LifesRiver.net

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 S.J. Fox 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 S.J. Fox at 10:54 PM | Permalink | Leave a comment

Yesterday on September 1st I was bored for EVER, then I got the idea to call up Dan at we decided to hang out. I went over there, and we were hanging out for a bit, messing with some stuff on the computer, we played the Wii (Resident Evil 4 and Metriod Prime 3) and along with some Virtual Console games. We went to Subway to eat later on, and I had the meatball marinara! yay... details...
FarmerBB, (aka Kilroy) came over as well, along with Adrian. It was over all fun. We had a pizza, we played VC (Virtual Console) games on the Wii, and we even had four player Tennis (on the Wii, of course). After that we played Mario Kart 64, and I remembered a glitch I saw on youtube... I figured what the crap, and we gave it a shot.
The glitch is that on Moo Moo Farm, 150cc (and on the Wii of course) that everything will be sped up like mad. That's a bad explanation, but heh... I'll just find a video.



This particular video however, portrays it as a bit slower than it really is... it's actually a bit faster than the video looks, but all well. One good thing from this video is now I know it works on Bowser's Castle too. I'm thinking of buying this game on the VC just for the Moo Moo Farm (and Bowser's Castle) glitch. It's so freaking fun it's not even funny.

Then to top it all off--



Yes, this is Dan actually beating his TV with a 2x4. No, it's not acted out. His TV was acting funny/fuzzy, so... he grabs a 2x4 and starts beating his TV with it. Luckily Kilroy was there to get the shot, and comment on the stupidity of the TV rather than Dan, the one beating the TV (I'm JK Dan. haha)... I was on the right of Kilroy, and Adrian was on the left... so yeah... haha. I'm sure you were dying to know that.

As a final update, some of you guys persistantly bug me about having too much time on my hands, then I ran upon this article, and Truth be told I think it's a good idea and I'll probably do that from now on ;) (I'm kidding).

Posted by S.J. Fox at 7:02 PM | Permalink | Leave a comment