When I watched http://www.animesuki.com/series.php/206.html]Hanauyko Maid Tai, I thought the computer security bit in episode 8 was even sillier than most such in fiction. Today, I discovered that the animators were actually on to something - they just picked the wrong game.

The Register: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/23/l3dgeworld/]Sysadmins get Quake tools

Anyone want to bet this is how Loony set up the Warriors' computer security front-end? 8)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

The Inquirer: http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/ ... rews-music]Microsoft takes back the music

Quote:We have been saying for years that ANY sort of DRM is unacceptable, and this goes to show you exactly what we mean. Anyone who bought music from MS just got screwed, period, without recourse.

Ok. Qualities I want:

Efficient memory usage

Efficient process handling (no stutter in playback from music, for example, if I open a new program while it's playing back)

Runs well on my machine (Athlon 2.0 ghz with 1 gig of ram, video card: Radeon 9550 w/ 256 megs)

Will run CoH well under WINE.

Can handle software for playing back mp3, mp4, AAC, and divx video in avi and/or mkv formats
--
Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.

Male voice, spoken:
Kommt zu mir.
Kommt zu mir in mein dunkles reich...
Kommt zu mir in mein dunkles reich...

(Sempiternus raptus est...)

Blutige Rache.
Verrat und Raub.
Asche zu Asche.
Staub zu Staub.

Aus Rheingold geschmiedet,
von Gottern erzwungen.
Vernichtend der Fluch.
Der Ring der Nibelungen.

Kommt zu mir.
Kommt zu mir in mein dunkles reich...
Kommt zu mir in mein dunkles reich...

Seelen verbrannt.
Das Blutmeer versiegt.
Helden sind tot
und grausam das Lied.

Aus Rheingold geschmiedet,
von Gottern erzwungen.
Vernichtend der Fluch.
Der Ring der Nibelungen.

Choir (sung):
Sempitemus raptus est.
Te tenebo in umbras.
Exire imperio nemo potest.
Si sinistra te tango
in me aeterno ardes
et in obscuritas captatus est

Male voice (spoken):
Kommt zu mir.

Sempiternus raptus est.
Te tenebo in umbras.
Exire imperio nemo potest.
Si sinistra te tango
in me aeterno ardes

Choir (sung):
Sempitemus raptus est.
Te tenebo in umbras.
Exire imperio nemo potest.

Male voice (spoken):
et in obscuritas captatus est!

Choir (sung):
Si sinistra te tango
in me aeterno ardes
et in obscuritas captatus est

Sempitemus raptus est.
Te tenebo in umbras.
Exire imperio nemo potest.
Si sinistra te tango
in me aeterno ardes
et in obscuritas captatus est

Male voice (spoken):
Kommt zu mir...
zu mir...
zu mir...

(English translation

Male voice, spoken:
Come to me.
Come to me in my dark kingdom.
Come to me in my dark kingdom.

(Eternity has been raped.)

Bloody revenge.
Treason and robbery.
Ashes to ashes.
Dust to dust.

Forced by the Gods,
it was forged of the Rhine's gold.
The curse is damning.
The ring of the Nibelungs.

Come to me.
Come to me in my dark kingdom.
Come to me in my dark kingdom.

Souls have burned.
My blood runs dry.
The heroes are dead
and the song is cruel.

Forced by the Gods,
it was forged of the Rhine's gold.
The curse is damning.
The ring of the Nibelungs.

Choir (sung):
Eternity has been raped.
I will hold you in the shadows.
No one can leave the empire.
When I touch you from the left
he will be captured in my eternal flame in darkness.

Male voice (spoken):
Come to me.

Eternity has been raped.
I will hold you in the shadows.
No one can leave the empire.
When I touch you from the left

Choir (sung):
Eternity has been raped.
I will hold you in the shadows.
No one can leave the empire.

Male voice (spoken):
he will be captured in my eternal flame in darkness!

Choir (sung):
When I touch you from the left
he will be captured in my eternal flame in darkness.

Eternity has been raped.
I will hold you in the shadows.
No one can leave the empire.
When I touch you from the left
he will be captured in my eternal flame in darkness.

Male voice (spoken):
Come to me...
to me...
to me...

-- E Nomine, Der Ring Der Nibelungen
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Neat little tool for templating up a character in the "Bruce Timm" style used for the Batman/Superman/Justice League/JLU style. Hero-O-Matic is a nifty little resource. The only drawback is that it's in Spanish
(Portugese?), but a little trial and error lets you figure it out. Oh - no way to save character images other than to print-screen and use an image program to
crop it. But that's easy to do.

Here's some of our characters that I've done versions of. Helmet options are somewhat limited unfortunately, so I can't really do a good version of
Cyberman 8, unless I were to photoshop it. Likewise, Looney and Wide aren't really being done justice here with their headgear. But I did my best.
Superball came out pretty good though.

Anyway, go check it out and see what you can come up with!

Here's the Legendary characters.

Looney, without and with his helmet.



Lora'Lai and Evangelia



Superball and Wide Receiver



Bella Fuego



And here's my Saturday night Champions game characters - The Marvels! Shocker, Beetle, and The Mechanic.

Peggy and I had dinner with my sister Nancy and her partner Mary Ellen on Sunday night, and dinner talk ranged all over the place -- including, at one point,
Fenspace. Upon hearing the description of the setting, Mary Ellen remarked that it sounded familiar to her -- a nephew, or cousin, or something, I can't
remember now what the relationship was -- had recently been talking to her about a collective writing project that sounded almost identical. So I'm just
wondering if anyone reading is related to a Mary Ellen and has told her about Fenspace... or if we have to go searching for a bunch of plagiarists.
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

I've probably mentioned this before, but I alternate between WoW and CoH/CoV. When I have a bit of "burn-out" on one, I play the other. Well,
been playing LOTS of CoH of late, and I am feeling that burnout, just a bit. Going over to WoW to do something different for awhile. Not to worry, I'll
still be around, just not quite as much. I'll keep up with the Task Force announcements and try my best to be available where I can.

Well, sort of... The Inquirer: Uwe Boll denied keys to Azeroth

His quote near the end of the article speaks volumes, doesn't it?

--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

Numina's TF requires only 4 people, level 34-38. But you probably want more because of the gratuitous hunting and the monster at the end, Juassik. There
are 23 missions, which sounds awful, but 16 of them are Defeat X missions taking you on a grand tour of Paragon City. Assuming of course, you go to all of
them. Send everyone to a different zone to look for targets in advance, and they fly by.

Red Tomax lists them in this order: Perez, Atlas, Steel, Galaxy, Kings, Skyway, Faultline, Brickstown, Crey's Folly, Terra Volta, Independence Port,
Boomtown, Talos, Dark Astoria, Founders' Falls, Eden. I don't know if the order is randomized or not. Jurassik is found in the last mission, indoors in
everyone's least favorite natural cave map. At least it's not Oranbega. He's Monster tough, not Giant Monster tough, but it can be hairy if he
attacks before you've cleared some breathing room, and he will try to hit you with a Buick on a stick.

This is the other of the original six TFs that I've already done with Badb, so I'll probably bring Faraday since she just hit 35 (Power Sink, yay!)

I have the Sewer Trial mission on Roy, and I believe Sofaspud has it on Emerald, so we've got the Key to get into the sewer after the Hydra.

Bob, this one's for you, can you commit to a time this weekend to do the sewer trial?

Needed are a minimum of two 40s (36-40), and at least 4 50s.

This is probably a Team Two (7-8pm PST) activity. I have no thoughts or suggestions for Team One (feeling a bit toasty, to be honest - Lady Grey x2 in one day
is a killer)
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies