Saturday, July 06, 2002

your not saying that to me are you? :(
posted by john , 11:04 PM Þ 
posted by captain davros , 8:13 PM Þ 

and you can thank philly for the jawn.
posted by john , 7:18 PM Þ 

does anyone know the wiring config of the vga adapter for an Atari?
My mates one has broken and needs resoldering but he doesnt have the pin/wire colour config
posted by chriszanf , 3:23 PM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 10:16 AM Þ 

why when we can DO IT OURSELVES?!?!?

features features features!
posted by Irdial , 10:11 AM Þ 
posted by mary13 , 9:05 AM Þ 

blogger pro? why when we can DO IT OURSELVES?!?!?

the new fatcat site uses a mySQL / PHP backend and is quite blog like, especially the news section, which has articles which can be set a publish date and have authors etc. i didn't write someone very clever is doing so.

also remember a friend of mine wrote a server side java messageboard that accepted posts from emails (and replies could be sent by email too). the site it was hosted on is down as he graduated from uni, BUT it was opensource and on source forge or freshmeat. i think i will see him tomorrow, i'll ask him about it. anyway, it's open source, so we can hack about until we get what we want unless it would be easier for mikkel to start from scratch... i dunno... anyway, things i think the BLOGDIAL script should contain:

sign up for email digest / post notification
post / reply to posts by email
gpg encryption supported (maybe no need)
comments
ftp for images (maybe, depends on server load)
blog stats (who when where frequency)
etc, etc.
posted by alex_tea , 3:22 AM Þ 
Friday, July 05, 2002

Theres a film touring about the death of Simon Jones at Shoreham docks in 1998 through casualisation.
The tour dates are HERE
posted by chriszanf , 10:56 PM Þ 

anyone here read Milan Kundera ? ........ Immortality does it for me every time ...... he has a new one coming out this year
posted by a hymn in g to nann , 8:34 PM Þ 

Blogger pro?
posted by Irdial , 8:15 PM Þ 

are we going to go php in the future?
posted by john , 7:35 PM Þ 

Goddamn Blogger. I need to get around to writing that perl script for us. :P

Mail for Akin!
posted by Mikkel , 7:31 PM Þ 

Possible privacy violation in pursuing internet copyright infringement

05/07/2002

Editor: Joe Figueiredo

Although pursuing individual copyright violators, rather than trying to prosecute suppliers of enabling tools, makes more sense legally, this approach could raise privacy issues and also turn music buyers en masse against the industry, according to Dutch solicitor Christiaan Alberdingk Thijm.

Alberdingk Thijm successfully defended KaZaA, the Dutch online supplier of Internet peer-to-peer (P2P) software for finding and downloading music files, in a court case and subsequent appeal brought several months ago by Buma/Stemra, the Dutch copyright association.

In KaZaA’s defence, Alberdingk Thijm showed that the software supplier was not responsible for the possible misuse of its products. That responsibility lay with the users.

Although pursuing the individual violator does seem the logical route, there are privacy issues to consider. Gathering evidence that such ‘downloaders’ also offer music files from their own computers requires identifying the users and accessing information stored on their computers. That is an invasion of privacy.

Moreover, such a witch-hunt of individuals could lead to a backlash against the industry.

http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=11372
posted by Irdial , 6:20 PM Þ 

staus.blogger.com
posted by Irdial , 4:43 PM Þ 

Unmissable for clean thought processes / reality check:

"The Society of the Spectacle", Guy Debord Rebel Press / AIM

"And Yet It Moves" by Boy Igor ISBN 0-934 727-00-7

"Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems" by Galileo Galilei (havent got the ISBN ive loaned the book!)
posted by Irdial , 3:56 PM Þ 

Flatland; I touched it but didnt get a chance to get through it.

Hunter S Thompson "F&L in LV" its been on my list for ages.

As for brutal honesty, with music, I have always been percieved as inflexible.....but brutal? I only wish that people (especially those who run labels) were a little more brutal, instead of being the pathetic milquetoast, milk-blooded, cowardly, spineless lemmings that they are.

Are my friends strong enough to take my bullshit? Eveyone that I call "friend" can more than take what I dish out, and whats more, they are strong enough and smart enough to reign me in when needed. And that, thankfully, is often.

HiFi: I am a priveledged tester of the new Mini Timedomain® desktop speakers, which are truely special. http://www.eclipse-td.com/english/index.html is where the info on the full size version is. These are 1/4" jack with separate 110v powered adaptor. The Timedomain principle amplifier is built in. The bass, staggeringly coherent picture and unity of the sound is quite remarkable. I can only imagine how good the full size version is, especially when driven by a superb recording.
posted by Irdial , 3:44 PM Þ 

i forgot to add this to the fatcat list:

david grubbs - this record is amazing. the last ten or so releases have all been amazing. truely. i'm not just saying that. there's a new 7" series which is releasing guitar / punk / indie stuff. everybody should check out programme this amaing french band, you can here the track in the flash animation on the page.. also giddy motors jesus lizard / beefheart albini engineered punk mash... and the splits have been really good, always are. very consitsent in their unconsistency of genre. my favourites (since merzbow / AMM which was only the 4th) are:

12FAT026 Bannlust / Chasm
12FAT031 Speedranch / Jansky Noise
12FAT024 Plotkin / Pole Imposter (you won't find this anywhere, read why)
12FAT020 Kid 606 / Christophe de Babalon
12FAT027 Matmos / Motion
12FAT040 Duplo Remote / COM.A
12FAT042 Alejandra & Aeron / QT?
12FAT043 Ultra red / Anna Planeta

that's basically very nearly all of them and they aremy favourites. i d o really like *all* the splits. you can get the split compilation which features tracks from 1 - 8 and has the original merzbow track that was too fierce to cut to vinyl if you want to catch up as it were... i think that's FATCD08 *checks* oh yes i was right!

other non fatcat stuff i have been listening to:

Jega - Geometry (quite old now...), Hellfish & Producer - Constant Mutation, Venetian Snares - printf, 237 0894 and some old stuff of his on mp3. gotta get glue funk hits and doll doll doll, theboylucas, mAKE-UP, Nation of Ulysses, Janek Schaefer (oh yeah that's another reccomend FatCat CD), pita, !!!, Jim O'Rourke, Captain Beefheart, Fugazi, V/Vm, beastie boys, fallt stuff, push button objects, black dice, gang wizard, minor threat, troubleman mix tape... etc etc...
posted by alex_tea , 3:22 PM Þ 

That book is genius. Complete utter genius. I read it a while back in one go on my monitor and got a cramp and shit. Hehe.
posted by Mikkel , 1:22 PM Þ 

Also (thinking mainly of Akin) Flatland by Edwin Abbott (sp?). A wonderful little parable on thought processes and beliefs. Written in the 1884!!!!! The link gives you the entire book free!

Thanks for the FatCat suggestions. I'm on a music frenzy at the mo, so all suggestions will be gratefully received...

I really like the last Faultline LP. Anyone heard the new one?
posted by Alun , 11:50 AM Þ 

Akin, you should read Hunter S. Thompsons latest tome, Fear and Loathing in America - Letters 1968-76. The striking thing is the BRUTAL nature of his honesty. To everyone, friend or foe. A kindred spirit? Definitely a trait to be admired/aspired to, but I'm personally not that strong - or maybe I don't think my friends are strong enough to take it... or both. And the wierdest thing (for me) was finding out that he was straight when he investigated for F+L in Vegas...

Naim... unfortunately I only have the integrated Nait 5. Sounds super-lovely though. One fine day I'll graduate to a Bryston set-up and a Planar 9.... droooooooooooooolll. (Geek note: my cable is very cheap £4 per meter and I was told that most of the stuff up to £25 per metre is no better despite proud claims of low oxygen, solid core, blah blah blah...). But now thinking of naim... it would be hard to switch to Bryston as I do love the naim sound. It's just that I was given a demo of the top-end Bryston stuff and it blew me away...
Last night another 4 hours of listening pleasure. I recommend Nick Caves No More Shall We Part very highly... for authenticity, beauty, song-writing and ATMOSPHERE.
posted by Alun , 11:31 AM Þ 
Thursday, July 04, 2002

cable lines suck no doubt about it. dsl is the only option of that
i am convinced.
posted by john , 11:01 PM Þ 

hey alun, top hi-fi marks ......... what naim gear do you have ? ....... i have an old rega planar 3 running through a naim nac102, hicap & nap250 into a couple of epos e17s ........ you know the guy who set up naim built guitar amps previously : mr linn turntable inventor built his first pieces specifically for those amps because he loved the sound so much ........................ thankfully i no longer live anywhere near a proper hi-hi store ....... shit, the conversations i used to have with salesmen about how much money it was really necessary to spend per foot on speaker cable ....... dark days ...........
posted by a hymn in g to nann , 10:20 PM Þ 

barreh's isp is a bitch, so im guessing thats why he's not on. i cant connect to his computer either. (SHAW FUCKING SUCKS).

i dont know smallkid well (seen few posts), but im a relatively n00b on there.

gah.
posted by Mikkel , 9:20 PM Þ 

ok worst triplet of them all;
lemmy getsome cookies

hey barrie are you around?
posted by john , 8:11 PM Þ 

not lucky, lemmy!
posted by john , 8:10 PM Þ 

Motorhead...Motorhead were lucky, if nothing else. don't worry about the cows jb; if they don't come back you might at least get a magic bean.
posted by captain davros , 8:00 PM Þ 

2 may never be greater than 7, but even Jimi had to wonder what if 6 were 9...
posted by captain davros , 7:56 PM Þ 

wait i just thought of something....
you just like motorhead beacuse they are english.

eeeek, don't punch me!
;p
posted by john , 7:44 PM Þ 

ok ok ok! i hear you. they are not the cramps by any means
or in the same light at all. i just get scared that noone cares or
knows anything any more. what am i to do? my island is lonely.

i can listen to my real records till the cows come home but the cows
have all died out at pasture and they are not coming home and i am
still waiting here. frankly i did like quite a bit that role modelstuff you
hipped us to. still when the sadies come here i will go. and i'll probably have a
good time too no matter what is going on in my mind. although i would say that
their audience is probably one of the more educated ones out there. they are not
pop heads i can assure you. nor are they an act. at least i don't gather that from
meeting people in that scene around here. (their canadian).

i am just tried of listening to my buzz comps and my magnetic norths, my art blakey's
and all the ramones stuff. why they aren't offending me as much as the "dj's" out there
i can't say. but really they aren't speaking to the ignorant as much as you may think.
perhaps i will stop listening to music until anthony makes another record. ;) that is
one thing i am looking forward to alot.
posted by john , 7:30 PM Þ 

Take Ace of Spades, not an imitation!

They LIE when they play that song, its a form of low deciet. They treat thier audience like punks that doesnt know anyting, when they do this. They say between themselvs "What the hell, y'know? why not cover Ace of Spades, these guys dont know anything about music, why bother to write songs when no one cares anyway? We still get paid the same, and everyone will think that we wrote this cool song. OK? Ready? 1-2-3-4!"

These people are to be DESPISED, REPREMANDED and REJECTED.

They are not even doing a loving tribute to Motorhead, in the way the Cramps lovingly gave tribute to so many songs. They are just useless pigs, not even fit for bacon.
posted by Irdial , 7:14 PM Þ 

yep! they are killer. i have supah respect
for them. they have a green light as far as
i am concerned. no majors for them. perhaps
they are a "message to the majors™"

i guess i am really just a punker when it comes
down to it. i just want to get drunk and jump up and
down and be care free. is that bad?

btw: yes, it is almost dead on ace of spades. but hey
i will take what i can get these days, you know? half
of their other shit is dick dale but there is no pretense of
'trying to be' with them and i appreciate that alot. a good griend
recently and wisely said to me that these days "authentic = good".
and i think that is true be it good or not. probably not but i can
buy authentic and learn to like it. ok, now i am getting depressed.
posted by john , 6:55 PM Þ 

The best thing about that clip JB was just before they started playing together. And "I'm Serious®"

Anyway, that song is "Ace of Spades" by Motorhead. Get a life or put those guitars down you fuckers!
posted by Irdial , 6:52 PM Þ 

can i chime in on the hendrix thing? no band
has ever sounded like them; ever! and that is
quite an accomplishment. apples and oranges...
or was that just said?
posted by john , 6:52 PM Þ 

The number 2 can NEVER be greater than the number 7. This is a FACT.

Two is two and seven is seven.

Nuff said.
posted by Irdial , 6:47 PM Þ 

d00d smallkid posts on diesel sweeties too... h aha ha maybe you know each other... he recognised the name, but not 100% sure... there are pictures of him hosted @ R107.co.uk.

*/and/* he has the badge. but he has a sticker. not a badge. he said he couldn't be arsed to join. that's cos he's lazy. feels weird talking about him behind his back.. bwah hahahaa

doesn't fanny mean arse in america and hence isn't so fucking offensive in that statement... imagine someone saying this "she worked her cunt off"

sorry that was crass/

i would probably buy that t-shirt ... :( but maybe not. sounds a bit ironic .. like having a mullet. but that's a bit 1999.

as for fatcat records since merzbow... that's a long time...

definately check out al lthe splits... xinlisupreme, set fire to flames, múm, giddy motors, programme, the demo compilation (no watches, no maps), uh... everything. but i would say that... if you wait you can hear mp3 samples of every release when the site is relaunced... SOON...
posted by alex_tea , 6:46 PM Þ 

Oh, don't get me wrong, I like Hendrix, it's just that I like that version of the track better than his. I mean I like Hendrix's version of all along the watchtower better than Bobbert Dylan's. In that instance pour moi Hendrix is the reality, Dylan is the crack.

There is some Hendrix that reminds me of how flappy and bell bottomed the 1960's must've been (not, frankly that I'd know, since I wasn't even born then, but when I think of it, I'm glad). Too much acid maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan.
posted by captain davros , 6:41 PM Þ 

saying no to bullshit, thanks!:
posted by john , 6:35 PM Þ 

we saw them on tv a couple of days ago and........

can you say denial?? well guess what? your daughter is a chump!!!!!

"With parents like Pat Benatar and Neil Geraldo (Benatar's longtime guitarist/producer and husband of 15 years), it's not surprising that a teenage girl, aged 15, would want to go into the music business.

What is perhaps surprising is that Haley Geraldo, the eldest daughter of the couple responsible for such hard-rocking hits as "Heartbreaker," "Hit Me With Your Best Shot," "Hell is for Children," and "I Need a Lover," is going the Britney Spears route.

Haley and two of her close friends have recently formed a teenage pop trio. The all-girl group, calling itself Glo, has yet to make its way into the public eye, but the band has gone into the studio with Haley's famous parents.

While most people might think mom, the definitive female rock singer of her era",(?????????? what???), "would be having a conniption over Haley's decision to follow this musical path, mom says that's not the case. "I’m proud of her because she’s working her little fanny off and she’s doing great," Benatar says.

In fact, mom is being so supportive she provided the girls with a sort-of coming out gift. "We even wrote them a song that sounds just like all that other [pop] stuff," she says. While the song is definitely not the normal Benatar fare, she says she had a good time writing it. "It’s really fun because it’s so mindless and I don’t mean that in a bad way. I love pop music. It’s so easy."

eeeech! and it goes on saying:

"With the success of band's like 'NSync and Christina Aguilera and Glo's hit-making lineage, can it be long before Glo is hosting its own meet and greets? One source who is familiar with them has little doubt the trio will be signed quickly. Are all you record execs listening?"

this has denial written all over it .unfortunately i don't doubt it either. so so sad isn't it?
there is more i'd love to say but i would be speaking about a 15 year old girl. let's just
say that teen sex sells. teen boobs and teen fanny = $$$. they should have stolen an
already used band name. "the expolited". or perhaps they could call themselves:
"casting couch". ok must remember that she is 15. bad on you pat benetar!!! shame!!
posted by john , 6:07 PM Þ 

I saw an amazing t-shirt today; it had an image of a chain with a VW van logo attached to it, Beastie Boys style.

This was an IMAGE of a chain printed on a shirt.

What a revelation; this shirt totally embodies what the "youth" of today are, 100% fake, 100% recycled, unworthy of the very breath that is in them...if I could press a button and destroy them all I would break my finger pressing it.

DIE DIE DIE you useless pieces of flesh!
BURN BURN BURN you wasters of bood!
SMASH SMASH SMASH go all of your dire discs!
posted by Irdial , 5:55 PM Þ 


this is the pin to have, no question.
posted by mary13 , 5:39 PM Þ 

sting cover of hendrix better than hendrix.
crack better than reality.
death better than life.
starvation better than steak.

YEAH, RIGHT!!!!!
posted by Irdial , 4:34 PM Þ 


posted by Alun , 4:32 PM Þ 

OH YEAH WAITING ROOM!@#

God no, a stinus infection, that'd be lethal, methinks.

I'm off to see my grampa in a bit. He's had an embolism recently =(
posted by Mikkel , 2:12 PM Þ 

Here's where CD gets his dodgy musical past out again (as if liking the Scorpions wasn't dodgy enough). I first heard "Little Wing" done by, erm, Sting, on his album "Nothing like the Sun". It's no doubt sacriledge to some people (perhaps everyone in the world but me and Sting?) but I like it better than the Hendrix version, although this is almost certainly due to several factors, not least being 'set and setting', since it was 1988 and I was living in Boston, Lincolnshire and had a crush on a gurl called Julia Carter. I was on holiday here in Oxford visiting my sister and stole her Sting tape and played it endlessly and it's all bound up with those crushed up, strange but good days.

Sting's backing band for the track is the Gil Evans orchestra, since they used to cover a whole bunch of pop stuff, and the song is just hugely immense sounding and has one of the bendiest guitar solos this side of Eddie Van Halen, like a drunk firefly looping around the room of sound. And it has an amazing bass pull-off note by Mark Egan, just the one 'tonk' of a note, at one point (if my memory serves me well, just after "Well she's walking, thru the clouds..."). Since I can suddenly think of a few more great bass moments, here is a list of great bass moments spontaneously pulled from the swamp of my mind (in no order)

1. "Little Wing" as mentioned above, (Mark Egan)
2. The opening notes of "Umm" by Scritti Politti (MeShell Ndegeocello)
3. "Woodpecker from Mars" by Faith No More, just after the second fast bit, it goes all springy-dingy (Bill Gould)
4. The opening of "Got to Have your Love" by Mantronix (Yamaha keyboard I'm pretty sure)
5. The opening of "Waiting Room" by Fugazi, classic Stingray scoop (joe lally)
6. "Ozone Baby" by Led Zep (John Paul Jones), inbetween the "Oooh-oooh" (what a surprise to find Robert Plant singing that in a Led Zep song, eh?) bits, sounds like he's got the Alembic going.
7. Well, there are more I am sure but I got to get back to werk...eugh.

Inspite of the above I keep listening to things from this page at the moment http://www.wideweb.com/phonetrips/ you can download the ra instead of streaming it too which is handy. The Andrew Emmerson tape of 1971 UK phone sounds is totally totally totally brilliant.

Mikkel - Sinus infection or Stinus infection?!? Which would be worse??!?!

Terrible triplets from things I can see in the office...

AdoBeOs
Quark Xpress Ticket Sales
Roller Blind Lemon Jefferson
Window-silmarillion
Wastepaper Bin Laden
A4 Paper bag
Altec Lansing something simple
Scotch tape recorder
Jakob Nielsen Schmilsen (sp)
Blog[ger man] dictionary
Zip drive-in movie
posted by captain davros , 1:53 PM Þ 

What's the recent FatCat releases like? I haven't bought anything on that label for a while... a long while... I think it was a Merzbow split 12" or remix.
posted by Alun , 12:54 PM Þ 

I just got my new hi-fi, to replace the one that was stolen 4 BLOODY LONG MUSIC-FREE MONTHS AGO.
A lovely new Rega P25 with Exact cartridge, Naim amplifier and Rega Ela speakers. It sounds lovely..... a truly spacious experience.
Have been listening to Hendrix ("When I die, just keep playing the records." Little Wing was the inaugural piece, followed by Axis bold as love), Grieg, Fela Kuti, Cinematic Orchestra, Roots Manuva, Kate Bush, Kruder and Dorfmeister, Beatles, Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus, Boo Radleys, Kid606, some German Bastard pop bootleg comp, Mingus Mingus, Lamb, Ben Folds Five, Beethoven ("Music should strike fire into the heart of man
and bring tears to the eyes of woman."), (and many many more, pop-pickers.)

A word about Kid606. I had the Freakbitchlickfly e.p. and liked his Missy Elliott remixes from a funky fun perspective. Heard it first live in Brick Lane when he dropped Aha (Take on me) into the mix and it was so funny... Already had the P.S. I love you LP and it is also lovely. Well crafted, gentle rythms (almost) and nice deep sounds... But now this ....Motherfucking Jams LP he's released. Well. To call it lazy would be praise indeed. It must have taken 5 minutes longer to make than it does to play. VERY disappointing. V/Vm have done it all already, and with a much larger tongue in a much funnier cheek. They're just dragging it out a bit, is all.

And a word about Grieg. I've mentioned this before, but I don't care. It's good to be reminded of beautiful things. And "Lyrische Stuck" (sp?) played by Emil Gilels (quote "If you think I'm good, wait till you hear {Slavotislav} Richter") is heart-breakingly beautiful and simple. The pieces were written as exercises for piano (I think) and last 1 - 3 minutes each. SWOON!!!

"OK, Kid. Once more with feeling."

"It's alright, she said. It's alright. Take anything you want from me. Anything" Jimi sings true love.
posted by Alun , 12:33 PM Þ 

The Carabella Game


Episode 1: The Quest for Tunes




Click to play the game!


Carabella is a modern girl. She's hip. She's wired. And she loves music.
Join Carabella as she explores the vast world of online music. But be wary! As Carabella surfs, her privacy is in peril, and her ability to use and enjoy the music she has bought is in danger!




Privacyactivism and the Electronic Frontier Foundation are proud to release version 1.0 of the Carabella video game. This interactive video game highlights the ways that consumers' privacy and fair use rights are being whittled away by digital rights management technologies, online spyware and data profiling services.

posted by alex_tea , 12:26 PM Þ 

My nick's Carthag. Only post in the Diesel Sweeties forum.

Urgh, I don't feel so good. I think I got a sinus infection.
posted by Mikkel , 11:51 AM Þ 

Today's desktop
posted by captain davros , 9:57 AM Þ 

"P Diddy is set to play legendary blues Satanist Robert
Johnson in a forthcoming movie."

From that scabrous scandal sheet; indeed this is a SCANDAL!
posted by Irdial , 9:32 AM Þ 

Pleeeease!!!
posted by Irdial , 8:56 AM Þ 

"so it works from my mac (behind the firewall). but when running IE on the server, TPF bitches and you have to set up a filter JUST for IE! what the fuck?"

Every application that tries to access the web needs your explicit permission, via a rules file. Tiny Firewall is asking you to create a rule automagically for each app that tries to access the net that it doesnt have in its rules file.

In this way, if (heh WHEN) someone hacks your W2k box and inserts a trojan, when it tries to contact its master, Tiny Firewall will alert you that a new, unknown programme is trying to access the web.

Zone Alarm also does this, but has so many bells & whistels that it slowed my old machine down significantly, so I dumped it for the leaner, meaner TPF.

With security, there is no way arount it; you HAVE to RTFM, and take responsibility for what your box is doing.

Did you know that the google folding at home executable can be replaced by a command sent by google HQ?

There is no warning that this is being done, and the only reason that I know this is because my firewall threw up an alert that a replaced executable was trying to acces the internet.

If you want an industrial strength firewall, you need to run a firewall on CD: like this , or this. Because these are running live from a CD, the files cannot be overwritten or manipulated, unlike a firewall running on an HD under an OS.

This would mean, in your case, bypassing W2k, and booting from either one of the discs above.

All clear now?!!
posted by Irdial , 8:18 AM Þ 



kidrobot

i love micheal lau, eric so, silas and all that mo'wax / unkle stuff... shame the music outputs gone a bit off... but MWA (the toy division) is looking good...

but why are they so bloody expensive??!!?! :(
posted by alex_tea , 3:08 AM Þ 

map those protocols(21, 80, 8080 etc) to the lan
number and just test to close off what you need to
run. that is the easiest and most mindful and makes
learning more fun too. ics however is not really a firewall it just
is a shared connection; more like a hub really
than a firewall. but i am assuming that you are filtering
ports on the connection directly? eeek! best of luck doing that. if
you are refering to norton personal. that is better off as a
paper wieght or a door stop. i have something windows based
you may like but you need to run server. basically i have seen ics
used in small home offices but it never works right, ever. plus you
have to use 192.168.0.1 and a host of other bs issues.
posted by john , 1:19 AM Þ 

firewall = tiny personal firewall which seems to be acting shit.

i set up a filter like so:
World Wide Web
Protocol: TCP
Direction: Both (later changed toOut)
Port: 80, 8080
Applications: All

so it works from my mac (behind the firewall). but when running IE on the server, TPF bitches and you have to set up a filter JUST for IE! what the fuck?

teh gateway is just win2k ICS... maybe that's the problem... it was there and so we used it cos we wanted acess straight away. if you have a better alternative let me know...

anyway:
Bill Gates / was a hero most but he never meant shit to me. A straight-out sucka, he's all talk and no talent. MuthaFUCK him and Paul Allen
that link courtesy of yo yo crap top...

re: fatcat... yes...
posted by alex_tea , 1:11 AM Þ 

lxtea.1:ooooh! sounds fun. which firewall/gway and exactly what are you setting up
on the inside? email me if you want to get more specific:
my key->
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lxtea.2:are you doin/did you just do the fatcat site, right?
posted by john , 1:05 AM Þ 

mikkel: what's yr name on dumbrella.. my flatmate is smallkid he's quite a regular there.. actually he's quite irregular.. uhm...

my girlfriend is in france... she will be all summer. except for august when she goes to singapore. i hope to join her in paris for a v/vm gig in a couple of weeks. and then singapore as well... damn i need money, but heopefully i'll have a few jobs pouring in soon..

uhm... setting up firewall.. need to set up port forwarding so i can run web/ftp services from my mac. (the gateway is on another machine)... how / where can i do this. the gateway is running win2k...
posted by alex_tea , 12:54 AM Þ 

total recall
posted by john , 12:17 AM Þ 


just read this about a guy who's writing a program to make online radio go 'pirate' and untraceable. Fuck the RIAA!
posted by chriszanf , 12:00 AM Þ 
Wednesday, July 03, 2002

Fucking christ. My parents are in France, which is okay in and of itself. My brother is hosting a netparty in the livingroom, which is also okay in and of itself. But the fucking mess resulting from these pieces of shit is NOT okay. I mean, what kinda homes do they come from? Stacking the plates on top of the dishwasher (HELLO?). Letting the bread lie _beside_ the bag (EHH??). Boiling spaghetti for 8 people (and they're only 5 mind you) and then leaving the pot to dry (WHAT THE FUCK?). So I say, "you coulda put the spaghetti in a bag in the fridge," and my brother has the fucking nerve to say "but that doesn't matter" (DID HE PAY FOR IT? NO THAT WAS OUR PARENTS! AND ITS NOT LIKE WE HAVE MONEY COMING FROM OUR ASSES). I said "Yeah, it's too late now" and went to bed.

I want them out.
posted by Mikkel , 11:26 PM Þ 
posted by chriszanf , 10:43 PM Þ 

Weird shit, I was just posting in a thread on the dumbrella forums about that same tidbit. Small world afterall.

...And was my last translation that bad? I did it in one go, as I read the article, eheh.
posted by Mikkel , 10:39 PM Þ 

Just read an email that Apple have taken over Emagic. The original document is in german but the translation is by *DrunkMikkel translations Inc.*


"Apple takes over music specialist Emagic

Apple has today the transfer of the German enterprise Emagic, provider
from professional software solutions to computer-aided music production,
admits given.

After firm names Logic, the most popular product is world-wide used of
Emagic, up-to-date of more than 200,000 musicians. So far originated 65
per cent of the conversions of the enterprise from the sales from
Macintosh solutions. In the passed year the company had itself as one of
the first manufacturers from music hard and software to Mac OS X admits
and on the Macworld Expo in New York a beta version of its audio
Sequencers Logic audio 5 presented.

Emagic will resume belonging department of the business as completely
Apple. How consistently the binding is made to the new nut/mother
enterprise, the information published with the transfer message shows the
fact that Emagic products for the Windows platform are not no more offered
starting from 30 September 2002"
posted by chriszanf , 10:17 PM Þ 

posted by mary13 , 9:59 PM Þ 

yes, quickly, i must say thank you! very informative discussion. must speak to my doctor now about this, in case we don't see eye to eye.
and an interesting story i read today
i had this discussion re: pets a few years ago, and i chose not to vaccinate my cat. she is does quite well, but she also eats the absolutely best organic food available, fresh filtered water, and gets so much love... but that's my cat, not my baby. i can only imagine how protective i will be when we have one of those... !!!!
posted by mary13 , 9:49 PM Þ 

on the art bell frantic caller; i ck'd most of
the links to transcripts of that call and those pages
won't resolve. v. strange. useless to make assumptions
on whether it was a hoax or not but still very strange that
info on it seems to be "not around". does anyone know any
thing further about it?

and thanks a, for the tip on mumps. we have a lot of investigating to
do when it is our time at it.
posted by john , 8:30 PM Þ 

chris j pop
chris j-lo
posted by Irdial , 8:23 PM Þ 

but not for mumps and the like.

If you have a boy, and he contracts mumps after puberty, it could render him sterile (so they say). I know two people who say that they are sterile because of the mumps, so this is one to watch out for.

This is what I have been trying to look up. Mumps vaccination is on the cards, better alternative being natural mumps, but where can you get it? Its not like going to the old chicken pox parties. Who do you ask? Where do you go?
posted by Irdial , 8:23 PM Þ 

triplet:
chris j script
posted by john , 8:06 PM Þ 

just got in after having done my 8 hours for the man and my mind is frazzled. been learning jscript for the last week and staying up until about 2am and then falling asleep to 'Blade Runner' (directors cut).....


"Describe in single words only the good things that come into your mind about your mother.....
.......Let me tell you about my mother"
posted by chriszanf , 7:42 PM Þ 
posted by john , 7:29 PM Þ 



i only wish my life was as uncluttered!
posted by chriszanf , 7:26 PM Þ 

no comment->
posted by john , 7:24 PM Þ 

the transitive two way trust model dosen't work in
real life though i'm afraid. in reality i don't by default trust
your friends whatever that has to do with anything. third
party trusts are just not safe....unless they are encrypted. ;p

dude, dinner at anthony's!!!!!!!!!!

btw: i had chicken pox and so what? they went away. when we have
little ones i can tell you noone will force us to do jack to them vaccine
wize. f-that. polio and the big ones maybe but not for mumps and the like.
that is just part of being a kid. i am concerned about people who get flu
shots every winter. just secretary valium in another form i'd say.
posted by john , 6:59 PM Þ 

I loooove mackarel. tuna close second

I utterly despise dave. it's horrible. sharity integrates completely into os x. totally transparent, and oh so easy to use. and theres this control panel with tons of shit i cant be bothered to figger out what means.
posted by Mikkel , 6:46 PM Þ 

well thanks john & alex ..... the image is by a friend of mine, a fishing & photoshop fiend - it's a beauty isn't it ? I'm going to use something similar if & when enough material manifests itself to be released as an album ..... that's the everyday setup, i was going to take a shot of the coding screens but couldn't be bothered & they're not that interesting anyway ........ "too much mackerel" : same friend went out & caught a mass of them last week when he was down visiting, left them with us, so your sentiment is shared, mikkel, although they were quite delicious ...... great with beetroot salad
posted by a hymn in g to nann , 6:31 PM Þ 

ok ok... so maybe not all...

BBedit is awesome. really awesome. i should pay for it one day.

I use ID3x for mp3 tag management. Tag by folder structure. Put into folders by tags. awesome.

I use Dave for Windows stuff... not too bad... will check out Sharity, but as all the other mac users in my house use Dave, it makes sense...
posted by alex_tea , 6:01 PM Þ 

Did you say "all", Alex? ;D

After frogblast, it's Haxial KDX (similar to the hotline protocol used by frogblast), and Snak (IRC client). After BBedit (GOD DOES THAT APP RULE) its GraphicConverter (can open any and all graphic format you'd ever want to), the leaf is Mint Audio (the little grey mp3 player in the top right corner), the skull is mp3 rage for renaming & tagging mp3s, open office is really just xwindows, after that, FB = FileBuddy, handy for batchrenaming etc (though I mostly use handwritten perl utils anyway), and after sys prefs is Sharity, for mounting my brothers windows drives (comes with a wicked free student license, too).

Re:Trust: You can't really trust anybody but yourself (no) or the people you know very well (not really). In the end, you must choose who you trust, and that can only be done by weighing all options, all facts. If you do not do this, you are bound to make mistakes. I don't know nearly enough about the whole vaccine thing to be able to choose a standpoint. I was vaccined, and I'm rarely sick (these are my first real sickdays in, oh, 4-5 years now?) - and I'm only sick now cause I've been in a tent for a week with rain and drunkenness.
posted by Mikkel , 5:33 PM Þ 

This is who we can trust.
Or this... So we can trust the Bible, but not microsoft... Now there's a good christian viewpoint if ever I heard one.

Who can we trust? This is indeed the point Akin. And I don't know the answer. Each to his own? Makes for a pretty lonely paranoid world. Hang on a sec...

Blair has said nothing, and this is taken as 'guilt' over MMR. I don't trust Blair particularly, but I wouldn't jump to conclusions even if they are jumping back pretty damn high. It's a toughy this trust thing. We could argue MOST doctors are trustworthy, and MOST doctors trust MMR, therefore...

Who can we trust?
All applicants considered. Please enclose a photo.
posted by Alun , 5:32 PM Þ 

yep i deleted the folder but still had a problem, eeek!! i was
running regedit and looking for anything moz. moz 1.1a
actually. i didn't loose anything on deleting it so no probs starting
over. have you seen that one before?
posted by john , 5:22 PM Þ 

Mozilla runs in just one directory so you can eazily delete it. But dont. You ARE running Mozilla 1 right?
posted by Irdial , 5:16 PM Þ 

you guys rule!! and there is no doubt about it that
mr. a. manning completely....um, huh? wow!

the ones in my bay that you didn't get were forte sdk,
leech, netmeeting, iris, and retina. i want to know mikkel's
bay though. alex got them mostly i think. that looks phat. yes,
phat like a nyc bagel with whitefish spread! hey, i'm proud to
use notepad. bbedit is good too though.

and moz f-'d up on me. i ran a debugging session and it fucked
pulling down images in html. then i reinstalled it and same thing.
so now i have to pull it out at the roots.

oh to switch to..... unix! .net is just getting in the way.
posted by john , 5:14 PM &T