http://www.ameyer17.com Just another pointless weblog Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:15:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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. http://www.ameyer17.com/2008/06/11/bizarre-pornograpy-found-on-judge-presiding-over-obscenity-trials-personal-website-hilarity-ensues/ 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 ... http://www.ameyer17.com/2008/04/24/former-confederate-general-sears-sued-for-27-million-dollars-over-makeshift-masturbatorium/ 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. http://www.ameyer17.com/2008/04/23/nine-inch-nails-releases-new-single-online-for-free-download-new-album-on-the-way/ 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. http://www.ameyer17.com/2008/04/22/microsoft-shows-the-world-why-fair-use-circumvention-kits-drm-are-evil/ 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 ... http://www.ameyer17.com/2007/10/23/pirate-music-site-oinkcd-raided-shut-down/ 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. ... http://www.ameyer17.com/2007/08/19/idiot-blocks-firefox-firefox-users-tell-idiot-to-take-his-site-and-shove-it/ HERE Remember to support the artist and buy their new album, Zeitgeist http://www.ameyer17.com/2007/06/25/excellent-smashing-pumpkins-audience-recording-new-album-to-be-released-july-10/ 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 ... http://www.ameyer17.com/2007/04/14/theres-something-rotten-in-the-state-of-ubuntu/ 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 ... http://www.ameyer17.com/2007/03/30/windows-2000-and-windows-me-both-suck/ 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. http://www.ameyer17.com/2007/02/23/grr/