Terminaly Incoherent - Name That Game 1

Can you identify all the games in these pictures?  If so: go to Terminaly Incoherent & comment here.

"New game in the spirit of Name That Movie or TV Show cycle I’ve been doing here. This one is a bit different and possibly more difficult. Or it could be easier. I don't know.

This version of the game may appeal to slightly different crowd. Instead of identifying movies, I’m asking you to identify video games in the picture below. And instead of random screenshots, I’m actually using the box covers. Naturally since each video game box has the name of the game printed on it, and usually a signature, distinct art I’m adding some Gaussian blur to each of them. I tried to make them fuzzy enough to conceal telltale details (and the title of course) but clear enough to allow you to recognize the box by shape, color and composition..." - http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2008/09/26/name-that-game-1/

Wormwood - organic, from Germany (alpine)

In relation too: "Sage essential oil as an alternative to Wormwood, clinical properties of Thuja, Absinthe and y-aminobutyric acid receptors"

"I often use Wormwood essential oil, which I was once afraid of, to ease stomach pains, muscle tension, and anxiety.  If it is not an Absinthe drink, their are a lot of safe uses that responsible, medically uneducated, yet aware people can take advantage of."

My one year old 15ml bottle of Wormwood - organic, from Germany (alpine) is close to depletion.  The distributor no longer lists it as an item in their product page.  However, I spoke with one of the owners and found that when quantities are low and demand for marketable profit from 3rd party distributors are needed, they would sometimes do this.

I have only been able to find one source for this distillation with high concentrates of Thujone.  I will be soon be getting GC/MS data on the distillation, and I will dig a little more into the availability from this small farm.  When I do, and the oil will be in abundance, I will give the sellers source, if I don't get greedy - buy the rest myself.

To comment on my quote, I had a medical doctor go ahead whom has knowledge of this plant and whom also checked for any health interactions and precautions...

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also see:

sage essential oil as an alternative to wormwood

Random Thought : It will be a fun weekend of Geocaching!

HOWTO: run spamass-milter (Postfix) non-root & custom group e-mail spam configuration locations, - using milter, spamc and spamd on FreeBSD

I will assume you have a postfix installation that can receive incoming mail.

First, install milter spamassassin:

cd  /usr/ports/mail/spamass-milter; make install; make clean

The rc script is located: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/spamass-milter  Choose a socket location for Postfix.  For example: /var/run/spamass-milter.sock

Edit  /usr/local/etc/rc.d/spamass-milter and change the socket location to a secure location:

${spamass_milter_socket} could be changed at the bottom of this script too:  : ${spamass_milter_socket="/var/run/spamass-milter.sock"}

We will create a user called "spam" for the socket USER and GROUP ownerships.  Edit the following appropriately:

: ${spamass_milter_socket_owner="spam"}
: ${spamass_milter_socket_group="spam"}
: ${spamass_milter_socket_mode="664"}

The users root, spam, and postfix need access to this socket.  in /etc/group add the user postfix to the group spam.  Permissions for this socket type should be 664 rw rw r - rw for the user "spam" and rw for the group "spam" in which the user "postfix" is a member of.  The socket is not world writable, so only those with these credentials can take advantage of the majority of this service and secure communication.

For future user allowances of personal mail spam training, you should use spamc and spamd.  spamd will be run as root.  The rc.d file is located here: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/sa-spamd  Let's take a look at this and edit a few command line options.

The first spamd flag we want is -x which will disallow user configuration files.  This can be suppressed, if you wish per user training, and call spamc from postfix with the user of the incoming e-mail address.  For this demonstration, it will be used for a group of e-mail users.

The -u flag should be set to spam: -u spam, this sets the user name to spam.  The -g parameter for the group is unneeded because of the UID GID hard coded association with the user "spam".

By default when adding "spam" as a user, the home directory should be /home/spam  Now lets make sure spamd will use this directory for configuration even though spamd with spawned as root and will by default use /root  The -H parameter specifies this: -H /home/spam

At this time we are training one spamassassin rule set with multiple e-mail addresses, so we will utilize "--virtual-config-dir".  For example:--virtual-config-dir=/home/spam

So the command_args variable in the rc script should look something like this:

command_args="-x -d -u spam -H /home/spam --virtual-config-dir=/home/spam -r ${pidfile}"

Now make sure your postfix main.cf configuration file uses the smtpd milter:

smtpd_milters = unix:/var/run/spamass-milter.sock

This is an example of a basic idea for group users, and a start to multiple per recipient address configuration parameters and location manipulations.

What? What? Net Neutrality? kill -9? TCP RESET Packets?

In relation to "Net Neutrality - supporters at a Madison, WI gathering..." and with joyful companionship with "A lyrical rap song about the Unix command 'kill -9' and the systems mechanics surrounding it." I thought what the hell - you may be interested in:

"Ballad of the TCP Reset Packet"
By Nate Anderson

I'm not an ordinary packet flowing through the tubes I need to scrub them out to keep the neighborhood's connection lubed I'm here to make you see a cable company morality Obfuscation is alright but not uploads that take all night

I'm not an ordinary packet but you wouldn't know it from my face With my false mustache in place, I'm here to interrupt the pace Of Kill Bill volumes one and two, don't download them, they're bad for you Your fair share is not defined but I'll enforce it if you don't mind

Chorus:
Cuz I'm a TCP reset packet (it's true)
Flying down the wire to you
Sent from Comcast above to its users with love
I'm a TCP reset packet

Don't thank me now you will someday when you are eating cabbages And see just how I kept you safe from statutory damages I'm legal and a good idea, you don't have a thing to fear Like Superman, you can't stop me, unless you call the FCC

At the hearing, Harvard's hallowed halls became a comfy bed Our employees work so hard, without the rest they'd soon be dead All this talk is sure terrific, but it's also soporific Set me free to innovate, I see no need to regulate!

Chorus:
Cuz I'm a TCP reset packet (it's true)
Flying down the wire to you
Sent from Comcast above to its users with love
I'm a TCP reset packet

my flip-phone Java midlets

Right off the bat, I will whack the first two out of discussion: Trimble Outdoors (my Geocaching & GPS App), and Opera Mini (my Web Browser).

I made the decision to refrain communication, IM communication that is, to one protocol.  I decided on Yahoo!, for various reasons.

It took me very little time to find the right choice for my cell phone chat application - that being Yamee.

Here is the feature set that tempted the installation and has won its space on my flash:

- add and remove contact
- conference
- contacts grouping
- send message to group or several selected contacts (press # to show the mark)
- send and receive BUZZ
- receive offline message
- incoming mail notifications
- typing notification
- offline/online notifications
- show/hide offline contacts (shortcut: press 0)
- set or view status (status shown on the top screen)
- skinnable (4 type skins)

shortcut:
-to show chat view, press *
-to show/hide offline contacts, press 0
-to show/hide the mark press #

New Features (ver 1.1)
- 60 emoticons
- message alerts : vibrate, sound, flash backlight

New Features (ver 1.2)
- Chat History (message archive)
- Send to Others (send message to buddy outside contact list)
- Add 4 emoticons (total 64 emoticons) and with bigger images
- Add set custom busy status
- Add new settings (enable/disable automatic open ChatView when receive message)
- New theme (gray skin changed into green skin)

*update : 14-09-2008
-better smiley/emoticons
-some minor bug fixing


*update : 25-09-2008
- some minor bug fixing
- support MIDP 1.0 and CLDC 1.0

Depending on the use I get from this well organized application, I believe a small donation will be in order sometime in the comeing months.