I can barely bring myself to even acknowledge its existance, but Mike Oldfield's Moonlight Shadow.
/me shudders
posted to Ask Metafilter by handybitesize at 10:13 AM on July 25, 2008

now when you say truck...?

If you need to be careful of weight/height restrictions the TomTom ProNav has all that additional data - UK only at the moment but elsewhere sure to follow
posted to Ask Metafilter by handybitesize at 2:08 PM on July 24, 2008

Also 7 Year Bitch's ¡Viva Zapata! album - some of the songs refer to The Gits' lead singer Mia Zapata's attack and murder. Mind you, some the sentiment is vigilante and so mightn't meet the anti-violence criteria
posted to Ask Metafilter by handybitesize at 5:45 AM on July 23, 2008

Reinforcing Dressy Bessy and All Girl Summer Fun Band whilst adding Pony Up!
posted to Ask Metafilter by handybitesize at 10:38 AM on July 18, 2008

Of course! That's where I got the Robin Home image from. Many thanks all
posted to Ask Metafilter by handybitesize at 11:50 AM on July 7, 2008

=) Damn predictive text. Least it wasn't Socio Goof
posted to Ask Metafilter by handybitesize at 1:35 PM on July 7, 2008

thanks - my searching was returning many references to sprung opening pliers and thus I turned to you
posted to Ask Metafilter by handybitesize at 5:53 AM on June 25, 2008

but then again, sadly no. After watching the video of the Gerber Suspension linked above, they too are butterfly opening - the spring loaded part of the name refers to the action of keeping the jaws apart. The ones I seek fling the jaws out from concealment inside the handle(s)
posted to Ask Metafilter by handybitesize at 5:59 AM on June 25, 2008

Thanks all. I'm already a Gerber advocate. I currently use a Legend 800.

It looks like the Recoil is the model I'm after as linked to by ASoze.
But it's been discontinued [BOO].
But loads of places have it in stock [YAY].
There's a video of the action on YouTube

BUT - I'm sure the Mythbusters one had a swing-out rather than a pop-out action. I'll keep... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by handybitesize at 8:54 AM on June 25, 2008

I'm not Catholic but my wife and her family are. I've gotten into the habit of calling all members of the clergy I'm introduced to 'Father'. I'm happy that it's seems nicely informal and my wife never corrects me (and she would).
posted to Ask Metafilter by handybitesize at 5:20 AM on June 18, 2008

apache's mod_security module is your friend here. It has a drop action that will do exactly what your friend wants.

For example this directive closes the connection if more than 20 Basic Authentication attempts occur within a 2 minute period


SecAction initcol:ip=%{REMOTE_ADDR},nolog
SecRule ARGS:login "!^$" nolog,phase:1,setvar:ip.auth_attempt=+1,deprecatevar:ip.auth_attempt=20/120
SecRule... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by handybitesize at 9:51 AM on June 12, 2008 marked best answer

that msg is the mod_security documentation guy's own, and doesn't include the expletives that you'd obviously want to send to the bot's logs
posted to Ask Metafilter by handybitesize at 9:56 AM on June 12, 2008

If you don't drop the connection, you could tell mod_security to redirect for example, you will still have the request and, therefore the tainted traffic handled by the webserver. Something I thought you wanted to avoid.
posted to Ask Metafilter by handybitesize at 4:07 PM on June 12, 2008

There's a osx utility, dot_clean, that will do this for you
posted to Ask Metafilter by handybitesize at 11:52 AM on April 11, 2008

No wine expert I, but after studying my friend's extensive tasting notes archive I can offer these Best of 1978 Reds. If only money was no object I could have offered one of her rare 20/20 wines, a 1978 Dom. de la Romanee Conti but at over 10,000 USD doesn't meet criteria.

I've take a few liberties with your budget (most of the following are over) but most of the high scoring wines in the list I produced were well over $1000. Hope it offers some... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by handybitesize at 12:50 PM on April 9, 2008

I've an N800 which I tether to a tiny Nokia 6500 classic on T-Mobile (as I am now) Works flawlessly and is highly portable.

I've also connected it to a macbook happily for a test
posted to Ask Metafilter by handybitesize at 10:35 AM on April 8, 2008

Thanks jessamyn - I deliberated over that myself but decided to use the least spoiling spoiler I could
posted to Ask Metafilter by handybitesize at 10:21 AM on March 25, 2008

That's the fella - thanks all. Still think he looks Disneyesque
posted to Ask Metafilter by handybitesize at 10:24 AM on March 25, 2008

Don't want to overlook the obvious, check the balance fader in the volume control panel
posted to Ask Metafilter by handybitesize at 3:10 PM on March 18, 2008

and If....
posted to Ask Metafilter by handybitesize at 4:49 AM on March 17, 2008

You look away for 2 minutes to write a script and mmascolino comes along..

Alternatively grab this and stick it in

/usr/share/firefox/searchplugins [ubuntu]
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins [Windows]
Somewhere else [Mac]

and it will be a custom search engine in FF search engine bar
posted to Ask Metafilter by handybitesize at 3:16 PM on March 10, 2008 marked best answer

On the Haka theme, when I was a child playing rugby we used to do the Haka to the words of Humpty-Dumpty.

Hum-pet-y-dum-pet-y
sat-on-a-wall...
posted to Ask Metafilter by handybitesize at 12:51 AM on March 7, 2008

See if it opens in safe mode first

Start > Run and type thunderbird -safe-mode

It may be a problem with an extension and this will switch them off
posted to Ask Metafilter by handybitesize at 6:44 AM on February 1, 2008

This is something you'll want do to via your conf files not .htaccess

something along the lines of

<virtualhost yourdomain.com:80>
ServerName yourdomain.com
ServerAlias www.yourdomain.com
DocumentRoot /path/to/site/subdirectory/
</virtualhost>

in its simplest form - your apache version will dictate the placement and directives
posted to Ask Metafilter by handybitesize at 7:13 AM on January 29, 2008

Ah on review - unless you have a site root for your second site from your ISP.

In that case you could just symlink it to the correct folder or do something along the lines of

RewriteEngineOn
RewriteRule (.*) /path/to/site/subdirectory [L]

although someone is bound to remind me that mod_rewrite is not the correct tool for this job
posted to Ask Metafilter by handybitesize at 7:22 AM on January 29, 2008

Ok - some more info needed then

Is your ISP hosting this for you?
Do you already have a directory that serves content for seconddomain.com?
Do you want it to appear seamless or are you happy for a url redirect to happen (ie url stays the same or changes)
posted to Ask Metafilter by handybitesize at 7:40 AM on January 29, 2008

I'll try this

RewriteEngine On - Switches mod_rewrite on

Options +FollowSymlinks - Instructs the server to follow symbolic links

RewriteBase / - Tells mod_rewrite if the URL and file path are different - their not

Then we have a series of if statements....

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} dev.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by handybitesize at 9:15 AM on January 30, 2008 marked best answer

You can have mine. It's been idle for 3 years. Mail in profile
posted to Ask Metafilter by handybitesize at 1:26 PM on January 27, 2008 marked best answer

I'll do it for cost, but only if i get to know what's in the box =)
posted to Ask Metafilter by handybitesize at 1:18 PM on January 27, 2008

For Apache, if you can use .htaccess files you can quickly do something like

RewriteCond %{TIME_HOUR}%{TIME_MIN} > 1359
RewriteCond %{TIME_HOUR}%{TIME_MIN} <> RewriteRule ^yourpage\.html$ yourpage.allowed.html
RewriteRule ^yourpage\.html$ yourpage.denied.html
posted to Ask Metafilter by handybitesize at 5:09 AM on January 24, 2008

Oh not sure what happened then

RewriteCond %{TIME_HOUR}%{TIME_MIN} < 1 4 0 6 (no spaces)

and

RewriteRule ^yourpage\.html$ yourpage.allowed.html

should replace the middle line mess
posted to Ask Metafilter by handybitesize at 5:12 AM on January 24, 2008

Thorzdad: Thankfully Stiff are still releasing
posted to Ask Metafilter by handybitesize at 4:29 AM on January 16, 2008

Kate Nash reminds me of Kirsty McColl
posted to Ask Metafilter by handybitesize at 1:01 AM on January 14, 2008

Juliana Hatfield's Down On Me has a few seconds of controlled feedback for its intro.

Thanks for the opportunity to redeclare my love for her
posted to Ask Metafilter by handybitesize at 4:45 AM on December 6, 2007

2. £ can be easier to remember
posted to Ask Metafilter by handybitesize at 6:26 AM on December 5, 2007

Don't preview through - &pound;
posted to Ask Metafilter by handybitesize at 6:27 AM on December 5, 2007

Hmm HTML was on preview - a link will follow
posted to Ask Metafilter by handybitesize at 10:00 AM on November 12, 2007

Table layout here http://codersoffortune.com/mysql.html

Sorry about that
posted to Ask Metafilter by handybitesize at 10:06 AM on November 12, 2007

Thanks everyone for your responses - I see that I'll have to add some logic somewhere - either in a stored proc or in the application code.

Thats not the real table structure btw, I just wanted to test the theory.

My gut instinct is to keep it in the application layer, but I'll perform some testing and post the results if this threads still open.

Thanks again
posted to Ask Metafilter by handybitesize at 1:15 PM on November 12, 2007

How about some variant on the 9 books of the Nine Unknown Men (propaganda, alchemy, communication, physiology, microbiology, gravitation, cosmology, light & sociology)

or

no star-trek fan me but I'm liking the simple geekiness of 1 of 9, 2 of 9 etc.
posted to Ask Metafilter by handybitesize at 10:30 AM on October 31, 2007

UK-centric but same sentiment at ...
http://www.singlemumincomesolutions.com/
posted to Ask Metafilter by handybitesize at 6:25 AM on October 18, 2007

Gorky's Zygotic Mynci for all your Welsh language needs
posted to Ask Metafilter by handybitesize at 5:39 AM on June 6, 2007

You might like to try Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series

The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book , The Well of Lost Plots, Something Rotten... if memory serves

They are the only books that my wife (similar taste to you) and I (similar tastes to your co-worker) can share.
posted to Ask Metafilter by handybitesize at 5:27 AM on June 6, 2007

As well as Bristol Zoo, I'm a big fan of Paignton Zoo, in fact I was there a couple of days ago on a visit to the south-west. Scale and design get my vote. Very little marine attractions however, as they all seem to have been moved to their sister site, Living Coasts in Torquay.
posted to Ask Metafilter by handybitesize at 6:06 AM on April 27, 2007

absolutley cruical wackbrit - but if you owned dawn.com you'd find it difficult not to have an alias 'guns'.

So I guess I'm not really intrested in the literal translatio, more in the phonics just like ijsbrand's response
posted to Ask Metafilter by handybitesize at 8:49 AM on October 16, 2006

Sorry Four Flavors - it only appeared in the print edition
posted to Ask Metafilter by handybitesize at 1:54 AM on October 17, 2006

I was considering ordering some myself - and the lego shop claims to ship to the uk.
posted to Ask Metafilter by handybitesize at 5:43 AM on October 9, 2006

Correct link might help - sorry
posted to Ask Metafilter by handybitesize at 5:44 AM on October 9, 2006

On the first series of the UK tv show Scrapheap Challange there was an engineering student called Chen(?) who'd won a competition for designing the highest tower from a single sheet of A4 paper (and tape) that could support the weight of a full can of Coke. His was over 6 foot tall! - Can't remember anything about the design (sorry) but it took advantage of papers excellent tensile strength rather than its week compression strength
posted to Ask Metafilter by handybitesize at 5:33 AM on October 9, 2006

I can remember my mother liking some of my 10,000 Manics stuff. Not very cool when your a teenage lad...

So I'm going to suggest it was a track off `Blind Man's Zoo`, possibly `Trouble Me`
posted to Ask Metafilter by handybitesize at 8:03 AM on March 16, 2006 marked best answer