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Posted 10 years agoSo if you read the FA Forum Status journal, you're seeing FA's side of the debacle. However, you're not seeing the other side, and you're being asked to overlook the fact that everything blew up five whole weeks ago.
Five weeks passed before FA staff acknowledged anything happened at all to forum staffing or the forums themselves. (Refresher: All the mods resigned in protest of both a new rule and a forum mod being permanently banned on the main site.) If not for FAF up and leaving—at FA's prompting, no less—there would have been no official acknowledgement at all.
Related, I'm glad to see so many comments on the FA Forum Status journal calling out the FA staff for framing FAF as the bad guys in the journal.
So the other side you're missing? It's here.
Edit: The forum mod banned here on FA main has this to say.
Five weeks passed before FA staff acknowledged anything happened at all to forum staffing or the forums themselves. (Refresher: All the mods resigned in protest of both a new rule and a forum mod being permanently banned on the main site.) If not for FAF up and leaving—at FA's prompting, no less—there would have been no official acknowledgement at all.
Related, I'm glad to see so many comments on the FA Forum Status journal calling out the FA staff for framing FAF as the bad guys in the journal.
So the other side you're missing? It's here.
Edit: The forum mod banned here on FA main has this to say.
The forums are dead.
Posted 10 years agoNow cracks a noble forum. Good night sweet prince:
And flights of phoenixes sing you to your rest.
And flights of phoenixes sing you to your rest.
Where did the forums go?
Posted 10 years agoLast month, all the moderators of Fur Affinity Forums resigned in protest of FA staff actions. United. As one. That's right.
Then it turned out that when IMVU bought FA, they did not buy FAF. It's still privately owned, licensed, and operated by an admin not in the Inner Circle: Carenath. The server is in a datacenter at an entirely different host in an entirely different state. Had it been run well, this would've made problems at FA super-convenient to acknowledge and update, but it wasn't.
Carenath seized control of the forums via the server and database (which, as the owner, was his right), and together with the mods who were let go or resigned they tried to negotiate a peaceful split. I don't know yet how amicable the split agreement was, but the split happened.
[Edit: Carenath did not hijack the forums, and everything he did had the support of the overwhelming majority of its users.]
Fur Affinity Forums is no more. At least in name and address. It's online still, but now, temporarily or permanently, as Phoenix Forums (formerly FAF).
There was a rebellion, a revolution, and a move of the entire house off its foundations down the street with a party rockin' inside!
https://phoenix.corvidae.org/ is the new address!
It's Independence Day!
Addendum, now in the crater where FAF once was:
So long and thanks for all the fish!
Recent events have called into question the future of the Forum Community should it continue to be managed by the current FA Management team. With the choice between doing something or doing nothing, we the community have banded together to split away and and continue to grow and develop independently.
We can be found at phoenix.corvidae.org so please update your bookmarks as we do not have control over how long this current domain will remain active.
Then it turned out that when IMVU bought FA, they did not buy FAF. It's still privately owned, licensed, and operated by an admin not in the Inner Circle: Carenath. The server is in a datacenter at an entirely different host in an entirely different state. Had it been run well, this would've made problems at FA super-convenient to acknowledge and update, but it wasn't.
Carenath seized control of the forums via the server and database (which, as the owner, was his right), and together with the mods who were let go or resigned they tried to negotiate a peaceful split. I don't know yet how amicable the split agreement was, but the split happened.
[Edit: Carenath did not hijack the forums, and everything he did had the support of the overwhelming majority of its users.]
Fur Affinity Forums is no more. At least in name and address. It's online still, but now, temporarily or permanently, as Phoenix Forums (formerly FAF).
There was a rebellion, a revolution, and a move of the entire house off its foundations down the street with a party rockin' inside!
https://phoenix.corvidae.org/ is the new address!
It's Independence Day!
Addendum, now in the crater where FAF once was:
So long and thanks for all the fish!
Recent events have called into question the future of the Forum Community should it continue to be managed by the current FA Management team. With the choice between doing something or doing nothing, we the community have banded together to split away and and continue to grow and develop independently.
We can be found at phoenix.corvidae.org so please update your bookmarks as we do not have control over how long this current domain will remain active.
Plan Nine from I.M.V.U.
Posted 10 years agoGreetings, my friends! We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives! And remember, my friends, future events such as these will affect you in the future!
You are interested in the unknown, the mysterious, the unexplainable. That is why you are here. And now for the first time, we are bringing to you the full story of what happened on that fateful day. We are giving you all the evidence, based only on the secret testimony of those miserable furries who survived this terrifying ordeal.
The incidents, the places, my friends, we cannot keep this a secret any longer! Let us punish the guilty, let us reward the innocent. My friends, can your heart stand the shocking facts about...
FUR ROBBERS FROM I.M.V.U.?
You are interested in the unknown, the mysterious, the unexplainable. That is why you are here. And now for the first time, we are bringing to you the full story of what happened on that fateful day. We are giving you all the evidence, based only on the secret testimony of those miserable furries who survived this terrifying ordeal.
The incidents, the places, my friends, we cannot keep this a secret any longer! Let us punish the guilty, let us reward the innocent. My friends, can your heart stand the shocking facts about...
FUR ROBBERS FROM I.M.V.U.?
Warning: This Journal Contains AxentWear Cat-Ear Headphones
Posted 11 years agoLook at these things.
http://www.axentwear.com/
They finally launched the fundraising campaign on Wednesday.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/.....ear-headphones
Their original goal was to get $200K in 30 days. They got $500K (half a million dollars) in less than two days. What's in store for the remaining 28 days?
$150 of that was from me to get a purple set.
http://www.axentwear.com/
They finally launched the fundraising campaign on Wednesday.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/.....ear-headphones
Their original goal was to get $200K in 30 days. They got $500K (half a million dollars) in less than two days. What's in store for the remaining 28 days?
$150 of that was from me to get a purple set.
Hi This Is Windows Calling
Posted 11 years agoI work at a small ISP in a rural state, yet even this isn't enough to escape from a thing that's going around. The thing is the tech support cold-call scam, and even though it's been going on for two years in the US (three now in the UK, EU, and Commonwealth countries), few people know about it.
How many of you dear furry readers out there use Windows? A lot.
How many of you Windows users use Windows 7? Right now, about half of you. The other half are using Windows 8 or Windows XP, with a tiny few hanging on to Windows Vista.
How many of you are having either occasional or frequent problems with Windows? An awful lot of you, right? Some occasional, some frequent, and not nearly enough of you without any big issues.
Such is life with Windows.
So with this setup, now comes the call.
You get a call from someone who says they're from "Windows technical support," and they're calling because your computer is sending them errors. They could also say they're from Dell or HP, or from your ISP. Anyway, they say your computer has errors, or it has viruses on it, or it has hackers on it. Of course, now you're scared.
They offer to fix the problem for you. You're too scared to think, so you agree to let them. Or maybe you're not so sure, and you ask them how they can be so sure. They'll walk you through opening the Event Viewer and filtering the logs to show you only errors. These errors, they tell you, are viruses or hacking. If you had any doubt and weren't scare before, you're scared now.
Next, they tell you to go to some Web site, and they'll be as patient with you as they can while you type in the address they give you. At this address, they'll walk you through downloading a remote access program, running it, and entering a code that will let them in to fix your computer. Now you've let them in, and they can do anything and everything you could do if you knew how.
Once in, they'll poke around, download and install a wide variety of "cleaner" programs through affiliate networks, delete as much of your ability to undo their changes as they can, and open up a Web page to demand payment from you for their "helpful" service. Here's where they've got you.
If you fall for it, you part with the money if you're lucky, or with your identity if you're not. They thank you, hang up, and leave you with a PC that's now a thousand times worse than before.
If you catch wise, then you'll pay even more dearly than that. If you refuse to pay, or if you hang up on them, then you've forgotten that you gave them control of your PC when you downloaded what they told you, and they still have it. And there's a really neat and powerful tool in every version of Windows from XP on called SysKey. They'll use it to lock out a Windows registry hive called SAM with a password, and they'll scramble the password so you can't guess it. With the SAM hive password-locked, Windows can't recognize any user accounts, and it must recognize an administrator account in order to run its repair/recovery tools. Congratulations, you're now the proud owner of a paperweight. A tech-savvy person like me might get lucky and be able to fix the damage, but it won't be easy or cheap.
So what do you do?
Well, remember this: Whenever you have a problem with your PC, you call the experts, the experts never call you.
You will never get an unexpected call from any tech support group unless you have spoken to them before and entered into a support contract with them. Home PC fuzzies, I can safely guess that none of you have done this. Hang up the phone.
If you have any doubts at all, if you have that nagging feeling that maybe they're who they say they are and that maybe they're right, then get a ticket number or issue number from them and hang up, or just hang up anyway. Then call them back, not using any phone number the caller gave you, but using a phone number from your bills, your manufacturer's or ISP's support Web site, your manuals, or even the phone book. If they follow up on it, then everything's supergreen. But if they don't have a clue what issue you tell them they said, then by hanging up earlier you saved yourself from getting scammed.
You wouldn't let anyone calling unsolicited to sell you anything over the phone without a PC. Don't let anyone who calls you unsolicited access your PC remotely for any reason.
Don't fall for the tech support cold-call scam.
How many of you dear furry readers out there use Windows? A lot.
How many of you Windows users use Windows 7? Right now, about half of you. The other half are using Windows 8 or Windows XP, with a tiny few hanging on to Windows Vista.
How many of you are having either occasional or frequent problems with Windows? An awful lot of you, right? Some occasional, some frequent, and not nearly enough of you without any big issues.
Such is life with Windows.
So with this setup, now comes the call.
You get a call from someone who says they're from "Windows technical support," and they're calling because your computer is sending them errors. They could also say they're from Dell or HP, or from your ISP. Anyway, they say your computer has errors, or it has viruses on it, or it has hackers on it. Of course, now you're scared.
They offer to fix the problem for you. You're too scared to think, so you agree to let them. Or maybe you're not so sure, and you ask them how they can be so sure. They'll walk you through opening the Event Viewer and filtering the logs to show you only errors. These errors, they tell you, are viruses or hacking. If you had any doubt and weren't scare before, you're scared now.
Next, they tell you to go to some Web site, and they'll be as patient with you as they can while you type in the address they give you. At this address, they'll walk you through downloading a remote access program, running it, and entering a code that will let them in to fix your computer. Now you've let them in, and they can do anything and everything you could do if you knew how.
Once in, they'll poke around, download and install a wide variety of "cleaner" programs through affiliate networks, delete as much of your ability to undo their changes as they can, and open up a Web page to demand payment from you for their "helpful" service. Here's where they've got you.
If you fall for it, you part with the money if you're lucky, or with your identity if you're not. They thank you, hang up, and leave you with a PC that's now a thousand times worse than before.
If you catch wise, then you'll pay even more dearly than that. If you refuse to pay, or if you hang up on them, then you've forgotten that you gave them control of your PC when you downloaded what they told you, and they still have it. And there's a really neat and powerful tool in every version of Windows from XP on called SysKey. They'll use it to lock out a Windows registry hive called SAM with a password, and they'll scramble the password so you can't guess it. With the SAM hive password-locked, Windows can't recognize any user accounts, and it must recognize an administrator account in order to run its repair/recovery tools. Congratulations, you're now the proud owner of a paperweight. A tech-savvy person like me might get lucky and be able to fix the damage, but it won't be easy or cheap.
So what do you do?
Well, remember this: Whenever you have a problem with your PC, you call the experts, the experts never call you.
You will never get an unexpected call from any tech support group unless you have spoken to them before and entered into a support contract with them. Home PC fuzzies, I can safely guess that none of you have done this. Hang up the phone.
If you have any doubts at all, if you have that nagging feeling that maybe they're who they say they are and that maybe they're right, then get a ticket number or issue number from them and hang up, or just hang up anyway. Then call them back, not using any phone number the caller gave you, but using a phone number from your bills, your manufacturer's or ISP's support Web site, your manuals, or even the phone book. If they follow up on it, then everything's supergreen. But if they don't have a clue what issue you tell them they said, then by hanging up earlier you saved yourself from getting scammed.
You wouldn't let anyone calling unsolicited to sell you anything over the phone without a PC. Don't let anyone who calls you unsolicited access your PC remotely for any reason.
Don't fall for the tech support cold-call scam.
Dronesonas (Bea the autonomous quadcopter drone kitty)
Posted 12 years agoIn light of Amazon test-launching droneborne home delivery, I'm announcing the creation of the furry fandom's first (known) dronesona.
Bea is an anthro feline quadcopter autonomous drone who likes successful deliveries, dropping in and making new friends, and slow romantic flights on moonlit beaches.
Bea has the appearance of a calico cat built like an Amazon warrior with a rotor on each elbow and on each heel, and a cargo crane stowed in her tummy. She typically wears a tan duster jacket, but with clipped sleeves and tail for obvious reasons, together with brass aviator goggles, scarf, and a crushed leather bomber's cap on which she normally perches the goggles while not in flight.
Bea is gregarious, bold, daring, and only slightly less reckless with her words as she is with her deeds; when she offers you shipping insurance, you should take it. Nevertheless, she has a sensitive and caring side, and she'll do what she can for a friend even if it's just saying a kind word, with or without a pun.
Her inspiration is as much Orville Wright as it is Orville the taxidermied quadcopter cat.
Now who should I commission to draw her?
Bea is an anthro feline quadcopter autonomous drone who likes successful deliveries, dropping in and making new friends, and slow romantic flights on moonlit beaches.
Bea has the appearance of a calico cat built like an Amazon warrior with a rotor on each elbow and on each heel, and a cargo crane stowed in her tummy. She typically wears a tan duster jacket, but with clipped sleeves and tail for obvious reasons, together with brass aviator goggles, scarf, and a crushed leather bomber's cap on which she normally perches the goggles while not in flight.
Bea is gregarious, bold, daring, and only slightly less reckless with her words as she is with her deeds; when she offers you shipping insurance, you should take it. Nevertheless, she has a sensitive and caring side, and she'll do what she can for a friend even if it's just saying a kind word, with or without a pun.
Her inspiration is as much Orville Wright as it is Orville the taxidermied quadcopter cat.
Now who should I commission to draw her?
I Shot the Forums!
Posted 12 years agoBut I did not cause a 503.
[Apologies to Bob Marley]
[FAF died, but then came back up. Zombie FAF.]
[Apologies to Bob Marley]
[FAF died, but then came back up. Zombie FAF.]
Save Early, Save Often, Make Backups I: The Format
Posted 12 years agoSave early, save often, make backups. It's a data preservation mantra that some people learn the hard way. I'm no exception, and I was just reminded of the heartbreak about 20 years ago that drilled it into my head, along with the need to pay attention to what I'm doing.
Back in the day, before they became necessities in today's PCs, hard drives were incredibly expensive luxuries for home computers. Ten megabytes of space would easily set you back at least $200, and it was far more spacious than it's regarded today because floppy disks -- the standard form of storage back then -- stored less than half a megabyte each. Things were more interesting then because it was only a well-expanded home computer that had more than one floppy drive. This became a problem because copying files from one disk to another involved swapping disks in and out of the drive many times, depending on the size of the file and the memory in the computer.
Nevertheless, I had a lot of floppies and I wanted to make copies of things I made. Floppy disks didn't come preformatted back then, so before you could save anything on them you had to format them. If you were lucky, they came IBM-formatted (which is still alive and well today as the DOS/Windows FAT-12 format), unless you used one of IBM's dozens of cheaper or superior competitors. I used the Apple II+ and the Commodore 64.
One day, I learned the hard way that, when you're copying files, you need to pay close attention to what you're doing or you'll have a data loss disaster. What was the hard way? Well, I broke out a new disk and put in the old disk to verify that I was going to copy the right one, and then I went to format the new disk. Now in my defense, if you know where this is going already, the Commodore 64 didn't make formatting easy. There's no built-in BASIC command; you have to use BASIC's "open" command to send a format command to the Commodore 1541 disk drive's built-in DOS, and the incantation is especially cryptic.
During the confusion, I found myself realizing that I was holding the blank disk I wanted to format in my hand while the disk I wanted to copy files from was quietly formatting away in the disk drive, all the files being wiped over and the file accounting data long since erased.
Heartbreak is the cruelest teacher.
Back in the day, before they became necessities in today's PCs, hard drives were incredibly expensive luxuries for home computers. Ten megabytes of space would easily set you back at least $200, and it was far more spacious than it's regarded today because floppy disks -- the standard form of storage back then -- stored less than half a megabyte each. Things were more interesting then because it was only a well-expanded home computer that had more than one floppy drive. This became a problem because copying files from one disk to another involved swapping disks in and out of the drive many times, depending on the size of the file and the memory in the computer.
Nevertheless, I had a lot of floppies and I wanted to make copies of things I made. Floppy disks didn't come preformatted back then, so before you could save anything on them you had to format them. If you were lucky, they came IBM-formatted (which is still alive and well today as the DOS/Windows FAT-12 format), unless you used one of IBM's dozens of cheaper or superior competitors. I used the Apple II+ and the Commodore 64.
One day, I learned the hard way that, when you're copying files, you need to pay close attention to what you're doing or you'll have a data loss disaster. What was the hard way? Well, I broke out a new disk and put in the old disk to verify that I was going to copy the right one, and then I went to format the new disk. Now in my defense, if you know where this is going already, the Commodore 64 didn't make formatting easy. There's no built-in BASIC command; you have to use BASIC's "open" command to send a format command to the Commodore 1541 disk drive's built-in DOS, and the incantation is especially cryptic.
During the confusion, I found myself realizing that I was holding the blank disk I wanted to format in my hand while the disk I wanted to copy files from was quietly formatting away in the disk drive, all the files being wiped over and the file accounting data long since erased.
Heartbreak is the cruelest teacher.
I keep wanting to write something
Posted 12 years agoI keep wanting to write something, then I end up deleting it and not posting it because I'm afraid it rambles on meaninglessly. Sometimes it does, but most of the time it's just fear. I'm afraid of posting too much noise and not enough signal.
One of those crazed weirdos
Posted 13 years ago"Finally, a MLP fan who isn't one those crazed weirdos. >.>"
That was a reply on someone else's journal. It doesn't matter who wrote it; what matters is why.
Is bronydom so fanatical, are fans of the current My Little Pony series so rabid, that fans can't be fans without being thought of as weird? On my desk at work, I have no fewer than 10 ponies (including the Pinkie Pie RC car ["And that's how Equestria was destroyed!"]), and I occasionally play Celestia Radio at a respectably low volume. Does that make me one of those crazed weirdos by general standards or brony standards, either one?
As a brony, am I required to use pony words and sing about made-up holidays at every waking moment? Am I required to turn myself into a billboard for Hasbro? (To say nothing of a creepy one at that.) In being a fan, am I supposed to stop being a civilized and reasonable person? Am I instead required to be as a rule what should be a shunned exception? (Side note, the video behind that link is either funny, horrifying, or both.)
Are there really more obnoxiously loud brony wingnuts than there are respectful fan bronies? I don't know; I've never met one of the former.
I guess the main question is, are there really so many crazy people out there that such an observation could be true?
And every time I ask that question, no matter what fandom or group it's about, the answer I get invariably knocks my faith in humanity down at least a full notch.
That was a reply on someone else's journal. It doesn't matter who wrote it; what matters is why.
Is bronydom so fanatical, are fans of the current My Little Pony series so rabid, that fans can't be fans without being thought of as weird? On my desk at work, I have no fewer than 10 ponies (including the Pinkie Pie RC car ["And that's how Equestria was destroyed!"]), and I occasionally play Celestia Radio at a respectably low volume. Does that make me one of those crazed weirdos by general standards or brony standards, either one?
As a brony, am I required to use pony words and sing about made-up holidays at every waking moment? Am I required to turn myself into a billboard for Hasbro? (To say nothing of a creepy one at that.) In being a fan, am I supposed to stop being a civilized and reasonable person? Am I instead required to be as a rule what should be a shunned exception? (Side note, the video behind that link is either funny, horrifying, or both.)
Are there really more obnoxiously loud brony wingnuts than there are respectful fan bronies? I don't know; I've never met one of the former.
I guess the main question is, are there really so many crazy people out there that such an observation could be true?
And every time I ask that question, no matter what fandom or group it's about, the answer I get invariably knocks my faith in humanity down at least a full notch.
The Quiet Passing of the Incredible Self-Bricking Cell Phone
Posted 13 years agoPreviously: The Incredible Self-Bricking Cell Phone Goes Postal
The third LG Accolade I've received (to replace problem phones) now has two serious problems. First, no one can hear me on it unless I hold it right up to my mouth and almost shout into it. The other problem is that it only gives three minutes' warning that the battery is dying before the phone shuts off. These aren't minor annoyances; they're major problems.
The conclusion regarding the LG Accolade: It earns accolades as the worst cell phone I have yet had the misfortune of owning.
The good news, such as it is, is that I'm eligible for a new phone in a little more than a month.
The third LG Accolade I've received (to replace problem phones) now has two serious problems. First, no one can hear me on it unless I hold it right up to my mouth and almost shout into it. The other problem is that it only gives three minutes' warning that the battery is dying before the phone shuts off. These aren't minor annoyances; they're major problems.
The conclusion regarding the LG Accolade: It earns accolades as the worst cell phone I have yet had the misfortune of owning.
The good news, such as it is, is that I'm eligible for a new phone in a little more than a month.
IMPORTANT BAT-NEWS FROM THE BAT-TIME MACHINE
Posted 13 years agoI finally remembered one of the most awesome parody songs ever, one so awesome that you don't even need to know what song it's based on to know how awesome it is!
"Adam West" (by the Caped Club :V)
"Adam West" (by the Caped Club :V)
It's Time. (a video to share.)
Posted 13 years agoMy opinion of the thing in a nutshell.
Stop SOPA: The Essentials
Posted 13 years agoUpdate: WE WON! Both bills are shelved, but keep vigilant because they can always be brought back when they think no one's paying attention. Original post follows:
This was posted by a representative of Anonymous named YourAnonNews.
http://youranonnews.tumblr.com/post.....-and-bill-text posted by YourAnonNews on Tumblr.
This applies to US citizens, but citizens all over the world will be affected if either Internet blacklist bill is passed and signed into law.
The two bills are SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act of 2011, H.R.3261; and PIPA, the PROTECT IP Act of 2011, S.968. (Beware any bill whose short title is an acronym spelling English words.) These bills are being touted as an attempt to stop piracy and bootlegging, but they will instead create a level of American censorship unseen since the McCarthy Era, and they won't stop piracy at all.
Congress WILL pass these bills unless they hear everyone tell them no.
STOP SOPA
THE ESSENTIALS:
* Summary and bill text of SOPA - H.R. 3261: http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h3261/show
* Summary and bill text of PIPA - S.968: http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-s968/show
* Congressmen who support SOPA and how much money in donations they received to support it: http://www.sopaopera.org
IN DEPTH:
* Companies that support SOPA - http://judiciary.house.gov/issues/R.....Supporters.pdf [PDF]
* Companies that oppose SOPA & PIPA - https://www.cdt.org/report/list-org.....-opposing-sopa
* Video: What is PIPA and how will it affect you? http://fightforthefuture.org/pipa/
* SOPA 101: An Infographic - http://americancensorship.org/infographic.html
* Tech Law & Policy: House takes Senate’s bad Internet censorship bill, tries making it worse - Analysis of SOPA & PIPA - http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/.....s-it-worse.ars
* First Amendment Legal Analysis and Implications of SOPA - http://www.scribd.com/doc/75153093/.....SOPA-12-6-11-1
* Stanford Law Professors React to SOPA and PIPA - http://www.stanforddaily.com/2012/0.....a-legislation/
* Infographic: What SOPA Means for Business and Innovation - http://venturebeat.com/2011/12/08/s.....a-infographic/
* FAQ: How SOPA Would Affect You - http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-5.....ct-you-faq/%20
GET INVOLVED:
* Take Action Checklist to Stop Censorship - http://americancensorship.org/
* Join YourAnonNews and AnonymousIRC and pledge not to tweet between 8AM-8PM EST (1300-0100 UTC) on 18 January [check your local timezone here - Use hashtags #SOPAblackout and #J18
* Add the following banners to your Twitter pic: "CENSORED" - http://t.co/Ie9Bz4L2 | "STOP SOPA" - http://t.co/vlaSE7je
* How to contact Facebook and Google to support the January 18 SOPA blackout - http://t.co/MBeUuaPd
* Contact your local Representative with info and a widget to find them by EFF and Wired for Change - https://wfc2.wiredforchange.com/o/9.....ction_KEY=8173
* Plugin for WordPress to protest with a blackout: http://www.site5.com/blog/s5/stop-s.....kout/20120113/
* Click "attend" on the FaceBook event page - http://www.facebook.com/events/232028526874851/
This was posted by a representative of Anonymous named YourAnonNews.
http://youranonnews.tumblr.com/post.....-and-bill-text posted by YourAnonNews on Tumblr.
This applies to US citizens, but citizens all over the world will be affected if either Internet blacklist bill is passed and signed into law.
The two bills are SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act of 2011, H.R.3261; and PIPA, the PROTECT IP Act of 2011, S.968. (Beware any bill whose short title is an acronym spelling English words.) These bills are being touted as an attempt to stop piracy and bootlegging, but they will instead create a level of American censorship unseen since the McCarthy Era, and they won't stop piracy at all.
Congress WILL pass these bills unless they hear everyone tell them no.
===[/]===
STOP SOPA
THE ESSENTIALS:
* Summary and bill text of SOPA - H.R. 3261: http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h3261/show
* Summary and bill text of PIPA - S.968: http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-s968/show
* Congressmen who support SOPA and how much money in donations they received to support it: http://www.sopaopera.org
IN DEPTH:
* Companies that support SOPA - http://judiciary.house.gov/issues/R.....Supporters.pdf [PDF]
* Companies that oppose SOPA & PIPA - https://www.cdt.org/report/list-org.....-opposing-sopa
* Video: What is PIPA and how will it affect you? http://fightforthefuture.org/pipa/
* SOPA 101: An Infographic - http://americancensorship.org/infographic.html
* Tech Law & Policy: House takes Senate’s bad Internet censorship bill, tries making it worse - Analysis of SOPA & PIPA - http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/.....s-it-worse.ars
* First Amendment Legal Analysis and Implications of SOPA - http://www.scribd.com/doc/75153093/.....SOPA-12-6-11-1
* Stanford Law Professors React to SOPA and PIPA - http://www.stanforddaily.com/2012/0.....a-legislation/
* Infographic: What SOPA Means for Business and Innovation - http://venturebeat.com/2011/12/08/s.....a-infographic/
* FAQ: How SOPA Would Affect You - http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-5.....ct-you-faq/%20
GET INVOLVED:
* Take Action Checklist to Stop Censorship - http://americancensorship.org/
* Join YourAnonNews and AnonymousIRC and pledge not to tweet between 8AM-8PM EST (1300-0100 UTC) on 18 January [check your local timezone here - Use hashtags #SOPAblackout and #J18
* Add the following banners to your Twitter pic: "CENSORED" - http://t.co/Ie9Bz4L2 | "STOP SOPA" - http://t.co/vlaSE7je
* How to contact Facebook and Google to support the January 18 SOPA blackout - http://t.co/MBeUuaPd
* Contact your local Representative with info and a widget to find them by EFF and Wired for Change - https://wfc2.wiredforchange.com/o/9.....ction_KEY=8173
* Plugin for WordPress to protest with a blackout: http://www.site5.com/blog/s5/stop-s.....kout/20120113/
* Click "attend" on the FaceBook event page - http://www.facebook.com/events/232028526874851/
The Incredible Self-Bricking Cell Phone Goes Postal
Posted 14 years agoPreviously: The Incredible Self-Bricking Cell Phone Goes On Tour
Unlike the previous phone, this one came US Mail. They never told me that.
While in transit, a snowstorm rolled through and snowed me and a bunch of people in on Monday. And the USPS lived up to their motto of not letting snow stop them from delivering the replacement phone. They said they tried and left a note, but there wasn't a note, and they never tried to re-deliver the package.
I didn't know a thing until Friday, when Verizon sent a warning that I needed to return the dud within five days to avoid a fee. Thankfully, I followed up on it as soon as I got the chance and learned the fate of the second replacement in time to pick it up from the post office.
Now we get to see how long this "Certified Like-New Replacement" lasts. Last chance, Verizon, last chance.
December 17 update: Verizon waited until today (Saturday) to send a second reminder to return the dud. It went back on Tuesday, December 13.
Continued in: The Quiet Passing of the Incredible Self-Bricking Cell Phone
Unlike the previous phone, this one came US Mail. They never told me that.
While in transit, a snowstorm rolled through and snowed me and a bunch of people in on Monday. And the USPS lived up to their motto of not letting snow stop them from delivering the replacement phone. They said they tried and left a note, but there wasn't a note, and they never tried to re-deliver the package.
I didn't know a thing until Friday, when Verizon sent a warning that I needed to return the dud within five days to avoid a fee. Thankfully, I followed up on it as soon as I got the chance and learned the fate of the second replacement in time to pick it up from the post office.
Now we get to see how long this "Certified Like-New Replacement" lasts. Last chance, Verizon, last chance.
December 17 update: Verizon waited until today (Saturday) to send a second reminder to return the dud. It went back on Tuesday, December 13.
Continued in: The Quiet Passing of the Incredible Self-Bricking Cell Phone
The Incredible Self-Bricking Cell Phone Goes On Tour
Posted 14 years agoPreviously: The Incredible Self-Bricking Cell Phone Rides Again
Verizon finally decided that I should get a replacement, but again refurbished, LG Accolade cell phone. I must commend Verizon for having a labyrinthine automated system that would've confounded Theseus so thoroughly that neither Daedalus nor Ariadne could rescue him, but those props are wiped out by Tier II Support being given absolutely no information whatsoever from the Tier I Support transferring me, and forcing me to repeat such basic information as my name and the number I'm calling about.
In addition to the camera functionality breaking, now the phone won't start charging unless I turn it off. I already had it once shut down and refuse to start charging, but when I unplugged and replugged the charger, it started charging. Both of these are changes since receiving the replacement, so yeah, this refurbished POS is slowly becoming a lemon.
They've got just one more chance to make this right, and it should be on its way to me tomorrow morning. When I receive it, that's anyone's guess.
LG, the Dell of the cell?
Continued in: The Incredible Self-Bricking Cell Phone Goes Postal
Verizon finally decided that I should get a replacement, but again refurbished, LG Accolade cell phone. I must commend Verizon for having a labyrinthine automated system that would've confounded Theseus so thoroughly that neither Daedalus nor Ariadne could rescue him, but those props are wiped out by Tier II Support being given absolutely no information whatsoever from the Tier I Support transferring me, and forcing me to repeat such basic information as my name and the number I'm calling about.
In addition to the camera functionality breaking, now the phone won't start charging unless I turn it off. I already had it once shut down and refuse to start charging, but when I unplugged and replugged the charger, it started charging. Both of these are changes since receiving the replacement, so yeah, this refurbished POS is slowly becoming a lemon.
They've got just one more chance to make this right, and it should be on its way to me tomorrow morning. When I receive it, that's anyone's guess.
LG, the Dell of the cell?
Continued in: The Incredible Self-Bricking Cell Phone Goes Postal
The Incredible Self-Bricking Cell Phone Rides Again
Posted 14 years agoPreviously: More about the Incredible Self-Bricking Cell Phone
Well, the basic feature that broke on the refurbished cell phone body was the camera. Attempting to take a picture results in an error message going away almost too quickly to read, "Camera start error." I was successfully able to take only one picture with it before it broke.
Thanks for the wonderful quality, LG, and thanks for outstanding refurbishing and bench testing, Verizon. Not really; I mean the opposite.
Continued in: The Incredible Self-Bricking Cell Phone Goes On Tour
Well, the basic feature that broke on the refurbished cell phone body was the camera. Attempting to take a picture results in an error message going away almost too quickly to read, "Camera start error." I was successfully able to take only one picture with it before it broke.
Thanks for the wonderful quality, LG, and thanks for outstanding refurbishing and bench testing, Verizon. Not really; I mean the opposite.
Continued in: The Incredible Self-Bricking Cell Phone Goes On Tour
Of All the Programming Languages...
Posted 14 years agoThis is mainly to bump the last journal entry down.
But of all the programming languages in which to seriously consider writing a Web application, I am leaning toward COBOL. Yes, the dinosaur of a programming language that everyone thinks is dead. If it was dead, we wouldn't have had the Y2K scare a decade ago.
Anyway, there are a few reasons why I'm considering it.
First, COBOL is a compiled language, and compiled programs tend to run faster than interpreted programs. Not always, mind you, but the only real way an interpreted program can outrun a compiled program is if the interpreter does just-in-time compiling with greater optimization than the non-interpreting compiler does, or if the compiler somehow does a worse job than the interpreter at optimizing code.
Regardless, Web application code doesn't change a whole lot, maybe a fraction of a percent of the time the code is run, and as long as the Web server provides a CGI-standard interface, any program whose source code is written in any language that can read an input stream and spit out formatted text works. I stumbled across OpenCOBOL, which compiles COBOL to C and then calls the native C compiler to finish the job and produce a binary, and it compiles and installs as a user program happily enough. I'm aware of the advantages interpreted languages have over compiled ones, but the language is already portable, and I just have to remember to compile after editing source code.
Second, despite COBOL's extreme wordiness, it's very easy to pick up and write nice, well-structured procedures to manipulate fairly simple and easy to understand data structures: files of records and fields. The kind of Web application I have in mind won't need anything more complicated than that for its business logic and data storage. As for user interface, user input is handled by the Web browser or some other RESTful client, and I can get as plain or fancy as I want with the display just by printing an HTML document, a Web page, as user output. Type then click, or just click.
And finally, I'm becoming too complacent in the languages I'm familiar with, and it's time to expand my horizons and give myself a challenge. The Web-oriented programming language I'm most familiar with is PHP, but I'm becoming acutely aware of its inherent flaws and shortcomings. I can choose a variety of languages besides PHP to learn and program Web applications in, and to be honest, Ruby is the most attractive, but I want to do it in COBOL just to say I did it.
Yeah, I'm weird like that.
But of all the programming languages in which to seriously consider writing a Web application, I am leaning toward COBOL. Yes, the dinosaur of a programming language that everyone thinks is dead. If it was dead, we wouldn't have had the Y2K scare a decade ago.
Anyway, there are a few reasons why I'm considering it.
First, COBOL is a compiled language, and compiled programs tend to run faster than interpreted programs. Not always, mind you, but the only real way an interpreted program can outrun a compiled program is if the interpreter does just-in-time compiling with greater optimization than the non-interpreting compiler does, or if the compiler somehow does a worse job than the interpreter at optimizing code.
Regardless, Web application code doesn't change a whole lot, maybe a fraction of a percent of the time the code is run, and as long as the Web server provides a CGI-standard interface, any program whose source code is written in any language that can read an input stream and spit out formatted text works. I stumbled across OpenCOBOL, which compiles COBOL to C and then calls the native C compiler to finish the job and produce a binary, and it compiles and installs as a user program happily enough. I'm aware of the advantages interpreted languages have over compiled ones, but the language is already portable, and I just have to remember to compile after editing source code.
Second, despite COBOL's extreme wordiness, it's very easy to pick up and write nice, well-structured procedures to manipulate fairly simple and easy to understand data structures: files of records and fields. The kind of Web application I have in mind won't need anything more complicated than that for its business logic and data storage. As for user interface, user input is handled by the Web browser or some other RESTful client, and I can get as plain or fancy as I want with the display just by printing an HTML document, a Web page, as user output. Type then click, or just click.
And finally, I'm becoming too complacent in the languages I'm familiar with, and it's time to expand my horizons and give myself a challenge. The Web-oriented programming language I'm most familiar with is PHP, but I'm becoming acutely aware of its inherent flaws and shortcomings. I can choose a variety of languages besides PHP to learn and program Web applications in, and to be honest, Ruby is the most attractive, but I want to do it in COBOL just to say I did it.
Yeah, I'm weird like that.
Two Pioneers Gone in One Week
Posted 14 years agoIn the last week, the world lost two pioneers who shaped the things we use and how we use them.
The one that the news covered extensively was Steve Jobs, co-founder with Steve Wozniak of Apple Computer. Apple didn't invent the GUI, but Apple made it popular and simple with the Lisa and the Macintosh. When relationships with his own company soured, he left Apple, founded NeXT and brought Unix to an equally easy to use and understand desktop, and he brought most of that back when Apple merged with NeXT and rehired Jobs. Then, there's the iPod. Just like the GUI, he didn't invent the music player, but he made it easy to use. There's so much that's been done that Steve Jobs directly influenced, and it changed the world for the better.
But the pioneer lost over the weekend is one who most of the world has forgotten: Dennis Ritchie. Together with Ken Thompson and a team of Bell Labs innovators, Ritchie invented Unix. The 40-year-old Unix operating system is still used today in places that may surprise you, most notably in every single desktop and laptop running Mac OS X. More than that, Unix was a case study for the fundamentals of modern operating system design, the fruits of which include the modern Unix-like operating system Linux. Unix and Linux together run most of the Web sites you use and depend on, as well as most of the most powerful computing systems and clusters today.
Ritchie's pioneering work isn't limited to Unix. He along with Brian Kernighan developed the C programming language. In addition to allowing the team to port Unix to new and incompatible hardware, C became one of the most frequently used desktop programming languages on any operating system, and C was the source of a number of languages attempting to improve on it, most notably C++ and C# ("see-plus-plus" and "see-sharp"), and to an extent influencing other languages, including Java and PHP.
And needless to say, without Dennis Ritchie, Unix, and C, there would have been no Linux, or Mac OS X, or Android as you know them today. Even Microsoft Windows, which inherited legacies from the unrelated CP/M and VMS operating systems, would look and work in a different way today.
Steve Jobs and Dennis Ritchie were two of the pioneers of computing whose influence and innovations changed the world for the better. The world will still miss both of them long after the world has forgotten their names.
A bit of trivia that's going to show my age: The Unix team, including Ritchie, wrote the first edition of the Unix Programmer's Manual in November of 1971, the same month in which I was born. Today, the operating systems I feel most at home using are Unix or a Unix work-alike.
The one that the news covered extensively was Steve Jobs, co-founder with Steve Wozniak of Apple Computer. Apple didn't invent the GUI, but Apple made it popular and simple with the Lisa and the Macintosh. When relationships with his own company soured, he left Apple, founded NeXT and brought Unix to an equally easy to use and understand desktop, and he brought most of that back when Apple merged with NeXT and rehired Jobs. Then, there's the iPod. Just like the GUI, he didn't invent the music player, but he made it easy to use. There's so much that's been done that Steve Jobs directly influenced, and it changed the world for the better.
But the pioneer lost over the weekend is one who most of the world has forgotten: Dennis Ritchie. Together with Ken Thompson and a team of Bell Labs innovators, Ritchie invented Unix. The 40-year-old Unix operating system is still used today in places that may surprise you, most notably in every single desktop and laptop running Mac OS X. More than that, Unix was a case study for the fundamentals of modern operating system design, the fruits of which include the modern Unix-like operating system Linux. Unix and Linux together run most of the Web sites you use and depend on, as well as most of the most powerful computing systems and clusters today.
Ritchie's pioneering work isn't limited to Unix. He along with Brian Kernighan developed the C programming language. In addition to allowing the team to port Unix to new and incompatible hardware, C became one of the most frequently used desktop programming languages on any operating system, and C was the source of a number of languages attempting to improve on it, most notably C++ and C# ("see-plus-plus" and "see-sharp"), and to an extent influencing other languages, including Java and PHP.
And needless to say, without Dennis Ritchie, Unix, and C, there would have been no Linux, or Mac OS X, or Android as you know them today. Even Microsoft Windows, which inherited legacies from the unrelated CP/M and VMS operating systems, would look and work in a different way today.
Steve Jobs and Dennis Ritchie were two of the pioneers of computing whose influence and innovations changed the world for the better. The world will still miss both of them long after the world has forgotten their names.
A bit of trivia that's going to show my age: The Unix team, including Ritchie, wrote the first edition of the Unix Programmer's Manual in November of 1971, the same month in which I was born. Today, the operating systems I feel most at home using are Unix or a Unix work-alike.
A 2007 AMD Dual-Core PC vs. a 1986 Macintosh Plus
Posted 14 years agoYou won't believe who wins
It's a few years old now, but a then-modern PC was pitted against an ancient Mac in a test of simple and common user tasks, basic word processing and spreadsheet calculating. Statistically, very few people use a computer productively for much more than that, so it's a fair comparison. The result: With both PCs comparably tuned and installed with comparable versions of Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel, they performed identically well with the Mac winning just over half the tests, with one notable exception, despite the thousand-fold disparity in the raw computing power statistics. The one notable exception was that System 6 booted to a usable and responsive desktop in one-fifth the time Windows XP did.
The takeaway is exactly what every user who's ever upgraded a home computer has always suspected: With all the advancements in storage capacity, processing speed, presentation hardware, and user interfaces, actual computing productivity hasn't changed in more than 20 years.
And the Internet, which wasn't figured in the tests, is an amazing distraction.
It's a few years old now, but a then-modern PC was pitted against an ancient Mac in a test of simple and common user tasks, basic word processing and spreadsheet calculating. Statistically, very few people use a computer productively for much more than that, so it's a fair comparison. The result: With both PCs comparably tuned and installed with comparable versions of Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel, they performed identically well with the Mac winning just over half the tests, with one notable exception, despite the thousand-fold disparity in the raw computing power statistics. The one notable exception was that System 6 booted to a usable and responsive desktop in one-fifth the time Windows XP did.
The takeaway is exactly what every user who's ever upgraded a home computer has always suspected: With all the advancements in storage capacity, processing speed, presentation hardware, and user interfaces, actual computing productivity hasn't changed in more than 20 years.
And the Internet, which wasn't figured in the tests, is an amazing distraction.
More about the Incredible Self-Bricking Cell Phone
Posted 14 years agoPreviously: The Incredible Self-Bricking Cell Phone
The replacement arrived much sooner than expected. It's a refurbished thing bearing Verizon's certification seal thingy, and it's just the phone shell. They needed me to swap the battery and cover from the brick to the replacement. It also has ominous red letters telling me to return the brick within five days.
It's a good thing they left a return label still unused in the box, because they stuck another return label to the inside of the box as if it were trivial to tear the box apart, flip it inside out, and put it back together. It's a good thing because it's not trivial at all.
Activating the phone was pretty straightforward. But since I have SMS notifications set up from select sources, customization the phone wanted me to do wasn't. I had to wait until the backlog was cleared, and the default text alert sound is annoying!
So now we get to see if the replacement bricks itself or breaks some other basic feature.
Continued in: The Incredible Self-Bricking Cell Phone Rides Again
The replacement arrived much sooner than expected. It's a refurbished thing bearing Verizon's certification seal thingy, and it's just the phone shell. They needed me to swap the battery and cover from the brick to the replacement. It also has ominous red letters telling me to return the brick within five days.
It's a good thing they left a return label still unused in the box, because they stuck another return label to the inside of the box as if it were trivial to tear the box apart, flip it inside out, and put it back together. It's a good thing because it's not trivial at all.
Activating the phone was pretty straightforward. But since I have SMS notifications set up from select sources, customization the phone wanted me to do wasn't. I had to wait until the backlog was cleared, and the default text alert sound is annoying!
So now we get to see if the replacement bricks itself or breaks some other basic feature.
Continued in: The Incredible Self-Bricking Cell Phone Rides Again
The Incredible Self-Bricking Cell Phone
Posted 14 years agoThat's right, a cell phone that bricks itself after less than eight months of good care and gentle use. My LG Accolade somehow managed to brick itself while it was closed, sheltered in a nice breathable pocket, and not having its side buttons mashed. It still turns on, on occasion, but when it does it doesn't show anything but the Verizon Wireless logo on both screens, and it shows that at full brightness until the battery drains or until the battery's removed. It is completely useless as anything other than a brick now, and it's barely useful as that. Worse, everything that was saved in it is lost.
I've still got a fully functional LG VX3300 clamshell that was starting to show its age, and I think I can still dig up the Kyocera prepaid block that was my first cell phone. I bet even that ancient Kyocera would still work if Verizon's network supports it.
On the off chance that there would be some way to unbrick it, I took it in to the local Verizon authorized store today. Mistake.
The clerk tried to sell me an upgrade almost before I asked if there was anything that could be done to save it. If I wanted an upgrade, I would have asked for one and spared you the useless sob story, jackass. An upsell during a call for help is an insult.
NOTE TO ALL CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVES FOR ANY PRODUCT SOLD OR LEASED BY ANY COMPANY: IF YOU WANT US TO HATE YOU FOREVER AT THE START OF ANY CALL FOR HELP, WHETHER IT'S BY PHONE OR IN PERSON, PEDDLE ANYTHING RESEMBLING AN UPGRADE WITH AN UPGRADED PRICE TO MATCH -- DURING A CALL FOR IN-WARRANTY OR UNDER-CONTRACT HELP -- BEFORE PROVIDING ANY HELP AT ALL!
He then asked if I had insurance on the phone. Insurance. On a phone under contract. On a phone still in warranty. Oh, I'm sorry, my bad for not buying insurance that the provider's obligations under a legally binding contract would be honored. How foolish of me.
After failing to get into my account, since apparently account access is required in order to determine whether a phone can be unbricked, and with me being on Verizon's family plan, he said there was nothing he could do. Fair enough. He also said that Verizon corporate wouldn't be able to do anything, either, because they could only do something if the phone malfunctions. According to him, and in spoken words, the fact that my phone became an ex-phone without any physical or electrical contact was not a malfunction. The conversation went something like this:
Clerk: "They can't do anything either, because contracts only cover malfunctions."
Me: "I'd sure classify this as a malfunction."
Clerk: "Well, it isn't."
Me: "My. Phone. Bricked. Itself. Sir."
Clerk: "It's not a malfunction."
I know who I'm not getting any phones or accessories from now! Holy crap, I support things far more complicated than a cell phone (Internet access and services), and I give straighter answers than I got today.
Fortunately, my family dug up phone and account info for me, and a phone call to Verizon (depressingly from another phone) went smoother. I'll know by Friday afternoon, when the replacement arrives.
Continued in: More about the Incredible Self-Bricking Cell Phone
I've still got a fully functional LG VX3300 clamshell that was starting to show its age, and I think I can still dig up the Kyocera prepaid block that was my first cell phone. I bet even that ancient Kyocera would still work if Verizon's network supports it.
On the off chance that there would be some way to unbrick it, I took it in to the local Verizon authorized store today. Mistake.
The clerk tried to sell me an upgrade almost before I asked if there was anything that could be done to save it. If I wanted an upgrade, I would have asked for one and spared you the useless sob story, jackass. An upsell during a call for help is an insult.
NOTE TO ALL CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVES FOR ANY PRODUCT SOLD OR LEASED BY ANY COMPANY: IF YOU WANT US TO HATE YOU FOREVER AT THE START OF ANY CALL FOR HELP, WHETHER IT'S BY PHONE OR IN PERSON, PEDDLE ANYTHING RESEMBLING AN UPGRADE WITH AN UPGRADED PRICE TO MATCH -- DURING A CALL FOR IN-WARRANTY OR UNDER-CONTRACT HELP -- BEFORE PROVIDING ANY HELP AT ALL!
He then asked if I had insurance on the phone. Insurance. On a phone under contract. On a phone still in warranty. Oh, I'm sorry, my bad for not buying insurance that the provider's obligations under a legally binding contract would be honored. How foolish of me.
After failing to get into my account, since apparently account access is required in order to determine whether a phone can be unbricked, and with me being on Verizon's family plan, he said there was nothing he could do. Fair enough. He also said that Verizon corporate wouldn't be able to do anything, either, because they could only do something if the phone malfunctions. According to him, and in spoken words, the fact that my phone became an ex-phone without any physical or electrical contact was not a malfunction. The conversation went something like this:
Clerk: "They can't do anything either, because contracts only cover malfunctions."
Me: "I'd sure classify this as a malfunction."
Clerk: "Well, it isn't."
Me: "My. Phone. Bricked. Itself. Sir."
Clerk: "It's not a malfunction."
I know who I'm not getting any phones or accessories from now! Holy crap, I support things far more complicated than a cell phone (Internet access and services), and I give straighter answers than I got today.
Fortunately, my family dug up phone and account info for me, and a phone call to Verizon (depressingly from another phone) went smoother. I'll know by Friday afternoon, when the replacement arrives.
Continued in: More about the Incredible Self-Bricking Cell Phone
Who are you?
Posted 14 years agoShed of names, titles, and all other forms of references, it is quite possibly among the most unanswerable questions. Or perhaps a few of us know the answer with regards to ourselves separately, even if we struggle to put it into words.
Who are you?
(I had really hoped to embed a YouTube video here, but it doesn't seem to work.)
Who are you?
(I had really hoped to embed a YouTube video here, but it doesn't seem to work.)
Free Art.
Posted 14 years agoNot from me; my gallery shows how well and frequently I draw. I utterly failed in my New Year's resolution, but hey, NYRs are supposed to be broken, right?
One lucky person will be getting free art from Deo, who somehow manages to make time to art and post on on FAF, will choose the winrar on Saturday, September 3 (I think).
There's rules, though, so if you want in, read 'em.
One lucky person will be getting free art from Deo, who somehow manages to make time to art and post on on FAF, will choose the winrar on Saturday, September 3 (I think).
There's rules, though, so if you want in, read 'em.
