Well sort of. It’s been the only place I’ve easily found online episodes of a new vampire flick/series called ‘Beyond the Rave’.

check it out at

http://uk.myspace.com/beyondtherave

Getting the handwriting tab on msn to work is a bitch cos its not documented anywhere properly and the files you need to download seem to have been obfuscated behind a million forum entries detailing exactly how not to install the damned thing. how damned helpful. I however, won’t bore you. This is here for convenience and nothing else so download these two files and install one then the other. walk in the park.

Ink Redistributable goes first..
http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/4/30/1032208/inkredist.zip

then the actual handwriting module..
http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/4/30/1032208/handwriting.zip

and it should work. *yawn*

Sometimes you just feel like you have to roam,
far far away from where you are,
as far as you can go

With nothing but a backpack full of stuff like clothes, tent, tins, fire, makeup water, camera and any friends that wanna come along with you.

I get it sometimes, like today. I was browsing and i bumped into some pictures and it just made me wanna grab someone with a car and fuck off into the country.

Not being able to do that is one of the most heart rending things i know. *sighs*

I miss the wind, the hills, the sunsets and the silence.

Okies, just so people dont continually piss me off by asking the same question… windows Readyboost, what is it/why aint it helpin.

It’s a feature with vista that allows you to whack in a usb memory stick and use it as ram.

well kinda. You see it doesn’t work that way. people seem to think that you just add the stick and use it as ram. but not quite so. heres the practical blarb.

Virtual mem is slow due to seek time cos its a hard disk. Chances are you’re using a one drive machine this means your entire disk is on one channel i.e. it can only do so much at one point, reading (your data) or writing (lets say ur swap data) to the disk. of course everything slows down here. The best way to sort this issue quickly is to just slap in a drive you’ve got kicking around on the secondary ide channel. no, do not slave it to the primary drive. this is stupid. second drive, separate from the other primary drive. This is a premium setup for a swap file. one drive for your stuffz, and one for your swap. anyway, this is how swap works..

it uses somewhere to write to as if it were physical ram… as if it were…
which leads us to readyboost…

Readyboost doesn’t do this. mainly that for some reason ppl think you may just pull the usb drive out at some random point and fuck everything. (heaven forbid) if the data written to mem is gone, well, its not usable anymore is it? So the flash drive is just used as a cache before its written to the actual vram/swapfile, dealing with smaller amounts of information. This slows it down somewhat with anything but the ‘perfect packets’ anyways, not being too large for the usb drive or too small to make worthwhile, cos it’s buffering to the flash drive anyway, and then its trying to filter info to the drive afterwards.

Readyboost does however have some redeeming features. applications that have taken a certain amount of memory to load and are then chucked to the background, for example photoshop *coffcoff* gets minimised and another application such as Firefox gets operating precedence, 2 gig of flash mem would rock for a quick write and later recovery.

As i understand it people have expressed mixed opinions with this flash mem technology but if u think for a second, why hasn’t it been used before? I mean flash drives for random access seek and these are the keywords here, are about 80 time faster than hard drives so for quick swapping data they should kick ass.

So why aint it working? is it purely the fear that windows users are too dozy to not pull out the wrong usb drive? I can see why its not all its souped up to be but i refuse to believe that something that I can arrange on Slackware in no real time at all hasn’t been thought of already. sorry.

mehbe its just me.

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I picked up the cheapest mouse in the world recently, came with a keyboard as well, in a white unlabelled box and cost me a fiver for both. wicked I thought cos I only needed em to test a linux server and i was gettin pissed off with swappin keyboards. *yawn*

Anyways, turns out this mouse is shite for fps, big surprise, but one of the major flaws with cheap mice is the weight so i thought if I can fix this, i can use it fairly effectively on th eother machine for blowin the crap out of friends and family online.

Turns out it worked, check out the piccies *giggles*

The thing opened up real easy once you took off the teflon feet and unscrewed it. makes a change for cheap mice.

Once I’d taken the circuitboard out i realised that there was about twice as much wire underneath it as i needed but a little cramming and i got it to pop back onto the lower part of its shell.

Just to give you an idea of how much space we have to place with with the weights. This pretty much decided what coinage i was gona use. 5p’s too little weight, same with 1’s and i couldn’t line em in rows of 2 for obvious reasons. 2p’s it was.

Again, gives you an idea of how much space i have.

Making sure the lighty up parts still light up.

The ‘magic’ bit, tee hee.

Once I shoved it all back together, screwed it shut etc i had to give it a run on UT etc and it didnt perform half bad. I’ve got my usual mouse in front of me now and the other to hand as well so i can swap quickly from quick and whizzy to high DPI low sensitivity cos I’m one of those annoying sniper types everyone wants to find in real life and demonstrate how not to eat knives to.

so yeh, a handful of tuppences and a little superglue and the mouse is now half way decent. makes ya think.

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Yeh, if you’re like me and everytime someone mentions trance and then follows it by referring you to a stamped cd containing last years forgettable pop remixed by someone whose passion was clearly more involved in their playstation then this should lighten your heart a little.

1200 Mics - a track called God Of Rock.
http://www.last.fm/music/1200+Micrograms/+videos/+1-TkITM2UIYoU

around 5 minutes and 40 seconds, one of the best one liner samples ive heard in a while

Shad. He’s keeping it real. keeping it reeaal!! (can’t say that with a straght face)

It’s a scary state of affairs when it’s easier to pick up potentially fatal chemicals over the internet regardless of its legislation in the country its being sent to yet you it’s practically impossible for anyone to get anything else of interest such as shrooms, acid or 2cb.

I conducted a bit of an experiment recently and found a supplier of chemicals who would ship to the UK in a plain padded envelope no questions asked. It would be less worrying I suppose if the list stretched further than just over a dozen obviously abusable chemicals mainly comprising of opiates, hypnotics and antidepressants.

Just to make my point here I’ve listed these chemicals and briefly along with prices and commented on each of them.

OPIOIDS

** opiate painkiller **

CODEINE PHOSPHATE 15mg — 80 Euro for 100 tabl.
DIHYDROCODEINE 120mg — 9 Euro for 1 tabl.
DIHYDROCODEINE 90mg — 7 Euro for 1 tabl.

** A much more complex and interesting opioid but its nature makes it less abusable and its therefore outside the scope of this research. quickly though, tramadol is a codeine analogue and to put it in perspective, around 10% as effective as morphine and thats even less effective than commonly available codeine.

TRAMADOL by Aventis 200mg/100mg
— 220Euro/150 Euro for 100 capsules
— 4 Euro for 1 amp. 100mg/2ml

BENZODIAZEPINE

** First marketed as valium. amplifies opiate effects . BENZODIAZEPINE obviously **
DIAZEPAM 10mg — 80 Euro for 100 tabl.

** powerful anxiolytic, amnestic, hypnotic, anticonvulsant, skeletal muscle relaxant and sedative. basically a fast acting benzodiazepine
DORMICUM (Midazolam) by Roche 7.5mg — 80 Euro for 100 tabl.

** Mainly used for treatment of anxiety. another benzodiazepine. see above but more anxiolytic than anything else. other symptoms exhibiting themselves only at higher doses.
LEXOTAN (Bromazepam) by Roche 3mg — 50 Euro for 100 tabl.

** Powerful hypnotic used to treat acute insomnia but carries the usual perks and contraindications of all the ‘marzipans. point of note however is that this particular flavour of mazepam is longer acting that most. up to around 20 hours longer lasting and altho this may not be noticeable if your just kicking around doing nothing, it will be at 60mph along with a life changing snap decision on which direction to steer in. point taken hm.
NITRAZEPAM 5mg — 90 Euro for 100 tabl.

** Another marzipan (benzodiazepine) apart from this one does its intended anti-depressive job too well really reducing abuse potential. Reduction of anxiolysis is effected without any noticable euphoria. Primarily used to increase the effects of other abusable substances or to reduce withdrawal symptoms which include the usual nervousness, irritability and tension. anticonvulsant properties are common to marzipans and this is no exception.
RIVOTRIL (Clonazepam) by Roche 2mg — 80 Euro for 100 tabl.

** Not to want to pigeonhole chemicals but this one is useful for fuck all. Used by people wanting to kill unwanted side effects of other chemicals such as the nasty comedown from a long night of lsd or a few too many pills and no sleep. some idiots have tried to inject this only partially soluble drug and we all know this can cause problems.
XANAX by Pfizer 1mg — 130 Euro for 100 tabl.

**** point of note. some ppl have been spreading rumours that coca cola is used to help ingest xanax because it increases absorption. Acidity DECREASES absorption of pretty much every known pharmaceutical chemical. just saying

CYCLOPYRROLONES (non benzodiazepine)

** hypnotic used to treat insomnia. NOT a benzodiazepine.
IMOVANE (Zopiclone) by Roche 7,5mg — 80 Euro for 100 tabl.

OTHER

** a carbamate derivative thats been replaced by the ‘marzipans’ for some reason or other. considered nervous system relaxant, not suppressant. hmm.
MEPROBAMATE (CARISOPRODOL) 400mg — 70 Euro for 100 tabl.

** potentially fatal drug altho the number of dead has been so stupidly low as to consider this chemical safe carrying around a maximum mortality rate of around 1 in 600 thousand. death is caused by the reduction in production of white blood cells. Other than that this chemical is very dull.
METAMIZOL SODIUM 500mg — 50 Euro for 100 tabl.

** Phenobarbitol is prolly one to avoid. having mainly anticonvulsant properties this chemical has been largely made obsolete due to the introduction of benzodiazepam. Various people are reputed to have killed themselves and this chemical was their death of choice. I can only imagine that this is because its a particularly nice death or that its certain. either way, something with such connotations should probably be avoided
PHENOBARBITAL 100mg — 90 Euro for 100 tabl

But my point is that because these chemicals are easily available, it almost seems easier to get a handle of pills from this dodgy bloke online and possibly die than to just score a couple grams of whizz or get some acid.. hehehehe. Yeh, did you see what I did there? lol. i implied you’d be able to get hold of acid. lmfao. yeh right ROFL *catches breath* heh. maybe just a handful of barbiturates for me then? or so much codeine I can’t see. hell antidepressants, why not?

Srsly tho people, it’s a sad state of affairs.

nb: These are some pills that Shad would _never_ suggest and thats not just one of my cover-my-back-disclaimers, its the truth.

I don’t know how many people have noticed that windows media player 11 refuses to install on versions of Windows XP that haven’t yet been validated or have failed said validation.

The usual route towards installing Media Player is to be redirected to the Microsoft website whereupon you get asked to install their spyware, *cof* I mean “Windows Genuine Advantage” and this will enable Microsoft to be able to laugh wildy at you and tell you to sod off and buy a kosha version of their operating system or be lumped with Windows Media Player 10 or under for the rest of your life.

I’m not sure why anyone wants to do this, I use Winamp. Why? Because it kicks Media Players Ass. If you want to use a half decent application too that supports all manner of plugins, 3d visualisations, better media management, ok ok Im not gona go on about it for ages, visit http://www.winamp.com/ for more information.

Fact is tho that some people want this horrible application so I set about finding out how you can get past this horrible hiccup Micro$oft have placed in your way.Well it turns out to be ludicrously easy.

1. Download the windows media player 11 setup from the Micro$oft site or wherever it is that you want to acquire it.
2. Rather than install it, drag and drop it into Winzip or whatever archiving tool you use.
3. You will notice that it now lists around 26 files. Unzip the entire lot into a folder on your desktop.
4. The only two that you will need to run are wmp11.exe and wmfdist11.exe but remember to install one at a time and reboot after each file. yes thats right install wmp11.exe, reboot, istall wmfdist11.exe, reboot. heh. It is windows after all.

And thats it. You will now be running, for better or for worse, windows media player 11, may god have mercy on your soul.

nb: this is for informational purposes only, i wouldn’t advise anyone to attempt this cos its no doubt illegal. Just think ‘What Would Shadley Do‘ and your conscience will be clear! *giggles*

Well if this proxy works then hey it rocks. no ads, seamless http integration. superkoolwickedfun!

Without being mean, I think this picture sums up my opinion of the Catholic Church quite nicely.

I surely couldn’t of said it better myself.

If you want to see the page itself, click the image. I warn you though, it’s very dull.