Profile for Arancaytar
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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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| Relative ages? in The Avernum Trilogy | |
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written Thursday, September 7 2006 00:25
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Wouldn't be impossible, time-wise. The School of Magery was cleansed in 844 IE. (from EE), and it was closed around 721 IE. Erika was Exiled (should this now by "Avernized"?) in 776, amd 55 years is plenty of time to go from a mere teaching position to the foremost archmage of the age. But assuming that she had to be at least 30 when Skylark was closed down (mage apprenticeships take long), That would place her birth back in the 7th century - 691 IE. She would have lived to a ripe age of 140 years before her death in 833 IE at the hands of Rentar-Ihrno. Wow... [ Thursday, September 07, 2006 00:28: Message edited by: Drow ] -------------------- 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 |
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written Thursday, September 7 2006 00:15
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Ah, but you aren't learning for the course, you're learning for life. :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 |
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written Wednesday, September 6 2006 21:19
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Infallibility isn't a requirement to be one's own judge. In fact, if you were infallible, there would be no need for discussion or lecture, and you could stay away from the course and just figure out all the answers for yourself. Believing only what you realize is true is, however, required to make discussion and lectures effective - you increase your own understanding by listening to what people say, thinking about it, arguing, then listening to counter-arguments, etc. Of course, this scepticism must be accompanied by openness for new ideas - that's the second sentence. If you only accept what you have already figured out yourself, then you are neither infallible nor able to learn. But if you accept an idea as true based only on authority, then the wrong idea can stay around for quite long - and what is more, a right idea can stay around long after becoming outdated. -------------------- 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 |
| Relative ages? in The Avernum Trilogy | |
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written Wednesday, September 6 2006 21:03
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Appearances are probably deceiving. Erika has mastered transformation sufficiently to look what she wants like, I'm sure, and spells that hide age are popular among sorceresses anyway. The question why male wizards never seem to use them is similar to the question why men don't wear makeup. :P (besides, that "old man look" really makes you look wise and powerful) -- That doesn't mean Erika is as old or older than the others, of course. It would be uncommon for one so relatively young to gain enough power to become the effective leader of a faction - Garzahd didn't curse Solberg or Rone after all - but I suppose someone as powerful as Erika is quite uncommon anyway. -------------------- 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 |
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written Tuesday, September 5 2006 23:04
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My knowledge of US TV series is limited, owing more to me not watching TV than to me being in Europe. :P My sister is a fan of CSI and Friends though, and although I didn't think much of the latter (I don't like sitcoms), I rather enjoyed the CSI season she showed me on dvd. -------------------- 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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written Tuesday, September 5 2006 10:51
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My point. He was popular, but how was he controversial - what is more, sufficiently controversial to start an edit war on Wikipedia? :P Edit: quote:There are not many countries that can claim "death by insanely poisonous critter" as a common cause. Thus: I <3 TEH AUSTRALIA! :D [ Tuesday, September 05, 2006 11:26: Message edited by: Drow ] -------------------- 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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written Tuesday, September 5 2006 00:34
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quote:From the way people acted, you'd have thought Steve Irwin was a politician or presidential candidate. :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 |
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written Monday, September 4 2006 09:31
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While you were on Wikipedia, did you see if they finally agreed on whether the Stingray article should mention Irwin? The debate was... heated last I checked. -------------------- 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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written Monday, September 4 2006 08:35
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Killed by a stingray? Crikey, mate! 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 |
| Hard drive problem that has nothing to do with SW in General | |
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written Sunday, September 3 2006 21:35
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In that case, the topic is no longer needed. Conveniently, it's also been transferred into my jurisdiction. In pace requiescat. -------------------- 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 |
| alguien de chile? in The Avernum Trilogy | |
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written Saturday, September 2 2006 22:20
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Note that nothing prevents you from asking that question in English, since everybody on this board - including any Chileans - speaks that. -------------------- 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 |
| What have you been reading lately? in General | |
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written Saturday, September 2 2006 10:37
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quote:  In his house in R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu does not approve. -------------------- 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 |
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written Friday, September 1 2006 03:55
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quote:The correction leaves a verb where none should be, making the entire sentence a bit awkward. Illegal or not, you won't get hung/hanged for it, will you? :P Actually, I thought Maimonides engaged in a bit of typo-fixing when he quoted you, not having read the post before the edit. -------------------- 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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written Thursday, August 31 2006 05:42
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"for security reasons" = they lack the technical know-how, the initiative or the resources to make it secure. Given the language skill of their sales contact, this is unsurprising. Incidentally, I was able to get limited shell access on my current host (just about enough for copying files and making folders) by using something called PHP shell, and also by using cron jobs in ways they were hardly intended to be. Extracting .gz archives, for example - just scheduled it to happen in a minute or two, and waited. An inconvenience it would be nice to be rid of. -- By the way, would you name that web host you mentioned? I'm still looking around, after all... [ Thursday, August 31, 2006 05:44: Message edited by: Drow ] -------------------- 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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written Thursday, August 31 2006 01:57
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This topic should be moved to General. Tech Support is for game-related issues only. Since the device is recognized as a hard drive, but Windows won't let you open it or assign a drive letter, it might be a file system issue. Are you sure that the computer you removed the hard drive from was also running Windows 98? If it had NT or XP, the hard drive might be formatted as NTFS, but Windows 98 only supports FAT. I believe there are some drivers for Windows 98 that can read NTFS however; use Google. Try to find out what format the new hard drive is in through the hardware manager. Anyway, this is just guesswork. Edit: I remember now that I can move topics from General to Tech Support, but not vice versa. :P [ Thursday, August 31, 2006 02:00: Message edited by: Drow ] -------------------- 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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written Wednesday, August 30 2006 22:12
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I'd be happy with only a single database that had, say, 400 MB, but things like the PPP won't really work as I wish they would work if the posts can't be stored in a database. Just a bit of flexibility, so a bit over 200 MB can still be in the same database. Spreading records that belong in a single table over two different databases is a pain to manage. -- Anyway, now that renewal time is coming closer, I'm quickly finding out all the problems with my current host. This time they switched off the IRC webclient (which is why you can't go to irc.ermarian.net anymore)... :rolleyes: -------------------- 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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written Wednesday, August 30 2006 20:15
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I took the time once to get the Exile release dates from Usenet and put them into the Wikipedia article. UBB doesn't like wiki links. Copy-paste this. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exile_%28computer_game%29 [ Wednesday, August 30, 2006 20:50: Message edited by: Drow ] -------------------- 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 |
| Diablo Inspired? in Avernum 4 | |
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written Wednesday, August 30 2006 20:12
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In Soviet Russia, software make YOU run. :nod: -------------------- 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 |
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written Wednesday, August 30 2006 14:24
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OOC: quote:I just pictured a short green guy in a druid's robe, and that's your fault. :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 |
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written Wednesday, August 30 2006 04:59
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quote:Well, I bribed the librarian. -------------------- 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 |
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written Tuesday, August 29 2006 02:21
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I already have a collection of most pictures posted in these threads. :phear: But publishing should really be done by each member on their own - I wouldn't feel comfortable with someone else posting my picture somewhere, and I guess I'm not alone with that view. There's bound to be some social networking site we can use for that purpose - Flickr, Frappr, Myspace (*shudder*)? -------------------- 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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written Tuesday, August 29 2006 00:49
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Once the transfer is finished, you'll have the exact same files as you did before (and the domain name will be the same). The "lock-down" is to ensure that nobody uploads something to the old space after I make the final transfer, which would then get lost. Waiting a week is just for advance warning - it can be annoying to absolutely have to check the encyclopedia for something or upload a new file and then find that the site has disappeared over night. The transfer should be unnoticable (apart from the downtime). Edit: By the way, I've never undertaken a domain name transfer, and the only two I've witnessed were catastrophic failures. How do you actually go about telling one registrar to drop the domain and giving it to another registrar? I understand there's a protocol for this, but I've never understood how it works. Has anyone done this? [ Tuesday, August 29, 2006 04:27: Message edited by: Drow ] -------------------- 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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written Tuesday, August 29 2006 00:34
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What it means is that I probably won't buy from them. I shudder whenever I use unprotected FTP - taking a class in packet-sniffing does that to you. SFTP stands for Secure FTP (actually, SSH FTP, but the first S in SSH stands for Secure), and it is encrypted. The encryption doesn't just allow privacy for what you upload, but also protects the username/password when you transmit it. You'll still be able to use FTP, by the way. Also, when I do move to a new host, I'll let you know in time and tell you the new way to upload files (if it changes). This is how I plan it: 1. I decide on a new host and open an account. 2. I put a notice here so anyone who has files can change/delete/add to them or back them up for, say, a week. 3. After a week, I'll take down the entire site. 4. I copy all files and databases to the new host. 5. I close the old hosting account. At some point in between, the domain name transfer is going to make things difficult. :rolleyes: I just hope they won't pull what Logalot's host did - ie claiming the name was never registered, then letting it expire and selling it to a domain grabber. -------------------- 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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written Monday, August 28 2006 22:07
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So the planets were actually named "Hermes, Aphrodite, Ares" instead of "Mercury, Venus, Mars" once? Now that's something I wasn't aware of... -------------------- 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 |