For reals.. what with bioshock and now the new Zelda out for DS (Phantom Hourglass), I'm never gonna get my thesis done :rolleyes:

http://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_stor...6017ec4672d86c

Under cover cops infiltrate New York critical mass.

Oh, speaking of which...

Nerdsgirth: the Drummer in my band was raving about how awesome your thang was. He said you were dancing with a hot chix0r when he and his wife were there. I mentioned something about it and he asked me to describe you and he knew who you were immediately... hahahaha. Also, he said Jian Ghomeshi was there chatting up some lady as well. hehehe.. what a wiener.

For those interested in social policy, ride with me to the open house today: That means you zipper and Cav.

Rad bumping into you at the show lastnight Dan. Your life will never be the same now that you have met Andrew Clark.
Come to CAMH’s Open House and Public Meeting

October 03, 2007 CAMH, in partnership with the City of Toronto, is pleased to invite its neighbours to attend an Open House and Public Meeting at 1001 Queen Street West (Queen and Ossington) on Wednesday, October 3, 2007,to introduce the next phase of the Queen Street redevelopment project.
You are invited to drop by at any time between 4:30 pm and 6:30 pm to view plans and visuals of the new buildings slated for construction in 2009. Following the Open House, Deputy Mayor Joe Pantalone will chair the Public Meeting, which begins at 7:00 pm. The Public Meeting will include a comprehensive presentation of the next phase of CAMH’s redevelopment plans and will provide an opportunity for questions to be asked and answered.
Both the Open House and the Public Meeting will be held in the cafeteria, located in the Community Centre at 1001 Queen Street West. On the day of the meeting, signage directing people to the cafeteria will be posted at the Queen Street site.

LAWLZZZZZZZ!!! Def an amazing experience. Sorry I didn't announce the event, I only told a few of my friends because I wanted to see how it would develop organically. So glad I did it.

Was that the one with the spider web lights over the doorway? Should've gone in and checked it out!

Felt Curbside:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1335/...b92ae2c8e6.jpg

What with the argyle, it'd be perfect for me! :D

Argyle good - but I'm a stripe man :-)

perhaps; it depends if i meet with my student or not.

i'm sad we missed the hot for teacher event! nicely done old chap! and awesome story re: the race this weekend... you're on a roll! :love:

social policy and hot for teacher, man the world is changin' but fast...:lol:

For the iPhone gotta-have-it's

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895...LNAV100307FEA1

All iPhone applications run with full root privileges and any application vulnerability means winner takes all.

The iPhone has been turned into a "pocket-sized … network-enabled root shell," said H.D. Moore, thanks to the well-known security researcher having published shell code for the smart phone and instructions on how to use it as a portable hacking platform

Thanks for all the hard drive info guys. I really appreciate it. Having had a hard drive completely die on me before I certainly do not want to go through that again. I knew the prices were down but wow that info about the small price increase meaning a huge increase in space is really interesting/helpful. Cool beans! It Tiger Direct a good place to look? Any recommended local places? I live right near that strip of College with all of the computer stores on it. I've dealt with Canada Computers before and I dunno, they were kind of dinks. Prices didn't seem too bad but the whole dink thing was annoying. Seems to kind of come with the territory though from my limited computer store experience.

What do you mean by root shell? I can only assume you do NOT mean as in a root vegetable. Seriously though does that mean you can I dunno program video games on your phone? Is that a dumb question? Is it way too complicated question for me to ask here? I have no idea.

Oh and VIC 20 was before my time, although I did have a couple of friends that had one lying around in various states of disrepair. Commodore 64 on the other hand, I remember that well! There were some sweet games on that bad boy. load*,8,1

Mark, nice work man! Man that show was awesome last night! I can't tell if your comment re: Andrew sounds encouraging or ominous :D

root = unix/linux/etc term for basically full-access administrator access. The "god" account is always called "root".

So therefore if all the applications on the iphone are running with root level access and one of those apps has some sort of security hole in it.. that hole could allow access to pretty much anything on your iphone. This is obviously pretty heinous for a device that's whole point is basically to be always connected to the internets.

wikipedia is your friendski. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_user

Oh so basically it is easy to hack from a remote location?

Factory Direct is a pretty good place in that area. I also used to buy all my DVDs from Sonnam (I think) two or three shops north of College on Spadina.

su chmod 755 Wes

su chown somnambulant duppy.conqueror

wow that was possibly the nerdiest thing I've ever posted on a interweb forum. I'm so sorry.

Not necessarily easier to hack, but if it DOES get hacked it leaves you open to severe rectal damage. :P As in: Rectum, damn near killed 'um.


also: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=453_1191345802&p=1

Oh ok thanks. I know both of those places (where they are at least).

Coolio. Thanks. Yay I know about compooterz now!

haha @ your nerdiness ;) /me refrains :p

Dan, also check out Canada Computers (www.canadacomputers.com) Sonnam and maybe Jumbo Computers on that strip. The others are fine, too, but these stick out for me - you can usually try and barter and haggle them down on the strip, too.

TigerDirect is OK, but they're in like, Etobicoke or Markham (or online).

PS, l0lz at the iPhone.. :)

+1 nerdy/pedantic -- you'd need to use sudo for that command (i.e. sudo <command> runs command as root),
whereas su <user> lets you become another user (root by default).


Wow.. I wouldn't have thought that could keep my attention for nearly four minutes, but... just wow.

2:30! bikechain!

awesome :D

mv $me ~ | /dev/bike :p

Let's roll, 5pm!

My cool links for the day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OTI33Z-K0Q
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP5J4W5GQ3w

whoops.. I knew something looked wrong with 'su' in that sense, but I couldn't remember what the command actually was. I don't spend much time in ye olde CLI these days! Nice to know it's there though.. hehehe.

*hugs powerbook*

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Black Eggbeater Cs for $50 today... better than prices in shops in town, yes yes?
http://www.nashbar.com/profile.cfm?sku=20784

I'm tempted to shop a bit for my build today...

I would imagine that's cheaper than anywhere local, yes. I'd splurge slightly more and go for the SLs though, personally. I got mine on eBay.

The bottom line Eggbeaters use a microscopically small bearing and get blown out super quick. As Wes said...spend the extra $ and go for the better ones.

rm -r geek talk
setenv bike talk.

good call, and a wise suggestion in the grand old eBay... $70CAD for the SLs... bingo.

Keith, do you have any strong road rims hanging around? I'm thinking of getting my rear roadie wheel rebuilt with a new rim (as I figure it's just old and tired) but would like to keep the cassette/drivetrain stuff as-is. If so, I can drop the stuff off tomorrow for you... If not, I might go get just one Open Pro for this, as I need this bike back on the road - my MTB is crushing me.

I need to get an opinion on my roadie, I have a semi-occasional knocking in my crank (feels like it's in the BB itself) at certain crank positions when putting power down - and I have a brake-wobble in the front, which I suspect is the headset in need of a repack - I don't know anything/enough about this stuff to know wtf - any ideas? or should I just bring 'er in? I can leave it at the shop for a looksee tomorrow.

w00t w00t!

Weather appears to bo co-operating so far. I'll be leaving the east end around 8p if any EastEnders interested in heading down together to Grange park - the first meeting point.

The only thing we're missing - and I will try to rectify for next week - is tunes. I think. ;)

See you tonight!

Not sure if I'll be able to make it this week but I'm gonna do my best. tam and I just decided that we're riding our bikes to Brighton for thanksgiving so we've gotta get our **** together. 400kms in 4 days! Turkey in the middle :)

whoa dudes! That will be epic! Too bad you just missed Apple Fest. Talk about a scenic ride.