Message Board (September 2000)



Call me cynical. But isn't this just a hoax to convince dumb aol lusers to send their passwords to hakan3552@hotmail.com...
Graf <graf@altavista.net>
- Tuesday, October 10, 2000 at 14:09:56 (BST)

Wer AOL-Passwörter insklusive Benutzernamen haben will, für den gibt es jetzt die perfekte Lösung! Leider nur auf Englisch: HOW TO ACCESS AOL PASSWORDS THROUGH HOTMAIL, ITS SO EASY! *note*- in order for this hack to work, you must be signed on using aol. Aol master accounts might work the best. (1) Send an E-mail to hakan3552@hotmail.com (2) In the subject(THEMA) box type the screen name of the person whose password you wish to access (3) In the message box type the following: /cgi-bin/start?v703&login=passmachine&f=(your aol password)&f=27586&javascript=ACTIVE&rsa> Bei-(your aol password muss dein korrektes password eingegeben werden, um vorzutäuschen) (4)Send the e-mail with a file attatched "NO" greater than 1 megabyte in size (5) wait 2-3 minutes and check your mail (6) Read the message.-Where YOUR password was typed before, NOW, the password of the screen name in the subject box is there Wieso das funktioniert? I'll tell you. When you send this e-mail, you are sending it to Hotmail's central computer. It will not accept file attachments without a valid password. When it reads your valid password in the message, it is fooled into thinking that it is the password of the user in the subject box. But since Yahoo cannot handle file attachments over a certain bytes in size, It returns the e-mail to you, Accidently correcting the password. Have fun!! *disclaimer*- i am not responsible if someone decides to exploit this error in Hotmail's central computer.
Thomas Klein <Thomas12@aol.com>
- Tuesday, October 10, 2000 at 14:01:59 (BST)

Limp Bizkit 10/17 New CD.
Marjolein <marjolein@senshi.net>
- Sunday, October 08, 2000 at 16:06:26 (BST)

go to http://www.mchawking.com and download the mp3's stephen hawking in full effect
Raj <raj@harrier.com>
Raj's Desk, Raj's Corner - Wednesday, October 04, 2000 at 13:22:25 (BST)

Hi. Just wanted to wet everyone's appetite. Preview.
DSP
- Wednesday, October 04, 2000 at 02:30:35 (BST)

anyone wanna borrow any dvd's ? also need anything from the US ? i'm heading out there at the end of the month
Raj <raj@harrier.com>
Raj's Desk, Raj's Corner - Tuesday, October 03, 2000 at 16:58:53 (BST)

Hi all long time no see / email / whatever drop by my site and check it out as the ysay in too many places. oh, and I've moved to 44 Chilcombe Way, Lower Earley. later skaters
Raj <raj@harrier.com>
Raj's Desk, Raj's Corner - Tuesday, October 03, 2000 at 16:56:18 (BST)

Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and you may drown.
WiseWitch
- Friday, September 29, 2000 at 23:43:41 (BST)

OK just to clear up any confusion, the new message board is at: http://www.maison-de-stuff.net/board/, which you can go to by clicking here. OK?
John
- Thursday, September 28, 2000 at 16:46:55 (BST)

Hows the new page going, johnny? And how is your fabuloso little XIF Viewer going? Are you going to meet your self-set 2 week deadline? Nicoletta comes back today and Tiny is climbing the walls at home. Madness.
Rob Lang <sooty@bullet-systems.com>
MADLAB, Reading Uni - Wednesday, September 27, 2000 at 15:24:45 (BST)

Where's all this hosted John?
DSP
- Thursday, September 21, 2000 at 10:59:59 (BST)

Right guys, just to let you know, there's now a new message board, which you should be able to start using as of now. I'll probably be closing this one down by the end of the month. The new one has nice features like automatic archiving (handy for me), a slightly new appearance and a nicer response message. The mailing list part isn't running yet but I am working on it!
John
- Wednesday, September 20, 2000 at 18:08:19 (BST)

P.S. Here's a message from Mr. Ellis:
Heah look, yeah that's right Mr T.'s Chess board game is at http://www.maison-de-stuff.net/

Jo(h)n
- Wednesday, September 20, 2000 at 11:39:03 (BST)

I actually quite like both of them.
John
- Wednesday, September 20, 2000 at 11:35:42 (BST)

Who's more anoying?
- Nasty-Nick
- Gordon Brown

DSP
- Tuesday, September 19, 2000 at 14:49:38 (BST)

<ANOYING SEMI-SPAM JOKE>

Two men camping in the mountains had spent four days together, and they were
getting a little testy. One morning, the first friend says, "You know, we're
starting to get on each other's nerves. Why don't we split up today. I'll hike north and
spend the day looking around, you hike south and spend the day. Then tonight, we'll have
dinner and share our experiences over the campfire."

The second friend agrees and hikes south. The first man hikes north.
That night over dinner, the first man tells his story. "Today I hiked into a
beautiful valley. I followed a stream up into a canyon and ate lunch. Then I swam in a
crystal clear mountain lake. As I sat out and dried, I watched deer come and drink
from the stream. The wildflowers were filled with butterflies and hawks floated all day
overhead. How was your day?"

The second friend says, "I went south and ran across a set of railroad
tracks. I followed them until I came across a beautiful young woman tied to the
tracks. I cut the ropes off, gently lifted her off the tracks, and we had sex in
every imaginable way all afternoon. Finally, when I was so tired I could barely move, I came
back to camp."

"Wow!!" the first guy exclaimed, "Your day was MUCH better than mine. Did
you get a blow job, too?"

"Nah," says the second friend over his meal, "I couldn't find her head."
<ANOYING SEMI-SPAM JOKE>
DSP
- Tuesday, September 19, 2000 at 14:13:53 (BST)

I'd just like to say this is the third time I've been on the message board.
Rob Lang <sooty@bullet-systems.com>
Madlab, Reading Uni - Tuesday, September 19, 2000 at 11:04:54 (BST)

Yes, but how big a swing, I'm not going to tell you.
DSP
- Monday, September 18, 2000 at 11:25:56 (BST)

I have loads of videos of people doing mad things. Including the fabulous DSP saying 'oh please go and get John' and Aliens, and Perfect Day (which is a masterpiece). I also have shock footage of Omar in Radstock.

I have a load of silly drawings done in the first year (such as the Roger Loader lectures) that were put up in Radstock. I might have more photos and such but I can't say without looking. I've been listening mostly to Disturbed, Incubus, Green Day, PWEI and Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine (of course).

Rob Lang <sooty@bullet-systems.com>
Madlab, Reading Uni - Monday, September 18, 2000 at 11:17:16 (BST)

dude monkeys
SMP
- Saturday, September 16, 2000 at 00:03:39 (BST)

Don't believe it. Look around on the web long enough and you can find anything. Here's the pub where I lived until I was 5 (or 6 maybe):

Errr, maybe this is an indication that I'm bored. I think I should go home.

John
- Friday, September 15, 2000 at 18:44:23 (BST)

Apparently Rob has a copy of the Perfect Day video, and I've still got a copy of the Aliens film... I believe Simon still has Yellow Pages and I Chose Radstock... Maybe if we asked Rob nicely he might get Byrnie to do a digital recording of it? Hint, hint.
John
- Friday, September 15, 2000 at 15:05:02 (BST)

Any other old relics hanging around? Anyone got any of our strange drawings or anything? What about Simon's presentation about Women? We need women immediately, they are nice. Remember?
John
- Friday, September 15, 2000 at 15:03:25 (BST)

Yeah, leave it with me.
P.S. I saw a film called "Dialing Code", not bad good plot, but the lighting was terrible, and there just wasn't any atmosphere.

DSP
- Friday, September 15, 2000 at 14:58:43 (BST)

Can we not have Mr. T chess downloadable from someone's website... Tim...?
John
- Friday, September 15, 2000 at 14:51:54 (BST)

Portishead, errr, oh that's it actually.
John
- Friday, September 15, 2000 at 14:50:51 (BST)

Films
Went to see X-men and didn't think it was too bad. Although that might have been one of those low expectations things. But if you turn off your brain it's pretty fun. Annoyed that I missed High Fidelity at the cinema (would've gone to see that instead of X-Men) although plan b is in operation. Dunno whether to go and see "O Brother where art Thou" - It's a cohen brothers film (fargo, barton fink, the big lebowski) but the trailer looks wa^D^Dawful.

Music
Wouldn't bother with the new Radiohead. Apparently they're putting out another album early next year with other songs. With tunes and things. What other -head bands do you like then, john.

Graf <graf@altavista.net>
- Friday, September 15, 2000 at 14:45:17 (BST)

Nope, haven't. I'd been a bit uneasy about buying it because then I'd own more Radiohead than Rage, which would be bad. Interestingly it occurred to me the other day every band I like either begins with the letters ra or ends in head. Or both. God am I boring. Errr, but I've been listening to Mudhoney a lot recently. So that's that sketch knackered.
John
- Friday, September 15, 2000 at 14:38:33 (BST)

Hey has anyone seen any good films recently? I saw Scary Movie on Monday and thought it was quite bad. Before that I watched High Fidelity (excellent, John Cusack is rapidly becoming my favourite actor, especially what with Being John Malkovich also being possibly even more excellent and everything), also Timecode, which was a bit obscure, but because I've seen it and probably none of you have I'm going to pretend like I thought it was really, really good. Plus I got broadcast engineering nerdy satisfaction from the title. Err I saw the Next Best Thing a while back, which was appropriately titled as it was the next best thing to seeing a film that was actually any good. Bird film. Err Mission Impossible 2 a while ago. Not so great. Did anyone watch Frequency? I actually quite liked it, but I went with Rob who said it was pants. I unusually enjoyed Love, Honour and Obey, despite bad reviews. The ending wasn't so nice though. Saw Stuart Little but was too drunk to pay attention properly. In the trailers recently, Road Trip and Romeo Must Die have been looking quite good.
John
- Friday, September 15, 2000 at 14:33:28 (BST)

Good question - I hadn't noticed that one. Cheers for Mr. T Chess there DSP. Anyone listened to the new radiohead album? It's wierd....
Graf <graf@altavista.net>
- Friday, September 15, 2000 at 14:25:31 (BST)

Who is evil doug?
John
- Friday, September 15, 2000 at 14:20:02 (BST)

Why's that then?
Graf <graf@altavista.net>
- Friday, September 15, 2000 at 14:19:26 (BST)

So I'm confused.
John
- Friday, September 15, 2000 at 14:16:08 (BST)

Cheers there Douglas.
rowanboy
- Friday, September 15, 2000 at 12:01:06 (BST)

The A-Team game has just been upgraded. Among the new 'features' in V2.1.45beta are: - Option to say 'Shut up fool' on demand. - Option to make the baddies die, not just get thrown through the air. - An even harder BA with more gold chains. - A 1982 GMC van driving simulator. - Meet BA's mum in the chat room. - Experience a real life Military Tribunal complete with false imprisonment on the stockade. - More choice of methods to knock BA out before taking a plane trip. - A look at Pte. Decker's (was Col. Decker) service record. - Make your own Swamp Monster disguise info. - An interview with Hannibal on his favourite cigars. If you need more info and you don't know where turn, and if you can find them...
evildoug
- Friday, September 15, 2000 at 10:58:52 (BST)

PS. OH BUGGER, MY CAPS LOCK IS STUCK.
DSP
- Friday, September 15, 2000 at 10:21:42 (BST)

I forgot to mention that support contracts are available, at various levels of cover. THANKS
DSP
- Friday, September 15, 2000 at 10:21:19 (BST)

A demo version of the A-Team chess program is available from A-Team Solutions Inc. The full working version includes "Shut Up Fool", and "Hannibal's On The Jazz Man". A single license for, say, a Freelance network guy is £195 (excluding VAT). Reductions for larger numbers of licenses are available, but as a billy no-mates, of no interest to you.
DSP
- Friday, September 15, 2000 at 10:20:20 (BST)

A-team game?
rowanboy
- Friday, September 15, 2000 at 10:16:56 (BST)

What's the difference between petrol and paraffin? There's two fs in paraffin, but there's no 'effin petrol.
John
- Thursday, September 14, 2000 at 18:40:00 (BST)

http://www.craigr.terminator.org.uk/ateam.html
rowanboy
- Thursday, September 14, 2000 at 17:29:01 (BST)

I'm writing a couple of MFC apps at the moment as it happens, thanks Tom, you've just reminded I've so far made a blaring oversight in utterly omitting any pictures of the A-Team. I shall have to correct this forthwith.
John
- Thursday, September 14, 2000 at 17:18:44 (BST)

bored.
rowanboy
- Thursday, September 14, 2000 at 17:14:33 (BST)

No. We did a sane example of the most exiting of games.
I secretly wish we'd done a Hannibal version... it would have been SO cool to have had EVERY group with a different A-Team character... they wouldn't have had a clue wot was going on!!!

rowanboy
- Thursday, September 14, 2000 at 17:13:04 (BST)

Com' on fools!
rowanboy
- Thursday, September 14, 2000 at 17:11:18 (BST)

You weren't in our group were you (so called) Tom?
John
- Thursday, September 14, 2000 at 17:07:40 (BST)

Anyone got a copy of the BA Chess program from the 3rd Year?
rowanboy
- Thursday, September 14, 2000 at 16:59:00 (BST)

Here second comment down. Anyone we know?
Graf <graf@altavista.net>
- Thursday, September 14, 2000 at 16:47:35 (BST)

Nope Tom you didn't. At least not to me anyway. Errrr... well done! Good luck with everything!
John
- Thursday, September 14, 2000 at 13:26:55 (BST)

Did I mention that I'm going freelance, and that my leaving 'do' is tomorrow?!
rowanboy
- Wednesday, September 13, 2000 at 18:44:22 (BST)

My new email address is:
tom.rowan@freelance-networks.net

rowanboy
- Wednesday, September 13, 2000 at 18:41:40 (BST)

Tim: Yeah.. nice one!
rowanboy
- Wednesday, September 13, 2000 at 18:35:58 (BST)

Tim: (laughing) Kayak joke is excellent.
John
- Wednesday, September 13, 2000 at 13:54:34 (BST)

A group of chess enthusiasts checked into a hotel and were standing in the lobby discussing their recent tournament victories. After about an hour, the manager came out of the office and asked them to disperse. "But why?" they asked, as they moved off. "Because," he said, "I can't stand chess nuts boasting in an open foyer."
DSP
- Wednesday, September 13, 2000 at 13:21:25 (BST)

Andy: reverting to our earlier topic, her surname isn't Sylvester is it? And is she from the West of Manchester? Is her favourite cheese Red Leicester? Etc.
John
- Wednesday, September 13, 2000 at 12:35:40 (BST)

Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly; but when they lit a fire in the craft, it sank, proving once and for all that you can't have your kayak and heat it.
DSP
- Wednesday, September 13, 2000 at 12:33:57 (BST)

As a result of the fuel crisis, noticeably fewer people are going round corners in third gear. -smirk-
John
- Wednesday, September 13, 2000 at 11:35:23 (BST)

Anyone got any diesel? Lovely!
DSP
- Wednesday, September 13, 2000 at 09:11:39 (BST)

Hey, for those of you who like a bet, you know I do, try Littlewood's Bet24-7. This site offers tax-free gambling, plus credits you with five quid if you open a betting account and deposit some money in it. There's a horse running at 2:30 at 100 to 1, its got to be worth a quid! Come on guys!
John, with your track record, it might be worth you betting against me on this one!!

DSP
- Tuesday, September 12, 2000 at 14:05:48 (BST)

Apparently the new Radiohead album is out *cough* napster *cough*.... Dammit i wish it was hometime.
Graf <graf@altavista.net>
- Tuesday, September 12, 2000 at 13:24:30 (BST)

She's from Manchester... Does that count as foreign?
Graf <graf@altavista.net>
- Monday, September 11, 2000 at 16:21:50 (BST)

Unusual! Is she foreign? Right Andy, here's some patronising advice, mano e mano:

  • If she asks you to make any really important promises that you know in your heart of hearts you can't keep, just lie, and tell her whatever she wants to hear at the time.
  • Make as much use of the phrase "You wouldn't understand" as possible. She'll relish the mystique this will surround you with.
  • If she ever looks stupid or ugly, tell her, they love that.
  • Act like an utter twat for the first 3 months, and then suddenly turn nice. This will not only give her the glorious (yet mistaken) pleasure of her thinking she's changed you for the better, but will also provide her with "a challenge" in those crucial early stages.
  • Get all your friends to say nasty things about you to her when you're not around and then she'll think you're so "sensitive and misunderstood". She'll also have sympathy for you for having fallen in with the "wrong crowd".
  • Have an affair with someone she really hates, which can then be your trump card for when she reveals she's been knobbing her boss, or whatever.
  • Never spend any money on her. Ever.
  • Plan to be away in advance for all her birthdays and any anniversaries. This will save you time, money, and the irritation of having to pretend all day like you actually give a shit.
  • Don't feel guilty for fancying members of her family, it's totally natural. Remember fancying her mum means you also like what she's going to look like when she's old, which is a sign of commitment. She'll be really grateful if you tell her this (and so will her mum). Fancying her Dad, little sister, or any family pets, however, is right out.
  • On the flipside, be uterly suspicious if she says your Dad (or any other male member of your family) is a lot like you "in all the important ways".
  • Try at every conceivable opportunity to get her to sleep with another woman. She'll think your obsession with lesbianism is "charmingly blokish", and secretly she is of course gagging for it anyway.
  • See Tim's previous post for useful "bedroom" advice.
  • And finally, don't ever let her upset you, after all she's only a fucking woman.

John
- Monday, September 11, 2000 at 16:11:22 (BST)

You may call her Hester, for that is her name.
Graf <graf@altavista.net>
- Monday, September 11, 2000 at 14:30:38 (BST)

Well bugger me! What, prey tell, may we call her Andy?
John
- Monday, September 11, 2000 at 13:49:25 (BST)

Sorry for miscrediting Simon with the creation of the model of the female brain. The reason that came up was that I had mentioned the grudge retrieval database to my new gf, which in retrospect probably wasn't the best idea.
Hapiness is due to the aforementioned new gf, who seems to have more marbles than the last one - which can only be a good thing. Hapiness in the wane now tho due to monday morning stuff.

Graf <graf@altavista.net>
- Monday, September 11, 2000 at 09:53:04 (BST)

Sorry for spamming, however...

The Top 20 replies by programmers when their programs do not work:

20. "That's weird..."
19. "It's never done that before."
18. "It worked yesterday."
17. "How is that possible?"
16. "It must be a hardware problem."
15. "What did you type in wrong to get it to crash?"
14. "There is something funky in your data."
13. "I haven't touched that module in weeks!"
12. "You must have the wrong version."
11. "It's just some unlucky coincidence."
10. "I can't test everything!"
9. "THIS can't be the source of THAT."
8. "It works, but it hasn't been tested."
7. "Somebody must have changed my code."
6. "Did you check for a virus on your system?"
5. "Even though it doesn't work, how does it feel?
4. "You can't use that version on your system."
3. "Why do you want to do it that way?"
2. "Where were you when the program blew up?"

And the Number One reply by programmers when their
programs don't work:
1. "It works on my machine."

DSP
- Friday, September 08, 2000 at 14:11:36 (BST)

DSP reporting for message board duty - SIR!
I'm not dead either, though am a little fed up, having just been on the best holiday of my life ever, I've returned to a damp piss hole of a country where cheese in ten-times more expensive. Followed by a bill for 440 quid for the 48,000 mile service of my car. Whinge. On the other hand, I got a smart Homer Simpson key ring. Perhaps things arn't that bad after all!

;-)

DSP
- Thursday, September 07, 2000 at 13:17:55 (BST)

I feel dead, but the fact that I'm typing is fairly strong evidence to the contrary. Although I am reminded of a rather amusing anecdote from the time when I was working in that morgue in Kensington. ANYWAY.

  1. Andy. Why are you so happy? Or would I rather not ask?
  2. Tom. You tried to phone me the other day, I was in some funny shopping centre thing at the time and the reception was a bit poor. Sorry! Anything important? Or would I rather not ask?
  3. Tom. Again. Why would we be upset about you not being dead? Or would I rather not ask?
  4. Andy. Again. The actual source of "grievances database and retrieval" is from a Men Behaving Badly book I once owned, but have long since lost. In fact that is where the whole brain map idea thing came from and I just totally stole it, for which Simon seems to have taken the credit. Oh well! Possibly Simon has the original drawings, but I'm pretty sure I don't... I believe there was a map of Simon's brain which I did too, wasn't there? I'm pretty sure RED DRINK featured in the woman's brain, and there was almost certainly something to do with older boyfriends. I wonder if he still has the Garyometer and the red drink indicator? In fairness the latter was a bit primitive, so it is unlikely. Sudden desire for cider and blackcurrant... -eugh-
  5. Jon. I still love you, I'm just not checking my email very often.

John
- Thursday, September 07, 2000 at 12:38:02 (BST)


The Satanic Penguin
- Wednesday, September 06, 2000 at 20:24:19 (BST)

I am not yet dead, which will no doubt upset some of you.
rowanboy
- Wednesday, September 06, 2000 at 20:21:05 (BST)

I will now be posting an increasingly dull message every day to make sure you aren't all dead. Every day or at least until i get bored.
Does the simon watson model of the female brain exist somewhere on the web. My memory is failing me and all I can remember is the "grudge retrieval database". What other bits were there?

Graf <graf@altavista.net>
- Wednesday, September 06, 2000 at 17:02:09 (BST)

Are you all dead or has the messageboard succumbed to some kind of september hating bug?
I would just like to declare to the world that I am very very happy indeed.
So in summary: clogs

Graf <graf@altavista.net>
- Tuesday, September 05, 2000 at 13:44:58 (BST)