#musicbrainz

phew

1. Go to "Search" page

2. Input keywords

3. Trawl through search results, and go back to 1

"free to anyone who will save me from this damned thing: shopful of hello kitty crap"

What is "hello kitty" all about?

sapping people like me's will to live through too much cuteness

I think it's cute, but that doesn't mean I want kiddy toys, pens, pencils, make-up, hair brushes, alarm clocks, plushies, toothbrushes, pads of paper, tins, pencil sharpeners, bags, pencil cases, and whatever else I've forgotten all in bright hello kitty pink.

I would make an exception for the toaster.

lol

but nobody gives me the damned toaster!

google is your friend

Ugh! I've never seen so much PINK on one page!

That *is* a nice toaster, though: http://images.google.co.nz/imgres?imgurl=http:/...

we'll live :

:P

still... parsing...

I should have just http://www.google.co.nz/search?q=hello+kitty+to... 'd

http://www.asianfoodgrocer.com/kitchen/electric... would have done it, too :P

Yeah, I guess.

LTjake_ is now known as LTjake

night

nacht

Anyone come across http://www.hugeurl.com/ or http://hugeurl.wiggy.net/ before? (you may have to use http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.hugeur... , as the site appears to be unresponsive)

yes

Found any use for it?

no

There's apparantly a site somewhere where you can create obscenely long e-mail addresses, too

seen that too

Anyone else here still awake?

me

nikki_: obviously

What's your take on SG5DR?

Ah. So you don't know if it's a good idea or not?

correct

Personally, I don't see anything wrong with it, but I'd still love to know the other side of the story

heh

latest version of mbtagger is only... um... about 2 years old

Ah. Then I probably already *have* the latest version

mozilla intentionally won't let you directly execute downloaded files

I didn't want to execute it. I wanted to pass it to my download manager (FlashGet) to take care of

Which reminds me: Anyone know of any good open source download managers?

particularly ones that integrate nicely with Mozilla

what features do you need?

Well, multi-part downloading (aka spidering) is nice, especially on 56k dialup..

spidering is pulling a document and all it's references; i don't think you mean that

you mean stop and resume, or multiple simultaneous streams?

Yeah, I know it means that too.

What I mean, then, is dividing the file into chunks and downloading each chunk simultaneously, possibly utilising different mirrors

ah, that thing that server operators hate

That's about the only reason I use FlashGet

i cringe when i remember my modem days; are you out of range of real bandwidth?

flamingcow: what if each chunk is downloaded from a different mirror?

bgreenz: then you're tying up one connection slot on each mirror to drain a *tiny* bit of bandwidth over it, because you're shoving X connections on a 56k line

I hate the evil empire

Unfortunately, broadband is still a little out of my price range here, as one telephone company (Telecom: The Microsoft of New Zealand) still owns all of the phone lines, except in relatively few areas

ug, telecom.nz

gotcha :)

luckily, dsl and cable are approaching the price of phone line + dialup service in most places in the US

Besides, what *they* call broadband is only about 128 or 256Kbit (for JetStart), and *real* ADSL (1Gbit+) is well out of my budget

1mbit+ :)

hehe, yeah

i'll say

my NOC just got 1gbit

NOC?

Oh, yeah. Mbit

network operation center

for the company i work for

I knew my ISP ( http://www.inspire.net.nz ) when they were still, literally, a backyard operation

no, you have to say something to get a chatkill

just stopping saying stuff doesn't count

I did, didn't I?

anyone around familar with Curtis Mayfield releases

woot

Welcome back

thanks

What happened to the computer?

sysrq: Sorry, can't help you there

all kinds of crap

after reformatting i imediatly updated my videocard driver

SenRepus: Define "crap" :)

turns out that was the actual problem i had before

the most recent version of the drivers were too good for my PC

Oh. *That* kind of crap

and made nothing work

so, from the time i left i reformatted, installed WoW, installed MOHAA, unistalled MOhAA X4

"WoW"?

world of warcraft

= the reason i reformatted

Oh. What's "MOHAA", then?

plus i froze my computer testing directx about 10 times

medal of honor allied assault

Why not dualboot?

uh...

because im not the kind of person who does things like that

Oh. It's easy with a decent boot manager (such as Acronis OS Selector, though there are good free ones too)

Makes it easier to mess with other operating systems, too

i dont have other operating systems

isnt it like 5 AM?

<--- resizes partitions on a regular basis

ja

It's 6:02pm here

SenRepus: How about Windows ME and Windows ME (or 98SE, if you have it)?

i only have windowsME

why would i want two windowsMEs?

One to do normal, everyday stuff, and one to play games.

i dont get the point

that way, you don't have about a million background tasks hogging resources

i dont ever have a million background tasks

ever

When's the last time you checked your computer for spyware?

dude

i just reformattted

Yeah, I mean before that :)

i rarely check for spyware

because i never have any

Me neither. But, then again, I rarely use Internet Explorer and never use Outlook Express ;)

whats outlook express?

I hate the evil empire

It's the braindead version of Microsoft Outlook that's bundled with Internet Explorer

(it was a joke)

ive never used outlook express

Yeah, I figured that.

i never used Netscape on one of my own computers

just at school

i used IE until i found firefox