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Displayed name	Arancaytar
Member number	2984
Title	Law Bringer
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Homepage	http://encyclopedia.ermarian.net/
Registered	Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00

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Aaaargh! Windows! in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Sunday, December 11 2005 10:51 Profile Homepage #13 Actually, trying to use a more or less permanent medium to exchange files between computers is bound to run into problems. If there is any other way - say, if both computers can be connected to the internet (with a broadband access, naturally), then even that would be preferable. And when burning a CD, you should get used to burning it in a single session. Use the program to arrange the files as you want them on the CD, then burn it all at once. Anything else is sure to cause trouble. Of course, that makes it necessary to choose in advance what files you need to transfer. -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Runescape anyone? in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Sunday, December 11 2005 10:32 Profile Homepage #337 quote: Originally written by Infernal666hate: While normally I would agree with you, the Runescape message boards are only usable by members, and if they weren't they would be full of beggars asking others for items they can easily get themselves. So, by using this forum, I am complimenting spiderweb by saying that this is a site where even the lazy slobs who just download free demos without ever conidering that they might buy the product are still capable of intelligent conversation. (At least until TM pops his head around here.) There is something intensely ironic in that. -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Help with Unix needed... in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Sunday, December 11 2005 08:23 Profile Homepage #4 What did you post eight " :eek: "s for? Other than that, yes I'd guessed Perl would have a good solution; unfortunately I'm far too short on time to even learn the basics of a new language right now. Perhaps it'll have to wait until after the exams. ;) -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Christmas Music in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Sunday, December 11 2005 08:21 Profile Homepage #10 TM, Christmas is not the topic here. For the record, I don't think highly of organized religion. That doesn't stop me from liking Christmas Carols and other church/choral music - I'm a big fan of Mozart's Requiem, for instance. Unfortunately, since I graduated high school I haven't joined a choir again, which means I haven't had the opportunity to sing a lot of anything, especially christmas songs. In the last year of school, when our old choral director went back to New Jersey (the best choral director I have known in my life, incidentally), she was succeeded by another director who was also competent, but didn't share my taste in "non-modern" music, so it wasn't that nice anymore. Gaudate is one of my favorite christmas songs as well. [ Sunday, December 11, 2005 08:21: Message edited by: An array cat ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Creative Writing in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Sunday, December 11 2005 06:32 Profile Homepage #48 Anyway, in the way of disturbing, this one by Rosycat remains unchallenged. Googling it just revealed another page at the Young Writer's Club where it is quoted. Mysteriously, its submitter is a 16-year-old girl from Texas - although it was submitted at a time (26 April 2002) when Rosycat was as old as she said she was when she wrote it (11). Unfortunately, Rosy is no longer around to clear up the riddle whether she copied from the older girl, the older girl copied from her, or they are identical, and in the latter case whether she is actually now 20 or 14, and whether she lives in Texas or Ontario. o_o -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Creative Writing in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Sunday, December 11 2005 06:10 Profile Homepage #46 Uh. I think that if you've got nothing nice to say, well... so there. Anyway, the first line have bad grammar, and be all in all unrelated to the rest. [ Sunday, December 11, 2005 06:31: Message edited by: An array cat ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Creative Writing in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Sunday, December 11 2005 02:45 Profile Homepage #44 A few weeks ago, I woke up with two lines of a poem in my memory, as if I had heard it recited shortly before waking up. Unfortunately, I forgot most of it before I realized that it could well be a poem nobody had ever written. By the time I found out that was the case, only about two garbled lines remained. I had to fill in some of the words, but the end result was this (no, I don't know what it means either): We cried your name, the greatest from above And named the hatred of our spirit love. -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Aaaargh! Windows! in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Saturday, December 10 2005 16:02 Profile Homepage #5 quote: Originally written by Thralni, chicken god prophet: quote: Originally written by Uhh... ben?: Aaaargh! Mac!!! :) You can also put it that way, yes. quote: Burn the CD on a PC. :P Anyway, if it will only read the last file you put on it, you could put the files on one at a time, transferring them as you go. It's only six files. Its hard to put things all at once on a disc when you don't really know what other files you'll be putting on it except for the files you already have, and you still want a backup. And its actually six folder, over which a hundred Photographs are devided Compress them into one file. Or don't Mac and Windows support at least one common compression format? Zip? Rar? Stuffit will help you on the mac I believe, and Winzip on PC. -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Help with Unix needed... in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Saturday, December 10 2005 15:24 Profile Homepage #2 Yes, mostly regular expressions. But the lowercase conversion actually would require a certain command I don't know yet (if it exists). sed has a command for changing characters in a line if a certain string is found, but that would only work if one html tag was on each line. As it is, this would lowercase any text on the same line, which wouldn't be that good. -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
The Political Compass Reloaded in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Saturday, December 10 2005 09:11 Profile Homepage #28 I managed to get 8 once by voting the exact opposite of what I thought on each of the queries. Really, some of that is awful. "My country, right or wrong," uh... what did someone say it resembled? "My wife, drunk or sober." -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Questoins Questoins in Nethergate
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Saturday, December 10 2005 09:07 Profile Homepage #25 quote: Originally written by Thuryl: Eh, close enough. They're both smallish nations in the middle of the ocean. There's a significant difference in their height above sea level. Also, for the sake of a modship, I would be ready to post pictures of myself covered by blue war paint and to a far lesser extent by clothes if nobody here knew my real name. As it is, I don't feel anonymous enough. So you'll be spared that sight. -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Help with Unix needed... in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Saturday, December 10 2005 07:29 Profile Homepage #0 This is for the Pied Piper Project, so it's at least tangentially related to Spiderweb. [if you know what the project is, you can skip what follows] --- The PPP started when the board was pruned about a year and a half ago for disk space reasons. Over a few days (with about a week's warning before the purge) we managed to save almost every thread on the General board. When, a few months later, another purge became necessary, we did the same for the other boards. The data is still saved, and I have most of it (all of PPP1, and a lot of PPP2, although I'd have to check that). --- [start again here] The data is unstructured and unformated, unfortunately. Most people saved threads by title rather than by number, which made it very hard to index the html files. But with a little time and some leet unix shell commands for renaming large numbers of files, it now is mostly structured. It can be downloaded here: PPP1,PPP2, or both. The next step would be to replace the page links in each thread with internal links, allowing the archive to be browsed without accidentally going to the SW forums and being told the thread no longer exists. There are a 1000 html pages in General alone, so changing it manually would be dumb. So I'm going to try it with a shell command. --- The thread link takes this form in every page: `http://www.ironycentral.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=A;t=BBBBBBBB;p=C`Where the "A" is the forum number, the "B" is the thread number, and "C" the page number. I would like to have this link refer, instead, to: `pageC.html`Since threads are in the same folder, so the other stuff isn't necessary. That's the first problem, but the second one seems a bit more tricky. Some browsers transform all html tags into uppercase when saving a page. This is quite annoying when trying to replace strings; I wonder if it would be possible to transform all characters that lie between '<' and '>' into lowercase without affecting anything else? -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
INTJ? ESFP? in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Saturday, December 10 2005 02:58 Profile Homepage #34 quote: Originally written by Logalot^2: I know from long experience that I'm an ENTP. It's not altogether too surprising that this community seems to be almost exclusively "J" Well, it was 1% in my case and that because I find criticism useful. -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
The Political Compass Reloaded in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Saturday, December 10 2005 02:40 Profile Homepage #26 You managed to get a plus nine on Political Compass? :eek: Even Ben is below 2, and he's conservative to the bone... -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Level Editor for Lost Souls? in Richard White Games
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Saturday, December 10 2005 01:32 Profile Homepage #2 quote: Originally written by Vizhunairee: is the most promising of the RWGs. Yes, but with that kind of competition... -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
whats this?! in Avernum 4
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Saturday, December 10 2005 01:00 Profile Homepage #24 quote: Originally written by Delicious Vlish: *Mac OSX is pretty much what Linux might be one day. A finely tuned highly polished user friendly NIX based OS. Linux is what Max OSX will never be: Free. Plus, the penguin is cuter. -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00**
Creative Writing in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Friday, December 9 2005 13:53 Profile Homepage #41 quote: Originally written by saunders: Canal was archived by Khothie on his university web space. After four years as a student, he was finally expelled into the outer darkness of gainful employment, and it no longer has a home. Actually, I haven't written any Canal for a couple of years. Life itself got a bit too gothic for it to be fun. Maybe some of the lighter strands are due for revival if some kind person could offer a home? Having dug deep into my sparse funds to get a host for the Encyclopedia and Pied Piper, I now have a lot of space left over (the domain would be ermarian.net). If you still have it and would have me host it, you can email it to arancaytar.ilyaran@gmail.com. Come to think of it, if you don't need it hosted, could you send it anyway? I'd really like to read it again. :) -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Creating a web server from scratch! in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Friday, December 9 2005 13:39 Profile Homepage #3 What do you mean by "designing internet stuff"? -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
The Political Compass Reloaded in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Friday, December 9 2005 10:54 Profile Homepage #10 quote: Originally written by Uhh... ben?: Economic Left/Right: -2.25 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 1.33 Which is not really what you might have expected, but not that much different than last time. What the heck, ben? Is the bad influence of Spiderweb turning you into a communist? :P -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
The Political Compass Reloaded in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Friday, December 9 2005 06:16 Profile Homepage #0 Alex's thread reminded me that we haven't had one of these in quite a while - as near as I can determine, not since the last prune, because I can't find one on the board now. Anyway, you know the deal. Take this test and post your result. And if you can avoid complaining about how the test isn't accurate, avoid it. I didn't make it. Indeed, there are a lot of other tests, some of which are better. If you know of one, link it. :) --- Economic Left/Right: -9.25 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.62 --- I appear to be slipping; as little as a year ago I had under -9 on both of these. If this continues, perhaps one day I'm going to vote conservative. I feel sick. -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Hey in The Avernum Trilogy
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Friday, December 9 2005 05:57 Profile Homepage #7 quote: Originally written by Zoso: First off, use caps and punctuation. YOU MEAN LIKE THIS???????!!!!!!!1111 :P [ Friday, December 09, 2005 05:57: Message edited by: An array cat ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
whats this?! in Avernum 4
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Friday, December 9 2005 05:14 Profile Homepage #19 As long as you attempt to define Linux in terms of Windows, you cannot understand it. :P Google will tell you: quote: Linux is: Linux is a free open-source operating system based on Unix. Linux was originally created by Linus Torvalds with the assistance of developers from around the globe. Unix is: An operating system co-created by AT&T researchers Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson. Unix is well known for its relative hardware independence and portable application interfaces. Lots of big companies are using Unix servers for its reliability and scalability. Some of the popular Unix flavours are: Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, etc. An Operating System is: The software that the rest of the software depends on to make the computer functional. On most PCs this is Windows or the Macintosh OS. Unix and Linux are other operating systems often found in scientific and technical environments. There are many key differences between Linux and other Operating Systems, but one of the most important ones (besides it being free and developed by volunteers) is that it is based on a command line system. There is very little you can do in the graphical interface of Linux that you could not do in the command line mode. [ Friday, December 09, 2005 05:16: Message edited by: An array cat ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
INTJ? ESFP? in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Friday, December 9 2005 04:57 Profile Homepage #26 INFJ Introverted 89 Intuitive 62 Feeling 12 Judging 1 Edit: I just remembered I came out P the last time I took this, not J. But it's a weak J. [ Friday, December 09, 2005 05:05: Message edited by: An array cat ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Creating a web server from scratch! in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Friday, December 9 2005 03:55 Profile Homepage #1 What is it that you are trying to make "from scratch"? Do you want to build a computer from separate hardware components? This will take much more time and money than buying one that is already built, and whether it will perform better (or even just as well depends on your choice of parts and your skill. Also, remember that no matter how good your computer is, or how much money you spent on its parts, the only one you can contact for tech support and maintainance will be yourself. Or do you mean to get a readily built computer and set it up as a web server? I can tell you right now that the cost of maintaining it is extensive. If it runs around the clock (and, being a webserver, it has to), you'll notice this on your energy bill. Also, unless you already have some kind of high-speed internet connection (and DSL probably won't cut it), that will be expensive as well. The only way you can even begin to cover the costs is by renting out the space you don't use, and paid hosting is a full-time business. So I should probably rather ask: What on Earth do you need a web server for? And why would you want to build one yourself? What do you wish to prove to yourself? If you need something hosted, you can find dozens of companies that will give you a few GB for around $5 a month, or less. I'm finding it hard to imagine what you need hosted that that isn't enough for you. -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Sci-Fi and fantasy authors... in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Friday, December 9 2005 02:06 Profile Homepage #47 quote: his predilection towards killing off all the good characters Yes, yes indeed. -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00

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