Bilbo's Random Thought For The Day.

[Bilbo Baggins]

Going to the pub, drinking a few pints, then going to Pizza Hut, and pigging out with your girlfriend, and best friends is a great way to celebrate the end of school for Christmas!!

[rm']

Watch both sides of the street before crossing.

Watch this space for a new tip everyday!

[sgtfuzzbubble011]

Never run in front of a moving car, or you'll get tired... :D

[rm']

Drink milk.

[rm']

Jews are your friends.

[Bilbo Baggins]

Being told by a fellow moderator that your coountry is shit is not a nice feeling.

[Xerxes]

Greed ensures the transfer of power from the weak to the stroing.

[rm']

Be sure to read all posts carefully before getting testy.

[gandalf]

Make sure you always have a towel at hand. (http://www.h2g2.com/A138232)

[Twilightseer]

If you like good music, please don't listen to this (http://chooser.mp3.com/cgi-bin/play/play.cgi/AAICQlpsCQDABG5vcm1QBAAAAFLbxAEAUQEAAABDYMQ3OvxbMHBs_UrO7LahjELON_E-/a_song_for_my_lady.m3u)

[fish]

Never pet a burning dog.

[fish]

Justin: Make AIMazing customizable, with colors and all that :)

my tip: download AIMazing

[Kaboon]

Originally posted by sgtfuzzbubble99
Never run in front of a moving car, or you'll get tired... :D

ROTFLMAO That's a good one Sarge.:D

I don't have the solution, but I admire the problem.

[Xerxes]

hmm... get tired huh? Just like if you run behind a car, you get exhausted right? ;)

[rm']

I know what you are planning to do. Don't even think about it.

[Xerxes]

Treat your family like your friends;
exploit them.

[sgtfuzzbubble011]

Foolish man gives wife a grand piano...
Wise man gives wife an upright organ...

[gandalf]

Originally posted by phisherman
Never pet a burning dog.

Burning a pet dog is stupid too. :D

[fish]

Don't lie about your connection on Napster

Story behind this tip: Ppl on napster say they have ISDN or something like that so people will regard them higher when they really have a 33.6 or something like that so I try to download something and it takes forever when T3 is supposed to be fast.

[rm']

Everyone is a fleabitten, good fer nuthin', unoriginal rip off and scam artist. Including me.

[Xerxes]

The Cogs and Wheels of Bureaucracy never stopped turning because of a little extra grease applied to them...

[GramicciGirl]

GramicciGirl's tip #1

Lie about your connection on napster.

That way when you really do have a fast connection, no one wants to download from you, thus, not slowing you down.

[ElChevelle]

Chev's tips on relationships:

Tip #4- If you're going to marry a woman, marry a fat ugly one!
She'll never leave you and if she does, who cares?

[fish]

Originally posted by GramicciGirl
GramicciGirl's tip #1

Lie about your connection on napster.

That way when you really do have a fast connection, no one wants to download from you, thus, not slowing you down.


not if you have a slow connection. then if you think you're downloading from a T3 but in reality you're downloading from a 33.6 I get really pissed off.

[fish]

Who the hell would want a 14.7, 28.8 or 33.6 modem?

At least get 56k or something!!!!

C'mon, they're about 50$ @ RadioShack

[John M]

or $5 at BestBuy, HHGregg, etc. HHGregg is my fav store. They have never screwed me. In fact, I got a $150 stereo for $100 because the box was ripped a bit. No problems with it whatsoever. Listening to it now.

[Kaboon]

When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and suddenly I realized that I was talking to myself.

;)

[Bilbo Baggins]

Computers can't hear you. Swearing at it will not make it work.

[fish]

Go burn in hell.

God I'm pissed. my g/f left for another guy. poo

[GramicciGirl]

Originally posted by phisherman

not if you have a slow connection. then if you think you're downloading from a T3 but in reality you're downloading from a 33.6 I get really pissed off. [/B]

That's why I said, "If You Really DO have a fast connection, then no one will want to download from you." I didn't say the other way around, because frankly I agree. I suppose I should modify the wording of the tip for the intuition impared... JK. Lie about your connection speed on napster if you have a fast connection. Better?

[Xerxes]

People are rungs on the ladder of success;
don't hesitate to step on them.

[fish]

Originally posted by GramicciGirl
That's why I said, "If You Really DO have a fast connection, then no one will want to download from you." I didn't say the other way around, because frankly I agree. I suppose I should modify the wording of the tip for the intuition impared... JK. Lie about your connection speed on napster if you have a fast connection. Better?


That's called lying and it's not nice. :p

[Reverend Ike]

All in all, lying about your connection on Napster only fools the more naive users. Much of the time, you have ping times available for comparison. Personally, I just start 3 or 4 simultaneous downloads, and see what speed each connection settles to. After 15-30 seconds, I delete all but the fastest download. I rarely pay any attention to other users' posted connection speeds.

[fish]

I've figured that most people on napster who have a T3 are lying, so I usually go for cable, b/c they tend to be the most honest.

[Reverend Ike]

phisherman -

Yeah, "T3" people usually have dialups, and "14.4" people usually have 56K/cable/DSL/T1 connections.

[Bilbo Baggins]

http://www.dangergirl.com/images/full/11344/syd_coll1back.jpg

[Winsane]

I believe this (http://www.dangergirl.com/view.html?syd_coll1back.jpg) is what Bilbo was hoping to link to. Dunno why, though (especially since this one (http://www.dangergirl.com/view.html?abbey_candycane.jpg) seems more appropriate for this particular day).

[Xerxes]

A Christmas Mystic Revalation Fortune Telling for You:

When the moon
is in the second house
And Jupiter
Aligns with mars
Then peace
will guide the planets
and love
will steer the stars

That will be 32.50, payable by cash, check, credit card.
Sorry, money orders not accepted.

[Kaboon]

When an apple is green, she's ready to pluck,
when a girl's sixteen she's ready to fuck.
Maybe an old one but I like it.;) :)


What the heck it's Xmas, so let's do an another one:
Scientists say 1 out of every 4 people is crazy. Check 3 friends; if they are OK, you're it!
:D

[explosivecornflake]

Napster: Dont Share, works nicley, but is mean, but your only option on 56k. Cable sux b/c they always t/e on me. 14.4 with ping of n/a are the fastest. DSL are usually good as is 128k ISDN. This is a 56k perspective though.

[sgtfuzzbubble011]

Man who lives in glass house should change clothes in basement...

[Xerxes]

Once you have their money,
you never give it back.

[sgtfuzzbubble011]

A day without sunshine is like..... well, night.

[Xerxes]

Batteries are never included ...

[s1138]

NEVER EVER ask how to convert Wav to Mp3, or vice versa

[sgtfuzzbubble011]

40x means that the CD-ROM drive will only attain a maximum speed of 6x.

[Rainman890]

Never trust a crosseyed Jew

[Vuffi_Raa]

[i]...the more you run over a dead cat, the flatter it gets...

[Xerxes]

Nature Decays, but money lasts forever

[Bilbo Baggins]

Never let me see you drinking that radioactive liquid again young man!

[sgtfuzzbubble011]

Ooh.... that's a bad one, BB. :D


Fashion tip:
For a swank new hair do, just take this small metal object..... and stick it in those little holes in the wall over there.

[John M]

A dead neighbor is a good neighbor.

[Raf84]

if that person alredy owes u some...
or u'll never see it agian...

[Xerxes]

The 11th Commandment:
Thou shalt never get caught

[sgtfuzzbubble011]

Never trust anything that can bleed for a week and still not DIE!

:D

[Bilbo Baggins]

Sometimes, its good to go blind :D

http://www.thedailybabe.com/oct-2000/16.jpg

[Bilbo Baggins]

If the above offends you, tough bananas.

[Bilbo Baggins]

:DI aims to please:D

(Now don't take that the wrong way, especially about the above pic:o)

[cascade2]

life sucks. go figure.

[gandalf]

If you are desperate about people not D/Ling from you, just make sure that you don't share any folders (just the incoming one), so as to keep your library mostly empty. NOBODY will D/L something they don't know is there. It's very lame though so i suggest against it.

On another view of the people D/Ling problem, its not a big problem a most times, at least in the sense that it reduces your surfing and D/Ling speed. Most people dont use their outgoing bandwidth a lot, so giving songs to people w/ napster is not going to slow you a lot, but it will slow you down a bit: a rough estimate would be 1/8 of the speed the guy receiving the song gets. So if say somebody is D/Ling at 3KB/s from you you lose like 0.375KB/s or 3Kb/s. Which on a 33K modem would be a 9-10% loss in DL speed. The % gets less with the more bandwidth you get. Also, have in mind that some connections are not synchronous: 56K, some xDSL variants (ADSL namely and a few others), and (consumer) satelite connections come to mind. In this case you might even be better off, because the less outgoing bandwidth you have, the less the impact on your incomming bandwidth. BUT, come to think of it again it might be a HUGE problem:

Let's say for example you have a (A)DSL connection with 1.5Mb/s Downstream and 128Kb/s Upstream. Supposing you get your 128Kb/s filled up with people, you'll only lose 16kbps off your 1500kbps (or is it 1536) or about 1% no big deal. But, on the other hand, since your upstream bandwidth would be "taken", you'd have another problem: you wouldn't be able to send requests for file fast enough! In other words, you would have enough speed to get stuff, but not enough to tell people to send them to you .Sounds weird, but thats TCP/IP:D (-tell me if i'm wrong here). You see, file tranfers (whether it is a webpage/image/mp3) over the net are like this:

F(ile): the file being transfered
C(lient): the person that wants to get F
S(erver): the computer that has F

C: Hey S, could you send me F
S: Sure, here's the first part
C: OK, i got it
S: here's the second part
...
...
...
S: And here's the last part
C: Got it, thanks a lot


The reason for this is that a part might get lost so C doesnt get it, or damaged so C rejects it. Anyway, i didn't design TCP/IP (and i'm not even sure i got the stuff right :D)

So, you need upstream bandwidth in order to use your downstream bandwidth, and the other way around. It's just that surfing/D/Ling uses more BW downstream and serving/U/Ling uses more upstream.


NOTE: The numbers are VERY rough estimates, but i don't think they are wildly off, but if you think that my logic is wrong, please tell me

So, if you dont get all or most of your B/W clogged up with people getting MP3s from you, imho the loss of speed is not a lot and therefore not too much of a problem, unless you are gaming at the time, but i don't think anybody in their right mind would have napster up while playing netgames (People with cable or better could prove me wrong :D).

[Bilbo Baggins]

*Brain fries*

[Reverend Ike]

Originally posted by Bilbo Baggins:

*Brain fries*
Doesn't that reply belong in the cannibalism thread?

[sgtfuzzbubble011]

:D

[prodangle]

Im blessed with a huge amount of mp3s, but I never share more than 100ish. My excuse is I gotta 56k dialup. if I share all my mp3s, in no time, about 30 folks are all trying to grab songs from me, and due to my 56kness, none of them are likely to get anything. If I stick to sharing 100ish, I only get 1 or 2 people taking songs from me at once, so they'll get full songs, I won't get too annoyed about losing all my outgoing bandwidth, an the world is a much happier place for all.

[prodangle]

Strange, my sig was broken a minute ago, but it's now magically fixed itself. Good boy...

[lunarboy1]

I like your reasoning gandalf.
Sometimes you just have to cut some people off from d'ling from you though. :) (I try not to do that though because it pisses me off when people do that to me)

[prodangle]

Gandalf, so you ignore me, and answer Gandalf's postof many moons ago, wah wah wah
not fair, no one like me, I go cry more now

[Bilbo Baggins]

*Burp*

[Bilbo Baggins]

Well its Saturday night and I'm alone
I've made no future plans
So I sit me down
And I pull out the little man
I aint got a girlfriend
And I don't have a date
But that's alright with me
Cause I love to masturbate

Back in the old days
I'd buy some magazines
A six pack of beer
And a tub of vaseline
Penthouse and Hustler
Were as good as it could get
But I hit the jackpot
When I found the internet

Now I'm beatin' my meat
Poundin' my pud
Yeah I'm jackin' off
Gotta good grip on my joystick
And it aint Micro-soft
I'm floggin' my dog
Spankin' the monkey
Aint computers great
I'll never leave home
Cause I love to masturbate

They got naked men and women
And all kinds of sex galore
Blondes, brunettes, and redheads
And Filipino whores
No matter what your into
You'll find your own dot com
There's even one for old chicks
Where I think I saw my mom

Chokin' that chicken
Rub the duck
Yeah I'm torquing low
I gotta good grip on my joystick
And I can't let it go
Row that skin boat
Stroke the log
Aint computers great
I'll never leave home
Cause I love to masturbate

Now they say things like "E-commerce"
With three 'W's and a dot
They say its for information
But I'm here to say its not
Now they're trading it on Wall Street
But they aint fooling me
Its all just a cover
For the porn industry

And I'm shaggin' my shaft
Cleanin' my gun
Hammerin' my nail
I'm a cyber-sex site surfer
With my own e-mail
I'm pettin' my snake
Jackin' off
Thank you ole Bill Gates
I'll never leave home
Cause I love to masturbate

[John M]

[screamin' voice] HIGHWAAAAAAY TO HELLLLLLLLLL!! HIGHWAAAAAAY TO HELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL![/screamin' voice]

[gandalf]

Originally posted by prodangle
Gandalf, so you ignore me, and answer Gandalf's postof many moons ago, wah wah wah
not fair, no one like me, I go cry more now

huh ?

[mattjsimps]

what happened to justins yada yada..its disappered!

[Reverend Ike]

Justin's Yadda Yadda -- ask your (good) questions here:

http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=24647

Change the Show threads from restriction to display older threads in this forum.

[rm']

RM's tips to success has moved, to fulfill my egotistical tendencies to steal the spot light.

www.footnote.blogspot.com

[The Big Andowski]

If someone is uploading off you, wait until their at 70% and cancel their ass.

[s1138]

no you wait til they are at 90. then it REALLY pisses them off. but i only do that to people who do that to me. then i do it back:D

[Kaboon]

Work suks....
Ladies go to work.

;) :D


Sex is like Nokia: "connecting people",
Sex is like ****: "just do it",
Sex is like Pepsi: "ask for more",
Sex is like Samsung: "everyone is invited"
and sex is like me: "to good to be true..."

:D

[ElChevelle]

Originally posted by The Big Andowski
If someone is uploading off you, wait until their at 70% and cancel their ass.

I deem thee a DICK!

[Xerxes]

Anyone who cancels people when they are close to finishing is a sadist!

[Bilbo Baggins]

Yeah.

[fish]

grrr. I HATE that, especially on my 56k :(

[Bilbo Baggins]

I feel sorry for SlowConnectionJAZ. He only runs at 33kpbs

[prodangle]

OK, so this is the wrong forum to mention this in, but I just happen to be here, and feel like getting this off my chest.
Why is winamp.com so broken ???
there's still snow on the winamp.com bit up to left as I'm writing this, and look what happened to me earlier:
http://www.septor.co.uk/wb.gif
Surely someone's got their sums wrong somewhere...

[Bilbo Baggins]

Maybe the snow hasn't melted in winamp land?

[prodangle]

mind you, s'pose it's still Winter, doesn't only snow at Christmas. God, I'm still bored.

[Bilbo Baggins]

I can vouch for that, by the fact the it snowed here last night,

[prodangle]

Right Kaboon, you owe us all some quotes, how many days have passed??? don't start something unless you intend to finish it. There. He's told.

[womanfiend]

As the saying goes, that, my son, is your hair, not TP. So get your head out of your ass.

[womanfiend]

The way I see it is some of the T3 people have T3's and so forth for the higher end peeps. Why lie and say you've got more then you do? On the other hand, I bet 90% of them users listed as a 14.4 or 28.8 and maybe even 33.6 are really on the top end just being greedy and not wanting to get him up for a download. If they were intelligent they would go into Pref's and set max uploads to 0 per user. Then no one gets your honey.

[womanfiend]

Saying all sorts of four letter words ...or yelling them, at your computer does do wonders. Wonderful relaxant, and if you do it in a lab or library or whatnot every things you're crazy so they don't bother you. Be insane.

the womanfiend
----------------------
"Last time that poor kid got a piece of ass was then his fingers slipped through the TP! ... Last time he had pussy was when pussy had him."

[Kaboon]

Originally posted by prodangle
Right Kaboon, you owe us all some quotes, how many days have passed??? don't start something unless you intend to finish it. There. He's told.

Sorry, I've not been here for a while. Thougt that this was turning into a Napster topic. I'll go on:

Why computers are female

[list]
As soon as you have one, a better one is just around the corner.
No one but the creator understands the internal logic.
Even your smallest mistakes are committed to memory for future reference.
The native language used to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else.
The message "Bad Command or File Name" is about as informative as "If you don't know why I'm mad at you, then I'm certainly not going to tell you."
As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half of your paycheck on accessories for it.

[jakeledel]

i dont understand this forum

[Twilightseer]

Originally posted by jakeledel
i dont understand this forum

The only thing to understand is that there's nothing to understand. Clever, isn't it ? :D ;)

[jns]

Originally posted by Twilightseer
Originally posted by jakeledel
i dont understand this forum

The only thing to understand is that there's nothing to understand. Clever, isn't it ? :D ;)
Now you're getting me confused, I don't understand. :confused: :D

[xapec]

Intelligence is measured by insanity, and i'm pretty fuckin crazy.


________

Is this now a napster forum ?
(if you have cable, dont admit it, be a bitch like me)
________
AOL TIME WARNER HAS DOMINATED MY LIFE & COMPUTER, OWNING MY MP3 PLAYER (winamp of course) MY ISP (roadrunner) MY CABLE TV, MY NETSCAPE BROWSER, MY ICQ, MY AIM, WHAT NEXT........
SUBSEVEN & NAPSTER?

[Dhromed]

Prove to me thy insanity and I'll give you a cookie/banana.

[Dhromed]

And what friggin' lunatic decided there should be a thankyou-notification after each post one makes?
It's quite unnecessary.

[Bilbo Baggins]

When looking an enemy in the face, poke him in the eye.

[xapec]

Originally posted by Dhromed
Prove to me thy insanity and I'll give you a cookie/banana.

mmmmm........ cookie

im hungry now

[jns]

Originally posted by Homer Simpson
mm.. beer..
:D

[Bilbo Baggins]

I can agree to that!

[jns]

What? ;)

[fuct'n'bored]

how to lead a happy life step 1

never trust any helfull gadget that ways less than its instruction manual

[Nabeel]

if you can't beat ur enemy, embrace him(specially if it's an opp sex :D) , with his arms around you, he can't shoot at you.

[Bilbo Baggins]

No, but his friend can...

[cigarette]

a cigarette can be the most beautifull story:

There sits the cigarette all lonely in your mouth.
The fire comes along and the two were obviously meant for one another. And so their story begins, fueled by chemistry. Somewhere in the middle is the climax. The way it ends is up to you. They're either snuffed out or (the more poetic) thrown into the midnight clear to die together.

I see us all as lil' smokes
some cigars
some ettes
but whatever you are (and we know it has nothing to do with this website or forum for that matter) find your fire and let that lil' light of yours shine, let it shine, let it shine.

oh and by the way for all of you that hate cable and DSL, DirectPC is going two-way in a couple of months. So hold your breath or whatever it is your breathing

[RhinoTrip]

Originally posted by Bilbo Baggins
Computers can't hear you. Swearing at it will not make it work.

But it'll sure make you feel better.

[OO7TDD]

If you curse at computers, they curse back with "general protection faults".

[ecstatic]

ecstatic's tip #1

To get around people lying about their connection on napster, check the ping times. A 14.4 user with a double-digit ping is definitely not on a 14.4 modem.

[ecstatic]

Originally posted by cigarette
oh and by the way for all of you that hate cable and DSL, DirectPC is going two-way in a couple of months. So hold your breath or whatever it is your breathing

ecstatic's tip #2

Two-way satellite internet access is fine, as long as you don't mind minimum 400ms ping times.

[jns]

http://www.kulturpasset.com/~jns/from_falstaf/Mastercard Priceless 15 - cruise.jpg

[jns]

Ohhh.. this threads and threads such as this.. were the days.. :)
*spanks Bilbo a bit*

[c2R]

Perhaps the thread should be revived....

[Bilbo Baggins]

Yes it should :D

[BMWboy]

Originally posted by Bilbo Baggins
Yes it should :D

only took 1 year, 2 months, 10 days, 14 hours, and 27 minutes to do so. is it sad that I actually worked that out?

[ShyShy]

Damn, BMWboy... you had waaaaaayyyy too much time on your hands. And why the hell is this thread in the movie forum?

[BMWboy]

actually it only took about 3 min. and most of that was spent digging out my calculator to work out the correct number of minutes. but it is still sad that I did bother to work it out.

[iomegajaz]

Originally posted by ShyShy
And why the hell is this thread in the movie forum? I have a sneaking suspicion that a certain hairy-footed hobbit is responsible. Hmm.

*ponder*