Thank you! I actually searched the comments for the word "suck," in the hopes that someone had posted a "blogs suck" comment, but your "Blogs are gay" is even better! Heh...
Look, folks: blogs are gay. Really. They're not the "next big" anything, they're not a subversive medium that's rapidly undermining traditional media - they're a toy for people with nothing better to do than talk to themselves in public. Yes, the occasional bit of cleverness or coolness shows up on a blog here and there from time to time, but Jesus, the signal-to-noise ratio is worse than that of my first cheap Walkman clone I got back in '83! Even with RSS aggregators it's nearly impossible to sort through the crap-wave to find anything worth a damn.
And would someone please explain to me why the user interfaces of the major blogging sites make no goddamned sense at all? Yes, I'm sure they're "easy once you get the hang of it," but I've seen countless web sites (Slashdot included) that seem to have relatively straightforward, intuitively obvious user interfaces. But oh no, God forbid that LiveJournal or MySpace have any such thing! Every time one of my friends convinces me, against my better judgement, to try one of these sites, I always give up in frustration. But I notice there's no shortage of advertising on these sites which force me to click through 17 pages to do what could have been done in 2! Hmmm...
Blogs are for people who read Wired and take it seriously. I think that about sums it up.
Mod me as a troll if you want - fuck it, I've got karma to burn - but I swear, the next time I see the word "blogosphere" in print, I'm going to take a dump on my desk. I have no idea how that's going to improve my mood any, but I swear I'll do it.
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Yes, "align to grid" was the option I was thinking of. That does explain how/why it works the way it does. But "Line up Vertically" and "Line up Horizontally" are one-shot operations - they don't auto-align my icons as they are created. Also, "Line up Vertically" seems to space the icons more widely than the sort-by-type does. Ahh well, I still love KDE. Heh...
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Have the KDE people figured out how to make the desktop icons line up properly yet? I'm sorry if this sounds like another "Why can't KDE be like Windoze?" whine, but when I turn on icon auto-arrangement in Windoze, I get nice, neat vertical columns of icons. Do the same in KDE and I get some quasi-random scattering of icons. I have no idea why that is. If I right-click the desktop and select Icons > Sort Icons > By Type, it works fine. But the auto-arrange seems to use some completely different arrangement algorithm that creates multiple columns, some of which aren't even full, and some of which only have one icon. WTF?
The fact of the matter is there is little downside to not having a TV.
As someone who was hit by 3 of the 4 hurricanes in Florida last year, I can pretty safely say that you're full of crap. Some of the same information can be had on the internet (if your connection stays up, which mine didn't during one hurricane) or on the radio, but nothing can get important information to the public faster than local OTA TV broadcasts.
Nobody's asking for anything new here. We're just asking that analog OTA TV be left the hell alone. TV isn't just about watching the crap on prime time. TV does serve other purposes such as education and emergency information dissemination, and to pull the plug on that, leaving the poorest people (who often have to choose between paying for groceries or electricity, for example) without access to these things, is tremendously irresponsible.
Oh, lord yes! I thought "blogs" was bad enough. And I'm sick of all these mindless cheerleaders like Wired deluding themselves into thinking that "blogs" (it pains me just to type that word, so I'd better surround it with quotes to keep it from escaping) are somehow relevant or important to anyone other than "bloggers."
I rarely use e-mail for anything like what they're describing. If I want to send files to myself I'll use scp to send them to my server at home. If I want to send myself URL's or notes, that's what IM is for. Even our intranet calendar application here at work notifies us with IM's and/or SMS in addition to e-mail (our choice).
I have very well-tuned spam filters, so it's not even the 100+ spams I get a day that keep me from using e-mail. It's just the fact that most of its extra utility has been supplanted by other things.
I guess my point is that the "environmental movement" is a little conflicted; they apparently either like or dislike centralization and efficiencies of scale, depending on the context.
That could have something to do with the fact that such things are positive in some contexts and negative in others.
I'm not sure it's changed much, at least as far as Americans entering Canada. Last time I crossed the border I was in the back seat of an SUV. Two Canadians were in front (my girlfriend and her mother). The SUV's rear windows were tinted and the customs agent couldn't even see me. She asked the usual question about why they had crossed the border, to which they replied "to pick up our American friend at the airport." Not only did the Canadian customs agent not ask to see my ID, she didn't even bother to look at me! I must radiate an aura of non-threateningness or something. Heh...
Just last night I got Linux loaded on the machine I built for a MythTV setup. I had a few reasons for deciding to do this:
I saw where Tivo was headed and I didn't like it. Things like this were inevitable. I was already getting sick of the ads popping up in my Tivo main menu - they throw off the order of the options so, for example, the "Pick Programs to Record" option isn't the second from the bottom any more, etc. It slows me down and annoys me.
MythTV, when properly set up, does a metric fuck-ton more than Tivo could ever hope to do. And although I haven't tried it yet, I suspect strongly that its on-screen guide has to be faster than Tivo's, 'cause the only way for it to be slower would be for it to be drawn in real-time by a 3-year-old with a crayon.
I'm sick of TV, and cable/satellite TV in particular. Most of it is crap anyway, and I'm paying $80 a month for it. I get so much more real stuff done when I'm not watching TV.
I have mad Linux skillz (heh). I have satellite, radio (antennas/cabling/etc.) and video skills as well. I can deal with complex software, hardware, networking, etc. Rather than sitting around with my thumb up my ass, I should put these skills to good use. I'll probably end up watching a whole lot less crap and watching more stuff like public television. That can't possibly be a bad thing.
I bought a nice new pcHDTV tuner card, I'm planning on installing an outdoor antenna for local channels, and I'll probably add a DVB card in the future for FTA (free-to-air) satellite TV. Yes, I'll miss the Discovery Channel, TLC, the DIY Network, Cartoon Network and Comedy Central. But anything I really want I can get with a $20-a-month Netflix subscription, or via ed2k or BitTorrent. The few things I won't be able to get one of those ways, I won't miss. I'll end up saving money, watching less TV, and the TV I do watch will be more likely to be educational rather than crap. And I'll be a little less beholden to the entertainment companies that are trying to commandeer my mind for their own nefarious purposes.
I use BofA, and like 2 years ago when they changed the ATMs around, it's slower. Color screens, and asking if I want English or Spanish.
Even better: BofA ATM's first say something like "Retrieving your ATM customizations" and then ask if you want Enlgish or Spanish. WTF??? Look, I always want English, OK? Why can't that be one of the "ATM customizations" you retrieve when I put in my card??
I'd give anything for a return to the good ol' text-only interfaces, too. They were fast and they worked. I guess it made it harder for them to show me ads, though.
the 300 baud modems didn't error-correct; that was done in software
Because I'm a loser with nothing better to do than read Slashdot and point out minor errors, I'll say this: Actually, there was no error correction at all with 300 baud modems. Error correction didn't come along until certain models of 2400 bps modems supported MNP.
I do recall seeing one software-only implementation MNP. It was a terminal program, and I remember having tried it at either 300 or 1200 bps and the resulting lag from the packetization, etc. was unbearable.
Seems to me I was just bitching about skinning and mentioned that security holes were one possible (but unlikely) down-side. I love when the universe makes my point for me.
Another "amen!" from me! Jesus, I'm so sick of skinned applications. Skinning adds bloat for sure, and often causes instability and occasionally even security problems. And it reduces usability, forcing me to learn a new way of doing things for every new application. Other than the original WinAmp (which I blame for starting the whole skinning fad) I've rarely seen a program that's skinnable and intuitive. Users should be able to look at a program and tell immediately how to get it to do what they want. That's what standard GUI widgets get you. Use them!
In a light aircraft, the brakes are engaged by pivoting your feet forward on the rudder pedals. My flight instructor used to beat it into my head that I had to slide my feet down the pedals to the bottom while landing to avoid inadvertently touching down with the brakes engaged. This is a fairly common pilot mistake and can lead to a rather dramatic blow-out as the runway acts like a 3000-foot-long belt sander on the bottom of the non-rotating tire. Usually nobody gets hurt, but you can definitely bend up a plane pretty badly blowing a tire on landing, and it's likely that the runway will have to be closed until someone can haul your mangled plane out of there.
I've been giving this some thought recently. I think it's a great idea for a number of reasons. A system with no moving parts (i.e. reliable and silent) comes to mind.
With the setup described, I'd compile a custom kernel with USB support and put the root filesystem on the USB stick. Only the kernel needs to be on the floppy - no DOS/loadlin necessary. "make bzdisk" should do it.
$20 or so will get you a CompactFlash to IDE converter. The system will see the CF card as a hard drive, which means you don't need BIOS support for booting from USB or anything like that. a 64M card is plenty big enough to hold something like Damn Small Linux with some space left over for storage, and it won't cost you too much. If you don't mind spending more, get a 1G card and use a full-blown Knoppix distribution.
[rant mode: on] Why do people feel the need to post replies like, "Just get a new laptop hard drive" or "Throw out that crappy old system; it's worthless anyway?" This project seems pretty obviously cool to me. If you can't see that, or just don't agree, fine, but is your opinion really so valuable that you need to clutter up the comments with it? I still run Linux on an ancient laptop (P166, 64M RAM) and it's quite capable of doing a number of cool things. [rant mode: off]
I actually know the defendant in this case, Brad Councilman, personally (although it's been quite a few years since I've had any significant contact with him.) He's a good guy and he pretty much had his life torn apart for several years by overzealous prosecutors looking to make a name for themselves by looking tough on "computer crime." What he did wasn't necessarily right, but he certainly didn't deserve to be treated as a criminal for it. I'm not going to get into a debate with anyone about this right now - I doubt I'm going to change anyone's minds, but think about this: if this guy had the words "accused hacker" before his name in these headlines, how many of you would be rallying to his defense instead of looking to crucify him? If his name were Kevin Mitnick, how many of you would be complaining about how this country is turning into a police state instead of acting like some sysadmin reading your e-mail is a human-rights violation on a par with the Rodney King beating?
This is part of why I love Slashdot - we're such a schizophrenic bunch. On the one hand we're pissing and moaning that Linux isn't accepted as a desktop OS, but when someone points out that KDE and Gnome are just as slow as WinXP we're all about command lines and window managers from the late triassic period.
Yes, I realize Slashdot is made up of countless individual members, each belonging to various "camps," and that certain stories tend to bring out the loudest and proudest of whatever camps felt most agitated by the article in question. We have, in no particular order:
The "nobody needs a GUI anyway" elitists
The "nobody needs anything more than fvwm/twm/WindowMaker" elitists
The people who wish Linux was more like MacOS, only cheaper
The people who wish Linux was more like Windows 95/98/2K/XP, only cheaper
The "I use my computer to do stuff, not just recompile my goddamned kernel" crowd
I could go on, but you get my point. Nobody's ever going to be truly happy, and everyone's going to find something to bitch about, despite the fact that GNU/Linux/*BSD/Open Source/Free Software gives us all a frightening array of options that will allow us geeks to build exactly the operating environment we want. This is our reward for being the "smart kids," and the only thing it costs us is a little time and effort.
Apparently, though, there are some who feel that somehow they're owed this level of flexibility, but with easy, one-click installtion, too, as if the latest installers should simply read our minds and know how we want everything configured. OK, maybe that's not the mindset - what these people actually seem to be thinking is, "my way is clearly best - why can't everyone just make it work like that?" Grow up, people. Seriously.
FWIW, I just installed Mandrake 10 on my 400 Mhz PII (256M RAM, 60G total HD) at home. For the first time I decided to make a real effort to use my Linux box as a desktop system. For the most part I've been extremely successful. The vast majority of what I use my PC for is net-related, and 98% of what I did in WinXP I could do in Linux. I was already using Mozilla as my browser and e-mail client anyway, etc. But there was absolutely no doubt that KDE runs slow as ass on a system of that vintage. I look forward to the day when I can just drop $500 or so on a nice, cheap 3 Ghz system to replace that old dinosaur. But for now I'll continue the experiment and enjoy life in Linux-land, despite the fact that that old machine would run Win98SE a hell of a lot faster than it runs Linux/KDE right now. If I really need to I can fall back to my 1.1 Ghz, 512M RAM Duron running XP.
I can't seem to find a good answer as to whether SIP phones support encryption or not. I don't feel too terribly comfortable with transmitting my voice conversations unencrypted over the net. From what I've read SIP phones actually use a combination of SIP to initiate sessions and RTP to move the actual voice data, but no straight "yes, it is" or "no, it isn't" answer on whether encryption is supported or not.
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Thank you! I actually searched the comments for the word "suck," in the hopes that someone had posted a "blogs suck" comment, but your "Blogs are gay" is even better! Heh...
Look, folks: blogs are gay. Really. They're not the "next big" anything, they're not a subversive medium that's rapidly undermining traditional media - they're a toy for people with nothing better to do than talk to themselves in public. Yes, the occasional bit of cleverness or coolness shows up on a blog here and there from time to time, but Jesus, the signal-to-noise ratio is worse than that of my first cheap Walkman clone I got back in '83! Even with RSS aggregators it's nearly impossible to sort through the crap-wave to find anything worth a damn.
And would someone please explain to me why the user interfaces of the major blogging sites make no goddamned sense at all? Yes, I'm sure they're "easy once you get the hang of it," but I've seen countless web sites (Slashdot included) that seem to have relatively straightforward, intuitively obvious user interfaces. But oh no, God forbid that LiveJournal or MySpace have any such thing! Every time one of my friends convinces me, against my better judgement, to try one of these sites, I always give up in frustration. But I notice there's no shortage of advertising on these sites which force me to click through 17 pages to do what could have been done in 2! Hmmm...
Blogs are for people who read Wired and take it seriously. I think that about sums it up.
Mod me as a troll if you want - fuck it, I've got karma to burn - but I swear, the next time I see the word "blogosphere" in print, I'm going to take a dump on my desk. I have no idea how that's going to improve my mood any, but I swear I'll do it.
Yes, "align to grid" was the option I was thinking of. That does explain how/why it works the way it does. But "Line up Vertically" and "Line up Horizontally" are one-shot operations - they don't auto-align my icons as they are created. Also, "Line up Vertically" seems to space the icons more widely than the sort-by-type does. Ahh well, I still love KDE. Heh...
Have the KDE people figured out how to make the desktop icons line up properly yet? I'm sorry if this sounds like another "Why can't KDE be like Windoze?" whine, but when I turn on icon auto-arrangement in Windoze, I get nice, neat vertical columns of icons. Do the same in KDE and I get some quasi-random scattering of icons. I have no idea why that is. If I right-click the desktop and select Icons > Sort Icons > By Type, it works fine. But the auto-arrange seems to use some completely different arrangement algorithm that creates multiple columns, some of which aren't even full, and some of which only have one icon. WTF?
with no non-reusable energy.
And apparently without no double negatives, too!
The fact of the matter is there is little downside to not having a TV.
As someone who was hit by 3 of the 4 hurricanes in Florida last year, I can pretty safely say that you're full of crap. Some of the same information can be had on the internet (if your connection stays up, which mine didn't during one hurricane) or on the radio, but nothing can get important information to the public faster than local OTA TV broadcasts.
Nobody's asking for anything new here. We're just asking that analog OTA TV be left the hell alone. TV isn't just about watching the crap on prime time. TV does serve other purposes such as education and emergency information dissemination, and to pull the plug on that, leaving the poorest people (who often have to choose between paying for groceries or electricity, for example) without access to these things, is tremendously irresponsible.
Oh, lord yes! I thought "blogs" was bad enough. And I'm sick of all these mindless cheerleaders like Wired deluding themselves into thinking that "blogs" (it pains me just to type that word, so I'd better surround it with quotes to keep it from escaping) are somehow relevant or important to anyone other than "bloggers."
I rarely use e-mail for anything like what they're describing. If I want to send files to myself I'll use scp to send them to my server at home. If I want to send myself URL's or notes, that's what IM is for. Even our intranet calendar application here at work notifies us with IM's and/or SMS in addition to e-mail (our choice).
I have very well-tuned spam filters, so it's not even the 100+ spams I get a day that keep me from using e-mail. It's just the fact that most of its extra utility has been supplanted by other things.
I guess my point is that the "environmental movement" is a little conflicted; they apparently either like or dislike centralization and efficiencies of scale, depending on the context.
That could have something to do with the fact that such things are positive in some contexts and negative in others.
That sentence no verb!
You could save yourself the inconvenience and embarrassment of permanent brain damage simply by using these instead.
I'm not sure it's changed much, at least as far as Americans entering Canada. Last time I crossed the border I was in the back seat of an SUV. Two Canadians were in front (my girlfriend and her mother). The SUV's rear windows were tinted and the customs agent couldn't even see me. She asked the usual question about why they had crossed the border, to which they replied "to pick up our American friend at the airport." Not only did the Canadian customs agent not ask to see my ID, she didn't even bother to look at me! I must radiate an aura of non-threateningness or something. Heh...
- I saw where Tivo was headed and I didn't like it. Things like this were inevitable. I was already getting sick of the ads popping up in my Tivo main menu - they throw off the order of the options so, for example, the "Pick Programs to Record" option isn't the second from the bottom any more, etc. It slows me down and annoys me.
- MythTV, when properly set up, does a metric fuck-ton more than Tivo could ever hope to do. And although I haven't tried it yet, I suspect strongly that its on-screen guide has to be faster than Tivo's, 'cause the only way for it to be slower would be for it to be drawn in real-time by a 3-year-old with a crayon.
- I'm sick of TV, and cable/satellite TV in particular. Most of it is crap anyway, and I'm paying $80 a month for it. I get so much more real stuff done when I'm not watching TV.
- I have mad Linux skillz (heh). I have satellite, radio (antennas/cabling/etc.) and video skills as well. I can deal with complex software, hardware, networking, etc. Rather than sitting around with my thumb up my ass, I should put these skills to good use. I'll probably end up watching a whole lot less crap and watching more stuff like public television. That can't possibly be a bad thing.
I bought a nice new pcHDTV tuner card, I'm planning on installing an outdoor antenna for local channels, and I'll probably add a DVB card in the future for FTA (free-to-air) satellite TV. Yes, I'll miss the Discovery Channel, TLC, the DIY Network, Cartoon Network and Comedy Central. But anything I really want I can get with a $20-a-month Netflix subscription, or via ed2k or BitTorrent. The few things I won't be able to get one of those ways, I won't miss. I'll end up saving money, watching less TV, and the TV I do watch will be more likely to be educational rather than crap. And I'll be a little less beholden to the entertainment companies that are trying to commandeer my mind for their own nefarious purposes.Screw those guys.
I'm thinking XVid - open source, tight compression.
I use BofA, and like 2 years ago when they changed the ATMs around, it's slower. Color screens, and asking if I want English or Spanish.
Even better: BofA ATM's first say something like "Retrieving your ATM customizations" and then ask if you want Enlgish or Spanish. WTF??? Look, I always want English, OK? Why can't that be one of the "ATM customizations" you retrieve when I put in my card??
I'd give anything for a return to the good ol' text-only interfaces, too. They were fast and they worked. I guess it made it harder for them to show me ads, though.
the 300 baud modems didn't error-correct; that was done in software
Because I'm a loser with nothing better to do than read Slashdot and point out minor errors, I'll say this: Actually, there was no error correction at all with 300 baud modems. Error correction didn't come along until certain models of 2400 bps modems supported MNP.
I do recall seeing one software-only implementation MNP. It was a terminal program, and I remember having tried it at either 300 or 1200 bps and the resulting lag from the packetization, etc. was unbearable.
Seems to me I was just bitching about skinning and mentioned that security holes were one possible (but unlikely) down-side. I love when the universe makes my point for me.
Another "amen!" from me! Jesus, I'm so sick of skinned applications. Skinning adds bloat for sure, and often causes instability and occasionally even security problems. And it reduces usability, forcing me to learn a new way of doing things for every new application. Other than the original WinAmp (which I blame for starting the whole skinning fad) I've rarely seen a program that's skinnable and intuitive. Users should be able to look at a program and tell immediately how to get it to do what they want. That's what standard GUI widgets get you. Use them!
How carefully do you suppose those defense contractors screen their subcontractors in India?
In a light aircraft, the brakes are engaged by pivoting your feet forward on the rudder pedals. My flight instructor used to beat it into my head that I had to slide my feet down the pedals to the bottom while landing to avoid inadvertently touching down with the brakes engaged. This is a fairly common pilot mistake and can lead to a rather dramatic blow-out as the runway acts like a 3000-foot-long belt sander on the bottom of the non-rotating tire. Usually nobody gets hurt, but you can definitely bend up a plane pretty badly blowing a tire on landing, and it's likely that the runway will have to be closed until someone can haul your mangled plane out of there.
I've been giving this some thought recently. I think it's a great idea for a number of reasons. A system with no moving parts (i.e. reliable and silent) comes to mind.
With the setup described, I'd compile a custom kernel with USB support and put the root filesystem on the USB stick. Only the kernel needs to be on the floppy - no DOS/loadlin necessary. "make bzdisk" should do it.
$20 or so will get you a CompactFlash to IDE converter. The system will see the CF card as a hard drive, which means you don't need BIOS support for booting from USB or anything like that. a 64M card is plenty big enough to hold something like Damn Small Linux with some space left over for storage, and it won't cost you too much. If you don't mind spending more, get a 1G card and use a full-blown Knoppix distribution.
[rant mode: on]
Why do people feel the need to post replies like, "Just get a new laptop hard drive" or "Throw out that crappy old system; it's worthless anyway?" This project seems pretty obviously cool to me. If you can't see that, or just don't agree, fine, but is your opinion really so valuable that you need to clutter up the comments with it? I still run Linux on an ancient laptop (P166, 64M RAM) and it's quite capable of doing a number of cool things.
[rant mode: off]
I actually know the defendant in this case, Brad Councilman, personally (although it's been quite a few years since I've had any significant contact with him.) He's a good guy and he pretty much had his life torn apart for several years by overzealous prosecutors looking to make a name for themselves by looking tough on "computer crime." What he did wasn't necessarily right, but he certainly didn't deserve to be treated as a criminal for it. I'm not going to get into a debate with anyone about this right now - I doubt I'm going to change anyone's minds, but think about this: if this guy had the words "accused hacker" before his name in these headlines, how many of you would be rallying to his defense instead of looking to crucify him? If his name were Kevin Mitnick, how many of you would be complaining about how this country is turning into a police state instead of acting like some sysadmin reading your e-mail is a human-rights violation on a par with the Rodney King beating?
- The "nobody needs a GUI anyway" elitists
- The "nobody needs anything more than fvwm/twm/WindowMaker" elitists
- The people who wish Linux was more like MacOS, only cheaper
- The people who wish Linux was more like Windows 95/98/2K/XP, only cheaper
- The "I use my computer to do stuff, not just recompile my goddamned kernel" crowd
I could go on, but you get my point. Nobody's ever going to be truly happy, and everyone's going to find something to bitch about, despite the fact that GNU/Linux/*BSD/Open Source/Free Software gives us all a frightening array of options that will allow us geeks to build exactly the operating environment we want. This is our reward for being the "smart kids," and the only thing it costs us is a little time and effort.Apparently, though, there are some who feel that somehow they're owed this level of flexibility, but with easy, one-click installtion, too, as if the latest installers should simply read our minds and know how we want everything configured. OK, maybe that's not the mindset - what these people actually seem to be thinking is, "my way is clearly best - why can't everyone just make it work like that?" Grow up, people. Seriously.
FWIW, I just installed Mandrake 10 on my 400 Mhz PII (256M RAM, 60G total HD) at home. For the first time I decided to make a real effort to use my Linux box as a desktop system. For the most part I've been extremely successful. The vast majority of what I use my PC for is net-related, and 98% of what I did in WinXP I could do in Linux. I was already using Mozilla as my browser and e-mail client anyway, etc. But there was absolutely no doubt that KDE runs slow as ass on a system of that vintage. I look forward to the day when I can just drop $500 or so on a nice, cheap 3 Ghz system to replace that old dinosaur. But for now I'll continue the experiment and enjoy life in Linux-land, despite the fact that that old machine would run Win98SE a hell of a lot faster than it runs Linux/KDE right now. If I really need to I can fall back to my 1.1 Ghz, 512M RAM Duron running XP.
You're not kidding! In this LiveJournal post I describe my experience with that shirt in a strip club.
I can't seem to find a good answer as to whether SIP phones support encryption or not. I don't feel too terribly comfortable with transmitting my voice conversations unencrypted over the net. From what I've read SIP phones actually use a combination of SIP to initiate sessions and RTP to move the actual voice data, but no straight "yes, it is" or "no, it isn't" answer on whether encryption is supported or not.
Is it just me, or does this headling read exactly like the random words in spam designed to bypass spam filters?
Heh... Just an observation. You may now proceed to mod me -1 Offtopic.