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Chico s Groove 1998 11 19
. . . : ; C h i c o ' s G r o o v e ; : . . .
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. . . : ; ruoftytnewt - november 19 1998
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. . . : ; http://www.disobey.com/
. . . : ; The "KICK-ASS" Notice
Welp, no thanks to contributions, I finally got a new monitor. Which is
good. Nothing fancy, just a Sony 100ES. Much better than the other piece
of shat that I was using. Never thought 1024 x 768 could look so good.
. . . : ; The "ONLY-ANNOYING-THING" Notice
The only annoying thing about the how monitor deal is the fact that
every so often I can get Thousands of colors on the 1024 x 768 and then,
other times, I can only get 256 colors. Nothing seems to effect it
either way, it just randomly decides. Ah twell.
. . . : ; ANNOUNCEMENTS and squeeze your neck, dear
NETSLAVES SNEAK! Probably the most exciting thing this week was the
debut of NetSlaves. Released exactly one year after the premiere of
Ghost Sites and created by Bill Lessard and Steve Baldwin (the creator
of Ghost Sites), it promises to be another "must see" section of
Disobey. Although not officially opening until December 1st, we offer a
preview and a chance to subscribe to the email newsletter. Check it out:
http://www.disobey.com/netslaves/
NEW DEVIL SHAT (#Fourty): Welp, it seems some crackhead over in Bombay
liked the stupid self help column that Morbus wrote in the last issue of
Devil Shat, and sent in some encouraging words. Morbus got it in his
head to write the second part of the series, and thus, we apologize.
Devil Shat really isn't a self-help zine. We'll straighten it out.
DEVIL SHAT RESTORATION: Devil Shat has been the longest running of
Disobey's section, and with time, got a little discombobled. Although
not a major update, Devil Shat had its inner paragraphs modified, as
well as a standard inner heading set. It was something that had been
bothering us (me). Nothing big. You probably won't notice, but it took a
while, and was annoying.
LOW BANDHEIGHT: Added all the normal archive crap (filled with over 600
text issues!) along with three new additions. Other than that, Low
Bandwidth has been pretty quiet this week. Mainly because of all the
other updates that took a lot of time to finish. However, I did manage
to add five new listings, remove one dead listing, modify some
existings, and condense the archives down a bit in relation to the
latest issues. Low Bandwidth was hit pretty hard this week as a zine
called VirtualPROMOTE decided to mention us. We got buried underneath
all of the submissions.
ZERO ONE: Had a huge update to Zero this issue. Now, interested
listeners have a choice of MP3's or RealAudio formats... which should up
the interest for potential passerby's. We had gotten a couple of
complaints that people didn't feel like installing mp3 software, but
already had RealAudio installed. Besides being lazy, they had a minor
point. Anyways, we also added CDNow links to all of the reviews... now
you can pick up the album if the review interests you. Lastly, we mod'd
most of the pages so that they rank better in the search engines, and
added a much better logo on the front page... that other one was quite
old.
MINOR UPDATES: Added one email to Devil Shat Thirty Eight as well as
seven to Devil Shat Thirty Nine... seems not just people from Bombay
wanted to read the rest of the goals to achieving inner peace. Also
caught an embarrassing "passed through the spellchecker ok" error in
Ghost Sites, finally got customized 404 webpages (what you see when you
don't see anything), and did other routine maintenance stuff.
. . . : ; EVERYTHING else and what you do around here?
BINARIES: Welp, my ISP recently switched Usenet providers to its
upstream provider, so now I have access to all of the "alt.binaries.*",
which is cool. Been mad downloading stupid shit from that. Only wish
alt.binaries.pictures.monster would get some more posts, although
alt.binaries.gothic is relatively interesting for dark pictures. Any one
have other suggestions?
DAMMIT, AH TWELL: Well, due to experimenting, I've determined the reason
why I occasionally get Thousands of colors, and other times not (as
mentioned above). And, it's not anything I can change... it's an actual
bug in the software or the adapter not passing correct information. So,
therefore, I'm stuck on the normal 832x624... Dammit. Ah twell.
ALL IS NORMAL:
>Shit, this morning, I turn and I bump into a corpse in my bed. Still
>sleepy, it seemed quite natural for it to be there. So I hug the
>body and fall back asleep. Then I get this strange horrible thought
>in my head and I open my eye (yes, only one). It's my girlfriend,
>who had worked the night and she parked herself in my bed. I didn't
>hear her walk in, take a shower, change and crawl into bed. They
>could kill me and I wouldn't even notice.
PACKARD BELL AINT ALL THAT BAD: At least their support isn't. After
planning on installing RedHat Linux on one of my machines, I came to the
problem of not being able to read the Linux CD. Due to Packard Bell's
immediate and knowledgeable tech staff, I had it running by three emails.
Sure, their computers might suck... I guess they are making up for it
through support.
. . . : ; BLAHBLAHS OF THE WEEK: ( november 6th - november 19th )
[Purchase-of-the-Week]-= Yet Another Movie Poster
---Got a new Child's Play 2 movie poster for only fifteen bucks.
---"Sorry, Jack! Chucky's Back!". Pretty decent price. The next poster
---I plan on getting is probably going to be something old like a
---reprinted Karloff, or something interesting.
[Junk-Food-of-the-Week]-= Ain't No PopTarts
---Although good, PopTarts have been replaced with the confectionary
---wonders of multicolored Whoopie Pies. Coming 12 to a container, I
---gots White, Orange, and Brown filling. Yum. And Swiss Cake Rolls...
---Been eating a lot of those lately too.
[Gross-Ass-Candy-of-the-Week]-= Twizzlers Pull-n-Peel
---I used to think I thought these things were good, but man, after
---trying them one Sunday, I could only choke back a stifled scream
---of disgust. Wha? Yeah, I know I ate all of them anyways. Shut up.
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