Looks like COBC's intranet is nice and up to date; this screenshot was taken today (2004-11-15).

(Yeah, I know, nobody cares).

Since the previous JE on the subject:

• I've got a new AXP2000+ (YAY!!!)
• That's died :|
• I put the PIII 450 back together
• The network card wouldn't work.
• I've been using my P Pro 200 server (sans X) for IRC, and a 180MHz Mac for web browsing etc for the last week or so.
• I just sorted out my network card.
• I ran Doom 3 to see how crappily it would work.
• My machine froze.
• IT'S NOW NOT POSTING.

Technology really really hates me.

'nuff said.

I swear that it must be "Blow Up All Of Dave's Computers Week" or something.

Firstly my main machine (Athlon XP 2600+) started randomly freezing. I eventually tracked it down to graphics card and stuck an old GeForce 2MX in there. Amazingly Doom 3 ran at a high-ish FPS...

My laptop's charger is also b0rked. So I can't use my laptop, but at least I rescued my main machine.

At least, that's what I thought. My main machine won't even POST now. Which means I'm having to use this P Pro 200 server sans X to do computing stuff. WHAT FUN!

Why? 'nuff said.

(Google's helpful spelling correction...)

I'm just interested in hearing some opinions on a decision I made yesterday; to send all of the XHTML for bloat as application/xhtml+xml; this does have the advantage of turning off tag-soup mode in browsers that support it, and being properly compliant to XHTML 1.1, but it also means that people with browsers which don't support application/xhtml+xml can't parse it (the only ones I can think of off the top of my head are IE, links, and lynx). Does it make sense, or is it stupid?

I'm not sure if this is a typo or what, but in a search for "goatse" in "The Cloning Sourcebook", the following turns up:

"... been reported in cattle, including a report of eight calves cloned from a single adult cow,' and more recently in goatse and pigs.9 Thus the repro- ducibility of cloning adult mammals by nuclear transfer is no longer in question, although the ..."

Dodgy OCR? Typo? Who knows...

I just took a look at the Prelinger Archives, just out of interest. Looked around the page a bit, clicked on some of the links, then found the "Popular Categories" box. For those who can't be arsed to follow the link, or if it's since changed, it contained the following:

Popular Categories
1. Pornography
2. Sex education
3. Sexualities
4. Sex education
5. Animation

Welcome to The Internet (or is that "Teh Intarweb"?)!

Edit: Very badly mixed tenses, fixed.

Does this look like people trying to gain access to my Eggdrop, or are they just portscanning me?

[10:59] Telnet connection: ACB85167.ipt.aol.com/64217
[11:07] Telnet connection: pD95F11EF.dip.t-dialin.net/63664
[11:45] Telnet connection: orwasitben.truthhides.com/6051
[11:58] Telnet connection: ACB85167.ipt.aol.com/64895
[12:08] Telnet connection: KHP222006080111.ppp-bb.dion.ne.jp/3380
[12:12] Telnet connection: KHP222006080111.ppp-bb.dion.ne.jp/1335

Just seems a bit odd, it's not like I have any control over any major channels o_O - OH NO, THEY MAY TAKE OVER #BLOAT AND #AAG ON FREENODE!

So continues the interesting saga of Dave's Journal(TM)

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Yeah, I know, nobody cares...
For those of you that use bloat, I've just released v1.4. This release doesn't have that many new features, but those it does have are quite nice ;). Anyway, having done the freshmeat announcement once and the sourceforge stuff, I can't be arsed to type it out again - if you're interested in a script to extract different package formats, visit teh link omglolz.

Warning for anyone who feels like trying linux 2.6.6-mm2 - he's forced 4kstacks on again, which breaks the nVidia drivers. I say this as I am posting from `links`. That is all. Thank you.

I stumbled upon this page while looking for a decent source to cite to disprove someone who was claiming that Kelvin is measured in degrees. While looking there I saw that there are some...odd degrees. Degrees Twaddle? MacMichael? EBC? Lovibond?

Am I the only one who feels like tracking down the first person to write a media player/IRC client integration script and whack them around a bit with a large trout? Does anyone really care what the other person is listening to? For those who are lucky enough to not have to endure these, have a small example:

* elDiablo listens to "Sasuke - Faint small" [02:58/21.64mb].
* ReflectingGod listens to "The Red Hot Chili Peppers - Road Trippin'" [03:25/3.17mb].

Did that information add anything to the channel? No! It just annoys people in the channel.

</microrant>

Thanks to the Stumbleupon Toolbar I stumbled across Spam Radio. Basically it does exactly what it says on the tin; it speaks spam with a beat :P. For people with mplayer, you can just mplayer http://spamradio.com/listen.

Very...odd

Yesterday I was randomly grepping for stuff in AAG's logs (yes, it was late, I was bored) when I stumbled across the following, er, "odd" user-agent string (IP has been changed):

532.627.523.74 - - [17/Mar/2004:02:54:13 +0100] "GET /images/vme/vietnam-medevac1.png HTTP/1.0" 200 738469 www.allaboutgames.co.uk "http://www.allaboutgames.co.uk/" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) but not really you fuckers. this is just to identify a known browser , you wont find out what im really using." "-"

Now why the hell are they identifying themselves as MSIE to every single site, bumping up MSIE usage statistics, if they're using something else?