Viera. Don't. Have. Tails.

Bipedal, hairless, opposible thumbs, tailbone, mammary glands, child-bearing hips, what more do you want? I find it frustrating that people shit on the one sensible relationship in the new Squeenix game with misdirected fursecution (isn't that what they call it?). Then they have the nerve to complain that there isn't any good character interaction in the FF series. I think what they really want is some overt bishounen protagonist on antagonist and nothing will satisfy them until they get it. (eye roll)

Fran -- less than 5% furry, and a substantial part of your balanced breakfast! (Also, she's got good Mist Knacks, so you should really try her as a chain lead.)

Nine dollars?
Yeah?
Eight something...
Nice little vests, they're light
Knocking on wood
I've not caught many fish here.
Hmmm?
But I've caught beaucoup fish in Rev. Burton
Beaucoup fish in Rev. Burton but you gotta get up early

Fred Gallagher used to have a site on megatokyo called "Blurred" where he hosted a short h-doujinshi, amongst other things. This was all pre-Megatokyo. You can still find the front page and other evidence using the Wayback machine.

I'll pay anyone who can give me some or all of the content that used to be on that site. Fred has tried very hard to make sure no trace of his previous work exists... and I'm trying extra hard to unearth it from the digital grave.

If you can think of anyone who might have archived the site and burnt it to a CD-R shoved under old copies of "Milk" in the back of a closet somewhere, please let me know.

Has anyone else experienced this?

Pre-requisites:

1) A system with Windows XP or Server 2003
2) A bunch of local users without administrative privledges
3) Poorly written software that triggers the following issue:
MSKB 837115
4) You've enabled the option "Audit: Shut down system immediately if unable to log security audits" under Local Security Policy (i.e. HKLM\System \CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\CrashOnAuditFail = 1)

Symptom:

One day your users call you up and claim "I can't log in anymore! It says 'User is not permitted to login at this computer'". You scratch your head in confusion.

You think to yourself: Did auditing fail for some reason, thus preventing mortals from using the system? Check the security log... no, it's not even close to full. Check for low disk space ... no you've got plenty.

So then you check your System log and you see a bunch of event IDs of 1517 and 1524 leading up to the point where people couldn't log in anymore. Userenv is complaining about profiles not unloading probably.

You're thinking: shit... user profile corruption. So you try restoring the user profiles from backup... no dice. The only thing that works is adding the user to Administrator group temporarily.

Actual Cause:

Unknown... but the real problem seems to be that sometimes when userenv tries putting off unloading a profile, it can cause auditing to fail. I can't figure out why. The result of auditing failing is... the system immediately shuts down and reboots, and then no one but Administrator can log in.

That is until you disable the CrashOnAuditFail setting... reboot, then re-enable it, and reboot again. At this point users can log in. (Incidentally, you _still_ need to do this if auditing fails because of a disk space condition, deleting files to make space is only the first part, then you need to do the disable->reboot->re-enable->reboot dance)

Problem 'solved'.

I've had this happen twice so far, and that UPHclean tool that Microsoft has doesn't seem to really do anything that I can tell. Anyone have any experience with this or have any insight?
We'd like to get to the bottom of this and really fix the problem.

Thanks.

I was reading this article that mentioned MythTV and I began wondering if anyone had an experience with this...

What I want to be able to do (ultimately) is to capture an MPEG2-TS directly from OTA HDTV, and more importantly, digital cable or satellite (DirecTV/Dish/whatever). In Linux.

So far I think my only option is to somehow get an old Dish Model 5000 with that extra 8VSB modulator that plugs into the back, then somehow get a PCTV2000 or 3000.

And even then I think that the Dish model 5000 is incompatible with a lot of new HD channels (like DiscoveryHD) and they want you to upgrade to the 6000 which has no convienent outputs.

Of course, I could always suffer one analog conversion stage... but even that's tricky.

Best bet I think would be to secure one of those AJA Y-Cr-Cb to HD-SDI converter boxes, and then somehow get an AJA HD-SDI 601 card and convince Linux Media Arts to part with just the OEM card, not a whole fucking server.

It'd be tons better than a conversion to S-Video and back... but it'd probably cost me at least $1000, not counting the cost of receiver.

Any ideas?

Well, actually it was Sept. 1st, but I'm celebrating it today. ::dances::

PS - Still waiting for more detail on MUA-side mail classifiers.

Does anyone know where I can get a generic mail classifier for Mozilla or Thunderbird? The junk mail filter is nice, but I'd like to be able to classify things as "other than junk" as well. It's easier than having to write filters manually... plus, I mean, junk mail filters based on naive classifiers are just special cases of the N-group classifier.

Any ideas?

Help me buy cat5.net
Those domain-squatting bastards want something like $800 for it. If I get enough people to pool their money to buy it, I'll host a site in all the donators honor, with free shell accounts, webhosting, unlimited mail aliases, the works.

Cat5.. Category 5, like the cable, and the hurricane. Get it? It's catchy and short.

Any takers?

I want you to place a link to my nigritude ultramarine site on your website, slashdot, using the phrase "nigritude ultramarine" somewhere in the link text.

You can place it way at the bottom of your page, or in big H2.

It won't win me a prize from darkblue.net who's hosting this dumbass SEO competetion (because I haven't met all the requirements and added my little participation banner). So if you do this for me, you can only help make a statement.

If I won (or anybody else pulling the same stunt), it'd be a big fuck you to all those SEOs who don't understand why people hate them.

Let me just assert that Congress needs to pass a Consitutional Amendment to eliminate Daylight Savings Time before they can even consider one for or against gay marriage.

Let's focus on things that actually make an impact on our everyday lives, people.