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We have risen!

Well, who's to say that it isn't? Renamed to something else, run in the background with switches...

Okay, now, THIS wasn't funny! Got this piece of fishing, I guess, to try and get my information. i.e. one of the links goes to something that isn't a part of eBay. It says a bid I entered was cancelled. Which is strange as I've not bid on anything at all this year! So, I went by eBay proper and searched by the claimed cancelled item number. This is NOT funny, people! Whoever did it, fess up! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...%3D50%26fvi%3D1

There's... wow... I don't even know if I can go on with it... there's... Hell, see for yourself! http://www.gccwired.com/defaultFlashStory.asp?storyid=434 Apparently, this church is desperate enough to get people to... come... in by telling them how to have better sex! What I want to know is... what the HELL must Communion be like! IF their church is hands on... I live pretty near the place. This church has but one commandment: be fruitful and multiply! With a heavy dose of Onan and his spilled seed upon the ground. You know what? This is a swiped idea! There's already a religion that draws people in with sex. They're called wicca! Apparently, this church stole the idea because it saw a good thing going in something else.

It's all I ever use. IMO, there's really no difference between them except for a few things: 1.) DVD+R is a little bit more expensive 2.) DVD+R is newer 3.) DVD+R is hyped more. And, even without facotirng in having tested them in the wild, all those things spell one thing: trying to make a silk purse of a sow's ear. My prime reason, though, is my tests with DVD+R had a problem in that any dual format burner that burned DVD+R would not play in the Panasonic stand alone DVD recorder. And, the future has proven me well. DVD+ tends to get the faster write rates, etc. first, but, they tend to be tremendously error prone. DVD-R tends to take longer before they release things like this, but, generally (It's never perfect.) they require fewer revisions to fix the bugs. So, it's really just a marginal thing: that, in the end, I choose DVD-R because it's cheaper, and the extra spent for DVD+R isn't worth it. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Of course, I also remember backing Beta because it was better. Doesn't mean it will win, though.

Thursday's "amazing" deal at Office Depot: $30 off a purchase of 100 DVD-R's. Off of MEMOREX. The center isle had maybe 20 of these stacks, unsold. And, no wonder! Garbage in, garbage out.

And, naturally, after I post, yet another job offer in the area for expertise with that bloody iSeries!

I had to laugh when I saw this bundle advertised and demonstrated on ShopAtHome! For $199, they send you a Sony External DVD burner, no model listed, 50 HP DVD+R discs, and ICopyDVD's2 software. First, they showed a "Hollywood produced DVD" with numerous fingerprints on the data surface. Oh no! It must be repaired! BUT, the funny part? When the guy inserts the DVD in the drive for reading... it has a silver matte top! Hollywood produced? Yeah! Right! It's Then, this guy fires up ICopyDVD's2 and points out the screen that warns you against copying copyrighted movies. And he actually says, "Now, the software cannot tell the difference between copyrighted DVD's and those that aren't!" While he doesn't know it he openly admits that the software has a ripper in it, even if it doesn't. He's not going to know, because, he doesn't know the different between copyrighted DVD's and content protected DVD's! Most DVD's are content protected, but, not all are copyrighted. e.g. silent movies made in the 1920's and earlier have long since fallen out of copyright but may still be protected from copying. They usually aren't, because the company doesn't want to pay the licensing fee to whoever owns CSS to protect something that isn't copyrighted. e.g. public domain means that anyone can get a piece of the pie, so, the cost of protecting the disc from copying utilities with measures that always fail is more than the cost of the few people who would copy such material as it is a niche market to begin with. This next part, though, was what made me laugh out loud! This amazing "Hollywood produced DVD" was read in from the drive in a miraculous time of under 1 minute and 30 seconds! e.g. this disc was just a dummy disc created with less than a 1 GB of data, probably. Anyway, the copy burns... well, it starts to burn because, interestingly enough, you never actually SEE the burn finish nor the guy demonstrating the whole thing ever insert the new disc into any player and show that it copied. But, he did kindly point out some friendly advice: to use the bundle to make copies of your purchased Hollywood produced DVD's! That he does it all the time, so the kids can damage the copies, and he still has the new versions he bought. Yet, will the M AA go after ShopAtHome for SELLING something that not only can, in theory, copy DVD's BUT that the network FREELY recommends you do?

Let's try it again... An IBM minicomputer.

AS-400 = Application System series 400. Older more familiar versions: System 36. The AS-400 series was renamed to the iSeries in 2000 and then renamed again to System i5 this year. Anyway, it's an IBM minicomputer for general business use, also popular in governmental offices, that introduced in 1988 and still in production. Programmers love working on them because they're programmer centric and very secure machines, but, no one I know liked working with the one system we had at my last job. In fact, the biggest pain: the only way to know if a job was done after you submitted it was to list all available running programs, MANUALLY refresh the screen until it disappeared from memory, then try to find its log in the dump directory, read it, and try to decipher the messages.

After all, it's the ONLY way to even ACCESS the Hot Coffee mod, as far as I know, other than an installed HD or a possible export of a file to the memory card.

"No, no, no! It's spelled Raymond Luxury Yatch, but, it's pronounced Throat Warbler Mangrove!"

Rent it from a store and get your PS2 chipped.

Of course, the funny thing is both sides are taking this out of control. Cheney shot someone, that's news! He shouldn't have tried to keep the story down. BUT, it was an accident, and, even if the guy died, it would not have been a crime that the Vice President would need to step down for. As usual, the problem with people blinded by partisan politics, which always results from a dominating dual party system, is they are color blind: they fail to see grey.

Now, now, now. Everyone who grew up in the era of the G.I. Joe/Action Force cartoon knows that when you discuss climate control, it's always Destro and Cobra's Weather Dominator at fault! In fact, I think on the old board, I once accused Florida's Bush and King Bush II of collusion because interestingly enough, after Bush won re-election, the dreaded predicted storms didn't hit that year. So, makes you wonder... how did Louisiana vote? Did they go for Bush or for Kerry?

Actually, if that jolly swag man had had waterwings, he'd probably not have escaped the stockman and the troopers by drowning and turning himself into a singing ghost.

Of course, it also depends how you're zeroing out the drive. Writing just a zero to every area is faster than, say, the more secure wipe method of writing a 0, erase it, write a 1, erase it, write a 0, and check that the write reads 0, and repeat for 32 passes. It might just be easier to use something like Partition Magic to safely delete the partition, create a new, blank, unformatted one in the empty space, image the partition, then safely delete the new partition, create a 2nd new blank, unformatted one, and then restore the imaged partition, and safely delete it. While it seems like a lot of useless steps, the partition sizes will be small since hardly any data will be used, thus, making the restores, creations, and deletes quick. Plus, creating and deleting multiple partitions to the same area should make it very difficult to recover anything through means beyond electron tunnelling.

Here, there may be 5 offerings a year, and they all want 5 years experience either with network certification plus the 5 years or they want people to run those godawful AS-400's. (Nice machines from a programmer's end, but, nowhere near operator friendly.)

Someone doesn't know their Python routines.

So, tell me. In Australia, do jolly swag men really sit beside billabongs? Are there lots of coolibah trees?

Heed the words of Zappa and don't eat the yellow snow!

"Did you say 'mattress to Mr. Lambert? I did you ask you not to say 'mattress' now, didn't I? Now, I've got to stand in the tea chest! AND, DID THOSE FEET IN ANCIENT TIMES WALK UPON ENGLAND'S MOUNTAINS GREEN? AND WAS THE HOLY LAMB OF GOD ON ENGLAND'S PLEASANT-" Above a urinal: "Installed by Johnson's Fine Ceramics: we aim to please. Would you aim, too, please?" <--- I admit it; swiped from Benny Hill, with embellishments.

Reminds me of the lunch room from my elementary school days: Eat everything on your plate before trading food.

Also the name of a fantastic new hot beverage: Bake n Drink

I admit it caught my attention, then, realized that anyone could put anything for their avatar.