Basic Cable by Aesop Rock.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dreadpiratesully at 2:02 PM on July 3, 2008

If you can find someone who is BU-affiliated to get you in, the BU Pub has a nice back patio area.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dreadpiratesully at 5:13 AM on June 25, 2008

If you use launchd instead of cron, I don't think you can set up a one-time job but it's easy to programatically remove the job - 'launchctl remove jobname'. You could use a script that does whatever you need it to and then removes itself from launchd, or at least disables itself.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dreadpiratesully at 8:53 AM on May 11, 2008

If you're interested in TCP ports, you don't need them to be open on the remote end -- closed ports will respond with an RST, filtered ports you'll simply never hear back from. I would suggest reading the nmap documentation.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dreadpiratesully at 6:23 AM on April 11, 2008

Although I suppose I should add that the firewall could spoof RST packets from the destination, and this behavior might be the default for some firewalls.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dreadpiratesully at 6:27 AM on April 11, 2008

I think you need to configure the switch as a DHCP relay. Look for help on "ip helper-address".
posted to Ask Metafilter by dreadpiratesully at 9:42 AM on November 27, 2007

Although simply getting an address from the DHCP server on vlan3 might not do what you need it to do. The device would still be on vlan2.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dreadpiratesully at 9:48 AM on November 27, 2007

This is not exactly what you're asking for, but according to this episode of Quirks and Quarks, pine resin has properties similar to what you're looking for, and a company in North Carolina is making energy efficient homes by using pine or other woods treated with pine resin.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dreadpiratesully at 10:49 AM on November 6, 2007

As a 22 year-old in 2004 I was in a similar situation. My parents were not uncooperative and I was able to at least supply the necessary information for the FAFSA applications, but their income combined with my income from the previous year meant I got very little aid. There was absolutely nothing I could do, short of joining the military or getting married, to get around it. The financial aid office pretty much made no effort to help because they knew there was nothing they could do.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by dreadpiratesully at 3:59 PM on November 1, 2007

Is there anything noteworthy about the directory names that don't work? What platform is this on?
posted to Ask Metafilter by dreadpiratesully at 10:41 AM on October 31, 2007

I would expect files in the jsp directory to be given a special handler of some sort (like your servlet engine). Check for a 'Location /jsp ' stanza or something like that in the httpd.conf.
Yeah, on preview...angle brackets just aren't cool.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dreadpiratesully at 12:03 PM on October 31, 2007

Or, like you just said and I failed to read properly, something on the oracle side is set up to handle regular HTML files on the working server, and not on the broken ones. But it you can't find that, you might get away with narrowing down what gets passed off to oracle in the first place by giving the Location tag something like /*.jsp instead of the entire directory.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dreadpiratesully at 12:09 PM on October 31, 2007

Virgil: Goddammit, you bitch! You never backed away from anything in your life! Now fight!
[slaps Lindsey]
Virgil: Fight!
[slaps Lindsey again]
Virgil: Fight! Right now! Do it! Fight goddammit! Fight! Fight! Fiiiiight!
posted to Ask Metafilter by dreadpiratesully at 1:37 PM on October 25, 2007

Tab Mix Plus gives you an X at the right end of the tab bar. I can't quite tell if that's what you're looking for.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dreadpiratesully at 12:45 PM on October 23, 2007

Looking at the user interface demo for that USR router, I don't even see an option to stop NATing. This means the 16 bit subnet won't work. You would need to give the USR an external IP on 192.168.11.0/24, and a default route of 192.168.11.2 (I don't see how to do that...probably best to set it to use DHCP and let the DHCP server on your Dad's side take care of it. Make sure it will serve DHCP out that interface.). Both sides should have a 24-bit subnet mask. Everything on your sister's... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by dreadpiratesully at 3:14 PM on October 16, 2007

Also, you would need to ensure that AP1 is NOT acting as a router, only bridging. If you can't make it do that, I think you'll probably have to create a third subnet between the two routers.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dreadpiratesully at 3:28 PM on October 16, 2007

This also happens to me on my office PC. I just alt-tab to firefox at that point, so I've never really bothered to investigate. It seems common enough to attribute it to a bug. I have 4GB of RAM, so I doubt things are really getting tight, but I do often notice FF taking up an inordinate amount of space, hundreds of MBs. I'm with tommasz on the ridiculousness of the memory consumption, but on the other hand I don't think I've seen a banner ad in six months. It might be worth it.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dreadpiratesully at 1:47 PM on October 12, 2007

I seem to recall a lovely little pocket of decay on the water between the Charlestown and Zakim bridges. I'm not sure how accessible it is, though. I've only ever looked at it from the bridge.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dreadpiratesully at 1:14 PM on October 12, 2007

Loose and lose will switch meanings through consistent and ubiquitous misuse. I will learn Mandarin and never look back.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dreadpiratesully at 7:32 AM on October 11, 2007

It's been a while, but if I recall correctly the warning you're seeing will show up whether the mail is rejected or not. Is there another entry in the log about the rejection? Or a bounce sent to the user?
posted to Ask Metafilter by dreadpiratesully at 6:19 PM on October 2, 2007

Brooklyn Black might be my favorite. I'm also a fan of Old Rasputin, and the Rogue and Victory stouts previously mentioned are quite good.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dreadpiratesully at 12:55 PM on September 27, 2007

Oh, and also, even though it's not a stout, you should definitely try the Stone Smoked Porter that Greg Nog mentioned. It's very, very good.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dreadpiratesully at 1:01 PM on September 27, 2007

You can test the ram with Memtest86. I've only ever used the ISO; download it, burn it to a CD, then boot from it. You also might try Process Explorer to see what's going on instead of Task manager. tasklist is the command-line program you're looking for, I think.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by dreadpiratesully at 2:11 PM on September 26, 2007 marked best answer

I had a mole removed from my back several years ago. It needed to be biopsied, so I assume the procedure may be different if you're having it removed for cosmetic or other reasons. I was given a local anesthetic that involved very thin needles delivering an electric shock to the region (if anyone can tell me what this is called, I'm curious about it). The doctor removed a eye-shaped chunk of my back and sewed it up. I currently have a large, raised scar in the shape of a football. There was... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by dreadpiratesully at 8:46 PM on September 25, 2007

N+1 for Settlers, of course. Thurn & Taxis is another fun Euro game. Betrayal at House on the Hill is a cooperative adventure game that has some objective shortcomings but is just so fun we tend to play over and over again. Quick fun card games include Bang, Bohnanza, and Lifeboat. I just played Roborally for the first time last week, and it seems quite promising.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dreadpiratesully at 9:53 AM on September 24, 2007

Furikake?
posted to Ask Metafilter by dreadpiratesully at 7:16 AM on September 19, 2007 marked best answer

Seconding submitting at least the executable to your anti-virus vendor. This sort of feedback is important to them, and it could potentially save your future users some trouble.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dreadpiratesully at 7:00 AM on September 14, 2007

In my experience, this hasn't really been that consistent. I work for a university in Boston, and for my salary I am expected to work 35 hours a week, 9 - 5 minus an hour for lunch. However, a majority of the people I know who work in the private sector work 9 to 6 or equivalent hours, at the least. It has always seemed to me to have more to do with your job and who you work for.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dreadpiratesully at 7:39 AM on September 13, 2007