Saturday, January 19, 2002

I'm not on my own computer right now, but I do know MySQL. I'll be on me own tomorrow, so send me any questions and I'll get back to ya as soon as possible. :)

And Barreh, one word: teh vodka (okay, not one, but fuck it).
posted by Mikkel , 11:12 PM Þ 

Wheee! My friend and I are currently installing a beefy new server for VectorX. It's a spiffy p233mmx with a kickin' 320 megs of ram! and 38 gigs of HD space! And the box is really big and heavy. It has like, 3 fans in it. It RULES!
We just installed RedHat 7.2 (debatable goodness, but more manageable than the freebsd on the old server), with sexy security! mmm, ssh. mmm, sql. mmm, jailed ftp. mmm, sex on a donkey.
posted by Barrie , 9:57 PM Þ 

Oh joy; I picked up two Segate 40gig HDs today; one for the Linux installation and the other for windoze.
Anyone who knows Mysql email me!
posted by Irdial , 9:38 PM Þ 

i sit right next to the window at work, and i am level with the top of a telephone pole. a seagull just did this amazing landing on top of it, kind of a swoop-down-and-stick manoeuver (sp). lucky little beast, i'd like the rights on that one. he's been watching me for a while... he looks hungry.
posted by mary13 , 12:15 AM Þ 
Friday, January 18, 2002

Someone Clever Said:
A professor at a local US University handed our help desk a CD labeled "Adobe & Macromedia's Greatest Hits, Vol. II"

She wanted us to install Photoshop and Dreamweaver off the disk. The help deskers explained how it was a pirated copy, and how her dept. could legally purchase the software for significant discount for educational purposes. She protested, saying it was legit because she'd paid 5 dollars for it on her travels in Malaysia.

This is a great example of the wackiness of intellectual property law as it applies to software, in the eyes of most consumers. Because, for just about anything else except software, she'd be right!

For example, yes, it is illegal to make pirated CDs of Britney Spears albums. But it's not illegal to buy one in Malaysia, or to own one in the United States! It's not even illegal to play one in a CD player!

The software manufacturers have pulled an amazing fast one on all of us, by somehow creating a whole new set of rules to apply to their products. You can bet every other intellectual property-owning corporate entity in the world will stop at nothing until they can follow suit.
posted by Irdial , 11:56 PM Þ 
posted by mary13 , 10:38 PM Þ 

Are you now, or have you ever been?
http://www.whitehouse.org/initiatives/patriot/index.asp

Thank you, American Patriot! You are now registered with the authoritative Department of Justice database of potential non-terrorist persons.

Your True Patriot Identification Number is 18916-JESUS-8013.

Please print this page for your records. You will require your True Patriot Identification Number for your inevitable participation in Operation Mandatory Patriotic Tattoo.

Thank you.

- Attorney General John Ashcroft
posted by Irdial , 10:52 AM Þ 

>From the Independant on the computer found by the Wall Street Journal in Afghanistan:

How they cracked the terrorists' code

Getting to the heart of the documents contained in the
al-Qa'ida computer ­ bought by chance by the Wall
Street Journal's reporter in Kabul ­ meant cracking
the encryption of Microsoft's Windows 2000 operating
system installed on the machine, which had been used
to protect the data.

That is not a trivial task. Microsoft will only say
that if you lose the password that controls entry to a
Windows 2000 system, your best option is to remember
it ­ or simply to wipe the machine and start again.
And its Encrypting File System (EFS), which had been
used to encode the files, is just as strong.

But the files were too valuable for that. Instead, the
team embarked on the task of breaking through the
encryption, which jumbles the contents of the files so
that even someone reading the individual bytes of data
stored on the actual hard disk (rather than trying to
access them through the operating system, which had
locked them out) would simply find rubbish.

Cracking the encryption meant finding the digital
"key" that had previously been used to unlock it. That
was not stored in any readable file on the machine,
for it was itself encrypted.

The only way to reproduce it was to generate the key
from first principles: by trying various combinations
of random bits and trying to decrypt the file with
them, and seeing if it produced sense ­ or gibberish.

Luckily, the PC had a version of Windows 2000 with an
"export-quality" key ­ only 40-bits long, rather than
the "US" quality, which being 128-bits long would have
been billions of times harder to crack.

Even so, it took the equivalent of a set of
supercomputers running for five days, 24 hours a day,
to find the key. But find it they did.

The irony that the terrorists used a product made by
one of the US's biggest corporations to protect plans
it was making against it may not be lost on an
administration that recently relaxed rules on the
export of "strong" encryption. Tighter controls may
follow.
posted by Irdial , 10:29 AM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 12:21 AM Þ 
Thursday, January 17, 2002

it does take longer, but I've done it so long now, I don't care. :)

And <i> & <b> aren't exactly non-standard, as far as I remember, they're just en route to being thrown out (probably in the next XHTML revision).
posted by Mikkel , 6:27 PM Þ 

When faced with typing &lt; and &gt; i took the \
bleh..it was easier!
^^^^^^^^^^^^
hmmmm done with \<\em\>\ it works!

I wonder if there is an extension for dreamweaver that forces your pages to be compliant; ive got some that pretend to do that, but still allow \<\i\>\ hmmmmm.

Im going to buy a BIG HD this weekend hopefully, so that I can run basilisk under Linux. Im sick of windoze crashing 5 times a day. Also re the \<\em\>\ BLOGGER puts \<\i\>\ in your HTML instead of the standards complient \<\em\>\.

Same with Strong { (done with strong btw) which is a LOT to type out compared to typing \<\b\>\.
posted by Irdial , 4:53 PM Þ 

Personally, I use <strong> for bold text and <em> for italic text, since that's what the W3C reccomends. And I think most browsers support it these days (at least IE and NN).

&lt; = <
&gt; = >
It reads like shit in the code, but looks nicer when displayed =)

For some reason, my server has gone really slow when running anything dynamic. I have no idea why. I'll try a restart later on. :-/
posted by Mikkel , 2:15 PM Þ 

BLOGGER is maintained on M$ software, and is targeted for M$IE. If you use superior browsers, the three HTML "tools" (make link, bold and italic) do not appear. If you want to make a link on BLOGDIAL, you simply say:

\<\a href="the url "\>\come see this\<\/a\>
the url

You should repeat the URL so that when Irdial-List is mailed out, the url is visible in plain text. You could also do this:

\<\a href="the url "\>\the url\<\/a\>

just as good.

If you want to post a picture do this:

\<\img src="the url to your picture"\>\

italics are done with \<\i\>\ and \<\b\>\ at the start and \<\/i\>\ and \<\/b\>\ at the end.

to use the HTML above you need to remove the "\" in each case. Doh!
posted by Irdial , 1:23 PM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 1:18 PM Þ 

The traffic light sculpture (20 blogs down) is on the Isle of Dogs on Westferry Road roundabout. I lived on the IoD for 10 years. Its now about 4 years since they put up the sculptures. There are others, put up in an attempt to bring art into the community as I remember. There were traffic jams the week following their installation. I was at that roundabout, on a bus, when the IRA bomb went off 200m away and obliterated South Quay. I was looking out of the window when the window bowed in and looked at me. Others were not so lucky. Memories. Peace.
posted by Alun , 12:08 PM Þ 

Sorry, but I can't get this link thing going. I have no button on the toolbar in Netscape or Mozilla, and the one in Explorer doesn't seem to hit the spot for me... here is the link in plain text...
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www-sfb288.math.tu-berlin.de/vgp/unheard/ma-freizeit/freizeitweb/jvmusic/PaVisibleMusic.html&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dvisible%2Bmusic%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG

Hey - it worked! Wow, you can't knock a wasted youth. Interpret as you will.
posted by Alun , 11:53 AM Þ 

Just to say that anyone without the 'There are too many fools....' Irdial compilation double CD go right now to Sister Ray, Berwick Street, London. They have half a dozen left at the lovely price of £3.99. Beautiful packaging! Sorry if this goes slightly against the Irdial philosophy of (as I understand it) (literally) free-ly available music, but it is a fantastic release.

Also, why is it that music only becomes "visible" after ingestion of hallucinogenics? Obviously the capability is present within human brains to immediately render complex harmonies/tone sequences into visual geometric patterns. Mathematical equations transcribed as music is relatively common (see Autechre as a recent example), but vizualisation is another step. Here is one site having a go...

The google auto-translate thing does a remarkable job! A babel fish in every box.
Peace and love xxx
posted by Alun , 11:48 AM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 11:06 AM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 9:42 AM Þ 

Good lord. So fucking busy. I barely have 30 minutes a day with which to use the computer or do anything else that's NOT work. Arrgh...
posted by Barrie , 6:50 AM Þ 

step on, strap on, and fly!
http://www.solotrek.com/mjet/index1.htm
posted by mary13 , 3:13 AM Þ 
Wednesday, January 16, 2002
posted by Mess Noone , 4:12 PM Þ 
posted by Mess Noone , 12:20 PM Þ 


  1. My favorite rumor: He got drunk and and fell over in his excitement over the game.

  2. hi mary.

  3. HT now has cookies in place. I'll keep working on it for the remainder of the day.

  4. It wouldn't surprise me if John was forced into signing that waiver.
posted by Mikkel , 10:31 AM Þ 

Robert Metcalfe founded 3Com Corporation and designed the Ethernet protocol for computer networks. Metcalfe's Law states that the usefulness, or utility, of a network equals the square of the number of users.

The telephone is of very limited use if only you and your best friend have one. If a whole town is on the system, it becomes much more useful. If the whole world is wired, the utility of the system is phenomenal. But in the predigital age, it could take many years for Metcalfe's Law to bear fruit. It was not until 1931 that telephone companies put a dial on the instrument, finally cutting the tremendous cost of employing switchboard operators and extending the reach of the system. First, telephone use had to reach a critical mass, or number, of users. So it is with any technology.

Until a critical mass of users is reached, a change in technology only affects the technology. But once critical mass is attained, social, political, and economic systems change. This is what authors Downes and Mui call the Law of Disruption. It took about 10 years for radio to reach critical mass in the U.S.; television took longer. Each of these technologies transformed family, economic, and political structures once they reached critical mass.

The same is true of digital technologies. Consider the Internet. It reached critical mass in 1993, when there were roughly 2.5 million host computers on the network. By November 1997 the vast network contained an estimated 25 million host computers. With computing cost continuing to drop rapidly and this dominant computing network growing exponentially, the stage is set for a social, political, and economic revolution. Moore's Law and Metcalfe's Law are in play. To achieve a dramatic effect on commerce, though, one more piece of the puzzle is required. Firms must see a transaction cost advantage that causes them to change their strategic thinking from the models of the past. Read on.
http://www.mgt.smsu.edu/mgt487/mgtissue/newstrat/metcalfe.htm
posted by Irdial , 9:16 AM Þ 

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA
Alexandria Division
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

v.

JOHN PHILIP WALKER LINDH,
a/k/a "Suleyman al-Faris,"
a/k/a "Abdul Hamid,"

Defendant.

{snip!}

("Walker"), a United States citizen, with: (1) engaging in a conspiracy, while outside the United States, to kill nationals of the United States outside of the United States, namely, United States nationals engaged in the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2332(b); (2) providing, attempting to provide, and conspiring to provide material support and resources to designated foreign terrorist organizations, namely, al-Qaeda and Harakat ul-Mujahideen ("HUM"), in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2339B and 2; and (3) engaging in prohibited transactions with the Taliban, in violation of Title 31, Code of Federal Regulations, Sections 545.201 and 545.204, Executive Order # 13129, Title 50, United States Code, Sections 1702 and 1705, and Title 18, United States Code, Section 2.

{snip!}

Walker's Admissions

5. On or about December 9 and 10, 2001, a Special Agent of the FBI interviewed Walker. Before conducting the interview, the Special Agent advised Walker of his Miranda rights. Walker acknowledged that he understood each of those rights, and then waived those rights. The Special Agent also presented Walker with a form on which those rights are set forth and Walker signed below the waiver clause in which he acknowledged that he understood his rights, that he was waiving these rights, and that he agreed to be questioned by the FBI outside the presence of a lawyer.

My emphasis.

Well, this is certainly extraordinary, is it not?
posted by Irdial , 9:12 AM Þ 

What is your favourite rumor about the REAL REASON George W Bush has a bruise on his face??
posted by Irdial , 9:03 AM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 9:01 AM Þ 
posted by mary13 , 4:04 AM Þ 

i would but the flight cost would be astronomical.

rock the house dav! can we get a playlist after?
posted by john , 1:51 AM Þ 
Tuesday, January 15, 2002

Hey, Londoners, anyone heard of a venue called The Spitz? I've been offered a dj slot there for a night. I'm so out of touch I must confess I've not heard of it. Any info? Would anyone off this list come and see me if I took it?
posted by captain davros , 8:53 PM Þ 

More making fun of Dubya!

Mikkel: Mah momma always said life is like a box of pretzels, sometimes you fall down
Jason: well, i bet that pretzel could have kicked your ass, mb.
Mikkel: hehe
Mikkel: well, it could kick the mightiest man in the world's ass
posted by Mikkel , 8:32 PM Þ 

Started working on HT again. Put use strict and use diagnostics in place, to remove any stray global variables and such. Will make it easier to port to object-oriented, if and when that happens (it'll probably be a good idea, now that I think about it). There are still a few global variables, but I'll try and weed them out. I also heightened the level of abstraction in the login process, to make it easier to progress to a cookie-based login, which I took the first steps at making. As an excersise on the mind, and to remind myself of how the code works, I put in some more comments.

At the moment, the code is under a total overhaul, so it'll probably crash and burn, but it's currently at Cannedtunes. I'll try and have the cookie-based login done for the weekend, after which I'll get to work on some of the changes Akin sent to me on the interface (listed sites, image links, etc).
posted by Mikkel , 7:57 PM Þ 

$bash>cat >> allaboutDenmarkandtheDanes.nfo
goodiepal
painpal
Vester
^c
posted by Irdial , 5:35 PM Þ 

Find the cover (wich I did) to this record: http://www.discogs.com/release/7446
Denmark in Wallpaper, Denmark on the new Chemical, Denmark on Blogdial. The sky's the limit.
posted by Claus Eggers , 4:03 PM Þ 

Which way am I going?
posted by Irdial , 3:53 PM Þ 

I want to milk,
but my cow won't come,
I want to churn,
but my milk won't turn
Robert Johnson Milkcow's Calf Blues
posted by Irdial , 3:13 PM Þ 

Biggest crypto archive ever its awesome:
http://crypto.radiusnet.net/archive/
posted by Irdial , 3:07 PM Þ 

Now we're at the poetry, I am reminded of The Parable of the Old Man and the Young, by Wilfred Owen.

So Abram rose, and clave the wood, and went,
And took the fire with him, and a knife.
And as they sojourned both of them together,
Isaac the first-born spake and said, My Father,
Behold the preparations, fire and iron,
But where the lamb, for this burnt-offering?
Then Abram bound the youth with belts and straps,
And builded parapets and trenches there,
And stretchèd forth the knife to slay his son.
When lo! an Angel called him out of heaven,
Saying, Lay not thy hand upon the lad,
Neither do anything to him, thy son.
Behold! Caught in a thicket by its horns,
A Ram. Offer the Ram of Pride instead.

But the old man would not so, but slew his son,
And half the seed of Europe, one by one.

This was written in 1918, the same year he was killed as an officer in the British army, while attempting to cross the Sambre Canal. The news of his death came to his parents on the day of the armistice, November 11th that year. I strongly reccomend the movie Regeneration depicting him and colleague Siegfried Sassoon and their stay at the Craiglockhart war hospital.
posted by Mikkel , 2:28 PM Þ 

When I was bound apprentice, in famous Lincolnsheer,
Full well I served my master for more than seven year,
Till I took up with poaching, as you shall quickly hear:-
Oh! 'tis my delight of a shiny night, in the season of the year.

As me and my comrades were setting of a snare,
'Twas then we seed the gamekeeper - for him we did not care,
For we can wrestle and fight, my boys, and jump o'er everywhere:-
Oh! 'tis my delight of a shiny night, in the season of the year.

As me and my comrades were setting four or five,
And taking on him up again, we caught the hare alive;
We caught the hare alive, my boys, and through the woods did steer:-
Oh! 'tis my delight of a shiny night, in the season of the year.

Bad luck to every magistrate that lives in Lincolnsheer;
Success to every poacher that wants to sell a hare;
Bad luck to every gamekeeper that will not sell his deer:-
Oh! 'tis my delight of a shiny night, in the season of the year.
posted by captain davros , 1:29 PM Þ 

"It is a matter of pride for me, not money. I would hand over my patent for one dollar if Mr. Kamen admitted that we were first."
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/industry/01/14/segway.japan.reut/index.html
posted by Irdial , 1:17 PM Þ 

Oh yeah, and more Danish recipes:

Traditional Danish Cooking @ e2
posted by Mikkel , 1:11 PM Þ 

It's all those goddamn phtalates and fucking shite they put in everything. Goddamnit, I hate all that crap. Not that I'll ever have kids anyway, with this rate of progress. Gah.


But good old Børge kicked ass. He was a regular standup comedian before such a thing existed. Although he mostly sat down in front of the piano.
Victor Borge
Victor Borge
posted by Mikkel , 1:10 PM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 1:10 PM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 1:08 PM Þ 

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.01

Title: Danish Pastry (Dansk Wienerbrod)
Categories: Danish, Desserts, Ceideburg 2
Yield: 1 servings

4 c Flour
1 ts Salt
1/4 c Sugar
2 Yeast cakes (2 1/4 OZ.)
1 c Milk
1 Egg
1 1/2 c Butter

Sift flour and mix with sugar and salt. Mix yeast with a little cold
milk. Add this, the rest of the milk and the beaten egg to flour and
sugar. Beat well until smooth with a wooden spoon.

Roll out the dough on baking board to 1 finger thickness. Spread
small pieces of butter on 2/3 of the dough. The butter must have same
consistency as the dough; if it is too soft it melts into the dough.

Fold together into three layers like folding a napkin, first the part
without butter. Roll out and fold again. Repeat three or four times.

Leave in a cold place for 1/2 hour. This is the dough with which many
different kinds of Danish pastry is made. When pastry is shaped,
place on baking sheet and leave in cold place to rise for 15 to 20
minutes, then brush with egg white and bake in a fast oven until
golden brown.

COCKS' COMBS (HANEKAMME): Roll out dough to finger thickness and
spread with a paste made of equal parts of butter and sugar, then cut
into square pieces 4" x 4". Place filling across middle and fold
over.

Press the edges firmly together and make 4 or 5 deep slashes in this
side. Let rise, brush with egg white and spread with chopped almonds
and sugar.

SPANDAURERS: Roll out dough, spread with paste and cut as above.
Place filling in middle. Fold corners to the center and press down.
After baking drop 1 teaspoon of jelly in the center and spread with
frosting of confectioner's sugar and water.

CHOCOLATE BUNS (CREMEBOLLER): Roll out dough, spread with paste and
cut as above. Place filling of vanilla creme in middle, fold corners
to the center, forming dough as a ball and place upside down on
baking sheet. After baking spread with frosting of confectioner's
sugar, cocoa and water.

As filling may be used apple sauce, jelly, prunes, vanilla creme or
almond paste:

VANILLA CREME: Mix 1 egg yolk, 1 tablespoon sugar, 1 tablespoon
flour and 3/4 cup milk and cook until thick. Take off, add 1/2
teaspoon vanilla extract and cool stirring occasionally.

ALMOND PASTE: Cream 1/2 cup butter, add 1/4 lb. ground, blanched
almonds and 1/2 cup sugar and mix well until smooth. Another kind of
almond paste without butter is made of: 1/4 lb. almonds, 1/2 cup
sugar and 3 egg whites. Work well together until smooth.

From "Danish Cookery" by Suzanne, Andr. Fred. Host & Son, Copenhagen,
1957.

Posted by Stephen Ceideberg; March 9 1993.

MMMMM
posted by Irdial , 1:08 PM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 1:07 PM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 1:04 PM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 1:01 PM Þ 

In Denmark I was born, 'tis there my home is,
From there my roots, and there my world extend.
You Danish tongue, as soft as Mother's voice is,
With you my heartbeats O so sweetly blend.
You windswept Danish strand,
Where ancient chieftain's barrow
Strands close to apple orchard, hop and mallow,
'Tis you I love - Denmark, my native land!

O where does summer strew her bed all over
With lovelier flowers than here, by open strand?
Where shines the silver moon on field of clover
So bright as in the beech's native land?
You windswept Danish strand,
Where Dannebrog is waving,
You came - O flag - from God, our foes outbraving!
'Tis you I love - Denmark, my native land!

On day all Nordic lands were in your power
And England too - no longer your domains.
A tiny land, but in the world you tower -
There ring the song and chisel of the Danes.
You windswept Danish strand,
The ploughshare finds past treasure;
God bless your future too in golden measure!
'Tis you I love - Denmark, my native land!

You land where I was born, and where my home is,
From where my roots derive, my world extends,
Where language is as soft as Mother's voice is,
And with my heartbeats like sweet music blends.
You windswept Danish strand,
For swans to build their nest in,
Green island home on earth, for heart to rest in,
'Tis you I love - Denmark, my native land!

http://www.andersen.sdu.dk/borge/ren_e.html
posted by Irdial , 12:58 PM Þ 

As Stan would put it, remember in your brain bockle, lad: Wrong starts with a Wubble-U! All joyfold! Goodlee byelode!
http://www.wubble-u.demon.co.uk/stan.html
posted by Irdial , 12:56 PM Þ 

Google says about "tax your cremation in hell":
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=+%22tax+your+cremation+in+hell%22

Which yields one result:
http://www.art.a.se/96/jorg/dk.html

And you might want to think twice about looking at the index of the site if you are at work:
http://www.art.a.se/96/jorg/
posted by Irdial , 12:52 PM Þ 

Just gonna watch the game, honey...

Great piece, Claus. Never seen that before. Ahh yes, drinking one's mind away. The true pastime of a Dane, ever since we started with the Mjöd.
posted by Mikkel , 12:37 PM Þ 

Denmark!

A country so small, you can't get in if you're out, and can't get out if
you're in. So small and so full of itself, there's no room for anything or
anybody. Every bit of space, every single thing is occupied: the seats, the
toilets, the phones, the girls, the jobs. The only free thing left is
abortion. They loathe themselves, they hate each other, and they despise
everybody else - there you go, the morning pill for the horny, abortion for
all, perfect. And if you somehow slip in through the natural doorway: the
highest suicide rate on earth.

A country of closed minds and closed doors, tightasses and lockjaws, where
no hacks, no cracks, no knocks or numbers will get you past their bars.
Where a smile is a knife between the teeth; caresses, a trafic accident.
Where the only philosopher ever is called Graveyard - a rigid, religious
fanatic with a castration complex as big as the Eifel Tower. Delving in
guilt, angst, death and boredom, he is celebrated, studied,
institutionalized as The Ultimate Truth. And rightfully so: guilt, angst,
death and boredom reign.

A country of darkness and everlasting rain, where only the idiots laugh
amongst a people of sullen dwarfs. They stand all day to their necks in
birds droppings, pissing on street corners, shouting abuse, and then they
scuffle off to hide in the night. They sit around, numb with frustration,
shaking their heads, drinking their minds away, and make pornographic
cavepaintings on the insides of themselves.

Life in this country is the lonely pain of an ingrowing nail, and when you
die they tax your cremation in hell.

Knud Romer, 1995
posted by Claus Eggers , 12:19 PM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 10:23 AM Þ 

Heard on Danish radio: "I had a nightmare that I was the president of a huge nation, and I was being attacked by terrorist-al-Qaeda-pretzels" Ahhehehhe
posted by Mikkel , 9:50 AM Þ 

Madonna Over Yorkshire. Now there's a name for a band. Wish I'd thought of that. Coming from the stable that is Irdial you've got a class CD of experimental electronic music. Windchime a plenty, ambience, wierd noises, avant garde. Reminded me of a sinister musical version of Fantasia (but not the proper music if you see what I mean). Not sure if I'm explaining this very well. Arty stuff......
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:SJemEW3awIwC:www.normanrecords.com/news.htm+%22Madonna+Over+Yorkshire%22&hl=en&start=8
posted by Irdial , 12:59 AM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 12:50 AM Þ 
Monday, January 14, 2002


What Psych-Ward do you belong
to?

yes, been told this already...
posted by THESE , 8:56 PM Þ 




Which Internal Organ are you? Find out at willaston's lounge!



yes yes, i am stupid often. amazing....
posted by john , 7:58 PM Þ 

Cheesy Mustard Pretzel Dip
Microwave 1 lb. (16 oz.) VELVEETA -- cut up, 1/4 cup
Dijon mustard and 2 Tbsp. honey is 2-quart microwavable
bowl on HIGH 4 to 6 minutes or until VELVEETA is melted,
stirring after 3 minutes. Serve hot with pretzels.

-fit for a king.
posted by john , 7:52 PM Þ 

ow ow ow

I can't help but find it funny! *chuckles* As a friend said, Bush got his ass kicked by a pretzel!
posted by Mikkel , 7:30 PM Þ 
posted by Claus Eggers , 7:24 PM Þ 




Which Internal Organ are you? Find out at willaston's lounge!
posted by Claus Eggers , 7:22 PM Þ 

"Game On will be the biggest exhibition on games ever organised outside those stuffy trade events. This show is a for everyone who loves games - or wants to learn a little more about them."

Ah yes, the neverendingly appaling language of "de louza-lamah"

http://www.barbican.org.uk/generic/details.asp?eventID=716&artFormID=1&artFo
posted by Irdial , 6:49 PM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 4:28 PM Þ 
posted by Mikkel , 1:33 PM Þ 

Uhh what the fuck, I got the same results as you in both tests, akin! Hah! On another note, I'm going impatient, I want to take off now. Staying here is boring!@#
posted by Mikkel , 10:54 AM Þ 

What would I want to know?

while ($facetoface) {
how
where
when
how long
how many
}
posted by Irdial , 9:13 AM Þ 

Dr. Carl Sagan.

Read the entire thread.
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&th=78ab151a1467d8d6&rnum=5
posted by Irdial , 9:10 AM Þ 

...http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html

Which absolutely begs the question, are other things from outer space looking out at us and examining our bit of the universe and giving it peculiar names like white dwarf and so on? On the one hand it's brilliant, funny and a light hearted way of giving meaning to the mind-blowingness of the universe, on the other more cynical one it's like we're so blinded by our own importance we can only name things in terms of our own species (my art theory teacher once blasted off about how anyone that ever came across Pioneer would think that the things on earth walked around nude all day long with one arm stuck up in the air because the plaque was made by a self obsessed human[Carl Sagan I believe and it rocks as far as I'm concerned]). On the third hand of course (since we ought to consider aliens) it's just natural really - we can't explain something or we haven't got time, so we say for the time being what it looks like and then everybody else starts adopting that terminology.

If I could meet an alien rather than dissecting them and so on, I'd want to know what they thought of our world in relation to their own.

If you could meet an alien what would you want to know?
posted by captain davros , 8:59 AM Þ 

....The company plans to charge subscribers between $5 and $10 per month for 50 downloads. To manage the subscription end of the business, Napster will use the Infranet management and billing software from Cupertino, CA-based Portal Software Inc. The software is able to track downloads from anywhere in the world and will ensure that recording artists are compensated for each download of their music....
posted by Irdial , 8:39 AM Þ 

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html
posted by Irdial , 12:32 AM Þ 

posted by Irdial , 12:17 AM Þ 

http://aimsearch.hybernaut.com/aimsearch
posted by Irdial , 12:14 AM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 12:10 AM Þ 




Which Internal Organ are you? Find out at willaston's lounge!
posted by Irdial , 12:03 AM Þ 
Sunday, January 13, 2002

OMG this is sooooo kool!!!!
http://yugop.com/ver3/stuff/03/fla.html
posted by Irdial , 11:58 PM Þ 

Ummmm "Vote NO"
http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/01/12/uk.princee/index.html
posted by Irdial , 11:57 PM Þ 

Yes, you can have two sound cards under windoze, and you can select which apps use which card with ease.
posted by Irdial , 11:00 PM Þ 

posted by Irdial , 10:59 PM Þ 

A techie question regarding windoze. Anyone know if you can have two soundcards on a windoze machine (win98)? I have a very cool soundcard already, but it has no joystick port. I have a new but cheap pci soundcard with a joystick port - can I install that, mostly just to use the joystick port?

Anyone know or care to venture?
posted by captain davros , 10:07 PM Þ 

Configure make and make install of Scribus just finished

Review to follow, but for now I can tell you that its a QuarkXpress clone for Linux!!!!
posted by Irdial , 10:02 PM Þ 

What is the color of the Universe?

http://www.pha.jhu.edu/~kgb/cosspec/
posted by Irdial , 9:40 PM Þ 

Now I can compile and install this:

"Scribus is a DTP program for Linux. Version 0.2 was written in Python,
but Version 0.3 onwards are now written in C++, because this is much
faster than Python. The goal of Scribus is to provide an easy to use
Tool for creating small Publications (at the moment)"

http://web2.altmuehlnet.de/fschmid/
posted by Irdial , 7:43 PM Þ 

I just ran gmake clean. Its finished. Wow.
posted by Irdial , 7:40 PM Þ 

I am compiling QT for my Linux box; its been running gmake for *two hours* so far!
posted by Irdial , 6:39 PM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 6:37 PM Þ 

We're in no hurry are we? x
posted by Claus Eggers , 4:52 PM Þ 

so, when are we going t++? ;)
posted by Mikkel , 7:34 AM Þ 
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