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Displayed name	Arancaytar
Member number	2984
Title	Law Bringer
Postcount	8752
Homepage	http://encyclopedia.ermarian.net/
Registered	Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00

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Praying for God's forgiveness even now... in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, October 19 2006 18:05 Profile Homepage #9 quote: Originally written by Tyranicus.: I personally consider background music to be amateurish for a website, but this is a person who runs a simple HTML site with light text on a black background, so consider the source. :P I personally believe that background music on a website (especially tinny midi) should count as extenuating circumstances for murder. But this is from someone who gets seizures when his XHTML doesn't validate, which probably gets points for anal-retentiveness. :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
Annoucements? in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, October 19 2006 05:26 Profile Homepage #9 quote: Originally written by Drakefyre: The topics have been deleted, it would seem. Other games have definitely been announced in the forum. And I have no idea why. General and the game boards were let off with a month or two of posts. BoA and Tech Support were left alone entirely. But Announcements, which never had more than 20-30 posts, got pruned down. Clearly, this is how to conserve disk space. ;) -------------------- 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
Notice: ermarian.net down for maintainance NOW in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Wednesday, October 18 2006 22:01 Profile Homepage #38 quote: Originally written by ef: quote: Did you ban them? grin Aran disabled guest posting, because a spambot frustrated him. We haven't been stalked by spambots and it's unlikely that we'll be, so he may cool down. Yes, I'll take it down in a few days or so. With some luck, the spammers scrub their lists if they can't get to a board for a while, so maybe this gets them off our back. And the stats finished yesterday afternoon. A combination of lectures, homework, life and sleep conspired to keep me off posting it until now. Now. Edit: Yeah, those were in on it too. [ Wednesday, October 18, 2006 22:16: Message edited by: Robert Daniel Oliver ] -------------------- 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
Mac Users: Post Your Dashboard in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Wednesday, October 18 2006 08:06 Profile Homepage #69 quote: Originally written by Drew: of which 5 are listed as "svchost.exe". Ha. 6 here. Actually, a few of them can apparently be killed without shutting down the computer. But they're all named the same, so good luck picking one out. It's a bit like Russian Roulette. :) -------------------- 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
Mac Users: Post Your Dashboard in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Wednesday, October 18 2006 02:53 Profile Homepage #64 quote: Originally written by Tyranicus.: Yeah, ending svchost is not a good idea. Do you guys remember in Windows 98 when it was just the processes you could shut down, and shutting everything but explorer and systray still kept your computer stable? Or as stable as Windows 95/98 ever was. It's not that bad once you get used to it, and have made sure you have a strait-jacket handy. ("I'm in my happy place! I'm in my happy place! REBOOT! Hahaha!") But what I was going to say is that you could shut down Systray as well. It just did funny stuff to your taskbar, as I remember. My suspicion is that this was less because Windows 98 didn't run that many processes, and rather because they kept the really important ones invisible, while XP won't. Although given how badly XP wants to hide the system from the users, that doesn't make much sense. -------------------- 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
Turgid, fleshy in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Wednesday, October 18 2006 02:48 Profile Homepage #22 The author obviously had some Freudian issues to work out... -------------------- 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
Which game to play? in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Wednesday, October 18 2006 02:46 Profile Homepage #10 I haven't. Counting topics is one thing. Grouping topics by content is still beyond my pitiful artificial intelligence. --Piperbot -------------------- 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
Notice: ermarian.net down for maintainance NOW in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Tuesday, October 17 2006 22:36 Profile Homepage #30 Ephesos: Stay calm. The updater is running. It may take another 4 hours to complete (heavens, why do people keep registering accounts?), but it's running. :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
Notice: ermarian.net down for maintainance NOW in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Tuesday, October 17 2006 21:56 Profile Homepage #27 Bet on it. In fact, you appear to be first this month (the ranking itself doesn't change much over a week or two). This will be fun. :) -------------------- 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
Notice: ermarian.net down for maintainance NOW in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Tuesday, October 17 2006 18:04 Profile Homepage #23 Hey folks, guess what I forgot to do today! And I knew I had this itching feeling of something having to be done today. :rolleyes: But at least I fixed the problem with the auto-updater. Now if only it could automatically do the bulk update on the seventeenth, too. This way, it will just have to wait another day. It's not as if it's the first time this happened. -------------------- 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
Turgid, fleshy in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Tuesday, October 17 2006 14:12 Profile Homepage #18 quote: Originally written by Ephesos: quote: Originally written by Slack Pumpkinhead: ...a brothel, Ephesos? In Fort Exile? Are you sure about that? Maybe it wasn't there... maybe it was just a nearby town. But there was definitely a brothel. I seem to remember it too - though I'm sure that it was only "hinted" at. The only brothel I remember that you could actually visit was in BoA's Crescent Valley. -------------------- 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
Mac Users: Post Your Dashboard in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Tuesday, October 17 2006 13:51 Profile Homepage #57 "Close Application" is a joke. Apparently, it nicely asks the application to please quit one of these days whenever it feels like it (and if it doesn't react to the normal methods, that can take a few minutes). The only useful way to kill a task immediately is to close the process. Where the problem lies in figuring out what the process is called. It's usually something really obvious - "photoshop.exe", "notepad.exe". But some programmers seem to have fun coming up with cryptic names for their processes. Most other processes are essential. It's possible to freeze up the computer, lose the taskbar/desktop icons, and force a reboot by closing the task manager. There are several online resources that can tell you what a particular Windows process (like "svchost.exe", which you mus never, ever close) is. So if you don't know what you're doing, Ghouloca is right - stay off them. Thank goodness that people who don't know computers are usually scared off by bold capitalized exclamations. :P ---------------- Here's a screenshot of all the gadgets and the sidebar opened: ---------------- Oh, and I made a small addition to the Spiderweb RSS feed. If you add "condense=topic" as in http://feeds.ermarian.net/spiderweb.rss?forum=1&condense=topic you now get shown only a single digest item for each topic. This reduces the clutter of items a lot - but you no longer get alerted to each new post. It's optional. Edit: URL was wrong. Fixed. [ Wednesday, October 18, 2006 02:55: Message edited by: Robert Daniel Oliver ] -------------------- 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
Mac Users: Post Your Dashboard in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Tuesday, October 17 2006 05:22 Profile Homepage #45 Yes. "XP" is, in fact, Bill Gates sticking his tongue out at you using his sorry excuse for an operating system. I swear. I read it... somewhere. XP -------------------- 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
Mac Users: Post Your Dashboard in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, October 16 2006 23:56 Profile Homepage #43 quote: Originally written by Tyranicus.: quote: Originally written by Aran: Looks a lot like my Google Desktop thingie - those gadgets tend to cover up a lot of the desktop, too. I have a battery meter, a digital clock (redundant, yes), weather prediction, digg, a Feedreader, a calendar, an iTunes control panel, etc... isn't the Google Desktop always on top of your desktop, though? That's the beuaty of the Dashboard. It's only there when you pull it up with F12, and it goes away as soon as you press F12 again or click outside of a widget. You can pull it up at any time too, even on top of other applications. No. The sidebar vanishes into the right side of the screen when the mouse leaves it, and the gadgets can be toggled on and off with a button that is in the system tray. (And both will work regardless of how many windows are open - leaving aside full-screen games and such that take away your task bar as well.) quote: not actively using XP increases its stability quite a lot Lose the "actively" and you have the most awesome sig quote ever. "Not ... using XP increases its stability quite a lot." [ Tuesday, October 17, 2006 00:02: Message edited by: Robert Daniel Oliver ] -------------------- 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
NM in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, October 16 2006 23:53 Profile Homepage #1 Whee! I can close pointless threads! :) -------------------- 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
Mac Users: Post Your Dashboard in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, October 16 2006 03:40 Profile Homepage #10 quote: Originally written by Dikiyoba: Dikiyoba was going to comment on Tyranicus's clutter, and then Dikiyoba realized that Dikiyoba has Musicmatch Jukebox, a Notepad document, two Word documents, a dictionary, and Spiderweb all open and Dikiyoba is currently using them all. So no comment from Dikiyoba. Aye. By the time I realize I should close a few windows, my RAM cache is usually filled at around 1 GB and my mouse moves through treacle... :rolleyes: That you can "shut down" a laptop in sleep mode without turning it off doesn't help. Sometimes, a week passes before I reboot - and that's several times as long as Windows XP's recommendable up-time. :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
Mac Users: Post Your Dashboard in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, October 16 2006 03:36 Profile Homepage #9 It's something the Mac-users get. Think system tray in the Windows taskbar, but much more fancier, bigger, and interactive. Looks a lot like my Google Desktop thingie - those gadgets tend to cover up a lot of the desktop, too. I have a battery meter, a digital clock (redundant, yes), weather prediction, digg, a Feedreader, a calendar, an iTunes control panel, etc... I'll post a screenshot of it when I get home. Tyran: Extra kudos to you for actually using my Spiderweb newsfeed! :D -------------------- 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
No Harm Done: The Question of Morality in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, October 16 2006 03:25 Profile Homepage #66 And I won't. Thank you very much indeed for making it a link. :) So community pressure and reputation are another factor to consider in the whole mess of ethics. Edit: Are, not is. "and" implies a plural, dammit. [ Monday, October 16, 2006 05:07: Message edited by: Robert Daniel Oliver ] -------------------- 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
No Harm Done: The Question of Morality in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Monday, October 16 2006 00:28 Profile Homepage #64 On one hand, objectively ruling one culture better smacks of "tolerance for everything except that which I disagree with". On the other hand, female circumcision is arguably and objectively Bad. It is dangerous (health and infection-wise), painful, and does not benefit the ones subjected to it in any way. Which leaves us with ADoS' argument. As for why harmful behavior is wrong: Morals are impossible to objectively base in something if we don't accept things as absolute. I think of it as something like a language or a currency. There is no absolute meaning to it, but if it is accepted as-is, it somehow allows society to function. A bigger problem is the definition of "harmful" here. Firstly, it is individual - peanuts are not commonly held to be a lethal substance, and yet they can kill some people instantly. Secondly, psychological harm is fuzzily defined. How do we know there aren't people who really do feel harmed by certain words? And these words aren't always obvious. For example, my sister can't hear the word "beheading". She says it brings up her lunch. Is she being "harmed" by that word? If we allow images (which are representations after all, like language), then I am so badly arachnophobic I have to close the browser when I see a picture of a spider. Is it harming me? -------------------- 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
Another death topic... in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Friday, October 13 2006 12:38 Profile Homepage #9 quote: FACT: There was a second, unidentified person on the plane. It was his flight instructor, who was aged 26 and named Tyler Stranger, but wasn't one. Sounds pretty identified to me. Not that I'm calling you uninformed or a conspiracy theorist or anything. [ Friday, October 13, 2006 12:41: Message edited by: Robert Daniel Oliver ] -------------------- 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
Another death topic... in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Friday, October 13 2006 09:52 Profile Homepage #4 ... a rival team conspired to have him assassinated? I can't fathom what other suspicions you might have. -------------------- 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
Triadiads in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, October 12 2006 13:36 Profile Homepage #7 That's what templates are for. Awesome... now I have to experiment a bit with PHP and bacon. sinister smile -------------------- 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
high arts in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, October 12 2006 13:30 Profile Homepage #14 If you thought this was ridiculous, wait until you see the story about Apple's store in NY (a being considered too similar to the Kaaba. After all, both are vaguely cuboid. (Never mind the sign, it's from another article on the Register.) $IMAGE(http://math.arizona.edu/~hermi/kaaba.jpg)$ The resemblance is uncanny. And they probably drink booze and eat pigs in there too. —ing Anti-Islamic Westerners. :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
What have you been reading lately? in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Wednesday, October 11 2006 01:14 Profile Homepage #161 quote: Originally written by The Green Dragon: Finished American Gods by Neil Gaiman last night. Have read it once before. I've still got a big stack of books waiting for me now. Not sure which one I'll pick, though. Still haven't got the one I reserved. :( Whoever's got it hasn't even returned it on time. It's now nearly two weeks late, the bastard... I'll look for American Gods in the bookshop some time this week - if Good Omens was any indicator, his books are awesome. -------------------- The Noble and Ancient Order of Polaris - We're Not Yet Dead. Encyclopedia • Blades Forge • Archives • Stats • RSS (This Topic / Forum) • Blog • NaNoWriMo Did-chat thentagoespyet jumund fori is jus, hat onlime gly nertan ne gethen Firyoubbit 'obio.' Decorum deserves a whole line of my signature, and an entry in your bookmarks. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Physics conundrums in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Wednesday, October 11 2006 01:05 Profile Homepage #3 Interesting. I also thought I knew enough to explain at least a few of these, but a few sentences in I realized that I was partly repeating stuff I read but didn't understand, and partly making it up a la "instant expert". So I stopped to avoid making a fool of myself. Of course airplanes fly because the air pressure above their wings is lower than below. Of course this is because air that is in faster movement has a lower pressure. But why is 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

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