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Mosaic Communications circa 1994
[ rakaur on Mon Mar 31 at 04:19 PM // category: software, technology, web ]
Jamie Zawinski has put the old Mosaic Communications website from 1994 back online. It’s neat to look at, and the story behind it is even more interesting, especially what they had to do to get old browsers to be able to render the old page.
-- rakaur // 2008.03.31 @ 04:19 PM
Where's the Steve?
[ rakaur on Mon Mar 31 at 01:50 AM // category: web ]
For those of you on ericw.org looking for Steve’s posts, I decided it’d be best to move them to the new malkier.net site so that this site stays just me. All of the posts to ericw.org are aggregated over to the malkier.net site, so it doesn’t look any different from over there. It’s just all me here, which makes sense, because of the “ericw” part and all.
I also moved the projects section over to that site, since it’s shared by all of us.
-- rakaur // 2008.03.31 @ 01:50 AM
Projects & Content
[ rakaur on Thu Mar 27 at 09:15 PM // category: programming, software, technology, web ]
I added back the Projects section that used to be on my old website. It’s still a work in progress. I’ll hopefully be adding other things to it in the near future.
Also, as a reminder, all of the pictures etc. I’ve ever mentioned in blog posts since the beginning of my site have been kept at this location. It’s interesting to browse through sometimes.
-- rakaur // 2008.03.27 @ 09:15 PM
Comments Enabled
[ rakaur on Wed Mar 26 at 10:11 PM // category: software, technology, web // comments: 1 ]
Just as a heads up to anyone that still reads my blog, I’ve finally gotten comments to work properly. You shouldn’t have to register with anything to be able to comment.
Your comment will remain in a moderation queue until approved or marked as spam, as the case may be.
If anyone out there actually still reads my site, please leave a comment on this post to let me know.
-- rakaur // 2008.03.26 @ 10:11 PM
Hello Internet!
[ sycobuny on Wed Mar 26 at 02:31 PM // category: software, web, web // comments: 1 ]
So, Eric has told me I should blog. After severely beating me with a rake for over three hours, he finally got me to acquiesce to his demands, and here I am typing away. I didn’t concede the high ground, as you may have noticed, since I refused to make another blogging site on the internet just for no one to read my ramblings. I kind of consider it like electronic smart growth. We’re running out of domains worth having here, people. No one cares about your stupid cat pictures on http://www.mycatfluffy.com/ .
So, at some point I’ll probably blog some more than this, but I’m at work and should probably be doing work-related things.
-- sycobuny // 2008.03.26 @ 02:31 PM
Wait, Which Way Does Time Go?
[ rakaur on Tue Oct 17 at 11:58 AM // category: school, siue, technology, web ]
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
“I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.”
— Voltaire
This is about Facebook, SIUE, and a kid named Mike Turk. If you don’t want to hear about it, then by all means stop reading.
Now, before I start, I’d just like to make it clear that this isn’t about Mike Turk. This is about idiots. I don’t know Mike Turk, but I’m willing to bet that he’s probably an idiot. The “anonymous” girl is even more of an idiot. Also, and more importantly, the SIUE administration are all big blubbering idiots.
The parts of the story that I’ve heard (and I haven’t taken the time to learn it thoroughly, mostly because I don’t care) go something like this. An “anonymous” girl (hereby referred to as “DrunkenSlutBag”) had sex (or some sort of sexual contact) with Mike Turk, probably as the result of alcohol. Mike Turk decided to post it on Facebook, and make a big deal about what a slut she was. DrunkenSlutBag decided she took offense at this. Apparently when I wasn’t looking, Congress passed a law that made it illegal to offend someone. DrunkenSlutBag made a big deal over it, and long story short, Mike Turk is now up for expulsion from SIUE.
Now, let me be clear here: this is a big steaming pile of bullshit. I don’t care about Mike Turk, I don’t care about DrunkenSlutBag, I don’t care. What I do care about is Mike Turk’s right to say what he wants, when he wants, where he wants, how he wants about anyone he pleases, without fear. SIUE and a bunch of English majors have taken this away from him. I’ve heard people throw around words like “libel” and “slander,” but apparently no one actually knows what these words mean, despite the fact that they’re all English majors. Let me help you out. Now, “slander” doesn’t apply at all, because it was written about, and that makes it libel. Let’s have a closer look:
libel noun
1 Law: a published false statement that is damaging to a person’s reputation; a written defamation. Compare with slander.
2 the action or crime of publishing such a statement
3 a false and malicious statement about a person.
4 a thing or circumstance that brings undeserved discredit on a person by misrepresentation.
Take a close look at those. Notice the words “false,” “undeserved,” and “misrepresentation.” Mike Turk told no lies. DrunkenSlutBag may not have exactly deserved what he did, but it was by no mean misrepresentative or false. Mike Turk has committed no crime. When it comes down to it, she banged that dude, and she doesn’t want to own up to the fact that she’s a whore.
So, then, why is he up for expulsion? Because he offended someone. Next thing you know, people will get the crazy idea that they have the right to express their opinions as they see fit. Who knows? Maybe this idea will catch on and they’ll add it to the Constitution of the United States, giving it a catchy title like “freedom of speech.” I’ve heard people say “freedom of speech ends when it violates someone else’s rights.” Whose rights have been violated? We’ve already established there’s been no crime here. So my question is:
What on earth gives the University the right to think that they can tell Mike Turk, or anyone for that matter, what they can or cannot say, or where they can or cannot say it? What gives the University the right, when something that happened outside of their control was talked about on a medium also outside of their control? The only way the University ties into any of this is the fact that they’re both students. I remember paying the University money to teach me things, not to tell me what I can and cannot say or do, thank you very much. Perhaps they have forgotten a basic fact: we are your bosses. We pay your salary. If we’re not here, then neither are you. Your sole purpose in life is to serve us. So please, stop being idiots, and get your acts together.
This is absolutely ludicrous, and it should under no means be tolerated. The University has absolutely no reason to do what they’re doing. He didn’t “misrepresent” the school anymore than any other student that gets drunk at some party. What about DrunkenSlutBag? She’s the one sleeping around; doesn’t that make the University look bad? Shouldn’t we kick her out, too?
I don’t know either of these people, and I probably wouldn’t like either of these people if I did meet them. This isn’t about them. This is about what is basically right, and what is basically wrong; and, what the University is doing is very basically very wrong.
-- rakaur // 2006.10.17 @ 11:58 AM
Opening Facebook
[ rakaur on Thu Sep 14 at 06:19 PM // category: technology, web ]
As you may have heard by now, Facebook plans on opening to the public. Facebook is made up of networks. School networks came first, then high school networks, regional networks, and now company networks as well. You’ve always had to have a valid email for your school or workplace, and you had to be invited to get into a high school network. You selected your regional network after you were signed up. Well, now Facebook is going to let anyone sign up based on regional network. My thoughts are thus:
Please, everyone, just shut the fuck up.
Nothing is going to change. There will be more people, more ads served, and Facebook will make more money. That’s it. They want more money because that’s what people do. You would, too.
The networks are going to stay the way they are, there will just happen to be a lot more people in regional networks. They’re still not part of school or workplace networks, so who cares? You can simply not join a regional network, or you can set your privacy in such a way that people in your regional network can’t just randomly find you. That’s just for people in YOUR regional network. All of the people joining all of the rest of them can’t see anything more about you than they could without a Facebook account.
The entire college community should be smarter than this. You all freaked the fuck out about the stupid feeds thing, and that was just a case of “taking all this info and putting it in one place.” Now you’re all freaking the fuck out about this, and it’s even less of a big deal. No one can randomly find you, no one can stalk you, and no one can turn their profiles into a giant glitterysparklefest with Breaking Benjamin songs that take five minutes to load and manage to bring your dual-core 2.8GHz, 1GB RAM computer to a grinding halt. If you people put this much effort into school you’d all graduate early.
-- rakaur // 2006.09.14 @ 06:19 PM
Comments
[ rakaur on Tue Aug 29 at 01:52 PM // category: technology, web ]
Okay, so, I kind of went through and added some of the more insightful comments from my old blog. Unfortunately, there’s no way to set time/date, so just assume they’re from around the same time the post was written. That’s… mostly true, anyhow.
-- rakaur // 2006.08.29 @ 01:52 PM
Two Hundred Forty-Fourth Post
[ rakaur on Fri Aug 25 at 10:29 PM // category: technology, web ]
Holy crap, a post! So, I have finally finished moving all of my old posts over to Movable Type. I haven’t even messed with comments yet… I don’t know if I will. So, for now, I’m going to just leave this here until I figure out what I want to do with it. I might just make it feed into Facebook’s Notes thing, but then I run the risk of people that actually know me reading this shit, and that probably isn’t good, yo.
-- rakaur // 2006.08.25 @ 10:29 PM
Movable Type
[ rakaur on Sat May 06 at 10:58 PM // category: software, technology, web ]
Movable Type seems pretty sweet. The only reason I’ve never tried it before is because I don’t do Perl, and I wasn’t about to taint my personal server with it. Since my new host has it anyway, I figure I might as well give it a shot. It’s so hardcore better than WordPress could ever dream of being. I think I’m going to try to work this into my site as it is now. That way, I can keep my design and I won’t have to rewrite the biggest thing (the blog), and the little subsections are five minutes each. Shouldn’t be all that hard.
Now, what WOULD be hard, is figuring out how to get everything out of my old blog and into Movable Type’s DB. I can’t live without my past posts, but I have no clue on Perl or Movable Type. Kind of sucks.
Anyone?
-- rakaur // 2006.05.06 @ 10:58 PM
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