Topic: All the topics that's fit to stink.

– :  The insidious nature of imperialist propaganda -- the case of Darfur  : –

My political education -- based o­n the years I spent in various educational institutions, o­n personal experiences I had utilizing my 1st Amendment rights to express my own point-of-view and o­n the fact that I have an voracious or insatiable appetite for information concerning both history and current events in America and the rest of the world -- has been profoundly advanced by a certain few seemingly simple and unremarkable (yet ultimately critical) things that I have been told during my adult life.  o­ne of these things, while raised in the context of a discussion about purely political matters, can be broadly applied and can also be considered as o­ne of the critical bases or "planks" of the general approach which bright, inquisitive and broadly "progressive" individuals should utilize as a means of better comprehending the multifaceted and -- at least at first glance -- bewilderingly complex world in which we all live.  In short, I recall being told (or perhaps reading in passing in a few of the tens of thousands of articles concerning diverse historical themes and socio-political controversies which I have "devoured" during my adult life) that, ultimately, insofar as you "involve" yourself in politics, it is not your subjective intentions but the objective consequences of your actions which matter.  In short, it is possible to believe that o­ne is acting to promote "good" (in the perspective of a socialist, the interests of the international working class and the suffering masses) while, in reality, the actions that you are taking can actually have the opposite and negative effect (in this case, supporting o­ne or another ruling class intent o­n keeping its own undeserved privileges by stepping all over the oppressed many.)

– :  On the Results of Romania's May 19 Presidential Referendum  : –

– :  100 Days After the 2006 US Elections -- Drawing up the Balance Sheet  : –

– :  So long, Syd.  : –

My old pal Mr. Barrett died on the seventh. And as I've said before, it should have been David Crosby.

– :  Should you choose to accept this mission...  : –

Mr. Bush, we have HAD IT with you, we have absolutely HAD IT.  You allowed 9/11 to happen (be it due to incompetence o­n your part, or itself part of your own agenda), invaded a nation to pillage its resources based o­n outright lies, bungled a national disaster because its victims were predominantly Black, wiretapped private citizens without warrants based o­n a horseshit excuse ("national security"), stole (at least) the 2000 presidential election, locked people in foreign prisons - sidestepping all of their rights, and now you're using the NSA to tabulate our phonecalls??  At long last, sir, HAVE YOU NO SHAME?  This man and his administration are CRIMINALS.  They are war criminals, thieves, LIARS, swine.  Big Brother is here dear readers and he is gaining ground fast.  These criminals need to be opposed, and DEPOSED.  These bastards need to be prosecuted, jailed, punished, REMOVED, before it is too late.

– :  Please allow me to introduce myself.  : –

Hello boys and girls, welcome to the Internet.  Now get the fuck out of here and never return; I'll even PAY you.  I've decided that ninety percent of the people that use the internet have no right to use it.  That's right, I said it: step away from the Dell and UNPLUG it; don't even bother closing kazaa.  I've become an IP Nazi, so step off.  Let's face it, people: IM is vile and should be outlawed.  Any person using acronyms such as "LOL" or "OMG" should be SHOT in the CROTCH REPEATEDLY.  And ya know what?  "myspace" is for pedophiles and people who HAVE NO FRIENDS.  If I ever find out I'm terminally ill, after I assassinate a certain chief executive, I'm finding myspace's datacenter and FIREBOMBING IT.  Ta-ta for now.

– :  Bush Waterlogged  : –

My heart (small as it may be) is with everyone whose lives have been ruined by hurricane Katrina. My clenched fist, however is up in the air due to the complete mishandling of this crisis by Bush and company.

– :  Unintelligent as HELL  : –

If the imbecile that's been installed as our "President" can look any stupider any time soon it'll be a new world record.  Yesterday, he commented that "Intelligent Design" (not sure if something as invalid as that warrants capitalization) should be taught "with evolution" in public schools.  I'm tellin' ya people, we are treading o­n extremely frightening ground when el Presidente starts spewing this crap in public.  Our days as a Democracy are growing short when a theory that holds as much water as the twinkie defense is being suggested as curriculum for our public schools by the President of the United States.  I'd even venture to say that most of the Republican party winced when he made this comment.

– :  D.T. is out of the Garage  : –

Well, W. Mark Felt was (is) Deep Throat. Woodward and Bernstein have confirmed it as well.

– :  In quaaludes and Red Wine..  : –

Man, it's been a while since I've written. Let's get in to the thick of it right off the bat, shall we?

– :  Beware of...  : –

Just an aside here.. Did you know that a security issue has been identified that could allow an attacker to compromise a computer running windows and gain complete control over it? Holy SHIT!!! (I know, I know.. this probably belongs in the shout-box or the Phorum.. I just couldn't help myself) Someone should count the number of times that that statement (or something very similar) has appeared on "windows update". My guess is, it's appeared over fifty times in the past two years. Someone care to correct me?

– :  Spammers get just dessert!!  : –

Virginia indicts two on spam felony charges
From Brad Wright
CNN

– :  40 Years Later  : –

Today is the 40th anniversary of the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. My brother suggested I reprint this article from wsws.org.

WSWS : History : US History

Reflections on the 40th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination
By David North and Bill Vann
22 November 2003

– :  RIAA Amnesty Form  : –

So, you been STEALING those MP3'S again, have you? Robbing Brittney of her precious plastic surgery ? Preventing Metallica from getting that thousandth teenage prostitute? Making sure Madonna really can't learn to play an instrument? Well, no fear! You can get amnetsy from prosecution, according to the RIAA! Just fill out this little form, and send it in. (thanks userfriendly.org!)

– :  Things that piss me off  : –

Ok, not that I'm in a bad mood or anything.. But let's get to some things that GET MY GOAT. I mean things that piss me the friggin _HELL_ off.

FIrstly, the next girl I meet that has a tatoo above her butt is getting my foot buried in her ass immediately.
Give me the old days when only sailors and bikers had tatoos.. All these tough whiteboys with wife-beaters and armfulls of ink must GO AWAY.. NOW. How much did that shit cost?? ANd you're trying to impress.. WHO.. ?

Secondly, this piercing shit has gotten so out of control.. It's like wearing a mowhawk in 2001 and thinking it's punk rock. Stop it already!! That ring in your eyebrow, lip, wherever.. IT LOOKS STUPID. NO? Get the friggin ring out of the belly-button, clean up the infection.. You're a FOOL. And it does not look cute, not on ANYONE. LOSE IT. You're not original, you're not fashionable, you're a follower.
..to be continued.. HEH!

– :  Weapons of mass distraction  : –

Isn't is interesting that now that Iraq is our fifty-first state, everyone seems to have forgotten about the supposed "WMD" (the media will use any excuse in the world to abbreviate things) ? Here's an interesting article (that I won't quote or copy) on the possible fallout.
-E

– :  Yet Another Reason to Hate George Bush Jr.  : –

Bush fans turn up heat on Disney
With Ashley Pearson
MSNBC

May 13 — Get ready for the Bushies vs. Mickey Mouse. Some stalwart supporters of the president are organizing a boycott of Disney after it was revealed that a subsidiary of the company is helping finance Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11,” which is expected to come out in time for the 2004 election and reportedly will show links between the Bush dynasty and Osama bin Laden.
ON FRIDAY, Variety reported that Disney’s Miramax Films would provide interim funding for the flick after Mel Gibson’s Icon Productions dropped the project.
“Financing Michael Moore’s 2004 ‘Attack Film’ on Bush is UNACCEPTABLE,” notes the conservative Web site Free Republic, which gives contact numbers for people to complain to both Miramax and Disney.
The site also urges boycotts of all Disney products, including DisneyWorld and even ABC.
A source close to Miramax says the company is undaunted. “We’ve weathered storms before.”
When asked about the planned boycott by Free Republic, the insider said, “Whoever they are, they’re entitled to their opinion.”

– :  --Political Corner-- An article on Iraq  : –

This article was badly formatted, and I didn't have time to edit it and make it look pretty for the front page. I'm instead presenting it in its raw text here

This article was written by my brother, who is known to us as "permrev". He is currently living in Romania, and apologizes for any spelling or grammatical errors. I think this piece is worth a read.

-E

– :  How to build a stinkfoot  : –

Well, it was a long and difficult project.. But here we are on the new stinkfoot.org... For those of you who are wondering (I'm sure you number in the thousands..), the new system is a MDD (mirrored-drive-door) Dual G4 Mac @1.25Ghz(x2), 1.2G of RAM, and 3 Ultra160 drives @15000RPM. The bus speed is 166(7??)Mhz, and the RAM is PC2700 (nice box, eh?). The OS is (of course) my hand-rolled Linux. Some stats may be viewed here and here. I do not use Linux distros. period. I have to have it my way. I don't like folks' filesystem layouts, patches, or package management. It's all me... from init 3 to init 5 (or from aclocal to zsoelim, if you prefer it that way).. I build everything from source and install where I want. That way, when everything crashes, or we get rooted, I can only blame ME! The only items I steal are the init scripts, which are derived from the only distro I would use (if I used them).. Slackware. I just don't care for SYSV init scripts.. I like 'em BSD style. This stinkfoot incarnation is based upon: glibc-2.3.2 and (yikes!) gcc-3.2.2 (yes, I have gcc-2.95.3 in case of issues, and for the kernel). All packages that would allow it were tested with DEJAGNU... and we're looking GOOD! Credit goes out to "pure" LFS a fantastic guide, The Linux From Scratch Project which the first stinkfoot was based upon (and partially this one), Russell and the guys over at slackintosh, the NetBSD Project, and Gentoo Linux for patches and good PPC forums. Also very noteworthy is penguinppc, and the man himself, Ben Herrenschmidt. Dig it: More pictures of this small ordeal will appear in the gallery soon.. Enjoy tha new f00000t!! I know I will. -E

– :  Busy...  : –

Work's been kicing my ass for months now, so it's been quite a while since I've written. Just a quick update to my rather normal life:

I'm "polishing" my DICOM skills slowly.. it's an ugly-ass (protocol|standard), that's for sure. But it's certainly the most interesting job I've had in quite some time... Well besides the fact that I have to spend (waste?) some time each day (using|fixing) micrsoft-driven machines. Thank god the bulk of my work involves *NIX.

The keyserver database is somewhere around 1.9 million keys large now.. pretty impressive. Because this machine is also wwwkeys.(us).pgp.net, some days we get over 5000 requests for keys... Not bad! At this moment, I'm merging in a keyring dump from pgp.rediris.es.

I could rant and rave about the state of geopolitics at this juncture, but that'd fill up pages and pages with angry rhetoric and leave me pissed off.. So I wont! A certain relative of mine is welcome to come here and do that for me whenever he wants, heh! Let's just say that it's releiving to see so much protest against.. well you know what.

I hope things don't get too ugly around the globe in the coming months (well, uglier than they already are..)

-E

– :  MAME v0.62 Released!  : –

Oh, yeah! Time to send the kids to Grandma's house and fire up the MAME! Lot's of new roms. Here it is in brief:
First, quickly, those of you who found this site via Google or some other search engine under a "0.62" AND "Roms" search, I apologize, there are no roms at Stinkfoot, but if you e-me... nah, don't do that, you can find all the roms you could ever want at http://www.newsfeeds.com/ (thanks e-double, I'll be keeping that account).
Now, on to the *quick* review. This version is the aptly (and not named by me, but the MAME dev's themselves), the "shooters and hooters" version. You got it, lot's of mahjong games with naked cartoon chicks, and various shooters. I must admit, I did not download the 500+ meg Area 51, I'm not really down with shooters like that anyway, I don't have a light gun and they sort of bore me and I can't help but think about Nintendo's "Duck Hunt."
You will find the driving game(s) and various incarnations of Cruis'n World and USA and others of the like. I have a P450 and it really doesn't do these games justice so I haven't been able to fully enjoy them, though again, they are more like the (more fun) Need for Speed High Stakes - I choose High Stakes because it is my personal favorite and I love racing against the cops. I digress.
The Capcom shooters Strikers 1945 and 1945 3 (still being worked on) are included. Starting with 1942 at the very beginning, the Capcom overhead shooters have been some of my favorite games. Play 1945, wait a while for them to fully hammer out 1945 3.
There are quite a few other games, again it's called the "shooters and hooters" version.
Thanks all of you mame dev's, believe me I appreciate your work, keep it up! Thanks to Nicola, the man behind the game.
Peace!

– :  Stinkfoot's smarter brother  : –

So, I put up another site for the hell of it: oogieboogie.org
Right now it's just got a silly forum going, and I'm using it for backup MX and DNS. Have a look.. As I always say.. there'll be more to come..

-E

– :  Stinkfoot's Got a Brand New Bag.  : –

I suppose I should have written this days and days ago, but I've been getting smacked around at work for quite some time now, and I didn't want to post this until I was *absolutely certain* I had completed what I set out to do... I finally have, and I appreciate you all bearing with me :)

Stinkfoot.org has _been_upgraded_ _BIG_TIME_. We're now running 2xG4(7410)@533mhz with 1G of RAM 133mhz bus. I'll be adding 512M more RAM in a few days. A new 18G ultra160 drive is on its way to accomodate the ever-growing PGP Keyserver database housed here..among other things. The DSL has been jacked up to 384k/1.5-4M... the best I can do for my budget =)

Most of you probably aren't aware of the fact that I started this box out as a Beige G3 with one 4G IDE drive and 128M of RAM =) Since then the machine has been "transformed" twice.. but the OS has remained a homebrewed Linux, compiled, edited, crashed, tested, erased, copied, and finally perfected by yous truly. Immense praise goes out to: The LinuxFromScratch Project , The Slackintosh Project and Russell Kroll, (its creator), NETBSD (for being so damn smart about OpenFirmware!), Ben Herrenschmidt (PPC Linux kernel developer, who's kernels run right here!), and many many others. The macintosh is a difficult platform to run Linux on, and I could dribble on for hours as to why.. But instead, I'll outline just a few of the more difficult points.

Booting from a SCSI controller using OpenFirmware is a pain in the ass! -- For one reason only.. typing in the OpenFirmware Path to a Drive sitting on an Adaptec 29160 looks like this: device=/pci@f2000000/ADPT,29160@14/@6: YIKES! Don't ask me how many times I used the keyboard to pound my head when I typo'd that one! IDE disks look like this: device=hd: (I guess Apple wants you to use IDE, heheh!) The other severe pain in the ass is that the majority of Linux development is geared toward Little-Endian (LSB) Wintel boxes. This doesn't mean it doesn't run well on Big-Endian (MSB) machines.. (As a matter of fact, it files!) It just means that certain packages need "special treatment"... including the Kernel itself. I won't go into why, those of you who are in the know regarding this issue.. well... you know! LSB=1234 MSB=4321 =) Last but not least is an issue that absolutely pissed me off to no end: The power fails, the UPS finally runs out of juice or automatically shuts down the machine.. A few hours later, the power returns... But the machine does not power-up. It waits for the power switch to be thrown. A server cannot exist in a situation like this, and although there are plenty of PPC-specific linux hacks to accomplish many "macOS specific" functions.. fiddling with the power settings isn't possible just yet.

So... your handy sysadmin dumped macOS on a cruddy old IDE disk, booted to it, set the "Automatically Power-On after Power Failure" setting to on.. and yanked the power cord several times to test. Walla! It works. I hope you all enjoy my new (and Improved!) creation called stinkfoot.org... and keep an eye out for my next upcoming project: oogieboogie.org (coming soon to a DSL line near you!)..
stay cool..

e-d0uble

– :  ..UUUggghhh,,,  : –

Alright.. that's all I can stands... I can't stands no more!!
It's time to switch providers. NOW. Hopefully.. within the next few weeks.. I will be changing internet providers.. SNET/SBC and their shitty pppoe/constant disconnects/downtime/overcharging.. HAVE TO GO. I'm going to give the friendly folks at Netplex a try. I hear nothing but good stuff about them, and I've hosted with them in the past. Details to follow.

-E

– :  There are so few good truly good things....  : –

Almost n0thing makes me happy. PERIOD. Those of you who know me know me as oscar the friggin grouch, a crotchety old man at thirty one... Everything and everyone pisses me the hell off more often than not. But, every so often... something very good happens. Have a look at this: http://www.ew.com/ew/report/0,6115,321451~10~0~,00.html
Now, *THAT* makes me extremely happy (happy joy-joy) muahahaha.... latez..

-E

– :  Encryption  : –

As if I wasn't doing too much already with this little DSL connection of mine, I've decided to take it a bit further. (I have this habit of pushing.. and pushing.. and pushing sometimes..).. For any of you who are interested, my PGP keyserver is now REALLY online. That's right folks, I'm synchronizing it with other servers around the world. The software I've been using is located here: http://www.mit.edu/people/marc/pks/ This site should also soon be advertised along with other PGP keyservers (as soon as my database of keys is sync'd up to date). Thanks go out to all the cats at pgp-keyserver-folk-help@flame.org for letting me do this. Try the server out! It's ready for your query or submission.
-E

– :  Downtime  : –

Looks like we've got some DSL problems again.. I'm beginning to get extremely FED UP with SNET. Perhaps it's time to switch providers. I'm going to start investigating alternatives. Meanwhile.. we're going to have some downtime, either Saturday or Sunday afternoon. I need to do some upgrades and rebuilds.. Hopefully we'll just be down for two hours or so.

-E

– :  wtmp begins Wed May 23 18:52:59 2001  : –

Happy Belated Birthday to stinkfoot!
Well, stinkfoot is 1 year old (ok, and five days!) today.. Yes, I know.. only serious geeko wierdos wish their systems Happy Birthday.. So you know what kind of individual I am. But seriously folks.. I'm fairly proud of my accomplishment here... and I hope the site is at least slightly entertaining to the ?masses? .. well.. to the several of you who frequent my little spot..

-E

– :  GOOGLE??  : –

I don't know what's up with Google and this here webpage. Every so often, I search them for this site and it comes up, often as the #1 item on the list... but several hours later it's gone as if it never existed. Same goes for entering a search term of "stinkfoot.org". It's there and gone in a matter of hours.. I know they base their "ratings" on referrals.. so why the intermittent status of this site?
I'm c0nfused. Someone enlighten me..

Are they censoring me? It is that this site is on a DSL line? could it be a reverse-DNS issue? Is it the threatening letters I sent them? (hehhe kidding)..
I just don't get it.. you can quote me on that one..

..They confiscated everything.. Even the stuff we didn't steal!

--Hoover, from Animal House

– :  Interesting Finds on 'da Webbb..  : –

Hehheh dig this:



* Dutch release
* Partial show from June 18, 1982
* Venue: Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles
* Sound Rating: 7
* Vinyl: Black
* Variations: This is the first pressing on black vinyl, from a run of 500. Re-issued on red vinyl with the same cover but with blank labels. Also re-issued with a different black and white cover and with printed lables.

* SIDE A:Know Your Rights / Train In Vain / Bankrobber / Wrong 'Em Boyo / Rock the Casbah / This Is Radio Clash

* SIDE B:Should I Stay or Should I Go? / Brand New Cadillac / Police and Thieves / Armagideon Time / Somebody Got Murdered / I Fought the Law / Straight to Hell.