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Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Tuesday, January 30 2007 06:44 Profile Homepage #40
What is it?

Edit: I ask this because I'm sensitive, easily disturbed, and hesitant to watch scary/ugly videos. So what is it about?

[ Tuesday, January 30, 2007 06:55: Message edited by: Arancaytar ]

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Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Tuesday, January 30 2007 06:15 Profile Homepage #62
It's not like I'd lose my job (and it's unlikely he'd find the 2-3 places where I called him clueless), but it's more an issue that some of the sites are major projects, and I would then be asked pointy questions about spending company time on them.

Not that I'm not tempted to let on what I'm capable of when I actually work on a non-trivial project (which include re-labeling form buttons and changing the table layout of web pages... :( ).

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Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Tuesday, January 30 2007 05:06 Profile Homepage #60
Will be fixed later next week.

Also, in a series of events ironically fitting to this topic, I blabbed a bit too much to my superior, telling him I was writing the documentation of an application on a MediaWiki I set up on my own space.

The subdomain it's on (you've never seen it, and it's password-protected) is separate from all my other stuff, but it's very clearly a .ermarian.net subdomain, and you'd have to be born yesterday or naturally uncurious not to realize that this implies a main website at ermarian.net. And my boss is inquisitive as hell.

And there are some juicy bits in my blog and elsewhere where I might have been somewhat careless with what I said.

For another day or two, the Ermarian Network is therefore down for maintenance, until I figure out his (static) IP and block it from the rest of the site in a non-obvious but effective way.

I'm pretty certain he knows about 10 words of English, but I'd rather not chance it.

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Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Tuesday, January 30 2007 00:24 Profile Homepage #57
Um, it says "20 weeks" when I look at the page.

And I didn't change a line of code on the site for at least half a week now...

[ Tuesday, January 30, 2007 00:25: Message edited by: Arancaytar ]

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New Comics! Featuring WtC! in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Monday, January 29 2007 22:33 Profile Homepage #4
tSara: ITYS ("I Told You So").

Lessee... I might be able to do some magic.

With ImageMagick, namely.

Mh. Auto-resized copies of all the pages are here: http://worfthecat.ermarian.net/converted .

When I have more time, I'll set up the shellscript in such a way that it can just be called through a form - then you can generate a resized copy as soon as you upload the picture. :)

No fancy form, but here: http://worfthecat.ermarian.net/resize.php

From now on, after you've uploaded more files, just visit this page in the browser and it will scale all the new images. :)

[ Tuesday, January 30, 2007 00:01: Message edited by: Arancaytar ]

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Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Monday, January 29 2007 13:48 Profile Homepage #53
quote:
Originally written by Tyranicus.:

quote:
Originally written by Dikiyoba:

Ack, the stealth karma thread is back. *hands out ones*

Oh, and since I just saw this:

Originally by Tyranicus:

quote:
My name is known to several of you, but I don't think my full name (first and last) has ever been mentioned on this board, and i hope to keep it that way.
Dikiyoba believes it has been, in a name thread a while back. Not that Dikiyoba remembers what it was.
That was in Polaris, actually, and I never mentioned my last name, so my 'full name has never been mentioned, and that wasn't even on this board. Also, the post has been lost due to the great Polaris data loss of '07. :P
Seeing as the data loss affected only the data - and all of the data - of '06, that would be a more appropriate descriptor.

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Episode 3 Continued in General
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Monday, January 29 2007 07:41 Profile Homepage #168
It is no big feat to be always right in Dikiyoba's stories - just predict the worst that could happen, and then some. :P

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Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Monday, January 29 2007 04:45 Profile Homepage #165
It is? Us poor, poor Windows users. :(

(I'm not a big fan of GF, as you can see. :P )

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Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Monday, January 29 2007 01:11 Profile Homepage #163
Another question: Did the rats even register? Because if not, they're hard to delete.

Oh, and I like how UBB is finally portrayed the way it actually is in real life.

1. Imban is deleted
2. Everyone is Imban
=> Everyone is deleted.

Nice logic there. :P

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Random Weirdness in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Monday, January 29 2007 00:54 Profile Homepage #31
You're in the freaking mid-7000s, what do you expect. :P

(Though even Thuryl gets called Cryptozoology occasionally...)

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Music! 'Cause we all like it! in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Monday, January 29 2007 00:50 Profile Homepage #20
Oh wait. I was going to take Scorp seriously there, but the "wide range of taste" is the punchline, I guess.

quote:
Originally written by Cryptozoology:

I was about to say that "electrocrass" made the joke obvious, but then I looked it up and found out it was a real genre. :/
The Online Techno Music Genre Generator

1. Pick a prefix:

euro-
electro-
synth-
robot-
tech-
nu-

2. Pick a suffix:

-crass
-clash
-trash
-thrash
-rock
-pop
-synth
-bass
-tech
-funk
-punk

3. Pick an additonal qualifier:

euro
nu
hi
[none]

There you go!

[ Monday, January 29, 2007 00:52: Message edited by: Arancaytar ]

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A Statistically Happy New Year! in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Sunday, January 28 2007 22:32 Profile Homepage #158
Interesting concept, Alo - after all, I do have the technology for delisting members in place. I'd just need to add some kind of forced privacy setting that couldn't be changed...

Oh, and I agree that this thread has taken a direction I don't like. Fortunately, unlike others who have their threads hijacked in the name of spam, I can do something about it. *waves staff*

IMAGE(http://ermarian.net/images/humor/thread/aran_islands.jpg)

[ Sunday, January 28, 2007 22:35: Message edited by: Arancaytar ]

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Music! 'Cause we all like it! in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Sunday, January 28 2007 22:24 Profile Homepage #14
I've always found it funny how many different names can be given to genres that all sound the same to me. But then, I'm guessing other people feel the same about Classical, Romantic, Baroque, etc...

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Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Sunday, January 28 2007 19:45 Profile Homepage #2
Artists: Brahms, Bach, Chopin, the Brobdingnagian Bards, Blackmore's Night, the Irish Rovers.
Genre: Classical and folk/folk rock.

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A Statistically Happy New Year! in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Sunday, January 28 2007 10:31 Profile Homepage #145
To all the newbies: It will soon be exactly a year since I left the rankings out for a whole month just to stop the spam. That wasn't easy back then - the lousy code took hours to mess with.

With the reworked site, it would fortunately be a matter of seconds. :)

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Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Saturday, January 27 2007 09:06 Profile Homepage #115
*twiddle* At least until now.

Lists? I'm working on it...

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Downloading help in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Saturday, January 27 2007 01:34 Profile Homepage #9
Oh, I'd download 240 megs without blinking. But I'd prefer to download 5 files of 50 megs each - partly because that way I don't need to wait an hour to unzip it, partly because I don't need to spend the next three days reading (I'd just wait with the next download till I'm done with the current batch).

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Also, it's easier to upload 50 megs. If you lose your connection for even a moment, you can have problems restarting the upload - this is less likely to happen with smaller files.

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Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Saturday, January 27 2007 01:22 Profile Homepage #108
Forget it, friend. I'm in this to win. If necessary, I'll rediscover my love for a few of the games and elaborate in lengthy discussions on nephils, vahnatai, and designing scenarios.

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Custom titles in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Saturday, January 27 2007 00:37 Profile Homepage #44
quote:
1. Kill the moderator you want to replace.
This is, incidentally, why all the General mods are so utterly badass - Alo with his rifle, Saunders with her blade. Survival of the fittest and all. Do yourself a favor, bub, and go for one of the game forums - some of them aren't even filled yet, you could get off without having to kill anyone.

Me, I didn't kill anyone either. I just persuaded Thuryl that he didn't need the position any longer. I can be persuasive. :ph34r:

Edit: Not that way. <_<

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Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Friday, January 26 2007 22:06 Profile Homepage #104
Took some time to figure that out. Now it works.

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Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Friday, January 26 2007 15:51 Profile Homepage #6
quote:
Originally written by Tyranicus.:

quote:
Originally written by Dintiradan:

By Tyran:
quote:
Finding a webhost that will support files that large is pretty unlikely. Even if you do, you'll most likely have to pay quite a lot for it.
(Waits for the inevitable.)

Seriously, Aran's already offered an *.ermarian.net site for you. Between no ads and simple FTP, what more do you want? Granted, you won't have the page templates that Freewebs offers, but your basic HTML editor should have templates.
Aran uses DreamHost, the same webhost I use, and they don't allow files that size.
They don't? Oh dearie me, I hope they don't find out about my PPP database dump of somewhat above 200 MB... o_O

In all seriousness, I've never seen any restrictions to that effect.

Nonetheless, I'd really, really suggest you split up the archive in some way - if only because a lot of people (myself included) don't have the time or patience to wait nearly an hour for a download if it's not really necessary (as in the case of an application). If you put a third of the images in "Archive-1", another third in "Archive-2" and so on, it'll be a lot easier to manage.

That said, I'll host them if you want. Just send me an email if you want an account. :)

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George Bush in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Friday, January 26 2007 15:16 Profile Homepage #11
Which raises a different point: Does the Hague commonly allow pleading insanity? I mean, I've never heard of any dictator doing that...

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Mitochondria and Cancer in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Friday, January 26 2007 07:17 Profile Homepage #16
quote:
Originally written by Deprecaticon:

If I were a giant, self-centered pharmaceutical company, I would be dashing to sponsor research trials for a promising cancer treatment with little potential for profit. If it actually panned out, the payout in good publicity would be unimaginable, and priceless.
Knowing somebody who works in that industry, I can say that there's a lot more to funding and organizing research trials than it looks like.

Developing and testing a new drug takes billions in advance investment and the better part of a decade before it can be marketed - some companies are bankrupted by a single spectacular failure.

So while good publicity is worth a lot, most pharma companies won't risk such a flop without being pretty sure they'll succeed.

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Episode 3 Continued in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Friday, January 26 2007 07:06 Profile Homepage #136
quote:
Originally written by Emperor Tullegolar:

Well, Diki, there really isn't anything I can say that you haven't already quoted me on in the reviews section. Oh, and I loved the way characters in the story didn't get the Imban comment. Stupid oldbie inside jokes.
quote:
Originally by Perfected Rat:
You humans are worse than I thought. It is our duty to punish you for your crimes against nature.
Clearly, you are on the wrong side, Ephesos.
No he isn't.

No druid as worthy of his staff as Ephesos would permit such a loss of life without desperate need. If you have lived in these parts so long without finding death at the ends of their demonic snouts, you are either very lucky or... or you are on their side![/Mountain of Shadows reference]

And yes, I'll get to it this weekend, as I said. Already catching up on the reading.

[ Friday, January 26, 2007 07:07: Message edited by: Arancaytar ]

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Endeavor and Privacy in General
Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Friday, January 26 2007 06:41 Profile Homepage #45
The advanced privacy settings (and accompanying defaults) are done. The member profiles page, list and change tracker already use them.

Settings can be adjusted as before.

Known bug:

The table pager will react oddly. Results are run through the filter after being fetched, but the pager function works at the database level. Thus, hidden profiles are still counted in the total, and there will be "empty" pages. I'll think of a solution soon.

If you can see any other problem (most importantly, a way to access fields that are supposed to be hidden) please say so.

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On another note, the site now has an open XML interface.

The URL http://endeavor.ermarian.net/xml/member/ will return all (public) information about #n in XML format. Several profiles can be fetched at once by separating them with "+", as in:

http://endeavor.ermarian.net/xml/member/1+2+3

So in case there are any developers here who know their way around XML, you can now make use of that.

[ Friday, January 26, 2007 06:51: Message edited by: Arancaytar ]

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