Saturday, July 28, 2001

It was hotter than usual today, the holidays are in full swing...no emails, no fuss...cold beers...Thai pubs...Pimms...Iced water.

Met up with a certain TB / PM and another chap with pink hair whose name I forget, for a delivery of a beautiful painting and a sit around in a first class saloon. Alas, the session was too short, as they always are...

Got js.KakWorm.G the other day; it infected my old_email.mbx. The filesystem of Eudora is flawed; if one email carries a worm, the WHOLE FILE gets infected, so all of your messages have to be nuked just because of one file. It would be much better if each email was a separate file sitting in a folder, then only the infected message would need to be thrown away.
I've never seen so many worms in email; its a bore after the first one.

The spirit of pessimism is destroyed by sunlight.

posted by Irdial , 11:03 PM Þ 

or maybe it ought to be 'dont call a woman a phat car'?...heh

http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=709603

oh yeah. hello. im new.
posted by ha , 3:22 AM Þ 

How I lost my tooth
or
Don't call a woman a cow



"Good idea, just ignore him"

I look at my brother, thinking "what does he mean?" Then I look back at the wide guy we are walking by. I haven't seen him before.

"Was that him?" - Yeah, it was him. The guy who knocked out my tooth.

A couple of months ago, I was down at the pub, drunk, stoned, the works. I have no idea why (I guess I was just a real fucking idiot), but I was thinking out loud about this girl who walked by me and said "Man, what a cow."

She turns around and says, "You better take care!" I go "but, I mean, what a phat car!" Or something equally inane. She doesn't buy it.

The week after, I go to the pub again (I know, I should have kept low profile). Of course, the first thing that happens when I walk in the door, is that I get shoved at a table and punched in the mouth. I look around, not knowing what is going on. Then my tongue realizes that my tooth is missing.

On the way home, I'm trying to reconstruct my assailant's face. I can't. I assume he must be the boyfriend of the aforementioned girl. I don't report it - this would equal a death-sentence in my town.

The next day, I go and get a temporary filling. It didn't hurt much, but it sure was a hassle. So, fellow bloggers, don't call a woman a cow.
posted by Mikkel , 3:04 AM Þ 

Oh, I get it... (No I don't)
posted by Claus Eggers , 12:09 AM Þ 
Friday, July 27, 2001
posted by Claus Eggers , 11:47 PM Þ 



We are doing a set of mouse pads to help finance our own T1 and dedicated server for irdial.com where we will be moving everything.

The actions you need to take are: "just do it".

where "do it" = tell your friends | buy one if you can

If Brother Stair can raise millions of dollars to stay on the air 24/7...you know the rest!
posted by Irdial , 4:14 PM Þ 

i have had a brainwave...

i'm going to get my classic mac out of the attic, invest in a new logic board and keyboard and get it online!!!! plus you can run all kinds of UNIX style OS's on old macs, not the classic though, ;(

because mobile internet sites such as wireless.blogger.com are optimal for text only b/w web clients like lynx... so it's the best time to get my old mac online... ;)

but i will get OSX one day as well and just been all hardcre and CL, but also have a sexy GUI...

has anyone notice how much microsoft are ripping off apple again?

OS X
Windows XP

Aqua Interface
Luna Interface

surely they can't get away with such bare faced cheek?
posted by alex_tea , 2:53 PM Þ 

George Bush should suffer the punishment you can give out at this link. This is the nuts check:

http://chukfatpig.sega-asia.com/xiaoxiao.swf

be freeee
posted by Paul , 1:33 PM Þ 

Whee! I just got my blogdial and conet T-shirts today! And the customs didn't catch it, so I only paid the 40 bucks. That rules. If they got it, I'd have to pay 50+toll in total. Fucking expensive that'd been.
posted by Mikkel , 1:20 PM Þ 
Thursday, July 26, 2001
posted by Claus Eggers , 9:38 PM Þ 

Than-ku for all the tips regarding London.
posted by Claus Eggers , 9:31 PM Þ 

A dolphin that generates an RSA key.

#!/usr/bin/perl -s

@x=qw/e n d/;if(
$kg){$e=13;$_="setrand(@{[int((rand)*90)]})
;K=vector(2,g,nextprime(random(10^$s)));e=$e;n=K[1]*
K[2];d=e^-1%((K[1]-1)*(K[2]-1));";s/\s//sg;for(
`echo "$_ e\nn\nd\n"|gp -q`){print$x[$j++]
,"=",`echo "10i16o$_ p"|dc`}exit}$t=
unpack'H*',join'',<>;$l=length$n;$y
=$e?$l-2:$l;$i="16dio";while (){$M=
($e&&1+int(rand 8)).(substr $t,$p
,$y or last);$i.="\U$M $k $n\E|
pc";$p+=$y}for(reverse
`echo "$i"|dc`){chop
;$d&&s/^(.)//||($_=
sprintf"%0${l}s"
,$_); $f
.=$_}#
print
pack
'H*'
,$f

posted by Irdial , 10:20 AM Þ 

FatCat closed down in 1998, maybe 1997 actually.. damn, I should kno that one! It no longer functions as a record shop although you still get people ringing up as if it was...

Hey I got the latest version of ICQ today, and look at the preferences box:



nice to know we can save the world via TCP/IP!!!

oh yeah, my ICQ # is 2778212, just in case you were wondering...

for record shopping i would reccomend berwick street in soho and covent garden for rough trade. also old street for smallfish. some people say portobello, but all i've been to thre is the other rough trade... apparently there are some good record shops though...
posted by alex_tea , 4:49 AM Þ 
Wednesday, July 25, 2001

Oh well I have well and truly f**ked that one up! Can someone just delete those two posts? I can't edit them, left off a quotation mark and somehow linked the edit button to my webpage, with half of the message on that page if you click it.

In fact, looking at it, it looks rather cool! So maybe leave it. I don't know. Looks like I certainly DON'T "know what to do"!... :(
posted by captain davros , 11:00 PM Þ 

Something I did was in a video screened at Tate Britain once. Tracey Emin was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1999 and they showed a video of her flat as one of her entries. Panning round you could see a pile of CDs next to her stereo and on the top was a copy of the first

Something I did was in a video screened at Tate Britain once. Tracey Emin was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1999 and they showed a video of her flat as one of her entries. Panning round you could see a pile of CDs next to her stereo and on the top was a copy of the first

yeah the kak.Worm.. didn't i mention that earlier... quite fun... i have a gif of the dialog box it pop's up somewhere, cos i quite like it... but it just multiplys for ever, and if it got into yr HTML mailout it would be realy hard to stop people from propagating it unknowingly... quite easy to get rid of though... and then install the outlook express update. i hate microsoft, but i want an x--box. well, i want to see what the x-box is like...

check this out too... i don't know much about carter (he was a peanut farmer right?) .. i don't think i was alive during his presidency, but at least he's letting bush know he's a wanker...

claus: get a nightbus on a friday or saturday night. preferably at about 4 am. from there you will see the good, the bad, the ugly, and the disgusting... go to hmv trocadero and steal something (my girlfriend works there...)... go to rough trade and smallfish...
posted by alex_tea , 7:36 PM Þ 

Anyone with a spare gig and a half on a webserver please email me about hosting the A212 collection.
posted by Irdial , 7:27 PM Þ 

Just got sent WScript.Kak.Worm. "The worm utilizes a known Microsoft Outlook Express security hole so that a viral file is created on the system without having to run any attachment. Simply reading the received email message will cause the virus to be placed on the system."

Claus, you have to, for sure, go to The London Eye. Its simply awesome.
Then stroll down to the Tate Modern.
Do a Pepsi Max Drop at the Trocadero.

Drink some beer.
Eat some Cornish Pasties.
posted by Irdial , 6:32 PM Þ 

I'm comming to London for next week. What should I do / see?
posted by Claus Eggers , 4:53 PM Þ 

WASHINGTON--A researcher in the Federal Bureau of Investigation's cyber-protection unit unleashed a fast-spreading Internet virus that e-mailed private FBI documents to outsiders. Although the Sircam virus didn't spread to other computers at the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center, it did send at least eight documents to a number of outsiders. One, about the investigation into an unrelated virus, was marked "official use only."
posted by Irdial , 3:42 PM Þ 

This is just fucking typical America. First they are the only country to not accept the Kyoto/Bonn treaty, and now this. Man, I'm beginning to _really_ dislike Dubya. At least - if Mr. and Mrs. America has any brains left in 3 years - it'll be a long time 'till they get such a dimwitted president again. Someone oughta sue him. ARGH.
posted by Mikkel , 2:13 PM Þ 


US rejects germ warfare plan
The United States says it will not back a proposed international plan for enforcing a ban on using germs as a weapon of war.

FUCK OFF YOU SLAAAAAAGS!
posted by Irdial , 1:19 PM Þ 

SirCam is giving me hours of enjoyment; I'm seeing some super strange subject lines: satscape_v1, Vicente Rodriguez - Volver Volver, PROJECT IN RAJASTHAN, IH Probationer Oath, Focus Report Linux, THE STORY OF THE IRISH RACE, New videotec HK 2000 Euro Pricelist, Delta Status Report Draft May24_2001, LIVING WILL Ken... Copy of Copy of VES Rate REVISED?! Dude... a copy of a copy of a revised document? Oh no... the best SirCammer so far: Network Security Breaches.
posted by Irdial , 1:05 PM Þ 

UK UNDERSTAND WHAT'S ABOUT TO GO DOWN - is the westwood going down? should he be attacked so? does many man still rate him? can anybody else drop the bomb? does anyone care? these people obviously do:

http://www.geocities.com/westwoodwatchdog

personally I'm unsure what I think because I rarely listen to Mr Westwood, but this is an intresting, if perhaps a little trivial, debate nonetheless. at least you can decide for yourself
posted by Paul , 1:03 PM Þ 

A white mouse is coming.
posted by Irdial , 11:19 AM Þ 
posted by > parge , 11:05 AM Þ 

SirCam'd again this morning, this time, posing as a ZIP file.
posted by Irdial , 10:26 AM Þ 
Tuesday, July 24, 2001

We got SirCam'd in the DMZ between updates, so the VS didnt dig on it; saw the pif tag, blowtorched it into the hole, called for reinforcements, now we got three in quarantine.

First to go, last to know
posted by Irdial , 3:43 PM Þ 

Yeah, I've been SirCam'd, twice as well, one just now. Disguised as bloody CVs too! Lucky ye olde Virus Scanner got them.
posted by captain davros , 1:50 PM Þ 

Hello Irdial People

In appreciation of, and because I think its a great way to possibly spread some knowledge of what is essentially something very good from many different aspects, I have nominated and voted for Irdial Discs in the music and educational sections of the UK Net Awards. I reckon you will all want to go on there and make some noise so goto the address below and vote:

http://www.uknetawards.co.uk/cat_select.asp

Hope you're all well and doing whatever it is you should be doing - enjoy it is the only stipulation
posted by Paul , 11:58 AM Þ 

Have any of you been SirCam'd yet? We have had two so far
posted by Irdial , 9:28 AM Þ 


X-Envelope-From: Geche1@aol.com
From: Geche1@aol.com
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 07:07:25 EDT
Subject: why?
To: irdial@irdialsys.win-uk.net
X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows UK sub 10503
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it's probably due to a foot square piece of tinfoil with an elongated lemon
at each corner.


thought so
posted by Irdial , 9:23 AM Þ 
Monday, July 23, 2001

Hegemony...you are the fairest...cr...
posted by Irdial , 7:56 PM Þ 

that's the track i was talking about! apparently you can't get it anywhere....

these two post buttons are really annoying me... it's like having two post boxes. one which never gets collected...
posted by alex_tea , 6:42 PM Þ 

Incidentally I got the MM show where Matt Cogger plays one of the soundtracks Derrick May was commissioned to do for the first ‘Rambo’ flick. It was never used. I assume there was made more tracks – anyone in the know?
Anyway I got it as an approx. 50 meg MP3. If anyone got an FTP I will happily upload it.
posted by Claus Eggers , 4:24 PM Þ 

the reason i don't use html mail, is that i caught the kak.Worm virus from the c8 mailing list (in fact it was from somatic responses i think) and then managed to pass it on to everyone at FatCat and some of my friends. But having said that, I would blame Outlook Express's very lame securityM rather than HTML email. If there is a hole there to exploit of course it is going to be used.

So now I have my own computer, I use Eudora, which is much safer. Plus it's on a Mac... which is very sexy.

I should be getting some Monser Music shows from FatCat soon too, last time I heard Dave was editing them in Peak, trying to get hold of that Rambo track...
posted by alex_tea , 3:20 PM Þ 

HTML email is okay by me, as long as I hit the "work offline" button on Outlook Express before I read it [yep, my problem for being a windoze slaev ;) ], otherwise if I have disconnected from the net I get the dial up connection trying to reconnect me for each of the graphics etc, and that can be a pain. But I get other email lists (onelist and yahoo groups) in HTML format so that's no big deal.

BUT - please find a space for the ascii logos and stuff (whether the mail is HTML or not) - they are very cool indeed, just like the legendary Irdial Tag.

Is anything happening with Gnutella TV incidentally?

My favourites of the Monster Music shows are Disco Lesson and Hip Hop 1983. Anyone else got faves there? I got sent the 1978-9 Scritti Politti stuff as MP3s this weekend - "Is and Ought the Western World..."
posted by captain davros , 12:05 PM Þ 

Eintsien advocated socialism aparently. I was cc'd into a fwd of this essay, which arrived early in the morning. This is what I replied to all:

At 07:02 PM 7/22/01 -0700, Shawn Aron Vandor wrote:

you caught me early in the morning, so i had a little time...

***
society, are suffering from this process of deterioration. Unknowingly prisoners of their own egotism, they feel insecure, lonely, and deprived of the naive, simple, and unsophisticated enjoyment of life. Man can find meaning in life, short and perilous as it is, only through devoting himself to society.
***

Absolutism + atheism + reductionism = suffering. Now *there* is an equation for you. When people without any understanding of human nature, in a fit of pity, try to solve the worlds problems using broken tools, disaster is the result. just ask anyone that lived under the USSR.

***
The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil.
***

Mandlebrot & every modern scientist would disagree; self organizing systems are inherently stable, even though at the moment, the economy is in an oscillating state, it is stable in that state, and needs only to be adjusted so that it shifts into a non oscillating stable state. There is no such thing as "economic anarchy".

***
I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy,
***

Einstein was wrong about faster than light travel, amongst other things, and he is wrong about this. There is, for sure, more than one way to eliminate these terrible evils; socialism is, and this has now been _demonstrated_, NOT the only way, or ANY way to eliminate them.

I don't have any problem with atheists, or socialists or anyone else. What I DO have a problem with is the behavior and assumptions of strongly convicted people, that only they have the answers, and if we only were to obey them, then all of our problems will be solved.

Its not sufficient for them that they simply write down their ideas and promote them, or even live them to lead by example. They must *coerce* other people, replace and destroy the ideas and beliefs of others for their systems to be fulfilled.

Blowing up statues, eliminating economic rights, enslavement, elimination of privacy; these are their tools and goals, and they strive for this with total, blind conviction.

Scientists are the most irresponsible of all humans today; they believe that the whole world is a laboratory within which they can carry out any experiment they like with no regard for the consequences. Genetic Biologists are the worst offenders today, Nuclear scientists where the worst of the last generation.

Einstein is their grandfather, and this essay proves it.
posted by Irdial , 7:33 AM Þ 


linux on your palm. what next?
posted by alex_tea , 2:20 AM Þ 
Sunday, July 22, 2001

they've had that background for a few weeks now... i think that blue and green is vomit inducing though... but i do agree css is very cool... i was teaching my girlfirend the splendors of external style sheets just yesterday in fact... and the spell checker is down... :(
posted by alex_tea , 5:52 PM Þ 

Ak-chelly, that Webmonkey homepage has just been 100% re-designed, and its identical in Mozilla and IE5, and is almost total CSS...wow...the Moire pattern in the upper left corner just r00lz ur ass....the tag is dead; now all we need is a decent editor (the next dreamweaver iteration) that allows you to control/create CSS like you control the old ass tag generation.
posted by Irdial , 5:04 PM Þ 

don't want to be rude or nuffink, but have you only just learnt css??? nah mate... :)

anyway, go to google and click on preferences... now check out the languages...

;)

534RC|-|3D d4 \/\/3B 4 irdial .   R35UL7Z 1 - 10 0F 4B0U7 1,260. 534RC|-| t00K 0.43 53C0NdZ
posted by alex_tea , 3:57 PM Þ 

We call it CSS.
posted by Irdial , 8:45 AM Þ 

Whois reports:
Domain Name.......... drukqs.com
Creation Date........ 2001-06-30
Registration Date.... 2001-06-30
Expiry Date.......... 2003-06-30
Organisation Name.... Banjo String
Organisation Address. 69 Vicars Pube
Organisation Address.
Organisation Address. London
Organisation Address. de1 1ex
Organisation Address. East Midlands
Organisation Address. GREAT BRITAIN (UK)
posted by alex_tea , 1:46 AM Þ 

yeah yeah aphex twin is king... i can't wait to hear drukqs (turn it up loud, you fakkin cunt...) especially the supposed satie-esque tracks, which are probably crappy soft synth piano second rate ditties... i want to buy a conet project t shirt, but not having bought the cd, i'd feel like a bit of a cunt myself. so maybe i'll buy the two together. i have however, subscribed to the whole mystery of the thing after reading about it in obsessive eye...

as for obnoxious, i have decided my hip hop name, should i ever need one, would be noxious, or nox for short...

nox·ious (nkshs)
adj.
1. Harmful to living things; injurious to health: noxious chemical wastes.
2. Harmful to the mind or morals; corrupting: noxious ideas.

however, make sure you fools don't get me mixed up with no noisome shit either.

Noisome, Noxious. These words have to a great extent been
interchanged; but there is a tendency to make a distinction between
them, applying noxious to things that inflict evil directly; as, a
noxious plant, noxious practices, etc, and noisome to things that
operate with a remoter influence; as, noisome vapors, a noisome
pestilence, etc. Noisome has the additional sense of disgusting. A
garden may be free from noxious weeds or animals; but, if recently
covered with manure, it may be filled with a noisome smell.

and what happened to the spell checker?

oh, and if irdial should get in trouble for my disgusting language, could you please refer the complaint to mr james. as i was paraphrasing his website.
posted by alex_tea , 1:45 AM Þ 
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