... i can join the xmen... Rogue: so
Mike, you hot sexy man, I'll have sex with you if you tell me what powers you
have.
-=> From Emil Mikulic (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/205 at 20:12 :-
Mike: Erm... (pants, mike things to himself... this is NOT going to impress
the ladies)... i erm... i can sense when Dylan Leigh updates his .plan and
includes my rantings!
-=> From Emil Mikulic (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/205 at 20:13 :-
then rogue would say: oh, mike... I have a nice little .plan, wont you
finger me?
-----==========-----
Not only have I glanced at the CS109 Assignment 2 specs last
Friday, I printed them out today. Now *that's* progress.
I now have 2 full days to actually do the assignment.
-----==========-----
Just did one each CS109 and MA260 weblearn tests. I got 10/10 for
Maths and 9/10 for Jarrrva. That's just wrong :(
-----==========-----
-=> From Emil Mikulic (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/247 at 19:00 :-
im going to have a shower now
-=> From Emil Mikulic (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/247 at 19:00 :-
...i hope this turns you on
-=> From Emil Mikulic (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/247 at 19:00 :-
>;)
dleigh 19:01:05 numbat:pts/229:~> to mtarnove
Message: You are a sick, sick bastard.
Message sent to Emil Mikulic (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/247.
dleigh 19:01:10 numbat:pts/229:~> to mtarnove
Message: And ths is going in the .plan
Message sent to Emil Mikulic (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/247.
-=> From Emil Mikulic (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/247 at 19:01 :-
damn... not again
<dleigh types this shit in>
dleigh 19:02:31 numbat:pts/229:~> to mtarnove
Message: read it and weep ;)
Message sent to Emil Mikulic (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/247.
-=> From Emil Mikulic (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/247 at 19:02 :-
...
<...>
-=> From Emil Mikulic (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/247 at 19:04 :-
well ella re, its time for me to go and get wet
-=> From Emil Mikulic (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/247 at 19:04 :-
damn
Message: Baayn
Message sent to Emil Mikulic (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/247.
-----==========-----
Hey, if you stand at a distance, squint, and use Opera on CS terminals,
my website looks like a blue X-logo thingy. Sort of.
I really need to do some work.
-----==========-----
Todays out-of-context-quote-from-sasimmon's-.plan
"Four. It went from two to three and now there's _another_ one
I'm ment to take. And one is really big and hard to swollow.
I remember as a kid... I could neva get them down my throat.
Kept choking."
Spelling mistakes by sasimmon
Sick minds from dleigh/emikulic/mtarnove
-----==========-----
Emil : "Java Assignment - I haven't finished it yet."
Dylan: "I haven't started it yet."
-----==========-----
The username/realname thing is gong crazy:
dleigh 17:02:27 numbat:pts/194:~> to emikulic
Message: nice work.
Message sent to Emil Mikulic (emikulic@numbat) on pts/58.
-=> From Dylan Leigh (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/22 at 17:03 :-
hi
-=> From Dylan Leigh (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/22 at 17:03 :-
my name is dylan
-=> From Dylan Leigh (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/22 at 17:03 :-
and i erm... like cookies :)
dleigh 17:05:38 numbat:pts/194:~> to mtarnove
Message: Mmmmm.... coookies :)
Message sent to Emil Mikulic (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/22.
<...>
dleigh 16:59:40 numbat:pts/194:~> to emikulic
Message: Revenge is sweet :)
Message sent to David Marshall (emikulic@numbat) on pts/58.
-----==========-----
More fun with xflon, .friends and fscanf():
> Loop: 4
> Username: aassafir
> Nickname: amin
>
> Loop: 5
> Username: mmorriso
> Nickname: marcus
<snip>
> Loop: 25
> Username: -
> Nickname: cs108
>
> Loop: 26
> Username: charles
> Nickname: charles
>
> Loop: 27
> Username: theva
> Nickname: -
>
> Loop: 28
> Username: cs108
> Nickname: rdurrant
*dleigh forgets to account for blank newlines in .friends*
-----==========-----
Fun with xflon, .friends and fscanf():
> Username: cs108 Nickname: rdurrant
*dleigh forgets to account for whitespace in nicknames*
-----==========-----
From freyes.plan:
> -- 3:33pm --
> -=> From EgoIntensive (dmarshal@numbat) on pts/240 at 15:32 :-
> thinking about you starving sometimes makes me want to have sex with my
> hand. sometimes.
Just asked David, and he reckons Emil used his terminal to write this.
Well, that explains the starving bit.
-----==========-----
-=> From <--==[BeKa MaN]==--> (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/195 at 16:07 :-
im not in it am i?
-=> From <--==[BeKa MaN]==--> (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/195 at 16:07 :-
cause if i'm not, i've just made history!
-=> From <--==[BeKa MaN]==--> (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/195 at 16:08 :-
first day that i fail to be included in your plan! excellent...
-----==========-----
Bahahahaha!!!
> dleigh 16:04:52 numbat:pts/194:~> to mtarnove
> Message: Hi, I'm in a CO121 lab agin *sighs*
> Message sent to Emil Mikulic (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/195.
Crap.
> dleigh 14:47:12 numbat:pts/85:~/wip/xlib> g++ xflon.cpp -lX11
> dleigh 14:47:24 numbat:pts/85:~/wip/xlib> a.out
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
If this keeps up, I'll have to start my Java assignment.
-----==========-----
EDSBLA is back in EL131, though she seems to have mellowed somewhat.
We managed to do our Demo and leave the lab during the first hour.
Wermacht has revealed that he follows a football team.
I have now lost all respect for him.
In context quote of the Day:
"No, if you have superstitions, that's bad luck"
- Candadian boxer Eric Lucas, asked if he was superstitious.
Out of Context quote of the Day:
Sarah: <to Paul> "I've got a big bruise from the last time you did that."
-----==========-----
This could be a historic occasion. Today, Word actually autoformatted
something the way I wanted it!
Update : kicked out at 9:45.
9:42 and not kicked out yet. The CS dept. must be going soft.
-----==========-----
-=> From Cincinnati Bearcat (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/156 at 20:52 :-
why do you have the iq of a peanut
dleigh 20:53:04 numbat:pts/183:~> to mtarnove
Message: mmmmm... peanut... tasty.
Message sent to Cincinnati Bearcat (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/156.
-=> From Cincinnati Bearcat (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/156 at 20:53 :-
lol
-=> From Cincinnati Bearcat (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/156 at 20:53 :-
you shouldnt eat a peanut... that would be cannibalism
dleigh 20:54:25 numbat:pts/183:~> to mtarnove
Message: that's below the belt. And besides, I eat myself occasionally.
Message sent to Cincinnati Bearcat (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/156.
-=> From Cincinnati Bearcat (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/156 at 20:54 :-
eat yourself... fuck man i wish i could do that... how do you go down so low?
-=> From Cincinnati Bearcat (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/156 at 20:55 :-
i can never bend my neck far enough to reach 'it'.
dleigh 21:02:04 numbat:pts/183:~> to mtarnove
Message: Not like that - I was referring to the fact that I tend to bite into
the surrounding skin when I bite my nails, soetimes to the point of drawing
blood.
Message sent to Cincinnati Bearcat (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/156.
-=> From Cincinnati Bearcat (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/156 at 21:02 :-
oh
-=> From Cincinnati Bearcat (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/156 at 21:02 :-
well i must have fantasized... erm i mean... missunderstoof
to mtarnove
Message: .plan fodder
Message sent to Cincinnati Bearcat (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/156.
-=> From Cincinnati Bearcat (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/156 at 21:03 :-
crap
-=> From Cincinnati Bearcat (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/156 at 21:03 :-
im just as dumb as the aforementioned peanut
<...>
-=> From Cincinnati Bearcat (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/156 at 21:05 :-
dylan... how much money does it take to stay out of your .plan?
<...>
dleigh 20:52:47 numbat:pts/183:~> to mtarnove
BTW, you are supposed to bend your back more than your neck
Message sent to Cincinnati Bearcat (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/156.
-=> From Cincinnati Bearcat (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/156 at 21:06 :-
oh... well i must have been doing it wrong all along then
dleigh 21:07:31 numbat:pts/183:~> to mtarnove
Message: Here : http://www.attrition.org/gallery/priceless/tn/self_felatio.jpg.html
Message sent to Cincinnati Bearcat (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/156.
-=> From Cincinnati Bearcat (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/156 at 21:09 :-
fuck you
dleigh 21:09:27 numbat:pts/183:~> to mtarnove
Message: What? Do you want a diagram or something?
Message sent to Cincinnati Bearcat (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/156.
<...>
-=> From Cincinnati Bearcat (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/156 at 21:09 :-
im thinking... if hypothetically you failed to exist.. i.e. i kill you, then
there would be no more notorious .plan
-=> From Cincinnati Bearcat (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/156 at 21:10 :-
hmmm... i have some connections... like uncle Tony
<...>
dleigh 21:11:43 numbat:pts/183:~> to mtarnove
Message: What was wrong with the picture, anyway?
Message sent to Cincinnati Bearcat (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/156.
-=> From Cincinnati Bearcat (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/156 at 21:12 :-
i didnt need to see it... that what!
dleigh 21:13:08 numbat:pts/183:~> to mtarnove
Message: Why didn't you want to see it? It's like a HOW-TO guide.
Message sent to Cincinnati Bearcat (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/156.
-=> From Cincinnati Bearcat (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/156 at 21:13 :-
becase i was in the middle of eating my dinner!!!
dleigh 21:16:09 numbat:pts/183:~> to mtarnove
Message: http://www.google.com/url?q=http://tracking.cashpartner.com/click.cgi
%3Fbp%3Dgoogle-gay-bottom%26bc%3Dself_fellatio&sa=A&ai=dcgevcs:a:enbrg:byfui:
pgp:fyi:nkrxa:dy:dixhdle:bvpz:bpelgba:busq:ohlmq
Message sent to Cincinnati Bearcat (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/156.
dleigh 21:16:12 numbat:pts/183:~> to mtarnove
Message: http://www.google.com/url?q=http://tracking.cashpartner.com/click.cgi%
3Fbp%3Dgoogle-gay-top%26bc%3Dself_fellatio&sa=A&ai=idmzzwu:a:emale:bxftu:pgo:
fyi:nkrxa:dx:dixhdle:bvpz:bpelgba:busq:ohlmq
Message sent to Cincinnati Bearcat (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/156.
-=> From Cincinnati Bearcat (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/156 at 21:17 :-
dylan... stop it
-=> From Cincinnati Bearcat (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/156 at 21:17 :-
you always worry me, however you're really worrying me now!
dleigh 21:18:09 numbat:pts/183:~> to mtarnove
Message: baayn
Message sent to Cincinnati Bearcat (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/156.
dleigh 21:19:49 numbat:pts/183:~> to mtarnove
Message: http://www.sexed.org/askme/askme65.html
Message sent to Cincinnati Bearcat (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/156.
dleigh 21:23:09 numbat:pts/183:~> to mtarnove
Message: http://www.senorsex.com/senor20.shtml
Message sent to Cincinnati Bearcat (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/156.
-=> From Cincinnati Bearcat (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/156 at 21:23 :-
ahem... i dont intend to get my account suspended!
dleigh 21:24:32 numbat:pts/183:~> to mtarnove
Message: http://www.senorsex.com/senor.shtml
Message sent to Cincinnati Bearcat (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/156.
<...>
-=> From Cincinnati Bearcat (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/156 at 21:27 :-
damn... i wish i had a 7cm long tongue
<...>
dleigh 21:30:32 numbat:pts/183:~> to mtarnove
Do you know anywhere where you can do flexibitity *cough* classes?
Message sent to Cincinnati Bearcat (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/156.
-=> From Cincinnati Bearcat (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/156 at 21:31 :-
hmm.. no but im interested in finding out
<...>
dleigh 21:37:07 numbat:pts/183:~> to mtarnove
Message: Maybe if you did some yoga and learned how to do that, then you
wouldn't worry about chicks anymore
Message sent to Cincinnati Bearcat (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/220.
-=> From Cincinnati Bearcat (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/220 at 21:38 :-
dude... you're right!
-=> From Cincinnati Bearcat (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/220 at 21:38 :-
but nah... i heard chicks do it the best
dleigh 21:39:26 numbat:pts/183:~> to mtarnove
Message: I'm so inflexible, its a bit of a lost cause for me.
Message sent to Cincinnati Bearcat (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/220.
dleigh 21:39:39 numbat:pts/183:~> to mtarnove
Message: And being short/fat/ugly/etc. the chicks thing is also a lost cause
Message sent to Cincinnati Bearcat (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/220.
-=> From Cincinnati Bearcat (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/220 at 21:39 :-
lol...
-=> From Cincinnati Bearcat (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/220 at 21:40 :-
if i was a chick ill go for you
dleigh 21:40:25 numbat:pts/183:~> to mtarnove
Not sure whether to be worried, insulted or compimented
Message sent to Cincinnati Bearcat (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/220.
-=> From Cincinnati Bearcat (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/220 at 21:40 :-
youre ... how can i put this... charming
-=> From Cincinnati Bearcat (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/220 at 21:40 :-
funny, a character that would be cool to spend time with
-=> From Cincinnati Bearcat (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/220 at 21:41 :-
take it whichever way you want... i meant the best
dleigh 21:41:24 numbat:pts/183:~> to mtarnove
Message: I'll take worried but complimented then.
Message sent to Cincinnati Bearcat (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/220.
-=> From Cincinnati Bearcat (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/220 at 21:41 :-
yeah... that would probably be it
-----==========-----
Given a choice between working on my CO121 assignemnt 4 (due tomorrow),
CS109 assignment 2 (due soom) or xflon (when it's done), I'm doing xflon.
Update : sick of X coding and trying to get utmpx to speak to me, so
I'm doing the CO assignment now.
Update : sick of CO assignment, back to xflon.
Update : sick of getutxent(), back to CO121.
-----==========-----
Went to some horrible Mathematics-in-football thing at
Hannah's school last night. Most of the other parents/guardians
seemed to have less math skills than their 4th grade kids.
We had to answer all these questions like
"If Bob kicked 3 goals less than Fred and Fred kicked twice
as many goals as Bob, how many goals did they get each?"
I managed to explain to her how pronumeral algebra works, so the
night wasn't entirely wasted.
-----==========-----
<java swing rant>
It's an abstraction layer for an abstraction layer!
</rant>
<java rant>
Sun Java developer:
"It's going to be interpreted, so lets's ban jumps and
force object oriented programming on everybody to make
it even slower!"
</rant>
Stuff to do:
CO121 assignment 4
CS109 assignment 2
CS109 test revision
MA260 weblearn tests
Stuff done:
Finished 1st cathedral mission of Theif
Finished Virtua Cop 2 on SD mode (heehee)
Finished Terran Starcraft campaign
All my academic delays are mmorriso's fault.
-----==========-----
No updates for 5 days. I was sick, it's not my fault.
Email backlogs, NG backlogs, disArray backlogs, backlog backlogs....
Kicked out of scheutz at 9:45! Must be slow on Friday or something...
-----==========-----
Fri Sep 13 21:37:54 EST 2002
dleigh | Thyself | Sep 13 19:39 | ... | ttyp4 | OnTalk
dleigh | Thyself | Sep 13 21:37 | ... | pts/188 | NoTalk
dmarshal | david | Sep 13 20:00 | 46:06 | pts/38 | NoTalk
freyes | francis | Sep 13 19:38 | ... | ttyp0 | OnTalk
freyes | francis | Sep 13 21:10 | 13:47 | pts/168 | NoTalk
</end>
Yay! Francis is still with me at 9:38.
-----==========-----
Apparrently, I have some eager fans:
http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&group=alt.sex.dylan
&selm=eB8d9.18805%24VW5.17984%40nwrddc02.gnilink.net
(warning, not perticularly safe for work/uni/school)
-----==========-----
21:27 at scheutz lab:
CO121 assignment 4 work done: 0
CS109 assignment 2 work done: 0
xflon work done : 0
SFGA threading work done : 0
Total work done: 0
-----==========-----
May implement threading on SFGA, talking with freyes
and I thought of a way to do it without b0rking
the current format (so old shit is still compatible).
Could also convert the whole thing to SQL...
would make it much easier...
Wondering if there would be any market for an
xbiff equivalent for flon (visual indicator).
Freyes wants me to implement this, too.
-----==========-----
Note to self: going home at 9:30 from a CS lab on Friday
the 13th is probably not a good idea.
-----==========-----
EL131 Mid-semester test update
Prognosis : good.
Question 1 (Diodes) 2 minutes.
Question 2 (Diodes) 2 minutes.
Question 3 (Op Amps) 2 minutes.
Question 4 (Bipolars) 30 minutes.
Question 5 (Bipolars) 20 minutes.
-----==========-----
David : <to Dylan> "You suck"
<David looks at bottom of his (optical) mouse>
David : "AAHHH! My Eyes!"
-----==========-----
Custom ranks on SFGA.... what have I done?
http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~dleigh/sfga
-----==========-----
Marcus: "Have you done the Java assignment yet?"
Dylan: "I haven't looked at the specifications yet."
-----==========-----
EL131 exam soon... and I've forgotten what's on it... crap.
I'm in 5.3.1. Crapola.
-----==========-----
For those who didn't watch BackBerner last night:
Changes since September 11 #6.
You can now see the statue of liberty from 42nd street!
Hmmm... Peter Burton is our EL131 Digital Lecturer.
Good Points: - Genius.
- Speaks English well.
Bad Points: - Wears a brown jacket every day.
- Keeps referrring to formulae, circuit elements
and subatomic particles as "guys".
-----==========-----
Mike : "I hope you have nothing to quote me on [in your .plan] today."
Fwooah! > 4000 lines. And more than an eighth of a million bytes.
-----==========-----
From now on, I'll be putting the tie report in the .plan as
well as reporting to the Daily Diff.
http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~dmarshal
The latest one (should have been Friday 6th):
CO121 lecturer
White *short sleeve* shirt, Grey v-neck wool sweater,
Necktie (green polka-dots on navy blue).
Short sleeved shirts should not be worn with ties
after you leave high school.
Sweaters should not be worn with ties, period.
Dont get me started on the tie.
-----==========-----
Tie reports 1-3:
1. (Friday, August 30, 2002)
EL131 Tutor
Dark Brown Coudroy Jacket, Red shirt, Grey Chinos.
Significant colour matching problems here. The shirt is an improvement
over the variety worn in the past few weeks (green-brown-grey? ewww.),
but there is much room for improvement. It should be noted that
nothing goes with grey (except more grey). The jacket needs to
be burnt. Brown is dead.
2. (Monday, September 2, 2002)
Tom Bergin, DE102 lecturer
Charcoal Double-Breasted Suit, White Shirt, Plain necktie.
Fwooah! Talk about conservative. White shirts are to be avoided at all
costs (especially when you are lecturing "Engineering Design and
*Innovation*") Although there was recently a double-breasted comeback,
the double layer of fabric and peaked lapels does not suit
someone of Tom's, er... girth.
3. (Friday, September 6, 2002)
Some Guy, Scheutz lab
Grape Shirt, Black Pants, Repeater Necktie.
Although the crisp grape shirt was mildly enthralling,
the ensemble was utterly ruined by the appalling choice of
neckwear. Also, one must consider that no jacket was
included - an essential for authoritative businesswear.
-----==========-----
As usual, I've disturbed sensibilites on rmit.cs.gripe.
Peter Watkins <pwatkins> wrote:
> Fine, you people rock up with whatever free-for-all equipment
> you want to use, and I'll rock up with an FN Minimi :-)
> Not that I'd need it to knock over a few weeds, just that I
> think the crowd would dig it.
So, us terrorists are palinning to bring a couple of 747s...
<...>
Paul Dunn <dpaul>
Dylan Leigh <dleigh> wrote:
> So, us terrorists are palinning to bring a couple of 747s...
That was in bad taste.
-----==========-----
Is it just me, or is the fact the Marcus's *links* page is 404 funny?
http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~mmorriso/links.htm
(by the time you read this, he robably will have,
too, so the page may be there)
-----==========-----
While evaluating dleigh/share/wallpaper/sunny01.jpg as a background.
(Image courtesy izzo)
Mike: "She's hot, too."
Dylan: "Uh... She's not real, Mike."
Mike: "So?"
-----==========-----
Sick of all this 9-11 shit already.
Finished both Virtua Cop 2 and House of the Dead last night.
I will remain on my diet.
I WILL remain on my diet.
I will remain on my DIET.
I will not eat fried food.
I will not pay homage to the gods of Hungry Jacks or Fast Track.
<sighs>
-----==========-----
(5 point plan) Demands from Engineering students:
- Unix accounts for all undergrads
- Paper for all printers
- Toner for all printers
- Chairs for all labs
- Prefix "EEET" replaced with "l33t"
Still here at 9:37. Slow night, obviously.
Still here at 9:33, counting off the seconds till
an admin or helpdesk gimp comes in here to kick me out.
-----==========-----
As I am still in the lab at 9:31, the probability that I will
show up for tomorrow morning's lectures is rapidly shrinking,
given the demands of sleep.
-----==========-----
I cant believe Marcus gave me all that software and I didn't
go home early to install it. Don't think I'm ungrateful or
anything, CD who.. I mean, Marcus, because I'm *very* grateful.
I'll put them on tomorrow.
I'll do everything tomorrow.
I like the sound of that.
-----==========-----
Nobody wants to speak to me :(
<ud>
dleigh | Thyself | Sep 9 20:38 | ... | pts/78 | NoTalk
dleigh | Thyself | Sep 9 16:28 | ... | ttypb | OnTalk
emikulic | emil | Sep 9 19:53 | 09:31 | pts/26 | NoTalk
mtarnove | mihai | Sep 9 20:29 | 05:39 | pts/102 | NoTalk
You are logged on twice.
There are 92 users logged on.
There are no messages in your incoming mailbox.
</end>
I'm lonely, sitting in Scheutz all alone, without even the
sound of other people typing to keep me company...
-----==========-----
In a record for the SFGA site, there are 2 non-admins who
have posted a frontpage article in the forum.
http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~dleigh/sfga/forum.php
-----==========-----
Cortesy Humorrhoids:
A Vermont native, Ronald Demuth, found himself in a difficult
position yesterday. While touring the Eagle's Rock African Safari
(Zoo) with a group of thespians from St. Petersburg, Russia,
Mr. Demuth went overboard to show them one of America's many
marvels. He demonstrated the effectiveness of "Crazy Glue"...
the hard way.
Apparently, Mr. Demuth wanted to demonstrate just how good the
adhesive was, so he put about 3 ounces of the adhesive in the palms
of his hands, and jokingly placed them on the buttocks of a passing
rhino. The rhino, a resident of the zoo for the past thirteen years,
was not initially startled as it has been part of the petting exhibit
since its arrival as a baby. However, once it became aware of its
being involuntarily stuck to Mr. Demuth, it began to panic and ran
around the petting area wildly making Mr. Demuth an unintended passenger.
"Sally [the rhino] hasn't been feeling well lately. She had been very
constipated. We had just given her a laxative and some depressants
to relax her bowels, when Mr. Demuth played his juvenile prank," said
James Douglass, caretaker. During Sally's tirade two fences were
destroyed, a shed wall was gored, and a number of small animals
escaped. Also, during the stampede, three pygmy goats and one duck
were stomped to death.
As for Demuth, it took a team of medics and zoo caretakers' to remove
his hands from her buttocks. First, the animal had to be captured and
calmed down. However, during this process the laxatives began to take
hold and Mr. Demuth was repeatedly showered with over 30 gallons of
rhino diarrhea.
"It was tricky. We had to calm her down, while at the same time shield
our faces from being pelted with rhino dung. I guess you could say
that Mr. Demuth was into it up to his neck. Once she was under
control, we had three people with shovels working to keep an air
passage open for Mr. Demuth. We were able to tranquilize her and apply
a solvent to remove his hands from her rear," said Douglass. "I
don't think he'll be playing with Crazy Glue for a while."
1999 Darwin Award Runner Up
<...>
A Boise, Idaho, eighth-grade teacher apologized for assigning
his kids the math problem of calculating how much gas Nazis
needed to fill a gas chamber.
-----==========-----
Safeway in Belgrave appears to have stopped selling cocoa. :(
This puts a considerable dint in my diet.
Anybody tells me where I can find a good supply of high quality
powder, and I will make them something with the first batch.
-----==========-----
Sites of the day:
http://cmhs.utoledo.edu/npiazza/humor/humorrhoids.htm -funny
http://www.rockandrollbadboy.com/photos1.html - no make-up
http://www.dontlink.com/ - Stupid linking policies
http://www.theoldcomputer.com/Libarary's/tv_adverts_summary.htm
- Oldskool computer TV ads. Requires realmedia :(
-----==========-----
I cant believe I've spent the whole night in
this lab and no work has been done.
Hmmmm. If I sit in the lab all the time I can't eat...
maybe I can lose weight this way, or starve to death.
Either one looks like a good outcome.
-----==========-----
mtarnove (as a pwatkins disciple) got a mention
in the hallowed .plan of izzo.
finger izzo
-----==========-----
I probably should be doing my CS109 assignment. Ne re, its not
due for a while. Or doing something...
-----==========-----
Top 5 ways to kill youself in a CS lab:
- Jump out window. Most CS labs are high enough.
- Hang self by blue DNA cable-thingys
- Provoke the person next to you into a vim/emacs argument,
until they crack and strangle you to death.
- Punch fist through monitor (electrocution)
- Attempt to steal something. Before you get out the door,
Security will shoot you.
Yeah, i know, 2 of them don't count as real suicide attempts
cos you get someone else to kill you, but I'm bored,
despondent, depressed, and sitting in a CS lab...
-----==========-----
dleigh 18:45:35 numbat:ttypb:~> to dmarshal
Message: I'm bored and sitting in a lab all by myself and its all YOUR FAULT!
Message sent to EgoIntensive (dmarshal@numbat) on pts/255.
-----==========-----
dleigh 17:46:00 numbat:ttypb:~> to dmarshal
Message: http://www.dungeonofmagic.com.au/david-marshall-couches/
Message sent to EgoIntensive (dmarshal@numbat) on pts/255.
-=> From EgoIntensive (dmarshal@numbat) on pts/255 at 17:46 :-
bwhahaha.....prahran tech
-=> From EgoIntensive (dmarshal@numbat) on pts/255 at 17:47 :-
can i sue him for using my name?
-----==========-----
1 spare hour (from my EL131 lab - finished early) and 20 minutes after
the MA260 lecture and I've almost caught up with the backlog of posts
an email.
-----==========-----
And if you are wondering... I ate stacks over the
weekend, the sort of diet thing sort of failed.
But I had lunch at Melb Central today and I managed to
avoid the fattening allure of creamy veal tortellini, so
there is hope.
I had "calamari" rings instead. The amount of squid
in the rings was questionable. Emil had McDonalds(tm)
as usual. Unimaginative. Bah.
-----==========-----
In the 1 hour before the Java lecture, I've just managed to cathc up on
DisArray, read my email (but not act on it or reply) read about 10% of the
NG posts and write this.... need ISP.... now....
Finished copying out maths notes from Emil's book during the CO121 lecture.
Actually paid some attention to the lecture too. A first.
-----==========-----
As of today, I am going on a diet, to try to lose the 10kg I've gained
since I started uni. It must be the lifts, and the lack of marching
with a 10kg tuba :)
And since I'm announcing this in the almighty .plan, I'd better
follow through with this one.... no more chocolate >:[
-----==========-----
As usual, I'm doing my CO121 assignment in my CS109 Jarrrrva lab.
I'm not sure which subject has the more boring material.
Actually, the maze thing looks sort of interesting. I guess
CS109 wins.
Unbelievably, I'm actually doing my CO121 assignment...
-----==========-----
mtarnove: "Will you people stop quoting me?"
mtarnove: <watches me type above in> "I'm just going to have
to shut the fuck up, so people cant quote me anymore"
-----==========-----
mtarnove: "Howcome when you finger someone..." <laughter>
mtarnove: "... you know how they are not really there..."
dleigh: "It's becuse you're *imagining* them."
mtarnove: "You know how you finger someone, and they come early..." <laughter>
dleigh: <to freyes> "Get a window up, type this in!"
mtarnove: "No, don't put this in your .plan..."
dleigh: <opens vim, starts typing>
mtarnove: "OK, say I finger dleigh."
dleigh: "I'm not putting that in my .plan"
mtarnove: "I knew that would work."
-----==========-----
Our beloved EL131 lecturer is leaving. <Sniff>
Emil and I are *very* disappointed.
-----==========-----
Ran into RA from BHHS and AT from TPPS on the train recently... I should
organise some reunions or something from my old old schools.
My student website which was previously rendered in CGA colours
(black/white/magents/cyan) I've now changed to shades of blue/teal/aqua.
Also some prettification of the SFGA site, in particular the menu bar.
-----==========-----
Missed EL131 test :(... must talk to PB.
I can't believe I showed up to nothing today. (apart from SFGA, of course)
-----==========-----
It seems that Peter Watkins is actually a left-wing film/documentary maker:
http://www.subcin.com/watkins.html
-----==========-----
dleigh 15:12:28 numbat:ttypc:~> to mtarnove
Message: Why dont you change that to "I can't belive its a username!" or similar.
Message sent to I can't believe it's not butter! (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/13.
My dclock reads 21:07. Something tells me I'm about
to be kicked out of Scheutz.
-=> From I can't believe it's not butter! (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/6 at 21:20 :-
i think you should set up a campsite outside the lab, saves you having to go home...
<...>
-=> From I can't believe it's not butter! (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/6 at 21:35 :-
are you going for that terminal look?
-=> From I can't believe it's not butter! (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/6 at 21:36 :-
and what is it with you and pink?,,,
-----==========-----
-=> From I can't believe it's not butter! (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/6 at 21:32 :-
ahhhhhhhhhhh! your page... my eyes!
-=> From I can't believe it's not butter! (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/6 at 21:32 :-
change the scheme!
-----==========-----
-=> From hell (freyes@numbat) on pts/55 at 20:55 :-
bsd.. sounds like something out of a pr0n mag
dleigh 21:06:57 numbat:ttype:~> to freyes
Message: http://www.attrition.org/gallery/computing/tn/BSDDom.jpg
Message sent to hell (freyes@numbat) on pts/55.
-----==========-----
The relationship between Dungeons and Dragons and
perverse sexual prectices is explained...
-=> From hell (freyes@numbat) on pts/55 at 20:59 :-
swords.. axes.. bows..
-=> From hell (freyes@numbat) on pts/55 at 20:59 :-
whips.. black leather...
-=> From hell (freyes@numbat) on pts/55 at 20:59 :-
whoops...
-----==========-----
-=> From EgoIntensive (dmarshal@numbat) on pts/225 at 19:57 :-
go home! are you to good for you home? why don't you just fu*king go home?
dleigh 19:57:45 numbat:ttype:~> to dmarshal
Message: My home doesn't have internet access, hot water, colour tv, or other people.
Message sent to EgoIntensive (dmarshal@numbat) on pts/225.
-----==========-----
The ranks (and increased cluttering) on the SFGA website
has inspired me to goive the posts a vbulletin-like layout.
yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~dleigh/sfga/forum.php
Comments, suggestions and flamebait welcome.
And if you don't have an account, get one.
-----==========-----
Hmmm... missed everything today, all I managed to do was hand in
the CO121 lab report. Not good.
Also, my webspace now looks... very... purple. Hmmmm....
-----==========-----
Dylan: Where do you think you're going?
Emil: Home.
Dylan: What the fuck is that?
Student Webspace
Just looking at my webpage... and wondering whether or not my
extreme backward HTML compatibility (it displays in netscape!)
is worth the old-school look.
I'm thinking of changing the layout or doing a really wierd
colour scheme or something... is this a good idea... do ppl
still use netscape at RMITCS?
Also, I've put up a list of software (mostly games) that I want:
yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~dleigh/misc/wanted.htm
Contact me if you can... er... *obtain* any of them.
-----==========-----
Daily Diff Tie Report
I have had a somewhat lukewarm response to my initial column. If you
want me to continue, tell me!
BTW, second issue is up. Subject : Tom Bergin
-----==========-----
Not updated for 3 days! Aaarrrgghhh!!!!
About 100 NG mesasges to catch up on =\
2 hours, and I still haven't finished, and now I have
an EL131 lab with evil devil spawn bitch tutor.
Missed uni today, including my CO121 lecture...
dleigh 20:31:21 numbat:pts/6:~> to emikulic
Message: who was the lecturer?
Message sent to emikulic (emikulic@numbat) on pts/82.
-=> From emikulic (emikulic@numbat) on pts/82 at 20:31 :-
shahnaz
dleigh 20:31:43 numbat:pts/6:~> to emikulic
Message: So i didn't miss much =P
Message sent to emikulic (emikulic@numbat) on pts/82.
And my CS109 lab...
dleigh 20:34:43 numbat:pts/6:~> to dmarshal
Message: What happened in our Jarrrva tute?
SFGA website now has ranks, Admin (me) and Member (for SFGA members).
I may add one for commitee members etc. at request.
Also, CS109 notes are *finally* in the bookshop.
-----==========-----
Remembered to pay my HECS today.... yay.
Warning : The engineering printer at 10.7.xx has blown
a fuse (literally). 10.8.28 still working.
Dylan : "Let's go to a CS lab and do the Java
assignment before our DE102 lecture."
4.5 hours later, I didn't go to the lecture, and I still
haven't bothered to do the assignment :(
5 hours later, at least I've done some work (MA260 weblearn tests)
7 hours later, no more work done, and I'm being kicked out of the lab :(
-----==========-----
Forgot to pay my HECS, again. Crap. Only 2 days, now...
In Other News(tm), Hannah left for
school camp (her first, grade 4) today.
-----==========-----
From Marcus's .plan:
- My adventures with flash have resulted in the production of an animation
in which a monkey with a football shaped head dances to the tantalising tunes
of Tequila Brass. I will not be uploading it to my web site.
</end>
Hah! Dark side it is! Flash is the most useless convoluted piece of
crap to come out since Windows XP! Mwhahahahaha!!!!!
-----==========-----
The egg lab is hatching, and all equipment is being removed.
For more info, check the Daily Diff (David's student webspace)
Speaking of the Daily Diff, the first article of my
column is done, and will be up next "issue".
-----==========-----
(While reading alt.ascii-art)
Dylan : Somebody should write an anime series in ascii art.
David : Dylan, you have an aim in life.
-----==========-----
David : I played trombone in year 7. I sucked at it.
Dylan : The idea is to *blow*.
-----==========-----
Thought for the day : DE102 blows goats.
About to do my talk, on the details of a kit I've never seen before...
The *real* quote (from freyes .plan, at the top)
mtarnove: Hey Dylan, what's the white stuff on your t-shirt?
freyes: I don't want to know what that is.
dleigh: Oh, it's just that my dad uses tissues...
mtarnove: Yeah, _everyone_ uses tissues when doing it.
dleigh: I don't use tissues, I prefer to use hankies.
They're resusable and generally more durable.
[laughter from mtarnove / freyes]
dleigh: <puzzled> Huh? I often break tissues when...
[roaring laughter from mtarnove / freyes]
dleigh : I... Hey, are we talking about the same thing?
freyes : That's going in my .plan.
dleigh : Fuck.
-----==========-----
Aaahhh... I have been granted a reprieve from CO121, but I can't get
the data I need for the kit my new DE102 group is doing (in 1H) so I
wont be able to do my talk on Wed... Must talk to TB about this....
Stuff to do this week that I should have done earlier
but left until the last minute as usual:
Tuesday : CO121 Lab report 2.
Wednesday : DE101 talk and report.
Friday : CS109 Assignment 1, and HECS payment for semester 2.
-----==========-----
Taken from my Disarray journal "D&D is the product of the Devil"
From http://www.religioustolerance.org/d_a_d2.htm
"Without any doubt in my own mind, after years of study of the history
of occultism, after having researched historical research, I can say
with confidence: These games are the most effective, most magnificently
packaged, most profitably marked, most thoroughly researched
introduction to the occult in man's recorded history, period.
This is NO game." (Remnant Review, 12/5/80)
You see, Dungeons and Dragons isn't actually an RPG, but a product of
the devil designed to allow him to possess the players, or something...
(http://www.webzonecom.com/ccn/cults/satn07.txt)
It's also the source of:
blasphemy
assassination
insanity
sexual perversion
homosexuality
prostitution
Satan worship
necromancy
According to a lot of fucked-up people.
"Her courage in the face of the Satanic conspiracy
is nothing short of amazing."
(http://www.rpg.net/252/quellen/stackpole/pulling_report.html)
Redesigned my webshite in purple/fuchsia/magenta and black.
Then I decided I didn't like it and deleted the stylesheet.
It fucked up under netscrape anyway...
CO121 Assignment 2 handed in. And we actually had a CO121 lecturer
who could speak *english* today! Wonders never cease.
It's 18:40 in the lab and I've got stomach pains because I haven't
eaten anything for ages... I wonder if I can lose weight this way...
-----==========-----
Marcus motivated me to make the SFGA webshite more funky
and to make the different replies more differentiated....
Well, I've done the second. The first might take me a bit longer.
-----==========-----
Oh dear again...
Login name: sbuck In real life: Stephen Geoffrey Buck
On since Aug 20 13:16:13 on pts/223 from numbat.cs.rmit.edu.au
2 days 4 hours Idle Time
Incredible News!!!
The .plan is now bigger than 100000 bytes!!!!
All hail the almighty .plan...
-----==========-----
Oh dear...
Login name: sbuck In real life: Stephen Geoffrey Buck
On since Aug 20 13:16:13 on pts/223 from numbat.cs.rmit.edu.au
1 day 7 hours Idle Time
-----==========-----
Interesting...
Enter "wfica" (Citrix ICA client, for blowfly/termite conections
from X) at your numbat prompt (without any arguments)
-----==========-----
Attention CO121 Assignment 2 victims:
Answer to question 4 can be found here:
http://www.dcbnet.com/notes/9611t1.html
(Details the T1 system. Scroll down about 10% for the answer)
-----==========-----
The two kinds of tutor:
1. "Um... Everybody, there's a lab on in here, and some people
doing the lab don't have a terminal... Sorry, but I'f you
aren't in CSxxx I'll have to ask you to leave in 10 minutes
or so. I'm really sorry about this."
2. "If you aren't doing CSxxx, log off. I'll give you 2 minutes"
"Do you wan't me to call security?"
-----==========-----
Dylan : "Damn you and your... you know..."
Emil : "Human Contact?"
Dylan : *scowls* "Yeah, that's it."
Emil : "I know, it's overrated"
Emil having more contact with human beings than I do?
This implies that I have worse social skills than he does... That's scary.
Emil : <embed facialexpression type="thoughtful">
"You should make up a markup language for plan files."
Dylan : "There <i>is</i> one. We just use <b>HTML</b> tags and imagine them..."
<...>
Dylan : "This is getting bad. I'm so busy writing stuff down in my .plan
that I'm forgetting what I said. Can't quote myself properly."
-=> From emikulic (emikulic@numbat) on pts/22 at 17:40 :-
maybe from here on out, i should just type at you, then you can copy and paste
dleigh 17:40:32 numbat:ttyp1:~> to emikulic
Message: Even when we are sitting next to each other in the lab, like now?
Message sent to emikulic (emikulic@numbat) on pts/22.
-=> From emikulic (emikulic@numbat) on pts/22 at 17:40 :-
yes, it's ridiculous, i know. but you need to maintain the integrity of your quotage
-----==========-----
Top Context Curriculum Subjects:
CC035 - Substance Abuse
CC007 - Power : Its Use and Abuse
-----==========-----
F1st pts!
dleigh pts/1 b0870308-06.ece. Wed Aug 21 15:36 still logged in
dleigh pts/1 b0870308-06.ece. Wed Aug 21 15:25 - 15:27 (00:01)
-----==========-----
Building 87, level 3 printer - 37 documents waiting.
Update : still 37 waiting 1 hours later, and sent 5 or
so emails to the helpdesk asking them to unlock
the printer so the paper jam can be cleared....
and after they do this, it jams twice again....
aaaarrrrggghhhh......
They could at least leave the printer unlocked so we can fix this...
-----==========-----
Marcus : "I've started learning Flash..."
Dylan : *laughs loudly*
Marcus : *frowns*
Dylan : "<sarcasm> Learning? Flash? </sarcasm>."
Marcus : *smiles* "Well, not learning... uh.. experimenting"
Apparrently Marcus is worried that my webshite might look better
that his webshite soon if I get my shit together and implement
full .PLG support for my 3D springy thing... So he's
learning how to use Flash.
Marcus has gone over to the dark side....
<from his .plan>
- Bah! Dark side is it? This coming from a guy who has a pink .fvwm config and a
pony tail.... I mean seriously, what's so wrong with flash... almost everyone
has a broadband connection these days, so it makes sense....
</end>
-----==========-----
Maths test, Electronics test, my new DE102 group today.
Better do those assignments for CO121 and CS109 sometime...
-----==========-----
Next wednesday, there is apparrently an IEEE BBQ at the Old
Melbourne Gaol BBQ place (same as the AppSci one at the start
of the year). All Engineering students welcome. Free food/drink.
Quotes of the day:
"I am not in the least afraid to die"
- Charles Darwin
"Boiled or Fried?"
- W. C. Fields, asked whether he liked children.
"The only place I feel alive is the high wires"
- Karl Wallenda, who fell to his
death while performing on the high wires....
-----==========-----
EMS is 5u><or. Again. Grrrrrrrrr.
-----==========-----
OMG!!!
-=> From oblivion (mtarnove@numbat) on ttyq1 at 13:19 :-
i did the stupidest thing... agian... i shaved my goatee!!!... i am a fool
-----==========-----
Sean (on pwatkins) : "It's like getting in a tardis and going back to 1960!"
-----==========-----
Spent the weekend playing Need For Speed : High Stakes and
Omikron : The Nomad Soul (you know, the Bowie game).
No work done. Pants.
My desk is now 1 foot high in papers, manuals and crap.
-----==========-----
After consultaion with Hannah, our new doe has been
officially named "Dusty" (my original choice).
Managed to get out of her cage this morning and crapped
all over David's room.
MA260 Weblearn tests done. Mo marx (Marx!) yet.
Next deadline is next Tuesday - CO121 lab report 1.
-----==========-----
Got a female rabbit to keep Thumper company today... A fawn (sooty
ears) Dwarf Lop, about 8 weeks old.
Well, I fucked up the DE101 exam.... but its DE101. I don't care.
Even if it screws up my straight-HD record, the subject just annoys
me so much that I really don't give a shit. As long as I pass, for
next year.
Given that I've forgotten all the meeting (etc.) stuff from last
semester, and there's a 25% markdown for supp exams.....
-----==========-----
In other news, Maths Weblearn tests due tomorrow, so I'd better
actually do them sometime.
The NEC ENGineous thing was pretty good, nice to see that final
year students can demonstrate some decent fashion sense. Lots
of downturned notch collars (60's mod style!)
Memo to Sam Izzo : Lose the blue shirt. It's too conservative.
-----==========-----
dleigh 20:40:43 numbat:pts/91:~> last emikulic
<snip>
emikulic pts/1 c16973.brasd1.vi Wed Aug 14 19:39 - 19:41 (00:01)
<snip>
emikulic pts/69 sheutz23.cs.rmit Wed Aug 14 10:27 - 10:27 (00:00)
<snip>
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I will no longer be including the currently/upcoming sections in my .plan,
cos I can just rant about stuff like this, and I've found my little black
diary so I no longer need an upcoming.
PHP is fucked on yallara... again... 'safe mode'... bah.
Fixed now. Sorry to all people who have not been able to access
the .plan for the past few hours or so. I have posted an NG
article to request prior notification of changing PHP directives.
-----==========-----
CO121 data compression lab in 17 minutes and counting...
87.3 is now my official printer for all course related stuff.
-----=====/ I'm Currently /=====-----
- Still manually writing stuff into my EL131 lecture notes.
(AARRRGGHHHH!!!!!)
-----=====/ Upcoming /=====-----
15 Aug - DE101 - Deferred Supplementary Exam (2 hours)
16 Aug - MA260 - Weblearn tests close
> 3000 lines! Full Marx.
-----==========-----
If you are partitioning your hard disks (especially for
multiple OS's) I can reccommend Ranish Partition Manager,
which allows you to boot from 32 primary or extended
partitions and works seamlessly with >8G extensions.
http://www.ranish.com/part/
I currently have my machine set up to boot MS-DOS 6.2,
Win 95a, Win NT4 and FreeBSD, all off different partitions.
Hopefully I will be installing Win 98 SE tonight (wish me luck!)
-----==========-----
Dylan : "My .plan's only 13 lines away from 3000! Give me some content!"
David : "Dylan, you're a fool. Go write that."
:)
-----==========-----
Dylan : "Or, I could just take your account off"
Marcus : "Curse you and your Omnipotence!"
-----==========-----
I'm beginning to regret giving Marcus and Geoff multiple SFGA
accounts under wierd usernames.
-----==========-----
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Your account filespace is 53 % full
--------------------------------------------
Yaaay!
-----==========-----
DE102
Unfortunately, I have not got an exemption, so I actually have
to do this crap now. I've missed the first two tutes and about
2% of work, and now I have to see Bergin again about finding
a group to do all hte business plan crap in....
Grrr.....
-----==========-----
New train ticket today... there goes another $75...
-----=====/ I'm Currently /=====-----
- Still manually writing stuff into my EL131 lecture notes.
(up to 5 and 6, now. I'm going to try to write a macro to
fix the formulae automatically.)
-----=====/ Dates /=====-----
15 Aug - DE101 - Deferred Supplementary Exam (2 hours)
16 Aug - MA260 - Weblearn tests close
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Your account filespace is 98 % full
--------------------------------------------
Crap.
Check out http://www.hornplace.com/ (and no, it's not what you think)
-----==========-----
More trom jokes (courtesy alt.music.trombone)
We do it in 7 positions!
For best results, use lubrication.
(And of course, anything relating to spit valves,
or using the words bone, slide or horn)
-----==========-----
Just discovered that the actor who played Will Crusher
actually has personality... I supposed he must have removed
it for portraying his character.
Anyway, his site, www.wilwheaton.net, is pretty good.
Check out the FAQ and the text above 'current projects'.
Excerpt:
I went out to lunch with my friend the other day.
We went to Old Town Pasadena, and we decided to go to Hooters.
You don't respect me anymore, do you?
Well, we figured it was a good way for two guys, one married
and one engaged, to get back in touch with the old mojo.
Well, let me tell you, it was ON. Those Hooters waitresses
wanted to do the bumpy dance with Sweet Uncle Willy.
Really.
Come on, stop laughing.
Well, just around the time I was feeling like Magnum P.I.,
our waitress, whose name was something like Traci, or Candi,
or Suzi, or something ending in "i", says to me,
"Can I ask you something?"
"Oh, hell, yeah!" I think to myself, as I prepare to let this
poor girl down gently with the news that I am quite happily
married to a super hot babe.
She screwed up her courage, leaned close to me, her full,
pouting lips just inches from mine, and asked, breathlessly,
"Didn't you used to be an actor?"
"WHAT?! USED TO BE?! I STILL AM!" I hollered, as a thousand
fantasies fell from my mind.
</end>
-----=====/ I'm Currently /=====-----
- Manually writing the formulas into my EL131 lecture notes.
Still. Grrrr.
- Trying to figure out who I hand in my CO121 assignment to.
-----=====/ Dates /=====-----
Fri 9 Aug - CO121 - Assignment 1
15 Aug - DE101 - Deferred Supplementary Exam (2 hours)
Will somebody please post some stuff in alt.sex.dylan for me so
the NG seems active?
I don't want to post there from CS for, well, semiobvious reasons.
-----==========-----
This just in... The eng printer at 87.3 has toner! I repeat, the
engineering printer at Building 87, level 3 has toner! And paper!
-----=====/ I'm Currently /=====-----
- Typing up my CO121 assignment
- Manually writing the formulas into my EL131 lecture notes.
Still. Grrrr.
-----=====/ Dates /=====-----
Fri 9 Aug - CO121 - Assignment 1 (tomorrow, better type it up!)
15 Aug - DE101 - Deferred Supplementary Exam (2 hours)
Quote of the Day:
Marcus : "I fingered you just before I came"
-----==========-----
If you are wondering (or are concerned), the statement above was in
response to the question "Have you read my .plan recently?" when Marcus
entered the lab. It was followed by:
Dylan : "That's going in the .plan"
Marcus : "Dylan, for my sake and yours, no!"
<related excerpt from Marcus's .plan>
Currently working on: (7/8/02)
- Why Dylan wishes to quote me in a way that implies some kind of homosexual
relationship between the two of us I neither know or wish to know, frankly I
think this whole plan quote thing has gone a little too far but then again,
without people going to far we wouldn't have humoroous historical events such
as the holocaust and the bombing of hiroshima.
</end>
-----=====/ I'm Currently /=====-----
- Manually writing the formulas into my EL131 lecture notes.
-----=====/ Dates /=====-----
Wed 7 Aug - MA260 - Test 1 (done a few hours ago)
- EL131 - Tute Test 1 (in 1 hour)
Fri 9 Aug - CO121 - Assignment 1
15 Aug - DE101 - Deferred Supplementary Exam (2 hours)
Fwooah! No updates for a few days....
-----==========-----
My very own NG .....
alt.sex.dylan
Yes, its really there.... and accessible from inside the
RMIT server too... number 9093
(Actually, I found it while scanning through the list. No posts there,
unfortunately, and I'm not sure if i want to post to an alt.sex.* NG
from my school account).
Top 5 other newsgroups (accessible from RMIT news server):
alt.support.jock-strap
free.americans.suck
alt.hobbies.serial-murder
alt.food.pussy
alt.i.like.to.fuck.chickes.while.wearing.rubber.knickers
-----==========-----
Fiberglass Sousaphone!
http://www.yamaha.com/cgi-win/webcgi.exe/DsplyModel/?gMBR00009YSH-301WB
-----==========-----
-=> From [Emil Mikulic] (emikulic@numbat) on ttyp2 at 13:45 :-
it's PWATKINS! her of the people!
-=> From [Emil Mikulic] (emikulic@numbat) on ttyp2 at 13:45 :-
(s/her/hero)
-----==========-----
BAAAAAAyn.
http://www.attrition.org/gallery/cartoons/tn/wildlife.jpg.html
-----==========-----
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Your account filespace is 91 % full
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Pants.
-----==========-----
All quiet on the NG front.
The NGs alt.food.grits, alt.tesla-coils and alt.food.pussy
appear to be all dead.
(or, not so quiet)
Also, alt.music.jazz has descended into a crappy flamewar
of contemporary vs. oldschool. alt.music.mods is pretty
fu><0r too. *sigh* It's the popularity of the www that's
to blame....
-----==========-----
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?lastnode_id=19861&node_id=514910
Hee Hee Hee.
Doesn't beat the amount of crap I take for playing my organ, tho.
-----==========-----
Just attended my first and last CS109 tute.
-----=====/ I'm Currently /=====-----
- Doing last week's CO121 lab
- Doing this week's CO121 lab
-----=====/ Dates /=====-----
Fri 9 Aug - CO121 - Assignment 1
Why does the RMIT blowfly[x] Start Menu have Realplayer and the Ada
compiler under "Office Tools"?
-----==========-----
Most unfortunate song name : "Beat Me, Daddy"
(Recorded by Glenn Miller's band, 12
September 1940 in New York City)
-----==========-----
9:30 Jarrrva lab. Ahar.
-----=====/ I'm Currently /=====-----
- Pretending to revise Java.
Got my new HD/case/CD drive all put together..... And fixed the bios so it
recognises the new HD as being bigger than 8G..... but now Win95/WinNT wont
use any more than 8G.... Arrrrgh.....
Anyways, if anybody has a copy of Win98 (or Win2K, but preferably 98 so
I can setup DOS easier), I would very much appreciate a copy.
A recent version of Partition Magic would also be appreciated...
-----=====/ I'm Currently /=====-----
- Trying to find an OS in my house that doesn't fuck up
with big (ish) HDs
Our EL131 tutor has no concept of colour matching and has a few wierd
mannerisms, but at least he's better than HR <shudders>.
-----=====/ I'm Currently /=====-----
- Doing account checking for SFGA webspace
- Reading NG's not related to my course
Engineering Facilities
<rant>
I went into the General Access Engineering computer lab to print out
the lab instructions for my first CO121 lab. The printer was out of
paper and the students were using the back sides of stuff they had
already printed. I was unable to get access to a machine because *over*
half of them were not working.
After arriving at my CO121 lab, we found that there were not enough
machines in the room for all the students to do the lab. Some of them
had to go to the next room. Some of the machines were not working, so
a few more students had to go to another lab.
After about an hour of us trying to get the lab to work, it was found
that one of the programs we needed wasn't installed properly, so now
we have to do the whole thing next week, before our next lab.
</rant>
-----==========-----
Dylan : What happened in the CS109 lecture?
Geoff : I wasn't there.
Emil : I wasn't there either.
-----=====/ I'm Currently /=====-----
- Printing engineering lecture notes on CS printers
- Printing engineering labs on engineering printers
- Trying to get any engineering shit to work.
The printer outside Schultz lab charges you for the full amount if you
print double sided pages. Use the Beard lab printer instead.
Also, I will email Prof. Harris (richard.au, CO121
coordinator) about getting 6-to-a-page .pdf lecture notes, if he won't
give us the .ppt files.
I would have done it tonigt but I was kicked out because there wasn't
enough seats for some CS8xx elective 8:30 lab.
-----==========-----
Disarray Bio excerpt:
Heavy Gear / Silhouette - 25 character points
AGI 0 APP -1 BLD 1 CRE 1 FIT -1
INF 0 KNO 3 PER 0 PSY -1 WIL -1
Gurps / Fallout - 42 character Points
ST 5 EN 4 PE 7 CH 5 IN 10 AG 6 LK 5
Traits : Gifted, Finesse
Tag Skills : Science, Repair, Picklock
-----==========-----
Grrr... Spent a lot of time on Sunday trying to find out why my PHP
stuff was borked. After posting a message on the NG I found out that
the yallara PHP server had been 'upgraded' to a new version which by
default didn't work with my page.
It only took about 5 mins to fix, but it would have been nice to have
been told *beforehand*. Oh well.
-----=====/ I'm Currently /=====-----
- Fixing SFGA webspace after the PHP 'upgrade'.
- Customising my disarray colours. Just like room 5.3.1.
- Printing engineering lecture notes on CS printers
- Printing engineering labs on engineering printers
C0121 lecturers blow goats as much as the subject does.
SFGA webspace will almost certainly be account-users-only after Monday
due to the behaviour of certain posters (*cough* David).
I will not be doing much more to the site until later.
After my new Hard Disk / CD Burner / Keyboard / Etc. gets reaseembled, I
plan to start work on a 2-player (at same computer) side-scroller (think
2-Player Stargunner) at Hannah's request.
I might also port Mercenary to DirectX and fix up the fugly graphics (and
the text-mode level editor could do with a facelift as well).
-----=====/ I'm Currently /=====-----
- Doing SFGA webspace (sort of.)
- Customising my disarray colours. Purdy.
- Printing engineering lecture notes.
2500+ lines !
-----==========-----
SFGA webspace now has reply posts operating. Go to:
http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~dleigh/sfga/index.php
and click on one of the topics. You can then read replies or post
your own (link near top).
-----=====/ I'm Currently /=====-----
- Doing SFGA webspace (reply posts working. User auth is next)
- Browsing attrition.org
The SFGA webspace code has been all fixed so that turds can't enter huge
strings into anything, can't enter HTML special characters into anything,
and generally can't fill up my quota or stuff up the layout (what layout?).
Please feel free to try to break it. Bug reports will be appreciated.
http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~dleigh/sfga/index.php
I am now working on a system of making replies to the topics. Replies will
not have to be authorized by me (unlike posts of new topics which go on the
index page). This should be done by Friday (if not tomorrow).
-----==========-----
DE102 appears to be entirely business/presentation crap. Since I did
Buisness Management Unit 1, I may be able to apply for a exemption....
However, exemptions can only get 75%.
On the other hand, I don't know if I'll put in more than 75% of effort
in the subject since it's all boring crap (and boring crap I doubt I'll
ever have to use, for that matter).
While I'm on the subject.... since I missed the DE101 exam due to illness,
I'll have to do a supplementary exam in September. I can only get 75% of
the maximum marks (Marx!) for the exam, because it's a supp.
As the exam is worth 60% of the total subject, I'm automatically losing 15%
of my maximum mark. Taking my current DE101 marx into consideration, this
will be likely to convert a low HD (around 80-85%) into a high CR (about
65-70%). Grrrr......
-----==========-----
.Sig extract from anryan (Andrew Ryan)
If a man is standing in the middle of a forest talking and there isnt
a woman around to listen is he still wrong?
-----=====/ I'm Currently /=====-----
- Doing SFGA webspace (looking up!)
- Getting an Fdisk upgrade so I can _partition_ my new HD, now that
the BIOS is capable of recognising it. Grrrr....
David: "What's this?" <points at something on my monitor and gets shocked>
David: "Ow!"
Dylan: "It's called static electricity."
-----==========-----
SFGA crap will probably be a while... I'm having to take a lot of
precautions so people won't fill up my quota with posts/account info.
I am hoping to fix posting by Friday, and account requests will begin to
be processed after this is done.
-----=====/ I'm Currently /=====-----
- Doing SFGA webspace
- Going through attrition.org pics
- Fixing up my new 40G HD and getting a BIOS upgrade so
that it will actually work.
MY EE151 79 HAS BEEN UPGRADED TO 80!!!!
straight HDs..... <drools>
Quote of the day (cortesy Emil):
"Fuck me, I'm impotent!"
- Human Traffic
-----=====/ I'm Currently /=====-----
- Doing SFGA webspace / Making Emil do SFGA webspace
- Anxiously awaiting awful assignments
- Buying textbooks
-----=====/ Results /=====-----
CS101 (CS108 and CS116) - 95% (HD) (18/15 CP)
MA260 (1st semester only) - 87% (HD) (12/9 CP)
EE151 - 80% (HD) (12 CP)
DS171 - 95% (HD) (12 CP)
DE101 Not disclosed (Supplemental exam). only 6 CP, anyway.
-----=====/ Dates /=====-----
Semester 2 classes start : Monday 22 July (today)
HECS Semester 2 Payment : ???
-----=====/ Results /=====-----
CS101 (CS108 and CS116) - 95% (HD) Well duh.
MA260 (1st semester only) - 87% (HD)
EE151 - 79% (DI) Fuck! I wish I hadn't missed
lab 5 now....
DS171 and DE101 not in yet.
-----=====/ Dates /=====-----
DE101 Supplemental Exam : Today, 13:30 @ 10.8.20
Semester 2 classes start : Monday 22 July
HECS Semester 2 Payment : ???
Courtesy www.pennyarcade.com
"He says people are suggesting he try to "push" a "suit" against us, but
that's "not" his "style." No, I guess he's right. My suggestion is that he
"push" a "broom handle" up his "ass." As regards his "style," I think his
style is more to labor and languish in obscurity until he gets sick of
making comics and quits."
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Ads on graves....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/computergames/story/0,11500,667942,00.html
-----=====/ Dates /=====-----
DE101 Supplemental Exam : *tomorrow*, 13:30 @ 10.8.20
Semester 2 classes start : Monday 22 July
HECS Semester 2 Payment : ???
Currently contemplating the prospect of using a 40GB disk with a FAT16
file system.... 20 logical drives. Yay.
-----=====/ Dates /=====-----
DE101 Supplemental Exam : Friday 19 July, 13:30 @ 10.8.20
Semester 2 classes start : Monday 22 July
HECS Semester 2 Payment : ???
NQR in Boronia has Magnums (Absolute Chocolate and
Chocolate biscuit) for only $1.30 !!!
I intend to sue for the resultant weight gain.
-----==========-----
In other news, my semester 2 timetable is now up.
9:30 starts on Monday, Tuesday, and Friday. Thursday begins at 15:30.
Still no free days, though. <sighs>
-----=====/ Dates /=====-----
DE101 Supplemental Exam : Friday 19 July, 13:30 @ 10.8.20
Semester 2 classes start : Monday 22 July
HECS Semester 2 Payment : ???
Mmmmm... new Hard Disk.... <drools into keyboard>
In other news, DE101 supp exam has been set (for about 35 people, too)
-----=====/ Dates /=====-----
DE101 Supplemental Exam : 19 July, 13:30 @ 10.8.20
Semester 2 classes start : 22 July
HECS Semester 2 Payment : ???
Crud. Got very sick Tuesday night (bad Gastro-Intestinal stuff, lots of
vomiting), and missed the DE101 exam... Should be doing a supplemental
in August.
On the up side, I've lost a few kg from being unable to eat for the
past few days...
-----=====/ Dates /=====-----
Semester 2 classes start : 22 July
DE101 Supplemental Exam : August?
HECS Semester 2 Payment : ???
Must... change... webspace... soon....
-----=====/ I'm Currently /=====-----
- Burning print quota
- Burning web download quota
- Downloading stuff thru uni (using lynx) and ftping to home
-----=====/ Due Dates /=====-----
DE101 exam - Wed 3 July, 1:45-4:00, Storey Hall
Uni Restarts - 22 July
"When I was five, my father was decapitated by a watermelon..."
- Depressed guy, Vault 13 level 2, Fallout II
-----==========-----
Texas Instruments is finally releasing a full-size QWERTY keyboard for
their calculators (no number pad though) and a Word compatible word
processor.
(more info at www.ticalc.org)
Even better, it only works with a TI-83plus, not a TI-83.... Mwahahahaha...
-----==========-----
From the Jaycar catalogue:
"... can be given a 6 digit name such as 'foyer, carpark or stairs etc.'"
^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^
Oops.
And from the DS171 practice exam:
<front cover>
FORMAT : 26 short answer questions
15 minutes reading time
293 pages
<snip>
That's a lot to read in 15 minutes....
-----==========-----
CS108 Weblearn test 2 done. 19/20. Damn.
Don't think it will affect my chances of getting an HD tho. =P
-----==========-----
DS171 exam:
20% Time spent doing the exam (really! It was very easy.)
50% Time spent rechecking my answers over and over again.
30% Time spent looking at the architecture of Storey Hall and wondering what
the architects and interior designers were on. Why the hell do we do
exams, where we have to *concentrate*, in a room full of post-modern
artwork?
-----==========-----
TI-83 Plus SDK for developing Apps is in my /share directory.
Will go on my webspace when the CS116 ppl finish marxing it.
-----=====/ I'm Currently /=====-----
- Catching up on tests and assessments I missed when sick
(doing the CS108 weblearn test in 10 minutes.)
- Using up any remaining printer credit
- Trying to find a CS printer that is *not* fucked
- Trying to find an Eng printer that is *not* royally fucked
- Writing text adventure shell scripts while pretending to do
DE101 revision
-----=====/ Due Dates /=====-----
DS171 - Tue 25 June(today), 9:15-12:30, Storey Hall
DE101 - Wed 3 July, 1:45-4:00, Storey Hall
What the hell happened to our CS116 marx?
-----=====/ I'm Currently /=====-----
- Catching up on tests and assessments I missed when sick
(doing the CS108 weblearn test tomorrow.)
- Using up any remaining printer credit
-----=====/ Due Dates /=====-----
DS171 - Tue 25 June, 9:15-12:30, Storey Hall
DE101 - Wed 3 July, 1:45-4:00, Storey Hall
Just wrote a little TI-83 proggy to quickly do D4/D8/D10/D12/D20/D100/D6/Dx
dice rolls (playing a game of Alternity and we forgot our wierd dice :)
Contact me if anyone wants a copy (via link cable).
-----=====/ I'm Currently /=====-----
- Catching up on tests and assessments I missed when sick
(doing the CS108 weblearn test on Tuesday.)
- Transferring crap from my CS account to home.
-----=====/ Due Dates /=====-----
DS171 - Tue 25 June, 9:15-12:30, Storey Hall (also PROC1030A ?)
DE101 - Wed 3 July, 1:45-4:00, Storey Hall
Now you can shower without feeling un-geeky.....
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/caffeine/5a65.shtml
-----==========-----
EE151 exam was better that it could have been.... but I stuffed question
7 big time.... I tried 4 different ways to find the inductance and I
got 4 different answers.... and 2 of them were complex numbers (uh-oh)
Apparently a lot of ppl seriously stuffed the exam though, so hopefully
the markers will go easy...
-----=====/ I'm Currently /=====-----
- Catching up on tests and assessments I missed when sick
(doing the CS108 weblearn test soon... after the exam =)
- Transferring crap from my eng account to my CS account.
- Transferring crap from my CS account to home.
-----=====/ Due Dates /=====-----
EE151 - Thur 20 June (today), 9:15-12:30, Various Venues
DS171 - Tue 25 June, 9:15-12:30, Storey Hall (also PROC1030A ?)
DE101 - Wed 3 July, 1:45-4:00, Storey Hall
M^3 (Most Memorable Moments - single semester subjects only)
DS171 : Minh demonstrating wire wrapping using a strand of her own hair.
Also, the hairstyle note and Justin's response.
Quote : "I don't know who you are, or what your hair looks
like, but no." - Justin
DE101 : Blowing up my kit (literally) and getting 34/35 marx for the
assignment.
CS116 : Thursday tutes with Sean, and his opinions on elevators, GTA 3
and bestiality. CS116 was actually fun for 1 hour a week.
Quote : "Web designers are the scum of the Earth." - Sean
EE151 : Geoff's clampmeter antics in our last lab, especially trying to
attatch it to his genitals. Baayn!
Quote : "I just want to see how powerful I am" - Geoff
-----==========-----
EE151 is pissing me off... again....
We get mediocre lecturers, shit notes, a shit textbook that covers a whole
lot of crap not in the course and goes off on tangents, and a really crappy
tutor who insists on solving basic problems using the most complex methods.
I got so bored doing EE151 revision, after I finished the year 2000 exam
I cleaned my room! (now _that's_ boredom)
-----==========-----
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Your account filespace is 96 % full
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I've got to get an ISP and stop downloading shit at uni.
-----==========-----
I brought 3 pencils into the CS108 exam.... 2 broke and one ran out of
lead :(
In general, the exam went very well though. I spent about 15 minutes on
the first section, 30 minutes on the second and about an hour on the third.
-----=====/ Due Dates /=====-----
CS108 - Wed 19 June (Today), 9:15-12:30, 8.9.42
EE151 - Thur 20 June, 9:15-12:30, Various Venues
DS171 - Tue 25 June, 9:15-12:30, Storey Hall (also PROC1030A ?)
DE101 - Wed 3 July, 1:45-4:00, Storey Hall
The almighty .plan is now 2000+ lines long. Full Marx!
-----==========-----
Top 5 things that are currently pissing me off:
- My 800M Hard Disk
- EE151 - missed a lab and two tute tests, so Marx are down :(
- My busted CD drive
- DE101 (good Marx tho)
- My 800M Hard Disk
-----==========-----
Crapola.
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Your account filespace is 94 % full
--------------------------------------------
I've had to cull a lot of crap from my ~/share directory (sorry).
When we can touch our .HTMLinfo again, a lot of the stuff on my
page is going to have to go too... (sorry again)
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Blue Screen of Death of Melbourne, and other attrition.org stuff:
http://www.attrition.org/gallery/errors/tn/airport.jpg.html
http://www.attrition.org/gallery/errors/tn/hard-ocp-bsod.jpg.html
http://www.attrition.org/gallery/computing/tn/adminspotting.gif.html
http://www.attrition.org/gallery/computing/tn/aol_lol.jpg.html
http://www.attrition.org/gallery/computing/tn/attachment.jpg.html
http://www.attrition.org/gallery/computing/tn/bandwidth_bill.jpg.html
http://www.attrition.org/gallery/computing/tn/compaq_anykey.jpg.html
http://www.attrition.org/gallery/computing/tn/dont_touch_wires.jpg.html
http://www.attrition.org/gallery/computing/tn/hampster1.jpg.html
http://www.attrition.org/gallery/advertisements/tn/triggerlocks.jpg.html
http://www.attrition.org/gallery/computing/tn/vaguely_sexual.jpg.html
http://www.attrition.org/gallery/computing/tn/dating.gif.html
http://www.attrition.org/gallery/computing/tn/BSDDom.jpg.html
http://www.attrition.org/gallery/computing/struggle1.gif
http://www.attrition.org/gallery/computing/tn/quake3-cdkey.jpg.html
http://www.attrition.org/gallery/computing/tn/portable.jpg.html
http://www.attrition.org/gallery/computing/tn/my_monitors.jpg.html
http://www.attrition.org/gallery/computing/tn/no_fan.jpg.html
http://www.attrition.org/gallery/computing/tn/linux_for_women.jpg.html
http://www.attrition.org/gallery/computing/tn/l6.jpg.html
http://www.attrition.org/gallery/computing/tn/how_to_clean_y2k_bug.jpg.html
http://www.attrition.org/gallery/computing/tn/dream2.jpg.html
Post-maths-exam-too-much-time-on-my-hands
-----==========-----
5 Days since the last .plan update! Fwoooah.
-----=====/ Due Dates /=====-----
MA260 - Mon 17 June (today), 9:15-12:30, Storey Hall
CS108 - Wed 19 June, 9:15-12:30, 8.9.42
EE151 - Thur 20 June, 9:15-12:30, Various Venues
DS171 - Tue 25 June, 9:15-12:30, Storey Hall (also PROC1030A ?)
DE101 - Wed 3 July, 1:45-4:00, Storey Hall
-----=====/ I'm Currently /=====-----
- Catching up on tests and assessments I missed when sick (still!)
- Printing past papers
- Trying to get "My Sharona" out of my head
(out of all the crappy late 70's songs I could possibly have)
NB: Due to the end of all assignments and the proximity of exams,
the .plan is unlikely to be updated frequently until July.... sorry.
-----=====/ 2002 Semester 1 Exams /=====-----
MA260 - Mon 17 June, 9:15-12:30, Storey Hall
CS108 - Wed 19 June, 9:15-12:30, 8.9.42
EE151 - Thur 20 June, 9:15-12:30, Various Venues
DS171 - Tue 25 June, 9:15-12:30, Storey Hall (also PROC1030A ?)
DE101 - Wed 3 July, 1:45-4:00, Storey Hall
-----==========-----
DS171 Lab 4 demonstration:
Time waiting to do it : 1 hour
Comments on my clothes: 6
Time spent marking it : 10 minutes
Full Marx!
And 2 seconds after he gave us our mark and walked off, Geoff's
laptop crashed :)
Note to Self : If you ever have to go to work before uni again, change
out of your suit lest you be mistaken for a member of
the business faculty.
-----==========-----
The www.trollaxor.com poll today was brilliant. Full Marx.
More fun linx : http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/goatse.cx
http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/<insert favourite /. troll>
-----==========-----
Proof that Sun has serious management problems:
"As of tomorrow, employees will only be able to access the building using
individual security cards. Pictures will be taken next Wednesday and
employees will receive their cards in two weeks."
Manager at Sun (this was the winner of a Dilbert style
(most-stupid-quote-from-boss competition)
-----==========-----
Yeeeeeeeeesss!!! He finally took the flamebait!!!!
Peter Watkins has put me on his abuse page.
-----==========-----
Stuff to add to my site when the CS116 ppl finish marxing it (Marx!):
linx to www.thefreecountry.com/developercity/
- nice compilers, tools, libraries, editors and stuff.
www.x86.org - best resource for undocumented intel crap.
The tone control.... finally....
Disclaimers for all electronics ad computer-related shit.
-----==========-----
The CS labs are really sparse and quiet during swotvac :)
Not looking forward to the demo today :(. I hope and pray that
nothing will explode.... (even though I'm not in the least religious)
-----=====/ Due Dates /=====-----
DS171 Lab 4 (Hardware) - Wednesday (TODAY! We're fucked.)
MA260 Exam (first exam) - Monday.
-----=====/ I'm Currently /=====-----
- Catching up on tests and assessments I missed when sick (still!)
- Fixing up End-Of-Financial-Year shit
- Revising EE151 and MA260 for exams (eep.)
Ooooerr.... bad feeling about DS171 lab 4...
-----=====/ Due Dates /=====-----
DS171 Lab 4 (Hardware) - Wednesday (oh %$#^)
MA260 Exam (first exam) - Next Monday.
-----=====/ I'm Currently /=====-----
- Catching up on tests and assessments I missed when sick (still!)
- Revising EE151 and MA260 for exams (eep.)
CS116 assignment 'submitted'.
Chances are a full test of the DS171 lab won't be possible until
Tuesday.... and it's due on Wednesday.... crapola.
-----=====/ Due Dates /=====-----
CS116 Webpage - Sunday (today)
DS171 Lab 4 (Hardware) - Wednesday (uh-oh)
MA260 Exam (first exam) - Next Monday.
-----=====/ I'm Currently /=====-----
- Catching up on tests and assessments I missed when sick (still!)
- Revising EE151 and MA260 for exams (eep.)
- Trying to get VC++ working so I can finish writing shit
for DS171 (eep).
- Putting the finishing touches on my CS116 assignment C
"Man, I'm like, the doofus of stupidity"
David while fixing bugs in his Java assignment
My Favourites : Closing a file while reading from it
Saving to "Library.dat" and trying to load from "library.dat"
Setting the book status to 'on loan' when it is returned.
Highlight of today: Watching David violate every priciple of OOP in Beard lab.
Lowlight of today: Watching David eat my black pen in Beard lab.
-----==========-----
The web-based .plan script has been changed to make it fit in with the rest
of my site - "yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~dleigh/plan.php"
Greetz to Psychoant and Poutremos
Also, thankx to Stephen and Emil for helping me learn PHP, David for leaving
security holes in his .HTMLinfo so I could schteel the code he stole from
Stephen :) and Sarah and Geoff for inspiring me to actually learn it.
-----==========-----
Have to buy a new ticket next week... there goes another $75.
Missed the opportunity in my last EE151 tute to tell HR what
I think of him... oh well...
-----=====/ Due Dates /=====-----
EE151 Tutorial Test 6 - Friday (today)
CS108 Assignment (final) - Friday (today)
CS116 Webpage - Sunday
DS171 Lab 4 (Hardware) - Next Wed. (uh-oh)
-----=====/ I'm Currently /=====-----
- Catching up on tests and assessments I missed when sick (still!)
- Revising EE151 and MA260 for exams (eep.)
- Putting the finishing touches on my CS108 assignment 6
- Printing MA260 questions and past papers
- Putting the finishing touches on my CS116 assignment C
- Fixing David's CS108 assignment (Grrrrrrrrrrrr......)
How many primary attributes are required for an RPG to be realistic?
STR (strength) - Raw lifting, pulling and pushing ability
BLD (build) - Height and body mass, affects size and
ability to take damage (constitution)
END (endurance) - Cardiovascular endurance, ability to run or
otherwise exert physical effort over time.
PER (perception) - Ability to see and hear clearly.
AGI (agility) - running/moving speed and gymnastic ability (Baayn.)
DEX (dexterity) - Ability to perform intricate or delicate operations
with your fingers (Baaayn!)
APP (appearance) - Affects initial reaction of ppl towards you.
CHA (charisma) - Affects long-term reaction of ppl towards you.
INT (intelligence) - Computational/Mathematic skills, ability to
understand complex systems and concepts.
KNO (knowledge) - Ability to memorise information,the general
education of the character.
CRE (creativity) - ability to adapt to new situations. artistic flair.
WIL (willpower) - ability to withstand torture or other hardships.
That makes 12.... Secondary attributes could include constitution (calculated
from build, health and endurance), health (calculated from willpower and
endurance), etc. Hmmm...
Since there is overlapping, minimums would have to be put in place, e.g.
the difference between intelligence and knowledge could not be too high.
Also, build and agility could not both be high.
I wonder if there is a Context Curriculum course in RPG design.. =)
-----==========-----
Print Quota:
Since we get 500 pages of print quota (per year or semester??) I
ran off >200 pages of crap on sparc/x86/MMX assembly.
I'm sure this counts for er... CS386 or something =)
-----==========-----
DS171 Lab 4 update:
Not good. Chances are the hardware won't be working till monday
leaving us 48 hours to interface with the software. Eeep.
-----==========-----
The woes of the ISP-challenged:
22:13 numbat:~> to emikulic
Message: I pine daily for a cheap dial-up ISP.
22:14 numbat:~> to emikulic
Message: I sacrifice virgin chickens to the pile of old XT's in the lounge
-----==========-----
Finished adding superfluous comments to my CS108 shit.
Finished tranferring my CS108 shit to a single file.
Oops...
14:25 numbat:~> to ynadaraj
Message: beard lab keyboarsd
Message sent to Yogesh Anand Nadarajan (ynadaraj@numbat) on pts/256.
-----=====/ Due Dates /=====-----
EE151 Tutorial Test 6 - Friday (tomorrow)
CS108 Assignment (final) - Friday (tomorrow)
CS116 Webpage - Sunday
DS171 Lab 4 (Hardware) - Next Wed. (uh-oh)
-----=====/ I'm Currently /=====-----
- Catching up on tests and assessments I missed when sick (still!)
- Revising Sinusoidal Steady-State Stuff for EE151
- Working on DS171 hardware interfacing lab
- Putting the finishing touches on my CS108 assignment 6
- Putting the finishing touches on my CS116 assignment C
Here endeth a day that hath added more than 200 lines to the almighty .plan :)
Update : 8:40 - Finished MA260 tests.
Sheesh. now all I need to do before exams is:
- add superflous comments to my CS108 assignment 6 (easy)
- add Resume and maybe some other crap to webpage (easy)
- unfuck our DS171 lab 4 (not easy)
- survive the EE151 test on friday with HR (not possible)
-----==========-----
Comments (courtesy of Marcus's own .plan)
- Has anyone noticed that Dylan has an almost manic urge to put things in his
plan? He's like a squirrel gathering nuts for the winter... You can't even
say hello to the guy anymore, without him putting it up in the plan... It's
kinda of like a big brother highlight reel.... Without any highlights. I
dunno, maybe in Belgrave or whatever the hell country he comes from, a mans
manhood is judged by the size of his plan.... So it's kind of like a pissing
contest without the humorous mishaps.
<snip>
See ! You can't even bag my .plan without me putting it in!
Mwahahahahahahahahahahaha..........
Anyway... "big brother highlight reel"??? WTF???
I feel a rant coming on...
<rant>
Big Brother
There are, what, 40 cameras, 24 hours a day, 60 minutes an hour,
so that makes 57600 minutes of footage per day. Big Brother runs
for '30 minutes' (actually 22 without the ads). So we see the best
22 minutes of this 57600.
If this is the best they can do, they must have chosen the most
boring, stupid, moronic 'individuals' (and I use the term loosely)
to go on this program.
Sure they are slim and stereotypically 'attractive', but I would
like to see one of the Big Brother entrants find their ass with
both hands and a compass. Probably the first thing they'll ask
for is a pair of sunglasses.
Watching someone else watch paint dry is twice as boring.
</rant>
-----==========-----
Oops....
16:21 numbat:~> to mmorriso
Message: Argh.
Message sent to SuperFamicon (mmorriso@numbat) on pts/9.
-=> From SuperFamicon (mmorriso@numbat) on pts/9 at 16:21 :-
Your unusually articulate this afternoon.
16:23 numbat:~> to mmorriso
Message: You're gramaticall inept this afternoon, too
Message sent to SuperFamicon (mmorriso@numbat) on pts/9.
16:24 numbat:~> to mmorriso
Message: fuck.
Message sent to SuperFamicon (mmorriso@numbat) on pts/9.
-=> From SuperFamicon (mmorriso@numbat) on pts/9 at 16:24 :-
Bwahahaa!
<5 mins later>
16:27 numbat:~> to mmorriso
Message: What's wrong with first peron RGPs
Message sent to SuperFamicon (mmorriso@numbat) on pts/9.
I was using a Beard Lab keyboard at the time...... Honestly....
-----==========-----
"Complete Tosser" award goes to Dylan Leigh for trying to fix his
DS171 project with a 9V battery that was only putting out 7V.
"Fucking Moron" award goes to Geoffrey Giesemann who managed to wire
up all the LEDs in the wrong direction. Full Marx.
-----==========-----
More fun with .torc (courtesy Mike)
Message sent to A dumb lazy, procrastinating idiot that has no
intellectual stimulae (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/254.
-=> From Mike Hawk (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/254 at 13:17 :-
Message sent to yourself (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/254.
-----==========-----
Hmmm...
-=> From SuperFamicon (mmorriso@numbat) on pts/88 at 12:08 :-
14.10.LCD screen place ....still
-=> From Francis Mark Reyes (freyes@numbat) on pts/46 at 12:11 :-
you make me horny
12:18 numbat:~> to freyes
Message: This is .plan fodder you realise
<5 mins later>
-=> From Francis Mark Reyes (freyes@numbat) on pts/46 at 12:23 :-
sorry. but my idiotic friend here said that
-=> From Francis Mark Reyes (freyes@numbat) on pts/46 at 12:24 :-
oh fuck. what has mike been telling you???
<5 mins later>
-=> From Francis Mark Reyes (freyes@numbat) on pts/46 at 12:27 :-
erm.. no. i want you to take off the things you copied into your .plan
-=> From Francis Mark Reyes (freyes@numbat) on pts/46 at 12:28 :-
that is just evil! sheer evil!
numbat:~> to freyes
Message: You dare to offend the sanctity of the almighty .plan?
Message sent to Francis Mark Reyes (freyes@numbat) on pts/46.
-=> From Francis Mark Reyes (freyes@numbat) on pts/46 at 12:29 :-
yes.
<5 mins later>
numbat:~> to freyes
Message: hee hee hee.
Message sent to Francis Mark Reyes (freyes@numbat) on pts/46.
-=> From Francis Mark Reyes (freyes@numbat) on pts/46 at 12:30 :-
prepare to meet your doom, mortal.
-=> From Francis Mark Reyes (freyes@numbat) on pts/46 at 12:31 :-
are you typing in everything i say into your .plan?
-=> From Francis Mark Reyes (freyes@numbat) on pts/46 at 12:31 :-
fuck. i hope not.
-=> From Francis Mark Reyes (freyes@numbat) on pts/46 at 12:32 :-
oh.. YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING.
<5 mins later>
-=> From Mihai Constantin Tarnoveanu (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/254 at 12:32 :-
is there any change that you remove mark from your .plan file?
-=> From Mihai Constantin Tarnoveanu (mtarnove@numbat) on pts/254 at 12:34 :-
because i sure as hell hope there isnt
<5 mins later>
-=> From Francis Mark Reyes (freyes@numbat) on pts/46 at 12:44 :-
hmm. interesting .plan content
-=> From Francis Mark Reyes (freyes@numbat) on pts/46 at 12:45 :-
but i'm sure it could do without the first 50 lines or so...
-=> From Francis Mark Reyes (freyes@numbat) on pts/46 at 12:45 :-
don't you think?
-=> From SuperFamicon (mmorriso@numbat) on pts/88 at 12:46 :-
why am I there? That wasn't funny at all
-----=====/ Due Dates /=====-----
MA260 Weblearn Tests - Wednesday (today)
EE151 Tutorial Test 6 - Friday
CS108 Assignment (final) - Friday
CS116 Webpage - Sunday
DS171 Lab 4 (Hardware) - Next Wed.
-----=====/ I'm Currently /=====-----
- Catching up on tests and assessments I missed when sick.
- Revising Sinusoidal Steady-State Stuff for EE151
(summary page out soon, I hope. More like _pages_)
- Working on DS171 hardware interfacing lab.
- MA260 weblearn tests! (stat!)
Update : 18:00
Still busy 'beautifying' my java crap (adding comments and shit)
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If anybody has a copy of the following obscure games
(full versions) please contact me:
* Bubble Pop (including xmas version)
* Powball
* Wing Commander Armada (discontinued :( )
* Threat
-----==========-----
The .plan has passed the 50,000 byte mark! (Markx!)
-----==========-----
Last night, while waliking home (about 11:30) I came across a possum lying
very still by the side of the road. After inspection (breathing, heart
beat, dilation all present but no response to other stimuli) it was still
alive but in severe shock.
It was wheezing slightly and was bleeding at the mouth (I suspect a severe
pneumothorax was the culprit, possibly from a rib fragment). It seemed to be
bleeding from some other areas as well but I didn't want to move it and there
wasn't enough light.
Anyway, I rang my dad (the Wildlife help service is no longer open 24/7 due to
budget cuts). He came up to the spot with a box and shit to keep the poor
thing in until we could get it to a vet. While we were talking about it a dog
from a nearby house started barking, and a woman repeatedly told it to
shut up.
While we were still discussing what we should do, she came out of the house
and asked us to leave the area because (a) we were not from the house that
the possum was in front of and (b) we were making her dog upset.
Shock! Horror! Her dog is upset. Boo hoo. My dad explained what we were doing,
and she said that she had dragged the injured animal off the road about an
hour ago, assuming it was dead. Stupid fucking asshole.
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My library program now saves and loads. Now all I have to do is:
* Go through the code and insert a comment about once every 5-10 lines.
* Make sure i'm catching every single exception and handling it in some
other way than saying to the user "Error. Your Bad"
* Make it generally more 'user-friendly' <groan>
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CS108 assignment checked today - Full Marx.
24/25 for DE101 assignemnt 2. Narf.
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Recieving some nasty feedback about my x86 UNIX choices...
The short answer is : Yes, I would have preferred to use a BSD
derivative, but:
* I needed a small (about 20MB) size (and BSD is too bloated)
* I needed it to run happily with DOS (on same partition, preferably)
* Security was not an issue
-----=====/ Due Dates /=====-----
DE101 Kit and Flyer - Today, 12:00 @ 10.7.2x (EE151 lab)
MA260 Weblearn Tests - Wednesday
CS108 Assignment (final) - Friday
CS116 Webpage - Sunday
DS171 Lab 4 (Hardware) - Next Wed.
-----=====/ I'm Currently /=====-----
- Catching up on tests and assessments I missed when sick.
- Revising Sinusoidal Steady-State Stuff for EE151
(summary page out soon, I hope. More like _pages_)
- Working on DS171 at home (need Parallel Port cable)
- Avoiding CS108 assignments. (Grrrr..)
Decided to unix my dad's collection of old 486 computers.
Spent a while on linux.org searching for a distro that:
* Didn't require a CD image burnt
* Took up less that 100Mb
* Fit on my RMITCS (when compressed, so I could DL at uni)
* Had X (and was still small)
* Multi-user oriented
* Run happily on a FAT16
* Was actually useable
Monkey linux seems to fit the bill... Now I can do something with all
those old 486's (Mwhahaha...)
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I don't like CS108 anymore.....
NOW HE TELLS US WE DON'T NEED NO STINKING ASSOCIATIVEARRAY!
Just spent a lot of time modifying my code to use one.....
Grrrrr.......
Library assignment shits me.... Pointless adding of exceptions and shit..
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My kit has been sucessfully ressurected.
Marcus : "I dont know how I feel about being the funny quote guy in your
plan... You're going to put this in your plan now, aren't you?"
-----=====/ Due Dates /=====-----
CS108 Assignment (check) - Tuesday
DE101 Kit and Flyer - Tomorrow, 12:00 - 12:30 @ 10.7.2x
DS171 Lab 4 (Hardware) - 6 or 7 June ??
CS108 Assignment (final) - 6 or 7 June ??
CS116 Webpage - Sunday
-----=====/ I'm Currently /=====-----
- Catching up on tests and assessments I missed when sick.
- Revising Sinusoidal Steady-State Stuff for EE151
(summary page out soon, I hope. More like _pages_)
- Working on DS171 at home (need Parallel Port cable)
- Fixing my Resume etc. for CS116 Webpage.
- Avoiding CS108 assignments.
- Culling previous 'Exams' from my .plan cos they don't change.
Shouldn't I have something better to do on a Saturday Night / Sunday Morning?
Programming stuff on my page mucho changed... The electronics page will be
the next to get a makeover (stay tuned.......)
Note to self : Add a standard disclaimer to all the stuff on my site.
Way too late to spelll (again):
-=> From geoffwa (ggiesema@numbat) on pts/39 at 02:11 :-
I like went in on friday *just* to get more ?, but the fucking design store was
slut????shut
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I love the smell of burnt voice coil in the morning.... (speakers dead)
Another thing to add to the list of broken appliances in my house that
it's my job to fix cos I'm the one doing the science/electrical degree.
Object Fucked Progress Description
- CD Drive (-90%) Laser Lens scratched :( Not good.
- TV (5%) Still sitting in pieces on my desk.
- VCR (90%) Back tension on tape feed fixed.
- Sister's lights (-50%) Waiting for my mains license.
- Lounge lights (-50%) Ditto.
- Speakers (0%) Loose connections?
- CD Burner (0%) Haven't got the time.
- My DE101 Kit (FRAGGED) Oh Dear.
-----=====/ Due Dates /=====-----
DE101 Kit and Flyer - Monday (oh #$%@)
DS171 Lab 4 (Hardware) - 6 June?
CS116 Webpage - Next Sunday
CS108 Assignment (check) - Tuesday
CS108 Assignment (final) - ???
-----=====/ I'm Currently /=====-----
- Catching up on tests and assessments I missed when sick.
- Revising Sinusoidal Steady-State Stuff for EE151
(summary page out soon, I hope. More like _pages_)
- Picking up the pieces of my DE101 assignment 2.
Oooer.. Better fix my kit and CS108 shit over the weekend.
The good news:
CS116 portfolio up (check out yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~dleigh/coding/tpstuff)
Resume still in the ether.
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Your account filespace is 45 % full
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By culling crap from my CS space and moving all the Eng stuff to the eng
drive, I have recovered over 50% of my CS space! Full Marx.
Also, copied all the maths stuff on probability and partial derivatives
that I missed from Emil during the EE151 lecture (Thanks).
Incredible... I'm actually doing _uni_ work at _uni_.
This could set a dangerous precedent.....
Funny thing for the day no.1 :
The number of people using Borland J++Builder to do their CS108 lab in
Bolam/Knuth Labs. Hilarious.
-----=====/ Due Dates /=====-----
DE101 Kit and Flyer - Monday (oh #$%@)
DS171 Lab 4 (Hardware) - 6 June?
CS116 Webpage - Next Sunday
CS108 Assignment (check) - Tuesday
CS108 Assignment (final) - ???
-----=====/ I'm Currently /=====-----
- Catching up on tests and assessments I missed when sick.
- Revising Sinusoidal Steady-State Stuff for EE151
(summary page out soon, I hope. More like _pages_)
- Picking up the pieces of my DE101 assignment 2.
Update @ 2330:
Uploaded the stuff for my CS116 'portfolio' <groan> to echidna. Will
probably come in early to fix up the page (grrrrr...)
In other news, Dimmeys in Richmond has cotton plain black tshirts for $3 ea.
-----==========-----
CS116 oral went well.
Bored now.
Hmmm... Let's see:
DE101 Lecture - We're doing tests. Stuff that.
EE151 Tute - 2 words : Horatio Roderigo.
-----=====/ Due Dates /=====-----
DE101 Kit and Flyer - Next Monday
DS171 Lab 4 (Hardware) - 6 June?
CS116 Webpage - 7 June?
CS108 Assignment (check) - (NFI)
CS108 Assignment (final) - ??
-----=====/ I'm Currently /=====-----
- Catching up on tests and assessments I missed when sick.
- Revising Sinusoidal Steady-State Stuff for EE151
(summary page out soon, I hope. More like _pages_)
- Picking up the pieces of my DE101 assignment 2.
Geoff and I will be doing our CS116 oral tomorrow at 10:30 in 10.9.something
"Internet Filtering and Censorship in Buisnesses, Organisations and
Educational Institutions (*cough* *hint *cough*)"
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Funny thing for the day no.3:
check out www.marx.com - a security company. Hee hee hee.
also, for some pics:
http://www.marx.org/archive/marx/photo/lifeandwork/index.htm
One at /home/d/dleigh/share/marx.gif
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Numbat DDOS attack, 1800 hours :
PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME CPU COMMAND
12694 moang 1 11 0 1880K 1600K cpu/0 0:55 8.21% nestedloop
12195 rbuszard 1 22 0 1024K 744K run 1:33 8.00% nestedloop
11291 swijayan 1 40 0 944K 664K run 2:44 7.88% nestedloop
12259 gbhatia 1 32 0 936K 696K run 1:29 7.83% nestedloop
13046 clo 1 22 0 928K 648K run 0:34 7.79% nestedloop
13134 kifrance 1 21 0 928K 648K run 0:27 7.22% nestedloop
12080 aagustin 1 42 0 928K 648K cpu/2 1:40 7.19% nestedloop
12511 chile 1 22 0 936K 696K run 1:05 7.02% nestedloop
13232 nmalawar 1 12 0 9280K 9000K run 0:22 6.99% sortmerge
13462 mbachoo 1 41 0 1504K 1264K run 0:04 3.55% hashtable1
Speed resembled molasses.... I haven't had this much lag since I
last used _yallara_.
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The joys of .torc
Way too late to spel:
inter so its going to be a cuopel of uhndered for a cartrighe
Message sent to geoffwa (ggiesema@numbat) on pts/78.
Grrr.....
17:37 numbat:~> to ggiesema
Message: Hang on a second - are you home already?
Message sent to geoffwa (ggiesema@numbat) on pts/78.
-=> From geoffwa (ggiesema@numbat) on pts/78 at 17:38 :-
yes
17:38 numbat:~> to ggiesema
Messsage : damn you
Message sent to geoffwa (ggiesema@numbat) on pts/78.
17:38 numbat:~> to ggiesema
Message: and your children
Message sent to geoffwa (ggiesema@numbat) on pts/78.
-=> From geoffwa (ggiesema@numbat) on pts/78 at 17:38 :-
thems the breaks kiddo
17:38 numbat:~> to ggiesema
Message: may they all burn in hell with you
Message sent to geoffwa (ggiesema@numbat) on pts/78.
-----==========-----
Update : the eBay Java guy is now at yallara.cs..au/~dleigh/eBayjava.htm
Dylan : "We hev wayz of making you talk, Mr. Morrison"
Marcus : "How much money have you got?"
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MA260 Lectures are now _officially_ deprecated.
Funny thing for the day no. 2 :
Geoff cleaning his screen in hopper lab with soap, water and toilet paper.
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Top 5 RMIT lecturer/tutor quotes :
- "Smoke inside - OK. Smoke outside - bad."
(Jerzy Cholewka explaining customer relations for engineers)
- "Web designers are the scum of the earth"
(Sean Morrison)
- "I don't know who you are, or what your hair looks like, but no"
(Justin Sneddon after he nabbed a note being passed around in the
lecture saying "Do you like my new hairstyle")
- "In a car, it's not the engine, the speed, or the acceleration
that matters. It's the _sound_!"
(Jerzy Cholewka)
- "That's it, I'm leaving"
(Justin Sneddon, at the start of an overcrowded lecture)
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Funny thing for the day no.1 :
That RMIT Java Lecturer for sale on eBay really made my day :)
Note to self : Bring a _pencil_ for all your tests, not a pen. (Doh!)
-----=====/ Due Dates /=====-----
CS116 Oral Presentation - Thursday (tomorrow! Oh $#!^)
DE101 Kit and Flyer - Next Monday
DS171 Lab 4 (Hardware) - 6 June?
CS116 Webpage - 7 June?
CS108 Assignment (check) - (NFI)
CS108 Assignment (final) - ??
-----=====/ I'm Currently /=====-----
- Catching up on tests and assessments I missed when sick.
- Revising Sinusoidal Steady-State Stuff for EE151
(summary page out soon, I hope. More like _pages_)
- Preparing for my oral with Geoff.
- Fixing the Webspace.
- Picking up the pieces of my DE101 assignment 2.
Going home early : 8:40!! (must be a new record)
Unbelievable - I left _before_ I was forced out of the lab!
While I was here, gave the webpage a decent overhaul (note the new
link banner thingies) and standardised the format of all the pages
(requirement for the CS116 assignment)
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Top 10 fulldeckisms:
10 - Brain permanently in power saving mode.
9 - A few tiles missing from his space shuttle.
(also, A few tiles short of a successful re-entry.)
8 - Could be considered a plant if he developed photrophic motility.
7 - Ano-fossal ambiguity (can't tell his ass from a hole in the ground).
6 - Afraid she'll void her warranty if she thinks too much.
4 - Born during low tide in the gene pool.
(also, swimming in the shallow end of the gene pool.)
(also, During evolution his ancestors were in the control group.)
3 - Can't find his ass with two hands and a periscope.
2 - As worn out as a cucumber in a convent.
1 - Better at sex than anyone; now all he needs is a partner.
and for the l33t : "Four bits shy of a full DEC"
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#define USER-FRIENDLY Something that doesn't work, but looks nice.
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Top post of the day (rmit.cs.gripe protestors)
<snip>
I'd just like to say that I am glad that I finally know what I am:
a Marxist Communist Trotskyite Leninist Lesbian Feminist Leftist Ratbag
Traitor Oppressor Ignorant Evil Scummy Terrorist
I feel a song coming on...
Yaniv "I don't vote Liberal so I must eat babies" Bernstein
-----==========-----
Dylan : "That depends. Are you good at Java?"
Marcus : "That depends on what you mean by good and what you mean by Java."
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The almighty .plan has reached 1000 lines. Full Marx!
Emil says that this is invalid because I'm repeating my due dates etc, but
I want to keep this as a permanent record... So when I'm doing a shitty
assignment I can look back at all the other shitty assignments I've done.
-----==========-----
Grrr...
PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME CPU COMMAND
27535 bwillems 1 0 0 928K 648K cpu/0 4:34 20.26% nestedloop
28084 dxuan 1 0 0 928K 688K cpu/1 1:19 20.06% nestedloop
28141 mkopp 1 0 0 4752K 4472K run 0:38 18.32% merge
27033 pphinjar 17 10 0 57M 25M cpu/3 0:53 11.70% appletviewer
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Update : It seems that Cynthia had a job interview, and told the head tutor
a week before to get a replacement for this lab.... But either he
didn't or the replacement didn't show up.
Update : Cynthia missed the lab... Nodody was Marxed at all.
Cynthia is 1 hour late... I want my Marx now, dammit!
-----=====/ Due Dates /=====-----
CS108 Library Assignment - Tuesday
CS116 Oral Presentation - Thursday
DE101 Kit and Flyer - Next Monday
DS171 Lab 4 (Hardware) - 6 June?
CS116 Webpage - 7 June?
-----=====/ I'm Currently /=====-----
- Catching up on tests and assessments I missed when sick.
- Making X purdy.
- Making Library.class purdy.
- Making dclock purdy.
- Preparing for my oral with Geoff.
- Culling the junk from my CS directory.
- Finishing my CS108 assignemnt
- Trying to convince my sister's rabbit that my foot is _not_
an available female.
xv and xclock now working. Most bugs ironed out of Library.java too. Yay.
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Enter a for St[a]ff or u for St[u]dent :
a
Enter a for St[a]ff or u for St[u]dent :
u
Enter a for St[a]ff or u for St[u]dent :
u
Enter a for St[a]ff or u for St[u]dent :
a
Grrrrr.......
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Funny thing for the day no. 3: (courtesy www.laughnet.net)
You might be a republican if...
You've named your kids "Deduction one" and "Deduction two" .
You've ever referred to someone as "my <racial/ethnic monority> friend"
You argue that you need 300 handguns, in case a bear ever attacks your home.
You've ever uttered the phrase, "Why don't we just bomb the sons of bitches."
You've ever said "Clean air? Looks clean to me."
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I love the smell of burnt plastic on a monday morning.
xlock ifs rocks.
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Funny thing for the day no. 2:
On the rmit.cs.gripe protestors thread (Yaniv Bernstein's post)
Bachelor of Applied Evil (Aviation) +
Diploma in Left Wing Tree-hugging Lesbian Communist Terrorist Scum
-----==========-----
So bored, I'm working on my homepage.
Just found out I can submit the DE101 assignment later ,cos so many
people stuffed up. :( Wah. Grrrr. Going to get a new pot now :(
Funny thing for the day no. 1 :
David arguing with Nadia about his DE101 Website Marx.
-----=====/ Due Dates /=====-----
CS108 Library Assignment - Tuesday
CS116 Oral Presentation - Thursday
DE101 Kit and Flyer - Next Monday
DS171 Lab 4 (Hardware) - 6 June?
CS116 Webpage - 7 June?
-----=====/ I'm Currently /=====-----
- Catching up on tests and assessments I missed when sick.
- Complaining about Belgrave weather (2 degrees this morning)
- Preparing for my oral with Geoff.
- Culling the junk from my CS directory.
- Starting my CS108 assignemnt (uh-oh)
The insurmountable horrors of DE101 Assignment 2:
The kit assignment being due in a couple of days, I decided to actually
_assemble_ the damn thing. I used a 45W iron (because I was using unleaded
solder, which has a higher melting point). Unfortunately, I forgot to clip on a
couple of heatsinks when soldering the transistors and I killed one of them.
Kicked myself for getting a kit which used discrete semicondutors.
After I found out why it wasn't working, I spent about an hour searching
around the place for a appropriate _PNP_ transistor - eventually found a
old BC556. Screwed over two of the pads when desoldering the dud
transistor, too.
After putting the second transistor in, I found that the higher hfe of
the replacement caused the quiescent current of the circuit to go over
1.2A, so I had to get another power supply. Pulled the 12V supply out
of an old 286, plugged it in, shocked myself twice across my hand. Ow.
Unplugged the power supply, ripped another one out of another old computer.
Connected the new power supply up to the circuit and it worked perfectly.
For about 30 seconds. Then the increased current caused one if the resistors
to explode and spray flames and bits of molten plastic on me, the circuit
and the bench, at which point I gave up.
-----==========-----
Working at 4:36 in the morning.... Aiieee.
This should really be under tomorrow, since I'm writing this on
monday (4:30 am), but until i get to uni it counts as a single day :)
CS116 assignment submitted.
Due Dates : DE101 Kit and Flyer - Monday (%#&$)
CS108 Library Assignment - Tuesday
CS116 Oral Presentation - Thursday
DS171 Lab 4 (Hardware) - 6 June?
CS116 Webpage - 7 June?
Currently : - Catching up on tests and assessments I missed when sick.
- Cursing Belgrave weather (my breath is condensing as I type)
- Extinguishing my DE101 assignment.
- Culling the junk from my CS directory.
- Starting my CS108 assignemnt (uh-oh)
Beard lab till 9:35 or so.
CS116 tech report done. sort of. good enough anyways.
Official CS harsh bastard (ref: rmit.cs.gripe)
This page was unintentionally left blank.
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How many people from the sports and recreation dept. does it take
to change a lightbulb?
Just one, but a lot of bulbs (*crush* "oops").
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Some .torc fodder from tonight:
18:44 numbat:~> to emikulic
Message: Do you always find you have to pull it out of the plughole
after you have a shower to let the water out?
20:05 numbat:~> to emikulic
Message: Aaah, I love trolling the newsgroups on a Friday night
Message sent to [Emil Mikulic] (emikulic@numbat) on pts/231.
-=> From [Emil Mikulic] (emikulic@numbat) on pts/231 at 20:23 :-
*giggle*
-=> From [Emil Mikulic] (emikulic@numbat) on pts/231 at 20:23 :-
dylan, you terrorist, you MADE HIM CRY! =)
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Work on the homepage, expecially the programming page, is looking up.
Ate waaaaaaaay too much Spaghetti last night. <groan>
Why the hell don't most of CS update their .plans more often?
*cough*Emil*Cough*Geoff*Cough*Stephen*Cough*Mike*Cough*
EE151 test in 2 hours and counting... Still can't be bothered studying
for it... <sigh> EE151 blows some serious goat.
Even setting up David's X is more fun.
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For no particular reason other than I felt like it (and .plan fodder),
I transcribed the Arnold Rimmer song from Red Dwarf:
(INTRO)
If you're in trouble he will save your day,
He's brave and he's fearless come what may,
Without him the mission would go astray.
(CHORUS)
He's Arnold, Arnold, Arnold Rimmer
Without him life would be much grimmer,
He's handsome, brave and no-one's slimmer
He will never need a zimmer.
He's Arnold, Arnold, Arnold Rimmer
More reliable than a garden trimmer,
He's never been mistaken for your brimmer, (WTF??)
He's not bald and his head doesn't glimmer.
(BRIDGE)
Master of wit and repartee,
His command of space directives is uncanny,
How come he's such a genius? Dont ask me.
(CHORUS)
Ask Arnold, Arnold, Arnold Rimmer
He's also a fantastic swimmer
And if you play your cards right then
he just might come round for dinner.
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Due Dates : EE151 Tutorial Test - TODAY
CS116 Tech. Report - Sunday
DE101 Kit and Flyer - Monday (%#&$)
CS108 Library Assignment - 29 May
CS116 Oral Presentation - Next Thurs
DS171 Lab 4 (Hardware) - 6 June
CS116 Webpage - 7 June
Currently : - Catching up on tests and assessments I missed when sick.
- Researching my CS116 oral. Sort of.
- Working on my CS116 Tech report and DE101 Kit
- Revising Sinusoidal Steady State Analysis
CS116 assignment B extended. There _is_ a God (hereafter referred to as Sean)
Bought my DE101 kit today - 3 days to build, test and write up :(
Jaycar is out of keyring screwdrivers, too. Damn.
-----==========-----
Due Dates : EE151 Tutorial Test - Friday
CS116 Tech. Report - Sunday
DE101 Kit and Flyer - Monday (%#&$)
CS108 Library Assignment - 29 May
CS116 Oral Presentation - Next Thurs
DS171 Lab 4 (Hardware) - 6 June
CS116 Webpage - 7 June
Currently : - Catching up on tests and assessments I missed when sick.
- Researching my CS116 oral. Sort of.
- Working on my CS116 Tech report and DE101 Kit
- Revising Sinusoidal Steady State Analysis
"If you prick me, do I not... leak?"
- Data, ST:TNG (The Naked Now)
I am the proud owner of a >25,000 byte .plan
More fun with .torc :
-=> From Your Mother (dleigh@numbat) on pts/195 at 20:51 :-
-=> From Marcus Cameron Morrison (mmorriso@numbat) on pts/193 at 20:04 :-
are you still at school?
20:03 numbat:~> to mmorriso
Message: Hell yes. Did you think i had a _life_ or something?
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Do it yourself Big Brother (thanks to Matt Lee of MHS):
- Wallpaper your house with mirrors.
- Sit back and watch the crazy action.
My favourite quotes from the Heavy Gear rules:
- "An immoblised vehicle may not dodge incoming fire"
- "Instant Death is not recoverable"
- "Weapons covered by the Heavy Weapons Skill cannot use a suppressor"
Ranking of Uni days, best to worst:
Tuesday (CS108 and DS171 labs)
Even Mondays (CS116 and no EE151 lab)
Thurdsay (No MA260 lectures)
Friday (EE151 tute first thing)
Odd Mondays (EE151 lab)
Wednesday (MA260 lab)
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Due Dates : MA260 Weblearn tests - Wed 22 May (today)
CS116 Tech. Report - Friday
EE151 Tutorial Test - Friday
DE101 Kit and Flyer - Monday (%#&$)
CS108 Library Assignment - 29 May
CS116 Oral Presentation - Next Thurs
DS171 Lab 4 (Hardware) - 6 June
CS116 Webpage - 7 June
Currently : - Catching up on tests and assessments I missed when sick.
- Supressing my homicidal / suicidal urges.
- Researching my CS116 oral. Sort of.
- Starting my CS116 tech report.
"If you prick me, do I not... leak?"
- Data, ST:TNG (The Naked Now)
"That's right. You have no head. That darn pool must have been
filled with acid. You obviously can't go on living that way."
- Narrator, SQ1, after Roger sips from the pool on Kerona
Today's Rant : Coffee/Tea/Hot Chocolate Machines
The other day I went to buy a cup of hot chocolate from the vending machine.
Everything went as normal, I put my $1.30 in and the cup dropped down. Then
it filled with boiling hot, perfectly clear water.
Weakest cup of hot chocolate I ever had. I even had to wait for 15 minutes
for it to cool down enough to drink.
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What GNU EMACS _really_ stands for (taken from the emacs /etc folder) :
Generally
Not
Used
Except (by)
Middle
Aged
Computer
Scientists
-----==========-----
What AMS _really_ stands for
(submit any more you can think of - most taken from graffiti)
Academic
Mismanagement
System
A
Major
Stuff-up
Another
Mound of
Shite
All
Managers
Suck
Another
Management
Stuff-up
Another
Major
Scandal
-----==========-----
It's been 4 days and I still haven't had any religious hate mail about
my .plan jokes. Disappointed.
Woke up on Monday unable to breathe (Nasty Asthma Attack).
Not the best start to the week.
Due Dates : MA260 Weblearn tests - Wed 22 May
CS116 Tech. Report - Friday
DE101 Kit and Flyer - Monday (%#&$)
CS108 Library Assignment - Next Tue?
CS116 Oral Presentation - Next Thurs
DS171 Lab 4 (Hardware) - Later
CS116 Webpage - Later
Currently : - Catching up on 4 days of missed emails and newsgroups.
- Catching up on tests and assessments I missed when sick.
- Helping other people with their work and ignoring mine.
- Starting my CS108 assignment
- Researching my CS116 oral. Sort of.
"It tastes okay, but you generally prefer your rubble extra chunky."
- Narrator, SQ4, when Roger eats the rubble on Xenon
The almighty .plan has breached the 500 line mark! (Markx!)
DS117 lab 3 finished, tested and submitted (under Eng's VC++, too)
Core Dumps : About 25
Chcolate bars Consumed : 3
Caffenated Beverages Consumed : 5
Lab Evictions : 4 (3 CS, 1 Eng)
Percentage of time helping other people do it : 70%
5 Proofs that Jesus was an RMIT Computer Science student:
- He had no permanent address
- Nobody would hire him
- He never cut his hair
- He never got married
- His mother had no idea who his father was
-----==========-----
Due Dates : DS171 Lab 3 (Stacks) - Today
CS108 Weblearn test - Tue 21 May
MA260 Weblearn tests - Wed 22 May
CS116 Tech. Report - Next Friday?
DE101 Kit and Flyer - ?????
CS108 Library Assignment - Later
CS116 Oral Presentation - Later
DS171 Lab 4 (Hardware) - Later
CS116 Webpage - Later
Currently : - Finishing off my DS171 assignment.
- Helping other people with their work and ignoring mine.
- Starting my CS108 assignment
- Researching my CS116 oral. Sort of.
Kicked out of beard at 9:30 again <sigh>
A small .mov of the trailer for Matrix Reloaded is on my page.
I really _should_ be doing some work now.
Aplogies to any arts/psych/etc students that were offended by my LB jokes.
6 degrees at Belgrave this morning :(
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Your account filespace is 99 % full Uh-oh.
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Emil today : "I was planning on getting a proper lunch, like, a
hamburger or something..."
< Emil then eats chocolate during the DE101 lecture - 2 hours before
his dental appointment. Full Marx. >
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A C proof that perl doesn't hold a monopoly on one-line programs,
and that valid C code may not be valid C++ code:
void main() { main() } //Calling main() from within itself illegal in C++
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
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Due Dates : DS171 Lab 3 (Stacks) - Friday
CS108 Weblearn test - Tue 21 May
MA260 Weblearn tests - Wed 22 May
DE101 Kit and Flyer - Later
CS108 Library Assignment - Later
CS116 Oral Presentation - Later
CS116 Tech. Report - Later
DS171 Lab 4 (Hardware) - Later
CS116 Webpage - Later
Currently : - Finishing off my DS171 assignment.
- Researching my CS116 oral. Sort of.
- Adding to my list of funny usernames.
Yaaaaaaay !
Login name: dleigh In real life: Dylan Leigh
Directory: /home/d/dleigh Shell: /usr/local/bin/tcsh
On since May 14 19:51:34 on pts/113 from tnr01.cs.rmit.edu.au
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Note that the new vending machines (like the one near the elevators on
floor 4 of building 10) DO take 5c coins.
Always remember to fold and not stir when you make chocolate mousse.
And whip the egg whites in a _copper_ bowl.
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Thou shalt not follow the NULL pointer, for trouble awaits thee at the end.
Node popped - Press D to display
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
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How many CS students does it take to change a lightbulb?
None. "We'll fix it in software"
How many engineering students does it take to change a lightbulb?
Just one, but it takes a long time as they rig a self-changing bulb system
so they don't have to do it again.
How many fine arts students does it take to change a lightbulb?
Two. One to change the bulb and one to sell the old bulb as a piece of
postmodern abstract art (so it can be put in building 8).
How many philosophy students does it take to change a lightbulb?
It all depends on how big the lightbulb is.....
How many Law students does it take to change a lightbulb?
Any numbar as set forth in the following agreement: If the first party (known
herefter as the lightbulb) fails in its obligation to provide illumination to
an area including but not limited to.......
How many arts students does it take to change a lightbulb?
None - arts students don't learn how to do anything useful, so they couldn't
do it anyway.
How many buisness students does it take to change a lightbulb?
Three. One to outsource the operation, one to second the motion, and one to
audit the transaction.
How many environmental studies students does it take to change a lightbulb?
Only one, but they have to change it with one of those long-life flourescent
bulbs.
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due Dates : MA260 Weblarn tests - Wed???
MA260 8:30 test - Wed (#@$%$#@%)
DS171 Lab 3 (Stacks) - Friday
CS108 WEblearn test - Tuesday
Currently : - Finishing off my DS171 assignment
- Eating tons of those new 92% fat-free lays/sakata chips.
- Researching my CS116 oral.
- Finding a way to get back at Sean Morrison for bagging me on
rmit.cs.InrotoInfotechnology and Matthew Cymbalak for bagging
me on rmit.cs.general. (I deserved the first one though :P )
CS108 project finished and submitted by 6:00.
Fun with AccountsManager
Account 1 :
ID = 345345
Name = Geoff
Balance = Infinity
Min. Amount = 23.0
Account 2 :
ID = 234534
Name = Geoff2
Balance = NaN
Min. Amount = 2.0
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Fun with .torc
-=> From Geoffrey Giesemann (ggiesema@numbat) on pts/34 at 14:15 :-
my brain is pissing me off, not doing any work
-=> From Geoffrey Giesemann (ggiesema@numbat) on pts/34 at 14:15 :-
yeah but thanks to de101, we mathematically proved that feng is a dumb shit
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Might be back a while fixing my AccountsManager since I only started it today.
My train got to Melbourne Central ONE MINUTE EARLY!!! incredible...
Due Dates : CS108 Java Assignment 4 - Today (^%$#$&^$%!!!)
MA260 Weblarn tests - Wed???
DS171 Lab 3 (Stacks) - Friday
Currently : - Doing my CS108 Accounts assignment which I have neglected to
look at for ages but is due today.
- Researching my CS116 oral.
- Finding a way to get back at Sean Morrison for bagging me on
rmit.cs.InrotoInfotechnology and Matthew Cymbalak for bagging
me on rmit.cs.general. (I deserved the first one though :P )
1 extra makeup quote for sunday...
"Only time - and money - will tell."
- Narrator, SQ6, pondering the future of the SQ series
"Careful! Combining those items might cause a rip in the space-time
continuum, a tear in the very fabric of space itself! (Or not.)"
- Narrator, SQ4, when Roger tries to combine random inventory items
CS116 project project finished friday, submitted today.
Will be applying for a 24-hour card ASAP.
Due Dates : CS108 Java Assignment 4 - Monday (better get started, huh)
MA260 Weblarn tests - Wed???
DS171 Lab 3 (Stacks) - Friday
Currently : - Doing my CS116 and CS108 assignments which I have neglected to
look at for ages but are due soon.
- Researching my CS116 oral.
- Trolling CS116 newsgroup frequently.
9:30 on a Friday night and I'm _still_ at uni... And I'm not attending
the SFGA Star Wars Trivia Night either. Kicked out of TnR tonight.
The .plan has broken the 250-line mark! (Marx!)
Geoff and I have finally decided on a CS116 oral topic. *drumroll*.......
Internet Censorship in Buisnesses and Educational Institutions (hint, hint)
The xemacs attack....
PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME CPU COMMAND
1751 jantony 1 0 0 19M 14M cpu/1 936:26 23.76% xemacs-21.4.5
5312 vchau 1 10 0 936K 656K cpu/0 5:42 23.65% nestedloop
6538 rogupta 1 0 0 936K 696K cpu/3 0:05 5.68% merge
I FOUND TEH OPERA !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Opera can be found (on numbat at least) at /usr/local/pkg/opera
EE151 Test in 12 minutes....
Due Dates : EE151 Tutorial Test - NOW (@#$! ^*&$# #$%^)
CS116 Project Project - Sunday (!@*#)
CS108 Java Assignment 4 - Monday
DS171 Lab 3 (Stacks) - Friday
Currently : - Doing my CS116 and CS108 assignments which I have neglected to
look at for ages but are due soon.
- Researching my CS116 oral.
- Trolling CS116 newsgroup frequently.
Forgot to add a quote yesterday.... Oh well. I'll add 3 today then:
"Smoke inside - OK. Smoke outside - bad"
- Electronic Engineering Lecturer Dr Jerzy Cholewka on public relations
"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that
cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong
goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
- Douglas Adams
"Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation."
- Edward R. Murrow
Finished and submitted my EE151 Pspice assignment.
New Marx! : CS108 MasterMind Proggy - 100%
CS108 Mid-Semester Test - 97%
CS116 Unix Competency - 31/32
Due Dates : EE151 Tutorial Test - Friday (@#$%)
CS116 Project Project - Sunday (!@*#)
CS108 Java Assignment 4 - Monday
DS171 Lab 3 (Stacks) - Next Friday
Still debating CS116 oral topics... Internet Censorship probably.
Forgot to set my alarm. Woke up at 4:30 (pm) . Oops.
Due Dates : EE151 Tutorial Test - Friday (@#$%)
EE151 PSpice Assignment - Friday (^&*$)
CS116 Project Project - Sunday (!@*#)
CS108 Java Assignment 4 - Monday
I'm currently : - Still deciding what i'm going to do for my CS116 oral.
- Doing my CS116 M$ Project Assignment
- Doing my EE151 PSpice assignment
- Procrastinating on my CS108 and DS171 labs, as usual
- Working on a fast C++ polynomial class (oxymoron ?)
"People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and
have a tremendous impact on history"
- Dan Quayle, former american vice president
Missed my CS108 lab and tute today..... The tute's no big loss, though.
Got kicked out of TnR lab at 9:30 last night. <sigh>
Got home at 11:45 last night. <sigh>
Tried to download PSpice over RMIT dial-up but it took
longer than 2 hours and they kicked me off.
MA260 Test at 8:30am - Tomorrow
EE151 Tutorial Test - Friday
EE151 PSpice Assignment - Friday
CS116 Project Project - Sunday
CS108 Programming Ass. 4 - Monday
I'm currently : - Still deciding what i'm going to do for my CS116 oral.
- Doing my CS116 M$ Project Assignment
- Doing my EE151 PSpice assignment in my DS171 lab.
- Helping everybody else encapsulate a stack in DS171.
I _will_ break the legs of the next person who leaves their mobile on
full volume in a CS lab.
No updates over the weekend.... I tried cracking the Win98 code on my
only working CD and it scrambled my Boot Sector and both FATs. Ouch.
Spent the rest of the weekend reinstalling stuff and beating Hannah at
Bubble Pop (720,000 points!)
EE151 Tutorial Test - Friday
EE151 PSpice Assignment - Friday
CS116 Project Project - Sunday
CS108 Programming Ass. 4 - Monday
<groan>
On the upside, NQR Boronia still has English Breakfast teabags cheap.
I'm currently : - Still deciding what i'm going to do for my CS116 oral.
- Doing my CS116 M$ Project Assignment
- Complaining about the CS116 M$ Project Assignment
- Procrastinating on DS171 and CS108 labs.
- Trying to download the PSpice student version.
- Working on various programs totally unrelated to uni.
I killed G++ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
testpoly.cpp: In function `int main(...)':
testpoly.cpp:12: Internal compiler error in `convert_move', at expr.c:570
Please submit a full bug report.
See <URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/faq.html#bugreport> for instructions.
Today's Rant : Getting out of Uni at 10:00 pm or so
After I stayed back at uni till 10 last week, I found that is was almost
impossible to get out of the buildings... The doors at floors 2 and 3
were locked and so were all the ones going through the union area. Even
to get out the 'unlocked' doors you had to find somebody to hold down a
button that was about 25 meters away... Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
"And God said: 'Let there be Satan, so people don't blame everything
on Me. And let there be lawyers. so people don't blame everything on
Satan.'"
- John Wing
Just used my last English Breakfast teabag. Damn.
Can't believe I'm updating my .plan at 2am to tell people about my
tea purchasing problems, either.
David says I need to see a professional about my .plan addiction.
He's probably right.
I'm currently : - Still deciding what i'm going to do for my CS116 oral.
- Making fvwm usable.
- Resubmitting DE101 assignment 1 now that the EMS is back.
"Just this week we had an incident which provided a glaring condemnation of
how we are handling our Corporate information. Sensitive U S WEST documents
were thrown into a dumpster, where it became public information. It wound up
scattered around an apartment complex... at least the parts of it that the
finder didn't want. We must realize that some things very close to us are
jeopardized when we are careless with our Corporate information assets."
- from the U S WEST Security IAP Newsletter, which was found in a dumpster.
Stayed at Beard lab till I was kicked out at 9:30pm. Then went to
Babbage lab. Was kicked out at 10pm. Wish I had a 24hour access card.
The FVWM2 script is looking muuuuuuuuch better.
DE101 Web Page Project checked (full Marx!) and submitted, but SEMS
screwed over my submission and then crashed for everybody.
Marcus today : "I never get pissed off. I'm too stupid!"
I'm currently : - Still deciding what i'm going to do for my CS116 oral.
- Forcing myself to do the CS116 MS Project Assignment.
- Removing all my fluxbox stuff.
- Trying to make fvwm usable.
- Still feeling pissed off, making random rants and often
spamming people's terminals with them, wishing I was rich
enough to afford some hard drugs. Not looking forward to
tomorrows EE151 tute with HR.
- Wishing I had Net access from home, still.
- Having a very angsty night.
"The plants are bolted down because of people like you!"
- Narrator, SQ4, when Roger tries to nick a plant
I'm currently : - Still deciding what i'm going to do for my CS116 oral.
- Forcing myself to do the CS116 MS Project Assignment.
- Trying to find out my DE101 tutor's name so I can
send her the URL for the Web Page assignment I finished
2 months ago.
- Adding many rants to my webpage and .plan, and trolling the
RMIT newsgroups frequently because i'm having a moderately
pissed off (bad hair) day.
- Deciding to append to my .plan, starting today.
"As much as we'd enjoy watching you get in trouble, we must advise you
that this type of behaviour is universally considered either rude or
amorous, which could end up getting you either killed or married."
- Narrator, Space Quest 4 (when Roger tries to kiss strangers)
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"[Thou art] a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound,
filthy worsted-stocking knave; a lily-liver'd, action-taking, whoreson,
glass-gazing, superserviceable, finical rogue; one trunk-inheriting slave;
one that wouldst be a bawd in way of good service, and art nothing but the
composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a
mungril bitch."
- Kent, King Lear, Act 2 Scene 2
"I know the difference between sadist and masochist... but
you're going to have to beat it out of me."
- Scott Leiter
(If you want to see the new stuff, try "finger dleigh | less" or variations)
Student number: 3017239 Web : http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~dleigh
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