. . . : ; C h i c o ' s G r o o v e ; : . . . . . . : ; . . . : ; enoytrof - september 7 1999 . . . : ; . . . : ; http://www.disobey.com/ . . . : ; The "DAMN-IT-ALL!!" Notice You know... I'm incredibly sick of getting friggin' headaches when I'm trying to do stuff. I have one right now, and I'm innocently trying to get this stupid zine done on time. And I stink too. It's one of those "damn, this headache is so bad, I'm sweating just sitting here". Of course, the sweat could also be due to the fact that it's sweltering hot in the damn house, and I'm sitting in a room with three running computers and a bunch of other crap. A small room. A very small room. . . . : ; The "SO-WHY-DON'T-YOU-CHANGE-ROOMS?" Notice Hey, look, leave me alone ... sheesh. You always make me feel bad. You want me to leave the room, and then you'll complain about not receiving your Groove. I know how it is. You guys are harsh. . . . : ; ANNOUNCEMENTS and pain heat pain heat pain heat... NEW DEVIL SHAT (#FiftySix): Many of you seemed to enjoy Rown Garnbii's article last issue, so we signed him on to do a ten (!!) issue series concerning those damnable Biblical Commandments. His first submission starts this issue and suggests another series of well-read issues. But, we don't stop there! No, no, no... we've got an article from hither unknown Maggie Knowles and sadly, that Morbus guy is back again too. NEW GHOST SITES (#30): Steve Baldwin's going on a road tour? Huh? Find out the scoop with the newest issue of Ghost Sites, fresh off the presses. Find out about TexMex bands, a geek's death (albeit innovative), and more of the death you've shown us you love. Find out what sites will mysteriously disappear after their traffic suddenly skyrockets... NEW NETSLAVES: An interview this issue with Lorie Simms, webmistress of GrownupGirl.com. She writes, edits and codes HTML and Javascript like any good NetSlave, with the difference being that instead of doing it for an Internet company, Lorie labors at her own private venture which some have labeled "pornography." Definitely for age 18 or above. NETSLAVES MAILING LIST: In a pathetic attempt to "catch up" with the digest versions of the NetSlaves Mailing List over at onelist.com, another two months were added to the archives on Disobey. Why does it take so long? Because each archive is screened for extraneous quoting, stupid advertisements, and other wastes of space and then purified for your enjoyment. It's because I love you. LOW BANDWIDTH UPDATED: Low Bandwidth had a huge amount of site wide updates this past month, most of them happening within days of one another as Morbus chooses this way and that to reduce scrolling. Finally settling ("never! never!" he screams) on a idea, he's also added four new listings and made some other minor changes. Also, I am pleasantly surprised by the amount of advertising interest there has been Low Bandwidth - has helped me through some rather poor times, and makes the new computer seem so much closer. MORE KUDOS: More Kudos were added to Disobey, including a flurry of missing NetSlaves news, as well as a new award given to Ghost Sites. Keep telling the world about Disobey, because "ooooh, it feels sooo goood". (And no, I don't know why that is in quotes. I don't even know if someone said, but I had this pathetic idea of THE MASK saying it. Which he didn't. Hrm.) POCKET LINT IS COMING: Those "in the know" have known for a while that I've been working on a CD being a collection of all the little things I've been collecting over the years: images, text files, sounds, zines, whatever. I've been calling it "Pocket Lint". Assuming that the final pieces fall into place, within a couple of months, this CD should be available for the rest of the world to partake in as well. Cross your finger and hope that my CD burner can take the load of 50,000 teeny tiny files at once. NEW MAILING LIST MANAGER: I've been battling with it for the past couple of months, but I've finally wrangled Majordomo into an acceptable position to take over the task of subscribing and unsubscribing you folks from the mailing lists. (And you know, once it's working right, it does its job pretty well. If I can ever get my old Linux machine to compile the code correctly, I'll also be playing around with development version of Majordomo 2)... . . . : ; EVERYTHING else and heat pain heat pain eat wine... NEW PLAYSTATION GAMES: I went crazy on Playstation games - it's really the first time I exploited the fact that once you lay down some cash at Electronics Boutique, you basically have access to a huge video game library. Sure, they're "used", and in most cases there is a damn good reason why the person got rid of them, but who the hell cares? Games that came in and quickly went back out due to boredom, suckiness or "bwa ha ha!" were ROLLCAGE, DUNGEON KEEPER, MDK and JETMOTO 2. Games that stayed were SPYRO and SILENT HILL. And everyone knows that FINAL FANTASY VIII will be part of the collection soon... NOW, I KNOW: You don't really care, but two new CDs that I obtained month were the new POWERMAN 5000 (whom John and I were introduced to years ago by Dan Hansche) and an old rereleased MY LIFE WITH THE THRILL KILL KULT. I'm still looking for HALLOWEEN HOOTENANY which doesn't seem to be in stores at all... sigh... It's not that I even LIKE surf rock, but still... NEW MAGAZINES: I bought some new magazines for the first time in a while. One being called PARANOIA (exactly how it sounds and brought me quite a chuckle), another called ADBUSTERS I had been following on the net for a while (they created BUY NOTHING day, coming soon) and I've been getting back into video games rather heavily so I bought PLAYSTATION MAGAZINE (nothing exciting to say about this one). I should start up a reading list just like Oprah. That'd be pretty funny. I'M PATHETIC: See, there's a Border's near town here, and they have these really good sales at times. So, I was wondering in that direction when I noticed that they had Dilbert books on sale. A LOT of Dilbert books on sale. Armed with a fistful of dough, I bought all of them for dirt cheap. I've read more Dilbert in the last month than I care to admit. GOING TO THE "DEVIL": I've always liked Eudora Pro for my email program - I've been using that since day one. When the mailing lists Disobey publishes started getting a little too large (and the rumors that Eudora Pro was dying were at a particularly loud level) I started looking for other email programs. That was fun because none of them did exactly what I wanted them to - especially with mailing lists. To cut a long story short: I finally decided months ago that it was either Eudora or Outlook Express. I stuck with Eudora. It was comfortable. However, after finally automating the mailing lists at the server end, I have made the transition to Outlook Express. Gasp! Why go to the "devil" that is Microsoft? First, I need change. I get in a rut using the same software over and over again. Secondly, there is no need to depend on Eudora any more - the one feature I needed (mailing lists) is no longer necessary. Thirdly, the 5.0 version of OE for the Mac looks really, really good whereas the new betas for Eudora seemed to mostly be bug fixes and crap I care less about. (You know, this paragraph is much too long). Anyways, it all came down to the fact that OE had more features that I liked, and the only thing holding me back months ago (mailing lists) was no longer an issue. The "devil" just made a tastier email program (who cares who made it - it's all about using it!). REDHAT, BLACKHAT, CHIMP23: I finally trashed my final desktop that had Windows 95 on it (just the laptop now) and installed Redhat 6.0. Went pretty smoothly, even though my hardware is about six years old, and it took some research to find out the right parameters for the CD-ROM. Still haven't got my sound card working, but that's to be expected on this piece of crap. One question for anyone who knows: what console font can I use to get the ANSI blocks and lines used to create ANSI art from the old BBS days? I can get them in X, but not on the console. Been reading documentation like crazy as well... I LOVE SOFTWARE: I love software. I love getting the latest versions, and I love randomly downloading crap that looks cool. Give me a week with a new machine, and I'll be sitting there getting the newest versions, downloading new stuff, and just all around trying to tweak the life of it. But lemme tell ya a story about a software upgrade that you should definitely not get: IMAGEREADY 2.0 from Adobe. I should've known that when they packaged it with the new PHOTOSHOP as opposed to releasing it separately that something was wrong. But no... I had to try it anyways. Bring on the immense memory usage, the constant crashes, the idiotic saving mechanism. and many more ending in one final shout: "delete, Delete, DELETE!!" The new "features" they added in were just not worth it. So, for the first time in my life, I downgraded to IMAGEREADY 1.0. Don't tell anyone. . . . : ; BLAHBLAHS OF THE WEEK: ( august 13th - september 9th ) [Five-Minute-Fun-of-the-Week]-= Text To Speech ---I've played with it a hundred times before, but having been bored, ---I once again installed "text to speech" on my machine, and had loads ---of fun playing with it. Reading webpages aloud. Or email. Or singing ---poorly written songs about being in bed and wanting mommy. Ah. The ---patheticness of being lonely, and using all your processor power to ---make "Victoria" sound only a bit more sensu... uhhh... human. [Hair-Pulling-of-the-Week]-= Waiting for the Internet ---Most things on the Internet happen in near record time. The Internet ---never sleeps and all that. But lemme tell ya something, when you ---change the MX records of a domain, and you know that you're losing ---mail somewhere down the line, it's VERY frustrating and stressful ---waiting for everything to propagate. (In a nutshell, the MX records ---tell the Internet where to send email being delivered to a specific ---domain... in this case, Disobey.com. The whole Internet needs to ---know about this setting, and this can take as soon as half a day, to ---perhaps a day and a half.). [Weak-Week-of-the-Week]-= Chico's Groove Idiocy ---You know, I just realized this now, but I'm still doing "of the week"s ---even though Chicos's Groove is now monthly. Not that they made any ---sense before because the Groove was NEVER weekly, but only bi-, but ---it's even MORE of a laughing matter now. Ah twell. [No-Soda-of-the-Week]-= No, Really! ---You read it right. I haven't bought a 2 liter bottle of soda for ---home consumption in about a month. Instead, I've tried to save some ---money and instead have been guzzling water, sugar, and KoolAid Man's ---blood. Tastes really good, actually, although I haven't tried to dye ---my hair or nails with it. That's next issue. [Neato-of-the-Week]-= Faster Server ---Disobey got moved to a faster server this week, one that I had the ---joys of building from the ground up (the software, not the hardware). ---I'm thinking about running a calendar off the Disobey site, a place ---where you can put your events that you think the rest of the Disobey ---audience would care about. If you think this is a good or bad idea, ---please lemme know - I'm direly interested. . . . : ; The Issue Was Written Quickly As I Had To Urinate . . . : ; SUBSCRIBE: majordomo@disobey.com BODY: Subscribe ChicosGroove . . . : ; UNSUBSCRIBE: majordomo@disobey.com BODY: Unsubscribe ChicosGroove