Why did they decide that my personal website was “dangerous”?
Any links I attempt to place anywhere on MySpace linking to my personal site: www.austrianalex.com gets filtered through a buggy filtering software. I’m thoroughly disgusted at this point that my site may even be remotely linked and related to any spamming services through the eyes of MySpace, and thus I say screw it. Screw MySpace, the social networking site that bases most of its services revolving around serving spam content through various forms of annoying advertisement (save the ones caught by AdBlock Plus…thanks to whoever made the lovely firefox extension), and then disables linking to a highly reputable site such as mine (well, highly reputable in the sense that it isn’t flooded with the same ads…actually none at all). Viruses and trojans? Why the hell would I store them on my webserver? And as for an associated IP address to the domain, it’s part of an EDU network…so if MySpace decides to block me, they might as well block all of Eastern’s website along with it.

Long story short, screw MySpace. I’ve seriously wasted too much time there to care about how it fails (because some day, it will, there’s no question about that). Throughout its many security vulnerabilities, hypocrisies, and one of the ugliest, most pathetic excuses for a web site design I’ve seen around on the internet, I must say adieu to this personal site filtering crap hole so called “Web 2.0″ site.

“[*] You may be asking yourself, “Hey, what was it about that link that got it in trouble?” An excellent question! 99% of the time, it’s because of our buggy software that our first year college interns (who are thinking about having computer science as a career but usually never make it past their freshman year) make. You can’t blame them for that though, they can’t really handle programming and watching porn at the same time. They know HTML though!!!1!1!1 OMGLOLWTF”
-fixed your typo

This was too funny to resist putting up. One of those things that you won’t forget when you’re the one trying to explain things with people who don’t know computers or the internet outside of myspace. The scenario is trevor has a trojan on his computer that displays porn pop-ups. Should it be cleaned with antivirus or spyware? I dunno, I hadn’t personally seen it so I told him to get both.

(10:01 PM) Alex Chernikov: but the weird thing is
(10:01 PM) Alex Chernikov: if you actually type out your msn password for your account into the messenger window, it’ll turn into a bunch of stars
(10:01 PM) Alex Chernikov: ******
(10:01 PM) Alex Chernikov: see?
(10:02 PM) Alex Chernikov: i hate that
(10:02 PM) trevor stewart: weird
(10:02 PM) Alex Chernikov: my password is actually pretty common to type
(10:02 PM) Alex Chernikov: like a common word
(10:02 PM) Alex Chernikov: so whenever i want to say ******, it turns out in stars
(10:02 PM) Alex Chernikov: ******!!!!
(10:02 PM) Alex Chernikov: gah
(10:03 PM) trevor stewart: lol
(10:03 PM) Alex Chernikov: didnt fall for that one, now did ya?
(10:04 PM) trevor stewart: stop it! it is pc genius vs. pc literate….of course i’ll believe you
(10:04 PM) Alex Chernikov: illiterate
(10:04 PM) Alex Chernikov: ok, change that
(10:04 PM) trevor stewart: hey…i’m not dumb…..i’m average
(10:05 PM) Alex Chernikov: yes, you know how to use myspace and you only get trojans once in a while
(10:05 PM) Alex Chernikov: makes you quite average id say
(10:05 PM) trevor stewart: lol thanks

…some time later…

(10:23 PM) Alex Chernikov: on the other hand, those popups will stop you from getting on myspace in class
(10:24 PM) Alex Chernikov: which equals better grades
(10:24 PM) Alex Chernikov: nothing will help you trev, not even reformatting your computer
(10:24 PM) Alex Chernikov: sorry, its a lost cause
(10:24 PM) trevor stewart: really
(10:24 PM) Alex Chernikov: better luck next time?
(10:24 PM) Alex Chernikov: and the trojan is airborn
(10:25 PM) Alex Chernikov: so every laptop that enters your house that you think about using for myspace at college will get that infectious trojan disease
(10:25 PM) Alex Chernikov: and the hardrive will fill up at the brink of destruction
(10:26 PM) trevor stewart: are you serious?
(10:26 PM) trevor stewart: plz say no
(10:26 PM) Alex Chernikov: WTF!?!
(10:26 PM) Alex Chernikov: AIRBORN TROJAN!!!

Ah yes, indeed, on the subject of free hosts yet again, and things that I thought would change from last time. If it’s too good to be true in terms of hosting, there has to be a catch somewhere. Somewhere indeed…

The hosting service starts out good
It’s just too good to be true, and they’re still on the internet! First things first – check how long the host has been operating and see how their uptime has been (just because the host says their uptime has been 99.5% or higher doesn’t mean it’ll stay that way). Get to know your host, see how many servers they have running and in which part of the country (stay the heck away from Florida and places that have hurricanes – water + electronics = BAD JUJU!). I don’t know how many times I’ve signed up for a host only to find a week later that there are SQL connection errors, slow load times, or even extreme downtime that goes on for days. And then the host just shuts down and takes all of your files with them (luckily if you know the concept of free hosting, you also tend to know the concept of backing things up).

Ads are evil, even with Firefox and AdBlock
Well, that is, unless you don’t mind them. Problem is, I do! And so do many other people. If your website isn’t selling products with the advertisements that are put up, it’s usually a bad thing. And when your host forces those ads on you, that’s just pure agony (and some ads make it worse with flashing colors and annoying roll down menus). There are only a few ads out there even worth looking at from a designers perspective, the rest suck. Which brings me to my point – if your host makes you put up ads, or even worse, forces them on each page, move to another host. Ads will mess up layouts, destroy any chances of returning visitors, and will make your site look less than professional.

Bandwidth and Space limitations
The more the better (in terms of actual space and bandwidth)…but do you really need that much anyways? My blog actually consists of less than 10megs worth of files. But I always look to the future, and since I’m going to start hosting files and such, I expect my host to be able to hold that up. And even if you only have one 5 mb file being hosted, and that file just got “dugg”, its pretty much DoS for the host in general, paid or free (in most general cases). And if the host doesn’t go down, your bandwidth will go up and strike you upside the head. The worst website is the one that you can’t even see (arguably the one that doesn’t exist). Free hosting may be good for now, but not for later.

Free hosting and free support just doesn’t come hand in hand
There are exceptions, but generally, if you have a free host, you’re not going to get any kind of support. Sure, some people don’t even need support, but if something on your site goes haywire with something that you can’t fix (say something with an SQL connection or FTP going down), you absolutely need to communicate to the support/webmaster to get it fixed. Even for paid hosts, make sure you’re getting proper support, check it before even signing any sort of deals. Ask them for a trial hosting service for a couple of days to check out support response times.

So basically, the main thing I’m trying to get at here is don’t rely on free web hosting because it will actually cost you something in the long run.
Want a free web hosting service? Get any kind of computer, install Ubuntu LAMP on it, hook it up to a 256kb+ line, and there’s a free reliable start for you. Ok sure, it costs you a computer and your internet connection, but isn’t that what you use anyways to read this blog? Maybe then, you can start up your very own free hosting service for others as well and see exactly how all those other free hosts are doing it!

Original Article:
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33130

ONCE-MIGHTY DELL ended up in court in May charged with ripping off its customers in Washington State, USofA, to the tune of $24 million in sales tax. The court ordered that every penny should be repaid.

The case slipped under the INQ’s radar, so we’re grateful to Bob Sullivan over at MSNBC for sniffing out the facts.

As Bob says, in the connected world the consumer relies on the operators of a web site to apply the correct taxes on purchases, especially if you’re dealing with a big, um, reputable outfit like Dell.

The overcharging occurred from 1999 to 2005, during which period some 470,000 customers in Washington State were affected.

And one lawyer in the affair reckons that when cases in other states are looked into Dell could be looking at a final bill in the order of $100 million.

But, since Dell claims to have made an honest mistake in Washington, it says it will have already handed the cash over to the Washington taxmen.

Lawyer Rick Ellis, however, doubted Dell’s word and, in Massachusetts, filed suit under the state’s deceptive trade practices law.

The taxes relate to maintenance contracts, warranties and the like and the different taxation levels applied to different sorts of contract.

Maintenance contracts attract sales tax because the maintainer actually has to do some work to honour them. Extended warranties are treated like insurance policies because like most insurance policies the insurer usually has to do nothing except take the money and run.

Dell, it seems, charged sales tax on warranties and like and so ended up in the current pickle.

The Washington State class action is the only one yet settled. Further class actions could follow in a number of other states, although one suit in Maine has already been dismissed.

Here’s a tip that I give to anyone and everyone regarding purchasing computers: ALWAYS BUY IT ON EBAY! Yes, there are risks with buying computers from online sources, but its almost always worth it. I bought my Inspiron 9300 more than half a year ago for about $1600 on eBay; looking at the current catalog that Dell just sent to our house, my computer (if it was still new) would still be worth $1700 at the Dell store. On eBay, my laptop is now worth about $1300. Get the picture?

The ideal marriage is no marriage at all. Think about it…no marriage means no conflicts, no pesky children, no in-laws, less stress, more money for yourself (unless the girl is rich), and no sex being the only downside. That’s something most people can live without. But there are those who would trade it all for a few “fun” hours (or minutes…yeah…um). So, what’s in it for those folks? Well, to make it even close to ideal, both parties of the marriage must be perfect. The in-laws have to be perfect too. Perfect means kind, gentle, loving, caring, and that sort of thing. You have to know how to live with another human being 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for the rest of your pathetic excuse for a life. And you have to be good at it. You have to take care of your spouse when they get sick and start coughing up blood all over you, or when they have a “red flag” day and run around waving a knife and screaming. You’ll have to listen to them blather on about their problems or how their day has gone, even when you really could care less. Then you have the spouse wanting kids and the whole marriage thing gets even worse. You have kids who throw up on every furnished item in the house and don’t bother cleaning up after themselves. They’ll stink up the house, require money for food, clothing, movie tickets, and gas. Then they’ll blame all their problems on you. When they go and do something naughty, the cops end up putting a partial blame on you, so you begin to wonder if the kid was right with blaming their problems at you. If you end up not getting a divorce or committing suicide/murder, you’re in an ideal marriage, and I feel sorry for you. Not really, though.

What’s going on in this place? It feels like I’m trapped in an atmosphere encompassed by Gouaould motherships, except not so hopeless, but likewise. I’m sitting in a pit of doom that’s called British Literature and wondering why people throw tomatoes at people who are put into shackles in the middle of the city. Why not a cucumber or a piece of cabbage? Let’s roll out the cabbage and give the poor people a concussion. That and why do people have concussions? Yeah, getting hit hard to the head juggles out some brain matter, but it really shouldn’t give you a headache if you don’t have any nerve endings in your brain. In fact, all you are doing is thinking that you feel pain, pain is caused by your body essentially, not by other sources. If you did not have any nerves, you would not feel any pain, eh, that simple? Pain is something that one cannot live without, but must also learn to endure. Oh, by the way, I just thought of someone who is a great pain in the who knows where, but that’s a whole different story. Ok, so now on to random ranting to waste some time in Miss Hicks’ 5th period class. If some people are tall, then why are some people short? If all people were short, nothing could be reached, so what is that advantage of being short? There is none, if one wants to be short, then one could just bend down, but if one wanted to be tall, they would have to grow. And some people cannot do that very well so why are there still genetic codes for short people if they are at such a disadvantage? Shouldn’t we just be getting taller and taller until we grow to the height that we couldn’t be able to breathe anymore because of the atmosphere? Well, if so, this disproves the theory that all elephants originated from Africa, because if they did, there wouldn’t be any elephants. No, not really, I’m just rambling on again. It’s somewhat weird, but then again, not really. I’m just not sure anymore. Tech support really sucks. Yeah. I think I’m going to fall asleep very soon because I don’t think I can hold this up any longer, besides, I still have to go through yearbook and hopefully have another successful day of not having to kill Gavin. I might just not be so successful today, but that is to be seen by his behavior and his lack of intelligence. Sokar seems to have nice furnishings over at his place, but he needs a few more plants around, I think. And the whole, “I am your god” crap really gets annoying after a while, so I’m not quite sure if I’ll be able to resist the temptation to go out and attack the Gouaould. I’ll have to see, all in its own time. My laptop battery is about 50% now and I just heard that someone just received an email, must be Miss Hicks because she opened up her laptop and is staring at it now. I try not to stare at my laptop, just because I think it is very rude. I’ve almost got a page down, and about seven minutes left in class. I am reminded about the time when I would write a page or more in Amanda’s yearbook, but that time has past as now I’m the one making the yearbook in a way. That, and she hates my living guts. I would too if I ever actually saw them, I think. I just realized that my laptop, if positioned the screen properly, could serve as a reflective mirror. This purpose could launch a new face of cheating, by laptop reflection. Muahaha. It shall be called the Alex cheat, named after the one who thought of it. I shall be known in history books for my great invention and intellect and shall live a great life of teaching others my way. I am yet to test the method, but I am already anticipating the great results that may come out of the yet to be experimental “Alex cheat”. Two more minutes remain before I escape the tyranny of this teacher and escape to the bathroom, because I really have to go.

Alexander Chernikov
CWP Essay
September 11, 2005

Incorrect Christian Worldviews
     “Harry Potter is the evil thing that was invented from the pit of hell and made by a guy named Stan!” Greenville, Michigan – A burning was held to burn copies of Harry Potter, Shania Twain’s “A Woman in Me” album, and the movie “Coneheads”. The purpose of this event was to show the community that Christians would not tolerate the corruption in this world and that “true” followers of Christ should not own such things. This Christian worldview, among many others, has a truth behind it, but the handling of it was horribly initiated. Yeah sure, Christians really shouldn’t be listening to or reading these things, but really, bonfires for books!? Are those Christians really any better than the people who burnt Bibles so that the Word of God wouldn’t spread? Books, wrong or not, should not be burned because of the message that it sends in our society, and what these Christians did set a bad name for other Christians.     
     A definite incorrect Christian worldview would be that of remarriage after divorce. Churches are now beginning to marry those people who have divorced once or more times before and are also beginning to divorce people for basically any reason whatsoever. This is fundamentally wrong, first of all for divorce, unless there was marital unfaithfulness. And even if there was, that person could not remarry, or else they would be committing adultery. So in retrospect, Christians are beginning to help people sin by forms of adultery by remarrying them or starting dating clubs for people who have divorced someone else.
Some Christians believe that disease and sickness comes from a direct result of sin. Some are related to sin, but if you happen to get a common cold, it isn’t because you’ve sinned and caused the wrath of God to be poured down on you to sneeze and cough for a week (7 days with medication). It is because your immune system hasn’t developed an immunity to that specific disease. In a way though, disease and sickness is a result from the first sin of Adam, if one wants to relate it to anything. Sicknesses that are caused by sin, like from homosexuality and AIDS, or premarital sex/adultery and STD’s are a consequence that happened from that sin. But one may still commit an immoral act and not get a sickness or disease as well. And even if they do, we are not to judge or condemn them. So that brings us back to Christian people that will condemn homosexuals; is it an incorrect viewpoint? They’ll ignore them and avoid them –, saying that God’s curse was brought upon them. Yeah sure, hate homosexuality, it is a sin and it is a choice. But under no circumstance are we to hate the homosexual, we are to love them just as much as we love anyone else – they were made in God’s image after all and God still loves them!
In my church, about a year or so ago, we had a band come over from Russia that played contemporary Russian Christian music at our evening service (the evening services were made primarily for the young adults/teenagers). Their music wasn’t anything like hard rock or death metal type, in fact, it was probably in the range of Jars of Clay music. In any case, all was going well, until they decided to sing an African type song with maracas, just maracas and a xylophone was all it took for some older people of our church to stand up in fits of fury and protest. The protest was made to be something like, “Why do you bring this music into God’s holy house, if they want to play this type of music they should go play outside of God’s holy house!” only in Russian and more yelling. Then the disgruntled old person and his wife left for the night. Now, no one else stood up to complain – why? Because nothing was wrong with the song! Ironically, the band sang a song before that, which talked about people who complain every day and shouldn’t be doing so.
In the essence of it all, I think that incorrect Christian worldviews come about not because people are thinking about others or about what God would do, but it essentially comes from people who want things to go their way, for people to think and act the way they themselves do. They want people to become more liberal to allow more opportunities for sin, or want them to be more conservative to not allow them any chance of interacting with the unsaved. So is the answer to be midline between the two? Nope. The answer is simply to accept God’s word as the truth and have it be the guideline for how you live your life, or put differently, how God wants you to glorify Him through how you live.

YES, Christmas break is finally here and I am of good cheer!

So I shall write a poem, and I won’t even know it.

…

As you can see, I’m not too good at writing poems of that sort, but I am good at ranting, and what a fun rant I shall have about the “Event”

Begin Time of “Event” – 2nd period, French Class.

Duration of “Event” – Not counting the laughter and mocking afterwards, about 2 periods later.

What is the event, in details?

What another boring day in French class. It’s not the French in itself, which is still annoying, but rather the teacher who makes it quite a horrible experience. Not to condemn the teacher either, she is a great person, but her teaching style is not. I fall asleep in that class almost every single day. How many other classes do I fall asleep in? None others. In fact, my grades in all of my other classes are high A’s if not entirely the best in the class. And believe me, I’m taking extremely challenging courses which include among them Calculus and AP Bio. For a high school junior, this is more than enough homework each day, which is why I’m glad for the break. So, back to the French class, it’s the last day and everything for the year (until 2005) and she pulls us up to the board to do sentences in French. We have to make up sentences on the board using some restrictions, like using the past tense of a verb or having the word “Hier” (yesterday) in it, etc. So we’re writing a sentence, and the Kryptonian (I’m using their Internet Name of course), who happens to be one of my best friends, writes a sentence something like this: “Semaine derniere, je n’ais pas tue’ Alexandre’” which translates to something like so: “Last week, I did not kill Alex.” Next sentence he wrote went something like this: “Mais, aujourd’hui, je vais tuer Alexandre. Je blaugue.” – “But today, I will kill Alexander. I joke.” The class, which consisted of four people including me, laughed at it and took it as a joke, like we always do. I mean, we’re in a private school and we can joke about that kind of stuff without getting into stuff like suspension or that sort of thing. So we went on and she asked us to do a sentence using “hier”. So I began writing the word and then I turned and asked how I would say, “Yesterday, I attempted suicide,” in a joking manner. She turned to me and she said, “You would never do that would you, because that’s bad.” I quickly interjected and reassured her that I was only joking.

Soon the bell rang and it t’was time for me to go to American Literature. Oh no! I needed to do some last minute studying for the test we were having on linking and helping verbs. Mainly memorization of the “am is are”, “taste feel smell”, and the “have has had” verbs. So I quickly set off and grab my blue grammar book and begin cramming. I walk into the classroom and find that Jenny Seeman is absent on this day…and I being her table partner, now have the whole table for myself! I quickly grab her chair that’s near the wall and sit in it. Ahh, the chair next to the wall…the best location ever…and it was next to a window too. Too bad it was too foggy outside to look at anything. In fact, it has been quite foggy for the past few days now…but that’s beside the point. Miss Hicks hands out the tests and I take it. I had miraculously remembered most of the verbs and put them down on the paper. Once I finished the test, I turned it in and sat down back into the special chair. Joel, who was sitting in front of me, started eating his chips and making loud noises by crunching the chips with his mouth open. This is typical Joel behavior. Then after everyone else finished the test, Miss Hicks went over the rules and guidelines for anyone interested in a speech meet. That took up most of the class time. Once class was over, I was walking out of the classroom when the giant pine tree came walking along, and having found sight of me, pointed towards the direction of the French room and said, “There’s someone who wants to see you in Mr. Ronholt’s room.” (The giant pine tree is Chris, our soccer goal-keeper who is what…6’7″?) Okay, so I head over and see Mr. Ronholt standing there in front of the door. I say hi, he does the same and then turns away from my direction. Odd, so it must not be Mr. Ronholt who wants to see me, who else, then? As I walked in, I saw who it was who had used the giant pine to call me in. Mrs. Dods, the French Teacher. I didn’t know the reason why she had called me in, but I went ahead and walked toward her. She pointed to a seat and told me to sit down (politely, of course). So I sat down and she started off, “This will only take a minute. About what you said in class while you were up doing sentences…”

I quickly interjected, knowing what she was talking about, “It was only a joke, I swear. I would never do that.”

She then said, “I know, but if you are, I just want to let you know, it’s a very bad decision.”

“Listen, I’m not capable of doing that sort of thing. I was only joking.” I was a little irritated but I kept talking in this kind of reassuring manner. So I bid farewell, and I headed off towards my next class.

Later in the day, I was wanting to tell Matt (another French student) about what Mrs. Dods said to me but when I came up and asked him if he remembered about what happened in class, he said, “Oh, that suicide thing?”

“Yea, that, how did you know?” I asked, because obviously, people usually don’t remember those kinds of things meant as jokes…or do they? No they don’t…usually. This is not one of the unusual cases, though.

“Yeah, Mrs. Dods actually went up and asked me about it, if I thought that you were serious…” he then replied.

… … … …

Eh, I’m actually too tired to rant about this right now. This has got to be the biggest post I’ve made. Anyways, one final question:

She noticed my suicide comment, and thought I might have been capable of that more than Rhett’s comment about him killing me? Because, obviously, both were identical, both were about murders, both were identified as just being jokes, and yet…yeah.

Signing out,

-Reality Corp.

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and create your own chat robot! Maybe you should check out the document DON’T READ ME too.

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GremlinChief: // Otherwise, just peacefully move around. Go back to start, if I’m too far

// from where I started.

if ((my_dist_from_start() >= 6) || ((my_dist_from_start() > 0) && (get_memory_cell(0) > 0))) {

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This article will be all based upon a familiar site, well, for me anyways. FBhosting.net claims to give out free boards, thus the name FB…free boards. It all started when I was searching google for a phpBB board, for free of course. I came up to a site named freeboards.uni.cc. Naturally, I went and took a look. It seemed pretty good, so I had my board set up even though I had an Invision Powered Board which I much preferred over this one.

Then they put up a deal I couldn’t resist on their forums. Of course, it really was fake advertising, since they were offering unlimited space and bandwidth, but being my naive me, I took the offer. For a measly $10 one time fee, I got myself hosted with a free domain name (chanceforums.uni.cc) and it worked out pretty well and nicely for a few months.

Until…

All of a sudden, when I’m loading my site, I get a whole bunch of installxxx toolbars popping up! Someone had managed to put a javascript code heading to b00gle.com or something like that which made these nasty porn popups come flying out of nowhere. The file could not have been hacked because all the settings on it were write protected unless it was the owner, leaving two culprits – me or FBhosting Admins. And yet again I was naive and just removed that file, setting up another one.

Episode Two, I tried getting onto my website…no such luck. It was down…dead down. Later, in about a day, it popped back up. Then again, it went down for a day and popped back up…and this happened over and over again. Then suddenly, my SQL database went down in flames, but luckily I had a backup to feed my forums with. I tried emailing them and they said that their reseller had been acting up and that they were switching servers. Naturally naive again, I helped them pick out a new server and awaited my site to be put back up and in return, they would give me three months of free hosting from one of their packages.

Fat chance. Their site has been down for two weeks now, server or no server, it’s still lousy administration. And I don’t think it’s lousiness or even laziness…I think it’s just plain fraud.

This goes to say that you can never be too careful when it comes to picking your next host. Horror stories come up like this thousands of times a day from millions of hosting sites. Don’t be one of them in both the customer status or the hoster.