WTF does this mean? This was in the 'Publications' section.
Butterfly and Cock
Once upon a time, there lived a bad-tempered cock in a village . He swaggered, saying that he was the strongest in the world.
Very often he pecked out and scratched the grain the villagers had grown by the sweat of their brow.
Probably for this reason, the frogs and grasshoppers thought he really had a matchless strength. They were so afraid of him that as soon as they saw him, they would make way for him or hide themselves.
Once a butterfly visited a flower garden. The cock came and jumbled up the beautiful flowers. The butterfly got angry.
"Why are you here and behaving like that?" shouted the butterfly and was ready to fight the cock. "Butterfly, you can't be a match of the strong cock. You'd better drop the idea of fighting." Saying this, his friends detained him. "We can't live in peace even a day if he's left alone," said the butterfly and flew off in spite of their advice. The cock stared at the butterfly for a good while. Drawing in a full breath he grumbled, "What an overbearing little thing! It seems he doesn't know that my claws are like..."
All of a sudden, a whirlwind rose with a snap. Up flew the butterfly like a feather, and the cock's golden stick was broken.
And the mad cock, with his big wings spread, flew into the sky to chase the butterfly, muttering: "Flutter you may, but no faster than the fly." With all his might, the butterfly flew to an ash tree and slipped through the branches. The cock was sure to catch the butterfly fluttering before his eyes, and flew on desperately. But he ran into the tree and was caught in the branches. The cock barely managed to get himself out after a hard struggle. By the time he was making to breathe, the butterfly had already alighted on his beak and tail several times.
"Jump you will, but no better than the flea." With these words the cock made another jump upon the butterfly. "Ouch!" The cock fell onto the ground with a painful cry. It was not before the dust had settled down that he managed to rise to his feet. Sitting on his crest, the butterfly laughed heartily. The cock lay on the ground, panting and goggling his eyes. Then, in an engaging voice, he said: "Oh, it's you, my cute butterfly. I have been taking all this trouble to look for you, because I'm so eager to hear you sing. Do come here and sing a song." "Why should I only sing a song for you, uncle cock?" said the butterfly and began to dance. "It's nice to see you dance, but I can't have a good look; you're a bit too far away." said the cock, crawling nearer and nearer to him.
He pounced upon the fluttering butterfly, but he was already flying downhill. Missing the butterfly, the cock was so mad that he scratched his chest. He fell upon the butterfly, only to throw himself into a pond with a splash.
The dandy cock looked so miserable, indeed. His dark red saw-like crest drooped and his bright coloured feathers were soaking wet.
The cock gasped in the water before he jumped up, grating his hooked bill fiercely.
The butterfly flew past a thornbush and a rock to the top of a high precipice. The chaser gathered his last strength and shot up into the blue sky after the butterfly.
However, the drenched cock fell headlong into the bottom of the precipice.
Thus the village was now free from the outrageous acts of the cock, and beautiful flowers came to bloom in the garden of butterflies.
I'm looking at the Silverstone LC03, PVR350 x 2, reappropriate an Intel D865Perl, it's 1GB RAM & P4 3.0, Gyration Media Suite and 4 Seagate SATA drives.
Overkill at first, but I'm banking on it being the back-end for any additional front-ends added to other T.V.'s in the future.
What I'm wrestling with right now is RAID. Trying to figure out the best way to do this, either native linux XFS software RAID, LVM, EVMS, or pop for an LSI or Raidcore SATA RAID controller. One of the recurring topics in all of the Mythtv discussion groups/boards/sites is to plan for future expansion...and wanting to be able to rip all the Kid's DVD's to play remotely from work when the wife can't figure out how to queue them up is gonna take up a lotta space.
That A100BB case is slick looking, but I'm more worried about cooling and noise. Seems like there's a lot of talk about modding any case with insulating foam and using shock absorbers on any metal touching metal. Plus the Silverstone has front panel firewire and usb, and a VFD.
All in all, for us wrench and software monkeys this is gonna be a good diversion from quake/UT/BFV/BF1942/T2:), it'll at least put me out in front of my family instead of holed up in my office.
I'm surprised that Mythtv hasn't been mentioned here as an alternative to the DRM'd crap more than once.
What more can you ask for? linux/wireless/radio/dvd/mediaplayer-dvd-mp3
-ogg-lame-wma/weather/news/web/mysql/ripping dvd/photoalbum/DVR -pause-rewind-record/PIP/Schdeduled recording/front-end/back-end/all-in-one/
What's not to drool over?? Beats the pants off any commercial product, plus you get to build it yourself!
I just installed over the 0.9. I thought I remembered reading that with the advent of 0.9, they were no longer recommending exporting/importing your fav's etc. and that you should just upgrade.
Anywho, seems to be working fine all of the past 30 minutes; history, passman, themes, extensions, Bookmarks are all there.
You on the other hand have a _need_. A need to be left alone which is not privacy and is not protected (yet).
Yes, we'd all like to have the spammers and spywarers shot, drawn, quartered, and flayed, and maybe even in that order. However, until the laws and/or constitution is changed, please refrain from whining about your right.
Ahh, but we do have the 'right' to pursue Happiness. Chasing down and eradicating something which has been forced upon me or subversively installed with fineprint, onto my systems, infringes on my 'right' to pursue Happiness.
I agree. I used to recommend and install LinkSys WAP's and their 'Routers' to all my SMB clients. Interestingly, when Cisco bought them out, I figured quality could only go up. NOT!
Hours spent trying to get one of these WAP's working does not bode well when you're charging by the hour. If anything, since Cisco stepped in, quality has suffered. Why would any vendor use Winblows' built-in wireless config over their own utilities by default? Blech!
I'd rather pitch the Airport series at a lower profit margin and get them something that will work, and work, and work. My clients never remember something good that works, but you can be damned sure they remember excess billable hours for something I recommended that doesn't.
I usually don't hang out with the slashdot trolls, but wt_F_?
This really is the dumbest story I've ever seen posted
I, for one, originally found it refreshingly insipid. Then, while actually reading through
monochrom's explanation and then his blog, realized that I was grinning the entire time and chuckling.
What's wrong with a little tounge-in-cheek insipidness on a dull Sunday morning?
Marathon was the 1st LAN FPS I'd ever played. I worked for Val-Pak DMS (was brought on-board to help with their migration from Mac's to Pc's for business) and we all had Mac's. Someone loaded up Marathon for us and we'd usually stick around after our shift to play for an hour or more (of course, we'd play any chance we'd get during the shift as well:) )
I can only remember one particular map in detail, it had a central circular platform with multi-level open tunnels running around it and overhanging it.
I'm still not entirely clear how moderating works, (and I'm on my 2nd round of being able to moderate) but if you splurged all of your points to be able to give me 5, you rock!
I'm mulling the idea that you might be an editor, if the above assumption of points is true and the fact that I went from bad karma to positive:)
This process is gentler to the components that make green tea such a wonderful beverage. Earl Grey, Ceylon, Bo Lei, and whatever other brown or black tea have been pan-fried or dry-heated to stop the natural oxidation process.
Steaming preserves the EGCG , which is being studied for it's anti-bacterial and cancer fighting properties, and also L-Theanine , which gives real green tea it's flavour and purportedly induces Alpha waves and tranquility in the brain.
Ounce per ounce, Steamed green tea contains more polyphenols than red wine or grape seed extract.
I have an anxiety problem, and had to swear off coffee a few years ago. No caffeine in any form for me, until I stumbled upon japanese green tea. All tea contains caffeine , but it is about 1/2 the amount in the same serving of coffee. The added benefit of the L-Theanine practically cancels out the effect of caffeine on the body and in the brain.
I start the day with a cup of thin matcha (do two of these and can you say "420"?) , then a cup of Gyokuro and in the evening some nice genmai cha.
Unfortuneatly, green tea is only harvested 4 times per year in Japan. Green tea is very perishiable, and is best when fresh. The bags you can purchase in asian groceries here in the U.S. of A. have been sitting on shelves too long and taste like crap. (Bonus note: all the decaffeinated 'green' teas you can purchase in regular supermarkets will not taste like the real thing, pretty bitter and bland. There is no decaffeinating process that doesn't kill all the good things about green tea. Fresh green tea is naturally sweet and not bitter when prepared correctly.)
Exactly. Not sure what point you were trying to make, but if you look back to my parent post, I had explained that my wife also speaks Portuguese, as well as castillian spanish, cantonese and english.
that is why i included Brazil in the subsequent post, I apologize if my meaning wasn't apparent.
1. You and I will be dead in the next century, so your point is moot.
2. You missed the point entirely. Go to Ecuador, or Brazil, or Peru. Lots of European and Asian immigrants in those countries. They're all speaking spanish. (To use your native analogy, they should be speaking Incan or Aztec, along with the current native people).
rofl, true, Navaho was one of the indigineous languages that English supplanted. If I had a reason to learn Seminole or Navaho or Inuit or Cherokee or any other native-american language I would.
Good example to raise geoff... and look at the money the Seminoles are making, speaking English and raping us at the poker/craps etc tables, and helping kill off us whitemen with our own tobacco!
I'm glad they've kept their languages and traditions alive, it'd be shameful for them as a people to not.
I'm so sick of having to choose what language I want to conduct business (specifically having to choose 1 for English or 2 for Spanish), phone calls, ATM transactions etcetera in.
We're in America. Speak English to survive, rely on another private individual to assist you if you cannot or refuse to learn the language, or GO HOME!
Visitors, Americans will be as helpful as your homeland's inhabitants when you need it. But dammit, if you're going to live here, and especially if you're sucking down my tax dollars to supplement your groceries/living accomodations/education/business, you had better learn the language to be a productive member of THIS society.
Keep your language, your customs and culture alive. This is important. But to be a member of American society, speak the majority's language.
If I were to emigrate to YOUR country, I'd fully expect to have to learn YOUR language to live, conduct business and generally not be a recluse, even if there was a 'little Denver' or 'little Tulsa' enclave that I would live in.
Je parle francais, en peu.. and can probably survive in Japan (KonbonWa), Guangdong China (Nei ho ma?), Hong Kong, Thailand (Sa Ba Di Krap),Vietnam (Jow Ahm). My wife (born in Guangdong) speaks fluent Cantonese, Castillian Spanish, Portuguese and English. She didn't even move here to the states until she was 16 (from Lima, Peru, where her family first emigrated), and still learned fluent English, speaking it grammatically better than most native-born Americans.
I've read that within 50 years, there will be only 3 major languages in use; English, Chinese (I'd assume Mandarin over Cantonese) and Spanish. Even if this happens, it is still important to keep one's history, culture, traditions and language part of their heritage.
Learn to speak English to survive in our country, leave or don't even come here unless it's to visit and spend your money.
Until there's no nation boundaries, a world governing body (at which time I'd expect there to be a directive/law stating WHICH language EVERYONE will speak) speak the damned language of whatever nation you've chosen to be your home.
I'd be a whole lot happier. I spend more time fighting viruses, trojans and other malware shit that dumb ass users download than anything else...
Shoot, I'm VERY happy with my users/clients downloading their dumb-assed crap off the 'net. It means more billable hours for my company!
Plus, I get the added sadistic satisfaction of having reiterated time and again to NOT do these types of activities, then smirking away as we clean up their messes and the minutes tick away.
THEN, they usually crack and purchase the products and services designed to thwart these problems. Voila! I've billed hours, and sold product, and billed more hours to install and train, all the while looking the knight because we honestly told the client what would happen all along.
Just go on out and play on whatever game looks most interesting at first. You'll get your ass handed to you for awhile, but that's part of the fun.
Eventually you'll get the hang of what's going on, and you should have a pretty good time. Just listen to what other players are saying, ask questions, read the pertinent FAQ's or readme's.
Then you'll be able to reflect on what makes that particular game fun or not, and look for what you're missing in other games.
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Butterfly and Cock
Once upon a time, there lived a bad-tempered cock in a village . He swaggered, saying that he was the strongest in the world.
Very often he pecked out and scratched the grain the villagers had grown by the sweat of their brow.
Probably for this reason, the frogs and grasshoppers thought he really had a matchless strength. They were so afraid of him that as soon as they saw him, they would make way for him or hide themselves.
Once a butterfly visited a flower garden. The cock came and jumbled up the beautiful flowers. The butterfly got angry.
"Why are you here and behaving like that?" shouted the butterfly and was ready to fight the cock. "Butterfly, you can't be a match of the strong cock. You'd better drop the idea of fighting." Saying this, his friends detained him. "We can't live in peace even a day if he's left alone," said the butterfly and flew off in spite of their advice. The cock stared at the butterfly for a good while. Drawing in a full breath he grumbled, "What an overbearing little thing! It seems he doesn't know that my claws are like..."
All of a sudden, a whirlwind rose with a snap. Up flew the butterfly like a feather, and the cock's golden stick was broken.
And the mad cock, with his big wings spread, flew into the sky to chase the butterfly, muttering: "Flutter you may, but no faster than the fly." With all his might, the butterfly flew to an ash tree and slipped through the branches. The cock was sure to catch the butterfly fluttering before his eyes, and flew on desperately. But he ran into the tree and was caught in the branches. The cock barely managed to get himself out after a hard struggle. By the time he was making to breathe, the butterfly had already alighted on his beak and tail several times.
"Jump you will, but no better than the flea." With these words the cock made another jump upon the butterfly. "Ouch!" The cock fell onto the ground with a painful cry. It was not before the dust had settled down that he managed to rise to his feet. Sitting on his crest, the butterfly laughed heartily. The cock lay on the ground, panting and goggling his eyes. Then, in an engaging voice, he said: "Oh, it's you, my cute butterfly. I have been taking all this trouble to look for you, because I'm so eager to hear you sing. Do come here and sing a song." "Why should I only sing a song for you, uncle cock?" said the butterfly and began to dance. "It's nice to see you dance, but I can't have a good look; you're a bit too far away." said the cock, crawling nearer and nearer to him.
He pounced upon the fluttering butterfly, but he was already flying downhill. Missing the butterfly, the cock was so mad that he scratched his chest. He fell upon the butterfly, only to throw himself into a pond with a splash.
The dandy cock looked so miserable, indeed. His dark red saw-like crest drooped and his bright coloured feathers were soaking wet.
The cock gasped in the water before he jumped up, grating his hooked bill fiercely.
The butterfly flew past a thornbush and a rock to the top of a high precipice. The chaser gathered his last strength and shot up into the blue sky after the butterfly.
However, the drenched cock fell headlong into the bottom of the precipice.
Thus the village was now free from the outrageous acts of the cock, and beautiful flowers came to bloom in the garden of butterflies.
Yup, cut my teeth in the Nov 3.12 / Win 3.11wg back in the day. (S1 - S16? what the hells that? :) )
I still name my volumes SYS VOL1 etc... don't know if Novell originated that convention, but it's the first place I came across it.
CNE lapsed in 92, never looked back. Over the years had to support the odd 3.1x - 5 Netware box, always dreaded it.
When I heard they bought Suse, I started paying attention again. CLP here i come.
Paypal does this when you are setting up a business account with them.
Besides, I'm just working on my 1st cup of tea, and that little ditty is what jumped into my head. So Nyaah!
Choosy perverts choose GIF!
I'm looking at the Silverstone LC03, PVR350 x 2, reappropriate an Intel D865Perl, it's 1GB RAM & P4 3.0, Gyration Media Suite and 4 Seagate SATA drives.
Overkill at first, but I'm banking on it being the back-end for any additional front-ends added to other T.V.'s in the future.
What I'm wrestling with right now is RAID. Trying to figure out the best way to do this, either native linux XFS software RAID, LVM, EVMS, or pop for an LSI or Raidcore SATA RAID controller. One of the recurring topics in all of the Mythtv discussion groups/boards/sites is to plan for future expansion...and wanting to be able to rip all the Kid's DVD's to play remotely from work when the wife can't figure out how to queue them up is gonna take up a lotta space.
That A100BB case is slick looking, but I'm more worried about cooling and noise. Seems like there's a lot of talk about modding any case with insulating foam and using shock absorbers on any metal touching metal. Plus the Silverstone has front panel firewire and usb, and a VFD.
All in all, for us wrench and software monkeys this is gonna be a good diversion from quake/UT/BFV/BF1942/T2 :), it'll at least put me out in front of my family instead of holed up in my office.
I'm surprised that Mythtv hasn't been mentioned here as an alternative to the DRM'd crap more than once.
What more can you ask for? linux/wireless/radio/dvd/mediaplayer-dvd-mp3 -ogg-lame-wma/weather/news/web/mysql/ripping dvd/photoalbum/DVR -pause-rewind-record/PIP/Schdeduled recording/front-end/back-end/all-in-one/
What's not to drool over?? Beats the pants off any commercial product, plus you get to build it yourself!
Many, many sites to help you get started , !
All without someone watching over what you're doing with what you've purchased......
Anywho, seems to be working fine all of the past 30 minutes; history, passman, themes, extensions, Bookmarks are all there.
...would be some 802.11a/b/g, or at least some 'tooth. I'd definitely get one.
that Krill's document was written a month ago? Why is it just now being posted, as he states that he posted it on April 7th.
Hours spent trying to get one of these WAP's working does not bode well when you're charging by the hour. If anything, since Cisco stepped in, quality has suffered. Why would any vendor use Winblows' built-in wireless config over their own utilities by default? Blech!
I'd rather pitch the Airport series at a lower profit margin and get them something that will work, and work, and work. My clients never remember something good that works, but you can be damned sure they remember excess billable hours for something I recommended that doesn't.
I, for one, originally found it refreshingly insipid. Then, while actually reading through monochrom's explanation and then his blog, realized that I was grinning the entire time and chuckling.
What's wrong with a little tounge-in-cheek insipidness on a dull Sunday morning?
Marathon was the 1st LAN FPS I'd ever played. I worked for Val-Pak DMS (was brought on-board to help with their migration from Mac's to Pc's for business) and we all had Mac's. Someone loaded up Marathon for us and we'd usually stick around after our shift to play for an hour or more (of course, we'd play any chance we'd get during the shift as well :) )
I can only remember one particular map in detail, it had a central circular platform with multi-level open tunnels running around it and overhanging it.
What a blast that game was.
I cannot take credit for finding the above link, it was in a '1' post somewhere above that has already sunk off my screen.
Someone mod this guy up Informative
I'm still not entirely clear how moderating works, (and I'm on my 2nd round of being able to moderate) but if you splurged all of your points to be able to give me 5, you rock!
I'm mulling the idea that you might be an editor, if the above assumption of points is true and the fact that I went from bad karma to positive :)
This process is gentler to the components that make green tea such a wonderful beverage. Earl Grey, Ceylon, Bo Lei, and whatever other brown or black tea have been pan-fried or dry-heated to stop the natural oxidation process.
Steaming preserves the EGCG , which is being studied for it's anti-bacterial and cancer fighting properties, and also L-Theanine , which gives real green tea it's flavour and purportedly induces Alpha waves and tranquility in the brain.
Ounce per ounce, Steamed green tea contains more polyphenols than red wine or grape seed extract.
I have an anxiety problem, and had to swear off coffee a few years ago. No caffeine in any form for me, until I stumbled upon japanese green tea. All tea contains caffeine , but it is about 1/2 the amount in the same serving of coffee. The added benefit of the L-Theanine practically cancels out the effect of caffeine on the body and in the brain.
I start the day with a cup of thin matcha (do two of these and can you say "420"?) , then a cup of Gyokuro and in the evening some nice genmai cha.
Unfortuneatly, green tea is only harvested 4 times per year in Japan. Green tea is very perishiable, and is best when fresh. The bags you can purchase in asian groceries here in the U.S. of A. have been sitting on shelves too long and taste like crap. (Bonus note: all the decaffeinated 'green' teas you can purchase in regular supermarkets will not taste like the real thing, pretty bitter and bland. There is no decaffeinating process that doesn't kill all the good things about green tea. Fresh green tea is naturally sweet and not bitter when prepared correctly.)
Interested? I purchase all my teas from here.
that is why i included Brazil in the subsequent post, I apologize if my meaning wasn't apparent.
2. You missed the point entirely. Go to Ecuador, or Brazil, or Peru. Lots of European and Asian immigrants in those countries. They're all speaking spanish. (To use your native analogy, they should be speaking Incan or Aztec, along with the current native people).
meh, i can see the off-topic modifier for my original post..but TROLL? Whoever mod'd that must be a democrat :)
Good example to raise geoff... and look at the money the Seminoles are making, speaking English and raping us at the poker/craps etc tables, and helping kill off us whitemen with our own tobacco!
I'm glad they've kept their languages and traditions alive, it'd be shameful for them as a people to not.
I'm so sick of having to choose what language I want to conduct business (specifically having to choose 1 for English or 2 for Spanish), phone calls, ATM transactions etcetera in.
We're in America. Speak English to survive, rely on another private individual to assist you if you cannot or refuse to learn the language, or GO HOME!
Visitors, Americans will be as helpful as your homeland's inhabitants when you need it. But dammit, if you're going to live here, and especially if you're sucking down my tax dollars to supplement your groceries/living accomodations/education/business, you had better learn the language to be a productive member of THIS society.
Keep your language, your customs and culture alive. This is important. But to be a member of American society, speak the majority's language.
If I were to emigrate to YOUR country, I'd fully expect to have to learn YOUR language to live, conduct business and generally not be a recluse, even if there was a 'little Denver' or 'little Tulsa' enclave that I would live in.
Je parle francais, en peu.. and can probably survive in Japan (KonbonWa), Guangdong China (Nei ho ma?), Hong Kong, Thailand (Sa Ba Di Krap),Vietnam (Jow Ahm). My wife (born in Guangdong) speaks fluent Cantonese, Castillian Spanish, Portuguese and English. She didn't even move here to the states until she was 16 (from Lima, Peru, where her family first emigrated), and still learned fluent English, speaking it grammatically better than most native-born Americans.
I've read that within 50 years, there will be only 3 major languages in use; English, Chinese (I'd assume Mandarin over Cantonese) and Spanish. Even if this happens, it is still important to keep one's history, culture, traditions and language part of their heritage.
Learn to speak English to survive in our country, leave or don't even come here unless it's to visit and spend your money.
Until there's no nation boundaries, a world governing body (at which time I'd expect there to be a directive/law stating WHICH language EVERYONE will speak) speak the damned language of whatever nation you've chosen to be your home.
meh. rant done.
Shoot, I'm VERY happy with my users/clients downloading their dumb-assed crap off the 'net. It means more billable hours for my company!
Plus, I get the added sadistic satisfaction of having reiterated time and again to NOT do these types of activities, then smirking away as we clean up their messes and the minutes tick away.
THEN, they usually crack and purchase the products and services designed to thwart these problems. Voila! I've billed hours, and sold product, and billed more hours to install and train, all the while looking the knight because we honestly told the client what would happen all along.
Eventually you'll get the hang of what's going on, and you should have a pretty good time. Just listen to what other players are saying, ask questions, read the pertinent FAQ's or readme's.
Then you'll be able to reflect on what makes that particular game fun or not, and look for what you're missing in other games.
Happy Fraggin'!