This, and with the amount of corruption in the legal system there’s a chance they might very well get away with it. I know this is just an addition to the case, but it brought it to mind again for me.
What this amounts to is: “We don’t like the law, so let’s just ignore it [...]
OK, so Rapidshare seem to have decided to drop the absolutely ridiculous cat vs. dog CAPTCHA’s. Good, right? Not with what they’ve come up with for a replacement:
What the heck is that? Pseudo-3D landscape CAPTCHA? Why do they expect us to put up with this crap when there’s many better services out there, some without [...]
In addition to adding no real features of note and not delivering on the improvements in resource consumption that were promised (it may be better, but it’s still a memory hog), Firefox 3 broke my sidebar - apparantly over an objection to the h2 tag. I’ve got it more or less fixed, at least for [...]
So, what does everyone think of the site design. I’m seriously contemplating changing the theme, although I don’t really have anything in mind other than maybe less blue. At the very least, I’d like to redo the banner. Codeman had a nice one he was working on at one point, but it just needed a [...]
I’m now upgraded to the newest version of WordPress (long overdue) courtesy of Jay. The bad news is, they completely redid the dashboard interface and it was so, so, so incredibly much better before. I guess I’ll go with it, though - nothing I can do. I’ll probably get used to it after a while [...]
Well, actually I’ve been using the Vuze client for a while - but only for the Azureus bittorrent client, not the Vuze service itself. Today, however, I actually decided to check out what was on Vuze and ended up downloading a low budget post-apocalyptic affair called Afterworld, which comes in five episode packs. Downloading was [...]
That is not a CAPTCHA. That is retarded. How is anyone ever supposed to read it, not to mention picking out only the letters that have a cat on them, which was a stupid idea to begin with. I had nothing against CAPTCHA codes, back when they were short and readable, but the system has [...]
In what should prove to be a fascinating experiment in new blogging ideas comes BayWords, a blogging service based on WordPress and promising completely uncensored blogging, at least up to the point of actually breaking the law, coming from none other than the creators of The Pirate Bay. So in concept this is all well [...]
Well not really, but this article mentions the last.fm group “People With An Absurdly Large Music Collection,” which I lead. So I at least thought it was kind of cool even though I wasn’t actually mentioned at all (two of my members were, though).
More to help remind me of what I’m supposed to be working on than because anyone actually cares - here’s a brief list of what I need to work on in blogging related stuff:
Review: Unexpect - In A Flesh Aquarium
Status: Started, but not very far along
Review: Forever Slave - Tales for Bad Girls
Status: I’ve listened [...]
That programmers these days are completely incompetent when the little application that goes with the fingerprint scanner manages to be using over 1GB of RAM. No lie. I have no idea how you manage to do that, but it’s pretty damned ridiculous.
Wayne, unless it’s just me, your hosting sucks. Half the time when I try to load your page it times out, and right now I’m trying to leave a comment and it’s just stuck in infinite loading. I know there’s nothing that can be done about it, but we already had two complaining posts and, [...]
Our DSL seems to be registering at 3 Mbps, rather than our standard 1.5. This is actually what we’re paying for, but the original word was that it’s not available in our area, and thus we only have the 1.5 Mbps service. I don’t know if this is a fluke or a permanant change, but [...]
So I went to edit the profile on one MySpace page, but since my cookies had been cleared it redirected me to login. So instead of logging back in, I accidentally log in with the information for my other profile, which is saved in Firefox, and it lets me back on the edit page for [...]
Of the (rejected) Microsoft-Yahoo deal: One company of decreasing Internet relevance + One company of decreasing Internet relevance = Waste of everyone’s time and money.`
For this:
We have e-mail, we have real IDE’s, we have technology. This is just obscene, not to mention exceedingly difficult to use. Oh, and did I mention the part about the teacher not speaking English?
In that my pattern really runs towards go four-five days posting nothing, post a whole bunch in one day, go more days posting nothing…and so on. I should commit to doing at least one post per day, it just never seems like there’s anything actually worth posting about. Oh, and my Comp102 teacher…I think Makokian [...]
To the two people who have had their comments awaiting moderation forever. I kind of hadn’t checked the comment queue in a while, doh! The one on “Completely, Utterly Screwed” is actually worth going back there for, that’s like second page now. Need to check that more often.
I actually had cause to use the new integrated AIM client that rests in the Gmail inbox. I had it all set up before, but had never actually received a message in it. It’s a serious case of neat concept but completely impractical. I guess it works for short conversation, but in all reality it [...]
I just found something I’d put on a CD (years ago) with the intention of making fun of. It’s from an advertisement for Verizon DSL advertising it as 768 kiloBYTES. Damn, I wish I could get that much Internet speed for a low monthly rate (for the non-technical users, the appropriate term would be kilobits [...]
Firefox is a ridiculous resource hog. Eight tabs and a download should not mean 250MB of memory and between 80 and 85 percent of CPU resources. There’s got to be a memory leak going on here somewhere, because even with extensions that’s obscene, and my computer is currently barely moving because of it (each letter [...]
This humble little site has now been the recipient of more than 1,000 views! Ooh, aah! This calls for celebration. OK, here’s you’re gift - I promise not to wait another week before posting again. I know, you’re overjoyed. Fortunately Codeman was kind enough to write something to fill in the major post gap.
Also, I’m [...]
Since I’ve been a contributor for over a month, and haven’t contributed, I decided that posting might be a decent idea. So, I’m Codeman, Dan’s friend and fellow Comp-Sci major. Hopefully I can think of some interesting things and remember to post them once in a while. If anyone out there happens to play video [...]
I really need about 5 random shit drawers. I have way too much stuff of no particular purpose that I don’t want to get rid of, and that’s after the 7 or so boxes of said stuff that are already stored under my bed. Ugh.
Firefox just popped up with the update message while I was [...]
Over at ArsTechnica they’ve got a report that Comcast is not only interferring with Bittorrent traffic, which was bad enough, but also Gnutella and umm…Lotus Notes (WTF?). Good idea Comcast, you save small amounts of bandwidth at the expense of losing, oh little things like, your entire frigging customer base. Because after all people don’t [...]
It doesn’t actually do through yet - I just changed the forwarding settings, but at least in theory geeksincyberspace.com should eventually redirect here.
Now I just need to get Codeman to finish that new banner.
Update: Works now. Yay!
More than 75 in the less than a week since I put that counter up - I’m impressed. Now you’re making me feel bad for not writing more often.
But at least I figured it out. By looking through the side options I figured out that it is really simple to change the post author, meaning I fixed the post that showed up as Codeman but was written by me and changed all “admin” posts to Pacdan. I think it doesn’t consider “admin” to [...]
Site counter, which isn’t really new, I just got around to putting in the code on the new page. I always had it on the old site. I just reset the counter so it wouldn’t include the 200-some odd hits from the old site, which would be cheating. Besides I want to know how much [...]
That is the question. There is contemplation of changing the domain to bridgewatergeeks.com. The question is whether or not it’s worth changing everything around just for the purpose of having a nicer domain. I actually have a reason to want this domain, so I’d want to keep it irregardless. It’s not like it’s much to [...]
