Valefor

Although the first post here is also kind of wtf, the part after that is the one that caught my eye:

Site to site to site to store

I hope that isn’t the normal route of most packages!

Ok time to go home now.

My kitty is like, famous now!

http://www.rubicat.com/

Scroll down to the bottom to see a thumbnail of the cover, then you can click and see it a bit bigger on Amazon. So awesome! XD (Edit: I see it on the side now :))

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/21/1241234

What kind of moron do you have to best to proclaim that your disc encryption won’t be broken for 10 years. The model of DRM is retarded. It’s not security. You don’t walk around giving criminals your lock and your key to your house hidden in a haystack and say ‘Ha Ha try to break in’. Yet somehow that’s what they do. Not only that but then they make claims like “You can’t find that key in 10 years”. Morons.

You purchase an encrypted disc (like Blu-ray disc.) In order for you to see the content you have to de-crypt the data. This means that blu-ray players have the key needed to decrypt the data… This is simplifying a lot but the concepts are all there. It just takes time for people to find the key but THEY WILL. The problem is you can’t use encryption techniques to hide data AND SHOW DATA to the same crowd. It doesn’t work that way.

From WoW forums I believe, Alan linked this to me:

* 0. Stop spelling correctly before it’s too late! | 03/04/2008 07:41:42 PM UTC

The Daye Aftur Tumurrow: Y Baad Speeling Iz Gud

Recently, I’ve seen many people on the internet trying to correct others’ spelling. Unfortunately, in doing so, you are endangering the lives of every good person on earth.

As you all know, Earth rotates on its axis, giving us day and night and stopping any portion of earth from freezing or incinerating. What you may not know is that the primary driving force of this rotation is English teachers. More precisely, English teachers rolling in their graves. Thanks to conservation of angular momentum, for a teacher to spin one way forces Earth to spin the other way. Our ENTIRE EXISTANCE depends on these teachers! To clarify the point, here is a diagram:

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/292/thread1mv6.jpg

But how, you ask, could this possibly be related to the internet? As it turns out, teacher grave-spinning is fueled by only two sources: 1st grade essays, and the Internet. Unfortunately for us, 1st grade spelling has rapidly improved in the last decade, leaving the internet as the only source of terrible spelling. For each idiot on the internet, one teacher spins, and this effect has increased over the past decade to become the only force keeping our planet alive. Misuses of there/they’re/their and you’re/your are especially potent, and account for over 90% of the Earth’s rotational velocity.

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/3351/thread2wp1.jpg

Why do you care? Because your life depends on it. I put out as a call to all mankind, PROMOTE BAD SPELLING! It is the only thing between us and a horrible, barren world where everything good is dead. For example, consider the following image (it may be shocking to some, parental consent is advised for young children). The red areas are burnt to a crisp, the blue areas are at roughly -42 Kelvin, and only the yellow portions survive.

http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/9247/thread3ro2.jpg

To prevent the horrific image just pictured, you must forget the grammar and spelling you have learned. Still, if you choose to continue in your rash action, please at least slow down the damage you cause by including the following in your signature. The repeated posting of such content should be enough to allow those truly willing to solve the problem to do so.

Q u o t e:
Their they’re, an tey hav there lewt w/thm. Your so dum you’re brane is leik a peenut.

Thank you for reading this, and please, consider the future of humanity when you post.

My blood elf paladin hit 41 today from 38 this morning! (Granted, I was nearly 39 anyway but…) So I felt pretty accomplished Then I put in Drakengard 2 and I have been playing that a bit. I just died recently and am pissed off, hence not playing anymore The game is just damn frustrating at times, and playing through the WHOLE game over again just to see another ending is a little boring, especially when I hit some of the harder missions :/

So glad this is a 3-day weekend… really needed that! All I did all day today is play video games but I’m hoping to get some more productive things done tomorrow morning perhaps! I want to work on the community page for DotA and maybe a bit on the website. It’s a little draining at times though since I do that for work….

Valentine’s holiday was good to my characters this year. I got 1 Lovely Black Dress, 3 Romantic Picnic Baskets, and 1 Truesilver Shafted Arrow. I gave Kate the Peddlefeet pet since I already have one It was cool getting one of all the rare items…

As I said before, I went to Karazhan again on Wednesday with Shaeldre, and it was fun to play a different role! I got to be one of two interrupts (they also had a shaman and a mage, but the mage doesn’t really count…). It was kind of stressful, but different and fun! We got him on our 3rd try.

So I’m in the process of geeking out my olpc and ran into a couple of annoying things. First I couldn’t get epiphany to install cause of some weird redhat-artwork and redhat-logos conflict. Google searching didn’t bring up anything that helped but I eventually found the answer. the “fedora-logos” packages provides a good version of redhat-logos. The currently installed (by default) “olpc-logos” provides the bad version.

I DON’T KNOW WHAT THIS CHANGES ABOUT SUGAR IF ANYTHING, so remove the package at your own risk, but nothing depends on it so I was able to install epiphany with this series of commands:

prompt: $ su
bash-3.2# yum erase olpc-logos
bash-3.2# yum install fedora-logos
bash-3.2# yum install epiphany epiphany-extensions


I have already set my computer not to boot into sugar by adding the line “exec fvwm” to my .xsession file (you can copy .xsession-example to .xsession first). I do have a wierd issue that every other boot doesn’t finish. So far it really has been every other which is very confusing. I’m currently trying to solve that and trying to find the “proper” way to get a real fedora verion of NetworkManager installed so I can install pidgin, but at this rate I think I’m leaning towards emacs irc clients with bitlbee. If anyone has any recommendations or opinions on which emacs irc client to use speak up! I’m still reading feature lists of the available ones.

So far I’m yum installed: fvwm screen svn epiphany epiphany-extensions emacs firefox and gnome-terminal. It’s working out to be a pretty cool little machine. I think I want to get a cvs version of emacs running so I can use xft fonts to help with the screen, but that’s for another day.

My OLPC was ordered on Nov 12th and was shipped out yesterday! The bad news is that it’s scheduled for delivery on Friday the 21st. I leave for my parent’s house Thurday night the 20th. I won’t be back until Sunday the 23rd at night! Oh well…. it will be sitting at my apartment waiting for me! Would have been very nice to have it during this trip though to test out it’s wireless power and battery life

In college when using linux I did not care about stability at all. I cared about baking up data of course since I was working on school projects, but due to having school labs with linux, a work computer with linux and multiple computers of my own I could care less about distro switching and reformatting my computer on (sometimes) a daily basis.

Recently I’ve started to care more. If I reformat my work laptop with a new distro and stuff doesn’t work right it can REALLY slow me down. I can’t just fix it now and do my work later (Well, I probably could but it wouldn’t look good to my co-workers as I sit there configuring X.org).

I’ve used (and enjoyed) MANY distros and my favorites switch all the time. I’m currently using Ubuntu on work computers and my home desktop has FreeBSD, Ubuntu and a free partition that’s going to be the alpha of Foresight linux 2 when I get the chance. I was using Foresight at work for a while until we switched all of our servers to ubuntu and I wanted to learn the inner workings of the distro a bit more. I think my distro-playing in college is helping out now by allowing me to know what I can play with and what I can’t.

It’s definately made me appreciate Conary’s rollback feature in Foresight. I think that’s the feature that allows my Foresight installs to remain stable even when packages break slightly (Which is a fact of life in a rolling release binary distro! Big round of applause to the Foresight devs, they do an outstanding job.). Rolling release binary distros are definitely hard, yet very cool to get working and Conary is definitely the secret behind Foresight’s success!

I realized I wasn’t posting as often as I’d like because every post was shooting over to the Foresight planet. Now I’ve categorized better so that this doesn’t happen as often. Hopefully this will mean more posts!

I was late for work today.

I wasn’t on any trains that were involved in the accident (thank god) but my train was delayed at Kenmore where I eventually was left off. There were shuttle buses running but there were TONS of people waiting for them already, so I walked to work. Didn’t take very long luckily It looks like no one was seriously hurt at least, which is good.