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1 Il purgatorio par Mi.
Thats not bad, not that good, but not bad.

Posted by: tommy at April 01, 2004 12:07 AM (v0EoW)

2 It seems I'll be stuck in purgatory. bad bad me.

Posted by: Sinta at April 01, 2004 01:08 AM (eQxJR)

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Blogging will be light here at Ambient Irony for the next week or so.

But that does not mean I've left you without reading material! Whether you are looking for edification or entertainment, the growing list of Munuvians (over there --->) is bound to satisfy.

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1 Tell me is the list going to be growing much more in say the next week. I'm already five behind.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at March 31, 2004 12:10 PM (CSxVi)

2 I'll see if I can work out how to make the official blogroll a bit more flexible so that you can use it. Easier all round that way.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 31, 2004 12:21 PM (+S1Ft)

3 Pleeeease tell me you're having a vacation. You deserve it.

Posted by: Jennifer at March 31, 2004 12:57 PM (+ARrk)

4 Well, I'm taking some time off work, anyway. But that's so as I can work on MuNu.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 31, 2004 01:26 PM (kOqZ6)

5 Shouldn't we be sorted in some fashion? Alphabetized, or divided into bite-size categories (by subject matter, for instance)?
That's probably just me being anal-retentive and silly.
I assume there's a list somewhere that I can copy, so I don't have to build this segment of my new blogroll from scratch. Perhaps I could work on the "bite-size blogroll" problem myself . . .

Posted by: Little Miss Attila at March 31, 2004 07:58 PM (AFscM)

6 There are two lists available: http://munuviana.mu.nu/mu.js which is in chronological order, and http://munuviana.mu.nu/nu.js which is alphabetical. We didn't need a bite-size one before now.

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One bug, two bugs, tar bugs, su bugs,

    grep bugs, mew bugs, old bugs, new bugs.

This bug has a little hack,
This bug has a broken stack.
    Say! What a lot of bugs to track.

Yes, some are in tar, and some in su.
    Some are old. And some are new.

Some in sed, and some in jed.
    And some are even in parted.
Why are they in parted, jed and sed?
    I do not know. Bugs should be dead!

Some in jpeg, and some in TIFF
    This TIFF one has an attached diff.

From there to here, from here to there
    Test release bugs are everywhere.

Fedora Core test 2 is available for
x86 and x86-64
It should not be installed where production is hot;
use it only for test, as we say quite a lot.

If you install with the default
SELinux will be the result
SELinux is a form of MAC
For more answers, check the FAQ [*]
By explicitly stating what apps can use
Unwanted accesses it will refuse

[*] http://people.redhat.com/kwade/fedora-docs/selinux -faq-en/

So please test test2 in this mode;
and please test it with your code.
Plus it comes with a new GNOME;
can you test that in your home?
Also X.org is new,
replacing XFree, test it too.
And 3.2.1 of KDE
We need to test, test, test, you see!
So we will test it on our box.
And we will even test out sox.
And we will test it in our house.
And we will test it with our mouse.
And we will test it here and there.
Say! We will test it ANYWHERE!

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1 Gooddbye Dr Suess, hello Pixy. My daughter's in for a shock at story time tonight.

Posted by: Simon at March 30, 2004 01:51 PM (GWTmv)

2 Not mine though - that's the release announcement.

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1 w00t! I must have managed that happy dance without realising it!

Posted by: Robert at March 30, 2004 01:56 AM (kXZI6)

2 I'm supposed to say Yay now, right?

Posted by: triticale at March 30, 2004 02:34 AM (YmQkS)

3 You got it!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 30, 2004 02:42 AM (+S1Ft)

4 Can I jes' say wow?

Posted by: notGeorge at March 30, 2004 06:10 AM (JCxVY)

5 Yay!

Posted by: Debbye at March 30, 2004 11:12 AM (cowNW)

6 Good move putting the Frank J fanclub site on mu.nu. This way, at the crucial time you can exert your influence to displace him as ruler of Planet Imao . . . but I'm not supposed to talk about that here, am I?
Scratch all that. Yay!

Posted by: Little Miss Attila at March 31, 2004 08:04 PM (AFscM)

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This week's Nyquil™ Bestofme Symphone is now appearing at Rocket Jones and there's a lot of good stuff there. Ted's a bit under the weather, so I think a cheery sing-along is in order.

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Before I forget again, The International Squirrel Conspiracy has moved. Update those blogrolls!

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Take the What type of blahblah are you? quiz at sugarmama.org!

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The Five Ideologies of the Apocalypse:

Communism
Fascism
Environmentalism
Islamism
Post-Modernism

* Probably fried-out too.

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This is just plain nifty. The Netgear WGT634U may have a dull name, but it is shiny and packed full of goodness.

It's a firewall and a router. It's a 4-port 10/100Mbit ethernet switch. It's a 108Mbit WiFi access point. And if you plug in an external USB disk drive, it's also a file server.

I haven't found an Australian price for it yet, but in the U.S. it retails for around $150.

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This post on the Idea Shop is an excellent explication of my exact thoughts on the matter of wealth redistribution. Go read.

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MuNu is throwing a party, and you're invited!

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(Ted < J-Walk < LetterJames)

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I'd noticed that of late my Sitemeter numbers hadn't been growing very fast. I put it down to my writing being less scintillating that I'd like.

Apparently, though, scintillation is not the issue here:

Grr! Grr, I say!

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1 That looks like one of those programs you get on exercise bikes at gyms. Or so I've been told.

Posted by: Simon at March 25, 2004 04:00 PM (FUPxT)

2 Now that's just WRONG! I stop by EVERY day, so obviously there's a problem with sitemeter...

Posted by: Susie at March 25, 2004 04:18 PM (9PzdO)

3 Heck, one of your March 16th posts got 7 comments--between the 16th and the 19th, when you had NO visitors! You must be magic...

Posted by: Susie at March 25, 2004 04:20 PM (9PzdO)

4 Wish I had that particular problem.

Posted by: Blueshift at March 25, 2004 05:07 PM (crTpS)

5 I'm using four different site tracking services (2 of which came with my site host), and all four have different figures. So don't feel too bad.

Posted by: Alan Kellogg at March 25, 2004 08:21 PM (YEkGz)

6 Even when it's working "correctly" it only picks up about 2/3 of the actual visits. It also doesn't snag aggregator hits so anybody reading you off of xml (um...like me) won't count. Plus, if you're loading slow and that graphic never gets loaded the visit doesn't count. And they go through periodic periods of crap in unexplained and mysterious manners.
Then again, it's free.

Posted by: Jim at March 25, 2004 10:29 PM (saeHM)

7 Been goin' thru the same shit.
Stat Counter kicks butt.
You should try it.
In the last five days (since I had it installed), it has counted 560 hits, compared to Site Meters 246, in the same amount of time.
Another lady I have blogrolled (My b/f is a Twat) has had the same problem. Site Meter dropped 4000 hits off her total.
What is UP with them, anyway?

Posted by: Stevie at March 26, 2004 01:26 PM (BXUKM)

8 Cool. I've put Statcounter on as well. Let's see how it goes!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 26, 2004 05:44 PM (kOqZ6)

9 I seem to have pretty good consistency usin' SiteMeter, but unlike most, I have it way up at the top of my page, so that is is one of the first things to load. Besides, I know that I get like 1700 people a minute readin' me on aggregators anyway, so those numbers are just for show to the hometown folks.

Posted by: notGeorge at March 30, 2004 06:05 AM (JCxVY)

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Microsoft claims that it should not be fined at all because it did not know its behaviour would breach EU law.

Hang on, no I don't.

Microsoft has been slapped with a 497-million Euro fine (that's US$613m, £331m, AU$810m) by the EU. Now I loathe the EU at least as much as I loathe Microsoft, but Microsoft has a history of blatant abuse of their effective monopoly position and they've had this coming for years.

It won't stop them, of course. No financial remedy that doesn't bankrupt the company will do that. What will stop them is open source software, a triumph of Marxism over Capitalism. Only in a good way.

Because things are different when your incremental cost (Is that the right term? The cost for producing another copy of something?) is effectively zero. Our first taste of post-scarcity economics. It isn't really post-scarcity economics, and in a finite universe you can't have pure post-scarcity economics, but it's close.

(Article on BBC. Yeah, I know, one bunch of weasels reporting on a legal action by a second bunch of weasels against a third bunch of weasels. But what am I to do? It's weasels all the way down.)

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1 The only good weasel is a dead weasel...

Posted by: Susie at March 25, 2004 03:45 AM (9PzdO)

2 the EU used article 82 of the EC treaty to hang Microsoft.
Any abuse by one or more undertakings of a dominant position within the common market or in a substantial part of it shall be prohibited as incompatible with the common market insofar as it may affect trade between Member States.
Such abuse may, in particular, consist in:
(a) directly or indirectly imposing unfair purchase or selling prices or other unfair trading conditions;
(b) limiting production, markets or technical development to the prejudice of consumers;
(c) applying dissimilar conditions to equivalent transactions with other trading parties, thereby placing them at a competitive disadvantage;
(d) making the conclusion of contracts subject to acceptance by the other parties of supplementary obligations which, by their nature or according to commercial usage, have no connection with the subject of such contracts.
my assumption is that section c. is the one they used to hang Microsoft. however, it is very vague don't you think? so i think that a case could be made that Microsoft didn't know they were breaking any rules. i can't find any warnings issued by the EU either. i doubt very seriously that this judgment will stand up in court.

Posted by: Captain Scarlet at March 25, 2004 06:51 AM (l+gJ0)

3 It is a bit vague, yes. Now Intel is certainly known for that c sort of thing. But Microsoft has been known to do a, b, c and d when it suits them.
i doubt very seriously that this judgment will stand up in court.
What court? Can Microsoft appeal this anywhere?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 25, 2004 11:49 AM (+S1Ft)

4 "It won't stop them, of course. No financial remedy that doesn't bankrupt the company will do that."
And what's wrong with bankrupting those criminals? I had some hope (vain, I guess) that the EU would shut them down, or at least ban them from Europe. $613-million is a drop in the bucket.

Posted by: JRW at March 25, 2004 02:07 PM (0BPZ/)

5 I didn't say that there was anything wrong with bankrupting them. Just that anything less in the way of financial remedy wouldn't work. I don't quite advocate bankrupting them...
I do think Bill Gates should have been hit with jail time for contempt of court for his behaviour during the U.S. antitrust case. That would have been interesting.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 25, 2004 02:57 PM (kOqZ6)

6 The one thing that hasn't been tried yet to 'fix' Micro$oft is to revoke thier corporate charter

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I just looked at my credit card statement.

It seems that when you buy two computers, plus various extra bits and pieces, plus a bunch of anime, and a printer and a couple of office chairs and then some more bits and pieces, that they actually want you to pay for it. Damn!

Now, my latest pay cheque will take care of it all, but still. The nerve of them, expecting me to pay for things I've bought.

On the other hand: I dropped by the CX computer store in Pitt St just now. I can get 50 DVD-Rs for $59, or 25 for $29. Um, guys...

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My mail server just died. The one completely reliable box I've had, kerflooie.

Well, let's reboot. Uh, Kernel panic: Aiee stopping interrupt handler is a bad sign, right?

Let's power off, and... Uh oh.

Try the Fedora rescue mode and... Nope.

Well, let's check the BIOS settings, maybe put it in a safe mode and -

580MB of memory? How can you possibly have 580MB of memory? Let me pull those bad old DIMMs for you.

256MB? Yes? Feeling better now? What's that? You're going to spend the next twenty minutes recovering your journal?

Fine. That's fine. Whatever.

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1 I really didn't understand much of it, but it sounds scary. And complex. Scarily complex.

Posted by: LeeAnn at March 24, 2004 07:39 AM (HxCeX)

2 A dead server is a scary thing. I went through that a few months back. Unfortunately, I was not as lucky as you. The powersupply died and must have surged big time, because both hard drives were completely dead. To make matters worse, I never did get my tape drive to work reliably, so the data loss was rather substantial.

Posted by: Rossz at March 24, 2004 02:34 PM (n5Jbg)

3 Yeah, I remember that. I've never had a power supply go like that. Not yet...
I am slowly burning every file I have onto DVD-R. It's time consuming, but I think it's well worth it.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 24, 2004 03:47 PM (kOqZ6)

4 Ahh, journal recovery ... nearly as much fun as watching paint dry!

Posted by: Rob at March 24, 2004 08:50 PM (kXZI6)

5 From the time it took, I think it was doing a full fsck - though it didn't say so. The only errors it found were on /tmp, so I'm not too worried.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 24, 2004 09:04 PM (+S1Ft)

6 Is the Aieee part of the actual error message, or was that reaction on your part?

Posted by: Victor at March 25, 2004 02:13 AM (L3qPK)

7 No, the Aiee was part of the error message.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 25, 2004 02:28 AM (+S1Ft)

8 As guard against kernel panics, I keep a rubber chicken, a plastic frog, and a picture.
The picture depicts the last server that kernel panicked on me, right after it was kicked down a flight of stairs. All my systems at home behave much better, now.

--Linda

Posted by: Linda at March 26, 2004 04:02 AM (ktJme)

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I screwed up the secondary DNS for my pixymisa.net domain when I changed ISPs recently. So if you've emailed me recently and it bounced, or I didn't reply, that might be why.

(I just got 15 delayed emails through, but fortunately none of them are from people waiting for a response.)

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What's weirder than a preview release of a bugfix?

A review of a preview release of a bugfix.

(Thanks - I think - to The Inquirer.)

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I note that the Canon i990, which I learned the existence of the very day I got my i965, is selling for $675, where I paid $480 for my i965.

I take some comfort in that, and also in the fact that the i965 is a very nice printer indeed. If you're after a flexible, reasonably fast inkjet printer with excellent photo quality and CD printing, then either of these, or their little brother the i865, will do the trick.

Unless you live in the U.S., in which case you'll have to settle for the i860 or i960, which are cheaper but lack the ability to print on CDs.

Also, Canon have now announced the i9900, an A3 (up to 13" by 19"), eight colour (Black, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Red, Green, "Photo Cyan" and "Photo Magenta" - what, no blue?) printer for around US$499.

Though it doesn't print on CDs either.

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Maybe we shouldn't write off France just yet.

From Merde in France and The Dissident Frogman to Sabine Herold of Liberté j'écris ton nom, we are hearing the voices of French men and women who understand what is going on in the world and are willing to speak up for what is right.

And another one: from "Gabriel Gonzalez", an analysis of French foreign policy at Winds of Change.

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The Dissident Frogman weighs into the debate regarding the assassination of Sheikh Yassin with this thought-provoking piece.

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The latest edition of the Best of Me Symphony is up at Practical Penumbra and it is a thing of wonder.

Go! Scoot! Get yourselves over there!

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1 You're just excited I gave you the genius

Posted by: Susie at March 23, 2004 04:54 AM (foeQj)

2 I'm the horse? Wass up wit dat?

Posted by: Madfish Willie at March 23, 2004 12:28 PM (lZgx6)

3 I would have settled for Simon.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 23, 2004 02:13 PM (kOqZ6)

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I was looking for examples of the portal system I'm planning to install at mu.nu, and I found one that was very clean and elegant. So I registered myself there, and started reading. A lot of posts repeating news from Slashdot, and one regarding the recent bombing in Spain.

And the question came:

Now when news and papers here in Europe are all full of this and millions protest against terrorism, it makes my blood pressure going to the sky. I wonder; how can journalists and politicians still be so stupid that all they can say is those same old phrases all over again? "We must fight against terrorism..." And people go to the street....

If only someone would be interested of what these "terrorist" want really??? A piece of land perhaps? Maybe individuality and respect as a human beeings? How difficult would that be arrange? Huh???

You ask what the terrorists want.

Well, they've stated their desires explicitly many times. You just have to listen to them.

They want Israel destroyed, and the Jews exterminated.
They want America destroyed.
They want the entire world to become an Islamic state.
They want to wipe out freedom of speech, freedom of association and freedom of religion.
They want to subjugate women, to turn them from human beings into chattels.

This is not supposition, this is what they have stated, specifically. This is what they do in their own societies.

Another 200 people have been murdered, and 1500 more injured, with the aim of imposing their views upon the world.

Why do they hate us?

They hate us because we have built a successful society, where theirs has failed. Because our women are independent citizens. Because we disagree with them.

They hate us for our freedom.

They say this themselves. Read any of the dispatches sent out by any of the terrorist groups. Listen to the sermons being given in mosques across the Islamic world.

In their view, we can convert to Islam, be enslaved, or die. They give us no other choices, but we can choose instead to fight.

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