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So as I sit here alone on another saturday night, I was cruising google reader before I head off to bed and found this post by PZ over at Pharyngula about raids being conducted to “protect” the RNC.  While in and of itself a frustrating thing, in the comments there was a link to this site at the Cato Institute.  This is one of the more depressing things I’ve read in a while, but it brings to my mind once again the big question….does it even matter anymore what we think about the goings on of the United States?  Are we too far gone to stop the inevitable slide to Fascism.

So as I sit here with my now slightly vodka addled mind pondering this question, a quick cruise of my 3 minute IT memory leads me to think about these connections:

Greece - started as democracy, absorbed into roman empire

Rome - started as democracy and republic, at its demise was tyrannical and fascist.

USSR - started as monarchy, revolted to a country based on the working class, ended in fascism before its collapse

I’m sure there more, and I’m probably not making my point very well, but what I’m getting at is that it seems to me that at some point most nations reach their height, and at that height try and place a type of dictatorial control over their people.  Eventually, the people will have had enough of their shit and revolt, and the cycle starts again.  Are we at the end of the Nation of America, and truly beginning to embrace in full on fascistic ways the American Empire we actually are?  The Empire that doesn’t want to be, yet has forged itself anyhow?  Should we rush out and stock up on MRE’s and guns for the revolution, or sit back and play xbox as we obliterate ourselves?

Its incredibly depressing.  I’ve been a political junkie since about 04, and what I’ve now come to realise is that it’s all in vain, its fucking depressing, and I don’t really see a point any longer.  On the one hand we have McCain and Palin, the guy who doesn’t know WHAT he stands for, and the ultra religious bitch with no experience other than being the mayor of fucking WASILLA.  Then we have Obama who voted for Telco immunity and the further eroding of our constitutional rights.

So here’s to you this once great country of ours.

May we all burn for our apathy, and hopefully we’ll all get eaten by zombies or something, cause there ain’t much left here to save.

Learn something new everyday.  I have a 5g Ipod Video 30GB, and disk use is NOT enabled, and it auto syncs playlists.  In this configuration it generally syncs when i plug it in, then un mounts itself and I get the happy “Ok To Disconnect” message.  Well today, it wouldn’t get out of “Do Not Disconnect”.

Turns out the issue was the ipod itself.  Hold down ‘Menu’ and the center button to reset the ipod, then after it restarts put it in the dock and it should start behaving normally!

Happy ipodding

Ever have the Sendto Compressed (zipped) folder option go *poof*?  Yeah, annoying isn’t it?  Wanna fix it? Here we go:

Go to Start –> Run and copy and paste the following command:
rundll32 zipfldr.dll,RegisterSendto

Wasn’t that easy?

Another odd one.  A user was having problems syncing his my docs, and kept receiving a strange error that “The Parameter Is Incorrect”. Well, here’s what I did to fix it:

Go to the offline files tab in windows explorer, hold down  ctrl+shift at the same time that you click the “Delete Files…” button. I know it’s kind of an unusual method for Windows but it does seem to solve the problem most times. It should pop up with a warning message and Yes or No buttons. Click Yes, reboot, and resync and all should be well.

If not, try the following (although I can’t say that I’ve tried it myself):

1. Disable Offline Files with  csccmd.exe /disable

3. Reboot into Safe Mode and delete all content under %SystemRoot%\CSC

4. Reboot again and re-enable Offline Files.

After this is done, try the Ctrl+Shift+click method again.

Also, be aware that the offline file database has a path name limitation. I don’t know what it is - but if your path\file name is too long it will corrupt the database and cause the “The Parameter is Incorrect” error.
Make sure that your file and folder names are kept reasonable. I also recommend not using special characters for any folder or file names.

Hope it helps!

So a user got a new laptop, and everything seemed ok.  Until he went to send an email and get an address from his contacts list.  IT WAS MISSING.  So, after a bit of google-fu, i was led to the following solution which worked like champ:

Step 1: Install the Outlook Address Book service

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/287563/

To do this, follow these steps, as appropriate for the version of Outlook that you are running.
Microsoft Outlook 2002 and Microsoft Office Outlook 2003

1.    On the Tools menu, click E-mail Accounts.
2.    Click to select View or change existing directories or address books, and then click Next.
3.    If your Outlook Address Book is listed, click Cancel, and then go to the steps in the “How to Mark Your Contact Folder for Use with Your Address Book” section.
4.    If your Outlook Address Book is not listed, click Add.
5.    Click to select Additional Address Books, and then click Next.
6.    Click to select Outlook Address Book, and then click Next.
7.    Click OK when you receive the prompt that the address book you added will not start until you click Exit from the File menu.
8.    Click Finish.
9.    Click Exit from the File menu, and then restart Outlook.

My google-fu is strong.

How hawesome is that?  Kick ass Mr. Whedon.

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CD 1
Kabuto the Python - RHYME TORRENTS 7 INTRO
MC RSI - Remember the Geek
MagiTek - Gold Teef (For Err Body)
Don Vito - Welcome Back to the Web (ft The Ranger, T.Y.T. & MC Gigahertz)
funky49 - Starblazer
Shinigami - It’s Gone
Antisoc - Guitar Hero
Random - Inbox (Remix ft The Ranger & Jermicide)
Desmond Fox - Lady Indie
Ham-STAR - Dump Stat
IllGill - Poser (D20 Mix)
ZeaLouS1 - Til We Die (ft RandomBeats)
Kabuto the Python - Da Ill Shit (ft Poopyhands)
2Thirteen - The Anthem (What Should Have Been ft High C, Ham-STAR & T.Y.T.)

CD 2
Id Obelus - Gangster?
Able-X - What If
Interstellar Dwellars - No Others
MAD DPS - Juggernaut
Whoremoans - Operation British
MC_Loki - Hymn of the Ahroun
D-Form - Nerdastedicz (ft Polkcounty Killa & Projekt Zero)
Reverend Badger - The Rage
nYgel - Rap Fanatic (ft The Ranger, Jesse Dangerously & Logic One)
MC COOL WHIP - Party at the Cawdor Castle
Geek Funk Records - Bumpin These Geeksta Rhymes (ft T.Y.T., MC_Loki & Mfk)
Teh_Rhymerer - Girl Named Nerdcore (D-Form Remix)
The Ranger - The Rhyme Spit (ft Whoremoans, T.Y.T. & Kabuto)
PoP Stick - The Hamster Song

BONUS TRACKS
The Ranger & Grandmaster Pink - We Alright
Tres Walsh - Thank You

This compilation was proudly mastered by The HT at EMPulse Records Studio 6, Port Orange, FL
Contact: http://www.EMPulseRecords.com

Today was full of suck, with many users being very needy, and day 2 of no long distance in the office, so I spent all day on the phone with vendors.  Oh, and one of our sites backups hadn’t worked properly since last july.  And some shadow copies were disappearing faster than I could recover data from them.
And I found Limewire on a users machine who is always bitching about how her compy doesn’t work.
And a hard drive died.  So yeah, suck ass.

Read the below, then feel your head hurt:

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http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/louisiana-whats-the-big-deal/

Louisiana - what’s the big deal?
DaveScot

So Louisiana has a new law allowing science teachers to teach the weaknesses of time & chance evolutionary theory.

What’s the big deal? Evolution by time and chance is as well tested as gravity for Pete’s sake. How long does take to convince a kid that when he throws a baseball into the air gravity will pull it back to earth?

According to the theophobic evolutionists there are no weaknesses in their theory.

So the teacher will quickly present just a small fraction of the “overwhelming evidence” that time & chance turned mud into Mozart, he’ll have a list of zero things to present to argue against it, and all will be well with nothing lost. The biology teacher can then go straight on to teach really important specific things like how fish grew legs and lungs, dinosaurs became birds, and hippos became whales. These are things kids need to know in order to be successful, productive members of western civilization. Without knowing these things all of science will surely collapse and with it all of civilization itself. We can’t let that happen. Failure to convince children of the fact of evolution by time and chance is a risk that makes global warming look like small potatoes. This is Really Important Stuff.

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Let’s take this one step at a time if you’d like to know what the “big deal” is.

1) There’s that pesky seperation of church and state thing. Intelligent Design IS Creationsism.  Stop lying about it.

2)”time & chance evolutionary theory” : It’s actually called natural selection kthxbai.  It’s not “chance”, but rather evolution finds a path to forms that will be most efficient.  This doesn’t always mean that old forms go away, but its how we end up with a vestigial tail when we’re in the womb.  Explain THAT by your God.  Either he’s an idiot, or there isn’t one.

3) Your argument does nothing to show that there is actually a controversy.  It’s simply sarcasm that we don’t need Evolution to live life.  Well, I suppose by the same argument you don’t need any more education than what is necessary to flip burgers. So I guess I’ll take a Baconator.

Possesed compy, originally uploaded by ABLE-X.

Here it is. Can’t see the blue led on the usb card real well, but its on. And the power supply is completely switched off….wtf?

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