September 2003 Archives

The ufies box is moving to a new co-location around 5pm EST today. Since fozbaca.org is on the ufies box all will be down as the box moves and IP changes percolate through DNS servers.

[via the Canadian at work]

Happy Birthday mithrandir.

Found the Toshiba - Magnia SG20 for $239.97 over at TigerDirect. There is some info over on LinuxDevices.com. It ships with a custom RedHat 7.x but folks have blown that away if needed. I'm very tempted to pick one of these up as a play toy. So any thing I'm mising? Anything compariable out there that might make a better purchase?

In response to a request from iambe taken up by mithrandir and tig here is my list. Yes I noticed that there are more than 100, consiter the extras as honorable mentions.

1. Born on the 4th of July
2. Foxfire
3. Jagged Edge
4. Tron
5. Starship Troopers
6. Desperado
7. Seven Samari
8. Cane Mutanie
9. Lifeboat
10. Outland
11. Princess Bride
12. Heat
13. Godfather
14. Godfather PartII
15. Star Wars
16. Empire Strikes Back
17. Raiders of the Lost Ark
18. The Big Hit
19. Chasing my
20. Bridge on the River Kwai
21. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
22. Unbreakable
23. Willow
24. Lawerance of Arabia
25. Red Dawn
26. Fight Club
27. Clerks
28. 12 Monkeys
29. The Matrix
30. Fifth Element
31. Bull Durhan
32. Resevior Dogs
33. Pulp Fiction
34. Toy Story
35. Highlander
36. Wild Things
37. The Lord of the Rings
38. The Two Towers
39. Alien
40. Aliens
41. Terminator
42. Office Space
43. Spiderman
44. E.T. the Extra-Terrestial
45. Sixth Sense, The
46. Back to the Future
47. The Mummy
48. Dances with Wolves
49. Top Gun
50. Butch Casedy and the Sundance Kid
51. Lethal Weapon
52. X-Men
53. First Blood
54. Officer and a Gentaeman, An
55. Total Recall
56. On Golden Pond
57. Basic Instinct
58. Die Hard
59. Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
60. Se7en
61. Roxane
62. Braveheart
63. Never Say Never Again
64. Sleepers
65. Untouchables, The
66. Memento
67. Usual Suspects, The
68. North by Northwest
69. Goodfellas
70. 12 Angry Men
71. It's a Wonderful Life
72. Vertigo
73. L.A. Confidential
74. To Kill a Mockingbird
75. Great Escape, The
76. Clockwork Orange, A
77. High Plaines Drifter
78. Blade Runnier
79. Donnie Brako
80. Serpico
81. Full Metal Jacket
82. Ben-Hur
83. Dog Day Afternoon
84. Trainspotting
85. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
86. Snatch
87. Good Will Hunting
88. O Borther, Where Art Thou?
89. Big Lebowski, The
90. Deliverance
91. Iron Giant, The
92. Man Who Would be King, The
93. When Harry Meet Sally
94. Blade
95. Grosse Pointe Blank
96. Sure Thing, The
97. Sex, Lies, and Videotape
98. Less Than Zero
99. Breakfast Club
100. The Mosquito Coast
101. The Shawshank Redemption
102. The Last Unicorn
103. Army of Darkness
104. Shrek
105. American History X
106. Dog Day Afternoon
107. The Truman Show
108. Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan
109. The Outsiders
110. Galaxy Quest
111. The Dark Crystal
112. Grease
113. Sneakers
114. The poseidon Adventure
115. The Secret of NIMH
116. Mr. SmithGoes to Washington
117. Terminator 2: Judgement Day
118. Hudson Hawk
119. Time Bandits
120. Dune
121. A River Runs Through It

Phil coveres his take on the Isreal/Middle East situation.

77% of these samples appear to have been leaked by industry insiders.

Found in Analysis of Security Vulnerabilities in the Movie Production and Distribution Process

Tim Bray's ongoing · Software Patents from the Inside gives a pretty good view, but the conclusion is the best part.

A cynic would say it’s a self-perpetuating system whose costs greatly outweigh its benefits, and that we’re hopelessly stuck in it. But then, I’m a cynic.

Passed along at work and I could not resist.

BODY MEETING

All the organs of the body were having a meeting, trying to decide who was
the one in charge.

"I should be in charge," said the brain, "because I run all the body's systems, so without me nothing would happen."

"I should be in charge," said the blood, "because I circulate oxygen all over so without me you'd all waste away."

"I should be in charge," said the stomach," because I process food and give all of you energy."

"I should be in charge," said the legs, "because I carry the body wherever it needs to go."

"I should be in charge," said the eyes, "because I allow the body to see where it goes."

"I should be in charge," said the rectum, "because I'm responsible for waste removal."

All the other body parts laughed at the rectum and insulted him, so in a huff, he shut down tight.

Within a few days, the brain had a terrible headache, the stomach was bloated, the legs got wobbly, the eyes got watery, and the blood was toxic.

They all decided that the rectum should be the boss.

The Moral of the story?

The asshole is usually in charge.

In the spirate of muckhead's recent site change I decided to take the plunge. I have been sitting on the basic design, heavly influenced by linuxart.com for sever al weeks. Figured it was time to go with it and fix any problems live. Sound off on any glitches, requestes, bitches and such.

I have been a SimCity fan since the playing the first verison on a 286. Absolutely loved the game. Even went so far as to play hookie from life for week playing SimCity2k. Ever since the release of SimCity4 I have been waiting. Waiting for a demo just in case but finally I broke down and made the purchase. I have to give Maxix/EA a thumbs up on the out of the box. The tutorial was great, quick to the point and picked with a real game play at the end. The visuals were stunning. All in all it should have made for a great game. See the should? For some reason it was just absolutely no fun to play. Maybe the series has been played to death. Maybe they just didn't really add anything imediately new and captivating. Regardless 0 fun factor.

So while on almost every level I would give it a thumbs up it gets a "sucked" and deleted from the harddrive.

I don't know if they really qualify as censored but definately under reported, The Top 25 Censored Media Stories of 2002-2003.

Country legend Cash dies

Cash died in hospital in Nashville, Tennessee, after complications from diabetes, which resulted in respiratory failure, his manager Lou Robin said.

...

He become as famous for his image as an outlaw figure, for playing in prisons and creating the myth of the Man in Black, his semi-official nickname.

The man will be misses but the music keep us moving on.

One more reason to like the Brithsh.

As every serious economist since Adam Smith has taught, good intellectual property policy is not the same as maximal intellectual property rights. And as every serious policymaker should therefore understand, Wipo's objective should be good policy, not maximal rights.

Happy Birthday engel.

I'm just pulling the same quote rc3.org, rc3.org | Lest we forget, pulled from Slate's Bush's Many Miscalculations.

Painful as it is to recall those planes smashing into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon two years ago this week, it's nearly as heartbreaking to think back on the moment of nascent harmony that ticked in the wake of the attac--until President Bush decided to reject the opportunity that History thrust before him.

Remember? The French newspaper Le Monde, never one for trans-Atlantic sentimentalism, proclaimed, "We are all Americans." The band outside Buckingham Palace played "The Star-Spangled Banner" during a changing of the guard, as thousands of Londoners tearfully waved American flags. Most significant, the European leaders of NATO, for the first time in the organization's history, invoked Article 5 of its charter, calling on its 19 member-nations to treat the attack on America as an attack on them all--a particularly moving gesture, as Article 5 had been intended to guarantee American retaliation against an attack on Europe.

But the Bush administration brushed aside these supportive gestures--and that may loom as the greatest tragedy of Sept. 11, apart from the tolls taken by the attack itself.

We in the US really need to remember the outpouring of sympathy and support form the rest of the world after 9/11. Now contrast it with the outpouring of mistrust and hatred directed at the US today.

Given mithrandir's Nickel Arkade the CD bootable Knoppix MAME is a pretty cool find. Through the game launcher isn't as cool as the Nickel Arkade one.

Found a couple of good ones on k5, A Quick Overview of Buddhism and Introduction to the Cthulhu Mythos. Yea it is a strange combo.

Found on /.. Linux access on the WRT54G

This is a mini Linux distribution for the . In about 20 seconds, you can install a small set of Linux tools to your access point's ramdisk.

A cool little hack.

Apparently there is a trailer for Thief 3.

Cringely rants on state of tech companies and real ethics in the buisness world. He closes with a sad comment,

My readers, who are the best and the brightest, are many of them still debating in their minds whether software can even be patented. Whether it can be patented or not, in the U.S., it IS patented, and expecting that some contrary decision will be shortly made and the planets rearranged in space is just folly. This is the difference between cynicism and realism.

Too true, it is the reality that we have to deal with.

From the depatment of "wooo", handheld webserver pluse lots of other cool tech bits.

A Brief History of Roleplaying, Part One

The trip to Nashville had one major goal. Mithrandir wanted to make the case for Nickel Arkade and well it is done. I have a few pics of the build.