Mr. Pig’s House of Bacon

Global Warming – the observed increase in the average temperature of the Earth’s atmosphere and oceans in recent decades and its projected continuation into the future.

Global Warming is a threat to our current way of life, and could turn out posing a major crisis down the rode. The earth is warming and it most likely has some link to the emissions we put in the atmosphere. However, our emissions (CO2) are not the primary cause of the earth’s warming. This is a standard climate change we are witnessing, not a major human-caused problem. Reducing or even eliminating our emissions would be a great thing, it would slow down the warming and maybe not make them as extreme as they are going to be – doing this will not stop global warming. There is no evidence that proves this warming is caused by man and man only. There are no ice samples old enough that prove this. I understand people’s fear and the fact they want to act because they should. This should be taken care of. I just do not want people in my school telling me that I am waisting oil and melting the planet because I forgot to recycle a can. I do not need people thinking and telling me that if I do not take an interest in this and help presser officials with letters and e-mails like “they” are I am a bad person. I do not care what you are doing to fix this problem, I hope it’s something, but I do not need to hear about what you’re doing. Writing letters and driving hybrid cars does not make you a better person then me. You can think your perfect and smell your farts and live in your fake world but please, for the love of god, don’t tell me about it.

I urge everyone to watch this video that I found on Digg. My response to the video is as follows:

“I don’t really see the big deal, though the “terc method” seemed a bit odd, “everyday mathematics” seems like a pretty good text book.” – Nathan07

Wow. I agree 100% with this video. I am a freshman in high school. I used “Everyday Math” text books, which, I must say did teach us math; and luckily, our school also taught us the standard algorithm. Our schools stance was “We present the kids with different methods and they choose which they like best.” This idea was fine. I learned how to multiply and divide; I use the standard method. I remember thinking when we were learning the other methods that is was a waste of time – I can promise you it was. I do not know one student in my Honors Algebra 2 (which is the highest track in my school) class that uses any of those methods – Everyday Math wastes class time. There is one other MAJOR flaw with Everyday Math that she only quickly when over. She said that Everyday Math does not help the children learn how to work logically. This is completely correct. Students in my classes have problems working out problems that require logic – that must be done in an order. Luckily I started programming at a young age (when I was about 9 years old) and I have developed the skills required to work out these problems. I feel bad for the students who do no have the skills needed.

Just a note: A high percentile of students (me included) do not have their basic multiplication tables memorized. I urge everyone to make sure their schools are not using Everyday Math – the other math book sounds even worse then Everyday Math – I can only imagine what is happening to those students.

Digg the video.

Personally, I love Xfce4 mainly because of it’s ability to be a robust desktop and window manager without using much ram at all. The only problem I have with it is it’s menu editor. Xfce4 has a system menu which appears when you right click on the desktop – in itself, a great feature. However, if you do not have a package manager that adds .desktop files to your system Xfce4 does not offer any way to add applications to the system menu. So, time and time again, I find myself typing in command after command in my terminal because I fail to remember where the fuck the .desktop files go. When I finally give up I spend about 10 min searching Google until I find a web page that has the file string. So for anyone that wants to add anything to their Xfce4 System Menu (or any other menu in any window manager) do the following:

1. Open the terminal
2. Login to a super user shell (su)
3. cd /usr/share/applications
4. nano .desktop (replace with something you will be able to identify the app with)
5. Add the following to the file, save and exit:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Name to show in menu
Type=Application
Comment=Tool-tip Text
Exec=Command to exicute
Icon=IconIfYouHaveOne
Categories=Application;OtherCategories;

Due to the response I received from my little XFire and Teamspeak spammer I am considuring updating them both and releasing a Ventrillo spammer to do the same thing the Teamspeak spammer does. If anyone has any other ideas for spammers let me know!

AIM, MSN, and other messangers will not work because the server blocks out messages after so many.

A working Alpha…

I currently have a working Alpha version and a working command-line based client. Change logs to track progress will be released when we hit Beta.

Command Structure:

command->arguments->arguments->…->…

Example:

“kill->cmd.exe” would kill “cmd.exe”

“ls” would list the files in the current directory

“cd->My Documents” would change the current directory to My Documents

Command Area Prefix:

Dos has directory> (Example: C:\>_)

Linux/Unix/Mac have user@pc directory $ (Example: moo@moo’spc /boot/$_)

RSE has user@server directory $ (Example: m00@mooserv C:\$_)

Basically, a Linux/Unix/Mac layout and some Linux/Unix/Mac commands in a Windows System. Think of RSE as a remote CygWin that doesn’t run Linux apps but can use all of Window’s hard drives and files.