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15.01.2004 – Thursday 15 January – Ranting and Raging
- • I have had a quiet day so far, nothing much has happened. I walked down to the hall, and saw what I believed was Shan getting home, and then confirmed on MSN with his sisters that he is indeed back. That’s about all that has happened so far. I ate a chilli in my soup for lunch and it was hot. I changed the location of the files used for various hit counters across my site, so they’re all in a central location. Silas’s payment for hosting was denied due to possible fraud. Oh, and I’ve probably almost got indigestion – apparently eating chillies and ice cream and nothing much else isn’t that good.
- UQUnion
- • From the scum who steal our money while lying about representing us, comes this:
“The University of Queensland Union will actively fight to remove the Liberal Party from Government at the next Federal election. UQU will further move to exclude through democratic means, from within the organisation members of the Liberal Party.”
I might not mind so much if I weren’t legally obliged to belong to, support, and pay these vile creatures. So much for that farce known as democracy – the sad and scary thing is that so many believe it. - IRC
- • I have regularly been disgusted with the management, or mismanagement I should say, of the IRC network I frequent ever since I had a series of disagreements with some of them ages ago, but today a series of wallops went too far, and I had to complain. After receiving these wallops, which potentially anyone on the network can receive:
15•09 ••• !Kwahraw! I AM A STUD, THE REST OF YOU ARE NOT!!!!
13•08 ••• !Kwahraw! I am a f*ckin moron, just thought I'd let the world know.
15•16 ••• !Zardoz! [16:14] <reverend> someoen needs to tell that kwharawh to stay the f*ck off wallops [16:14] <reverend> he is always telling me about his friend's birthdays and sh*t <–– everyone take note please
15•16 ••• !Kwahraw! I don't have friends, and if I did, they wouldn't have birthdays.
15•18 ••• !Kwahraw! since the ONLY thing on wallops is oper comments, if you don't like it, you can -w
15•18 ••• !Kwahraw! thats done by /mode YOURNICK -w
15•25 ••• !Kwahraw! noteeth says he is lonely, and wants to be messages. He especially liks poofts. /msg noteeth
15•26 ••• !Warder! poofts? sounds like a cereal
15•27 ••• !Kwahraw! i think its like queers/fags/butt pirates/anal spelunkers
15•27 ••• !Warder! oh poofs
15•28 ••• !Kwahraw! yeah, thats what noteeth likes
15•28 ••• !Zardoz! Are you drunk?
15•29 ••• !Kwahraw! no, just.... out of my mind. I agreed to have dinner tomorrow night at my ex-gfs place-– the one that I've been spending the last month trying to get over.
15•29 ••• !Warder! haha ive just had 10 or so ppl ask me that as well
15•29 ••• !Kwahraw! alcohol doesn't drive me this insane.
15•31 ••• !Akron! Kwah dude hasent anyone ever told you never to go back? bad bad idea!
15•31 ••• !Warder! unless u r desperate and have low self-esteem
15•32 ••• !Akron! rofl so true.
15•32 ••• !Kwahraw! what if I'm in love with her?
15•32 ••• !Akron! same thing?
15•32 ••• !Warder! then may god have mercy on your soul. never love them, only use them
15•33 ••• !Kwahraw! or if I just miss the sex?
15•33 ••• !Akron! isnt that expensive down the street....
I felt required to send this email:
Hello,
I would like to officially complain regarding the use of various global services, in particular wallops, in a manner that is both reprehensible and not suitable for the general public, or Austnet's image.
I understand that IRC is an unmoderated medium, and as thus, users are held responsible for whatever they may see or do while on IRC, however I feel that certain aspects should be suited to any audience. These would include the official channels such as global messages, wallops and so on.
I do not think it is right that one should be required to shield their children or themselves from wallops (or any other official Austnet service) in order to avoid their exposure to coarse language, racist, sexual, or other slurs that I feel are totally inappropriate for any staff member acting in an official capacity.
I would hope that those involved are reprimanded and that this does not occur again.
In addition, I question the legality of using offensive and mature orientated language, as shown by various people when involved in their official Austnet duties, in a medium that has global exposure across a network supposedly suited for all ages.
-thei
Printed on 100% recycled electrons.
http://nedmartin.org - Browsers
- • Without wanting to get into the issues of rendering, standards support, vulnerabilities and other such exciting things – I thought I’d mention that I have found MyIE2 to be markedly faster (in all ways) and less resource-intensive than Mozilla, Firebird or standalone IE, and I have used it on several computers ranging from old, slow, memory lacking machines up. Also, MyIE2’s user interface, with its excellent tabbed support, mouse gestures, shortcuts and so on is rivalled only by Opera – none of the Mozilla family can match it.
In my opinion, Mozilla and the various other Gecko based browsers are the most up-to-date insofar as rendering and such – although this is seriously offset by the fact that most sites are designed for and tested with IE. Their actual interfaces and the application itself I find to be clunky, slow, buggy and basically not as good as either Opera or IE. They have the best rendering engine... but that’s it.
Opera has the nicest interface and “user experience”, but isn’t free and has a few “interesting” features/bugs. It’s nice and fast, and all current browsers could take a few hints from some of the non-traditional functionality they’ve added, especially their accessibility support. Their tabbed interface is the best, no questions asked.
IE is... well everyone knows what IE is – basic, functional, most widely supported and used but rapidly becoming outdated.
My personal preference is MyIE2, a wrapper for IE. It adds the best functionality from Opera (which Mozilla/Firebird etc cannot yet match) and combines it with the integration and compatibility you get from IE. The main downside is IE’s age – it simply doesn’t support the latest “cutting edge” stuff. Avantbrowser is similar to MyIE2, but not as good, I find.
Of course, this only applies to Windows. - Comment by Raina – Friday 16 January 2004, 10:21 AM
- Ok, where do I get MyIE2 ? And what functionality does it add apart from 'tabbed support' and mouse gestures? (I like the idea of tabs)
- Comment by Ned – Friday 16 January 2004, 2:06 PM
- Their site at www.myie2.com sums it up nicely: “MyIE2 is the most powerful and fully customized browser on earth”. I agree, and I have used the majority of browsers currently available under Windows. It took me a while to get used to using it, now I couldn’t do without it – I have my own customised keyboard shortcuts, am used to using the tabs and drag and drop to open new windows, save pages, organise things. Oh and mouse gestures are excellent once you get used to them, I can’t do without them now... never again click a back button :-)
- Comment by Ned – Friday 16 January 2004, 2:11 PM
- Oh, one other thing... don’t necessarily install all the crud that comes with it. It comes with all these bundled roboform auto password filler-outters and stuff. They’re probably really good for all I know, but if you don’t want that stuff – ensure you don’t select it when installing, not that it’s hard to uninstall again.