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So... I figure I'm not looking quite right.
And there are those in this universe who say I don't ask around enough, search online -which is frustrating as the Internet is not what it needs to be when you are searching for things: which is to say when you're searching it needs to be a True Domesday Book.

And so without further ado:

I am trying to find an Audio Ubergeek website that when you click on say... an

Onkyo TX-SR707

It shows you data on the unit, the manufacturer's spam (via links preferably), local opinions, and most importantly... WHAT YOU MIGHT WANT INSTEAD... from any other brand. And no not just what (store) has... but WHAT CAN BE FOUND... Anywhere!

Thus if I looked up the Onkyo Rosencrantz, I'd see

that it had every Surround Option... plus that new Valhalla DSP
that I'd get a link to Onkyo's website on the device,
that Bob47 has one, but it destroyed his theater cabinet because it is 250LBS. Also how Seiryo mounted his in a chair and as the bugger runs at 85 degrees all the time warms his RealDoll with it.
that due to the weight I might want to get:

Yamaha Guildenstern instead which is only the size of a Dell Server.
Pioneer SpaceFolder -with a built in Beowulf Cluster to protect and serve your music and video
Denon Illuminatum - which has NO user serviceable parts, but will never breakdown anyway
Marantz's Pinnacle -which has issues with sharp edges and an odd case design
Philips 'Olympus Sound Mountain' -which people think just sounds pretentious... and think it is a camera...
Sony's XXDoubleZ-04 will be out next month but you might not want to wait as while it does everything everyone else does product testing reveals that it's too fragile... even though it's the size of a VAIO... and of course due to size can be annoying to fully and completely cable even with the 45 proprietary jacks for just about everything.

So yeah. Someone from the future, an esper, machine intelligence, or alien please reply. domo arigatou gozimashite. (And yeah I was just trying have the most syllables there for thank you in Japanese... and probably blew it. I mean there's bound to be a longer way `-`~.)

I have a temptation to make fake wiki articles now on my wiki for these Mythical products. `-`

Current Music: The wondering what I'll have for Lunch Samba

Other things I've done this week
http://wiki.greypages.org/index.php/Adam_Willis(From_A_Dream,_From_Space_Or_Magic_-_I'll_Hunt_You_Down_And_Stab_You)

The things I dream about eh? And to think I haven't watched the Surrogate trailer for... wow... dunno. I'm seeing Gamer in probably 12 hours. Maybe that's where 'Sheryl' comes from... of course I just see her as a 'In case of problem... call in Sheryl.'

As you can see from the ALMOST UNRELATED character write up... Proudmore probably shouldn't have been playing in the room where the fit hit the shan and the shan tried to summon an elder god... but well got devoured and expelled.

I will admit that I had been thinking about ShadowRun this week so that could explain some of the Hodgepodging and Themeblendering. I mean Adam West-like Dialogue coming out of Bruce Willi's face while he enters a crime scene that could have anything from fantasy folklore, aliens, or mythos horror... and maybe even several at the same time.

Good Times eh?

"Where's the ending?"

I suppose I could toss something together.

"NOOO! Spend some time on it!"

I dreamed that. Then penned that in an hour and a half. 3pm to 4:30pm

At least I didn't record voice samples or anything.

So. Found something mildly intriguing at:

www.stevencarlson.net/2009/03/05/a-better-apache-error-log-viewer/

And then spent chunks of the week trying to make it work. Why so long? Well. I'm going to break some people.

First let's talk about the success:

After I cleared an inexplicable divide by zero error out, and some minor tweaking to point at my apache logs... and then set up perl to want to run the script... it ran beautifully. It also allowed me to make a few more tweaks to squash a few bugs found:

Running Apache on Windows with Strawberry-Perl.

Now's a great time for an LJ-Cut... because 'no-one' wants to hear about Windows.

( Oh no! Windows! Scawy! Wun Nao! Every cat for themselfs! )

So how is everyone else? @.@

Current Mood: ditzy
Current Music: Case Fans Only

So the wiki is...
Not busted [' ']

All wikis start out GIMPED. Almost no templates, almost no extensions. Because they've yet to come up with a collection that's all (something).

Now then so far as I've seen... they tell you about the Extension situation. I've yet to see where the template situation is explained.

So what does everyone end up doing? Going to a wiki they like and going to Special:Export and exporting damned near everything in say Category:Templates and then importing into their own. Then just zapping what they hate into the bit bucket.

So given that this is probably a tacit KNOWN occurrence, what's the hold up on the all (something) template collection? Hard to say I've only seen the 'Can we get a collection?' on a talk page that's several months old. With no reply no less.

Current Mood: apathetic

STILL HERE [' ']
STILL IN WIKIHELL [' ']

More and more I fear that my wiki went in busted. However I'm fairly without proof about this. Granted I have had to add scads of templates by hand, BUT I do not know if that's S.O.P or not.

"Well I'd say..."

Running it on Windows.

"*crickets* *... and maybe some spit*"

Daily my opinion grows to such levels for EVERY OS community. I suck down your hatred and raise you a pipe wrench to your face.

STILL FULLER OF HATE [' ']

Current Mood: tired
Current Music: Fans

so...
Cat in center of bed :/
Headache size of condor... can't sleep anyway.

Anyfey I have a Question, Internet.

Why did I have to spend so long just finding out that the following on a Wiki:

Main > Bob
Main > Bob > Bob's Recipes
Main > Bob > Bob's Recipes > Bob's Recipes for Vegan Sushi
[Yeah Vinegar Rice should be Vegan anyway -dependent on the vinegar-]

Is called 'breadcrumbs'?

I mean holy hell internet... that was several hours of PAIN because 'the crap' isn't labeled ANYWHERE. And then of course some of the initial "do this for breadcrumbs" code is ANCIENT. But still I can fathom that. And...

Hmmm? What's that Internet?

"Why can you fathom that of me?", you ask oh faithful Internet?

Because you love putting something up -50 times if you can- and then never updating it. I suppose, Internet, that we disagree as to how 'Iconic' you are. In any event. It should not have taken hours to find that on you. Not after the far more sensible searches I made.

Consider yourself chastised. Please do not do this again, Internet. I am armed and unstable. The Voices in My Head tell me so.

Current Mood: drained
Current Music: Switch Fan

Hrm :/
I am going to whine about my connection now. Feel free to ignore

( Link Wangst )
That's it for link Wangst. Now for Pipeless Pipe Dreams while enjoying a headache.

( Pipeless Pipe Dreams )

I'm basically no longer pumped to make this post so I'll just submit it and work on it later or something.

Current Mood: aggravated

Feeling thirsty and mischievous

And no you don't have to click. I just feel the support urge.

"You're an affiliate apparently also."

Yep. Not like anyone is likely to need to click from my LJ. I mean you're on the internet, you <b>knew</b> about this already. Took me hearing about it from a friend who is always surfing <a href="http://kotaku.com">Kotaku</a>.

You've probably already pre-ordered from your favorite (insert a blog type entity converted from verb -like 'to blog'- to a verb -like 'blogger'- here)'s affiliate link. I', just a guy who cackles when he looks at the graphic so HERE IT IS! Well up there.

And now the primary reason I posted this to LJ... to pop up a naughty slogan!

Tentacle Grape. Fills you with caffeine as it slides down your throat- whether you like it or not...

Current Mood: graped o.O
Current Music: 4.7 Days worth of music and counting.

So ... interesting reading...
And all I had to do was be a little bored at work. We'll not discuss why I'm bored at work lest someone look in and see me-a going on and on.

Greypages. Apparently is a BUZZWORD. yay. -.-;;;;

Yeah... it's big in Australia with a .ES domain and everything. All I wanna know is how long it's been there... how much of the traffic floating through my sites is just curious people wondering what this OTHER greypages is all about ;.;

MY site for reference: http://GreyPages.Org

... only reason it is grey is due to one of my favorite internet background colors (grey), and the fact I did in all honesty already have that little flipping book thing from somewhere ... and it's pages are grey.

Knew I should have gotten that nice Grey Elf Maiden Dressed as a Page art done. "Did you ever fish around for such?" Heavens no! It sounded kinda silly. ". . . " besides what would stop me from putting the lass in The Arc? ... Are you drooling?

Current Mood: bored
Current Music: Wrath of the Lich King soundtrack

So... nice to look around and see...
that once again I've forgotten to update something online.

So why update now? Well I was firing Xenu Link Sleuth at my websites AGAIN... and started clicking links nostalgically... because I have no time for fullscale rewrites... certainly not while still in the New Webserver Shakedown Process... and tripped over Catt-chan's LJ and figured I needed to see my own last update. January. Yikes.

Anyway... When paying an artist... recall that their time is very valuable. They are contract workers. Reboot Monkeys often at least make 10 dollars an our for their often highly unskilled labor. An Artisan is highly skilled labor and should be funded accordingly.

This has been your QuickUpdate. Now to wait another 6 months before the next one *flee*

Dell Poweredge R200...
... does indeed love CentOS 5.1 disk 1 of 7 for installation and I CAN SEE DRIVES purposes.

What I work in a Data-Center and people might need to know these things.

Poll #1122684 Mahou Shounen Mannequins
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 5

"You need a mannequin < For some reason >, and a friend somehow knows about a nice one getting tossed for a newer skinnier model (Rumor has it... a Stick Figure.). You sneak to the site and with your friend's help... you take the sealed mannequin bag home. Your friend leaves after you get there sighting issues with owning a mannequin (probably that there weren't secretly two or that they hadn't blurted out they knew about one already). You open the mannequin equivalent of a body bag and find -well it's a mannequin not a body yay- and that it's wearing some outlandish mahou shounen (magical boy... Tuxedo Mask... He-man... Captain Marvel) outfit. The question is: Do you try it on? As it looks to just about fit...

View Answers

Yes
4 (80.0%)

No
0 (0.0%)

Other
1 (20.0%)

Current Mood: groggy
Current Music: Metroid Prime OST

Server Construction a rant of Stature and Length sorta
So... I rebuilding my new Vista Server (insert boos and hisses here), and I'm trying to GUESS how much power I'm already drawing BEFORE I put in the hard drives.

( Read more... )

Too bad I don't know what numbers I need. I've got billions of numbers if I look around...

"Well what are you trying to do just rebuild? Use the single TB configuration."

Well...

"Uh oh..."

I want to fill the case with drives.

"FFS!"

I know ;.; It's why I wish I knew what numbers I need.

"Buy a server chassis!"

I do NOT want to buy a 3U server. I'm not racking this.

"I did NOT hear that... lalalala"

So yeah. Power Math. Anybody seen an online calculator for this kinda thing?

Current Mood: annoyed
Current Music: Metroid Prime OST

Just realized something odd...
I'd probably mess with people if I made a web job board site... have an example career as harem guard or something... and how to go about finding an employer/employee... good places to get gelded...

Current Mood: amused

Oddly Hypothetical Today... so Poll.
Poll #1052038 The Hypothetical Question Poll
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 5

"You need a mannequin < For some reason >, and a friend somehow knows about a nice one getting tossed for a newer skinnier model (Rumor has it... a Stick Figure.). You sneak to the sight and with your friend's help... you take the sealed mannequin home. Friend leaves after you get there sighting issues with owning a mannequin (probabyl that there weren't secretly two or that they hadn't blurted out they knew about one already). You open the mannequin equivalent of a body bag and find -well it's a mannequin not a body yay- and that it's wearing some outlandish mahou shoujo (magical girl... Sailor Moon... She-Ra... Wonder-Woman) outfit. The question is: Do you try it on? As it looks to just about fit...

View Answers

Yes
4 (80.0%)

No
1 (20.0%)

Other
0 (0.0%)

Granted Self Perception weighs in... Personal Gender Identity -and confidence in it- eTC eTC. And of course any desire to take pictures of yourself as such. And And I wonder if I should make one much more attuned to mahou shounen

So... anyone else wishing they had wings so they wouldn't just PLUMMET out of the sky if their plane goes belly up on Sunday Monring or Evening?

Current Mood: anxious

And so I ask the world...
Or at least hopefully get people musing about this, and maybe taunt me... I'm currently staring at a Maxtor 6L300S0 with a manufacturing date of 19Dec2005 that will not let any box it's powered up in POST. Not even power up. It is as if the second something tries to happen with the drive -like spin up- down it goes. So what happened? Power Supply gave out - literally smoked out. Replaced. System would not power up with SATA drive installed. Got a new MB thinking that was the then unknown issue. System would not power up with SATA drive installed. Carefully installed one drive at a time after being certain no power remained floating through the circuits. Everything worked except the SATA drive which caused the box to NOT be able to even POST. Recap: Regardless of which box or power adaption method I've chosen the drive will flatline anything it's in. Even got an external power adaptor powered extranal enclosure's apator to WHINE oddly when I plugged it in to that. As I don't really have 'legal' right to the porn I've legally downloaded -can't have Data Recovery techs copying it for themselves... I don't HAVE distribution rights- I can't say just send it to Seagate's Data Recovery center. Now all the data is sacred to me... yep... even all 563582638351.arfarf copies of desktop.ini -and because I've already thought abnout it- just saying 'toss it dude it's dead' is not a good response. I'm looking for the well thought out musings or crackpot ideas you've heard worked. Especially in a situation like this. I mean I might have *2* working motherboards for all I know... hell the old PSU might not even be 'dead' just shorted out in a violent way because the DRIVE decided to go south. I dunno. Help @.@ (laughing is valid too) It's been a little while since this happened by the by... kinda finally recovering from the motherboard purchase wallet wise.

Current Mood: awake

Promomitron Anchor Assault
You'll probably wanna be a bit more specific with this but... I'm sure others already have this.

I DID NOT FIND ANYTHING THAT SPECIFIED THIS TILL I PLAYED ALL DAMN MORNING FOR IT.

Thus I put it out there just incase:

Name: 	 	"Anchor Assault"
Bounds: 	<a href="*">
Matching: 	(*)\1#(\w)\2 (*)\3
Replace: 	\1 \3

Stupidly easy. At least it LOOKS like it was. Probably why I couldn't find it. All the hip kids already knew and WERE SECRET LAUGHING AT ME WITHOUT KNOWING WHY EVERYTIME I FAILED. I imagine alot of people were fucking orgasmic from hideous laughter this morning. I hope they're hit with tire irons. I couldn't fucking STAND trying to figure this out. But I'm also sick of webpages that can break a spidering tool by somehow making all their links LOOK unique -even when they aren't- by something fubaring the reading of a simple anchor.

I'm sure the wakaba boards would also love something like this too. No more 50000000 extra hits when someone is hit with 'gotta have sweet!' and spiders /d with their paqrat.

For those squicked by my bringing up /d... and are still reading... Dracula Penis Docking... there. You should be very squicked now with the image of two vampiric hermaphrodites docking their more masculine bits... probably while they bite each other's necks.

For those turned on... uh... go request art of that... I'll be... out of the way of the stampede.

Weirdness... and pills
Well and my alternate biology.

Right so... On the one hand it's kinda nice that with all the pill taking (more than once a day to me might as well be once a second hence the 'all the pill taking') I keep a bit more hydrated than I'm used to being. On the other hand it's really annoying because it's easy for me to remmber ONE pill time. Two is impossible. I don't wanna know about 3+ But to continue with why it's annoying.

I can't take anything else on some of these. One pill GRAPEFRUIT JUICE is it's kryptonite, and another sunlight (2+ hours) and aspirin are frowned on. Not that aspirin WORKS for me but sometimes my mind and physiology will accept that it MIGHT work and so it kinda gets to TRY to do it's job.

"But Bob..."
"Wait why are you calling me Bob?"
"I call everyone on the internet Bob."
"Um... Okay."
"Anyway... but Bob... what DO you do for headaches?"
"I take Centrum."
"VITAMINS?!"
"It works. It's probably just a psychological thing, but I highly believe they'll work so presto."
"And you hinted I'm nuts for calling everyone on the internet Bob. Pshaw."
"Wait till you hear that Caffiene hits me like Alcholic BEverages hit everyone else... With the sweating and the can sleep whenever I feel like it for the first 2-4 hours after I've had a can and then I'm wired after that."
"I'm talking to a Freak."
"Yes Bob. You are."
"Good to know you know, Bob."
"Good to know that you know that I know, Bob."

P.S. To Explain the 'Music' There. Killer Loli music is the kind of thing you could hear coming out of a Killer Loli's iPod while they're playing 3 different Shooting games at the arcade, while watching the place for their intended targets. Usually a boy or girlfriend (even if the target is unaware of their newfound 'good' fortune), and anything they want to hurt in a bad way (often NOT the same being... unless you ask THEM that is). It's unknown what exactly Killer Shouta listen to as many that are common are too grumpy or too angsty to go to arcades for pseudokilling. There are probably several here and there that can blend in well but only play one game expertly so you can't tell them apart from the other game experts. This Post Script by early morning lack of skull hydration pain and insanity ^-x

Current Mood: apathetic
Current Music: Killer Loli Songs from Lordi

Pirate Names and Pirate Games

My pirate name is:

Black Jack Flint

Like anyone confronted with the harshness of robbery on the high seas, you can be pessimistic at times. Like the rock flint, you're hard and sharp. But, also like flint, you're easily chipped, and sparky. Arr!

Get your own pirate name from fidius.org.

Current Mood: groggy
Current Music: Arr