“…debating Fahrenheit 911 is a lot like chatting up a fish stick: even if you score, you’re scoring with a tube of hastily processed, frozen breaded cod bits.”
— Protein WisdomDear Blizzard Entertainment,
Your understanding of the BitTorrent protocol is seriously flawed. I’m watching the Connection Info window for the current World of Warcraft patch, and its behavior is, to be kind, pathetic.
With any halfway-rational client, this would be one of the healthiest swarms on the planet right now, but all I see is an endless stream of connections with other machines that all have data that the others want, but refuse to share. If you were doing anything right, I’d be frantically throttling my connection, because I’m sitting on a 100 megabit pipe with 99.9% of the patch. As it is, I’m occasionally uploading at 8 kbps for 30 seconds or so to a machine that then disconnects, and that’s enough to give me a 1.22 ratio.
Editing: it's not just for dead trees
Latest headline on Slashdot:
Mozilla Mulls Dropping Firefox For Win2K, Early XP
Took me a moment to parse that the way they intended…
"This. Is. My. BROOMSTICK!"
#!/bin/bash
cd deferred
find . -type f | split
for i in xa*; do
for j in $(cat $i); do
echo -n "$j " #literal tab
postcat $j | awk '
/^From: / {f=$0}
/^To: / {t=$0}
/^Subject: / {s=$0}
END {printf("%s\t%s\t%s\n",f,t,s)}'
done >> /tmp/jfoo
done
Open in Excel, sort to taste, cleanup as needed, save for later use...
Hello!Project Telepathy Project
Ai says, “OMGWTFBBQ! ROFLMAO! Can you believe this? They forgot to put feathers on my hat!”
Hello!Project Telepathy Project
Reina asks, “God, why can’t I get that Duran Duran song out of my head?”
Page 3 gets it right (NSFW!)
I give the folks at Page 3 abuse when they deliver horrible pin-ups, so it’s only fair that I praise them when they get it right. Warm skin tones? Check. Flattering pose? Check. Model alive and aware? Check. Proper lighting? Check. Lingerie that works with her curves rather than against them? Check.
Pretty girl wearing very little? Check. Not safe for work? Check.
Beauty School Dropout...
From Costumes, Inc., we have this little gem:
"Go Grease Lightening with costumes from Grease."
Dear Apple,
[update: don’t ask me how the kanji open-quote got turned into an accented a; it’s an ecto/MovableType thing that happens occasionally]
Unlike Windows (any version), Mac OS X correctly keeps track of keyboard layouts, even going so far as to ask the user about possibly non-standard layouts. Except in the Kotoeri input method, where it insists that all keyboards share the same layout, so that my English external keyboard is assumed to have the same layout as my laptop’s built-in Japanese keyboard, forcing me to guess where you hid the ‘「’ key (blackslash, by the way).
[filed as problem# 6770720] [updated 4/15 and marked as a duplicate of bug# 5647954]
