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Hey DICK,
Thanks for posting this lovely comment today, you’ve brought me laugther in an otherwise boring day.
bq. IP Address: 81.79.208.96
Name: DICK
Email Address: ME@HOTMAIL.COM
Comments:
bq. YOU GUYS ARE LONERS
However, I do have a few things to share with you since you were compelled enough to post your feelings, I suppose I deserve the same in return.
Why did you visit my site in the first place? Was it because you searched for pokemon catching regis and the search results “returned you to my blog”:http://www.snapturtle.com/archives/2004/03/15/regis_pokemon_piss_me_off.php? Yes, that was you! Aren’t logs wonderful? If I’m the “LONER” as you so eloquently state in the manly ALL CAPS fashion, why are YOU searching for Pokemon? Idiot.
Furthermore, please don’t post cuss words on my blog. Young children read this and only I can swear, you hear me @sshole?
Oh and next time, be a man… use a real email address so we can have a civilized conversation.
BTW, You’ve been banned. I don’t want to read your reply. Have a good day!
March 22nd, 2004
Hey, “enlargment”, thanks for you spam. Appears that the reason my “MT-Blacklist”:http://www.jayallen.org/projects/mt-blacklist/ didn’t catch you is because you’re too clever by misspelling your name. Gee, you must be proud to have a name like “enlargment”.
For the record, not only is this blog protected by MT-Blacklist, I’m also running the super special de-Google juicer which means you’ll no longer get juiced links for your Google page rankings. Sorry, but someone typing in your two favorite words won’t wind up at your web site but actually, they’ll wind up at mine. Maybe I should sell super duper Austin Power pumps for your private pleasure because your helping my Google rank.
Thanks @hole!
March 14th, 2004
Wired has a huge feature on Google this month aptly titled “Googlemania”:http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.03/google.html?pg=1&topic=&topic_set=. One piece focused on “Google’s PageRank feature”:http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.03/google.html?pg=7&topic=&topic_set= which is at the heart of all the comment spam abuse us bloggers have been dealing with lately.
I’m not too worried about comment spam anymore. I have over 1700 blacklisted URLs in my “MT-Blacklist plug-in”:http://www.jayallen.org/projects/mt-blacklist and I add more weekly on a preventive basis. And if the comment spam becomes a real problem I’ll just cause them “all kinds of grief”:http://kalsey.com/2003/11/comment_spam_manifesto/ like they do to me.
February 25th, 2004
If there’s one thing I’ve learned while working with Windows for many years it’s the “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” mentality. I’ve not had many moments where I needed to apply this same mentality to my Macs until last Sunday.
Lately I’ve been having some problems with Moveable Type that have become increasingly annoying and more prevalent. I’ve been attributing this mainly to an older OS on the snapturtle server (10.2.6) and something horribly wrong with my Perl 5.8 installation which I installed awhile back for something I don’t even use anymore.
There have been other issues lately as well. Mainly when trying to back up the server using Carbon Copy Cloner it would crash… handy. I have been able to get backups using Retrospect Express but it’s not the solution I want.
So, before attempting to perform the surgery that crashed snapturtle I didn’t backup the server because I really couldn’t. Big mistake.
While installing OS X 10.2.8 the server crashed. Yes, that’s correct, in the middle of the OS update it crashed, hard. Upon reboot you can imagine what happened, nothing. The Mac OS X was completely hosed. Thankfully I still had OS 9 installed on there so I booted into 9 and copied all the data I needed over to a firewire drive.
Since the server crashed I figured why not install the latest and greatest OS, Mac OS X 10.3. What happened next was enough to really piss me off.
While attempting to install Panther the installation was failing every time with “There were errors installing the software”. What kind of errors I asked? Stupid ones like it couldn’t find the AsianLanguageFonts file or some weird error code that didn’t make much sense to me. After several attempts at installing the OS, I finally turned to the Apple discussion forums to find that I am not alone.
RAM was the ultimate culprit. Once I removed the extra two 256MB DIMMs that I had added over a year ago the installation went flawlessly. And just to tempt fate I added the DIMMs back in after the install and the server froze. Apparently this is a known issue with Panther and RAM modules. For some reason Panther is extremely picky with RAM DIMMs so if your having any weird problems with your Mac and your running Panther, remove any extra DIMMs and see if the problem goes away.
February 12th, 2004
This week’s “Friday Five”:http://www.fridayfive.org/comments.php?id=117_0_1_0_C…
You have just won one million dollars:
1. Who do you call first?
My wife, duh. If she happens to be with me at the time, my Dad.
2. What is the first thing you buy for yourself?
A new Apple Powerbook, what else?
3. What is the first thing you buy for someone else?
I buy my wife and kids a trip to Fiji for a month.
4. Do you give any away? If yes, to whom?
Pay off our debts and give enough to my children for college without triggering the gift tax 
5. Do you invest any? If so, how?
I buy a house with a sizeable down payment. Hey, I still want the tax write off so I don’t buy it outright. The rest I invest in the stock market.
January 30th, 2004
From “fridayfive.org”:http://fridayfive.org/comments.php?id=116_0_1_0_C
At this moment, what is your favorite…
1. …song?
“Reconsider Everything”:http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?selectedItemId=1798640&playListId=1798662 by “311″:http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewArtist?artistId=1504658
2. …food?
Soy ice cream
3. …tv show?
Alias, for sure
4. …scent?
fresh coffee
5. …quote?
“Aaalll righty then!”
January 24th, 2004
Thought I’d post some of the most popular articles for those of you that are coming here from a search engine query. Some of the must popular search engine queries that send traffic here include:
bq. * AOM Initialization Failed
* Age of Mythology
* EON Ticket
* Zoo Tycoon
For help with AoM check out the “Configuration guide for network play”:http://www.snapturtle.com/archives/2003/11/25/configure_aom_for_mac.php and what to do about the “Initialization Failed error”:http://www.snapturtle.com/archives/2003/11/30/aom_initialization_failed_error.php.
Pokemon freaks can learn how to use the “EON Ticket”:http://www.snapturtle.com/archives/2003/10/09/ive_got_the_ticket.php and Zoo Tycoon fans can find where to “download new animals”:http://www.snapturtle.com/archives/2003/12/04/simly_satisfying.php.
I probably do this every once in awhile to make it easier to find the content that those who are coming from various search engines are looking for.
January 10th, 2004
Well I made it! I’m currently sitting in One Market waiting for the live Macworld SF 2004 keynote speak streamed live via Quicktime. Steve Jobs will be giving the keynote speech so some good product announcements are expected.
Oh yeah, this is going to be a fun day More news later.
Updates:
11:01AM - Shipping in Feb. Comes in 5 colors! Sweetness. Keynote ending. Steve wrapping up the new products. Well, that’s all she wrote. I’m heading over to the show floor. Look for some live updates.
10:57AM - Steve is ripping on the Rio 256MB flash based player. Yes. New iPods. iPod Mini. 4GB of storage. 1,000 songs vs 60 songs. 0.5 inches. $249. A little pricey. Holds 940 more songs for $50 more dollars than the Rio 256MB. As big as a business card using the same iPod user interface. No four buttons like the original iPod. Added new buttons on to the scroll wheel. Can use a dock. Steve holds the iPod mini in his hand. Damn, that is small.
10:55AM - Still talking market share. 60% of the market has flash players. High end flash players. Here we go. Yes, Steve says, we want to go after the flash players…. oh yes.
10:51AM - iPod. Here we go. Last quarter Apple sold 730,000 iPods. Damn. Sold over 2,000,000 iPods in 2 years. Market share at 31% for MP3 players, includes flash based and hard drive based. Yeah, it’s thin, we know. Get to the new models. 10GB is now 15GB for $299. New headphones, $39 for in ear phones. New ad. Sigh.
10:50AM - Movie over. Cut to the case Steve.
10:46AM - Very long demo of the iApps. Demoing with stars like Frodo and Tony Hawk.
10:40AM - iLife 04 shipping Jan. 16th. Jam Pack available with more loops, amps, etc. for $99. Apple now shipping a new keyboard for $99 with MIDI support.
10:37AM - iLife pricing… “What should we sell this for?” Windows market pricing. LOL. $29 for MusicMatch. $49 Adobe Album. $99 Pinnacle Studio Editing. $129 Cakewalk Home Studio. No integration. iLife with all 5 apps. $49. SWEET.
10:35AM - Export right to iTunes. That’s awesome. Ok, demo done. Finally. Moving on Steve. Show me the money.
10:31AM - He’s still on about Garageband. Steve really loves music, so he’s pretty excited to be hanging out with John Mayer demoing the app.
10:27AM - Still demoing Garageband. Interesting. Playing the guitar into the Mac through Garageband. That’s cool. We’re running out of time, I’m hoping we get some new hardware. Very cool. I need a guitar.
10:23AM - Now demoing the loops. Without using the keyboard. That is very cool. I’m liking the loops.
10:20AM - Recording the song. Demoing a composition with 4 instruments. Wow. Cost? 
10:18AM - Sounds really good. Some very cool instruments. I’d love to use this when making home movies.
10:15AM - Autumn has the midi keyboard, now we can party like it’s 1999. Interface looks nice. John Mayer going to demo GarageBand with a sweet looking keyboard. Steve is controlling the Mac with the software. Demoing the software instruments.
10:13AM - iLife 04 is done. Here we go. New application. GarageBand is announced. New song recording application. Studio recording quality. Schweet! This should be awesome. Cost? Mix up to 64 tracks. Play over 50 software instruments. AWESOME. 1,000 pro loops using Soundtrack application built in.
10:08AM - iDVD updates. 20 new themes. Enhancement to the menus. Navigation map, that’s handy. Added pro encoding, 2 hours for the max length for the DVD. Finally! Added the ability to author DVD on a non-superdrive Mac, archive it to a Mac with the Superdrive. That’s awesome, about damn time. Demoing iDVD. The navigation map is really cool. Some of the new themes are cool looking.
10:07AM - New titles in iMovie. I’m beginning to wonder if we’re ever going to see those miniPods. I’m guessing not unless he moves this along. Star Wars title theme for iMovie just passed by. LOL. Crowd liked that one. iSight importing sounds cool. Haha! Steve is such a geek. Nice. That is a cool feature. I think I need an iSight now. Sharing the movie… converts to web automatically. Works with dotMac, of course. Something I refuse to pay for. Handy for those that need help with publishing.
10:02AM - New iMovie 4 announced. Trim clips in the timeline. New alignment heads for audio and video. Import video from iSight directly. Nice. Sharing movies is easier. Steve going to demo.
9:59AM - Demoing iPhoto sharing. Looks sweet. Steve buying a song off iTMS. “Music store must be busy”… someone gonna get fired? Bought the song. Now moving back to iPhoto and using the new song he bought “Come go with me”. Slideshow has a lot of cars, forgot checkbox to play song. 2nd attempt now worked.
9:58AM - Apple store is offline. Product updates must be coming soon. Still demoing iPhoto with new effects for the slideshow. Krista will like these
9:52AM - Demoing iPhotos new functionality. New effects and much faster performance. Time based organization by dates, automatically. Improved last roll imported functions. Smart albums using functions like date ranges, photo ratings like iTunes. New slideshows controls to rate, rotate, or move through the photos. I could use this for posting pictures here to snap
9:49AM - Steve taking about iLife. New iTunes that he already demoed. New iPhoto supports 25,000 without waiting. Time based organization. Smart albums. Rendevous photo sharing, about time! “No copyright issues with sharing photos, it’s really easy”, says Steve.
9:47AM - Pepsi and the free 1 million songs available starting with the Super Bowl. Steve drinks some water. Here we go.
9:44AM - More iTunes product news. Added AOL a few months ago. AOL integration. 100,000 gift certificates sold since October. Adding Billboard charts into iTMS. Adding classical music. 500,000 songs are now available on iTMS.
9:41AM - Shows off iTunes. 30 Million songs purchased and downloaded. Top downloader has spent $29,500. Wow.
9:38AM - Updates Xserve RAID.
9:35AM - Demo ends. Lets get to the good stuff Steve. Announces G5 Xserve servers. 1U form factor. Dual 2.0Ghz G5. 8GB RAM. 750GB HD. All the latest ports. Basic server $2,999. Dual server $3,999.
9:30AM - Steve says “G5″. Bah. Virginia Tech and their supercomputer with the G5s. 1,100 dual G5s. Showing video.
9:29AM - OMG! The MS demo ends… thank god!
9:22AM - Blah blah. Very boring MS Office 2004 demo. Move along….
9:19AM - Microsoft Office 2004 is announced. MS demo from Roz Ho. MS celebrating 20 years of shipping software for the Mac.
9:14AM - Apple announces Final Cut Express 2.0 based on Final Cut Pro 4. Demo from Richard Kerris. Includes G5 and Panther enhancements. Real time filtering. Real time color correction.
9:13AM - New Apps announced from 3rd parties.
9:11AM - Talking about Mac OS X, Panther update. 4 major releases in 3 years. 9.3 Million active Mac OS X users. 40% of the installed base now on Mac OS X.
9:10AM - Going back to the 20 years. Here we go. Announcements through out the year. Free 1984 ad poster.
9:08AM - Talking about the original Mac ran. Running the original ad from 1984, directed by Ridley Scott.
9:05AM - Talking about the Mac from twenty years ago. Are we going to have a new 20th year edition Mac? Makes a joke about Bill Gates using the Mac way back when.
January 6th, 2004
“The Friday Five”:http://www.fridayfive.org/comments.php?id=113_0_1_0_C for this week…
What one thing are you most looking forward to . . .
1. …today?
Since it’s raining, I just want to hang out at the house and play video games all day. However, due to reality, that isn’t going to happen. I will probably get to watch some college football though later tonight.
2. …over the next week?
“Macworld 2004″:http://www.macworldexpo.com in San Francisco, is there anything else?
3. …this year?
Aiden will have his first birthday, Autumn will have her 8th, I’ll celebrate my tenth wedding anniversary and I hope the stock market will continue to rally. Moving!!! Yay!
(Notice I didn’t mention I’ll turn 30 this year. aRgH!)
4. …over the next five years?
Hopefully buying our first home and loving every last minute of the buying process (yeah right!)
5. …for the rest of your life?
Seeing both my children do what they love in life, whatever that may be. Being able to travel with my wife while the kids do whatever they want
January 2nd, 2004
I’ve been using “Jay Allen’s Moveable Type Blacklist”:http://www.jayallen.org/projects/mt-blacklist/ plugin for awhile now but I have yet to see it actually stop a comment spam until now.
Two spams from two different IP addresses were stopped within an hour of each other yesterday with the help of the plugin. Unfortunately another one did get through but I deleted that post within a minute of it being added and then sent the offending domain to the “Spam Clearinghouse”:http://www.jayallen.org/comment_spam/ for addition into the blacklist.
Thanks for the awesome plugin Jay, I can honestly say it really works
December 28th, 2003
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