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Return to in8sworld.net Venison from deer would also be on the menu. It has also given us a famous saying !! The poor would not be allowed to eat the best parts of a deer. However, in keeping with the spirit of Christmas, a decent lord might let the poor have what was left of the deer. These parts were known as the deer's umbles. These were the heart, liver, tongue, feet, ears and brains. Mixed with whatever else a cook could get, they were made into a pie. Therefore, the poor would eat umble pie. Nowadays, if you have taken a tumble in life and have to live a standard of life you would not usually be used to, it is said that you are having to eat humble pie. from http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/medieval_xmas.htm
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I think you are missing a very important concept if you can't recognize the importance of honor. The concept of honor is very ancient, and appears in all cultures, including the roots of our own (Info-European). In the old Irish, the word for honor was 'enech' which can be translated as 'face', and is related conceptually to 'reputation' from another Indo-European word meaning 'to hear'. If you maintain your 'face' in the eyes of the community, and have a good reputation, and people say good things about you, you have personal power and people will respect what you say, and you will have more influence over others. In the ancient cultures, a sense of honor (and dishonor) was thus defined by the community rather than chosen by an individual. The concept of honor is still operating subtly to this day, though in our incredibly self-centered and individualistic modern society, it does seem possible to live life without it. Personally, I would choose honor over dishonor any day. No, I'm saying that a man's concept of what is "right and wrong" is largely a product of what he has been taught is acceptable in whatever society he happens to have been raised in. Unless, or course he is a sociopath (and, by definition, has a psychological disorder that prevents him from learning these norms or otherwise having a disregard for them). Certainly a man's personal experiences will color his thinking, but it just happens that we were brought up in a society that values the right of the individual to choose alternate "correct behaviors" which fosters creative thinking and entrepreneurial success. But this strays a bit from my only point of disagreement with you: that a man might BELIEVE himself to be honorable, but the word (through a very long etymological history of use) IMPLIES a judgment by the society at large on the individual and has no real meaning as a personal choice.
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According to Phyllis Siefker, children would place their boots, filled with carrots, straw or sugar, near the chimney for Odin's flying horse, Sleipnir, to eat. Odin would then reward those children for their kindness by replacing Sleipnir's food with gifts or candy . This practice survived in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands after the adoption of Christianity and became associated with Saint Nicholas as a result of the process of Christianization and can be still seen in the modern practice of the hanging of stockings at the chimney in some homes. This practice in turn came to the United States through the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam prior to the British seizure in the 17th century, and evolved into the hanging of socks or stockings at the fireplace. In many regions of Austria and former Austro-Hungarian Italy (Friuli, city of Trieste) children are given sweets and gifts on Saint Nicholas's Day (San Niccol� in Italian), in accordance with the Catholic calendar, December the 6th. Numerous other influences from the pre-Christian Germanic winter celebrations have continued into modern Christmas celebrations such as the Christmas ham, Yule Goat, Yule logs and the Christmas tree.
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Killing all vncserver sessions
Watch the placing of the colon after kill. It should be vncserver -kill :1
The :1 is togethor. There is a space between kill and :1 so it Hope this helps.
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High Res for outside viewing" or
Incremental shift to High Res invert color
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40G Music 320G Raid 1 (150G space)
Services
Diskful - with drives
Seagate ST3500641AS 500GB SATA II
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make distclean
cd dosbox-0.72/
export PATH=opt/dosbox/bin:$PATH
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sudo port -d selfupdate
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Dandy. Yellow car. Purple velvet. UNIT Family. Worzel Gummidge. Venusian karate. Klokeda partha menin klatch. Whomobile. Action by HAVOC. All wearing eyepatches.
Season Seven - 1970
Season Nine - 1972
Season Eleven - 1973 - 1974
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"Mr. Gates acknowledged today that the company's error reporting
service indicated that 5 percent of all Windows-based computers
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6/3/2005 in System Software Notes by face
Controlling the dashboard. Sometimes you just don’t want it around. Make Dashboard go away defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES Make Dashboard come back defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean NO You have to restart the Dock to have this take effect killall Dock The terminal is your friend.
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This might change my mind about the iPhone/iTouch, but Apple likes to announce things a long time before you ever see them to build excitement. And, more exciting things are afoot - rumors are that Google may be developing a gPhone! They have been fighting with the big phone companies and lobbying the FCC over the terms of the upcoming sale of spectrum (which will be opened as TV is shifted out of the 700MHz bands). Google has stated that they want the spectrum to be "open" such that devices that work on that spectrum, as well as the programs used to connect to it should be "open". They have said that they will only participate in a bid for the spectrum if the FCC agrees to mandate that the access to and use of the spectrum by the public by open. This is NOT what exists now where cell phones and broadband access cards only work on one provider's network and must be 'hacked' to use it on another one, sometimes destroying the device in the process. This is yet another form of the DRM which I feel stifles entrepreneurial innovation and protects the behemoth mega-corporations, while actually removing rights from the people. On a related note, lest you think me a raving anti-patent nut, I do favor short term patents and copyright to protect small investors in the market place, but what we have now is a self-perpetuating monstrosity of copyright law that protects huge corporations for lifetime+95 years for no good reason other than the protection of established businesses. Who actually OWNS the radio spectrum? Shouldn't it be the people? Doesn't the FCC manage the spectrum for OUR benefit? The FCC has agreed with Google, and we may see the birth of a new internet provider this coming January. More than just an open phone, this may mean an open wireless network!
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Mediawiki settings I keep losing
from http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Anti-spam_Features If you want to create a "gated community" where new users can't even register without asking you to set up an account for them, add the following to your LocalSettings.php:
#Disallow creating accounts
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Posted by: in8sworld | September 02, 2007 at 08:04 PM
A look at the tables I referenced shows that since the 1700s the average American worker has been working less and less on average almost every year. We work more hours on average than many other countries it's true, but not by much, and there are a lot of countries (including Korea of all places) that work far more than us. The reports don't mention that Americans work in generally better conditions and for much more money and with better worker protections than their foreign counterparts. The average Chinese factory worker makes about $4,500 per year. The average American household income is about $46,000! So we work alot, and guess what? We're richer than everyone else - no big surprise there frankly. Most Americans need to start sucking it up, stop complaining, get off their asses and start doing their part to support the millions of retirees, unemployed, disabled and welfare-bound that are counting on us. Nobody is forcing you to work harder than those workers in the rest of the world! If you want to, you can sit on your ass in front of the TV and drink beer all day. The choice is yours, it's a free country. You are free to be a lousy, drunken do-nothing bum if you want to. Unfortunately you probably have inherited the work ethic of a bunch of crazy puritans and that just isn't an option... sucks to be you.
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Posted by: | September 02, 2007 at 05:18 AM
@Non-Prophet - the population of the US has been increasing steadily since 1960, so this graph doesn't show the effects of real demand, but instead speculation, IMO. There will need to be a correction soon, and there will be a lot of pain as people realize their investment may not pay off as handsomely in their lifetime as they thought. @Swiss Miss - America enshrined the importance and rights of the individual in it's constitution. It is what made America the seat of invention and the entrepreneurial capital of the world. We competed against countries whose hands were tied by tradition and subservience to conservative authorities, and we kicked their collective ass in these areas. We still do, in most respects. There are only two real competitors in the world for invention and engineering pre-eminence, and both have political and economic systems molded in our image (Japan and Germany). China may be a manufacturing powerhouse, but the designs are still coming out of these three countries. They are essentially cheap labor at this point, but it certainly won't stay that way for long. The number of hours worked by the average American worker has been declining every year since the founding of the country!
http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/whaples.work.hours.us If by the older generation you mean the baby boomers, perhaps you're right that they don't understand the current generation's plight. We will not do as well as they did on average. However, if you talk to somebody who lived through the great depression, I think you'll find we're doing quite well. The problem for most families today is that they are trying to live the life of royalty, jetting here and there on several vacations a year, keeping up care and feeding on several brand new automobiles, going out to eat several times a week, paying exorbitant rates for information (something previous generations did not do) - ie: internet + cell phone + cable + subscriptions + movies, etc. If Americans learned how to live more simply and within their means, we would have a stronger economy. Basically more people live beyond their means on credit, and mortgage their future. IMO this is not a fault of the American ideal of the individual, but rather the collective result of many individual's failure to take personal responsibility. Why did the baby boomers fail to teach financial responsibility to their kids? In an economy that is always going up, there is little incentive to be cautious. This will certainly swing back the other way soon, but there will be a lot of pain first. I don't think it's really necessary to rewrite our social contracts at this time, but a mandatory personal economics course in high school might help.
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One interesting thing that this post led me to discover was that the legendary fire that destroyed the library, and all its amazing contents is not much more than that - legend. I had always thought the great fire that destroyed the library was a known fact, but apparently not - the library's destruction has been blamed on several different folks over time. http://www.bede.org.uk/library.htm
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from http://www.coloradocyclist.com/bikefit/
nate inseam: 84 cm
To size your C-T (center of bottom bracket to top of seat tube) road frame, we use a guideline of .67 x inseam length. For example, if you have an 85cm inseam, your C-T frame size would be .67 x 85cm, or 57cm. For a mountain bike, we start by recommending a frame in the range of 10–12cm smaller than you take in a road frame. Unfortunately, there is no formula for sizing the top tube and stem that works as well as the inseam method. One indicator comes from glancing down at the front hub while riding in the drops; your view of the the front hub should be obstructed by the handlebar. LeMond recommends that your elbows, bent at 65–70° with your hands in the drops, should be within an inch or two of your knees at the top of your stroke.
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How to compress speech in lame
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007from http://howto.dubbo.org/category/audio/
I’ve been playing round with getting good quality compressed speech.
1. SMALLEST FILE SIZE ACCEPTABLE QUALITY. -V 9 –vbr-new -mm -h -q 0
2. An even better option than above but slightly more complicated is: -V 8 –vbr-new -h -q 0
3. BEST QUALITY AND ACCEPTABLE FILE SIZE. –preset voice OR -V 8 –vbr-new -h -q 0
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I successfully created a repository in ~/myproj called spec with the contents of my ~/Sites/frc/spec directory by CDing into that spec directory and issuing: cvs import -m "FRC spec" spec specphp spec_0It was driving me crazy, since I was always issuing the command from the myproj directory at first and it was dumping all the other projects in the myproj directory in there too. Trouble is, it didn't create a directory called spec in there, so you can't see the files there or anything. You just have to know that its been checked in? Well I'm still learning my way around. I suppose you can list the modules easily enough. Remember that after importing the project, rename the original directory (to move it out of the way). Then use cvs checkout to check out the project to the original location. Once you verify its all there, you can delete the original directory.
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While idle during the game (not moving or attacking)press Y, B, A, B, Y, X.
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I originally had a post in Geeklog which was indexed in search engines here and there and linked off friend's sites. Instead of getting them to change the link, I used a Redirect rule in my .htaccess file to point to the right place.
The original Geeklog url had a query string (the question mark and equals sign part)
When I moved the site to Wordpress, the same page now lives here:
I added these two lines to my .htaccess (on Dreamhost this has to reside in the 'domain directory'): The first line says to look for a condition where
rewriteCond %{query_string} story=20040426185512453
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Now go on down the log. Hey! Well that was a long way to get around the river
wasn't it? Anywho, drop down and start collectin'. Or not. There's a TON of
Open the chest up and then go to that green vine. It carries you up to a little
There are some SP and pods down by the water, then I suggest you save because
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There's lots of ways to do this area. Here's just one of them.
Hop onto that raft and when it comes around and past the save station again,
Now get onto the raft again and this time jump onto that little island that has
Now back, and through the hole in the tree ahead to the blue chest. Nice. See
Hanging from the tree with the tunnel in it there is another vine. This one's Now go to the save station and save again.
Back on the raft and get that green CP on that island if you haven't. Then ride
To place the Urns (apparently they are in alphabetical order) you need to
Yikes! It's the Wight Lord! The mushrooms regenerate in this area so if you
An alternate method, and one that I use myself is to rush the Wight Lord as
Finally he is dead! Or banished, whatever, and you can easily take out that
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#:1497621 6:14 pm on May 12, 2005 (utc 0) This stuff is rather complex. It involves converting the octets (the groups of numbers delimited by the periods) of the address or address range to binary, and then generating a "mask" that is used during comparison of the incoming address and the specified allow/deny directives. A basic example would be that you want to deny 192.168.192.0 through 192.168.255.255 In binary (use the Windows calculator or equivalent) that is 11000000.10101000.11000000.00000000 through 11000000.10101000.11111111.11111111 Having derived that, you now need to generate either a netmask or a CIDR. The easiest way to do it is to line up the start/end addresses vertically, and then examine them to see which bits change between the first and last address of the range. Then mark those that don't change with ones and those that do with zeroes:
11000000.10101000.11000000.00000000 This yields the netmask, which when converted back to decimal octets is 255.255.192.0 To get a CIDR, you count the number of ones from the left, in this case 18. So, you would use
Deny from 192.168.192.0/255.255.192.0 (Network/netmask pair -or- Note that when the netmask contains trailing octets containing all zeroes, you can simply leave them off and use a simple partial IP address. An example would be 172.0.0.0 through 172.0.0.255, which could be specified as a partial IP address as: Deny from 172.0.0. For more information, do a search for "netmask" and "CIDR." There are also several online netmask and CIDR generators avaialble. In addition, if you look up your problem IP addresses in ARIN, the CIDR value is often given in the data record containing that IP address. Unfortunately, this is as simple as it gets. Jim
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For the originals see:
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#pw+229145642711766+7#
from another site:
#pw+237145655553553+7#
more stuff:
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Lame settings for Audible AA files
. OK, Audible files are low quality relatively and they have four different formats
So the best mappings appears to be these settings from afterdawn Many folks by the way are using Goldwave and MP3PO from Nerdex to do this. It was designed to take big MP3 files and split them. I probably will keep using MP3Directcut for this mainly because I know how to use it. Given this, the right setting would seem to be format 4 and then the lame settings would be given the many lame switches _lame -m m --highpass 11 --mp3input -abr 32 However, if you are using DBPowerAmp, its interesting to note that if you don't supply any parameter at all (!!!), it appears to work about right. Somehow the thing figures everything out and you have about the same length .mp3 as .aa. Wow!
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How to have public and private image areas in Drupal
Submitted by david on Thu, 29/09/2005 - 14:23. One concern when using the Upload Image plugin is that all of the images embedded in articles will show up in browsable Image Galleries. This is how to set up Drupal to avoid this. This main thing to grasp is that when you create a new image gallery through the Image module, it creates for you a new taxonomy category in Drupal for you. However the reverse is not true - a taxonomy category for images created in Drupal does not show up in the Image Galleries. Thus to create a ‘private’ upload directory for images, just go to Admin->Categories and create a new taxonomy - say Private, and set it to apply just to nodes of type Image. Then add a category to that taxonomy - say Images. Now you will find that when you use the UploadImage module, you can select the Private/Images category and upload images to it without it showing up in the image galleries. Similarly, you can hide images created using the Create->New Image node creation facility. Note: If you are using a Site Map module such as SiteMap or SiteMenu, you should add your Private taxonomy to the list of those that the site map should ignore or omit.
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I set up a new Drupal site, and once it was up and running on the hosting server which already had mod_rewrite enabled, I set it up to use mod_rewrite to clean up the URL presented in the address bar so that addresses would not appear with a ?q= in the address. In order to have a backup system running on my laptop, I had to figure out how to enable the same thing myself on my powerbook. First thing to do was alter the /etc/httpd/httpd.conf file
Both of these critical lines were already not commented:
There was already a section which defines
I changed the DocumentRoot to point to /Users/in8/Sites from what I had it set for because I wasn't sure how I would be able to reference my tdb2 directory from the default /Library/WebServer/Documents directory. (It is a subdirectory of my home Sites directory)
I added a new Directory pointing to my tdb2 directory which allows .htaccess files to override settings (that's where I'll do the rewrite)
I'm running Apache/1.3.33 Server at 10.0.1.3 Port 80,
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Configure php 4.4 on OS X with GD support
Never did bother to figure out why I couldn't get GD to work when I compiled it in 2005, and looks like I may have forgotten to add these libraries in Nov. 2006 when I apparently compiled 4.4 again, and now I need it to make Drupal function properly with images.
It relies on the following libraries, which I didn't have, so used fink to get them.
Grabbed zlib source (it's not in fink either) I still had php source in /source/php-4.4.0
./configure --with-zlib-dir=/usr/local --with-libjpeg=/sw --with-libtiff=/sw --with-gd --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql --with-xml --with-apxs --enable-mbstring
sudo make
[in8spbook:/source/php-4.4.0] in8% sudo make install OK, so the install puts php in /usr/local/bin! That explains some stuff. To see which php is the default:
[in8spbook:/usr/local/bin] in8% which php, but it returns:
and check the version
Checked and this line was already in /etc/httpd/httpd.conf: but phpinfo still shows the build from Nov. 1, 2006!
Says to copy /apps/php-4.3.4/php.ini-dist to /usr/local/lib/php.ini OH! Forgot to restart apache (System Prefs | Web Sharing)
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htaccess file for in8sworld to screw spammers
RewriteEngine on
SetEnvIfNoCase Referer 209.8.22.250 spammer=yes
deny from 64.71.131.110 allow from all ErrorDocument 404 /blog/index.php?error=404
RedirectMatch temp ^/$ http://www.in8sworld.net/blog
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