TITLE:
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 7/20/2003 09:06:00 PM
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WHAT? WHY DID YOU DO THAT?!
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 7/05/2003 01:45:00 PM
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You all can log in. It's first name / last name. So you are billy / carson. And come on guys don't steal other peoples' accounts. Also when you log in, the FIRST thing you should do is change your password - after you log in click Edit My Profile on the right side.
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TITLE: New system!!
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 7/01/2003 12:45:00 AM
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BODY:
http://definitelynotsafe.com/movabletype/mt.cgi Talk to Joe first!!!
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TITLE: DO NOT POST
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/30/2003 11:50:00 PM
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BODY:
I'm making the switch. Please DO NOT POST HERE OR ON MOVABLE TYPE UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. Thank you. We apologize for the inconvenience.
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/30/2003 07:49:00 PM
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BODY:
No, it's just not worth it to dun fix it good.
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TITLE: New blog system
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/30/2003 11:00:00 AM
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BODY:
http://www.definitelynotsafe.com/movabletype/mt.cgi Currently only Gabe and Kyle have logins ("gabe" and "kyle"), password is your last names, and you can change both username and password once you're in. Drastically different system, very confusticating and weird. Stay cool guys, don't break anything - you both have admin power so be careful. The current live page is at http://www.definitelynotsafe.com/mtnews/ - all the links in that area are mega broken, stick a /mtnews/ in front of everything.
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/30/2003 12:02:00 AM
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BODY:
When dnsh.com and/or pablo's go down, check http://ceviche.blogspot.com, which is where we post about problems.
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/29/2003 12:57:00 AM
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BODY:
That's because most of our members have only posted like 5 times. And there is a particular reason I asked Billy... If you'd been paying attention in Pool Table you'd have seen it :P anyway it was a thread started by billy...
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/28/2003 05:48:00 PM
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BODY:
Billy you're a good man. On a different note, have you been to Pablo's lately? I definitely forgot to turn on image uploading... OK now at the bottom of every page is an upload images thing. Select the image file you want and hit upload. you'll get a new window that says the image was uploaded as [internal://23894709342893f47902873.jpeg] and you'll have a different number. and it might be .png or .gif or .jpg or what have you. Copy that whole thing (including the brackets!!) and put it where you want the image to be. Bam.
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/28/2003 10:42:00 AM
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BODY:
Too bad I excised the wiki's manhood. The publicly-accessible wiki system does not have editing capabilities. At all. The wiki script in the admin section does, but of course, it's in the admin section. I'm actively working on a replacement - MovableType. It runs directly on Ceviche, which means of course that when Ceviche is down we'll have no obvious contact but I suppose we could leave this blog here as a backup... Bao. Anyway I unfortunately have a Medea project to do and a trip to Hawaii to get permission & airline tickets & pay for so this is getting kicked down to priority tres.
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 6/27/2003 09:48:00 PM
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BODY:
Wa-wa-wa-wait. Fire?
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/27/2003 07:19:00 PM
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BODY:
I definitely have two controllers with pink markings, one pink "KG", and minus one black "KG". I brought back Kris's Xbox, AV cable, and power cable. How many controllers did you guys get from Kris?
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TITLE: Xboxen & Such
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/27/2003 02:12:00 PM
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So I have Kris's Xbox and power and AV cable. And Gabe's Xbox and two controllers (marked with pink highlighter?). And an AV cable labelled "DO" (Dylan Ortiz?). And a controller marked KG in pink. (Kyle Gong?) And I'm missing a controller marked KG (Kris Greek) in black which Kyle may have taken home? And I have Ryan's Xboxready TV. So I'm going to go drop off Kris's Xbox and hopefully controller pretty soon, and Ryan's TV as soon as I can get in touch with him, and Gabe... I'm not going to SLO or Cayucos any time soon are you coming up here soon?
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TITLE: Halo @ Jo's
AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 6/27/2003 11:27:00 AM
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BODY:
It was a pretty bad night, since we spent like half of it driving around doing nothing...but I would say the highlight of the night was tricking Cody into knocking on the door of the wrong house and sneaking around the back...
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TITLE: g33k land
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/27/2003 01:09:00 AM
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BODY:
regarding that sudden dissappearance after insulting my own intelligence in an earlier post... So I realized the source of the problem was people who weren't Blogger stealing the account information from Blogger and using it. But if they aren't Blogger... they won't have Blogger's IP address!! So I can just limit them by IP address. Of course IP spoofing is not impossible but this just adds another thin layer of protection and I don't think we're really a big enough target that anybody really cares..... Anyway I'm going to see if I can lock things down better, but definitely it looks like going to something run directly on Ceviche is a better plan.
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TITLE: Another successful party comes to a close
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/27/2003 01:00:00 AM
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BODY:
Whew, I am really tired. It's exhilirating and exhausting being the host, you have a feeling of great control and yet no control, and of great power and great responsibility. Well maybe not that last but but you have a certain authority of decisions especially those affecting the party and its character, but you also have no control over others and you are acutely aware of that and you simply have to have faith in others not to do stupid things. So I think that's it for hosting for a while unless my parents return from their trip as completely completely different people. Which is unlikely. So now I can say that I did my part, I served the team, at least once. Who hasn't hosted? Billy hosted a non-DNSH. Kyle & Cyril hosted a half-squad. Ryan... well... I don't know if the eight of us could fit in his house :D So thanks to everyone for coming, it was a pleasure having all of you, and I'd gladly do it again but my parents would have a different opinion on the matter :( -- Cody, welcome to the team, you've been tapped as Gabe's replacement. AJ... well you definitely spice it up a bit, but we haven't really come to a decision about you. You're just plain loco. And we mean that in the best way. :) So Gabe and Kyle and Ryan and Dylan are gonna have to post to the Capers section how they managed to drive around for a total of like 2 hours and somehow STILL end up one Halo short of a match. Anyway I'm going to work on this whole Blogger not-working thing but until then I guess we have to just read it here. Sorry guys. I broke a cow lamp or something. Actually they broke a cow lamp that we didn't have a handy replacement for. OK that's it for the cow lamp line. Anyway I'm gonna try to figure something out that doesn't involve insecurity or massive admin headaches or both. We'll pai drop Blogger altogether (thanks for the memories tho) and go to something hosted at Servy. The downside of this is of course that when the server is down we'll have nothing, which really isn't cool............ Perhaps we have a main blog and a backup blog?? Wow, this is a really long post. But I'm tired. So I don't really care. Oh, I found the keys. They were one drawer above where they usually go. D'oh.
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TITLE: yeah
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/26/2003 03:00:00 PM
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BODY:
ok just don't even expect it to show up at definitelynotsafe.com. read it here for now. anyway time to pick up billy and get this party started.
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TITLE: Secirony
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/26/2003 02:15:00 PM
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It's ironic...... The new version of Blogger has support for secure FTP, where the username and password are sent encrypted instead of easily readable by anybody who really wants to. But using it is actually LESS secure than before. Before, with "insecure FTP", I had it set up so that the blogger account could only access the blogger files - they couldn't get to the rest of the system. It's a massive headache to do the same with SFTP. So if anybody gets the password for the SFTP account, they can access the entire system and do lots of stuff that they shouldn't. FURTHERMORE, the old FTP system doesn't work anymore because Blogger now requires passive FTP and the server can't do passive ftp! I think it's time to say goodbye to Blogger... The new and improved version, which offered better security, is unfortunately worse than ever. :( Wait a second, I'm an idiot... never mind! *going off to g33k land*
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TITLE: New Blogger
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/26/2003 02:05:00 PM
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BODY:
Wew, it's about 90% working. Unfortunately the comments went down unrelatedly... I might have to look into a self-contained system of our own that runs locally on ceviche, such as Greymatter... Ah well. My house - 3pm - if you're going to be here for dinner i.e. you don't have to work, bring cash because we have nothing here - we have Cactus Cooler and some Root Beer (Barq's)
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TITLE: Don't wait for Velma...
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/26/2003 11:54:00 AM
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BODY:
OR THERE WON'T BE ANYBODY FREAKIN' HERE!!! Half the team has to work until like 8. It's not worth it Coach we have Kyle's camera. And, in conclusion, your new camera has EXACTLY the same video quality as all other cameras.
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TITLE: Working on it
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/26/2003 09:28:00 AM
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BODY:
Trying to figure out why it won't update... :( YOU'RE gonna need to get Velma in a second, coach! Ya know... because I'm gonna pull a Jim Carrey=Dylan... and slap it out of your hands... and you'll have to go get it...
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TITLE: Testing
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/26/2003 12:15:00 AM
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BODY:
Majorly testing the new blog system. It's not working and that could be their fault or ours or both. We could have some badness occuring...
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/25/2003 12:23:00 AM
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BODY:
ok I approximately have one. I will call tomorrow and see if I can get it moved. If I fail... then I'm totally over planning Halo parties.
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/25/2003 12:16:00 AM
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BODY:
ok I can do it on thursday but I need a reason that isn't "Because I'm having a bunch of friends come over on thursday"...........
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/24/2003 11:19:00 PM
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BODY:
I continue to not get it. I could call her tomorrow and try for Friday...
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/24/2003 09:57:00 PM
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BODY:
You guys are freakin' joking me... OK more specifically Jane Howard is joking me, my sister and I were supposed to go to her house wed. night for dinner. But then she moved it to thursday. so I had to move halo... Saturday? Ryan's out for the weekend but if we can get everybody else, them's the breaks...
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/24/2003 08:43:00 PM
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BODY:
It's been moved to FRIDAY at my house.
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/24/2003 08:05:00 PM
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BODY:
Still not getting it... Eh, I'll make the version numbers less clear. Though they're publicly available through each of the services (when you connect they identify themselves with version)... shrug
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/24/2003 07:27:00 PM
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BODY:
Ryan can be there at like 8. Dylan, yadda yadda yadda, 5:30. Billy, see below. I'm here all day of course. Coach and Eric will be back by tomorrow afternoon so we've got a definite probably from them. Kyle and Cyril are unknown (last I heard from Kyle he was WiFing it through santa barbara...). There is NO food at my house so we'll have to go to get pizza or something. I will probably have one decent TV available.
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/24/2003 01:55:00 PM
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BODY:
What about velma?!? no comprende...
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/24/2003 12:23:00 PM
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BODY:
Halo... my house... Thursday... 3-midnight? Who's interested? Gabe and Eric, will you guys be back by then?
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/23/2003 10:33:00 PM
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BODY:
Billy. Step down.
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/23/2003 01:57:00 PM
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BODY:
The dual 2ghz. They don't say if it was with a Radeon 9600 or 9800... Our comps will probably run it but we won't make it to 10.4/5 :( Expose uses Quartz Extreme, but he didn't make it clear if it needs it...
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/23/2003 12:45:00 PM
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BODY:
One word, two numbers, and an abbreviation. Quake Three. 337 FPS.
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/23/2003 12:41:00 PM
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BODY:
panther uses kerberos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/23/2003 11:49:00 AM
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BODY:
WWDC going down right now. World's fastest PC is a Mac. $3000 or so gets you a dual 2ghz 64-bit ppcG5 with up to 8GB ram in it. Compared to a measly little Dell 3.06 for >$4000. 9 fans, yes, nine freaking fans in this thing -- and it's quieter than the previous G4s. Computer controlled cooling system. GeForce FX5200Ultra in the low end, Radeon 9600 Pro in the high-end. Did I mention the 8GB of RAM with 6.5GBps bandwidth? You could copy an entire DVD in a second if it stayed in RAM. And it runs old 32-bit apps with no problems. Also "iChat AV" - iChat plus videoconferencing, runs very smoothly, all over IM, no configuration. Apple is making the iSight, a camera for it. Fast User Switching like in WinXP, but better. New QuickTime codec: "Pixlet" - created for Pixar. Perfect quality (but requires a fairly hefty machine). Free. Built-in fax (every print panel has a fax button) shrug... FileVault - encrypt home directory; seamless Outstanding new Finder - Labels are back! - new open & save panels - INSTANT searching with iTunes style filter-as-you-type. Safari goes GM today, 1.0 released later. Photoshop update comes out in August. Some guy from a company called Luxology reconfigured their software for 64-bit in 15 minutes. SpecInt benchmarks were run between 2ghz G5, 3ghz P4, and 3ghz Xeon. G5 is 10% slower on integer but 21% faster on floating math. Dual G5 smoked P4 and dual Xeon - 41% faster on FPU and 3% faster on integer. And the Pentium 4 class chips dropped integer performance in favor of floating point! Usual PC vs Mac Photoshop duel. PC gets spanked. Mac is 2.1x faster. Unsurprising, it's a dual 2ghz g5 with the fastest bus ever in a pc (the 3.06 only has an 800.) Another duel with Luxology software... looks like 3d stuff. apple.com still hasn't updated anything yet... shrug. Mac spanks with Luxology, and Mathematica 5 (both matrix and integer calculations; twice as fast). Mathematica: "The competition isn't PCs anymore. It's high-end Unix workstations, and the G5 is faster than them too." Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Mac haters! Emagic audio software can play 1000 simultaneous voices in better-than-CD-quality 24bit stereo. Then 100 8-band EQs, i.e. 1600 bands. G5 does it with only 25% cpu usage. Summary: Photoshop = 2.1x faster, Luxology = 2.3x faster, Mathematica = 2.3x faster, Emagic just wins. 1.6, 1.8, and 2.0 g5s ship in August. In 12 months 3ghz models will be available. WHEW. Good times. Good freaking times. Now to get some breakfast. (woke up at 11, i was like "oh yeah, keynote")
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/22/2003 11:19:00 PM
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BODY:
um ya, i definitely forgot to tell you to remove it. Anyhows, I just went to ocsnet.net (smart idea) and they're in Porterville. Mission accomplished. Still don't know about that AOL fellow...
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/22/2003 10:43:00 PM
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BODY:
Wait... what about the guy who JUST posted as passerby... from MSIE on a WinNT machine from wireless.ocsnet.net? And the Seattle bit? The orange county bit was nice, I thought for a second "Wait... Ryan's in orange county right now................................... Nah." And when you posted as Ryan "Just come on in, I usually leave my door unlocked", and then Passerby commented "Wow, you leave your door unlocked?" Just how many Passersby are there anyway? The world may never know... oh ya, ryan, PLEASE go to sys prefs->network, and take servy out of the nameservers box! it's 1. wasting our bandwidth and 2. leaving logs of EVERYthing you look up, from definitelynotsafe to google to the aim servers... not safe.
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 6/22/2003 10:41:00 PM
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BODY:
Yah, you compliment yourself very sarcastically...
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/22/2003 10:40:00 PM
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BODY:
How the hell did you make a post from an aol account, ryan??? and we just thought he was being a random sarcastic person making fun of you...
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 6/22/2003 10:39:00 PM
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BODY:
How did you do the AOL bit? Oh and sorry about ruining your party...I was the one who ordered the log check, although I did post as Passerby once.
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/22/2003 10:35:00 AM
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BODY:
I propose a better new rule: who ever leads in the WU's can put the banner back to something representing the team not himself, or he can go make his own team. Does it same Team Coach? Or Team Gabe Durazo? Or Team Napoleon? That's what I thought.
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 6/22/2003 01:01:00 AM
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BODY:
I am happy about it...I propose a new rule: who ever leads in the WU's can post whatever picture they want there...
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/21/2003 11:35:00 PM
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BODY:
I am not happy about this, Gabe, and I don't think anyone else on the team is either.
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/21/2003 09:34:00 PM
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BODY:
Just messin with the log files. Want a kick? Check out our server logs.
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/21/2003 10:24:00 AM
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BODY:
No I just kinda did some stuff. Various workings...
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/20/2003 07:32:00 PM
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BODY:
It was good but it needs major help in the text department. I'm thinking to the tune of Trebuchet MS #2e6ca9 with Crisp Antialiasing.
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/20/2003 03:11:00 PM
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BODY:
Banner fixage completed. They are now simply '1.jpg', '2.jpg', etc. There are five. Unused ones are moved to the unused directory. Reasons they could be moved to the unused: -They are crap. -They are pictures of Konoko. Kudos, Ryan, but unfortunately we're not an Oni clan. -They don't look...natural. I think you need to start over. (the reference)
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/20/2003 03:00:00 PM
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BODY:
um, yeah, i'm just gonna go ahead and do what you guys were saying you were gonna do but never did. I have been instructed to "get the moving out of here". Kyle, your av is about to be unanimated.
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 6/20/2003 01:09:00 PM
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BODY:
I like it on the left...it's easier to tell who's saying what...
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/20/2003 11:31:00 AM
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BODY:
I'll congruent you in a second.
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/20/2003 09:49:00 AM
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BODY:
OH, the underscore gets to be there because of mod_speling - the Apache module that tries to give you the file you mean not the file you said.
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 6/18/2003 11:41:00 PM
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BODY:
Alright, alright, you win. With the avatars there, it is pretty sweet looking...
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/18/2003 10:57:00 PM
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BODY:
ok i'm going to call this fixed.
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/18/2003 10:26:00 PM
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BODY:
um, yeah... i uh... broke blogger. so.. everybody stay cool, ignore the BlogItemTitle-Value dealy... and yeah, everybody stay cool... this is homestawwww
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 6/18/2003 09:30:00 PM
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BODY:
let me be more specific...Avatars are lame at definitely not safe here...they're awesome for bulletin boards, they're lame for web logs.
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/18/2003 08:55:00 PM
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BODY:
I was simply pointing out to Gabe it wasn't a secret any more. So what's that little picture under your name over on Pablo's? Eh? I can't hear you, you'll have to speak up? What is it? What? THAT'S RIGHT IT'S AN AVATAR.
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 6/18/2003 08:48:00 PM
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BODY:
I agree with eric -- Avatars are lame...and �chingana you guys for editing my post! �How would you feel if I ching� with all of your posts? �Why don't you both go chingana yourselves? And who cares about your translation anyways, Joe, it's wrong and incomplete. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. What have you done, Joe? I invented the piano key neck tie! I INVENTED THE PIANO KEY NECK TIE! You've done nothing, NOTHING!
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/18/2003 08:09:00 PM
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BODY:
Halo with Xbox Live/Gamespy Arcade ALREADY does four per box per game. Moving the avatar to the top right side then. Actually when we go to Dano it will be better that way, you'll see soon... Avatars can hence be like 32x32 or so. Ok you know what Eric? OK. You don't have to have an avatar then. That's cool. That's great. We don't even care. Do we care? We don't care.
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/18/2003 12:40:00 PM
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BODY:
Could everyone please go to blogger.com, edit your profile, and change your 'nickname' to, simply, your first name? e.g. Joe, Billy, Gabe, Kyle... If you don't want to do this then your avatar won't be a link to your bio page.
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 6/18/2003 12:30:00 PM
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BODY:
Te crees muy c*****n! Hmmm...looks like You believe a lot of crap? Except i thought c*****n is the f word...or maybe chinganas, something like that... *edited by Gabe* -- on the inappropriate side and a bit of a secret (well not really). I made it black so that it's not quite so obvious. *reedited by Joe* -- except for the fact I already said it. Un-blackened.
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/18/2003 11:50:00 AM
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BODY:
ok folks, coach reminded me that we're going to have avatars! :) Everybody make yourselves an image about the size of napoleon down there, looks like 16x16? Format doesn't matter - gif, jpg, png are all good. Talk to me when you've got it and we'll put it up for you. Also feel free to make yourselves bigger images to put on your bio pages.
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/18/2003 11:47:00 AM
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BODY:
no i DEFINITELY DEFINITELY saw an early draft :D How did y--- Wgtght--- Avata--- Where did--- But we never--- Blogger doesn't--- wgth--- jshgt--- YES YOU'RE AWESOME
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/18/2003 10:46:00 AM
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BODY:
Why did you DO that?! And what does it mean? ...BABELFISH! "You are created c*****n very"... edited by Gabe
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/18/2003 10:36:00 AM
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BODY:
So I can pop by Eric's house or indeed anywhere for like 2 hours. i might make several 2-hour appearances. I don't think I'm going to Kris's star wars marathon today :(
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/18/2003 09:38:00 AM
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BODY:
you're BOTH children.
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/17/2003 04:49:00 PM
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BODY:
how about i FIGURE OUT my FIST into your FACE, Billy?
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/17/2003 04:35:00 PM
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BODY:
I think I'll make this post like I'm a comic character taken out of context. My EXCUSE is that my PARENTS are going to EUROPE and I need to take care of my SISTER who they have instructed me that I cannot leave her alone for more than TWO HOURS even though she's PERFECTLY CAPABLE of TAKING CARE OF HERSELF. However there may be something going down involving Mary (Gabe's mom) and Nemo and 4-5 hours... so i'm going to say Eric, put me down as a definite maybe.
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/17/2003 10:05:00 AM
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BODY:
That "service unavailable" deal is not our fault it's the comment host's.
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 6/17/2003 09:41:00 AM
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BODY:
I think i can go...btw where are the comments? How is passerby going to talk to us? And as far as the banners go, the width is all that matters...it really needs to be 640, but the height doesn't much matter, as long as its less than about 200.
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/17/2003 12:07:00 AM
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BODY:
i can't go
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/16/2003 10:20:00 PM
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BODY:
640x160 is the new preferred size for banners. 640x120 is the old size. But nobody really cared there are banenrs of crazy random sizes.
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/16/2003 12:01:00 AM
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BODY:
eric hates david. but he has freakin nice controllers. you know the air cooled ones so your palms stay nice and cool... good times there. ANYWAY, if ever pablo's and/or dnsh go down, head on over to ceviche.status, our server status blog.
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/15/2003 01:32:00 PM
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BODY:
WHOAAAA! MANINTHEPANTS!!!! look at that shishkebab action!
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/15/2003 12:12:00 PM
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BODY:
I asked if he was interested in coming to the next halo party and he said 'pai so' which for AJ is pretty solid yes. He is pretty crazy though...
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 6/15/2003 10:48:00 AM
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BODY:
AJ is the best of the three, heck he's better than Billy. I will double-your-money-back guarantee it. But I'm not sure if his personality matches DNSH or even if he wants in...
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TITLE:
AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 6/15/2003 12:52:00 AM
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BODY:
Actually, eric, we had a bunch of halo this week...two or three i think...
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/14/2003 11:34:00 PM
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I had to make some changes to the page code to make it validate cleanly. Please tell me if you have any problems with the Comment links not showing up, or getting errors where they should be, or not working, or anything.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/14/2003 11:27:00 PM
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actually we definitely did not one but THREE separate haloages with various dnsh members since you folks all left. Take that. MAO! What's wrong with the covey with a sword banner? That's like the best one! Major props to Gabe for that one. I am strongly in favor of a full-team Haloage at Eric's house. A few folks have expressed interest in DNSH and it would be good to get them ready to join the team for when Gabe and Cyril leave :( ... The others I was thinking of inviting to a few paries are: Cody Morales, who is cool but not really all that skilled (he's good but he's no Gabe or Kyle), Lyle, and AJ who is just awesome - he's really good. What does everyone think about these guys? Good? Bad? Hate them? Get them in the team ASAP? Discuss amongst yourselves...
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/14/2003 07:16:00 PM
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One of the banners doesn't exist. We don't have a #3. Fixed by aliasing it to #1 (sniper in front of jeep) What do you mean "want it to just stay on one banner"? Perhaps later I'll bust some leetness and allow you to choose things like stylesheet and banner preferences and such... Email is coming, in both secure-SSL and nonsecure forms, IMAP or POP. It will be ready as soon as Jeff opens the ports. Jeff....?
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/14/2003 09:41:00 AM
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It was more like he died and then it was all me and I went about a mile on foot and then I died and we went about a mile back. And then NEITHER of us could make it to the second generator for like five tries. I suppose I was the one to send us back but only by virtue of surviving on my own for like ten minutes on end.
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AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 6/13/2003 10:14:00 PM
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Yah, even once we'd gotten down we didn't know where to go...we went inside first, and then went and looked around for banshees and died several times before we found them. Anyway, Dylan says you're the one that made you guys fall so very far behind...
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/13/2003 09:15:00 PM
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I definitely made it all the way down. Jump, surf, land. Jump, surf, land. Jump, surf, land. Jump, surf, surf, surf, surf, land. Run run run run run run Banshee.
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AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 6/13/2003 08:47:00 PM
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I definitely kept dying when i tried to jump off.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/13/2003 08:36:00 PM
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Ya how did you have difficulty getting down the pyramid?! Rather, why did you MAKE YOURSELF have difficulty by NOT jumping down? You can surf the pyramid almost all the way down.
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AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 6/13/2003 06:24:00 PM
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Dude that was rad...Joe, Coach, Dylan, and Billy went to my house for some Haloing...busted some BGB, got that on tape, did some one on one snipers, where Coach just dominated, then we did some team racing. CTF with Coach and I vs. Joe, Dylan, and Billy, 400% health no shields, Coach just slayed everyone while i took the flag...Then there was some KOTH at Battle Creek with me hiding under the water and shooting the other team...Then AJ, Bode and Jeff showed up for some BGB, some how i won by like 15... then we did some racing, Coach and I vs Joe and Dylan, each team won the Maw once, then had a tie-breaker on Two Betrayals. Dylan and Joe pulled out ahead, while Coach and I had some difficulty getting down the pyramid. Coach decided to forfeit, but then I told him, "You can't forfeit a tie-breaker!" He restarted the level anyways, saying it would be faster. It wasn't, but we managed to catch up after several desperate, but failed attempts to find shortcuts and won the tie-breaker. After that Cyril came home and we had a couple rounds of CTF, first Coach, Cyril and I vs Dylan Billy and Joe, we won, and then Billy and I switched and my new team won. The second one was a good match. My favorite moment was when I backed the jeep out of the base and got away, but it was a rad game for sure. Good times. Hope to have one again soon.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/12/2003 12:16:00 AM
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Well we did some halo. Joe, Gabe, Kyle, and Dylan (everyone still in town except Billy) went to Dylan's from 3-10 give or take a couple hours, and did good haloing. BGB, one flag ctf 2v1 (dylan and joe against gabe), it was all great. Plus pizza. Plus we recorded a good solid BGB game and we'll do the same tomorrow.
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AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 6/10/2003 04:50:00 PM
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It's really really time for some haloing...
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/10/2003 09:35:00 AM
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ok, ya. i'm gonna go ahead and lock some of these files.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/09/2003 01:00:00 AM
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ok. uberhuge changes. PLEASE. DO NOT. EDIT. ANYTHING. Until you talk to me and I tell you how to go about it. I don't want to hear it! Don't edit anything by ssh or ftp. If you know how to use the new system (currently just Ryan and myself), go for it. Otherwise don't do it.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/08/2003 11:07:00 PM
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ok minor coup today gabe made the background the color "god awful pink". he got forcebooted and has now restored the original black. i trust we'll be seeing no more of this in the future. did you forget Rule #1, gabe? Don't do anything dumb. That was definitely using your powers for 3vil, gabe. (update 11:10pm) I don't think a horse is our team logo gabe. Especially not one stretched to fit the banner size.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/08/2003 10:54:00 PM
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uh coach that's a bad bad idea. ssh is pretty secure but why push it? not to mention ftp. so how about we make the user accounts only when someone requests it.
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AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 6/08/2003 10:51:00 PM
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you know, um, dylan, billy, and kris don't even have a terminal...I guess sucks to their ass-mar.
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AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 6/08/2003 10:03:00 PM
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You do...over here
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AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 6/08/2003 09:31:00 PM
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I like it and good work on the banner...it's about time. Coach, I salute you for using your power for good and not for evil.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/08/2003 01:49:00 PM
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Oh, riiiiiight, riiiiiiiight, riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. ok carry on, but from now on they're group-writeable for group 'web' of which you're a member. the upshot is no sudo needed.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/08/2003 01:41:00 PM
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wha? New banner? What new b--omg! I completely missed that! It's so unobtrusive! *stares at Gabe for a few seconds* OF COURSE WE NOTICED THE NEW BANNER. But I'm curious... how did you make the switch if by my calculations you do *not* have write access to top.html? Well you do now but you didn't before... And you couldn't su to me because you don't have my password nor the root password... Coach you've stumped me. I think we need to start over. This thing doesn't look...... secure.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/08/2003 12:29:00 PM
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except not. a code decoder is a decoder. well depending on how strong the encryption is it might be a decrypter. working on various coolnesses with wiki and tickets and authenticators and md5 and php and such.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/07/2003 10:13:00 PM
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yes, a bit. but it definitely doesn't matter much. they also know the user 'root' exists. so what? anyway downloading another sftp client is just so you could have a pretty gui and not have to deal with the command line sftp which is ugly. ceviche's f@h client is on frame 260something out of 400. it's been running since last night. that's like 60%. it has schooled my comp, caoch's laptop, and ryan's comp, and i think it's even beating coach's desktop. we'll have to race them sometime. f@h race, lol...
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/07/2003 07:48:00 PM
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remote login system (ssh from anywhere) is ready and also the editing any page interface is coming along. If you want the ability to log in remotely and use command line access, talk to me. If you want to start uploading files with ftp, talk to me. If you want a domain like, oh say, gabe.definitelynotsafe.com (<-- it's up, coach. talk to me for info), talk to me. basically I Am The Man as far as server things goes. ejsy str upi ys;lomh snpiy hsnr? upit idrt ms,r od frgomoyr;u hsnr/ smf upi rmyrtrf upit [sddeptf ejrm er vtrsyrf yjr idrt sy ,u jpidr/ kidy idr ddj ;olr upi fof/ yp vp[u go;rd idr yjr dgy[ vp,,smf/ pt hry dp,ryjomh ;olr ytsmd,oy gtp, [smof/vp, o yjoml oy fprd dgy[/ pt drstvj brtdopmytsvlrt/vp, gpt dgy[/
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AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 6/07/2003 10:14:00 AM
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Yah, well Sober Grad would have even been cooler if you and Kyanne had parked your dang cars at the school like everyone else!!! Oh, and good call on Capers. And Gabe, you'd better not break our poor little server that has taken forever to get working...
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/06/2003 06:08:00 PM
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Charter's dns servers have updated, www should now work if you have Charter cable. If you don't, well then you suck.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/06/2003 05:09:00 PM
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The DNS info has been switched. In about 24 hours, www. should work again. In the meantime use ceviche. -updating everything, tell me if you find something that doesn't work RCA splitters are here!!!! Everyone who has a DV cam that works (Ryan :) please bring it to the next party and we'll do some filming action.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/06/2003 01:24:00 PM
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server is UP!
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/05/2003 09:19:00 PM
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graduation was today. *sniff* Coach and Cyril are leaving! :( Coach is going to MIT across the country (losvedir@mit.edu), and Cyril is going back to France... But enough of that. They'll leave when they leave and we'll say our last goodbyes then. There's still a whole month until Cyril leaves and Gabe doesn't leave until August! So more Halo and all. Kris gets first chance to rejoin the team, after that Lyle can be moved up to 'pending member' like where Billy was for a while. Others interested in joining are Jeff (the server colo guy, not Swede), Cody... David Savage would make a pow3rful 4lly... Server goes to Jeff's tomorrow. Finalized. It's final, I just finalized it. I want you guys (Kyle mostly) to know I cleared my calendar for tomorrow for this. Not even Kristjiana will distract me from this goal. My life depends on it. Or it would if you guys had real guns instead of Airsoft. Still Airsoft shots hurt! (Kyle, just for reference... definitely STILL not a smart idea to shoot a man carrying $300 worth of server.) Taking a nap now before I head out to Sober Grad to run DDR and Halo and such. Ryan wtf are you?
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/04/2003 09:03:00 PM
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ryan, get a Chanserv?
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/04/2003 04:21:00 PM
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The point of the gametypes page is a place for gametypes. No suicide penalty added. - Gametypes page has been mega-updated. Check it out, post out any errors or omissions or suggestions or anything. On the new server there'll be a way for everyone to edit it directly.
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AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 6/04/2003 03:58:00 PM
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well you forgot no suicide penalty on the gametypes page too... Oh, and by the way...I just signed up for GameLender...which is way cheaper than RedOctane and has more games. And supposedly it's faster too...Anyways...If anyone ends up signing up for it, it would do me a favor if you put l3prador down for a referral name...
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/04/2003 03:53:00 PM
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DEFINITELY no suicide penalty and that IS why we have the gametypes page.
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AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 6/04/2003 02:31:00 PM
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Gabe you forgot instant respawn and no suicide penalty!
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/04/2003 01:11:00 PM
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No, but I'm going to order them right now.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/04/2003 07:55:00 AM
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I'll limited YOUR space, coach! 100MB with huge bandwidth... gah. That reminds me. how can you POSSIBLY be afraid you'll fill up 250mb worth of email... when you're now using hotmail... at which you have 2mb. Do you even have 250mb of TEXT on your two comps combined? 25mb?! That's what I thought. We SO need to make movies.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/03/2003 09:52:00 PM
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http://folding.stanford.edu/
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/03/2003 07:36:00 PM
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lol, good one coach. update on server - possibly up by *friday*. START TELLING PEOPLE ABOUT PABLO'S especially seniors! Thisisrootbeer.com is now more than just a meaningless image. It will be the way to get to Pablo's the very second it goes live. Get the word out before we lose contact with a lot of people... especially seniors!
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AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 6/03/2003 07:48:00 AM
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you think folding@home would work on a certain no-longer-male Xbox I have, if i install linux?
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/03/2003 03:26:00 AM
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you know what, the cinema style thing was fine. it was great. what i object to is the fact that they did it as a CRAP cinema style thing. there was no SOUL in the battles. no SOUL I SAY!
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AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 6/02/2003 09:06:00 PM
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would you all cut it out with the code already, I'm way too lazy to decode it, even though i know how it works.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/02/2003 09:02:00 PM
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o, mpy vpmbomvrf yjsy ntiyr gptvr od mrvrddsto;u s hppf yjomh/ smf o fpmy ytidy tusmd kifh,rmy pm jpe oyd eksy js;p esd ,rsmy yp nr/ o ,rsm vp,r pm. jr ;pbrf yjr r4 ytso;rt sls ersl dsivr/ ceviche soon. for sure. ryan you DEFINITELY don't have to start over. Just change the team in preferences, and now your NEW work units count toward the new team. your OLD work units stay where they were.
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AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 6/02/2003 01:39:00 PM
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Oh when oh when will Servy/Ceviche/Serviche be up?
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 6/01/2003 09:43:00 PM
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oh that code messes with my head. it's definitely easier to encrypt than decrypt but in both places you must do it blind or you'll fail miserably. billy, it's way easy if you know the way to do it, but absolute gibberish if you don't. and.... don't you mean the nsa?? gabe: check yer email, it has the mit info. !'s are really !'s. dpimfd ;olr s [;sm. vpsvj/ niy oyd dp erotf yp yu[r or smf drr oy vp,r piy etpmh! divj s dlo;;rf vpfr ejrm upi lmpe jpe yp idr oy/ ,sf;u rsdu ypp!
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 5/31/2003 10:47:00 AM
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I'ma swing down by Coach's house this morning and grab the HD, if I can. Today will be mostly copying files which will be boring for everyone, tomorrow will be getting everything that's not working right working again, but anybody who wants to help with the configuration and such of the server is welcome to come over Monday through ... well it'll probably be ready by Friday. So come on down, check out the server. It is, I assure you, Root Beer. So how was last night, team?
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AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 5/31/2003 09:21:00 AM
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HD has definitely been delivered...It's time. Let's go.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 5/29/2003 08:59:00 PM
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they're definitely talking about the dance with no music
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AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 5/29/2003 08:24:00 PM
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there is a good chance it's jake...sounds like something he'd do/say
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 5/29/2003 03:53:00 PM
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It's so going to get here tomorrow :( Coach if it arrives tomorrow please bring it to the dance thing. Otherwise I can go and pick it up. Cyril, what is quaked??
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 5/29/2003 07:43:00 AM
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It's so going to get here today.
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AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 5/29/2003 06:55:00 AM
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...Which means that any organism of sufficient mass and cognitive ability is a potential vector.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 5/26/2003 05:34:00 PM
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Plus really really ridiculously good food. Like pasta with putanesca, and french toast, and many types of drinks, and it was just skillage really. But get DOS out of here. Other than that it was just foosh. Except for that brutal, brutal CTF Sidewinder game with kinda unbalanced teams (Eric, Gabe, Kyle, and Alex vs Billy, Joe, Cyril, and Ryan). And the utter lack of sleep and my head is pounding and it HURTS ME in the gloiven.
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AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 5/26/2003 03:17:00 PM
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Oh man that was awesome. It was quite possibly one of the best Halo parties ever. It was crazy, there were a lot of really really ridiculously good games. The Initiation, Blood Gulch Ballet, CTF, Team KOTH, all bueno. also bullet time, running off of walls, cartwheels, hacking the DOS based matrix deal... And everyone was there!!! It was just skill, that's all it was.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 5/25/2003 01:48:00 PM
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THE WORD HAS CHANGED! For anyone who hasn't heard, ERIC'S HOUSE! Don't go to Gabe's because you'll find it empty of Halo and occupied only by a sick madre and sister. Plus we'll laugh at you.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 5/24/2003 09:46:00 PM
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The word is definitely Gabe's house tomorrow at, ahem, "pai 'bout four." Ceviche and pai crepes. No grunion. Pai Matrix Reloaded. So plan accordingly. Kris will be there! Definitely going to be Root Beer. On a more solemn note, Mike and his El Camino were in an accident today. Everybody is fine, as far as I've heard, no injuries except Mike chipped a tooth on the steering wheel. But Elky's pretty mangled. May 24, 2003. A date that will live in infamy. Hold on, Elky. This can't be the end. (Gabe forgot a " in the link which messed everything up. This is exactly the kind of situation that they make the 'enter safe mode' button for. Blogger SO rocks. Fixed.)
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AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 5/24/2003 08:09:00 PM
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There's definitely been a glitch in the matrix...for some reason Gabe and Jo's posts became siamese twins...
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 5/24/2003 12:19:00 PM
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Kris does have posting rights but he never reads this and he doesn't even know how to post he said a while ago. Pwns is l33t slang for owns. Note the typo. It's definitely a JeffKism. Gabe called earlier and he suggested Eric's house? Two rooms and all??
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 5/24/2003 10:07:00 AM
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Sunday @ Gabe's fine with me. What do you mean 'Whips are rad'?? If the HD arrived Thursday/Friday/today, please bring it on up to my house when you come for dinner tonight Gabe. 20q totally pwns this anna thing.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 5/23/2003 09:42:00 PM
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Don't underestimate the power of the 31337 Side.
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AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 5/23/2003 09:05:00 PM
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OMG! It guessed what I was thinking of--A STAR FRUIT-- of all things!!! So how does this thing work?? Does it have Wi-Fi to connect to my brain?? Does it watch to see what other sites i visit when I have to look up the answers to its questions?? Witchcraft? Sorcery?? Is there a real living hacker behind it? It's crazy...
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 5/23/2003 04:31:00 PM
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dude, 20Q could r0x0r Anna. As far as info, give Coach a call. Or better yet go on AIM/MSN nad talk with the rest of us as we hammer out the plan with Coach. As soon as he comes online. Stupid Disneyland trips.
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AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 5/22/2003 04:12:00 PM
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Ok, THIS is a sport. And it involves golf clubs.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 5/22/2003 03:51:00 PM
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ryan, if you want me to change something, give me the info to put there. your quote is now "Teams aren't fair!". I'll put Dylan's bio up as soon as I have a bio to put up. (Dylan, that's you) Edit button made white and put back on left side.
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AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 5/22/2003 07:05:00 AM
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Yah just put in "I quit." or the "Teams aren't fair." or "I only lost because I wasn't playing that way." for Ryan. ;) also, the edit button just looks weird all moved out to the right. If you want to make it stand out, you could make it white.
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AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 5/21/2003 04:37:00 PM
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Ok. I've decided that I'm going to buy a new Xbox instead of getting mine repaired. Does anyone want to buy a controller? I'll probably sell one or two, since i now have 6 and if i buy an xbox that will bring the total to 7. I'll also probably try to sell Sega GT/JSRF since I already have 2 of those...That'll leave me with a slightly broken Xbox, that I'll take apart and maybe fix. Seems worth it, since the repair would cost $100 and a new one is only $180. Worst case scenario, I end up with an $80 DVD player. That and i'll be able to get a FRICKIN WARRANTY. So, the moral of the story is: Always buy a warranty for valuable electronics items.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 5/21/2003 04:22:00 PM
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Thanks for backing me up Kyle. Definitely Google says Merovingian. Server HD is under control, Coach bought one and it's inbound. Estimated time of arrival, Thursday or Friday. New server upday estimate, next Friday to next next Monday. So, yah.
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AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 5/21/2003 03:50:00 PM
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It's definitely merovingian, at least according to the University of Google. It's a French dynasty. You should know that.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 5/20/2003 05:02:00 PM
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Bad news, everybody. The server's HD just went bad. :( It looks like server will go up around the end of school. Unless one of you just happens to find an ATA drive of at least 3gb and preferably under two years old, that you're not using currently and wouldn't mind donating to us forever. Yeah, I didn't think so. We're looking into possibilities, one of which is forcing Gabe and his Money Tree to buy us a new-ish one. Another option is ebay via Mike. Stay tuned... cyril: added merovingian gabe: edit link moved... but you have to go through blogger front-page to log in ANYWAY...
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AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 5/19/2003 09:49:00 PM
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Hey everyone, I finished my l3prador so you can all see what one looks like, though it changes with the environment,
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 5/19/2003 08:11:00 PM
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i'm pretty lazy so are you saying you DON'T have a bookmark for it? :) anyway stop whining about not having admin privileges. you threw them out the window yourself with the "it is perfectly acceptable to use any method..." stunt. as far as not having the ability to edit anything at all besides posts, well that's an artifact of the way the setup works. which hopefully will change soon. once the server goes up........... which is like tomorrow.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 5/19/2003 06:52:00 PM
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Neither do I, and he mentioned my name, which worries me.
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AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 5/19/2003 03:58:00 PM
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I have absolutely no idea what you just said.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 5/18/2003 10:05:00 PM
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updates --pablo's will not go up until school's out. there are reasons for this which we will not delve in to at present. but there will be no pablo's for a while. --DNSH will go up immediately, probably tues or wed. at first there will be no visible change except for the URL. but after that you'll start to see major improvements over time. --dahu page will go up as soon as cyril and others tell me what to put there --server itself will go to jeff's either monday or tuesday --the current plan includes a mail server - this means you can get for example gabe@definitelynotsafe.com (or whatever else you'd like instead of your first name). You can either use a POP mail client (Mail.app, Eudora, Outlook (shudder)) or we can have all mail sent to the account be immediately forwarded to your current email address. Talk to me (Joe) sometime soon and we can get this set up. There is currently no mail system planned for thisisrootbeer.com... if the forum mods want some we can set it up though.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 5/15/2003 10:22:00 PM
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wtff is orgasm pie nm i don't want to know anyway DNSH IS UP AND RUNNING ON THE NEW SERVER! BWAHAHAHAHA! what's the downside? nobody outside my LAN can actually get to it. but now basically...a few more security tweaks and we can go UP! adding a server-status column to the left side thisisrootbeer.com is unreachable, for testing purposes. (the man --->) O|--< dylan (--> this way is downward) translation for those not versed in the ways of the ascii art: The Man is keepin' Dylan down.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 5/15/2003 08:23:00 PM
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Server may have a name change --- if you'd like to suggest a name for our server, post it here or email it to the team or to me directly. Kyle suggests a sword, so the server can go rampant (Durandal, Cortana...) basic setup: GO mail service: GO apache webserver: GO ftp server: GO copy files: -in progress- phpbb: pending new domain service: pending thisisrootbeer.com is down, for local testing. Suggest you all start using dnsh.definitelynotsafe.com instead of www., as the rest may unpredictably go away...
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 5/15/2003 08:23:00 PM
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Server may have a name change --- if you'd like to suggest a name for our server, post it here or email it to the team or to me directly. Kyle suggests a sword, so the server can go rampant (Durandal, Cortana...) basic setup: GO mail service: GO apache webserver: GO ftp server: GO copy files: -in progress- phpbb: pending new domain service: pending thisisrootbeer.com is down, for local testing.. Suggest you all start using dnsh.definitelynotsafe.com, as the rest may unprecitably go away...
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 5/14/2003 11:10:00 PM
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Server received and set up. Name: vectors basic setup: GO mail service: GO apache webserver: -in progress- phpbb: pending
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AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 5/13/2003 09:03:00 PM
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My xbox is out of commision for this halo party. But forget Halo 1--THE E3 HALO 2 DEMO VIDEO IS OUT!!! I got it through IGN, which you have to pay for, i don't know if you can get it...but i have it...you have to see it...Maybe I can describe it, not very well, but whatever can be done...the skillage with the "Is it clear?" KAABOOM!!! "You tell me!" And then the crazy huge covie covey and the busting of the double machine guns and the human turret, and then he's running and gunning with double machine guns, and busting some mad gunning on the back, with the CPU driving, definitely rocket-launcher thing on the warthog... then the "Brute" leaps on his car and then he gets out and he bashes it and it falls down, but it's not dead yet, so the chief has to shoot him, then he's surrounded by ghosts and gets run down, but wait...oh my gawd he DID NOT JUST DO THAT----he just hopped on AND THEN HE KICKS THE ELITE OUT OF THE GHOST AND HOPS IN!!!!!...then he's running and every one's chasing him and it's like "Where am I? Where am I? Evian! Evian!" and then he like dives through the gap between the closing doors and then the gargantuan cruiser and then Cortana's like "All we have to do now is..." And then they seem them and they're like "Oh no" and it's frickin literally raining elites...they pop out and they're holding glow sticks, but then they turn them on and they're swords, and he's surrounded and then he pulls out a grenade and he's like "You're on!" It's like that y'all, it's like that y'all. You guys all have to see this shiznizzy...i'm bringing it to school/the matrix tomorrow. it's like not even real. i only hope my xbox will play it.
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AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 5/11/2003 09:10:00 PM
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What do you mean i shouldn't complain!?! MY XBOX IS FRICKIN BROKEN!!!!!!!!!! IT'S GONNA COST ME $100 TO FIX IT!!!!!! You haven't played halo in a few weeks? It's going to cost me 100 bucks to ever play it again!
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 5/11/2003 08:07:00 PM
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re kyle: and Oddworld doesn't work either. So, natch, now that we've paid $120 for a server which is now enroute we now have an available xbox to put linux on. For free. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony. DEFINITELY party at coach's next weekend. OK here's how it goes. -Halo -DDR. -Pazuki! -Crepes!! -Matrix!!! -Grunion!!!! -All eight of DNSH for the first time EVER!!!!! This is going to be the best Halo party on record.
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AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 5/11/2003 03:59:00 PM
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Oh man, my xbox is broken...called tech support, tried everything, gonna have to send it in. It won't play halo, but it'll play every other game...gonna cost me a Benjamin.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 5/10/2003 01:16:00 PM
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Well firstly we're interested in getting the last $22 to Mike. Which means we get money from those of us we know will pay. Only after that will we worry about getting our own money back and spreading the cost out. Perhaps an optional but strongly requested join fee for Pablo's of like $5? Current members not exempted unless they've already contributed to the server. What do I do if the corsage I got for my date looks extremely weak? I mean I ask for a red wrist corsage. ok. So I pick it up today and it's the non-wrist kind. So they have to alter it but that only takes like a minute. But then it's not exactly red so much as it has one red rose-looking flower, one that's sort of faded red, and one that's yellow. Yeah... So it's going to look absolutely awful with Tjia's red dress and dark skin and my black-and-white tux. It'll just be this single yellow flower that looks conspicuous. Bah.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 5/09/2003 10:26:00 PM
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actually the box will arrive in at most two weeks. setup could take up to a week. so at most three weeks. probably more like 1.5w.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 5/09/2003 02:39:00 PM
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ya i DEFINITELY posted this from coach's house at 2:35 pm on friday after ap us history test. mike ordered the server. It will be here in 2-14 days. so in conclusion i have no idea. edit: not in my house, kyle.
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AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 5/09/2003 07:32:00 AM
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Yah. That's what I'd say. Projects+Tests=No Halo. As soon as we get through next week, we should be clear. The Second Ren 2 is pretty rad. I was talking about it the other day and i was the only one who'd seen it :( Ok. On another note, I tuned up my PPP options and so Pablo's has been open for the last 12 and a half hours. Too bad nobody's gone on it much. I'm going to leave it on while we're at school, see how long we can keep it going. http://209.179.229.75/~kyle/phpBB2/index.php
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 5/09/2003 07:15:00 AM
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so basically the plan is coach and kris and I need to finish with this whole 'AP Testing' stuff. Plus Eric and Dylan and I have a major English project due next tuesday and I gather he Honors class has something going down too. And I mean a major project. Not minor. and of course there's prom this weekend. I'm thinking NEXT weekend? As in not tomorrow but two days after Matrix Day? (Which I MIGHT be able to go to! w00t w00t!~)
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 5/08/2003 04:11:00 PM
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we're not going to do the banners until we move to the new server. when we do, there will be banners, and everyone will have their own profile page and there'll be a ranking system and a halo party time/place suggestion system and it'll be really really pai pai.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 5/07/2003 08:56:00 AM
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and it's now down. bew. no, no strike that, it's up just slower than the average webserver. no, no, srike that too, it was definitely down.
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AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 5/07/2003 07:49:00 AM
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http://209.179.51.208/~kyle/phpBB2/index.php (I thought I'd try leaving it on while we were at school today...who knows how long until it disconnects...
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 5/06/2003 09:11:00 PM
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ryan: i thought you meant you didn't want it unfair. i was clarifying the point is it should be unfair. like horrible. like kyle so eloquently put it. dylan: nah i just replaced kris with billy. no nefarious purposes here. so hush.
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AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 5/06/2003 03:53:00 PM
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Yah. I support 7v1 Team Slayer. It's gotta be something where he wants to crawl in a hole. In fact, let's stick him in a hole/Gabe's closet and not let him out until it's over...I also say once you're a member, you can never leave...kinda like the "once you're a trojan, you're always a trojan" thing at USC...it's not like there has to be a certain number...if Kris wants to resign from active duty, OK, then he can do that and he has to tell us if and when he wants to start playing again. Same with Cyril and Gabe. I mean Cyril might not come back, but Gabe might be around every once in a while...
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 5/06/2003 07:18:00 AM
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no ryan the POINT is it's unfair AGAINST billy. enough that by the time we get to 50 kills he just wants to crawl into a hole and hide from us. and he'll probly do that along the way which means SCREENLOOKING TIME! mwhahahahaha! anyway Dylan what did you JUST say? What do you mean about the order....... Everybody with non-terrible connections: http://games.slashdot.org/games/03/05/05/1816200.shtml?tid=127&tid=186&tid=211 (Please be nice to the world and use the BitTorrent link if you know how). Warning: contains strong language. By that I mean if you or someone you love will be offended by the word f---, you probably should pass on this one. For those who won't be greatly offended, it's quite funny. I've only seen the first two but it's QUALITY. We GOTTA do Master Chief & the Holy Grail soon.
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AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 5/05/2003 10:48:00 AM
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http://207.62.34.3/~kyle/phpBB2/index.php
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 5/05/2003 09:28:00 AM
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KRIS: I AM NOT LIKE NIXON, I AM NOT A CROOK   () "\|/"    |   /\ (nixon making peace signs aka V for Victory aka Churchill)
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 5/05/2003 09:24:00 AM
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No, no not really. Besides he hadn't been coming for quite a long time. Even Dylan was at more parties recently (esp the ones at Dylan's house in which Dylan was there but Kris wasn't.) Nobody cares about this 'perfect pitch' thing you keep talking about as if you want us to ask about it. Well we're NOT GONNA ASK so hush. BILLLYYYYYYYYYYY!billybillybillybillybillybillybillybillybillybilly!
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 5/04/2003 08:43:00 PM
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kris also resigned. and he's just kicked down to reserves meaning if one of the 8 isn't there kris gets the first call.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 5/04/2003 05:50:00 PM
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it seems they don't.
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AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 5/04/2003 01:38:00 PM
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couldn't they just search for that?
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 5/04/2003 10:17:00 AM
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Kris resigned so Billy came in. Kris can still participate in Halo parties but he's off the team. Kyle, just put @ (&#064;) in there. That's ampersand pound zero six four semicolon. Seriously it's all you need. That's from exhaustive spam testing by people who do exhaustive spam testing.
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AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 5/03/2003 08:03:00 PM
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Why can't they both be in? I mean, I would say to them, "You want DNS? Both of them say "Yes." How in the hay-ell?" Although I did hear Kris say that he resigned pretty adamantly...perhaps that is why.
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AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 5/03/2003 05:45:00 PM
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mostly that the innocent little kid messed it up and didn't know any better and didn't care either way, he was still going to have fun singing it his way. it's kinda like holden wished that he could be like that and be sincere and not care if things were messed up, just be happy wherever he was. at least that's what i thought. eh. btw how cool is the hiveware enkoder?
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 5/03/2003 03:24:00 PM
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Shout out to all my homies in non-honors English III! So, what exactly does this: If a body meet a body have to do with the story of a world class loser going around NYC losing? Je ne comprends pas...
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 5/02/2003 03:49:00 PM
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saturday evening is possibly no go for me (katie eppstein's birthday) tonight is not even going to happen (need to frantically cram for sat 2 tomorrow, ugh) kyle's grounded (the Cheat... is GROUNDED!) so uh yeah anyway billy's been invited to post here but he hasn't accepted the invite yet... (edit: good call on putting the right email address in...)
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 5/02/2003 07:08:00 AM
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but still bring money to me or Kyle for the server and doing good things fund, which is alive and well! Mostly the server because last night it was purchased for $118 and Mike needs some amount of money at least near that. I've given $20 and I'll probably give more but everyone needs to chip in please.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 4/28/2003 04:20:00 PM
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A vote! Please post a comment stating YES if you are in favor of removing Kris from the active members list and promoting Billy from a reserve to active member. The basic effect is that Billy will be at Halo parties from now on, and Kris probably won't unless we go to his house every so often to gawk in wonder at his tv. Please post a comment stating NO if you want to keep Kris as active member and Billy as reserve. Billy and Kris are allowed to vote. Gabe's vote will be the tiebreaker. (please make a COMMENT and NOT a new Post)
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AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 4/28/2003 07:52:00 AM
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yes.
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AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 4/27/2003 09:07:00 PM
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No dude, our record is 11:09 legit...and that's with us dying...we're still working on perfecting our new method.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 4/27/2003 12:31:00 PM
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Drat. :(
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 4/26/2003 08:32:00 PM
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Update on AotCR times: -Cheating: Derek (non-member) got 8:22 with the Banshee method -Legitimate: Kyle and Cyril's 11:56 record tied with Ryan's solo 11:57 (er, i think those are the best... anybody know of a faster time? a legitimate one?)
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 4/25/2003 10:42:00 PM
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TROGDOR LIVES! BWAHAHAHAHAHA! I have saved my linux box from the brink of destruction! It is now more powerful than ever before! It truly BURNiNATES! However, it is still about 25 times slower than an Xbox. I am not exaggerating. Well, at least if you judge by BogoMIPS. Which are, of course, bogus. But that's about the right ballpark. OTOH, it's free. So yeah. Plus I'm going to label it TROGDOR the BURNiNATOR with duct tape and a sharpie and possibly add some kind of illuminants to the inside (run a couple of freaking bright LCDs off the power supply?). So it will be L33T! 31337, I say!!! Update: www.definitelynotsafe.com and sushibar.defeinitelynotsafe.com are going down so I can test them. Use the REAL urls for a while.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 4/25/2003 12:51:00 PM
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Ehhh... won't be that great. Do you think we could raise $250? Or somebody valiantly sacrifices their Xbox and we spend $60 to mod it? No. Either I get the MkLinux box fixed, or Mike and I will build a frankenserver from parts lying around Mike's house, plus ebay.
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AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 4/25/2003 08:05:00 AM
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How cool would it be to have DNS run off of an Xbox? And why didn't you pick up one for me, Coach?
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AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 4/24/2003 03:44:00 PM
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Hey, HEEEYYYY!!! you can't do that, I wasn't in that... you can't declare a ranking system after the fact...Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony...if i had known there was something else behind that sloppily organized "tournament," i would have participated instead of running to the texaco to get a quart of milk. And you did know that they're releasing new updated iPods on Monday, didn't you?
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 4/24/2003 01:11:00 PM
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ok, Gabe, you have proven you cannot handle the power of admin. REVOKED. Kyle's post returned to its original meaning. Kyle's previous post brought into reasonable font size limits. (server update: soon, very soon...)
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AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 4/24/2003 10:13:00 AM
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I didn't enter that tournament. And it wasn't single elimination, or there would have only been one round. And WHO EDITED MY POST?!?!?!?!?! WE HATES THEM!!!!!!!!!!
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 4/23/2003 10:46:00 PM
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Definitely 16+ players today at the Vet's Hall. It was bueno. Fun gametypes: -Shadow CTF: invsible, no motion tracker -15 oddballs with 16 people. there were SO MANY SKULLS -shotguns 50health no shields. yours truly dominated. anybody remembers any more, post 'em!
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AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 4/23/2003 10:28:00 PM
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It has been decided that for purposes of the Time Trial, it is illegal to use any shortcut or cheat that skips a loading point leaving the rest of the level vacant.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 4/23/2003 07:37:00 AM
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Gabe you're a madman! A MADMAN! Oh my god...8:37... maybe the grunion IS real.... Anybody know how he did this? DID YOU SKIP A BRIDGE!? You did didn't you! You skipped the two hubs and bridge right before the Banshee bridge! Or perhaps you rode the Pelican down (weeeeeeeeeeak). Bah. LAN party. PLEASE BRING THE SAT 2 BOOK, COACH! Thanks! update later: He used the tank/RL to knock a Banshee down from a very high point between the two Wraiths in the first canyon, and then rode the Banshee all the way to the end of the second bridge meaning he just waltzed through two hubs and a long hall and grabbed a Banshee and finished the level there. Definitely cheating. Also he skipped several load points thus meaning there were no enemies at all in the remainder of the level. And he forgot the book.
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AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 4/22/2003 08:35:00 PM
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Yah! Cyril and I, 11:56!!! we beat Ryan's record...by 1 sec.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 4/21/2003 11:38:00 PM
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just noticed that was posted at 3:43. Crazysauce.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 4/21/2003 03:43:00 PM
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AotCR, Co-op (Joe and Gabe), Normal, killing ALL ENEMIES. Every single freaking one of 'em. Every grunt lurking up high in the hubs, all FIVE Wraiths (yes, FIVE), both of the Hunters that attack you from the right on the second bridge just before the Banshees... unfortunately we *failed* to get *BOTH* Banshees but we took down every enemy on the entire Ziggurat as penance. It took a VERY long time but it was very fun. 343GS sucks when you forget how to get up to the upper level Library is just 3vil. I hate 343GS (the character)
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 4/20/2003 11:37:00 PM
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Alright, it's definitely (not safe) Gabe (here) using Joe's account. The best players know that the pistol is best all the time! And that's all.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 4/20/2003 11:20:00 PM
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A better player would use the best weapon for the job, and knows his own limitations. And the AR shoots faster than the pistol and does WAY more damage at melee range. Plus it has a MUCH wider bash range than the pistol as Gabe determined today. We were pretty tired at about 11:30 so we decided to take a quick nap before we went grunioning. It lasted till 8am. Anyway to make a short story shorter we saw Phone Booth (propz) and are now at Joe's and will not grunion. Eric, pistol for long range, AR for short: That's the plan, until the RL enters the scene (way more useful imo) I don't have the game, Ryan. I don't support Micro$oft.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 4/19/2003 12:47:00 PM
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Dude, pistol doesn't shoot fast enough, and is accurate. Accuracy is a DRAWBACK at proximity range - it means you MUST aim at the target. AR has spread meaning if you aim in their general direction you have a good chance of hitting. And pistol is one of the SLOWEST bashing weapons. Even RL is better. And you get into close range situations in the halls and circular rooms. Yes that's exactly what I do - hit the switch THEN turn and fire THEN get back in warthog/ghost and drive away rapidly while laughing. == Grunion run tonight! It's joe & gabe @ gabe's. Others are welcome. Give us a call at Gabe's and we'll figure things out. Or post here. Or on sushibar. == There is a grunion run the week before prom and the week after but not the week *of* prom. Alas. Though I guess it's just as well because who wants to go down to the beach and frolick in the surf in a tux? == Still investigating the domain issues. Still waiting for Iron Jeff to get the server up...
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 4/19/2003 10:27:00 AM
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Domain is down, investigating... We paid $10, but I'm thinking of screwing Dotster and going with The Public DNS.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 4/19/2003 10:26:00 AM
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wtf do you mean impossible to get up? that's EASY to get up. But if you blow it the first time you get stuck and have to ease your way back down a landing and try it again. Which is what happened. But it's easy to get up. Anyway I didn't HAVE the pistol because I switched it for the ROCKET LAUNCHER so I could take out the BANSHEES AND GHOSTS that were on our tail in the first snow area. And on our tail they were. Or rather would have been. Also it's useful against assorted Hunters and similar. I use the AR not because it's a good short range weapon and a "good" long range weapon, but because it's NOT the pistol, which is a great long range weapon and an AWFUL short range weapon. AR bullets hurt less but they have spread which means accuracy is not essential. Most of the combat in this level is very short range (the bridges are the only long range areas... in the snow fields if you don't have a vehicle you're a moron and should be killed because it's a race! a race i say!). And I don't know about you but auto-aim doesn't help me when I'm jumping over grunts, turning right to head up the next hallway after hitting the left side and kicking off. Ok, I may have been a bit premature saying you don't have game. But I think I have way more game than you.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 4/18/2003 08:47:00 AM
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It's a safety valve. If other people start being dumb, we can ask that they join their own game of 4 or so, or leave. Plus after we do some epic 16 player games we can tone it down a bit, break it down into e.g. a team precious and a team koth game. Some people don't like one of the games, they can go to the other one. More options are better, but of course we can't go over 16 people per game max. -- From yesterday: Joe+Gabe raced Eric+Ryan on AotCR at Kris's house, after finishing Spirited Away (that's a straaaaaaange flick...). Joe+Gabe came in pretty bad, 14.5 minutes, but only one point at which both died (we blew the checkpoint right before the Banshees though and had to go back about a bridge and a half....). I left before Eric+Ryan went. Joe+Gabe actually killed enemies though, Ryan's plan was just to run through and never stop for any reason... But that leaves out the POINT of it. You might get there a minute faster, but you don't have GAME. You gotta get game. Or you got nothing. What are you doin?? You're doin' nothin'. What are you doin? Get in the cah. Bungie.net's Legendary Walkthrough for AotCR provides a few interesting tips, RYAN. Use the assault rifle on the Grunts in the hallways, it works better than the pistol. Also take the RIGHT fork after coming out of the underground tunnels because the left fork is narrower and puts you on a bad angle with the continuation path. Take that, Mr. "They went the wrong way."
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 4/17/2003 08:31:00 PM
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PRIORITY: Anyone who's not already registered for the LAN party on Wednesday, go to the office tomorrow and get the form. Don't worry about the signature, call Marcelle (cambria-3359) for more info and to figure out the signature. But the forms are due tomorrow so get them in! Looks like this will be a straight fragfest, something like 20+ people... It's going to be epic. Your humble servant, Joe, has been assigned to get all the networking stuff ready for the Xboxen. Yay. Any of you (Kyle) who have some spare cat5 please bring it. Also hubs, we need lots of hubs. I'll try to get Mike's 4x100 hub again between my 2x100 and his we can get five right there... if we use the 10 ports (of which there are 8), it will be more laggy but with up to *three*, none of which are the host, it'll be fine. We need to get TVs, can anybody spare a TV? Talk amongst yourselves.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 4/16/2003 10:56:00 PM
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Rumors of a Grunion run/Halo after the prom May 10th. crazy sauce There will probably be a discussion over at our sister site, Sushi Bar Forums. Stay tuned.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 4/16/2003 11:12:00 AM
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www.definitelynotsafe.com works now. If you use it there will be an ad banner at the bottom of the page. I can remove it like I did at sushibar, but I won't. Please, give them a click-through (click the ad, wait for the page to load, then close it) because it gives Dotster money - and keeps the service free and their prices down. So be nice to Dotster. In a week or so anyway we'll be on Jeff's server and the ad will go away forever. In the meantime if you want the ad to go away click the "kill the ad" link.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 4/14/2003 09:01:00 PM
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eh, no problem, it will just mean that we STILL will never have all eight together. Ugh. One of these days...
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 4/14/2003 06:40:00 PM
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Looks like the good ol' Youth Center is getting another LAN party organized. Last time it was a lot of fun. Hopefully they'll get the Vet's Hall again, perhaps the whole night this time? That would be quality. Well talk to Eric about it. Spread the word - but use care in who you tell about it. *cough cough*no russell*cough* ahem scuse me. I didn't say that and neither did the Youth Center. (Sunday at Eric's has been scratched. If you don't know what I'm talking about just go with it)
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 4/13/2003 11:59:00 AM
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Team picture is online, definitelynotsafe.com has been registered, and Jeff and I will soon begin work on the server.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 4/12/2003 03:41:00 PM
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a Definitely Not Safe Expedition is in initial planning stages... Matrix Reloaded comes out May 15th (website, trailer, trailer by BitTorrent). It looks like steaming hot sauce. So let's try to get as many as we can muster and see it on or soon after opening day. Discuss either here or at sushi bar.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 4/11/2003 07:28:00 PM
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And we have a team email address!!! definitelynotsafe@imap.cc
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AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 4/10/2003 12:04:00 PM
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oh yeah i gotta do that...
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 4/09/2003 05:20:00 PM
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How goes the team picture, Kyle?
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 4/08/2003 08:15:00 PM
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Ok we're working on a team email address. Go vote on a domain name for it.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 4/08/2003 01:07:00 PM
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RYAN, www.fastmail.fm. GO. NOW. It's no Fmail but it sure doesn't suck. Requires a currently working email to subscribe.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 4/08/2003 09:03:00 AM
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we are go for critical mass at sushi bar. for those of you to whom sushi bar is unknown, it is now time to bust. sushi bar. we are still looking for email and hosting providers... especially email as ryan and i are in dire electronic straits after The Fmail Debacle. if you know of a good free email service PLEASE email joe at this domain with information. Thank you.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 4/07/2003 08:24:00 PM
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ok, results are in from today's matchup at Ryan's. It was a co-op race through Assault On The Control Room. Ryan/Dylan: 2 Gabe/Joe: 1 There was some good action though. And some HORRIBLE luck - getting transported MILES back after dying :( But it was a lot of fun. Looking forward to maybe Silent Cartographer? I can think of some SWEET strategies there... Knock the Overshields down, and rocket jump UP, open the doors while the other player clears out the top level at the entrance... requires massive skill but could lead to the level in like 5 minutes. Hot sauce.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 4/06/2003 08:39:00 PM
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Eh, Iron Slayer looked pretty lame sauce. Gabe's house was pretty well r0x0red. That was a good plan with Tjia and I wasn't it? :) CTF Hang 'em was sweet sauce. Rockets Sidewinder was also sweet sauce. (It was such a wonderful feeling knowing you could cross the map in a warthog or a ghost and just not even worry at all about being taken out. Well there were a few sweet shots (Ryan's WILD shot that flipped Eric's 'hog was scaldingly hot) but for the most part you were safe.) Yeah the team photo is great. Kyle please import it, select the best, and send it to me full-size. Actually uh... Put it on .Mac at full size, I'll work photoshop magic on it :) Actually if there was a very very good shot when you were switching weapons, that the gun was totally out of the frame, send that one. ALSO send one with Ryan jumping through. I'll combine them so we get a good shot with Ryan too. I think CTF with high respawn time is definitely sweet&sour sauce. Because it's great when you're on offense but awful when you're on defense. And you forgot to mention Chill Out, human weapons, 50% health. Very nice. Very crazy. Very nice.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 4/05/2003 10:49:00 PM
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we come to you now live from the scene of the carnage... first ever post FROM and DURING a halo party. thanks to gabe's cable and ryan's cable modem and ryan's cube. we've done something outrageous... something HBOworthy. Gabe started a solo game of Pillar of Autumn and decided to play with the capsule which immediately closes. After many takes and horrible deaths by being smacked down through the floor and out of the level, it somehow smacked him UP and.... well we'll let the video speak for itself. PLEASE give us mirrors, cfcl.com are great people but i don't want to steal their bandwidth. Video coming soon. Along with perhaps the first online grunion run and the birthday pazuki for gabe.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 4/05/2003 02:14:00 PM
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Eric Sexton is a guy whom Gabe tutors. That's literally all I know about him, coach could tell us more. Kris was still undecided as of after the SAT this afternoon. Ryan, please bring your computer and cable modem so we can bust near-real-time capture, editing, and posting of the team picture. I'll likewise bring my laptop so we can do cool stuff involving two Macs. Also bring your camera maybe. Kyle, bring either computer or Mercury so we can bust at least some anime watching. And bring your camera maybe. The objective is not to have too many cameras. We can only use one for the team pic because somebody didn't order the RCA splitters in time (ducking thrown objects), but two would be handy for the grunion expedition and pazuki preparation/devouring. I leave you with the following wisdom from the Scholastic Aptitude Test While most people believe rattlesnakes dwell only on land, they are buoyant and so can float and swim through the water. (edit) Double posts are pretty quank too.
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AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 4/05/2003 09:17:00 AM
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Who's Eric Sexton?
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 4/03/2003 08:54:00 PM
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Wait... Kris WILL be there on Saturday... but Cyril WON'T. ... Yet another party/run, and the universe has yet again prevented all eight from being there. Anyway the ol' blog here has been through MASSIVE, MASSIVE overhauls. But tell me if anything is different or not working. This should be a strictly under-the-hood change, and the only difference is to save me a lot of work.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 4/03/2003 04:57:00 PM
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I'm way too lazy to remember what updates I have to make. OK there's Ryan's bio and Dylan's bio I have somewhere. I have to create the jargon page and add a few entries. If there's anything else I've forgotten, comment on this article. I haven't ordered the splitters yet and so they'll never be here by the weekend. I can swipe them from the sound system at school, maybe, or radio shack might have them. We need at LEAST one to take the team picture.
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AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 4/02/2003 07:34:00 PM
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serious is worthless, don't even bother... Still from iMovie--child's play...
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 4/02/2003 04:21:00 PM
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So I'm going to get the splitters from allelectronics.com now. Should be here easily by the weekend (I'll do fast shipping so as to avoid arrival on monday) Grand total: $3.00. Yay allelectronics.com. Going to be some serious team picture bustage this weekend. I'm thinking we do it two ways: one serious, one unserious. Serious way is all in matching color (blue or red), assault rifle because it's basic sauce, in a line looking at the cameraman. Unserious is each in own color with weapon of choice. Then of course we have individual pictures but that'll take a while to do. Basically individual pictures would consist of you doing something characteristic to you. For mine I'm thinking a Ghost Killtacular. Gabe would probably be sniping like mad. Ryan would be at the top of a Blood Gulch base, a shotgun in his hands, and the steaming bloodied bodies all about him of poor fools who only wanted to get to the top of the base. I'm just taking guesses here, everyone can do basically what they want. I don't think we should take time away from actually Haloing to do this, perhaps the first brave few will do this when the rest of us stagger off to sleep. Ryan and Kyle and Gabe: Please check that your cameras are charged and have plenty of tape. Ryan and Kyle, bring your comps (Ryan, do NOT forget the power supply this time!) and we'll get a jump on editing. -Is there an easy way to get a still from a movie? That is, select a frame from a movie and turn it into a picture by itself? joe
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 4/02/2003 10:40:00 AM
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Eric, my Volvo is NOT a Warthog! Neither is Gabe's Porsche. Slash Lexus. They will get stuck like a mofo. Or rather like mofos. Kris we're glad to have you here. We'd be gladder to have you on saturday night.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 4/01/2003 06:58:00 PM
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Ok, Ryan temporarily borked the website. it's now fixed, due to zero efforts on my part. Yay internet. Eric, this is not even censorship. This is me saying I hate the concept of -sauce. Note I didn't remove the -sauce usage from your post. Granted, I censored the hell out of your earlier post but it had to be done. Come on we're shooting for AT LEAST a PG-13 rating here. Who knows what age of child might stumble upon the site? Jacqueline might catch sight of something no bueno over Gabe's shoulder! THINK OF THE CHILDREN, MAN! ok now to finally watch Two Towers which Kyle burned for me a loooooong time ago.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 3/31/2003 07:40:00 AM
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No shoop for you. (The Shoop Nazi)
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 3/30/2003 11:26:00 PM
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You don't even know how glad I am that the play's over. You don't even know how sad I am that the play's over. You don't even know how mad I am that the play's over. (Now that we FINALLY HAVE EVERYTHING PERFECT) Anyway, Halo. Soon. Gabe's? Grunion? Observation only. Shoop? Very nice there, Eric/Gabe. And Eric, if you don't shutupsauce about the saucesauce i'll killsauce you. Oksauce? There's weak sauce and hot sauce and that's about it. Crazysauce is just......Rgggggggh. I hate it. It reeks of the same foul stench as Chiron, and the assault rifle on full auto at long range. And you know what, there is no affirmative action here, so you non snipers (myself included) are just going to have to take it and like it. Until Gabe sends me the banners and I put them up and it is good. --H2O+Cl+Swim=>No Germs+Itchy Skin
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 3/30/2003 10:57:00 AM
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Nearly 24 hours later, I'm getting ready to go to the matinee performance today, afterwards is the cast party at the Cleggs' house. So I'm out of it for a while. Ryan, check Fmail... looks like they're dying but not scamming us. I'm going to fall back to my old email account and see if I can set up something more permanent. Worst case I stay with my old account until college when I'll be able to run my own server (yay). And/or have an account from the college. I'm thinking party next weekend? Gabe already offered but if not we could have something small at my house (for a change) - maybe 4 people or so (including me). OTOH, at Gabe's we can go grunioning again. I'll order the RCA splitters from allelectronics.com tomorrow, they should be here by the weekend meaning we can finally take the team picture, and maybe even start Master Chief and the Holy Grail... --duct tape headbands are 5W33T.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 3/29/2003 12:47:00 PM
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Sorry all, I've been majorly out of the loop during play week here.... Ironically I had my laptop with me just about 24/7 - if only I had a WiFi card (and an access point), then we'd be rockin'. I had so much spare time that could have been used to make the site absolutely great. Oh well, I've got a few hours of time to catch my breath here, and do about a week's worth of homework, and then show tonight. And there's going to be, ah... a surprise during the bows. You'll see. It's going to be very high quality. I think Ryan heard something of it. ---- Duct tape, caffeine, and alkaline batteries - The Holy Trinity of Tech...
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AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 3/28/2003 11:59:00 PM
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Hello friends... I cordially invite you all to the new Sushi Bar forum: http://pub19.ezboard.com/bthenewsushibar Good times.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 3/27/2003 10:57:00 AM
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Keyes is ghetto. It's like swamp and running around and help i'm confused and tense music for no great reason. Kinda like Truth&Rec, except Truth&Rec is sweet. Gabe's banners are coming, and an invite has been sent to Cyril. I have like no free time now but I will soon/eventually get RCA splitters from allelectronics.com which will allow us to capture video while still playing normally. Bontemps. Ryan: AFAIK it does support Blogger API... mostly because it IS Blogger. And now back to school play work, or rather trying to jam my day full of as much amusement as possible so i can slowly bleed it off over the next 12 hours. No joke. I will be here probably until 11pm tonight. UUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. Well at least I get to actually use the script during the show (hooray for sound engineers). And somehow I got billed as Technical Director. Shrug.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 3/23/2003 09:19:00 PM
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Dude, getting ghosts stuck in a tree isn't that great. I don't mean to put Cyril down but... wtf are you focusing on THAT instead of how he WHOMPED us at TKoth? (which is still WEAK SAUCE but a lot of fun to play)
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 3/23/2003 09:03:00 PM
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RCA plug-to-jack splitters are $1 or so at allelectronics.com... should I get some? I think I'll just get one for each camera owner. That's three (Gabe, Kyle, Ryan) giving us up to twelve players worth of carnage captured forever in DV.
Hey Kyle, refresh my memory, was that the same Dahu who, in 2ball oddball, grabbed one and went wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy elsewhere? Like, hid under a rock? Like, cheapness incarnate? Ya that's what I thought. Definitely never playing Blood Gulch Oddball with no nav points ever again. Too quanky.
And Kyle... There's a reason they don't play TKoth on Blood Gulch in the championships. That's because it's WEAK SAUCE. Now Precious is good and Reverse is good but TKoth isn't that great. It's fun but not impressive. ESPECIALLY WHEN IT'S 4V3.

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AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 3/23/2003 07:02:00 PM
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No one player stood above the rest? I disagree. What about the Freedom fighter, outscoring the nearest competitor in Team KOTH by 6 min? What about when he brought us back from a 30 second to 4 min gap to end up scoring over 14 min total, 10 min more than any other single player? Ze Dahu definitely got my vote for MVP of the night.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 3/23/2003 01:57:00 PM
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Yeah we all had good moments and bad moments. We all rocked at our respective fields. Except of course when Ryan, Gabe, and Joe got completely rocked on Team KOTH because it was 4v3 (Ryan, you still helped the team whether or not you got time yourself!) In other news, an attempted coup has forced the temporary removal of Gabe as a posting member, but we've patched everything up and I've reinvited him. I think his motives were most likely resentment. Anyway yeah, grunion run was a failure, Master Chief and the Holy Grail was a failure because I forgot to bring the RCA splitters we need (running and ducking) but next time for sure. For sure. Yeah.
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AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 3/22/2003 09:13:00 AM
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Hell yes!
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AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 3/21/2003 03:58:00 PM
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Hey, Hey, come on, you guys. We all agreed not to talk about each other's sisters. I'm not going to point any fingers now, but just knock it off.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 3/20/2003 06:20:00 PM
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Bring your camera, Ryan, (the more the merrier, Kyle's bringing his I think) and also definitely bring your Cube. Speaking of which, Kyle: Please bring your laptop and the Mercury (we need the HD space). As far as Chaos = Tough Love, well that's what Gabe said. Or maybe something else was tough love. I'll edit it.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 3/19/2003 05:14:00 PM
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yeah, sure, you're the best, that must be why you get schooled at everything BUT oddball, right? :P (disclaimer: But not by me, admittedly.)
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AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 3/19/2003 04:50:00 PM
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RE: The 'Players/who are we' page: I'm not sure i quite understand the stuff at the top. "epic 24 hour bloody struggles to be the best." - everyone already knows I'm the best, I thought we just do them because you liked to play with me. [/mock arrogance]
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 3/19/2003 04:20:00 PM
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ok so we're going to do the french guy, and the french guy is a Grunt, and for the head smacking thing we stick a plasma nade on his foot. joy.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 3/19/2003 08:43:00 AM
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we've gone through massive css and formatting overhauls. yay me. i'm thinking of doing something CRAZY like hosting us someplace with php and having blogger nicely build us php that gets real-time generated with all the additional boilerplate stuff stuck on once. that would be sweet. but, in the meantime, i'm searching for a nice simple greyish pattern background that just screams "Oh look at me I'm Halo!" I'm thinking something like the pattern on the side of the bases? Doing something genius involving a cut-up picture of a Blood Gulch base would be pretty good. Kyle and Gabe have joined Joe here. Dylan, Eric, Ryan, Kris, and Cyril are all welcome to post as well (though in the case of Cyril, he might be posting with a French accent.) Attention all of you remaining seven who aren't me: Send me brief bios of yourselves for the Players page. that's it for now, back to work in Graphic Design!
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 3/18/2003 09:32:00 PM
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we can't do the french guy kyle, how are we going to do the head smacking thing?!
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AUTHOR: kg
DATE: 3/18/2003 09:31:00 PM
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Yep. Definitely need to do "Repressed" and the French guy.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 3/18/2003 05:25:00 PM
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ok. new project. Seen Halo Matrix? Well, we're gonna do Master Chief and the Holy Grail. It's going to be so GREAT. We'll update you on progress. Currently these are the scenes we're planning to do: -Coconuts (opening) -Black Knight (Look, you stupid bastard, you've got no arms left!) -Bridge of Death (three questions) -Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch -Tim the Enchanter -"'Elp, 'elp, Oi'm being repressed!" if I omitted any I'm sure Gabe will add them.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 3/17/2003 11:08:00 PM
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Gabe, Dylan, Ryan, and Joe all went over Dylan's house after school today. We LANed two Xboxen in two different rooms causing mad teamplay without mad screenlooking/overhearing. We did a few games - CTF Gulch 150% health no motion tracker (lotsa fun), hang 'em height team koth, prisoner rockets straight, derelict tough love, that was it i think. maybe one other... Planned grunion run at Gabe's on the 22nd/23rd. I'm hoping we can get all eight of us there. That would be very very sweet. We can also get four DV cameras (Ryan's, Kyle's, Gabe's sister's, and possibly David's?) to record all the gameplay and perhaps edit a highlights reel later for posting to this site, or maybe just a bunch of stills. But in any case it'll be great fun.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 3/11/2003 11:07:00 AM
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New Halo gametype. Gabe and Dylan call it "Chaos" Take Team Slayer. All players invisible. No motion tracker. NO TEAM INDICATOR. No shields, 50% health. You get just enough time to shriek "TEAM! TEAM! HOLD YOUR F--" before it all goes black. (50% health = 2 pistol shots. Yeah. It's bloody.)
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 3/11/2003 10:43:00 AM
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Moved to a new server.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 3/09/2003 11:28:00 AM
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Memorable moments of yesterday, not just Halo... -Delfino Feroce from Project Gotham Racing.......'nuff said. -Grunion Run. We found... one dead sand crab. We incidentally lost a screwdriver and used a lot of flashlight batteries. Was it worth it? This reporter doesn't think so. Yet Gabe, Gabe's mom, and Kyle's mom persist in telling us that grunion exist. And the California Department of Fish and Game has a paper called "The Amazing Grunion." So the Great Grunion Hoax persists...
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 3/09/2003 10:41:00 AM
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Aftermath of yesterday... MVP: Gabe Doritos Halftime Moment: The shishkebab. Blood Gulch, CTF. Ryan Dylan Gabe vs Eric Kyle Joe. Ryan grabs our flag and runs out of the base and around to the ramp up. Eric and Joe are in hot pursuit. Gabe takes a shot from the hills and skewers BOTH Eric and Joe. We fall over in perfect synchronization, like a ballet. The whole sequence ends, many frags and flag relay sprints later, in a triumphant capture for Red Team.
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 3/07/2003 10:34:00 AM
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Gametypes, gametypes, gametypes! -Rockets. Prisoner. 50% health. No shields. As many players as possible. Need I say more? -King of the Hill on Hang 'Em High (make sure to set moving hill, the default hill position just sucks. Also Generic starting weapons, becuase HEH is a glorious map with the human pistol.) -Pistols on Wizard. -Invisible Snipers on Wizard. It's crazy. CRAZY I say. ....
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 3/07/2003 10:04:00 AM
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And it's time once again for a gametype update. In this space we bring you our favorite Halo gametypes. -PRECIOUS: Named for the Ring in the LotR series, this is an oddball gametype with a twist: The ball-holder is invisible and runs fast, and there are no nav points or motion trackers of any kind. This is a screenlooking fest. Best with at least five against one. Above nine-v-one or so, adding an extra ball doubles the fun for everyone. I can personally attest that 14v2 is extremely great (except when one TV worth of people decides to be biatches and doesn't tell where the ball is! This means you, Jeff, Bode, and Russel!) -REVERSE PRECIOUS: Similar to the precious... except backwards. The ball-holders are VISIBLE and everyone else is INVISIBLE. The ball-holder also runs faster. Basically the objective is to run like there's no tomorrow. Hiding is tricky as you're completely visible. Precious and Reverse Precious work well on Battle Creek. (But taking the Active Camo when you have the ball in RP is just plain cheating.) -TEAM PRECIOUS aka WAR OF THE RING: I haven't played this yet, but I've heard about it from Kyle, Cyril, Billycarson, and others. Basically everyone divides into two teams, the Fellowship and the Nazgul, and names themselves appropriately (not necessary but fun). One player from each team (Frodo, Sauron) is the Ringbearer. This player gets the ball and their team defends them. This would probably work better with some kind of nav point of motion tracker. The point is to grab the ball and get it to the ringbearer, who hides and accumulates time for the team. There are plenty more but I've forgotten most of them for now. Perhaps I'll bring a special report direct from Gabe's house tonight...
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 3/07/2003 09:20:00 AM
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Ok, Clone Wars just plain rocks. Yesterday we (Gabe, Kris, Eric, and I) went over Kris's house after school. Gabe lent Kris his Gamecube and CW. After a bunch of good Halo on Kris's plasma HDTV (lucky bastard) Eric had to go home and after that we hooked up the Gamecube. So the Clone Wars solo looks uninteresting. It's sort of like Nightfire's solo (disclaimer: I haven't played either game solo), in that it's not bad but multiplayer is where it's at. Anyway Kris selected a tank and I selected the walker thing, and I worked him once I got used to the controls. (HEY LUCASARTS! Why don't you make a modern console game with crisply responsive controls! Jedi Starfighter is likewise soft on the controls, and it's infuriating.) Then I changed to the Trade Federation tank and I proceeded to whoop his ass with the charged-up blaster cannon. Finally he changed to the walker thing (with impenetrable shield) and caught up. I won at the end by one point. So we're all thinking, ok this is a pretty nice game. Tank combat rocks. But wouldn't it be cool if you could get out and fight with lightsaber and such? The game box sure doesn't make it look like you can. But during a brief break when Gabe and I got some ice cream, Kris played a solo level. It's the one where you're in the fast Jedi tank and you have to take out the 'orbital cannons'. So finally he gets to the last one... and we watch the cutscene as Mace Windu disembarks from the tank... and jumps down into the pit. Suddenly we're controlling Mace and he is definitely pro. He has a lightsaber. He throws down with the lightsaber. He can chuck the lightsaber at his enemies. It is deadly. You can control it but it's not easy and we're not exactly sure how yet. And he has a Force power. Basically it takes a few seconds to charge, and then in a cone in front of Mace,... people die. It looks like massive winds or something. We call it Force D34th. It should definitely be a Dark side power. So then Kris goes online and gets some cheats. We unlock all the multiplayer maps and modes. Including the arena one. Basically, we're Jedi, in the big arena on Geonosis where the odd animal things very nearly ate Anakin & Co. And enemies come at you. Lots of them. In waves. LOTS of them. And you have at them, while shouting "HAVE AT YOU!" Well that's not required but it lends good atmosphere. Anyway it's a quality game and if you have a Gamecube you should definitely check it out. Up to 4 player multiplay too!
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 3/07/2003 09:07:00 AM
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So. Tonight is a 'Grunion Run' at Gabe's house. Grunion are, according to Gabe, little fish that come up with the waves onto the sand, lay their eggs, and wash out with the next wave. Supposedly they are thus helpless on the sand for a little while, and it's apparently fun to collect them and chuck them in buckets and them throw them back later. ... We don't believe a word of it. But it's an excuse to play Halo and DDR at Gabe's house where Gabe's wonderful mother with wonderful food and confectionary items lives. Plus he's the one with DDR so it's best to appease him :)
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AUTHOR: joe
DATE: 3/07/2003 08:59:00 AM
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open.
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