Saturday, December 29, 2001

Weird. Earlier, I was about to post the exact same argument about threaded vs linear forums, relating my experiences when the hotline server changed from linear to threaded and how I stayed with the old version. Then I accidentally deleted it and I had to go to dinner.

The two features with the automagic would be incredibly easy to implement.

Oh, and I redesigned my homepage.
posted by Mikkel , 9:53 PM Þ 

Computers are useless: they can only give you answers. -- Pablo Picasso
posted by Irdial , 8:11 PM Þ 

posted by Irdial , 6:40 PM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 6:36 PM Þ 

Thrreds: Bad
Blogdial is "on its face"; in oter words, everything that is there is readable. You cannot dissapear into a thread, and loose the thrust.
I want to read what you have to say, or go to where you want to point. There are plenty of good threaded sites. Out of the MANY people who ave signed up for Blogdial, only a handful are regular posters.

Certainly, if and when we do a new system it will have some much needed features:
Automagic parsing of Blogdial into a text only mailout that is mailed to the mailing list, after the last post falls off the bottom.
Automagic N00king of lamaz who dont post at least once per week.
Some kind of cool karma feature, related to free beer.
posted by Irdial , 6:13 PM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 6:07 PM Þ 

My computer is still down. I'm sitting at a net-café now. To my surprise the other clients are not completely young either.
posted by Claus Eggers , 5:03 PM Þ 

If we should make a new and improved Blogdial, why not a threaded one like say http://housemusik.dk/phorum/list.php?f=2
posted by Claus Eggers , 5:01 PM Þ 
posted by Claus Eggers , 4:58 PM Þ 

we'll need to extract the data currently residing on the blogger database, but that would be fairly easy. just copy it from the display window when showing the last 1000 or so (you need to have a blogger-cookie for this link to work), then run it through a regexp. Then put it into our own database, make a template (I assume we have that already), input the stuff in the template & that's it, really...
posted by Mikkel , 4:51 PM Þ 

As soon as irdial.com is online, we will be able to do many, many cool things. We will be running it on FreeBSD.
Just start from there.
posted by Irdial , 2:58 PM Þ 

Hmm, interesting...

If I had the time, I'd volunteer for the crafting of a new and improved blogdial. Do we have access to CGI and MySQL and .htaccess files on ibmpcug.co.uk? If so, we could set up a perl script for taking user-input, stuff it in a MySQL DB, and have another perl script doing the output (perhaps dynamically, or just run each time someone inputs something)...
posted by Mikkel , 1:45 PM Þ 

Surprise surprise:

"The site www.blogger.com is running Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000."

http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?mode_u=off&mode_w=on&site=www.blogger.com&submit=Examine

Perhaps now that EV has publicised the security breach at Blogger, MANY more people will be trying to break in to it. This also explanis (partially) why blogger wont work with any browser other than IE.

I think most people assumed that it was run on some UNIX; someone so smart, who wrote something so cool couldnt possibly be so stupid as to base the whole system on M$/IIS.

Or so we thought.
posted by Irdial , 10:13 AM Þ 

nmap -sF -v -v {blogger ip} -P0 -O -p "1-500"

that should give it up



whoa dav, that looks like a dildofone. nah, just kidding. lots of
holiday cheer from kat and i to all of you.

love!!!!!


posted by john , 4:26 AM Þ 

I want to know if Blogger is being run on M$/IIS or UNIX....Ill check later. I have a suspicion that its run on M$/IIS. The passwords should have been encrypted of course, as a matter of routine. Its the one reservation that I always had about Blogger, but measured against the fun it brings, its been worth the risk.
posted by Irdial , 12:25 AM Þ 
Friday, December 28, 2001

Hello there

for xmas this year I got an ericofon from my bird. Very cool, though 'twas the late 60's pushbutton version, not the cool dialler. Old phones rock.

Also, has anyone read this? There's rather a lot so I haven't, I'm just posting it like a cut n' paste tosser. But it might be interesting.

I didn't get drunkat xmas, since I don't drink. But I did eat way too much and am now fatter than ever!
posted by captain davros , 10:49 PM Þ 

Dreadful dreadful dreadful!

You are in good company Claus; i n00ked one of my W98 installations when trying to back it up onto an identical capacity HD. I backed it up in the WRONG DIRECTION. Doh!

As for a bootable Win2K CD, and I presume that you are fast, you can usually find one on Morpheus or of course IRC.

When you loose an installation and data that you have been tweaking and preening for ages its like a part of you dies. Its a horrible, sickening hollow feeling...

Chrismas dinner with the family. The absurd to write about, to boring to write about.
Got bored.


Idle hands do the devils work....hope you had some backups..

As for me, Ive been running Linux non stop for the whole holiday, uptime 6days plus. Compiled and ran Mplayer, updated my Mozilla build...

DivX:-) under Linux is =rock solid= Xine is the best player so far, though it chokes on the Afgan episode of South Park; bad audio....

Drank not so much this year, and no cigars.
posted by Irdial , 8:07 PM Þ 

Thanks for your sympathy Mikkel. If anyone know where to pull an ISO of Windows 2000 Pro US bootable CD, then email me at jamthebox@hotmail.com

c
posted by Claus Eggers , 3:47 PM Þ 

VOX POPULI - Will Macintosh Users Finally Get a Bite of the VoIP Apple? I'd call if I could :P

Meh, sorry to hear that, Claus. Ack!

I spent 19 hours this wednesday drunk off my ass (That's Danish christmas lunch tradition for ya).
posted by Mikkel , 3:06 PM Þ 

Absurd


Chrismas dinner with the family. The absurd to write about, to boring to write about.
Got bored. Downloaded Mandrake Linux 8.1. Deleted a partition from within Windows 2000, and it decided to delete the extended partition on the same disk aswell. My DATA - ARGHHHHH!!! Tried PartitionMagic no sucess. Well later I thought.
Installed the Mandrake. LILO says LI. Tried Grub instead. And others. Might possibly have something to do with the fact that hda is NTFS - what do I know. Could only boot to Mandrake via diskette. My Windows 2000 CD is non bootable *cough* Tried if a NT4 CD would repair the MBR. No it bloody wouldn't.
So now I'm sitting at work trying to find an ISO of Windows 2000 Pro that will boot. Otherwise I A-M F-U-C-K-E-D!!!
Merry fucking Xmas. I love you.
BTW: While in Mandrake I thought 'Why not ask the nice people on Blogdial?' - 'Sorry, Blogdial has had a security breach' Thank you very much, I have never felt so naked before.
posted by Claus Eggers , 2:53 PM Þ 
Thursday, December 27, 2001




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Wednesday, December 26, 2001

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posted by Irdial , 2:02 PM Þ 

A disturbance in the Force...
In a metaphoric sense, we are looking for evidence of a developing global consciousness that might react to events with deep meaning.
http://noosphere.princeton.edu/terror.html
posted by Irdial , 1:02 PM Þ 
Tuesday, December 25, 2001

Hahah! Excellent, Claus... Know the young ladies? =D
posted by Mikkel , 8:31 PM Þ 

3


  [ Merry Christmas ]
posted by Claus Eggers , 6:11 PM Þ 

You guys rule hard.
posted by Irdial , 4:03 PM Þ 

I am hungover.
posted by Mikkel , 3:08 PM Þ 

ah yes, vodka !! .......... lashings of goose fat for all ........ gizzards, intestines, crispy skin, and not forgetting vodka ........ merry merriment !!
posted by a hymn in g to nann , 12:21 PM Þ 

Happy christmas or days off or whatever, you bastards whom I deem the most politically aware people I know. I salute you.
Also, vodka.
posted by Barrie , 9:52 AM Þ 
Monday, December 24, 2001

posted by Irdial , 3:43 PM Þ 


The back of the note features the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, as well as the skyline of lower Manhattan. The view is approximately what one would have observed from Hoboken, N.J. prior to Sept. 11, 2001.
http://www.matthewtrump.com/newthousand.html

posted by Irdial , 1:45 AM Þ 
Sunday, December 23, 2001

...The government cannot interfere with a Right. Bear with me as I repeat this essential precept in several different ways so that you might understand: "Rights" do not come from civil government. We are endowed by our Creator with unalienable Rights. According to the Declaration of Independence, the ONLY reason government exists (it uses the phrase "instituted among men") is to protect Rights. You cannot be granted Rights you already have. The word: "Unalienable" means it cannot be taken from you. If something can be lawfully taken from you, then you didn't have a right to it. Government must protect Rights, not regulate them. Governments are instituted among men to secure those Rights. "Rights" are above government. The exercise of a Right cannot be infringed. A Right cannot be taxed. The exercise of a Right cannot be taxed. The power to tax is the power to destroy. You cannot delegate to your civil servants the power to regulate the inalienable Rights of others...

...You become internal to the government. You have accepted appointment to a government office. The office of "Person" (see Appendix D). Your Constitution was written to control government, not people. And, you've enlisted into the government. You can now expect to be regulated. And, just like other forms of enlistment, you can expect to be treated harshly. Those who hold this government office are now required to sign Forms under the Penalty of Perjury...

...Here are some more details for those who are doing homework: "Hypothecation" is a banking term. "Hypothecation" is defined in Section 14(a) of the Federal Reserve Act as an offer of assets owned by a party other than the borrower as collateral for a loan, without transferring title. The United States is the borrower. You are the party other than the borrower. On your behalf, and with your consent, your representatives borrow most of your national debt from the Federal Reserve Bank. Section 16 of the Federal Reserve Act (12 USC 411) says that Federal Reserve Notes are obligations of the United States. This is true even if the Federal Reserve is not a government agency, because the government has promised to repay the loans to this privately owned corporation. Federal Reserve Notes are backed by the full faith and credit of hypothecated assets (such as your future labor). According to the Legislative History of Public Law 94-564 "The U.S. commitment to redeem international dollars for gold became a physical impossibility". That's right! Your bankrupt government cannot repay Foreign lenders their gold. They will soon claim their collateral. You are the collateral....

...Livestock has owner granted rights also. Just because your current owner can be nice to you, doesn't mean you are free, nor does it mean you won't be sold. Just because you can vote for President, doesn't mean you are free. In fact, it is proof that you are a slave....

...I will also show you later that civil rights must be regulated, and that natural rights cannot be regulated. Real rights do not come from government. Government cannot grant rights, although they often refer to their privileges as rights....

...There is only one Sovereign, and He will judge you on the judgement day. But, from the government's point of view, those who created government, and their posterity, are their sovereigns. Civil servants must do two things: obey their masters and control their subjects. Your government only writes laws for their subjects. They call their subjects by the term "persons". Government does not write laws to control their masters. Your government calls their masters non-persons. "Persons" are people who are under the government. "Non-persons" are people who are above the laws of their servants. They are above the government they control. LAW COMES FROM NON-PERSONS. Read Appendix D now....

...If you cannot govern yourself, others will govern you. No matter how much they demand. Whether you like it or not....
http://www.ptialaska.net/~fmetcalf/mark_of_beast/Chap15.htm
posted by Irdial , 11:59 PM Þ 

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posted by Irdial , 7:09 PM Þ 

A few short weeks ago, my boss came up to me at work and told me one of the most chilling things I've ever been told in person, "Lee, one of our senior vice presidents just called me and asked me to immediately escort you to the fourteenth floor. I have no idea what this about."

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/12/20/211923/84
posted by Irdial , 10:35 AM Þ 

this however, is well freaky...

http://www.progressive.org/webex/wxmc1219a01.html

the number of times i've had similar conversations with people recently.. hey maybe we should all be getting visits.
posted by alex_tea , 1:13 AM Þ 

happy christmas blogdialians.

re: "we love liberty"
http://www.progressive.org/webex/wxmc120801.html

considering the recent events in america i don't think this should be such a problem. maybe they should have been allowed to collect the stamps that day, but surely ignoring an out of the ordinary occurrence would be neglectful?

it's sad that people have to suspect others and be cautious, and it seemed like the people buying the stamps were helpful, which is good. i mean i don't think the clerk or police officer asked any inappropriate questions.

i just think the article made too much out of this. it's sad they had to be questioned, but it's sad the american flag is so weighted in violence and oppression at the moment.
posted by alex_tea , 1:10 AM Þ 
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