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I started at http://pax.grsecurity.net .  That wasn’t easy.
Then I found Larmier’s Blog refer to the patch at GRSecurity.  I hadn’t taken the site seriously, and saw that my current kernel uses PAE– basically an extension for 32 bit kernels to use more than 4GB of memory.

Based on this, I found that GRSecurity linked to http://rpm.cormander.com/repo/grsec/ aka Cormander’s GRSecurity Linux RPM Patch location.

Those RPMs worked quite fine!

FA’s Link of the Day is an article describing 6 Real Islands Way More Terrifying than the One On ‘Lost’.

You know what #2 is? A BIG FUCKING TEXAS-SIZED ISLAND OF PLASTIC. I had NEVER heard of the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” before, and NOW .. it’s ludicrous. It’s insane. Read the cracked article above. This article, about a cleanup attempt of the ‘great garbage swirl’, says that Rich Owen saw a Fish shit plastic.

The last concept I had of environmental danger were six-pack soda holders entangling fish and birds.

NOW I read about Jellyfish eating teensy plastic particles, THEN FISH eating the Jellyfish, getting hormonal due to the bad plastic, and THEN you eating this motherfucking plastic fish.

I had NEVER Known it got that bad. Did you? Did you know that shit was THIS BAD?

Please. Spread awareness of this. I hope Owen’s attempt to clean up the swirl gets going. Once I see more people talking about it, my money’s going in.

So, I was creating a database–

I had one table that had a column that I wanted to use as a foreign key.

I was creating a new table that would connect to the aformentioned table.  This table would use the id column as a foreign key.

I got an error 150 while working on it from MySQL.  Why?  I figured out why.

WHY IT FAILED:

My first table had different requirements for the ID column that the new table I was making.

What I Mean:

As you can see, the two requirements (AKA: Constraints) were different.

Since I’m an arse, I have to change the existing implementation. :/  This means I changed table A to have UNSIGNED and no default.  How can you have a default of 0 in an ID column?  That’s lame.

I hope this helped you out, MySQL coders!

Here are some helpful links I used to fix my Debian-running-a-USB-wireless-stick problem:

This thread on NDiswrapper, a way of using Windows XP drivers on Linux, helped me a lot with my NetGear WG111v2 Problem on Debian Linux..

Afterwards, this article at the Debian Wiki on how to use WIFI / Wireless utilities helped me out afterwards with my NetGear WG111v2 problem.

Anyways, Make sure to apt-get install openssh-server and configure it to your needs. Did you get IPtables, too? Should come with your package of Debian.

Me? Well, I’m fine. Just playing some indie games, drawing, etc.

So I went and downloaded the Wordpress ReCaptcha plugin.  I hope you don’t mind.

It’s incredible how many spammers actively look for Wordpress installations, and seek to spam them.  I swear I’ve heard more posts about “Tramadol” and etc. than I ever heard before.  Some are really inventive– in that they’re freakin’ vague.

“Interesting post a friend of mine had the same opinion” … ?? yeah, ok <:|

I recently saw videos about this game called “Riviera” for the DS.  It was rereleased for the PSP as well.  I only saw battle videos, but the game seemed pretty intelligently designed.  I’d like to play it, so I’ll get back to you as soon as I do so.

I was playing a bit of Mother 3.. but I only got past the first Chapter.  I already played it untranslated, and though it hooked me on the first play, I wasn’t interested enough to keep going.

I think it’s probably becuase I totally farmed/savestated the soot balls. oops.

To be honest, I think a lot of South Park’s 12th season episodes were hits, and got back to the core values of the series.  There were statements on how to live life without outright positions on issues (Breast Cancer Episode Ever), there were episodes that parodied the series itself (Pandemic 2: The Startling), and there were episodes that had a catchy tune or two (Elementary School Musical.)

As usual, there were the more bitter tastes of opinions in some episodes.  One was Canada on Strike with its opinion on internet media and the Writers Strike.  The other with its opinion displayed blatantly was Eek, A Penis! talking about the patriots cheating and how cheating is the “White way” to win.  Both had their funny moments, such as a penis parallelling a mouse in the latter, and many elements in the former.

A positive thing to note is that this season didn’t hang heavily upon the parody of current events as previous seasons had– they seemed to tackle lingering troubles in life (AIDS, Breast Cancer, Heavy Metal, etc.)

In any case, I’ve been a fan of Moral Orel’s final season on Adult Swim.  They tightened the writing down so their ship leaked no story at all– almost everything is deliberate and powerful.  It’s powerful to see one episode tie into another– I only wonder how they can finish the series, as it was one of [as]’s best.

On the note of [as]’s other series, The Xtacles (a followup to Frisky Dingo) is quite hilarious.  I think the funniest quote I’ve seen from it was,

Guy A: “He rapes people.. with another rapist!?”
Guy B: “I’d prefer to be raped with a penis.”
Guy C: “And you might just get your wish. (Continues on)”  (guy B, being talked over: “Hey! It’s not my wish!”)

Outrageous, yet hilarious.  “Rapier Ape” another witticism that will last for awhile.  Frisky Dingo has this whole ‘internal culture’ or a series of in-jokes that could spawn many more internet phenomenon.

I suppose that’s all I have for this update.  See you next time (or not

I knew about this when it came out, but I figured, “I need to make another blog post, eh?”  So, here you go.

Mother 3, the unofficial fan translation of the final installation in the Mother series has been released.  Mother 3 is the ‘final’ installation because of all the troubles its development went through.  Shigesato Itoi had originally intended its release about 11 years ago– and only about 2 years ago did he get it released on the GBA.   Because of the stress that went into its development for its ORIGINAL console (N64 and N64DD), and the final production of the GBA Title, I can guess that Itoi is sick of the pressure and hassle unsuccessful development causes.

Furthermore, Mother3 apparently was ‘badly coded’ in many parts– this means that Tomato, Jeffman, and the other M3 translation crews had to do a lot of specific fixes for issues that could’ve been better handled by the original programmers.  Of course, this wouldn’t've been an issue, if the Mother 3 team received the original code instead of the already-compiled videogame code.

Basically, it’s like getting spaghetti and meatballs,a nd having to add TONS of spices to it.  The spaghetti is already cooked, and the flavor is pretty much set-in.. so how do you alter such a core ingredient?  You make it a hundred times, and add spices to it like crazy each time– until you have something different.

Anyways, Mato is quoting numbers that are at least 70,000 from their official website.  Why Nintendo didn’t release it stateside?  Because the DS was already popular enough in the USA.  “NObody’d buy the GBA title.”  The irony is that this happened to the first game in the series (Mother 1) when it was about to be brought stateside as well.

I’d love to suggest that you get the game rom, and patch it with the unofficial translation.  But, of course, even LuizPrower of YouTube couldn’t handle “Story” and non-instant return on actions.

Ah well.  I hope this game becomes another classic, like Cave Story did.

Have you guys heard of Astral PRojection?

People have connected it to Out of Body experiences, as well as hypnosis.

I’ve tried astral projecting for many years, off and on.. but I have had little success.  Why not read up a few articles on it?  Wiki is always a great source. :)  Another one of the quick google links on Astral Projection points out that you gotta border the line between sleep and awake-ness.  How hard is that?  It’s difficutl fo ra guy like me who likes sleep.

I believe it started for me back when somebody first told me how she had practiced it.  Ever since then, my interest in it was sparked further– I believe she said that her ‘powers’ got stronger when she first projected.

Which sucked, because I haven’t had any success. 8)  From my position, I don’t even know if it exists for sure.  However, I believe in it.  I suppose we can argue it until the cows come home, but it’s a subjective experience– either you’ve had it, or you haven’t.

Don’t you just hate it when you run a website, and BAM spammers come along?

IT’s like, they never, ever learn. Never.  Worst, is when they get away with it :/

BALETEED.