Sandwiches in a can
Everything from emergency rations to food on the go. Literally.
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Into terror!,  Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6154638/1/
This story, a Fate/stay night and Familiar of Zero crossover, has had an awesome start. I've always felt that Familiar of Zero wasted a wonderful world and story for cheap fan service. It seems the author of this piece, gabriel blessing, agrees.  The premise is simple--instead of Saito, Louise summons Emiya Shirou after his Grail War experiences, but while he's still alive.

Courtesy of the EPU forums, photos of a beautiful http://www.knucklebusterinc.com/feature ... -henderson]1930 Henderson art deco-styled motorcycle.  If DW had been written in 1935, this is what Doug's bike would have looked like.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Follow the thumbnail for a readable version, and see what bonus extras the beach in front of me holds for the casual visitor.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

M Fnord Wrote:join #fenspace on server irc.sandwich.net:6667. Open most hours, idlers welcome.
http://www.irchelp.org/
has pretty much everything you need to figure out the basics of IRC. As
for clients, the big one IIRC is mIRC, but I've been using the same IRC
client since '96, so I'm not one to judge.

As you've probably guessed from the title, DeepDiscount.com is having an anime sale.  Here's a link.  There doesn't seem to be any particular order to the items, which is mildly annoying.
I skimmed through the titles, and these are what caught my attention as things I might be willing to buy. (Anyone see something on there that I should avoid?)
Lucky Star (series, OVA)
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Wolf's Rain
S-Cry-Ed
Ghost Slayers Ayashi
Azumanga Daioh
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Stand between the Silver Crystal and the Golden Sea.
"Youngsters these days just have no appreciation for the magnificence of the legendary cucumber."  --Krityan Elder, Tales of Vesperia.

So I'm not sure if people have noticed or not but I have been gone for little over a week. In the process of moving, but I just got internet accsess at my new place.
E: "Did they... did they just endorse the combination of the JSDF and US Army by showing them as two lesbian lolicons moving in together and holding hands and talking about how 'intimate' they were?"
B: "Have you forgotten so soon? They're phasing out Don't Ask, Don't Tell."

ACYL SEZ: BUILD IN FIRST POST IS OLD! - thread updated with i19 build, scroll down for that.
Posted at Unicorna's request, for comparison and review purposes. Hope this helps.
Leading Lady is a Inv/EM tank built primarily to soft-cap defenses. An Inv tank can get pretty good defense numbers based purely on Invincibility, but LL is designed to do push it as far as it can go. She runs Weave and Hover at all times, and has 18% in Smashing/Lethal defense bonuses (12.4% to Energy/Negative/Fire/Cold). This puts her pretty close to cap for S/L with just one enemy in Invincibility range. Also, a lot of the set bonuses come from fully slotting the passive resistances in the Inv set, which many tanks ignore. This means she's got full resistances for an Inv tank as well, in addition to the defenses. Finally, building for defense set bonuses means that she has some positional defense left over, which does give at least a thin veneer against positional psionic damage.
It's possible to save a few slots here and there - from the attacks and Invincibility - and fully slot out Build Up with Gaussian's or something as an alternative way of earning defense, but frankly I'd much rather have the slots elsewhere.
The build is relatively cheap. I say relatively - it does not use purples or PvP sets, but some of the sets and uniques may be costly. The key Kinetic Combat and Reactive Armor were pretty pricey at one point. I'm not sure how much the Zephyr pieces are now after the nerf. You could probably drop all the Luck of the Gambler bits as well, if cost is a concern - I like having the sizable chunk of global recharge for Energy Transfer and Total Focus, but it's not essential.
Ignore the enhancement levels in Mids. I don't use level 50 IOs as a general rule; most of mine are pegged around level 30-40 for exemplar reasons.
Note that a serious weakness in this build is the lack of AoE damage. However the basic build plan would work equally as well for any tanker damage set. With EM though...between the global recharge and attack slotting, it does have quite good single-target damage for a tank.
Leading Lady's built to perma-hover because she's a Superman/Supergirl-type flying brick. For any other concept, I'd substitute combat jumping or something, or just drop the travel power entirely and do something else with those slots. After the nerf to Zephyr they don't really contribute much numerically anyway.
Hero Plan by Mids' Hero Designer 1.601
http://www.cohplanner.com/

Click this DataLink to open the build!

Leading Lady: Level 50 Science Tanker
Primary Power Set: Invulnerability
Secondary Power Set: Energy Melee
Power Pool: Fitness
Power Pool: Flight
Power Pool: Fighting
Power Pool: Speed
Ancillary Pool: Energy Mastery

Hero Profile:
Level 1: Temp Invulnerability -- RctvArm-ResDam/EndRdx(A), RctvArm-ResDam/Rchg(3), RctvArm-ResDam(7), RctvArm-EndRdx(15), S'fstPrt-ResDam/Def+(45)
Level 1: Barrage -- P'ngFist-Acc/Dmg(A), P'ngFist-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(3), P'ngFist-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(7), P'ngS'Fest-Acc/Dmg(15), P'ngS'Fest-Dmg/EndRdx(27), P'ngS'Fest-Dmg/Rchg(43)
Level 2: Dull Pain -- Numna-Heal/Rchg(A), Numna-EndRdx/Rchg(5), Mrcl-Heal(11), Mrcl-EndRdx/Rchg(43), Mrcl-Heal/Rchg(46)
Level 4: Bone Smasher -- KntkC'bat-Acc/Dmg(A), KntkC'bat-Dmg/EndRdx(5), KntkC'bat-Dmg/Rchg(9), KntkC'bat-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(17), F'dSmite-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(19)
Level 6: Swift -- Flight-I(A)
Level 8: Unyielding -- RctvArm-ResDam/EndRdx(A), RctvArm-ResDam/Rchg(9), RctvArm-ResDam(11), RctvArm-EndRdx(19)
Level 10: Hover -- Zephyr-Travel(A), Zephyr-Travel/EndRdx(13), Flight-I(13), LkGmblr-Rchg+(34)
Level 12: Taunt -- Mocking-Taunt/Rchg(A)
Level 14: Fly -- Zephyr-Travel(A), Zephyr-Travel/EndRdx(29), Winter-ResSlow(29)
Level 16: Health -- Numna-Heal(A), Numna-Regen/Rcvry+(17), Mrcl-Heal(27), Mrcl-Rcvry+(43), RgnTis-Regen+(50)
Level 18: Invincibility -- HO:Enzym(A), HO:Enzym(21), HO:Enzym(21), LkGmblr-Rchg+(34), Taunt-I(42)
Level 20: Stamina -- P'Shift-EndMod(A), P'Shift-EndMod/Rchg(23), P'Shift-EndMod/Acc(23), P'Shift-End%(34)
Level 22: Boxing -- P'ngS'Fest-Acc/Dmg(A), P'ngS'Fest-Dmg/Rchg(42), HO:Nucle(42)
Level 24: Tough -- RctvArm-ResDam/EndRdx(A), RctvArm-ResDam/Rchg(25), RctvArm-ResDam(25), RctvArm-EndRdx(46)
Level 26: Tough Hide -- LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx(A), LkGmblr-Def(31), LkGmblr-Rchg+(37)
Level 28: Weave -- LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx(A), LkGmblr-Def(31), LkGmblr-Rchg+(40)
Level 30: Build Up -- AdjTgt-ToHit/Rchg(A), AdjTgt-Rchg(31), RechRdx-I(33)
Level 32: Resist Physical Damage -- Aegis-Psi/Status(A), Aegis-ResDam/Rchg(33), Aegis-ResDam(33)
Level 35: Energy Transfer -- KntkC'bat-Acc/Dmg(A), KntkC'bat-Dmg/EndRdx(36), KntkC'bat-Dmg/Rchg(36), KntkC'bat-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(36), S'ngH'mkr-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(37), F'dSmite-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg(37)
Level 38: Total Focus -- KntkC'bat-Acc/Dmg(A), KntkC'bat-Dmg/EndRdx(39), KntkC'bat-Dmg/Rchg(39), KntkC'bat-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(39), S'ngH'mkr-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(40), F'dSmite-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg(40)
Level 41: Hasten -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(46), RechRdx-I(48)
Level 44: Conserve Power -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(45), RechRdx-I(45)
Level 47: Resist Energies -- Aegis-ResDam/EndRdx(A), Aegis-ResDam/Rchg(48), Aegis-ResDam(48)
Level 49: Resist Elements -- Aegis-ResDam/EndRdx(A), Aegis-ResDam/Rchg(50), Aegis-ResDam(50)
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Level 1: Brawl -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Sprint -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Rest -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Gauntlet
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Set Bonus Totals:

• 2% DamageBuff(Smashing)
  
• 2% DamageBuff(Lethal)
  
• 2% DamageBuff(Fire)
  
• 2% DamageBuff(Cold)
  
• 2% DamageBuff(Energy)
  
• 2% DamageBuff(Negative)
  
• 2% DamageBuff(Toxic)
  
• 2% DamageBuff(Psionic)
  
• 18% Defense(Smashing)
  
• 18% Defense(Lethal)
  
• 12.4% Defense(Fire)
  
• 12.4% Defense(Cold)
  
• 12.4% Defense(Energy)
  
• 12.4% Defense(Negative)
  
• 3% Defense(Psionic)
  
• 10.5% Defense(Melee)
  
• 12.4% Defense(Ranged)
  
• 7.69% Defense(AoE)
  
• 30% Enhancement(RechargeTime)
  
• 5% FlySpeed
  
• 196.8 HP (10.5%) HitPoints
  
• 5% JumpHeight
  
• 5% JumpSpeed
  
• MezResist(Immobilize) 11.6%
  
• MezResist(Sleep) 2.2%
  
• 7.5% (0.13 End/sec) Recovery
  
• 60% (4.69 HP/sec) Regeneration
  
• 20% ResEffect(FlySpeed)
  
• 20% ResEffect(RechargeTime)
  
• 20% ResEffect(RunSpeed)
  
• 3% Resistance(Psionic)
  
• 20% RunSpeed
  

I've been asked to set up a Document Management System (DMS) at work. Does anyone have any suggestions for a good one?

Requirements:

Freeware, with a licence that allows free use in a corporate or government environment. (I have no budget to implement the DMS.)

No maximum number of documents.

Password protection of particular documents, with each user having a unique UserID/password.

Ability to automatically update mirrors on removable media.

Runs on either Linux or Windows - I can't use a Mac-specific or mainframe solution.

Preferences: (not necessary, but would be nice)

Web interface (so the users don't need to telnet into the server to access the DMS).

Apache interface (so the documents can be displayed in a web browser).

Which solutions should I look at? Which should I avoid because they don't work?
--
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

Someone has far, far too much time on their hands.  Link.
Not just the timeline deciphering, that's fairly normal LOZ fan geekery.  I've indulged in the same.  But taking the time to arrange all the notes so it looks like a blackboard?  I'm not sure whether to be scared or impressed.
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Stand between the Silver Crystal and the Golden Sea.
"Youngsters these days just have no appreciation for the magnificence of the legendary cucumber."  --Krityan Elder, Tales of Vesperia.