User talk:Genghis Khant/Archive6

Email...
The fate of the world depends on you checking yours. 19:04, 19 April 2009 (EDT)

Email
I too have sent you an all-important email. FernoKlump  What the fuck Mr. Assfly??? That bastard DeanS deleted my petition! 20:17, 19 April 2009 (EDT)

Moar email
I three have sent you a very important email about your email. --  Nx / talk 08:35, 21 April 2009 (EDT)
 * I have replied to your most gratifying email. Just in case you didn't receive it I said thank you very much. Генгис    13:47, 21 April 2009 (EDT)
 * I did. You're welcome. --  Nx / talk 13:57, 21 April 2009 (EDT)

Gentlemen at a most peculiar website, I have not sent any of you any important emails.
Gentlemen at a most peculiar website, I have not sent any of you any important emails.  ħ uman  21:23, 21 April 2009 (EDT)

Ken redux
just how many edits are you going to take to write up that 🇰🇪 piece? (he asked sweetly) Totnesmartin 11:39, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I could say that it was a dig at Ken's editing style (official version) but actually it's because I'm still massively hungover after not getting to bed until 4:30 am (truthier version). Fortunately I've a day off today. MOAR KAWFEE! 11:43, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Aaargh. I got woken up a five by some twat on the phone, that was bad enough. Totnesmartin 11:49, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I wondered where you were when I hit the sack at 4:00, Genghis. Up before me, too. (coffee's on, 5 minutes then comean'getit) 11:54, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
 * it'll be cold by the time I get there. Could you give me a bit more notice next time? Totnesmartin 12:12, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 's OK, it's on the hotplate. Might be stewed a bit though. 12:16, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
 * One reason I was up before ye Madame Toast was Mrs. Khant phoning me up at 9:00. 13:05, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I didn't hear the phone! 13:12, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Shh or you'll set tongues wagging. 13:19, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Tongues! wagging! Now you're talking my language. 13:30, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
 * That's what they call in the comedy business a "feed". 13:42, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
 * No, a feed is eating T toast for breakfast in bed. 13:47, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Right! this is getting silly! 13:47, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
 * And now for something completely different. 13:47, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I much prefer my toast smothered with honey, Nutella, crunchy organic peanut butter or blackcurrant jam. I'm afraid you'd have to scrape off the Marmite. :( 14:41, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Great coffee!
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters up 40% in one day. If only all the stocks in my pension plan performed like that. 15:03, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Dear Gentleman
* urgh* I feel like Ken and can't continue with that train of thought. Have sent you mail. --PsyGremlinWhut? 07:06, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Another RW affair in the offing! 07:58, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Are you intercepting private RW mail Human? I know it can be done because TK said so. 08:32, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes. :)))) TK is always right, even when he is lying. 08:48, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

I'm in ur perl, unpacking ur values
I'm not sure if I entirely understand what it is you need to do from your description, but unpack is almost certainly the function you want to use for the reading, then one of pack or printf for the writing part depending on my rather ambiguous reading of what you need to do with the data. A quick example of what you need to do would help me give you more specific advice. -- 19:49, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

What I have is a binary file which looks like this with a hexdump (2-byte words):

1 1921 8058 0000 0000 0002 0821 4616 1136 1300 0010 0000 1000 008F FF01 1600 32FF 0007 8100 0000 0002 21 0000 0100 0000 001B 5800 0200 0001 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0007 8100 0000 0000 0007 C300 0001 0000 41 0000 0301 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0101 0000 0DAC 6DAF 0060 9003 0400 0370 0003 0006 0000 0000 61 0000 0000 0701 0001 0102 0000 0DAC 6DAF 0480 1003 0400 0370 0003 0012 0000 0000 0000 0000 0701 0101 81 0103 0000 0DAC 6DAF 0480 1003 0400 0370 0003 0012 0000 0000 0000 0000 0701 0201 0104 0000 0DAC 6DAF 101 0480 1003 0400 0370 0003 0012 0000 0000 0000 0000 0701 0301 0105 0000 0DAC 6DAF 0480 1003 0400 0370

Now stuff like the initial 1921 is a decimal file number and I would like to be able to read and display a byte or word without the OS interpreting the hex as an ASCII code. In the K-shell scripts I could just assign the bytes to a string. Obviously I can do direct hex comparisons later on but I only started this about 45 minutes before I left the office so I want to be able to display the actual hex values as a string while I debug my program. I should point out that as a complete and utter noob to Perl I had only got as far as setting up the file handles and reading/writing bytes. Unfortunately I only have an old introductory Perl printed reference book although I have a stack of e-books they're not always so easy to navigate. 20:48, 14 May 2009 (UTC)


 * So, if I think I understand what you want to do you want to read the values in this example as shorts and write them as hex?


 * That's a fairly simply thing to do, the quick and dirty way to do it goes a little something like this:


 * Anyway, if that's not quite what you want to do, it all goes a little something like that. -- 21:06, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
 * The files are a mixture of ASCII, EBCDIC, shorts, longs & hex with pointers to other parts of the file so I need to read in anything from a nibble to several words. Previously I just kept track of my offset and read in the requisite number of bytes offset from the start of the file. Shell scripts don't have a lot of functionality but it was the best there was when I originally wrote them. With Perl I can read the values directly rather than converting them into hex strings first. The endian thing threw me for a while and that's why I decided to embrace Perl. Before I was using od (octaldump) and with linux on a PC the byte order was reversed however as the data are read in directly to a Linux machine the byteorder evens itself out. Thanks for the info I'll give it a go tomorrow. 21:36, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
 * There are unpack conversions for more or less everything you need (well, except EBCDIC, just how archaic is this data? Anyway, CPAN is your friend here.) It's just a case of writing the right format string, really. -- 21:41, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Hexdump.pl

 * 1) !/usr/local/bin/perl5 -w

use strict;

my $offset = 0; my $len; my $data;

my @array; my $format;

open(FILE,"<somefile"); binmode FILE;

while(($len = read(FILE,$data,16)) != 0) { if($len == 16) {   @array = unpack('N4',$data); $format="0x%08x (%05d)  %08x %08x %08x %08x   %s\n"; } else {   @array = unpack('C*', $data); $_ = sprintf "%2.2x", $_ for @array; push(@array, ' ') while $len++ < 16; $format="0x%08x (%05d)  %s%s%s%s %s%s%s%s %s%s%s%s %s%s%s%s   %s\n"; } $data =~ tr/\0-\37\177-\377/./; printf $format, $offset, $offset, @array, $data; $offset += 16; } close(FILE);

--Shagie 21:31, 14 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanx, I'll also try this. You guys are great. That's what I love about this place. 21:36, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

I have sent you an email
Please read it. Totnesmartin 20:18, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Sorry, but I think the bug in the rationalwiki email system makes anything sent through the system gets rejected by domain name hoster. Try a PM in the forums or I think you have my email from before. 22:42, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I got one from Edgerunner via here a few weeks ago. What's gone wrong since then? Totnesmartin 08:38, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
 * If it's not confidential, send it to me & I'll forward it. This message brought to you by: respond and marmalade 08:39, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Martin: I have sent you a totally unimpotent email. 08:45, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
 * It only applies to certain hosters, the RW "from" address is malformed and doesn't get forwarded. Nx supposedly fixed it a couple of months ago but it seems to have reverted. I should point out that I use have my own domain name and use email forwarding to send any emails to up to three different accounts - my home ISP provider, my Gmail account and my office account. 08:55, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
 * The copy of the email I sent to TMartin arrived at my gmail account successfully. 09:05, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Pay attention, it's the email forwarder who hosts my domain name where the problem occurs. 09:13, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
 * sorry [[image:Ashamed.gif]] 09:16, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

You are possibly a dirty old man in training
(or should the "in training" be deleted?)  08:54, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Even professionals have to train to keep in top form. But hey, what took you so long? 08:57, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
 * As a fully qualified Schmutzige Alte Frau, I agree with your first sentence - I train full time. (I hadn't looked at that saloon bar section for ages) 09:03, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I would just like to add that I fully endorse Genghis' choice and RW needs more pics of girls with... nice personalities. --PsyGremlinWhut? 11:07, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
 * And just so SAF Toasty doesn't think I do this stuff all the time, I got that picture from Psy's user page. 16:12, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Psy, you agree with Ghengis because you have an Asian fetish!!! 16:16, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Our next door neighbour's out sunning in a bikini - nice. (too hot for me) 16:32, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Nice... I was out on Tuesday with a (fit) friend and she said earlier on that day she was wearing a bikini outside but changed to a tanktop and shorts. Man, that was annoying. 17:05, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Pour demain...
Happy anniversary. How many years? 18:34, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks, it'll be 23. 20:13, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Papers
If you ever want to read papers locked behind "pay to access" walls I would be happy to send them your way. Just e-mail me the works you would like and I can send you the PDFs. tmtoulouse 22:42, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks. When my wife was doing her MSc she had Athens access so I could do my own reading of papers. It would be nice to still have that. Asking for the PDFs means I need to know what I'm looking for in the first place. It'd be great if we could expand our anti-woo coverage instead of focussing on a pathetic old sociopath at CP. 22:51, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Scholar google is a great resource really. It allows you to see the abstracts of most papers, and you can search for "works that cite" a given paper. If you havent explored it much I highly recommend it. Google is dominating academic research now like they have everything else they touch. As for our general coverage, I agree whole completely, and have been focusing my efforts on expanding and creating articles totally unrelated to CP. Several other editors have done a lot of work on it too. It is just not as high profile as the CP stuff. tmtoulouse 22:59, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Genghis, I'm so sorry
Genghis,

I owe you an apology in particular. I'm sorry. MarcusCicero (talk) 18:51, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I wasn't aware that I had been personally slighted. As I'm not a great one for apologies forgive me if I don't thank you. I'd much rather you applied any regret that you might genuinely have to more constructive endeavours. 18:57, 14 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Such as? Any suggestions might help... Do you need me to work at something dull and dreary to prove my remorse - such as categorisations? MarcusCicero (talk) 19:00, 14 July 2009 (UTC)


 * I'm not Ed Poor, so I don't hand out assignments. You do what you want to do; maybe in your case it's more about not being destructive and antagonistic, rather than being constructive. There is room for dissent here, it's more a case of how you express it. 19:08, 14 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Not being destructive? I realise I was quite unpleasant before my recent conversion but I was never destructive. Care to elaborate? I WILL find a way to redeem myself. Even if that means scraping the very floor of hell itself for forgiveness. MarcusCicero (talk) 20:08, 14 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Your first task would be not to slobber over everyone's talk pages like a drunken lothario. You just don't get forgiveness, you have to earn it. This is not the Catholic church where you can say three Hail Marys and get a fast ticket to heaven. In the meantime, quit this trolling as I shall not respond to you further. 20:18, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

I followed your "Post-It"...
The argument you linked made throw up in my mouth a little... I only read like 3 pages, but, what the flippin' fuck are they on about? A klansman saying "Hooray creationism!"? This "Grace" just pumping out mined quote after mined quote? Tired "facts" trotted out, exhausted refutations of those facts, Creationists going "LALALALA CAN'T HEEEEEEEEEAR YOUUUUUUU!" I'm going to pound my head against my desk for a while. Thanks man... Really. ;) The Foxhole Atheist (talk) 17:59, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I found that stuff at work and just put it there so I could find it when I got home. I strongly suspect that Grace is Ken DeMeyer trolling the forums. All the links are to Conservapedia, anyone casually copying from CP probably wouldn't bother. 18:34, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Screw you, man! Now I am stuck with an image of Kendoll "tranny-trolling" forums in my mind. Maybe I can drill a hole in my forehead and burn the stupid out with some acid! Seriously, though, Ken's the one that popped into my mind when I realized they were all CP links. He's socked up before, but this was the first I am aware of where he has changed gender for it... The Foxhole Atheist (talk) 18:41, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
 * LOL. I also thought it was a woman when I saw the name Grace, but I think it is more along the lines of gOD's grace. But Ken always mask his identity anyway so why not just hide behind a woman's skirts? 18:49, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Kendoll- master of disguise. -- 18:58, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

Greatest mainpage ever
Would "mainpage classics" featuring various good ones (Like the one with hitwin and Darlin) be better? 17:53, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

StupidFuckingKiwiAceMcWickedHasNoPenisAndNeitherDoesGenghis
What I find hilarious (and rather bemusing) about MC is that he'll log on and immediatly start vandalising/trolling then kick up a huge shit storm when we block him and accuse us of being hypocrites and just as bad as CP. Perhaps he is mentally ill. 23:51, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Nah, he's just a drunken Irishman railing at the world because of his own inadequacies. Unfortunately he is not unique in that pitiful respect. 05:39, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Trouble is he's half (?I think) of our Irish editors & he gives the nation a bad rep. He's more of a caricature of an Irishman who thinks he's gotta display his "Irishness" or fail somehow. 06:27, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Of Creationism and Pseudoscience Arcana
Thanks so much, I was looking for precisely that sort of input. I struggle enough just to find the time to educate myself on biology and physics, etc., without having to worry about geology. I would send you a fruit basket, but I don't know your address, or a beer perhaps, but I'm underage. This will have to suffice! WilhelmJunker (talk) 23:28, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Sig
I hope you don't mind but I fixed your sig. You had broken it with your "tweak". 09:10, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

Carter =/= Clinton
I always have trouble differentiating these so-so US presidents. 09:11, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I tried not to be too disparaging with my comment, I knew you really meant Bill. 17:25, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
 * [[image:Bishop.gif]]Confession (good for the soul - bad for the ego) No - I really meant Carter - I conflated them in my mind. I assumed that the activity on CP had been triggered by "his" Korean visit. [[image:Ashamed.gif]] 18:02, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

User: Mt
Could you please email me the address of this guy? I'd like to send him the password to his account on RW. Thanks. -- Nx  / talk 08:45, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Piracy...
You're a Pirate now? I was only gone for the weekend, what else has changed?!?! 11:43, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Saturday was Talk Like A Pirate day. 13:22, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
 * And I missed it?! Crap. 11:18, 24 September 2009 (UTC)

The Daily Express
Did you get yesterday's edition of the Daily Express? I have, but my photocopier isn't big enough to fit the page in it. It ran the headline "Keep Out, Britain's Full Up" in regards to immigrants, so I thought it'd go well on the Daily Express article, and as you uploaded the Daily Mail picture last month I thought I'd ask. 11:18, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't bother scanning them (and I'd never buy them Mrs. K wouldn't have them in the house). I get the mini front pages from their website. And yes I did download yesterday's "Full-up" headline. I had thought of maybe having a random front page or saving some classics for an animated gif. I also plan to increase the Diana gallery as they add to it. Don't let that stop you doing it though because sometimes I'm out marauding and the Express or Mail aren't always delivered to the central-Asian steppes. 13:09, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I just d\l'd the frontpage off the site too - didn't know you could do that! Is that allowed to be reproduced here do you know? 15:36, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Well as it is for an article specifically about them it falls under the terms of fair use for comment and criticism. It's often a good idea to check Wikipedia to see what images they use and what licensing terms are applied, for an idea of what is acceptable. Fair use is not applicable when you download other people's © photographs/illustrations to pretty-up an article like Joaquin does all the time at CP. Magazine/book/newspaper covers or advertising material usually qualifies if it is about the publication or product and is reproduced in it's original context. But I'm not a lawyer so don't quote me on this. 16:35, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Too late, that was your blessing! I imagine you're write though, comment and criticism. Thanks. 13:55, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

Whilst you were maurauding...
...I pillaged your code for my (seeing as I'm clueless otherwise). Please don't send the horde after me - tribute will be delivered to your yurt. -- Psy  18:47, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm sure you could have made a better choice. 18:54, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

My quote template
HOW VERY DARE YOU?! It's actually supposed to read "Di-ah-go" for the way the character says it, but thanks anyway, I didn't mind. 18:32, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Obvious question then is why you didn't spell it "Di-ah-go"? Sorry, I was just trying to help. 19:09, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I know, I'm an idiot. Don't apologise, I appreciate your help, shipmate. 12:10, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

Bahahahaha
"I now have this creepy image of Andy in the showers at Harvard sneekily comparing cock sizes with Obama after a game of raquetball or something." Hahaha classic! AceMcWicked 21:06, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I know. It should have been spelt racquetball. 09:47, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Foolish Genghis, no wonder you couldn't conquer Afghanistan. AceMcWicked 10:20, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Ew. But that would explain everything. Didn't someone say the same thing would explain Nick Griffin? 10:53, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

Worrying ...
... about you. What's all this Torygraph reading? (how'd the acid reflux investigation go - you last said if I recall that you were going to the doc & we've heard nowt since) 19:48, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I didn't post the original Internet Laws WIGO I just saw it on Blogs and followed the link, then while perusing their Technology section saw the Dyson thing. I'll send you a p-mail about the rest. 20:01, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

Join the 'Free Marcus Cicero' defence team
Genghis, I am offering you the chance to redeem yourself and join my organisation. Marcus Cicero has been dragged through the mud and slandered. The elite are crushing him. Stand for him Genghis. Stand up for his rights.

Just ask yourself, what would Clement Atlee do? Lunacy (talk) 15:41, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
 * He would probably laugh at your predicament and your desperate bid for attention. 15:45, 10 December 2009 (UTC)


 * But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom! The unbought grace of life, the cheap defense of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone. It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honor, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. Edmund Burke. Lunacy (talk)
 * I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.  Also by Burke. 15:51, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm prepared to fight. And by fight, I mean wheel war until one of you bitches takes my mop away. &mdash; Sincerely, Neveruse513 / Talk / Block 15:53, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
 * On whose side? 15:54, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Justice's. &mdash; Sincerely, Neveruse513 / Talk / Block 15:55, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Ah, thank you for clarifying that. 15:59, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Ah yes, but you forget the misattributed Burke quotation; All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing. Lunacy (talk) 16:28, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Makes sense. So instead of doing nothing and letting evil succeed, we should act to keep you binned. 16:36, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
 * What, in your eyes, make due process and legal principles so emancipatory? It is against the police state which I'm protesting against. The trolls rights movement, just like the African American and Indian independence movement has had humble origins, but the principle of a world where trolls, regular users and computer dorks can hold hands and sing together is a principle worth fighting for. Lunacy (talk) 16:39, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Forum -> phpbb3
I've upgraded the forum to phpbb3. The conversion script went pretty smoothly, but if you see any problems you know where to find me. -- Nx  / talk 23:08, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I thought it looked a bit smarter this morning. 12:12, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Happy New Year!
Totnesmartin (talk) 00:07, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Hope you can keep contributing. I'm rather busy moving house at the moment. 10:59, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

Hi there!
Did you have a happy new year Genghis? How's tricks? Fancy unvandal binning me and demoting me back to sysop, like the good old days? MarcusCicero (talk) 13:55, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

Audi woo
I think that would make great article! 00:52, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

Loya Jirga
You've voted nine times. We only have seven votes each. Totnesmartin (talk) 11:48, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I didn't notice that. I guess I'll have to scrub the last two then. :( 11:55, 2 February 2010 (UTC)