LifesRiver.net

Yeah, just letting everybody know I haven't died or something.
I simply gave up on my blog, although I'd really love to get back into the habit of blogging often. I really enjoyed it back when I actually did it. =3 I probably should, seeing how I still get about 7-800 visitors weekly, even though this hasn't been updated in... well, a while.

Anyways, so I'm not dead.

See ya 'round!

Posted by LRJohnson at 11:04 PM | Permalink | Leave a comment

Well, I guess it's finally come.... I've hoped this day would never arrive, but I'm leaving messblack for good. It was my favorite site... like, ever. I've got a plugin for firefox, and it tells me 93% of the time I'm on the internet I'm on messblack. :P
Damn, now I'm gonna be bored.

Anyways, for those of you who care, there are a few reasons why I've decided to leave.
As some of you may know, I've been wanting to simply leave the entire internet. Leave messblack, msn, FA, take down my website, and leave my screen name for good. However, I guess I won't have to do that. I've decided just to leave messblack for good, and I have a few reasons why.

I. Future is generally a selfish prick.
A. I refuse to put up with him anymore, even though he claims everybody else is being annoying and/or selfish and doing everything wrong.
B. He did a great job of destroying his forum. There's nothing left with his site. Everything that has helped it become what it is (me) has left, and (I've) took everything with it (me).
C. Spyro, possibly the next greatest thing ever to come to messblack, is also leaving. Future says that his members need to respect him more.
i. Future, you need to show some respect to the only people that are keeping your site alive. If it wasn't for me, your site would be dead and rotting. If it wasn't for wolfbane (who, if you remember, helped get the phishing pages back up, and yet you banned him as well) and spyro and myself, your site would have died 3 times.
D. If somebody says, "Hey, what's the best msn freezer out there?" of course I'm going to say hackshadow.
i. It IS the best freezer out there. What am I supposed to do? Not help them? Point them to your freezer *cough* which doesn't work *cough*? No, I didn't think so.
ii. Even if I didn't own hackshadow, it's still the best freezer. There's no download, it uses 0 CPU, freezes faster, works on WLM 8.5 users, seriously. It's the best.
iii. No point explaining to you anyways, you don't really care. It's only good if you made it or something, idk what your reasons are, and frankly I don't really care.

II. I've put in way too much time and dedication for what I get in return.
A. I've been getting sick of Future. Sure, I love messblack and I wish I had enough to buy it from him, but when Future's the admin it's been driving me to leave.
B. I can't believe I put it with it for this long. I mean seriously. Future, you drive me nuts. There's so many things you do where there's just no logic in them at all. I swear, you have to be half retarded or something.
C. You're a great guy and I'd love to stay in touch, even after this, but seriously. There's just some stuff you do... it makes no sense.

III. All in all, I've been wanting to leave for a while.
A. Yes, it's true. I've been thinking about leaving for a while now, which is why I haven't uploaded any recent programs. You just finally pushed me into doing it.
i. Hopefully you can help all your members with phishing pages and such. I'm sure you and your expert knowledge can help all your members with all their silly little requests for free.
B. The people who already know are pretty upset about this news, a lot of them begging me to stay (thank you missy.senior, but now you know why I'm leaving). If you truly miss me, we've got our own forum being setup at http://hackshadow.net/forum. While it's not completely finished yet, we'd love for anybody to come and pay us a visit and join.
C. A load of members from messblack aren't happy with it either.
i. Messblack was leachers and lurkers more than anything. Besides them there were the few faithful members. Spyrorocks, Jazcash, Dan, Anil, alphasource (aka wolfbane) and myself for example. They're all leaving, simply because messblack no longer has anything to offer except scams on the homepage. Hell, you even got BL4Ck pissed.
ii. Sadly, Lee (from messblue) was right. Messblack is slowly dieing. It had it's run, but Future... you sure as hell slaughtered whatever was left. You said you didn't want us to leave. However, you only stated that once I took down my personal msn hack as well.
You used me, Future, you used all your members for your own greedy purposes. I'm sick of you making money off us then getting mad when I try to pay for all the work and time and hosting and bandwidth I've put into your site.

Anyways To better understand why (incase I left anything out),
Here's the conversation with Future, Spyro, and I -- [click]
Along with a conversation with Elise about him -- [click]
and of course, spyro's blog and response about the whole thing -- [click]

EDIT: I may be a little harsh here, but whatever. There's been too many family issues and friends stabbing me in the back that I don't' really care.

Posted by LRJohnson at 1:54 PM | Permalink | Leave a comment

Quote from Jeffery and I on 2girls1cup

(11:16 PM) Mc. Haxinlaggins: http://download.ir/archives.html
(11:33 PM) OMG: WHATS this?
(11:33 PM) Mc. Haxinlaggins: Downloads!
(11:34 PM) OMG: like what?
(11:34 PM) Mc. Haxinlaggins: Hosted in Iran on a private server!
(11:34 PM) Mc. Haxinlaggins: So it won't be taken down and in iran everything is legal!
---------------------------- Dude, there's everyhthing. XD
(11:34 PM) OMG: cool
(11:36 PM) OMG: cool it has the sims
(11:37 PM) OMG: its kida stupid of myself
(11:37 PM) Mc. Haxinlaggins: http://2girls1cup.com

---------------------------- Watch the whole thing! XD
---------------------------- The end is hillarious! XDE
(11:37 PM) OMG: i used to pay like $50 for a video game that i could get for free
--------------- k
(11:38 PM) OMG: are they eating there poo??!?!?!?!
---------------
(11:39 PM) OMG: omg
--------------- i think im goign to throw up....

The only reason I failed to answer (I did, but about 30 mins later) was because I was buckled over, I fell out of my chair, and I died laughing. Yes, this is not Levi any longer, this is his left foot. The only part of him that was not amused.
Epic words were said last night, and oh what I'd have given to see his face.

Edit: Anil's Reaction

Haven't seen 2girls1cup? DON'T. If you do, be sure to let us know how it went! After all, screen records or chat logs might just make it on this blog.

Posted by LRJohnson at 10:08 AM | Permalink | Leave a comment

Well, it's nearly 2 AM and I can't sleep... as I have been (I inherited your insomnia Eden. >_< You can have it back now, k thnx) for the past month or so. I've been meaning to update this blog more often (as in, more than once a month), so I figured I could make the best of my time and update the blog instead of running across who knows what along with random crap from friends. Don't ask where they get these. I have no idea, I've decided I could use this time productively and update. =3
Keep you people updated on how awesome I am.

Anywho, the main reason for this entry is I decided to check my email, and one of the more recent ones was saying a comment needed to be approved for my last entry. I read it (from LMM btw) and it really hit me I should update with all the comments and IM messages I've been receiving about it. First off, I wanted to say all you guys really cheered me up. Everybody from messblack, and all my friends in real life. Thank you so much guys, it really meant a lot to me.

Now, for Lisha's particular comment, I wanted to respond to her on here, rather than stuffing my reply in a comment or hiding it away in an email. Her comment can be found here, just so you know what I'm talking about in my reply.
Hmmm... I made this post so I could reply to her, but now that I'm actually at that point I'm speechless... LMM is a really great friend. All you guys are. It's sad when you're in stages of depression how your mind tends to make everything worse, and causes you to overlook many of the positive things (like the people who are there for you). Those of you who know me (online or in real life) know I'm rarely like that, and 99% of the time I have a positive attitude towards life.
I rarely let myself get down. I'm generally in a positive mood (and I'm forgetful, because I'm repeating myself 'cause I tend to forget things. haha), I still got my mood swings (as you guys sadly have read) but they generally go towards the more angry side of things (again.. as you have read. I apologize for the vulgarities). That burns out soon (I love comments... Any of you guys seen my mood thing on MSN? Today it stayed as "Totally Loved" for the ENTIRE DAY! I didn't get really upset, angry, depressed, or anything! I'm so proud) pretty soon, then I'll be back to my bubbly self again. Either way.... meh.
Oh, I seemed to have strayed off... Anyways, first off (because I know I'll more likely forget this)... Dan, you made me laugh. haha. I dedicate this video to you in your honor. Enjoy! *winks*
The other thing I got strayed off of... Part of LMM's comment.
LMM - "You may not think that your single life could affect millions"
Oh believe me. I have thought about that. I've told Lis my, "End of the world Theory" and I've been DIEING to post it on here! I can't believe I forgot up until now! I should probably start a draft of it, so I can remember later... Although I do have a freaking huge English assignment due on Wednesday, and I should finish that... but seeing how things are going (and the sole fact that it's 2:30 AM) I don't think I'll get anything done anytime today.
Either way, you gotta remind me to tell you about that. Muhahaha.

Well, it's a long day of work tomorrow. Tomorrow Today and tomorrow is my last days of work. Then the park closes for the summer (I work at a local theme park), and I'm off work until next year!
Although, I'll probably find another job. I like monies.

Edit:
I re-read over this, and I found a few spelling/grammar/typing errors already, so sorry about if there's some others I missed. After all, it's freaking 2:40 AM now.

Posted by LRJohnson at 1:51 AM | Permalink | Leave a comment

Alrighty, so it's been a while eh? I seem to be starting all my posts with, "It's been a while" now, because I rarely have time for anything, let alone posting on here. At least this is relaxing... Gah. I need to relax and find something better to do. I'd sketch and finish my art project, but meh. I don't really want to. I've been working on it too much.
Well, where to start?
Let's just say, those of you who know me, you don't really know me. Over the past few weeks, I've changed quite a bit. There have been life changing events happening, and I'm a completely different person. I'm listening to different music, I look kinda different, I do things differently, I talk differently, but the only thing that hasn't really changed is who I hang out with.
Oh wait, that's a lie. It's more like, "everybody's stopped hanging out with me" rather than "it hasn't changed who I hang out with."

I've decided I'm pretty bi-polar. Either that or I just have mental issues. Either way, whatever. I'll feel how I'm feeling, you guys will read this 10 mins later (yeah right, I haven't been posting enough for people to actually check), then I'll be in a perfectly bubbly happy mood. But all well. I don't really care, why should I? If I care about my mood or what I'm thinking, I'll feel totally different anyways.
I think I'm going suicidal. I've been under so much stress lately it's killing me. Not that my parents are any help. PSH. All they do is add more. They piss me off so bad sometimes.
This is related to my bipolar. I was perfectly happy because I made a great business deal and have already started making money, then my mom comes in and is all like,

"Oh Em Eff GEE! You never do anything. You're a failure. You suck at life. You have bad grades. You have no life, you don't do anything and I'm going to make you feel worse by calling you a troll and reminding you you never have no friends and nobody hangs out with you. Then just for kicks and giggles, I'll emphasize everything else just to make sure you realize how badly you suck at life and how poorly you do everything. Then, when you show me your drawings, I'll say, "Ok why are you drawing. You need to clean your room or do something productive that's not a total fucking waste of your time." Yeah, there we go. Now I'm totally the best parent ever and I really want my son to respect me."

Alright, well I have a few things to say to this.
First off, right now my grades are better than they've been in YEARS. If she thinks this will IMPROVE my grades, what the HELL is she thinking? First of all, I won't have a computer to actually DO my homework on, and second of all if she fucking takes it away I'll slit her throat, then I'll be in jail so I won't have to worry about my grades. Ah hell screw that, I'd slit my own throat then I wouldn't have to worry about anything.
Seriously though.
She never helps with any of the problems I have. I already KNOW I have no life, I KNOW I'm a failure, I KNOW I suck at life, I KNOW I'm struggling in a few classes, I KNOW I have no life, I KNOW my friends (in real life guys... I love everybody I've met online and I love through the internet, but I mean in real life, outside of the internet and the computer) are running scare, and I KNOW I can't even do anything correctly and I always screw things up.

Sorry to cut myself short, but now my mood has swinged again from pissed to heartbroken and horribly depressed.
I'm going to go now.
Bye.

Posted by LRJohnson at 5:06 PM | Permalink | Leave a comment

Here is a guest entry made by Rutger Semp! I stole the guest entry idea from Dan Hagen.

P.S. Mild language warning.

The visually challenged drive

As some of you may know I went skydiving about week ago. Ofcourse I had it filmed.

What I got was a dvd showing me getting ready to jump, jumping, and eventually hitting the ground.

Some of my friends filmed it from the landing site, and I wanted to make on big montage out of it, so I decided to rip the dvd.

...

Lets just say that didn't go as planned.

First I tried to show the dvd to my mother (who by the way totally flipped out when I told her I jumped out of a plane at 16.000 feet, lol)

I put the dvd in my dvd player, press play...and it says "NoDisc".

...ok. So I take out the dvd and I put it in my computer.

Again, nothing. #@@%^$#^#$! It worked at my dads house and at my friends house, what's wrong with this thing!?

I tell my mother I'll show her some other time, seeing as how the machine won't agree with me.

I thought maybe it'll play the ripped file, so lets just do that first.

I went on a mission troughout the internet, desperatly searching for a dvd ripper that actually WORKED.

The dvd I'm talking about was in a format called dvd+.

On my dvd drive itsself it said: DVD RW +/-, so I figured it could read and write both formats.

I downloaded like a million different dvd rippers, but none of them would rip it, or even admit there was a dvd LOADED.

Even Nero 7 (for wich I actually paid, lol) had the guts to tell me I was insane and I should insert a disc before trying to rip it.

So I went on yet another desperate search for how this was possible, and how I could get rid of the problem.

I remembered ince hearing something about different regions, and how you had to set up you dvd to your region.

So I went looking for some kind of patch or firware update that would make my computer recognize this dvd.

Nothing...

So I went into my system info, and looked for the exact type and brand of my dvd rewriter (it said nothing on the thing itsself...)

It turned out to be a Sony NEC 7170, so I went to NEC.com and went looking for my dvd player, hoping for some support or FAQ.

I was redericted to http://www.sonynec-optiarc.com/products/hhid_dvdrw/index.html# , Where I found the specs of my DVD...

It can WRITE this:

DVD+/-ROM

DVD+/-Video

CD-ROM(mode1,mode2)

CD-ROM XA/

CD-I

CD-DA(Audio CD)

CD Extra

CD-TEXT

PhotoCD

Video CD

it can READ:

DVD- ROM

CD- ROM

WHAT THE SON OF A SHIT IN A BAG OF FUCKING NUTCRAP!?

IT CAN WRITE STUFF IT COULDN'T READ BACK!?!?!

HOW IS THAT USEFULL, OR AT ALL LOGICAL!?!?!?

I COULD BY ACCIDENT BACKUP MY ENTIRE HARDISK ON DVD+, AND I'D NEVER BE ABLE TO ACCES IT!

THE STUPID THING IS LIKE A BLIND MAN! HE CAN DRAW A PICTURE, BUT HE COULDN'T LOOK AT IT AGAIN!!!!

WHY FOR THE LOVE OF GOD WOULD YOU MAKE AND SELL SUCH A CONTRAPTION!? WHY THE CRAP DID THEY BUILD ONE IN MY COMPUTER!

ITS ABSOLUTE FULL 100% SHIT!

I'D HAVE TO BUY A SECOND DRIVE TO OPEN WHAT I MADE ON THE FIRST ONE!

....wait a sec..THOSE FILTHY MONEYHUNGRY BASTARDS!

that's it. I'm gonna sue them

And I'm gonna make sure all evidence against me is put on DVD+,

so that it gets lost forever....

Well, long story short, this pissed him off. I thought it was a laugh, hopefully you guys did as well!
Sorry for the lack up updates guys. I've been extremely busy, as some of you may know.

Posted by LRJohnson at 11:26 AM | Permalink | Leave a comment

After a recent (bad) hosting experience with 007iHost I have finally coughed it up and started paying for hosting. I know what you're thinking, expensive eh? Normally this would be true, however I've stumbled upon (thanks to SpyroRocks) host cheaper than the yearly price of my domain name ($6). It's not a host that's recently sprung up hoping for cheap cash, because it's been around for quite some time. It's NearlyFreeSpeech.net.
I've read the entire ToS, Privacy Statement, Pricing, FAQ's, along with everything else. I've scavenged the entire site for Fine Print, but I've had no luck. This thing seems seemed too good to be true.
After registration and a free starting amount ($0.02, but that'll get you quite a long way with this host), so far everything is actually following through. I've had no complaints, it was easy to understand and setup, it includes the php mail() function, you have virtually 100% control over your site.
There's no ads, no contract, there's simply no strings attached.
I've been using this host for quite a while now (for my site, and everything on it. Not my blog though, it's still directly on blogger), and my monthly total (for August) turned out to be $0.0019. That's for bandwidth and disk space.
That's a, "Wow," moment right there.

What's that? There's MORE? *Salesman-type voice*
Why yes, there IS more. You're probably wondering why it's called Nearly Free Speech, right? That's because you can host virtually anything (No duh Levi...). Yes, that IS virtually, so that does mean there are some thing's you can't host. AKA The stuff you still couldn't put on the internet (legally) if you hosted it on your own server. Let's just put it that way. :)

If you're looking towards it, or are looking into transferring, I'd personally recommend it. The only dealie going on (right now) is planned downtime on September 10th. After reading the article it states there's no deadline for when it will be back up and running, so I can only hope.

I guess I'm going to temporarily switch to a free host... for the 10th at least.

I hate switching hosts.

Posted by LRJohnson at 11:16 PM | Permalink | Leave a comment

I doubt very many of you visit the homepage, and probably just come straight here, right? Well, if you have been there, you've probably noticed a few minor changes. Now it's not all ugly and white with loads of crap on it, but instead the background and text/link colors match this blog, and I've added a 'bookmarks' section.
This is where I have simply exported my Firefox bookmarks, and uploaded them to my website. There's a section on 'Hacking' none-the-less, however I've taken a few of the more 'serious' ones out, due to me not wanting to get screwed over by my web host. The few I have there now are probably against the ToS, but I'll re-read it, then contact the administrator later so I can be sure.
You might want to check them out, or you might want to stay away from it. You're choice, but they are kinda cool. So far I've gotten the most output from the 'Videos' section, seeing how funny they all are. :P
The next most popular link would be the Hacker Test. What the point of it is, is to get the password and 'hack' the site. That's worded a little funny, so you might want to go there to see what I mean. The first level is pretty easy, so I'll show/tell you how to pass Level 1, but from there on you're on your own.
Level 1
Right (pretty much) anywhere on the page, then select, "View Page Source." This may be called something different on Internet Explorer (I use FireFox), but I'm not sure.
You should now see a page with lots of funny text and 'commands' on it. This is just basic HTML, so it's not that hard and don't start freaking out.
Somewhere in the html you should see the following-
{
var a="null";
function check()
{
if (document.a.c.value == a)
{
document.location.href="http://www.hackertest.net/"+document.a.c.value+".htm";
}
else
{
alert ("Try again");
}
}
}

The main part of this would be -
var a="null";
function check()
{
if (document.a.c.value == a)
{
document.location.href="http://www.hackertest.net/"+document.a.c.value+".htm";
What this translates to is-
Variable A is equal to "null"
It checks what you typed into the box, and if it is equal to Variable A (null), then it will take you to http://www.hackertest.net/Variable A.htm.
Remember Variable A is equal to "null" so if you enter "null" it will take you to the page, "Http://www.hackertest.net/null.htm"

So there's how Level 1 works, now can you figure out Level 2?

Posted by LRJohnson at 10:54 PM | Permalink | Leave a comment