Alex Meyer's Random Rants

Bizarre pornograpy found on judge presiding over obscenity trial’s personal website, hilarity ensues

Alex Meyer — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:45:39 +0000

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-kozinski12-2008jun12,0,6220192.story

Pot, kettle, black?

Also, “a photo of naked women on all fours painted to look like cows”?

What. The. Hell.

Former Confederate general, Sears sued for 2.7 million dollars over makeshift masturbatorium

Alex Meyer — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:46:22 +0000

What the hell was Robert E. Lee thinking?

After Lee surrendered to Henrico Police, investigators discovered the Sears manager had created a makeshift masturbatorium from a service platform just above the ladies’ dressing rooms.

It appeared to investigators that the prefab peeping hutch had been in use for quite some time, the victim’s lawsuit alleges, and that Lee admitted to watching the girl and her mother trying on bathing suits.

“During the search of the room, police officials recovered sexually explicit magazines and seminal fluids,” the suit says.

While I think the damages the plaintiffs are seeking are somewhat excessive, Robert E. Lee shouldn’t be allowed to work at a clothing store ever again.

Nine Inch Nails releases new single online for free download, new album on the way?

Alex Meyer — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:53:33 +0000

http://discipline.nin.com
The ID3 “comment” tag says “Go to www.nin.com May 5″. If I had to guess, there’ll likely be a new album avaliable for download at that time.

The embedded artwork can be viewed here

My initial impression is positive, definitely worth the 8.4 MB download.

Microsoft shows the world why Fair Use Circumvention Kits (DRM) are evil

Alex Meyer — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:20:11 +0000

Microsoft’s failed MSN Music download store is shutting down its DRM servers August 31, effectively stealing purchased music from its customers.

Down with DRM, long live amazon.com and other DRM-free music retailers.

Pirate music site OiNK.cd raided, shut down

Alex Meyer — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:08:29 +0000

Apparently, being the site for officially-released music tends to get you noticed by a few people who may not want you to succeed, with rather unfortunate (for the site’s owner) results. With all the blatant infringement that (apparently) occurred on OiNK, I have to wonder what took so long.

Idiot blocks Firefox, Firefox users tell idiot to take his site and shove it.

Alex Meyer — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 09:30:18 +0000

Some idiot and possible Microsoft shill set up a website at whyfirefoxisblocked.com (WARNING 509 Bandwidth Limit Exceeded) explaining that he had to block popular open-source web browser Mozilla Firefox because of the popular Adblock extension, and gave some horribly misleading and incorrect legal reasons that adblock is illegal. I believe that, while a webmaster is certainly welcome to block users that he/she believes are blocking ads, such a measure is counterproductive due to the backlash that might occur and the ease with which a user can work around such a measure. In addition, any site that does this sort of thing probably believes that content is what you put between all the ads.

Excellent Smashing Pumpkins audience recording, new album to be released July 10

Alex Meyer — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 04:12:18 +0000

HERE
Remember to support the artist and buy their new album, Zeitgeist

There’s something rotten in the state of Ubuntu

Alex Meyer — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 04:53:44 +0000

On or slightly before April 2nd (which is after the beta for Feisty and almost 2 months after the feature freeze for Feisty), Ubuntu updated the SATA and IDE drivers in the kernel to the new experimental libata drivers. For users who had switched their fstab back to mounting by /dev from mounting UUID, this completely broke things, which was annoying, but OK. April 12th, the day of the scheduled Release Candidate, many people’s computers stopped booting because of libata breakage, and as of right now, over 2 days and 3 kernel builds later, some still are having boot issues. This late switch is unacceptable and should have been left until Gutsy Gibbon. If I were still on Edgy, I’d stay away from Feisty for as long as possible, as I predict future breakage of this magnitude.

Windows 2000 and Windows ME both suck?

Alex Meyer — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 04:59:58 +0000

Why don’t any of your laptops run Windows ME or 2000?

To make a long story short - because they’re inferior operating systems. Microsoft released Windows ME prematurely and as a result, the operating system had tons and tons of problems and bugs. To combat this, Microsoft then released a revised version of ME that it called Windows 2000. Windows 2000 is the same operating system as ME, just fixed up a bit. Honestly though, they both just suck. The system itself is unstable and unreliable - which is why Microsoft worked around the clock to produce Windows XP so quickly afterward (2001). We choose not to install Windows ME or 2000 because of these problems.

from here

Grr!

Alex Meyer — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:03:04 +0000

http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2007/02/22/planned-power-outage
After all the crap they’ve been through with power, now there’s this? Well, hopefully it’ll only be a few hours. However, with their datacenter’s history of power issues, this could easily be days.