Divine Lunacy

En Garde!… And you thought that geeky T-Shirts could never get me anywhere. You just wait until I tell Google about my T-Shirt collection. Come to think of it, I really would like a Google T-shirt.

I know. I’m pathetic. I should stop expecting perfection, but…

National: 94
The national percentile for your math score indicates that you did better than 94% of the national group of college-bound seniors.

State: 97
The state percentile for your math score indicates that you did better than 97% of college-bound seniors in your state.


Number Right: 50, Number Wrong: 4, Number Omitted: 0, Total Number of Questions: 54, Raw Score: 50

Like… Umm… STUPID BELLCURVE! Can’t I get bonus points of having a fairly good understanding of the statistical process that makes that score???

…In a battle to the death. Please comment.

The userbase of hitmen makes me want to shoot myself, messageboy in particular.

Spirit_of_doom:
DO NOT POST ANYTHING IN THIS FORUM FROM NOW ON. MESSAGEBOY IS TRYING TO FIX THIS PROB. ANY MORE POSTING IN THIS FORUM WILL RESULT IN MESSAGEBOY FORGETTING ALTOGETHER ABOUT THIS PROBLEM. THANK YOU IN ADVANCE.

I would say something incredibly mean and truthful, but I’m trying to maintain a good relationship with the majority of the users. Messageboy is apparently all that, but I am > [all that].

Spirit_of_doom: If you all shut up about this fixing thing, messageboy has promised to give it a go. now, everyone sit tight, and if i see ONE topic bumped or started about adrian, the bug, a hack, a reset, etc, then he will forget about the whole thing.

- thanks you for your undivided attention

six: Oh, what is messageboy going to do? I’m not trying to be mean or being sarcastic, but seriously, what is he going to do?

Spirit_of_Doom: i wouldn’t question it, as i haven’t. but, I’m pretty sure, the first thing, is hes trying to find out the name of the server adrian is using, or the name of the server that is causing hitmen to act this way. once that is done, I’m pretty sure messageboy can take it from there

me: Well… The server’s name is actually grape.

A later post by messageboy reads:

Here some details to get ya started.

Hostsite is: grape.uzipp.com
Ip address is: 67.15.50.21
port that is open: port 21

Ways:

Telnet the website which would need you to know or crack the password for the site while the username is “root” from there you will have access to the php files and etc.

You can password crack adrian’s account on hitmen using http bruteforcer.

you can go to the hostsite and try to crack adrian’s website account unless it scotts too so id either be adrian or scott and domain is hitmen.doheth.co.uk or hitmen.co.uk. Password you will have to crack.

There are other ways but the ones above are the most easilest.

Sorry adrian but i waited for the site to be fixed but havn’t yet and i was asked to fix it.

I will attempt these ways and some others but if any hackers care to help then there some ways there.

If he’s really as good as he’s made out to be, why doesn’t he do it himself? Here’s my response:

Hmm… If you only found port 21 open, you need to rethink your life.

SSH is port 22.
Telnet is port 23… if it has a telnet server running, 23 better be open.

Hmmm.. It has multiple websites running on it… HTTP uses port 80, thus port 80 is open as well. Port 21 is ftp, hombre… and there is no need to crack the root account. The goal here isn’t to take the server down…

He knows I’m right at this point. He hasn’t bothered arguing in a while, but I wish he would just admit that he’s a pseudo-geek… ::sigh::

So… Gaim is working… I reverted to a previous version of Pango, and got the first error I posted about. I manged to work around the problem, rather than fix it… I simply reordered the directories in my path. hehehe….

this post dedicated to Kayla…

I can’t help but reiterate that Google’s present course of action clearly leads directly to world domination. Just check out this recent post on slashdot… Hey: Better Google than Microsoft, right?

When I use pango 1.8, I get the aforementioned error. When I upgrade to pango 1.10.1, I get the following error:

(gaim:716): Pango-WARNING **: /usr/local/lib/pango/1.4.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so: undefined symbol: pango_is_zero_width
Failed to load Pango module for id: ‘BasicScriptEngineFc’
(gaim:716): Pango-WARNING **: /usr/local/lib/pango/1.4.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so: undefined symbol: pango_is_zero_width
Failed to load Pango module for id: ‘BasicScriptEngineFc’
(gaim:716): Pango-WARNING **: /usr/local/lib/pango/1.4.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so: undefined symbol: pango_is_zero_width
Failed to load Pango module for id: ‘BasicScriptEngineFc’
(gaim:716): Pango-WARNING **: /usr/local/lib/pango/1.4.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so: undefined symbol: pango_is_zero_width
Failed to load Pango module for id: ‘BasicScriptEngineFc’
(gaim:716): Pango-WARNING **: /usr/local/lib/pango/1.4.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so: undefined symbol: pango_is_zero_width
Failed to load Pango module for id: ‘BasicScriptEngineFc’
(gaim:716): Pango-WARNING **: /usr/local/lib/pango/1.4.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so: undefined symbol: pango_is_zero_width
Failed to load Pango module for id: ‘BasicScriptEngineFc’
(gaim:716): Pango-WARNING **: /usr/local/lib/pango/1.4.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so: undefined symbol: pango_is_zero_width
Failed to load Pango module for id: ‘BasicScriptEngineFc’
(gaim:716): Pango-CRITICAL **: _pango_engine_shape_shape: assertion `PANGO_IS_FONT (font)’ failed

Pango-ERROR **: file shape.c: line 75 (pango_shape): assertion failed: (glyphs->num_glyphs > 0)
aborting…
Aborted

And for the sake of speaking english… Kayla is the coolest person in the world…

Yeah… So you know how garnome is nice enough to build all the dependencies for me, even when I already have them installed, thus creating duplicate installations? Yeah. That happened… Then gaim wouldn’t compile. Then I got pissed off, deleted a bunch of libraries, recompiled them, and then gaim compiled. All seemed well, so I typed gaim-d into my console. There were several pango errors that made me want to run myself into a wall. I downgraded pango, and again executed gaim -d, and again, was met with despair:

gaim: symbol lookup error: gaim: undefined symbol: g_mkdir_with_parents
dns[9235]: Oops, father has gone, wait for me, wait…!
dns[9232]: Oops, father has gone, wait for me, wait…!
[mario@mario gaim]$

In my library deleteing spree, I deleted an installation of pango from /usr, as there was an installation of pango in /home/mario/garnome… There were, of course, some programs that were linked to the pango libraries I deleted. I was able to get around that by using a symbolic link… My guess is that the present error has it’s roots in a library that is linked to an old installation of pango or GTK, or something that is no longer installed… Now I can only hope some genius will find me on Google and set things straight :D…

Or did I ever leave? That is the question. Whenever anyone asked, I simply replied “I use KDE. Gnome’s better; Gnome’s more stable. KDE’s sexier.” The looks are all KDE really has going for it. I’ll take gnome any day. I just compiled 2.12.1. Its nice. A few rough edges, but I think I’ve done a good job getting things working. Two posts in five minutes. Frightening.

In other news, I may have accidentally started what could have potentially become world war III. Lets just hope this negotiations don’t turn out like the ones in episode one…

I spent several hours today setting an orienteering course up at camp Webster (a BSA camp). For those of you don’t know, an orienteering course is a finite set of [hidden] points (in 3-space) that persons, armed with maps and compasses work to find. (I’m sounding more mathematical every day.) In short, there are a bunch of points on a map, and corresponding markers out in the woods. Participants must find these markers using only a map and a compass. (i) In my many years of scouting, I have set up many orienteering courses, and completed even more than I’ve set up (in record time, of course). This was the first time I used a GPS while setting up the orienteering course (without forsaking the proven compass and map method.). I must say: Those things are pretty damned cool. I was able to mark each point on the orienteering course on the GPS, which allowed me to easily take back bearings to verify the results we obtained using our compasses.

Time to get into some theoretical leadership stuff about the human mind… If a person gives you peanut butter, jelly, knives and bread, you’ll probably make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich; if a person gives you a map and a compass, you’ll probably use them both to complete an orienteering course. In my years of orienteering, I have seen many people fall victim to the evils of compasses. Nothing against compasses, but who wants to take a bearing and pace 1500 paces on that bearing? When pacing such a long distance, the margin for error is very high, as I demonstrated today. Ok, so you can use a compass; I bet you feel special. I’ll beat you without one. If a marker is 1500 paces away, but right off a trail, don’t waste your time pacing that. Walk to the trail, then figure things out from there. This leads me to an interesting anecdote. There was no way I was going to walk 1500 paces and maintain a constant direction, so I let my father and company do that, while I walked my fat rear-end to the nearest trail (which isn’t on the map; I’m just that good.). I set one waypoint on my way, and beat them to the correct location by ten minutes. I actually had to go find them because they were 500+ feet off. Without further adieu, I give you the top x guidelines to better orienteering.

• If a marker is on top of a hill, walk to the top of the hill, don’t pace it, don’t take a bearing; use contour lines to your avail.
• Don’t shoot a 3000-foot bearing; you’ll just feel stupid when you’re 300 feet off of where you’re supposed to be. Use intermediate landmarks, such as hills and streams.
• Put down the compass, fool. You’re standing right next to the scream; the marker is right on the stream. I bet if you follow the stream, you’ll find the marker. (unless you just happened to find the wrong stream)
• If you’re looking for a marker at the convergence of two streams, find that point…
• Orient by inspection. If the road on your map is perpendicular to the roads real life location, you have a problem; parallel lines never cross. If the mess hall is on your left, it better be on your left…
• Use the force, Luke.
• back bearing = (heading + 180) mod 360; use it.

All that said, I think I’ll train an elite group of persons and call them ‘my’ orienteering team. With them, i shall claim first prize at the tournament that I have not officially created yet.