Groundhog's Random Banter of Weather Prediction and Anti-Gopherness #120

[Phase]

You could be sneaky at night too. (Yay for Capture the Flag!)

Tried that. Last time I played Capture the Flag everyone cheated and it sucked.

(Well, actually, I was invisible and caught fire, but that's different.)

[randman22222]

I feel the need to show everyone Lord of the Rings Dear Sister.

(Of course, it's only funny if you've seen its OC and SNL counterparts.)

Why is everything blocked in this country?!
Oh well, the counterparts weren't. Not a fan of TV dramas; I liked SNL's parody.

[Jack Squat]

Why is everything blocked in this country?!

Try ToR. It was designed by the US Navy so their personell could get respectable internet in China, and has been reduced to mainly letting high school kids get on MySpace in computer lab now...but hey, it works.

[randman22222]

Try ToR. It was designed by the US Navy so their personell could get respectable internet in China, and has been reduced to mainly letting high school kids get on MySpace in computer lab now...but hey, it works.

Funny. The Tor site is usually blocked.

Bwahahaahaha! Drop your guard for one second too long, Etisalat, and through your clenched fist slip thousands of downloads you deem Haram!

EDIT: Hmm. That sounds... Nevermind.
Anyway, when I enable it, my internet grinds to a halt.

[Jack Squat]

Funny. The Tor site is usually blocked.

Bwahahaahaha! Drop your guard for one second too long, Etisalat, and through your clenched fist slip thousands of downloads you deem Haram!

If it'd have been blocked, I'd have just offered to email it to you. (most common attachment limit I've seen is 10 MB, the setup is 8)

EDIT: Also, yes. Since it works by jumping around to thousands of different computers before going online, as well as putting you behind one or more proxies, your internet will slow to somewhere about dial-up speeds.

[randman22222]

If it'd have been blocked, I'd have just offered to email it to you. (most common attachment limit I've seen is 10 MB, the setup is 8)

EDIT: Also, yes. Since it works by jumping around to thousands of different computers before going online, as well as putting you behind one or more proxies, your internet will slow to somewhere about dial-up speeds.

I mean, when I enable it, Firefox won't even try to reach a site. Clicking links has the effect of clicking normal text.

[Jack Squat]

I mean, when I enable it, Firefox won't even try to reach a site. Clicking links has the effect of clicking normal text.

Hmm...I never had that problem. Let me boot it up (as I don't normally have occasion to use it) and test.

Fake-edit.

I had the same problem when I first enabled it, as well as it not loading pages. I fixed it by stopping ToR through the Vidalia Control Panel and Restarting it. I also hit the "create new Identity" a few times before it, but I don't know if that did anything.

[randman22222]

Hmm...I never had that problem. Let me boot it up (as I don't normally have occasion to use it) and test.

Fake-edit.

I had the same problem when I first enabled it, as well as it not loading pages. I fixed it by stopping ToR through the Vidalia Control Panel and Restarting it. I also hit the "create new Identity" a few times before it, but I don't know if that did anything.

I shall try that...
Hm. I think this might be a problem:
When I open the network map whilst trying to connect to Tor, it shows four paths/connections, that, after a bit, 'fail'.
Then it tries four new ones, that also fail.
Etc. etc.

[Jack Squat]

If the site's still available, try downloading an older (or newer, depending on what you grabbed) version and seeing if it works. It looks like they have a "stable" (0.2.0.34) and an "unstable" (0.2.1.15-rc) version.

[Alleine]

I feel the need to show everyone Lord of the Rings Dear Sister.

(Of course, it's only funny if you've seen its OC and SNL counterparts.)

That just added a whole new level of hilarity to that scene

[randman22222]

If the site's still available, try downloading an older (or newer, depending on what you grabbed) version and seeing if it works. It looks like they have a "stable" (0.2.0.34) and an "unstable" (0.2.1.15-rc) version.

I downloaded their bundle package thingum, and it seems to work. Go figure; it's the same version.

[Alleine]

Urg, I wish I could undo what I've done to my sleep cycle. I can't fall asleep before twelve anymore. And I usually manage to drag myself out only just before lunch. Gah

[bosssmiley]

Just read the Allan Moore's latest LXG comic ("Century 1910"), and I have to say:

what a cockamamie, cataclysmically p**s-poor, phoned-in piece of hackwork!

It seems the much-loved Sage of Brum and lionized King of Comics was so intent upon making clever-clever literary allusions, getting overheated about sex and Alistair Crowley, and scripting a mediocre Jack the Ripper song-and-dance number (WTF?!) that he forgot to include a plot. What a shambolic mess. And as for the weak-as-dishwater prose story that accompanied the comic: waste of ink!

I didn't know comics writers encountered a philosopause (exception: Grant Morrison, but he's just a total headbanger).

Dear Allen

Less sub-Promethea tosh; more story worth the reading please. If needs be you can go and look at your old stuff until you remember how it's done.

Yours
Eggy

So, yeah. Avoid it like the plague.

[The Rose Dragon]

Well, to be fair, you did get his name wrong. Twice. In a single post. Let him get several dozen comic books wrong in his career (yes, he screws up a lot).

[Thufir]

I have finished my exams. Topology is no more. And it went pretty well, though I did have to try and make up a proof off the top of my head, since I couldn't remember it.

[randman22222]

All that fiddling around with ToR, and the video still won't run, even when I can access the site. Oh well.

Also, I accidentally microwaved my bagels far too long. The result is that they are rock solid.

[Mr. Mud]

Rand: Bagels... Do you mean, Doorstoppers? Or dog toys? .

[randman22222]

Rand: Bagels... Do you mean, Doorstoppers? Or dog toys? .

Bagels. The things that look somewhat like doughnuts.

[Mr. Mud]

<snip>

Right.

Spoiler

Show

Bagels + =

And rocks equal Doorstops! .

[randman22222]

Right.

Spoiler

Show

Bagels + =

And rocks equal Doorstops! .

Oh. I get it now. Yes.

[TwoBitWriter]

I know I'm getting old when I prefer bagels over doughnuts!

[randman22222]

Off to my graduation ceremony now. Then after grad party. Then after after grad party party. Apprehensive about second party, due to "8000 dirhams worth of booze" being present. I have major qualms with alcohol. At least most of my friends going don't drink...

[Fredthefighter]

I know I'm getting old when I prefer bagels over doughnuts!

Doughnuts are only better when they have jam/chocolate/sprinkles.

*Drools over doughnuts*
I had Jaffa Cakes earlier, they were delicious beyond human understanding.

[Anuan]

I have been so sick lately that my schooling is totally forked.
Too many assignments.
Hella stressed because of my roommate and various other things.
However I have a friend I havnt seen in AGES coming around tomorrow and that's going to be awesome :)

[Dr. Bath]

That guy looks disturbingly happy about being foiled. I guess if that's what you're into...

[Rutskarn]

That guy looks disturbingly happy about being foiled. I guess if that's what you're into...

Oh, yeah, baby. I've been nefarious. You must...thwart... me.

[Dirk Kris]

I know I'm getting old when I prefer bagels over doughnuts!

Well, damn. Guess that makes it official for me, too.

[Fredthefighter]

Oh, yeah, baby. I've been nefarious. You must...thwart... me.

Only Rutskarn could pull that off. *Shudders*
I'm scared now.
And now I've got I'm Yours by Jason Mraz stuck in my head. It's not a bad song really.

[Cristo Meyers]

That guy looks disturbingly happy about being foiled. I guess if that's what you're into...

Now my mind has wandered into remembering that villain from Watchmen, following heroes around trying to get stopped...

[TwoBitWriter]

Now my mind has wandered into remembering that villain from Watchmen, following heroes around trying to get stopped...

You know, until he decided to try that schtick on Rorschach.