Saturday, October 26, 2002

Your name has been added to a list of artists looking for internet broadcast and are willing to sign royalty waivers. If you do not want your name on the list or you wish to add or change your information, respond to this email and I will promptly remove your name or change your listing.

Internet broadcasters are looking for independent music to play. Unfortunately, hundreds of broadcasters are shutting down due to sky high royalty rates instigated by RIAA (Recording Industry Association).

Currently the only way webcasters can survive the new RIAA sponsored legislation is to find independent artists who can give broadcasters permission to play their music royalty free.

The “Radio for Independent Artists of America Foundation Unlimited” (RIAAFU) is a website which is simply a searchable database designed to match internet broadcasters with independent artists who wish to have their music broadcast. Adding your contact information to the database enables broadcasters to find you, and you are welcome to search for broadcasters.

This is not a commercial site, and there are no obligations legal or otherwise. It just shows that you are interested in finding broadcasters to play your music.

Please support this cause by contacting broadcasters registered at www.riaafu.com, writing your representatives, and spreading the word.

Thanks on behalf of all at the Radio for Independent Artists of America Foundation Unlimited.

www.riaafu.com
posted by Irdial , 7:34 PM Þ 

Theres nothing in the dark that was'nt there when the lights were on.
posted by Irdial , 2:28 PM Þ 

Lunch Counter Terrorism
over-the-counter Terrorism
Checkout Counter Terrorism
Retail Counter Terrorism
posted by Irdial , 12:45 AM Þ 
Friday, October 25, 2002

yes i know os x is nearly invulnerable, but i don't like the thought of people sneaking around my network. but i do like the thought of serving my own pages. anyway i did a port scan on the offender, and he had a netbios port open, so i tried to connect, but i don't really know how to hack or anything. and hacking's not about that anyway... but i did do a ssh session from work to my computer today to edit the httpd.conf file, so i could get some files off my computer. i tried tftp, but it timed out when trying to transfer, so i think my firewall or port forwarding was blocking it... which ports does it use? 21?

that pen r0x0rs.

i'm not that good with computers, i just kind of blag it.

thanks for the -f switch for tail, i had already used tail, but i like that function. i wanted my unix book to come before the weekend, but alas no... oh well, it will have to wait.

electric six on monday. and fugazi next weekend. and giddy motors sometime during the week.

oh i wanted my web host to set up a subdomain to point to my semi static ip, but it will cost £20 + VAT. surely all they have to do is change one or two lines in their dns records?? i think i'm going to get my friend's to host my dns. i would try it myself, but my computer isn't on all the time. maybe that doesn't matter.

i hate the eagles, but i like don's sentiment there. and i liked boys of summer when i was a youngster. not all record companies rip off their artists though.

sigur ros album out on monday. website goes live then as well. built by the lovely, and klever kleber krew.

omniweb is cool cos it underlines your spelling mistakes when you type into textareas, but it doesn't post to blogger very well, and i end up losing my posts...
posted by alex_tea , 10:54 PM Þ 

From someone elses Blog:

The *Last* Thing We Need

Humans are doing a pretty damned good job of sucking the life out of the planet as it is. Imagine what it would be like if our life spans doubled. Unfortunately, this is a subject that's interesting some biologists.

Gene tweaking safely doubles lifespan
Nicola Dixon, New Scientist

A US team has doubled the lifespan of the nematode worm with no apparent physiological side affects. The key to what appears to be uncompromised longevity is to silence a gene involved in ageing at just the right point in a worm's life cycle.

I guess there could be perfectly valid applications of this -- I'm just hard pressed to think of what they could be. Bring on the apocalypse, and don't spare the horsemen!
posted by Irdial , 3:24 PM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 3:22 PM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 3:06 PM Þ 

Don Henley (of The Eagles) encourages eryone to “Download all you want”. “The record companies have been ripping artists off for years”, he said. “Go ahead. I’d rather lose money to you than them. I don’t have a contract with you.”
posted by Irdial , 3:05 PM Þ 

My work computer, using flash, realproducts, etc etc plays mp3s, streaming stuff and more at almost 2x speed. whats the deal? what have i set up wrong and what should i change? why do i feel so dumb? why do i never have time to find these things out myself? sigh.

Tonight, having been amazed by an auditory glimpse at an outdoor concert, we're off to see Paco Peña at Sadlers Wells. Much anticipation. The last time I saw dancing as sensual as flamenco was the massed ranks of african and south american men strutting their awesome stuff to impress the ladies at the Mambo Inn, between Brixton and Camberwell. That was ten years ago, and their dancing worked like magic....
posted by Alun , 12:50 PM Þ 

Pravda

2002-10-22

Prostitutes stole a portable computer with secret software from US
Army soldiers currently conducting military exercises in Poland. The
computer disappeared when three programmers of the US Army invited
prostitutes to dinner and to drink. The men fell asleep rather
quickly. However, when they woke up in the morning, they discovered
that their computer disappeared; in addition to the computer, the
girls also stole a digital camera and a pair of speakers.

The US Army HQ estimated the loss to be 120,000 dollars, about 100,000
of the sum is the cost of the secret software. It is the theft of the
software that actually worries army officers very much, as the
computer contained secret information concerning the US Army.

Military exercises are regularly held on Europe's largest training
area, which is located in Poland. The unlucky programmers serve in the
US Army Fifth Corps and are stationed in the Federal Republic of
Germany. Since Poland became a NATO member, military exercises of the
fifth corps have been regularly held in Poland.
posted by Irdial , 11:50 AM Þ 

Nimda cant hurt you because youre on OSX. But you know that.

It only takes 15 minutes for a box to get scanned once its IP goes live; everyone, everywhere is being portscanned. Thats what life is like.

If you have your firewall set to block everything and hide every port that you dont want the net to see, thats all you can do....and its enough.

Librarians rawk
posted by Irdial , 11:45 AM Þ 

tail -f /var/log/httpd/access_log
or error_log

ctrl-C to stop it

about Nimda, you can't directly blog them in the built in firewall. But you can ban the specific IPs when you see new ones. Not very practical, really. There's no easy solution, as far as I know.
posted by Mikkel , 9:02 AM Þ 

You guys are so much better technically than me with computers. I am only a end-(librarian-)user.... Very interesting to read about google. What would you recommend a 'normal' internetuser like me to search on, when I want to search the internet for information - besides Google? How do you search the internet? Or do you only browse?
Have a nice weekend - the autum is beautiful right now, both the sky and colors of the threes.... Really breathetaking!
posted by Alison , 8:58 AM Þ 

is there a unix app that will print the contents of a file to stout and keep doing so every time a file is changed. basically i want to view the apache access logs in real time. i love os x. it r0x0rs. and jaguar comes with bash instead of tsch or whatever i'm using now...
posted by alex_tea , 8:50 AM Þ 

so i set up apache and have been tinkering about... not much to show yet, but at least it's up and running. was going through the logs and i noticed i've already been assulted by nimda... scary...

81.113.169.10 - - [25/Oct/2002:01:57:10 +0100] "GET /scripts/root.exe?/c+dir
HTTP/1.0" 404 1902

81.113.169.10 - - [25/Oct/2002:01:57:10 +0100] "GET /MSADC/root.exe?/c+dir
HTTP/1.0" 404 1902

81.113.169.10 - - [25/Oct/2002:01:57:10 +0100] "GET /c/winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir
HTTP/1.0" 404 1902

81.113.169.10 - - [25/Oct/2002:01:57:11 +0100] "GET /d/winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir
HTTP/1.0" 404 1902

81.113.169.10 - - [25/Oct/2002:01:57:11 +0100] "GET /scripts/..%255c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir
HTTP/1.0" 404 1902

81.113.169.10 - - [25/Oct/2002:01:57:11 +0100] "GET /_vti_bin/..%255c../..%255c../..%255c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir
HTTP/1.0" 404 1902

81.113.169.10 - - [25/Oct/2002:01:57:12 +0100] "GET /_mem_bin/..%255c../..%255c../..%255c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir
HTTP/1.0" 404 1902

81.113.169.10 - - [25/Oct/2002:01:57:12 +0100] "GET /msadc/..%255c../..%255c../..%255c/..%c1%1c../..%c1%1c../..%c1%1c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir
HTTP/1.0" 404 1902

81.113.169.10 - - [25/Oct/2002:01:57:12 +0100] "GET /scripts/..%c1%1c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir
HTTP/1.0" 404 1902

81.113.169.10 - - [25/Oct/2002:01:57:13 +0100] "GET /scripts/..%c0%2f../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir
HTTP/1.0" 404 1902

81.113.169.10 - - [25/Oct/2002:01:57:13 +0100] "GET /scripts/..%c0%af../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir
HTTP/1.0" 404 1902

81.113.169.10 - - [25/Oct/2002:01:57:13 +0100] "GET /scripts/..%c1%9c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir
HTTP/1.0" 404 1902

81.113.169.10 - - [25/Oct/2002:01:57:14 +0100] "GET /scripts/..%%35%63../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir
HTTP/1.0" 400 281

81.113.169.10 - - [25/Oct/2002:01:57:14 +0100] "GET /scripts/..%%35c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir
HTTP/1.0" 400 281

81.113.169.10 - - [25/Oct/2002:01:57:14 +0100] "GET /scripts/..%25%35%63../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir
HTTP/1.0" 404 1902

81.113.169.10 - - [25/Oct/2002:01:57:15 +0100] "GET /scripts/..%252f../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir
HTTP/1.0" 404 1902

is there anyway i can set my firewall up to stop these attacks? i understand that i could set up apache to redirect them, but is there anyway to just stop them from coming into my system at all? i read that some people just throw back a huge binary like /unix at the offending ip. maybe someone should write a script that attacks the attacker?
posted by alex_tea , 6:43 AM Þ 

2A, H, and a whippersnapper.
into the night...
posted by Irdial , 5:18 AM Þ 

are they paranoid?
http://www.google-watch.org

do a google search for "bermuda triangle radio irdial"...
posted by alex_tea , 1:31 AM Þ 
Thursday, October 24, 2002

DONT tune into the Bermuda Triangle tonight at 12:00 GMT.
It might upset you.
posted by Irdial , 5:00 PM Þ 

posted by Irdial , 4:30 PM Þ 

http://news.com.com/2100-1023-963132.html

Google excluding controversial sites
By Declan McCullagh
October 23, 2002, 8:55 PM PT

Google, the world's most popular search engine, has quietly deleted
more than 100 controversial sites from some search result listings.

Absent from Google's French and German listings are Web sites that are
anti-Semitic, pro-Nazi, or related to white supremacy, according to a
new report from Harvard University's Berkman Center. Also banned is
Jesus-is-lord.com, a fundamentalist Christian site that is adamantly
opposed to abortion.

Google confirmed on Wednesday that the sites had been removed from
listings available at Google.fr and Google.de. The removed sites
continue to appear in listings on the main Google.com site. [...]
posted by Irdial , 3:36 PM Þ 
posted by Alun , 2:25 PM Þ 

http://news.google.com/news?num=30&hl=en&q=chechnya+moscow+hostages

re: press freedom.
Some surprising numbers, some not. I woulda thunk UK would be above US, but I have nothing to base that assumption on. What gives? Also interesting to see Canada highly rated, as I've heard Barrie lambast the media there more than once (also saw some good comments on slashdot about that issue).
posted by Mikkel , 12:47 PM Þ 

Worldwide press freedom index

Rank Country Note
1 Finland 0,50
-- Iceland 0,50
-- Norway 0,50
-- Netherlands 0,50
5 Canada 0,75
6 Ireland 1,00
7 Germany 1,50
-- Portugal 1,50
-- Sweden 1,50
10 Denmark 3,00
11 France 3,25
12 Australia 3,50
-- Belgium 3,50
14 Slovenia 4,00
15 Costa Rica 4,25
-- Switzerland 4,25
17 United States 4,75
18 Hong Kong 4,83
19 Greece 5,00
20 Ecuador 5,50
21 Benin 6,00
-- United Kingdom 6,00
-- Uruguay 6,00
24 Chile 6,50
-- Hungary 6,50
26 South Africa 7,50
-- Austria 7,50
-- Japan 7,50
29 Spain 7,75
-- Poland 7,75
31 Namibia 8,00
32 Paraguay 8,50
33 Croatia 8,75
-- El Salvador 8,75
35 Taïwan 9,00
36 Mauritius 9,50
-- Peru 9,50
38 Bulgaria 9,75
39 South Korea 10,50
40 Italy 11,00
41 Czech Republic 11,25
42 Argentina 12,00
43 Bosnia and Herzegovia 12,50
-- Mali 12,50
45 Romania 13,25
46 Cape Verde 13,75
47 Senegal 14,00
48 Bolivia 14,50
49 Nigeria 15,50
-- Panama 15,50
51 Sri Lanka 15,75
52 Uganda 17,00
53 Niger 18,50
54 Brazil 18,75
55 Ivory Coast 19,00
56 Lebanon 19,67
57 Indonesia 20,00
58 Comoros 20,50
-- Gabon 20,50
60 Yugoslavia 20,75
-- Seychelles 20,75
62 Tanzania 21,25
63 Central African Republic 21,50
64 Gambia 22,50
65 Madagascar 22,75
-- Thailand 22,75
67 Bahrain 23,00
-- Ghana 23,00
69 Congo 23,17
70 Mozambique 23,50
71 Cambodia 24,25
72 Burundi 24,50
-- Mongolia 24,50
-- Sierra Leone 24,50
75 Kenya 24,75
-- Mexico 24,75
77 Venezuela 25,00
78 Kuwait 25,50
79 Guinea 26,00
80 India 26,50
81 Zambia 26,75
82 Palestinian National Authority 27,00
83 Guatemala 27,25
84 Malawi 27,67
85 Burkina Faso 27,75
86 Tajikistan 28,25
87 Chad 28,75
88 Cameroun 28,83
89 Morocco 29,00
-- Philippines 29,00
-- Swaziland 29,00
92 Israel 30,00
93 Angola 30,17
94 Guinea--Bissau 30,25
95 Algeria 31,00
96 Djibouti 31,25
97 Togo 31,50
98 Kyrgyzstan 31,75
99 Jordan 33,50
-- Turkey 33,50
101 Azerbaijan 34,50
-- Egypt 34,50
103 Yemen 34,75
104 Afghanistan 35,50
105 Sudan 36,00
106 Haiti 36,50
107 Ethiopia 37,50
-- Rwanda 37,50
109 Liberia 37,75
110 Malaysia 37,83
111 Brunei 38,00
112 Ukraine 40,00
113 Democratic Republic of the Congo 40,75
114 Colombia 40,83
115 Mauritania 41,33
116 Kazakhstan 42,00
117 Equatorial Guinea 42,75
118 Bangladesh 43,75
119 Pakistan 44,67
120 Uzbekistan 45,00
121 Russia 48,00
122 Iran 48,25
-- Zimbabwe 48,25
124 Belarus 52,17
125 Saudi Arabia 62,50
126 Syria 62,83
127 Népal 63,00
128 Tunisia 67,75
129 Lybia 72,50
130 Irak 79,00
131 Viet Nam 81,25
132 Eritrea 83,67
133 Laos 89,00
134 Cuba 90,25
135 Bhutan 90,75
136 Turkmenistan 91,50
137 Burma 96,83
138 China 97,00
139 North Korea 97,50

Reporters Sans Frontieres
posted by Irdial , 10:56 AM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 10:44 AM Þ 
Wednesday, October 23, 2002
posted by Alun , 7:11 PM Þ 

I got this mail from a friend of mine who's studying Script Writing and is currently doing a placement year in LA. I asked him if I could post here here, and he asked me to contextualise it. Which I have just done.

Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 03:25:43 +0100 (BST)
From: noah payne - frank <************@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: billy graham's going to heaven (with Dr scott)

And you can too if only you want to. I'm guessing only
two of you get the title reference, maybe three.
Answers on a postcard if you're not a memeber of my
immediate fam cause I know you know.

Thought it would probably be rude to come out to LA
without visiting at least one live tele-evangelical
broadcast so lo and behold this fine sunday morning
was spent in the presence of none other than the
venerable Dr. Gene Scott PHD (stanford university and
dont you forget it). Jez and only jez will remember
him as the very protagonist of 'Gods angry man' a
documentay from the seventies by his lordship werner
herzog. He's still quite angry but has settled down a
bit in LA and has worked out a fine new system for
earning his keep.

It turns out my landlady is a big follower of his,
goes every sunday to his show/service and got me a
ticket, its invite only so im blessed. She had told me
about him before and i hadn't made the connection with
the documentary before i got there. She had also
talked of it in terms of a philosophical lecture, so
imagine my surprise when the curtain roles up and
everyone stands and goes wild, a lady starts to sing
and they all go into a polite form of rapture, much
hand clapping, whooping (they love that here), a
couple songs, he says something arrogant then goes,
'its offering time,' everyone gasps and gets out their
money out, much of which is already neatly packed in
a white envelope for collection. She told me before
hand that he always says if you didnt learn anything
then dont pay anything, and i hadnt at that point so I
didnt (i wasn't going to anyway).

More horrible christian gospel-lite music and he
starts his lecture. If you want to be cynical then
this is the clever bit. I know very well that he was
your standard tele-evangelist bcak in the day, he used
to sit on his couch and shout at the television,
'pledge your money, what are you waiting for, pledge
it now, youre angering god by not giving me your
money.' etc etc, and honestly that subtle. really the
most disgusting thing you've ever seen. Now he calls
himself dr. and rubs his phd in your face at the
bottom of the screen constantly. He writes in hebrew
and translates it, talks some sense, says some sound
things, baffles people a bit and uses his charisma.
Cut to the end theres more nasty music, another
session of offering and then a crescendo. The tv
version is followed by a 30odd minute instrumental
version of whatever song was played last with a pledge
number at the bottom.

So he is a clever man after all. I dont doubt it. I do
actually. His meesage in this mornings service took
abit from the psalm 91, he wrote it in hebrew, made
some suggestions of what that was and took his own
interpretation. The crux of his point was this: You
can only find god if you try, really try, by studying
his word and looking for him. he will not appear to
you without effort. This is clearly to say god only
exists if you want him to exist and you will him to
exist, which must mean that god is a construct of man.

Follow this line of thought, his line of thought, and
you will find the bible to be a construct of man. Tie
it into what he and all christians say is the role of
god, in giving guidance and comfort/strangth to a
believer and you have the perfect description of an
idea (religion) that was constructed by man for those
afraid of their own mortality. Which is what it is.
Either that or it was made up by greedy and power
hungry men like the dr, take your pick.

It was not quite the epiphany i was told to expect,
except maybe it seems to have turned me into a bit of
a preacher myself judging by the length of this mail.
Rather it saddened and actually angered me to see
these well meaning people led like this by an
institution that promotes fear and hatred the world
over and for all time. My landlady is a very sound
intellegent lady, cultured in many ways and by no
means what you would think of as the follower of
tele-evangical stuff but no one there considers it to
be tele-evangelism cause thats a dirty word. And I
guess if you have chosen religion and you can forget
about things like reality then it probably is a good
leson in what you believe.

Anyway, Ive gone on for ages, it must have affected me
some or i wouldnt have written in this depth. Just one
more thing the service is held in the united artists
theatre downtown, a huge old silent movie theatre that
was owned by the biggest female star of the time. It
is built and decoorated like a church and has
religious style murals with charlie chaplin poking his
head out the side (one of her friends). Oh and its
owned by a jewish family who are about to give it to
gene scott for him to spread the word. Figures.
so spread the word.
hope y'all are well.
peace.
ps - he met his pal billy graham ast week, thats why
the title.

here's a link http://www.drgenescott.com/ - you can get a webcast of his service from here.
posted by alex_tea , 3:32 AM Þ 

i did some mildly geeky things tonight...

i turned on apace (this is extrememly easy on os x. you just click a button in the sys prefs panel!)
i set it up a bit.
i set up a hosts file and then imported that into NetInfo Manager.
i set up virtual hosts in my apache config.

woo hoo... now i jsut need to think of a snazzy unique TLD for my private domains... right now i'm using .gr (giant robot) but this is already taken by those greeks innit... so i have to think of something else. at sucks and is already used by austria... i want to keep it to 2 letters, as i think they're way cooler. (co.uk, tv, nu, cx, etc)... maybe .rmx is cool. not sure quite why i'd use it...

i also ordered some books, unfortunately i had (??) to use amazon, as they were the only online store that had a couple of the books i wanted in stock (i couldn't even find them in most other catalogues). plus they were doing a deal, so i got ne book 1/2 price... anyway they're Director / Lingo books. I would use Waterstones on the high street anyway, and they use amazon for online stuff. maybe i should boycott them too, as they support amazon in an indirect fashion...

I also bought "Learning Unix for OS X" from O'Reilly (using Blackwell's) ... I was going to get Think Unix as well but it's quite expensive (£32.99) so it'll have to wait until my loan comes through. But it's quite a bit cheaper at amazon. Still, I must resist their evil clutches.

For those that don't know why amazon is bad see this site – it all started with their crap patent for "one click purchasing" (that's an original idea) and has progressed from there.
posted by alex_tea , 3:27 AM Þ 
Tuesday, October 22, 2002

Hey Dr K

Very interesting; I work in STM publishing and am wokring on putting a second edition of a guide online, as well as developing a PDA version of it.

There's lots of enthusiasm for electronic info in the areas I work with, but the usefulness is definitely related to how we can display that and get it out there. The browser is not the best place to display tabular information for example.

Moreover, I'm not in any way STM educated, but my exposure to this kind of material every day means I lurch from hypochondriac to would-be medic whenever something is wrong with me or my family. It's an odd thing having access to all that information!
posted by captain davros , 6:06 PM Þ 

THE INTERNET: PANACEA OR PANDEMIC?
A ONE-DAY SEMINAR EXPLORING THE PUBLIC HEALTH IMPACT OF THE INTERNET

The Internet is having profound effects on health and healthcare. Issues
that have implications for public health include the quality of online
health information used by consumers, inequalities in access to health
information, Internet addiction, the ergonomic effects of computer use, peer
to peer interactions in virtual communities, email communications between
doctors and patients, the online delivery of health services, the use of the
Internet for epidemiological data collection, and the wider effects of a
networked society - for example on home life, transport, energy consumption
and productivity.

This one day seminar will include talks and discussion groups. Talks will
cover current research into the impact of the Internet on public health, the
international perspective on the role of the Internet in healthcare, and
informed speculation as to what the future holds. Discussion groups will
consider the potential benefits and possible threats of the Internet to
public health.

This seminar is supported by the Department of Health, the Health
Development Agency and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Health Informatics Group. It will be co-chaired by Dr Pat Troop (Deputy
Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health) and Professor Andy Haines
(Dean, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine).

Date: Friday 10th January 2003 (9.30am - 5pm).
Venue: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London
WC1E 7HT.
Price: Limited free places for NHS or academic (registration is essential).

If you would like to register for this seminar please send your details to
Deborah Curle, Department of Public Health & Policy, London School of
Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, or send an
email to jan10@lshtm.ac.uk. Please state your name, job title, institution,
and contact details. Registration will be confirmed by email.

Full details of the final programme will be posted at
www.lshtm.ac.uk/php/seminars when available.
posted by Alun , 4:45 PM Þ 
posted by captain davros , 2:10 PM Þ 
posted by chriszanf , 1:01 PM Þ 
Monday, October 21, 2002

I wrote up this bit at work today, but then Blogger whored on me, and I forgot to post it before going to my drawing class. Just got back. Here it is.

The OS X filesharing scene is a bit sad at the moment, I'd say. I almost exclusively use Hotline (the Frogblast clone), and mostly go to 2 servers, sometimes a few others. Sometimes, I use IRC and go to #comicscans on dalnet to get a few issues of whatever is floating around. You can get some dandy stuff there. Let's see, what alternatives do we have.

There's soulseek ( www.slsk.org ; mp3 ; idm/off-stream stuff ), to which there's a client that supposedly works on OS X, though it requires python, kde and all kinds of nixen stuff. I haven't checked it out, but I know that the soulseek network has tons of cool stuff. I'm partially inclined to getting the python source so I can rev the protocol and write a perl client, though that's probably too much work. Bleh.

edonkey2000 ( www.edonkey2000.com ; * ; * ), which has a shitty commandline client that workson OS X, though I never actually managed to connect to a single server. I wonder if I'm doing anything wrong. Did I mention that it's completely abysmal either way? There are a bunch of front-ends made with ASS and what have we, but they're all crap, really.

KaZaA ( www.kazaa.com ; * ; * ), there's a mac "client" that's really just a glorified portscanner (search www.versiontracker.com/macosx for "neo" or "kazaa"). It scans ranges of IPs for open KaZaA servers that you can then search. Very limited, very crap. I got a few files off it. Luckily, you can download a "master list" so you don't have to scan yourself.

There aren't any WinMX or DirectConnect clients for mac as far as I know. And let's not forget Carracho and KDX, the incompatible hotline clones. I haven't really used those two much, so I've no idea if they're any good. I miss AudioGalaxy. And I miss the time when there were still huge private servers on HL. One of the last big ones I knew of closed down about a month or two ago. They had the freaking lot (think several hundred gigs).
posted by Mikkel , 9:01 PM Þ 

Mozilla
Opera
IE (very for the plugins occasionally)

Mozilla on OSX has cooled up aparently; widgets now drawn natively. The latest version looses the colapsers...I thought it was a bug! Mail filtering has improved also, and the whole browser seems to be running faster.
posted by Irdial , 6:37 PM Þ 

browsers in order of pref....

Mozilla - not 100% but the tabbed browsing is so cool.
IE
Very very occasionally use Act10 from Jansoft.

Davros's Mauritius shots should go online soon, but you know how it is...

I'm playing with the Palm M130 my company bought me today - sort of cute but it ent amazing. Anyone else use these wee computers?
posted by captain davros , 4:49 PM Þ 

http://www.cyberskiving.co.uk/

i promise i'll post something proper soon. got loads of phlegm and cattargh currnetly doing the rounds in my sinuses... noice.

my girlf has just moved to whitechapel and there's an excellent view of the aubergine as you walk to her house. i;ll take some pictures maybe. i should scan in my holiday photos to and tell y'all about it. maybe it will cheer me up.

also had a rant about mp3s. whilst i'm on the subject, anyone using this: http://www.neo-modus.com/?? and what is there for us OS Xers to use for P2P. Carracho and Hotline, don't really cut the buscuit and Gnutella isn't all that either...

And which browsers do you use? Here's my list in order of preference:

OmniWeb
Chimera
Opera
Mozilla (seems a bit sluggish)
iCab
Internet Explorer
posted by alex_tea , 2:14 PM Þ 

Religious Truths

Taoism

Shit happens.

Buddhism

Shit happens but it's not really shit.

Hinduism

This shit has happened before.

Islam

If shit happens, it is the will of Allah.

Catholism

If shit happens, it's because you deserve it

Protestantism

Let shit happen to other people

Judaism

Why is shit always happening to me?
posted by chriszanf , 2:06 PM Þ 

http://www.30stmaryaxe.com/
Also at Norman Fosters site. I'm disappointed with the building.... not from a visual aspect - it already looks great from Bank, Liverpool St, Shoreditch, Dalston... - but when it was proposed Sir Norm put forward that there would be a completely new experience within. There was talk (from NF) that every 10th floor would be given over to vegetation, planted areas of gardens and mature trees!!! Wow! Now that WOULD be different... Shame its not going to become a reality. Distracted by the glint of silver, Sir Norm...? Fucker. Trying to be the 20th/21st centurys very own Sir Christopher Wren is all very well, but not when driven by profit.
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posted by captain davros , 11:42 AM Þ 

That's it! I've had enough!
I am fuckin tired of the worlds view on muslims - both the muslims and the western world! Go fuck yourself! With your fucked-up holy morals. Actually I'm tired of all religions and political ideologies!
Why does it mean so much, what you belive in? What your God is named? If you eat pork meat or not? How gives a shit anyway? God? I dont think so...
Being a kind, honest, loving and nice person is enough. Why not try to be that (it can be hard enough)?
I'm so fuckin tired of religion and politics... I give up, just want to be kind and give and get love. I know it seems stupid and naive, but I am sooooooooooooooooooooooooo tired of religion, and the way religion is used to justify money, killings of innocent people and WAR...
When will people learn? Read the history books. There is 1000 (and more) lessons to learn!

(wow, it was so nice to get outta of my system, since I'm raised as a muslim, but most definatly am not a muslim)
posted by Alison , 11:37 AM Þ 

Claus, there are so many movies with the same kind of good movie qualities as Vanilla Sky. Trust me on that one.
posted by Alison , 10:05 AM Þ 

This is interesting reading:
MEMRI
posted by Irdial , 9:07 AM Þ 

posted by Irdial , 9:06 AM Þ 

Procrastination: don't you just hate it? Especially when it's mid-term time... yikes.
posted by Barrie , 4:24 AM Þ 
Sunday, October 20, 2002



"Will the top of the building be open to the public?
No because it is intended for exclusive use by the tenants of the building and their guests as a corporate hospitality facility."

Went to see this today....awesome.
posted by Irdial , 12:09 AM Þ 
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