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I have had FIOS for the last 5 years but after my recent move, the only option I had available was cable Internet. I was greeted this morning with the following popup injected onto my personal site:
Now, I had read about how Comcast was injecting content into HTTP sites but had been lucky enough not to endure it personally. The fact that they are MITM my browsing is bad enough, but they just let me know that my connection is metered as well. One could ask "Why would you be using over 1 TB of Internet Traffic?" One could respond with "Fuck you, it's none of your business", but this month I was downloading the last of my S3/Glacier backups so that I could move them to something reliable without handing more money over to a company working against my right to privacy. I apparently have 2 "courtesy" months that, once exceeded, I will get charged a pretty ludicrous fee for going over in 50 GB increments. I of course could hand over an additional $50 a month for uncapped traffic, which would put my monthly Internet bill over $90.
I have used digitcert to purchase an SSL certificate, but I had heard about letsencrypt and decided to try using certbot. It was relatively painless and as of the publication of this post, they are providing the certificate my websites use. I agree with n-gate that putting HTTPS on everything is unecessary and a sign of things being broken, and had avoided doing it until this incident. I wish I had better solutions but for now I'm stuck.
These sorts of intrusions are why I support the EFF even if they get some things wrong like advocating DOH. I will be supporting letsencrypt considering the amount of money that their service has saved me from purchasing commercial certificates.]]>
I am using the omnios-r151030j release as of this writing. According to the documentation, OmniOS CE recommends using bhyve branded zones over KVM for performance. I wanted to migrate
my Tiny Tiny RSS Ubuntu machine over to a zone on the OmniOS server, so I started with the bhyve flavor. I defined the zone as per the example on the
omniosce.org page but used my ubuntu-18.04-live-server-amd64.iso for the installation file system. I started the zone with
with another terminal using
zlogin -C ubuntu and I got a blinking cursor that hung around until I halted the zone. After some research, it seems
maybe this kernel was too new for bhyve, so I downloaded ubuntu-16.04.6-server-amd64.iso and tried that. This time, instead of
just a blinking cursor, the zone immediately halted. After some additional research, I zeroed in on switching the
bootrom attr of the zone to
BHYVE_RELEASE instead of
BHYVE_CSM_RELEASE which got me the ubuntu installation menu. I then had edit the boot menu option to utilize a serial console for installation.
The installation went smoothly, and after the zone rebooted, I got the CD installation menu again. I tried changing the
bootorder attr to dc instead of the default cd, but that also did not
seem to make it boot off the virtual hard drive. Finally, I went into the bhyve EFI menu, and noticed that the virtual hard disk did not appear. I tried adding it manually but that also did not succeed.
After some frustrating hours of trial and error with zonecfg and zoneadm, I found two more pieces that worked. Firstly, I switched the
diskif to
ahci instead of the default
virtio. This made the disk
appear in the EFI menu (although I could never figure out how to use it by default, other than removing the cdrom attr and fs from the zone). The second thing I learned from a closed
zcage GitHub issue that linked to a FreeNAS bug that included copying the
grubx64.efi file into a different location on the boot partition. The last step was to configure grub to use the serial console on boot which was best documented
here. For reference, here is the working zone configuration file I have that boots the bhyve branded zone from disk:
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Here is the relevant section of
/etc/default/grub file on the ubuntu zone to boot with the serial console:
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Overall this has been a decent learning experience, but I've also played around with some lx branded zones. They also took some interesting tricks to get running, but are much nicer to deal with. They natively support zlogin without needing to specify -C option, as well as not needing a separate zvol for their disk. The one thing I can do so far with a bhyve branded zone is limit vcpus and memory, which I have not managed to figure out yet with lx branded zones.]]>
Since my first laptop, a Sony Vaio, laptops haven't really changed much. They have faster hardware, bigger screens, and more battery life. Basically just iterative improvements taking place over 10 years. My MacBook Air was the lightest and most powerful laptop I'd ever had all at once. I had been using that until 2016 when I started a new job and was issued a Mid 2015 15" MacBook Pro. After using it for a few months, I got over the heft of the MacBook Pro vs the Air for daily carrying and got used to the performance improvement. Using the MBA started to be annoying when watching HD video would beachball or outright crash the system over and over. I looked around for some non- alternatives but didn't really see anything compelling. I saw people at work start to be issued the first MacBook with the touch bar and right away I could tell it wasn't for me.
The reason I bought a new (new but over a year old) 2015 MacBook Pro was that despite how cynical I had gotten about the direction had been going in with its hardware, it didn't fully sink in how bad it could git until I saw people using the new ones. What a piece of shit. The touch bar does nothing useful, the USB port immediately requires a giant dongle that is very inconvenient to plug in external displays and peripherals. The keyboard is shit. All of these tradeoffs are for things I don't want or need, so I have no interest in ever owning or using one. I realized that if I wanted a more powerful laptop than the MacBook Air, I'd better get one of these last tolerable MacBook Pros.
The software changes have been just about as welcome as the hardware changes. I'm currently running El Capitan on my personal laptop, while my work laptop was force upgraded to Sierra. All that managed to do was break the Hush app I have been running since introduced spam for the desktop. I looked to see if there was a newer version but it seems like the app was erased from existence on the Internet. I guess it's bad form to allow users to silence a potential revenue generator on their personal computers in 2018. I especially like the notification that appears anytime I used a browser other than Safari. Way to take a page out of the MICROS~1 playbook you dicks. You can try to hide them by having them only show up for one minute of the day but even that doesn't work all the time.
Now plans on removing OpenGL and OpenCL support from their latest release and making "macOS" applications work more like iOS applications. That's no surprise, they've been moving towards that since the Forstall days and good riddance as far as I'm concerned. I do about 80% of my work in a hosted GNU/Linux environment at this point and eventually I'd like to just wipe the disk. Right now I still need it running somewhere so I can access the stuff I've bought on iTunes but that's fine to run in the background while I fullscreen a remote VNC session.
The final chapter of De-Applification is well underway and all that remains is to eventually find some computer that isn't hot garbage once this one dies.]]>
We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
While clearly not a smartphone, I believe using a phone like this is smarter than opting into the bullshit ecosystem of Apple, Amazon or Google in 2018. Every piece of technology is a tradeoff for convenience, but somehow people forgot that and just assume it's necessary to carry around one of these things. After being free of any smartphone for about a year now, the illusion of their necessity has vanished. I do feel like carrying a cell phone daily is still worth the tradeoff for me, I don't have a land line and have to be reachable while at work. Ideally I wouldn't use one or at the very least, not carry it around with me.
As to which model you get, it really doesn't matter. This phone worked for me but YMMV. Find something cheap and expendable that you can get a signal with. As of this writing, AT&T didn't even offer plans without some data surcharge. You could opt for pay as you go which I may do in the future.
I still find it useful to have GPS for when I'm driving somewhere new or in a congested area. There are several Garmin models to choose from, but most of the new ones offer some sort of app integration which is superfluous. This particular model seems fine. The map update feature requires you to plug it into a PC with USB and run an application which has been a little flakey. It gets the job done and is as accurate as the directions on my last iPhone.
There are still models that you can get new, or you may have one lying around. If you were in Apple hell you can opt to do what I did since I already had most of my music library in iTunes and use an old iPod Nano. What was remarkable to me is that I can manually manage music on an iPod from multiple computers! What a novel concept that was removed from the iPhone? The OS hasn't had any updates in a very long time and so I'm sure it's vulnerable if I had Bluetooth enabled. The nice thing about that is the worst case scenario is losing some mp3s that I have elsewhere. I'd like to try out a non-Apple MP3 player when this iPod inevitably dies, but no sense in buying another one yet.
You don't need to buy this particular brand, but I've found having a small notebook I can carry around in my pocket has served adequately for note taking. They come with the added benefit of being cheap and requiring no updates. I've bought a few packs and have enough to last me for years to come.
I've found after selling my last iPhone in 2017 and using these devices, I have made the minimum tradeoffs for all of the convenience I had previously. This comes with the added benefit that I don't have to worry about security updates walled behind some designer's shit ideas of how I need to do things I've managed to do just fine for years. Try it out, you might be surprised. And you know the thing they have in common? They're cheap.]]>
When I see a job requirement list like the following, I really have to wonder about what the day-to-day would be.
My guess is that it is a nightmare of bad management and poorly made technology decisions, but thankfully I'll never know.]]>
When the new Mac Pro was announced, my enthusiasm for Macs was already in decline. I was a little disappointed that the classic cheese-grater look was going away, but it made sense given the tendency that Macs were getting smaller, more streamlined designs. The hardware was a significant upgrade compared to my 2008 Dual Quad Core Mac Pro. That machine, in retrospect, was one of the most reliable computers I ever owned. Its hardware expandability allowed it to stay useful and performant 6 years after its manufacture date. This new, ashtray Mac was more akin to the retina Macbook Pro, there were little or no options when it came to upgrading the machine. OWC and some other shops eventually offered upgraded components, but it was certainly not going to be with any components that were readily available. The only way to add SATA drives would be through expensive Thunderbolt drive enclosures. The optical drive would have to be a USB Superdrive. For HDMI video capture, I'd either need an expensive Thunderbolt capture device or an expensive Thunderbolt PCIe enclosure for my current capture card. There's a theme to all of this, but I'll revisit that shortly.
I eventually took the $6000 [≈ 2007 CEO hourly pay] plunge and got a model that made tradeoffs I could live with. The benefits to the new design were instantly recognizable. The machine is almost silent. I thought the 2008 Mac Pro was quiet for such a powerful machine, but sitting next to the 2013 Mac Pro, there was a noticeable difference. The 2013 Mac Pro is also very small in comparison, I have shoeboxes that are larger. That might not be a selling point for everyone, but moving across the country has taught me to appreciate the cubic centimeters of boxes. Everything that Apple had promised to deliver was proven out with this impressive, fancy new machine.
Recall that previously I mentioned all upgrades would largely need to be based on the 6 Thunderbolt ports the Mac Pro has. I started with adding an Elite Pro Dual to have some fast temporary space off the main SSD for video files. The two SATA drives in it were previously inside the 2008 Mac Pro, so those were already on hand. I also added a very nice Aja ioXT HDMI capture device to replace the Blackmagic PCIe card I had been using. I also connected an older USB 3 enclosure that had been hooked up to the 2008 Mac pro to one of the Mac Pro's USB 3 ports. After some time and a lot of money, I essentially had reinvented my old setup. But at what cost?
Certainly there was a financial cost, as pricing for Thunderbolt devices seem to be "take the cost of a USB or Firewire device and then multiply it by 1.5." There was also a very noticeable desk space cost. While the 2013 Mac Pro took up much less space than the 2008 model by itself, I had the 2008 tower underneath my desk. Now I had to make new space on my desk and around it for all of these peripherals that replaced the internal drives and PCIe capture card. On top of that, I had to dig out an old power strip because of my new set of required AC adapters. There was also the Thunderbolt Kudzu growing from beneath my desk, spreading to every corner. One day while cleaning up, along with the occasional unmounting of a drive and a device getting knocked out of its surge protector, it dawned on me:
The 2013 Mac Pro is a fancy laptop.
Sure, a laptop with more powerful hardware, but also a laptop without a screen, battery, or mobility. For years, the solution to using a Macbook Pro for professional work was a collection of cables and chords to connect all matter of periphery to expand it. It's not that I don't use laptops or begrudge their usefulness, but this machine seemed to come with all of the drawbacks of a laptop with none of the benefits.
My idea of a home office workstation is a machine that fulfills many different roles, some of which the 2013 Mac Pro did. I also prefer it to be able to run games, even if it has to dual boot or run a Windows VM. I also want it to be able to support running multiple virtual environments to test things for work or for hobby projects. That requires a lot of resources and a lot of flexibility. The cheese-grater Mac Pro was the last example of that combination offered by Apple. The 2013 and presumably later Mac Pros have limited flexibility to external expansion which, generally, was the only flexibility laptops had. My Macbook Air can connect via Thunderbolt to a CalDigit docking station which gives it Ethernet, display, and USB 3 ports. This is great, especially since I move my laptop around a lot and don't want to have a lot of cables to unplug when I grab it. For a workstation, this provides no benefits at all (unless you happen to need to run workstations office to office which, given how expensive these are, I totally understand).
Interior flexibility and customization is actually much more useful for a workstation because it not only extends its usefulness beyond its initial technological limits, but because it provides simplicity with the literal and figurative "black box" of components it contains. When I need to move things around my workstation, I can turn it off, unplug it, and then move it. I don't have to worry about which power strips its peripherals are plugged into and which combination of chords I need to orchestrate for everything to work again.
I used the 2013 Mac Pro for awhile and, although I eventually sold it, it was a very impressive machine. It turns out though that, much like their software, Apple Hardware is going in a direction that doesn't really fit my needs.]]>
I have been using Apple hardware and Software semi-exclusively since around 2007. I was very impressed when I first saw a consultant my company had brought in who used a Macbook Pro. That company I worked at in 2006 was a Windows-only shop, and I had naively assumed that was just what to expect. In my time at Universities, I had fallen in love with the GNU/Linux ecosystem. In 2006, I thought "Well, this is industry I guess" and started the long tedious battle for productivity against my nemesis: Windows XP.
The consultant had shown me some amazing things in a very short time. The first was, yes, this fancy laptop looked impressive. After working with it first hand, I learned it had very respectable hardware, and was running BASH natively. I felt right at home, the sludge and frustration of working in Windows COMMAND.COM world was suddenly lifted. He also set up VMWare Fusion or Parallels running a Windows VM. We hooked a monitor, keyboard, and mouse to the Macbook. One of us could be sitting at the Macbook using the built-in display and keyboard/trackpad using Leopard and the other less fortunate person (me) could sit at the external display and keyboard using Windows. The application had to work in IE and so the Windows side would usually just have a browser window while the iDE and application server ran on the host OS.
Within a year of that experience, I had other co-workers who were enthusiastic about Macs and Mac OS X. I had also gone to a couple of conferences where, unsurprisingly, most of the presenters used Macbook Pros. I saved up and bought a used 15" 2006 Macbook Pro. Not only was it lighter and faster than the ugly craptop my company had issued me, it looked fancier. Slowly but surely I moved to doing all my development on the Macbook Pro and let the craptop perform the one function it was fit for; a hot paperweight.
Those were happier times using Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, and there was very little to complain about. Expose` seemed like magic to me. I could hit F3 and all of my windows would scale down to properly proportioned versions where all of them were visible. Macports was similar to FreeBSD and enabled most open source packages I wanted. VMWare Fusion wasn't cheap, but it let me bring up IE as well as Office to open proprietary documents that every company I worked at loved. After buying a replacement battery, the Macbook Pro seemed to run noticeably longer than the craptop did. This, despite having replaced the CDROM with a second battery on the craptop.
All things, especially good things, eventually come to an end. The first signs were subtle little annoyances when I upgraded to 10.6 Snow Leopard. Expose` didn't work the way it used to. It no longer spaced the windows proportionally across the screen. I may be inaccurately recalling this from memory, but I believe it made all windows the same size (why?). There was a hack that I applied to make it function in the old way, but it just seemed odd to me at the time that Apple did this. Why was I suddenly fighting my old war for productivity against this fancy operating system?
And then there was 10.7 Lion. This was the first time I honestly wondered if I had made the wrong choice in buying into the Apple ecosystem. I stumbled through that steaming pile of skeuomorphism, and 10.8 Mountain Lion was hardly an improvement. None of the changes served any benefit for my uses of the computer, but worse than that, seemed like an increasing set of fancy obstacles. Take your pick; "natural" scrolling, iCloud, Gatekeeper, Mission Control replacing Expose`, Springboard, or Spaces being eradicated. One by one features that I relied on were mutating into less useful variants, or going away completely.
10.9 Mavericks, the first non cat release with a fancy California name, is the last release I have used for any extended period of time. I find the Yosemite look and feel revolting. I realize I can't run Mavericks forever, as security updates eventually become "upgrade features" for OS vendors. This leads me to the painful conclusion that Apple's concepts of what an operating system should be is about as far removed as possible from mine. Realistically, I have to choose to either ignore my instincts and just get used to OS X caring about as much for user preference as Gawker cares about privacy or hit the eject button. Instead of fancy OS's named after fancy California places with new, fancier California fonts, I'm done.
I plan on documenting how I do this in sequential posts because this will not be an overnight thing. Wish me luck!]]>
After Twitter has been infested by these little and icons, I got interested in knowing more about them. As usual, all the best stuff is from Japan, but their use has become abundant, especially on social networks. If you are on a modern version of OS X on hardware, you already see them in every browser without an extension or plugin, excluding one really dumb exception. Why not see if I can push the envelope a bit by now using them in URLs? One awesome site has already made use of this as a domain name, using punycode. That got me started down the trail of what I'd need to make this a thing.
After doing some research on URL shorteners, punycode, and emoji, I decided to throw together a simple site together to test the idea. I decided, against my better judgement, to do the site with node.js. I don't think I need to rehash why JavaScript sucks as a language, so I'll just feign ignorance for the remainder of this article. Express is a nice framework, much like martini that lets me set up some simple endpoints and serve static content easily. There's a nice repo that let me get started.
The bulk of the work was getting the URL->emoji and emoji/punycode-> URL logic working. I decided to do the naive implementation of just using a monotonically increasing id as the key, and then some nice CoffeeScript for the encode/decode functions. I had to of course modify the alphabet that this was using, and instead of the a-zA-Z0-9 alphabet, I used the emoji unicode characters. It was a matter of taking the hex codes from the unicode characters from here, putting them into the alphabet array, and then wrapping punycode encodes and decodes around getting the values from the alphabet array. Otherwise, the code is identical to the original source.
I needed a source for the previously mentioned integers for URL IDs, so it seemed that throwing sqlite3 and Sequelize into the app for persistence was a quick solution. Obviously this means I'd have to move to a full RDBMS should I have to have multiple web servers, but honestly who would want to use an emoji URL shortener?
I put the (really bad) code on GitHub for the halibut. The site is live at emoji.xyz. You'll notice the link generated has the href pointed at the punycode version of the URL, while the text shows the actual emoticon. That's mostly because many applications expectedly do not handle the emoji character, and set the location to the portion of the URL preceding the emoji character(s). Feel free to use the Textexpander as well, I created a gist for it here.]]>
I came to know about Octopress right around the time other people were talking about why static blogs were a better option than a) running a full blown CMS for yourself and b) hosting your blog on a service. I won't go into the arguments about whether that's true or not, but I bought into it. I used to run a Drupal site for myself, and when I started spending more time on Drupal security patches than I added content, I switched to use Blogspot. That worked for awhile, and you can read why I left that service. I toyed with Jekyll, gollum and some others, but ended up using Octopress.
I loved just about everything Octopress offered. It was really easy to generate my post, write some Markdown, and then deploy, all from the command line. The content was stored in git, which meant I could edit my blog from pretty much anywhere I wanted to without worrying about losing content. The default/only theme looked fine for my purposes, and with Typekit and Google Fonts I could customize what I wanted to. Everything was great right? And then, one time, I tried merging from the upstream branch to get changes they'd made to the Octopress core.
So that didn't go very well. I decided I'd put it off for awhile since everything seemed like it was working, though I started to wonder if I was missing out on a cool new feature or some security issue. I also started to really feel the burden of hosting my own server. I was using a Linode server that was running a web service for my ill-fated iPhone app at the time, so having another virtual host was no big deal. After all the TLS issues in the last couple of years, again like with Drupal, I felt like I was spending more time with security updates than I was actually making content.
So when I read this post about how Octopress was going to change, I knew the day of reckoning had arrived. I either needed to wait to see what Octopress 3.0 was going to be about, or switch to an alternative. Then, I remembered Squarespace.
I created a a Squarespace page back in 2012 based on hearing about it on… well… every podcast ever. I didn't do much with it, but I re-opened my account this weekend and started the (somewhat painful) process of importing my blog Markdown files into Squarespace posts. It seems like I am stuck using some ancient version without all the bells and whistles they advertise today, so I guess I have upgrading to that to look forward to. In the meantime, I am fairly happy with the results and can safely shutdown my server and not worry (much) about security problems and software upgrades.
I do not regret using Octopress, I really liked using it and I think it's been a great project for anyone that wanted a slick static blogging system.
Now my only problem is figuring out what to write about…]]>
The only new issue that I've encountered that I don't remember from the Reader days are duplicated feed entries, which is only a big nuisance when it comes to a feed as active as Hacker News. The GitHub issue explains why this happens, but to summarize, Hacker News doesn't assign a unique ID to each post, so Feedbin tries to assign one for it. Unfortunately, the way an ID is generated means that if the post title changes, as is often the case with Hacker News, a new ID is generated and appears as a completely different post in my feed. It got to the point where I became suspicious of visiting any posts on a topic I'd already seen. However, this sort of mental burden is exactly the sort of thing software is supposed to relieve us of!
Instead of having to do any mental pre-filtering, I thought I'd let a bot do that work for me. The solution to this problem seems to be pretty simple: if a post links to a URL that I've already seen, skip it. So I needed to be able to do the following:
1. Fetch an RSS feed.
2. Compare the links in each entry to the links in previous entries.
3. If the link is found, skip the entry, otherwise mark the entry as visited.
4. Produce a curated feed from the source only containing new entries.
The first step would be the most technically challenging, but instead of writing this from scratch I assumed there would be a library I could use for this. Python has a pretty good library for this, feedparser, and I'd wanted to try learning the language as a break from what I normally use. It was easy to point it at a URL and get an object that contained the metadata I needed. The next step was some way to compare the links in the source feed to links I had visited previously. An sqlite database made this pretty simple. I just created a table containing a date and a URL. The date isn't used, but I knew I could go back later and prune the database size down by removing links that were, say, older than a month.
Now I had a system for looking at a RSS feed and finding links that were already published, but I needed a way to make use of it. It was pretty easy to construct a template with Jinja and build the feed, but that wasn't useful unless I could replace the source feed with this curated one. I thought about copying the file to Dropbox, but decided instead to use Amazon S3. There is a really nice Python library for AWS, boto. I was able to take the template, create a uniquely named bucket, and upload the feed. Making the bucket and the feed object public readable would allow the Feedbin bot access, and now I could just subscribe to the S3 URL directly. I wrote a small shell script and added a crontab to visit the source feed once an hour, which gives Feedbin plenty of time to see it before it updates.
After using this for a week, I've only run into one problem: since I'm using a direct string comparison with the entry URL, if there is a trailing slash in one but not the other, it appeared as a unique entry. That was easy enough to fix, and I'm pretty happy with how it has worked. There is plenty of room for improvement, and the code is on GitHub with an MIT license.]]>
The only frustrating thing about this process is that the naming scheme of the MP3s and the ISO are required to follow a specific format, or this won't work. This is from the GENS readme:
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While dealing with four or five files like the above example wouldn't be that bad, one game in particular had over 74 audio files! I was using my HTPC because it was the only Windows machine that Nero could run on, and I needed a quick solution to prefix the MP3 files properly, as well as the remove the "Unknown Artist - Unknown Title" crap Nero was appending to the extracted MP3 files. They aren't pretty or anything but here's a couple of VBScript files I used to do this. The first was adding the prefix (like "Blaster " in the example). The second removed a substring, "Unknown Arist - Unknown Title", by replacing it with an empty string. I could have used a better language but didn't want to bother with installing anything else on the machine. Thanks goes to this site for the majority of the code.
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I probably wasn't the only one surprised to see EA announce an online racing game back in 2001. Motor City Online was an interesting twist on the MMO genre. The early 2000s were boom times for MMOs, especially MMORPGs like Ultima Online, Everquest and Asheron's Call. However, genres other than RPGs were relatively uncharted territory, and being a fan of the Need for Speed series, I signed up for the beta.
The game was broken down into two modes: a web-like menu system where you'd spend most of your time, and the action piece of the game, the racetrack.
Most of your time in MCO was spent in these menus where you'd access all of the simulation management functions. This included things like customizing your character, but most of what you'd do was buy and sell cars, customize or repair your cars, or find and enter races. The system was very detailed, allowing you to auction off things as specific as a Dodge Charger body or a Ford Mustang 302 engine. Auctions were exciting and pretty well done, probably not exceeded until systems like the one Blizzard introduced for World of Warcraft.
If you've ever used eBay Motors, you're already familiar with how the buying and selling worked. You could buy new or used parts from other players as well as from a catalog of stock parts. This included functional upgrades, new cars, or neat window dressing like custom paint jobs, fuzzy dice, and a custom license plate.
Every player (at least in the beta) started with Ford Fairlane. Not being a car person, I have no idea whether this was actually a good car to race, but in MCO's game mechanics, it was equivalent to a wooden staff you might start with in an RPG. In order to earn money for fancier cars or car upgrades, you had to participate in "PVP", or in this game, win races against human opponents. It had a steep learning curve, and you were pretty much limited to going against other new players at first, as more expensive cars had huge advantages over cheaper ones. In fact, at least with the beta, the Nova pretty much destroyed every other car, so there might have been some balance issues.
I managed to win a few races and upgrade to a Chevelle which I had slightly better luck with. This was the pace of the game though: find a racing mode and opponents that were evenly matched; win a bunch of races; upgrade your car; rinse and repeat. There were definitely some cars that fared better in different modes, but finding the right combination of factors wasn't that interesting to me. The most fun I had was putting a bunch of random parts into a car just to see how it would effect its driving. As I recall, you could pretty much replace anything: the engine, the frame, the wheels, etc. I had frankenstein'd this car to have a 1958 Cadillac V8 instead of the stock Chevelle engine, mostly because the sound it made was really nice. Those kind of touches were really fun to discover, even if they didn't lead to much gameplay advantage.
The biggest downside of the game in beta was the actual racing mode. I'm sure they improved the game before it went public, but even compared to NFS titles that were out at the time, the graphics were bland and unimpressive. I think there were basically two POVs: third person slightly behind the car and first person inside the car. While MMOs aren't known for exceptional graphics, I think that's where being a racing MMO vs an MMORPG made this a bigger issue. The controls weren't great either, and at many times lag seemed to be a bigger factor than either player's abilities.
Another annoying aspect was that even though you could customize your avatar appearance, for most racing modes, your driver is in a suit with a helmet, making all drivers identical.
Looking back, I'm glad I didn't end up getting a subscription. I had some fun playing the game, and an online racing simulator was a pretty novel concept, so I'm glad EA tried it. EA did not give MCO a long shelf life, and being an online only game, once the servers went offline so did all of your cars. I think I got more mileage playing Gran Turismo 2, which had better graphics and gameplay, but pretty basic customization. I've missed that the most from what MCO had to offer, and it's a shame that no games since have captured the parts that made Motor City Online special.]]>
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Touche´ sir. Touche´. But then again…
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Since it seems that Microsoft will cave into any (sometimes non-existant) public opinion, let's use this opportunity to just shitcan Windows and be done with it.]]>
There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.
I think I know of a culprit for the latter case.]]>
The moral of this story is that some people don't buy every iPhone because they don't need or want to.]]>


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Score: Omaha 3 – Oral Roberts 0 (25-20, 25-21, 25-20)
Records: Omaha (16-11, 11-3); Oral Roberts (14-13, 8-6)
Location: Omaha, Neb. – Baxter Arena
OMAHA, Neb. – The Oral Roberts volleyball team was swept Tuesday night 3-0 at the University of Nebraska Omaha in Summit League action.
The Golden Eagles ended their road trip with a split as the Mavericks also sweep the season series. UNO controlled most of the match with a 25-20, 25-21, 25-20 victory.
After one of their best offensive performances of the season on Sunday, the Golden Eagles struggled hitting just .126 in the match. It was the lowest hitting percentage by ORU since posting a .125 mark against Omaha at home.
Laura Milos saw her streak of 20 or more kills come to an end as she finished with nine along with senior Jovana Poljasevic. Poljasevic was a bright spot for ORU offensively hitting .412 in the match.
Both Megan Schmale and Amy Taylor added nine kills apiece for the Mavericks as they helped UNO to a .250 hitting percentage.
Oral Roberts: Jovana Poljasevic finished with nine kills and a .412 hitting percentage for the Golden Eagles.
Omaha: Megan Schmale and Amy Taylor both finished with nine kills while Taylor posted a .500 hitting percentage. Schmale also added four blocks on the defensive side of the net.
- ORU failed to hit over the .200 mark in all three matches and posted its second lowest hitting percentage of the season at .126.
- Lucija Bojanjac recorded a double-double with 32 assists and 12 digs for her 13th double-double of the year and 24th double-double of her career.
- Poljasevic posted her second straight match with a hitting percentage over .400.
- Milos ended her streak of eight consecutive 20 kills matches.
- It was just the fifth time the Golden Eagles have been swept this season and first time since a 3-0 loss to Omaha at the Aerobics Center.
- Omaha sweeps the season series with ORU as the Golden Eagles lead the all-time series 5-3.
The Golden Eagles return to the Aerobics Center to close out the regular season against Denver on Friday and North Dakota State on Sunday. ORU will honor its two seniors Friday night against Denver.
For the latest information on ORU volleyball, follow @ORUAthletics on Twitter or go to www.ORUAthletics.com. Fans can also receive updates on the team by downloading the Golden Eagles Front Row App at ORUAthletics.com/frontrow or in the App Store.

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Two freshmen at Riverside's Martin Luther King High School will be charged with conspiracy to commit murder over an alleged plan to attack the school in 2020, according to police and school officials.
The students, both 15-year-old boys, were booked into Riverside County Juvenile Hall after being detained Monday at school, according to a news release issued jointly Tuesday by the Riverside Unified School District and the Riverside Police Department.
Someone tipped police about the alleged attack plan, and that the two students may have been carrying firearms. The teens were found to be in possession of knives and ammunition, but did not bring firearms to school, authorities said.
The investigation is ongoing. Riverside police asked anyone with information to contact Detective Jim Simons at 951-353-7138 or School Resource Officer Jeff Mattson at 951-789-5690, ext. 62249. Information may be relayed anonymously.
The King High incident was one of two threats discovered at Inland schools Monday. Graffiti of a threatening nature was found scrawled in a bathroom at the Mt. San Jacinto College campus in San Jacinto, authorities announced Tuesday. Patrols there will be increased, and students and employees were urged to "watch their surroundings."
King High Principal Michael West emailed parents Monday night about of the investigation at his school, located in Riverside's Orangecrest neighborhood. West echoed what police and school district officials have also said: that students and staff were at no point in danger.
At least six police cars were sent to the school Tuesday afternoon shortly before dismissal, not to respond to any current incident but as a visible display of police presence, Lt. Christian Dinco said.
Julie Tombyll said as she was picking up her daughter that news of the investigation didn't make her think her child was in danger.
"The school has always been very safe. I've had four students attend King High," Tombyll said.
RUSD Assistant Superintendent Timothy Walker, in the news release, praised quick an efficient action for keeping King High students and faculty out of danger.
"As soon as King High School received information on a potential threat, the District and the Riverside Police Department took swift action to identify and locate the students," Walker said.
Through questioning the students, police learned the attack was planned for the future, Dinco said. It was not imminent, he confirmed again Tuesday, contradicting some rumors being circulated.
Investigators searched the students' homes and found evidence that corroborated what the teens had told them, the news release said.
Authorities have not provided details about what the teens were believed to be planning, or what evidence was found.
The Riverside County District Attorney's Office did not file charges Tuesday, but plans to soon, Riverside police spokesman Officer Ryan Railsback said.
A third student detained Monday is still being questioned. That student's involvement with the other teens is still under investigation, Railsback said.
Everyone police believe may have been involved in the plot has been accounted for, Dinco said.
In the news release, Dinco commended the informant who spoke up about the planned attack.
"The Riverside Police Department encourages the public 'if you see something, say something,'" Dinco said. "RPD and RUSD are thankful we have citizens that stepped forward in this case."
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|Mikey please! "Eat your veggies!...ah Mikey will eat anything!"
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes,
packaged cake mixes,
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teach patience to its young? - Paul Sweeney
teaching them to plant potatoes, green beans, onions, yes tomatoes and definitely teach them to play Thematic Photographic at Written Inc.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Thematic Photographic # 163 Eat your veggies
8 comments:
- Tina´s PicStory said...
thanks for stopping by. the reflection is from the cutting machine :)
- September 20, 2011 at 8:19 AM
- Little Nell said...
Good point!
- September 20, 2011 at 8:31 AM
- laurak/ForestWalkArt :) said...
yeah...i think the main thing is to NOT get caught up in the first place with all the instant & canned stuff!
kids just don't know how to have a kick ball or stick ball game in the middle of the street anymore...do they?? or play hop scotch...or jump rope. HEY, wasn't it one of your posts a week or so ago...about the kids in the play yard? mother may i??
ok...i'm getting of track here...
YES!! eat your veggies! FRESH (or even frozen)...better than canned! and they LOOK way better than canned too! and TASTE way better... :)
- September 20, 2011 at 12:06 PM
- sage said...
Looks good, except for the fresh cut green beans! Now I am hungry.
- September 20, 2011 at 2:45 PM
- Max Sartin said...
Excellent comment. We're teaching the young to expect too much way too quickly. Nothing like the satisfaction of taking the time to cook meal yourself. And if you add in growing most of it yourself too...nice!
- September 20, 2011 at 3:58 PM
- darlin said...
My how times have changed, the BEST veggies come straight from the garden. I couldn't agree more that patience is learned through gardening, from start to finish and in preserving the veggies as well. The children today are missing out on so much, sad but true.
- September 21, 2011 at 7:39 AM
- Bob Scotney said...
Oh dear and we had oven-ready chips this evening! Unfortunately it's not just children we need to teach about fresh vegetables.
- September 21, 2011 at 11:41 AM
- carmilevy said...
Oooh, you've made me think with this one, Karen. So, so true: We've lost the ability - or is it perhaps the willingness - to teach our children that good things come to those who wait.
I do hope we eventually go back to a time when time is a slower, more appreciated commodity. For now, we just don't seem to get it, and you're aces for calling it out here.
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U.S.: Del Rey Avocado expands in Southern Californ … U.S.: Heavy flooding in Northern California vineya … You might also be interested in The California citrus sector is expecting a strong end to the season, which got off to a tough start last year and has so far been affected by a "series of dynamics", according to an industry representative.Joel Nelsen of the California Citrus Mutual said the industry faced challenges in its opening months last year due to an oversupply of poor quality imported fruit that lingered in the market, while over recent months a spate of heavy rain in production areas and adverse weather elsewhere in the country have limited growers' ability to satisfy demand."The first quarter of the season, which we define as October through December, was extremely difficult," Nelsen said. "We have never experienced this much tonnage this late in the calendar year. The definition of counter-seasonal has expanded tremendously and we have got to differential ourselves to a better degree than what we've done in the past."As well as the customer "confusion" caused by the abundance of imports in the U.S. market, a heatwave last year – which saw over 30 consecutive days with temperatures in excess of 100 degrees – led to smaller sizing during the start of the season.Sizing has improved in the first quarter of 2019, Nelsen said, but the heavy rains have resulted in problems getting the fruit harvested. While rains and good snowpack in a state that has faced a severe drought over recent years are of course positive in the long-term, he said that in the short-term it has created "some difficulty in satisfying demand".On top of this, storms and severe weather on the Eastern seaboard and in the Mid-West caused transportation issues for trucks.With more rain arriving in early March, Nelsen said the outlook remained relatively uncertain, but he was optimistic the coming few months would be more positive than the first."This is one season that has had a series of dynamics that has affected the year," he said. Strawberries in Charts: Expected California shorta … "Now, we've had some of the smaller fruit has begun to fall from the tree, which looks bad but makes harvesting easier because the good quality fruit remains on the free and we have a significant amount of volume – around 50% – of harvest left to go. So the anticipation is that the second half of the season will be much better," he said.California oranges and mandarins could be available until July 4 if the spring sees cool temperatures, but hot weather would likely result in a June finish.Lemons are so far about 30% of the way through their harvest, with the major volumes now about to begin in the Venture area.Exports have also been challenging this season, Nelsen said. The peak export period has now passed, although there will likely be some demand for Valencias from around April.Business is off "tremendously" in China due to the increased tariffs, although some importers are still willing to pay a higher price for consistent quality, Nelsen said."Unfortunately the volumes can't be absorbed in other markets. The Korean free trade agreement has created an opportunity for more sales, but countering that was the fulfillment of trade agreement with a number of countries of which the U.S. wasn't a part, so our product continues to arrive in the Asian theatre at a little bit higher price than some of the competition," he said."But right now demand from Korea is good, we're moving some tonnage into Japan, although it's fairly flat. Southeast Asia has a bit of difficulty, and Canada continues to be strong."Exports are not quite as good as they have been historically, so we're relying on that domestic market to a greater degree." Grapes in Charts: California sees low prices after … March 11 , 2019
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Should US trade 5 Gitmo "Senior" Taliban militants?
Talks of trading 5 (FIVE) Taliban terrorists in Guantanamo for one of our soldiers made me recall another such trade….. it involved a family member who was traded. Reading the news, I'm thinking that back in the day, the US … Continue reading
"You can't trust anybody with power." ~ Newt Gingrich
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Internal or is it 'Eternal' Revenue Service
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Newt Gingrich asked us if there was a better name for 'cell phones'
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THE Old Firm have met in many cup finals over the years, attracting massive attendances - with the 1962-63 Scottish Cup Final and replay pulling in unbelievable crowds...
K. DUNCAN (Glasgow) - Can you tell me when Rangers and Celtic first met in a Scottish Cup Final after 1946-47 when the cup competition returned after World War II.
They did not meet each other in the final until season 1962-63. They met on May 4, 1963, at Hampden and drew 1-1, watched by a crowd of 129,500.
The replay also at Hampden on May 15 saw Rangers win 3-0 in front of a 120,200 crowd with goals by Brand (2) and Wilson.
R. FORBES (Glasgow) - Could you tell me how many caps Bobby Evans of Celtic won throughout his career?
Evans won a total of 48 caps, just two short of being in the Scottish Football Association Roll of Honour.
He retired from football in 1967. He could play as a wing-half or centre-half and was Scotland's Player of the Year in 1953.
JIM (Newlands) - It is often the case that penalty-kicks, either missed or scored, change the outcome of a game. I am sure in Scotland games we missed penalties in crucial matches. Can you help me with some of the sad details?
At the 1978 World Cup Finals in Argentina we played a group match against Peru.
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In 1989 the Scotland Under-16 team reached the World Youth Cup Final at Hampden Park. Beating Saudi Arabia 2-1 and into the second half, Scotland were awarded a penalty.
Young Brian O'Neill, who had been an inspiration throughout the tournament, sadly missed. Saudi Arabia equalised and Scotland ended up losing 5-4 on penalties.
MARGARET HARKNESS (Dumbarton) - My eldest son is 40 soon. He was born on Saturday, September 7, 1974.Could you tell me the results of Rangers, Celtic and Dumbarton that day?
The results you are looking for were: Rangers 3 Partick Thistle 2, Clyde 2 Celtic 4 and Morton 1 Dumbarton 1.
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Muskrat Marsh Team Meeting Minutes - July 12, 2005
Location: Bulfinch Co. Meeting Hall, Cambridge Discovery Park
Date/Time: July 12, 2005 10:00 am
On July 12th, 2005, the Friends of Alewife Reservation (FAR) sponsored a meeting of the Muskrat Marsh Team in the Bulfinch Co. Meeting Hall in Cambridge Discovery Park. The team met to discuss the progress of ongoing research on the watershed (or "Muskrat Marsh") surrounding Little Pond and Little River in the Alewife Brook Reservation. Members in attendance included representatives of FAR, the Coalition for Alewife, the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management, the Horsley Witten Group, and Lesley University. The team discussed the best ways to monitor water quality, levels, and flow rates and chart the topography of the area. The group has already mapped the different types of vegetation and soil within the marsh. The long-term goal of the team is to assimilate all the biological, hydrological, and topographical data they collect into a proposal for a full restoration of the Muskrat Marsh and to gain state funding for the project. Ultimately, the team hopes improve the ecological function of the approximately 12 acres of degraded wetland.
In Attendance:
Neal Price (Horsley Witten Group)
Jeremy Bell (MA Office of Coastal Zone Management)
Susan Burke (Lesley University)
Dave Morimoto (Lesley University)
Don Bockler (FAR volunteer)
Stew Sanders (FAR steering board)
Steve Keliser (Alewife Coalition)
Elsie Fiore (Alewife Coalition/MyRA)
Emma Zinsmeister (FAR intern)
Ingeborg Hegemann
Tim Smith
Marc McQueen
Cori Beckwith
Jennifer Wright
William Taylor
Susan Redlich
Darrell King
Larry Boutiette
Bruce Carlisle
Mark DiOrio
Bill Parmenter
Ellen Reed
Update from Susan and Dave:
General consensus: Need feedback on quality of data already collected and additional data before progress can be made on a report/grant application. Should be OK since Tim Smith pointed out in comments on agenda that there are no grants that match up with this project and have deadlines in the fall.Needs for Future:


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RATT Producer Talks Stephen Pearcy – 3 Excerpts – Recording Out of the Cellar – full in bloom Interview
Out of the Cellar Producer Beau Hill Talks About RATT vocalist Stephen Pearcy
The 3 excerpts below were taken from the full in bloom interview with RATT producer / engineer Beau Hill.
Beau talks about recording / working with vocalist Stephen Pearcy on RATT's classic debut album, Out of the Cellar. Watch the clips below.
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Will You Know My Name
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Will You Know My Name
Decided to go back living out of state.
Had this thought of you and I was on my way.
Just walked out and left my bills unpaid.
Sitting alone on an Amtrak train
sliding along through the pouring rain
talked to myself have I gone insane.
Oh will you know my name
Oh oh girl will you be ashamed
Oh oh will it be the same.
Hurt my back getting off that train
Took a cab to your house
"man you can keep the change"
stood out front wondering why I came.
Oh oh will you know my name.
We had only two short days.
Lived all out lives to play those games.
I'm the one you could not tame and I bring fire in this rain
Pictures flying through my brain
We made out choices long ago and far way.
What could I possibly expect you to say.
"It was all good in its own way." Oh
You know my name,
why make you feel ashamed
and why change now we'll just walk away.
I you know my name,
Oh no one is to blame,
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Every so often, something fabulous catches your eye and the urge to redecorate strikes. But it feels wrong to replace something just for the sake of it. Apart from the expense, there's also an environmental toll when it comes to swapping existing pieces for new products. There is, however, a way to update your home and maintain eco credibility. Furnishing your house with second-hand finds is hardly a new idea, but it's worth considering the benefits.
"Each year, Salvos Stores across Australia prevent 60,000 tonnes of furniture, household items and garments from going into landfill," says Neville Barrett, General Manager of the Salvation Army's Salvos Stores. "When you buy second-hand, you also avoid the greenhouse emissions that would have been created if you'd bought the same thing new."
This ethos lies at the core of Salvos Stores' national Furnish with a Conscience initiative. This campaign aimsto show that buying pre-loved pieces is good for the environment, saves you money (while raising money for those in need) and offers a satisfying creative challenge. It has the backing of several design-industry professionals, including Sydney-based interior designer Gregory Mellor.
"We're not suggesting you redecorate entirely with second-hand items," says Mellor, "but it's worth having a look for a piece that's going to add character to your room.If you can look at a dusty old table and imagine it fixed or painted, you'll soon be seeing bargains everywhere."
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: Is there an easy way without out writing custom response writers to accept a : parameter on the request URL and then substitute that value in the response? there's nothing built in to support this using the syntax you are asking about, but one approach to consider instead of writing a custom response writer would be to use the VeolicityResponseWriter with a template that does the variable evaluation an then formats it into xml/json/whatever. Assuming you want your final output to be XML, i think this would also be fairly trivially with an XSLT (either server side or client side) if you use echoParams. (your template just needs to look at the params section of the responseHeader to know what to use as a substituion applied to all <str> nodes) -Hoss
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Thursday, December 4, 2008
Energy push
But that story will have to wait because I just got off the phone with CeCe, one of our patients and a former employee here. She's a gem and I love her. She is a very lovely and genuine person. She reminds me of Sheila*, only she's a lot less worried about terrorist cells in Michigan.
CeCe called this morning to place a supplement order and I mentioned in passing that we were pretty slow today. So she hung up and called back a few hours later to tell me what her plan was to get more people into the office. Here's what she said:
"Sweetie, after I finish my lunch I'm going to do a HUGE energy push on the office so be prepared. We're going to visualize and manifest success! First I'm going to drive out all the bad energy from your office. Really mix it up. And I'm going to push the bad energy out of the doctor's head space so her fears don't drag you down. Then I'm going to ground the practice to the core of the earth and let all that good energy rise up into it. Then I'm going to place guardian angels around the practice and then I'm going to call all the good spirits to come into your heart. So what I need you to do is help me out by doing the exact same thing on your end."
And I totally would, except that I forgot to put the guardian angels' numbers in my cell.
*It's a real shame that not all of you know Sheila. I use to work with her at the school district pre-blog. But years from now when I compile Rachel's Greatest Hits an entire section will be dedicated to her. Some of my best stories are of Sheila and her computer. I love her and miss her.
5 comments:
- The Cahoons! said...
It sounds like CeCe and the Doctor (or whatever she is) got along REALLY well... to say the least.
P.S. Did that guys come to the door when I was on the phone with you last night?
- December 4, 2008 at 4:00 PM
- Wendy said...
I are you sure this woman isn't related to Tyler's mom - or at least attend the same dojo?
- December 4, 2008 at 6:30 PM
- Amanda said...
How is it that you have this kind of luck? I don't know a single person like this? Huh? Don't be stingy and keep them all to yourself. I'm sure if I hung out in Madison more, I'd find some. Maybe a goal for the new year?
- December 5, 2008 at 9:43 AM
- AJ said...
you have the strangest job that brings you in contact with some of the finest oddities I have heard of. Good fodder for your future book!
- December 5, 2008 at 12:27 PM
- Valerie said...
I think a compilation of your greatest stories is a great idea. And then I think you should send i out to some literary agents and try to get it published. FOR REAL. Let's talk at Christmastime.
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In this episode, I tackle the five questions that every aspiring entrepreneur needs to ask before turning a creative hobby or side hustle into a profitable small business. I'll cover topics such as determining your costs, your time investment in your final product, working "in the business" versus working "on the business," and how to tap into your local community.
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For over a year, I've been a poorly-written side character in the story of my life.
Somewhere along the line, my ambitions turned into dreams, and only dreams. Something nice to look at, appreciate, and then move on. They stopped being things to pursue.
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I'm done being a bit character. I'm ready to be the protagonist.