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It always amazes me how people get here – everyday someone does by typing ‘pigeon porn’ into Google. Kid you not. That means there are loads of total weirdos out there looking for pigeons who do porn. Jesus Christ. As you know, pigeons are at it all the time anyway so why the fuck would we want to make movies about it?

To all those utter freaks in search of some ‘hot pigeon on pigeon action’… just look out of your window! Go to any park at any time. Walk down the street. You’ll see more of it out there than you’ll ever find on the internet. Guess the only difference is you won’t be able to get off on it coz, if you did, I’m pretty sure you’d be arrested – and probably sectioned.

What’s funny though is I’m number one. Top of 643,000 refs for pigeon porn on Google. Ok – so I mentioned it once when I took a couple of pics of some horny dudes getting it on in Timisoara, but really.

Maybe the well dodgy term ‘Pigeon Fancier’ is in fact referring to a searcher of pigeon porn? If that’s the case, there’s fucking millions of them out there.

Maybe I’m missing a trick…?

The question that’s been eating at you for so long, finally, has been answered: monkeys like porn, too! Researchers at Duke University (birthplace of mental_floss!) conducted an experiment to find out how adult male rhesus macaques responded to monkey versions of porn and trashy celeb magazines. Here’s how it worked:

Four of the male monkeys sat in front of computer screens. They were rewarded with juice whenever they shifted their gaze from one image to another. Some images resulted in more juice than other photos. When given the choice between a photo of a low-status male with a high juice reward and a photo of a female’s hindquarters, the male test subjects refused the extra juice so that they could gaze at the sexy female images. They also “paid” with juice to see photos of high-status males. Conversely, the male monkeys required extra payment, meaning more juice, to view the faces of low-status males and females.

It seems to make perfect sense that the male monkeys would “pay” to see female hindquarters; more unexpected was their response to “high-status” males. Interestingly, even after having paid to see those male pictures, the monkeys wouldn’t maintain eye contact with the pictured monkeys for very long; one researcher explains their behavior this way: “‘It is like a star-struck fan who waits for hours to see a favorite movie star, say Brad Pitt, but then is so star-struck that she immediately averts her eyes downward shyly.’”

Yet another seemingly human-like bit of monkey behavior: apparently monkeys are willing to pay for sex as well as trade juice for porn. That’s right, the world’s oldest profession has made inroads into the animal kingdom — Animal Behavior reported earlier this year that male macaques in Indonesia were known to trade grooming services for sex. The grooming was always done first, offered up as a kind of pre-sex ritual.

So with all this evidence pointing to monkeys sharing our obsessions with sex and celebrities, can we say with certainty that monkeys and man are two of a kind? Perhaps this vintage sketch from The State can shed some light on the question:

Give a monkey some spending money, and he’ll blow it on pictures of women monkeys. He’ll also pay to see dominant monkeys. But you’ll have to pay him to look at inferior monkeys. That’s the upshot of a study out of Duke that was designed to explore the ‘social machinery of the brain with an eye toward helping autism patients.’ Next up — seriously — the researchers want to run the same test on Joe Sixpack (sans the monkey business).”

I probably shouldn’t post this but it is true …

 

“T’is to know how young love has died,

To know someone alone has cried

But memories are ours to keep

To live them again in our every single dream.”

Your script should be in /etc/init.d/ directory.
Then you have to make a symlink from your run-level directory.
I.e you’re in run-level 5 (multiuser with X)

chmod +x

cp /etc/init.d
ln -s /etc/init.d/ /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S50
ln -s /etc/init.d/ /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/K50

This is a real posting at craigslist classifieds: There is a sad truth to the world today. I am part of a dying breed of people known as “shell users.” We are an old-fashioned bunch, preferring the warm glow of a green screen full of text over the cold blockiness of a graphical interface. We use ssh, scp, and even occassionally ftp. Back in the days before high-speed connections (”broadband”), we would dial up during off-hours to avoid being slammed with huge phone bills. The whole “Microsoft Windows” fad will fade away sooner or later, but in the interim, our kind is facing extinction.

Because there are fewer and fewer of us, I must help keep our lineage alive. I am looking for someone to help me do this. I need a woman (obviously) who is willing to raise a child with me in the method of Unix. Our child will be introduced to computers at a young age, and will be setting emacs mode before any other child can even read. I earn a sufficient income to support a family in modest comfort. Other than the fact our child will be bright, text-based and sarcastic, we will otherwise be a normal family. We will even go to Disney World and see Mickey Mouse.

So, if you are a woman between the ages of 23 and 43 who is ready to raise a child in the way of the shell, let me know so we can begin the process. (If you are ready to raise more than one child, even better.)

PS – yes, this is for real. Given the right person, I would obviously propose before we … call fork().
PPS – I only set emacs mode for my ksh session. I only edit files using vi. Just wanted to clear that up. And I’m looking to raise the child(ren) as a dedicated couple, so if you aren’t interested in being married, you may wish to select() a different posting.

N.B. – on the issue of relocation. I live in a place where my income/expense ratio is proper (i.e., greater than 2:1). I’m willing to live anywhere in the world where this remains true. I’ve been to much of the country as well as foreign nations. There are no limits to where I will live *so long as the job market for unix admins is robust enough to be sustainable.* And yes, I am interested in a strictly monogamous situation. I’ve been known to actually turn down offers of “two chicks at the same time.”

By ReverseMonster

Installing MPPE Support Most people want their tunnels encrypted. Check the version of your kernel; if it is below 2.6.15-rc1 then you do not have MPPE support. To check further, test like this:

# modprobe ppp-compress-18 && echo success

If this fails, follow the Debian MPPE HOWTO, then return here.

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Installing the Server ProgramInstall the pptpd package from the Debian Project:

# apt-get install pptpd

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Configure IP Address RangeEdit the file /etc/pptpd.conf for the IP address range, for example:

localip 192.168.0.1 remoteip 192.168.0.234-238,192.168.0.245

Note: see pptpd.conf(5) for more details on the other options.Note: you will need to restart pptpd to make changes to /etc/pptpd.conf effective:

# /etc/init.d/pptpd restart

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Adding UsersConfigure /etc/ppp/chap-secrets for the accounts, for example:

# echo "username pptpd password *" >> /etc/ppp/chap-secrets

Note: this method has all the usernames in one file. There are other ways, including authentication using Radius, or using Samba. Check the mailing list (subscribe, archives).Note: you do not need to restart pptpd, a change to chap-secrets is effective for the next connection.

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TestingAttempt a connection from a client. On successful connection, a new interface should be created (e.g. ppp0), and the remote IP address of the interface should be pingable. If so, the rest of your problems are likely to be routing.Note: if you need to set up a Debian test client, see the PPTP Client Debian HOWTO. The test client cannot be on the same host, it doesn’t work.To diagnose faults, enable the options debug dump in /etc/ppp/pptpd-options. The change is effective on the next connection. The debug output goes to /var/log/debug, and the dump output and usual output to /var/log/messages.

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PatchingIf you need to adopt a source code change made in CVS after the version you are running, see our Applying patches to Debian pptpd page.

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Performance NotesOn a Debian system there may be scripts run by pppd when a network interface is brought up. These scripts are in the /etc/ppp/ip-up.d directory.Some of these scripts may run with incorrect assumptions … in particular the Debian Sarge exim4 package includes a script /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/exim4 that restarts exim4 or runs the queue. The assumption in this script is that the system has just connected to the internet through the PPP link.You may wish to customise this script. If your server has a default route via an ethernet interface, then either remove the script or add an exit command near the top.

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