User:	topmystory
	Date:	2009-07-12 00:00
	Subject:	Kees en Rié
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Kees en Rié kwamen op bezoek in Amersfoort en we gingen wat drinken bij Zandfoort a/d Eem. Ja, die kant op inderdaad, Hinne!

	User:	artistic_sillie
	Date:	2009-07-11 21:19
	Subject:	Oh boys...
	Security:	Public
	Mood:	amused

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	User:	fub
	Date:	2009-07-11 21:28
	Subject:	Overkill!
	Security:	Public
	Mood:	bloodthirsty

We're having way too much fun playing 'The House of the Dead: Overkill', which we borrowed from gertvr and xaviar_nl. The Wiimotes are perfect lightguns, and the splatter-movie quality of the game (which even includes film grain!) is really something.
After playing through the whole game, you unlock the "Director's Cut" which includes "deleted scenes" (which means extra passages with extra zombiesmutants). And if you play through that, you unlock the "Dual Wield" mode -- with the shotgun in one hand and the handcannon in the other, you're all set to slaughter any comers! :)

	User:	powerswitch (posted by smashboredom)
	Date:	2009-07-11 19:58
	Subject:	Climate Emergency Parliament / Vestas / Agrofuels Talk.
	Security:	Public

Climate Emergency Parliament

Old Palace Yard (opposite Parliament), Wednesday 15th July at 6.00 pm

Our current parliament is failing to respond to the Climate Emergency.
We will convene an alternative parliament to respond with the degree of urgency required.

The Bills before Parliament will include measures for:

+ 10% reductions in UK Greenhouse gases by the end of 2010
+ A million and a half Green Jobs
+ Banning all domestic flights by the end of 2010
+ A 55 mph national speed limit and termination of the roads program

( Read more... )

Additional notices …

Support Workers at Vestas Wind Turbine Factory

The Vestas corporation is planning to close the only factory making wind turbines in Britain, on the Isle of Wight. There is now a campaign among local people on the island and Vestas workers to save the Vestas plant. This will save 600 jobs. More than that, it matters to them because it matters to the planet.

They have asked for emails from individuals and organisations expressing support. The address is savevestas@gmail.com. If you can do this - as soon as you can – that will be great.. Just tell them briefly who you are and what you feel. It will be important in giving them confidence and courage. Please ask your friends and colleagues to do it too. We need dozens of wind turbine plants, not none !

Agrofuels: The Miracle of Creative Carbon Accounting!

Deepak Rugani will give a talk at the next LONDON CCC Meeting on Wednesday 29th July, 6.30 pm, venue TBA

	User:	futurama (posted by laerfan)
	Date:	2009-07-11 14:46
	Subject:	26 & 27
	Security:	Public

Melllvar, knower of the episodes, has triumphed! In a close call for second place, Guenter edged past Terry into the world of tomorrow. We also had our first character not to get a single vote, Fry's Holophoner Instructor. As far as I can remember, she was a requested entrant. Why did someone want her in, just to NOT vote for her!? You guys are hilarious.

Today: All hail one of the favourites for the overall championship?

You've voted! You can't UN-vote!!!





Poll #1428296 26 & 27
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

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	User:	damanique
	Date:	2009-07-11 15:23
	Subject:
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I have new hair! :D It's all sorts of colors and still curly and awesome.

Basically I got an auburn brown base with blonde and copper-red highlights. Only the thing is, the old red dye in my hair is pretty powerful - so the tips of my hair, in full sunlight, show up red. :D

The result? AwesomeHair. XD

I <3 it though I really have to get used to the less red, more brunette thing - I think it looks good on me and I've been wearing that other red color for way too long.

Pictures are up here. Because yes these days I spend as much time on Twitter as I do on Livejournal. >_>;

	User:	hollycomics
	Date:	2009-07-11 13:12
	Subject:	Random!?
	Security:	Public

( Wow.. the wedding was a lot of work... I filmed and photographed it and I was so worn out last night. Heck, I just woke up after a DEEP sleep, and it's past 1 pm! My sis was the prettiest bride i've ever seen though :) )

	User:	fub
	Date:	2009-07-11 10:48
	Subject:	New system
	Security:	Public
	Mood:	hopeful

Keen followers of kliktikfix will have noticed that the past days it's been slow to update. This had two reasons.

One was that ingiechan was away on a business trip from monday to wednesday evening, so I had to select a photo from the set that's been selected already and upload it. The other reason was that her machine, which contains the harddisk that has the photos on it, has broken down.

Of course, I started to debug the machine, but no matter what I disconnected from the motherboard, it just wouldn't get through the POST. It couldn't be any of the peripherals (because I removed all those), so it had to be the mobo itself. Now, that's an old Asrock socket A motherboard, so it's not like we didn't get its money's worth through all these years. Definately time to upgrade to something else.
The housing (a Coolermaster Centurion), DVD burner and harddisks all still worked, so all we had to do was get a new motherboard and CPU and some memory. And since space was running low, I thought this would be a good time to convert the main disk to something bigger.

Of course, I browsed through the offerings of various webshops, and I found the Intel D945GCLF2 offered in a local shop. It's a mini-ITX sized board sporting a dual-core Atom. Calcifer has 'only' a single-core Atom, and that is sufficient for me -- surely a dual-core Atom would suffice ingiechan too. Complete with 2GB of RAM, she has now twice the processing power and twice the RAM that I have at my disposal. :) I also got a 640GB harddisk to replicate the system disk on (8 times as big as the original one, I might add).

Unfortunately, Windows refused to boot with such radically different hardware. I tweaked things around for a bit, but to no avail -- I had to run an Automated System Recovery from my WinXP CD. The CD that has only SP1 included...
I wanted to follow this procedure once again to replicate the system disk onto the larger one, but the shadow services are part of SP2 and later. So I first needed to do an intensive session of Windows Update (again) to get the machine up to date before doing the mirroring...

All in all, it's been a lot of work (and it's not even finished yet!), but I'm about to swap out the system disk to see if the replication went OK. At least Photoshop (the most important application for ingiechan) still starts up.

	User:	fub
	Date:	2009-07-11 10:03
	Subject:
	Security:	Public
	Mood:	festive

Happy birthday, ashi!

	User:	fub
	Date:	2009-07-11 09:56
	Subject:	Linux on Netbooks
	Security:	Public
	Mood:	nerdy

It is almost impossible to buy a netbook with Linux pre-installed in the Netherlands anymore. Acer installs Windows XP on all their netbooks because 85 to 90% of all sold Netbooks had WinXP on it. Meanwhile, Google announced a Linux-based 'Chrome OS', which will be their 'attack on the domination of Microsoft'. Lots of nay-sayers crawled out of the woodwork to tell everybody that people just don't want Linux because it's not Windows. And that may be true for a lot of people.

But in the past week, I installed Ubuntu on a netbook. Twice. At the request of the owner. And I had to wipe the WinXP install to do it. They didn't want a dual-boot.
Both of the netbook owners (you know who you are!) are staunch Windows users on their desktop. But on their netbooks, they didn't want Windows. I'm still not entirely sure why you'd want Windows on one place and not on the other, but I'm not arguing. :)
In both cases, connecting to the wireless network was the biggest challenge because of router weirdness. But the second time, we went from the first boot off the USB-key to "I can't think of something I want my machine to do that it doesn't already do now" in two hours. Pretty good score.

And so far, I haven't had any panicked phonecalls. I guess things are going well. :)

	User:	caniche
	Date:	2009-07-10 23:14
	Subject:	ByeBye Geocities....
	Security:	Public
	Mood:	sad

I just got a message from Yahoo Geocities saying that the old Geocities webpages will be deleted for good at the end of October.

I already kept a backup of mine for a while now, but still it's kinda sad to see it go for good. It was my first homepage ever, full of n00bness and crappy backgrounds, and it's a bit of my internet history LOL. I joined in when they still had the neighborhood system and my web address still said something like "geocities/rainforest/vines/1153/" ... So yeah. I feel a bit sad to know that it will disappear. You can still access the docs from my hippie.nu account but it's not the same.

Buhbye, my first homepage!

	User:	topmystory
	Date:	2009-07-10 22:27
	Subject:	Daaaaar istie weer!
	Security:	Public

Helemaal op z’n skeelers ehh skates naar Amersfoort geskeelerd!

	User:	beatonna
	Date:	2009-07-10 15:24
	Subject:	get me off this freaking moor
	Security:	Public

Anne why are you writing books about how alcoholic losers ruin people's lives? Don't you see that romanticizing douchey behavior is the proper literary convention in this family! Honestly.

	User:	powerswitch (posted by smashboredom)
	Date:	2009-07-10 18:00
	Subject:	[climatecamp] Newsletter 8.07.09
	Security:	Public

In the fun-filled, jam-packed newsletter this week…

COAL ACTION 2009 - MEETING THIS THURSDAY [Sorry, too late for this]
PROPOSALS FOR NEXT GATHERING - GET ‘EM IN! & MORE GATHERING INFO
DRAX 29 FOUND GUILTY
CALL OUT FOR LEGAL OBSERVERS
UPDATE FROM THE LEGAL TEAM
CLIMATE CAMP CYMRU
AND CLIMATE CAMP IRELAND!

( Click here to read all, including breaking news about a Climate Camp against a PEAT power station in Ireland this August! That makes a camp in every UK nation! )

	User:	topmystory
	Date:	2009-07-10 18:55
	Subject:	Rookpauze
	Security:	Public

Joris, Roel en Ka voor de deur tijdens een pauze in de borrel.

Tycho en Teuntje.

	User:	adayinmylife (posted by eugaira)
	Date:	2009-07-10 08:25
	Subject:	my 4th of july
	Security:	Public

A day in my life: July 4th. The first half of my day was spent enjoying my kids and loathing housework, the second was spent at a BBQ at my friend chris's house in celebration of the holiday.




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	User:	isabelgou
	Date:	2009-07-10 14:39
	Subject:	-^.^-
	Security:	Public

I got off my ass, yay \o/


Profile Picture - Dornen by ~isabel on deviantART

	User:	artistic_sillie
	Date:	2009-07-10 12:54
	Subject:	Meme time
	Security:	Public
	Mood:	nervous

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	User:	breyten
	Date:	2009-07-10 02:49
	Subject:	listening to "Mirah-La familia(Guy Sigsworth RmX) - " on Blip
	Security:	Public
	Music:	familia(Guy Sigswo

There are a bunch of really nice remixes of Mirah's songs. This is one of them.

	User:	caniche
	Date:	2009-07-10 11:36
	Subject:	I hate people
	Security:	Public
	Mood:	pissed off

I just read that 5 dogs were rescued out of a house here in Apeldoorn; the animalsies were in such a bad shape that all 5 of them had to be put to sleep.

The woman gets to go free but she'll get a 'process verbal'. Heh, like that works, all these asses always end up getting more animals one way or another and making them suffer. I'd say jail the motherfucker, but given the state of prisons here in Holland, it's like sending them on a paid-by-our-taxes holiday to a 3 star hotel. But yeah, at least they won't be able to keep animals there so that would be some consolation.

The article mentions they were brought to an animal shelter for evaluation before they were put to sleep; I wonder if it was actually the same one I go to. If so, I am glad I didn't have to see them. I am all for recoveries and happy endings the way you see them in Animal Cops, but since this one didn't end up this way... meh.