Random Musings - Day #242

Dizzee Rascal toasts another #1 hit with "Holiday". It's nothing to do with the old Madonna song though. David Guetta slips to #2 and the Black eyed peas at #3.

The Notting Hill Carnival is in full swing.

Random Musings - Day #241

Never forget that Paula Abdul started off life as a chereographer and here's an interesting duel with Janet Jackson at the 1990 American Music Awards. Check out some Video tracks from 1989.

Random Musings - Day #240

Well I forgot to post this article about Amitjo Kajila, the prison warden who lost her job because of her good looks.

It looks like Google Earth has spotted the Loch Ness monster.

Now gone in 60 seconds is your WPA key. Meanwhile Apache's website was hacked.

Be careful of researching using google, Sky found out to their cost as they used a twitter photo on their website and that twitter found out and seeked revenge.

Random Musings - Day #239

More one-liners
No, this is not comedy but there are so many ways to kill a dead donkey. All these one-liners do the exact same thing and that's add a tab and 'Y' at the end of each line in a file...

for I in `cat t.txt`; do echo -e "$I\tY"; done

for I in `cat t.txt`; do printf "%s\tY\n" $I ; done

cat t.txt | xargs -i echo -e "{}\tY"

I prefer using the for construct in shell, as I can remember that and you can find a way of doing things with it. That's just a personal preference. Here's another example, generating IP address on-the-fly and look the dns name up.

for I in $(seq 255); do host 192.168.0.$I; done

Random Musings - Day #238

I watching skins tonight and heard the old bronski beat song, "Small town boy". The acoustic version played is by Andre Herman Dune. I think it's an adequate cover but I don't think you can go wrong with the song. If I sung it, it probably sound good too...

Songs on my mind,
Corporation of One's original version of "The Real Life".
The mashup of "You rock my world" and "Rock your body".
The space cowboy mix of discostick song by Lady Gaga.
The Legend of Zelda sounds of Unicorn Kid with "Wee monster".

Fancy ways to...
Remove last character from a string and merge lines. This led to the following one-liner!

grep "172.16.0.1" auth-sel-1.txt | grep "MS0" - | awk '{print $2}' | uniq | sort | rev | cut -b 2- - | rev

grep "172.16.1.4" auth-sel-1.txt | grep "MS0" - | awk '{print $2}' | uniq | sort | sed 's/:/,/g' - | tr -d '\n'

Scuba is evidently not only used diving but for Oracle databases

Random Musings - Day #237

I thought it was witty no-one want to do karaoke because there was a famous singer in the house. So Ian Brown had to sing karaoke to get thing moving.

"First cut is the deepest" suddenly appeared in my mind and Cat Stevens originally sung it. Rod Stewart covered and more recently Sheryl Crow.

Enjoying the mashup video of Michael Jackson and Justin Timberlake.

Flicking through the tv and saw the cute Yu Ram Cha taking on the boys at pool.

Random Musings - Day #236

I went to Efe's Restaurant in London for some Turkish action. Friendly lot and the chicken was extra tender. I am starting to wonder if halal food is the way forward. Every time I have had halal chicken, it's been tender!

I heard a weird track on the radio that the dj claimed it sounded like the legend of zelda. It's Unicorn Kid's "Wee monsters".

Wow apparently, You got the love dates back to 1984 when Little Nikki McGee did an evangelistic version.

It's weird, there's a end of a song that it's been in my head, that I've just worked to be a different mix of "Where love lives" which I am still desperately seeking the original version from 1990, which may or may not be the sauna/swedes in the area/spring mix. Mustn't forget the sweetbox funky mix of Culture Beat's "Crying in the rain!"

In the meantime, found a couple of places to look for vinyl records including Energy Flashes and Vinyl Searcher

A good list of classic dance songs can be found at uk music

1. twin hype - for those who like to groove
2. dionne - come get my lovin
3. raze - break for love
4. corporation of one - this is the real life
5. richie rich - salsa house
6. wood allen - airport 89
7. mr lee - get busy
8. 2 in a room - somebody in the house say yeah
9. rhythm is rhythm - nude photo
10.chicco secchi project - whip of the rhythm
11.pin up girls - take me away
12.quartz - meltdown
13.rickster - night moves
14.double trouble feat rebel mc - street tough
15.primal scream - don't fight it feel it
16.grandmaster & melle mel - white lines 89
17.land of fun - rock me in the basement
18.de-lite - wild times
19.a guy called gerald - voodoo ray (rham on acid mix)
20.doug lazy - let it roll
21.neon - don't mess with the this beat
22.slam - eterna
23.technotronic - pump up the jam
24.the beat club - dreams are made to be broken
25.secchi - flute on
26.adeva - i thank you
27.orbital - chime
28.homeboy, hippie and a funky dread - total confusion
29.together - hardcoar uproar
30.rhythm is rhythm - strings of life
31.frankie knuckles - tears
32.sueno latino - sueno latino
33.sterling void - alright
34.chuck jackson - all over the world
35.ce ce rogers - someday
36.kariya - let me love you for tonight

Random Musings - Day #235

David Guetta scores another UK #1 but this time, it's with Akon on the song called "Sexy chick". Black eyed peas are back at #2 and Tinchy Stryder is at #3.

If you spot someone trying to ask you to check out photos of yourself at friends.gallery-spaces.com, it's a virus. Not only that I believe it originated from Mexico much like swine flu.
Here's a nice list of known malicious sites

Random Musings - Day #234

Gosh my mind is empty.
Equal right for women as US women are fighting the right to bare...

Random Musings - Day #233

Another dimension by timmy vegas samples crystal waters' gypsy woman and sounds like the ones' flawless.

Random Musings - Day #232

As Spurs hit the top of the premiership, out of the 16 games so far in the season, there has been no drawn games!
The berliner mascot has been everywhere at the World Athletics championships and has had his fair share thrills and spills including dropping 400m champion Melanie Walker

Random Musings - Day #231

Controversially, the winner of the women's 800m race may be a man.

Random Musings - Day #230

Lance Armstrong is cool. He decided to tweet that he was in Glasgow and if anyone wanted to go on a ride. 300 people showed up.

The hacking community now descends on Malaysia as that is hosting Hack-in-the-box. Not to be confused with hackday, hackaday or Music Hackday

Random Musings - Day #229

Just a last thing about Eindhoven. Those clear plastic bags that you are required to put liquids in cost 20 cents. That's the first airport I know of where you get charged for that.

Black eyed peas are still at #1 with "I've gotta feeling". #2 is with Tinchy Stryder. Calvin Harris ia at #3 with "Ready for the weekend", which is the name of his new album.

There's a strange (space cowboy) mix going about of Lady Gaga's "Love game (discostick)"

Random Musings - Day #228

If you get stuck on an isolated train station (e.g. St Johns), you are pretty reliant on the ticket machine. Dutch train ticket machines are awful. The ones on the station in Nunspeet were not accepting cards nor notes, which meant I had find 20 euros in change (the smallest value coin is 2 euros). Apparently, if you tried to buy on the train, you would be charged 30 euros penalty on top of the fare. Very annoying. Furthermore, the local restaurant refused to give change when asked. So had to get a ticket to the stopover and then buy another ticket from there. Funny, how they are hardly no tunnels in the Netherlands. It's probably because the country is newish, particularly with land being reclaimed, etc. But it's mainly because it is flat.

Also if you want to upset the Dutch, tell them that you think Holland and Netherlands are the same. Apparently not so. Technically, Holland is part of the Netherlands.


Sport
Tiger Woods failed to win after leading going into the final round. YE Yang won the USPGA becoming the first Asian winner of a golfing major. Usain Bolt broke the 100m record down to 9.58s when winning the World Championships.

Random Musings - Day #227

Spent the day, helping out har-fm @ har 2009 and ending up doing reports/interviews from the Lockcon #2 tournament, which is essentially locksport.
Also interviewed a lovely lady about gogbot. I was using a borrowed Zoom Handy 4 Recorder to do my interviews.

Now I'm relaxing in a lounge.

Just a settle an argument. It's tidbit and not titbit as shown on google fight.

Random Musings - Day #226

Too many things going on at har2009 including the token system being forged as some bright spark made their own counterfeit tokens. The game was up when someone went overboard and printed 100 euro tokens which don't exist. Still it served to prove a point really.

It was funny that the Lounge started playing Rick Astley. As it turned out, there is jukebox that is accessible twitter (on @HARLounge)

Dan Kaminsky's talk on x509 drew the most attention particularly as he swigging from the JD bottle.

Also some more dancing

Random Musings - Day #225

Never get an early flight if it's too far away. Nearly missed the flight to Eindhoven as I got to Stansted at 6:15am about 40 minutes. I thought as long as we checked in that would be that. But going through the checks took a long time so as it turns out the baggage could have got there without their owner.

Anyhow at har2009 to attend a few seminar sessions, etc and to do a bit of camping. I didn't get a lot of sleep beforehand.
The night was freezing.

Random Musings - Day #224

Tidying up my profile as much as I can and why do have separate bookmarks for Firefox and IE.
Anyhow a couple of pearls found are the On the buses on speed, Blakey goes to the states and Word Origins.

There must have been a reason why I have Metadot portal server on my list but debugging a perl program is always useful.
There's another alternative to keepvid and that's video downloader

I have played neopets before and Reon Kadena is pretty.

If you want to go somewhere check out Oz Experience and Magicbus NZ.

A good guide to the american charts can be found at allmusic. The number 1's on the billboard and dance charts can be found at wikipedia.

body wave tutorial
In case I forget again, the gym I went to in Newcastle was called Body zone

Random Musings - Day #223

I encountered this witty article, which featured Don King as a guest writer talking about routers.

There are several system cleanup software out there including Winsysclean and Registry Mechanic and Registry Clean Expert. All of which, you unfortunately shell out some cash to use freely, with the exception of ccleaner.

There is also bootvis and startup inspector

Random Musings - Day #222

Here's a good way to configure Windows XP. There is a useful tutorial to assign permissions is but I don't think it works well in XP Home.

Here's an overview of the differences between XP Home and XP Professional.

Random Musings - Day #221

Just quick one really. Very tired from going to Reading. That's very vibrant especially as it is a university town with the busiest place being of all places Yates. But no hanging around the pubs and bars for me as it was work for me.

The UK chart is really static with no less that 5 former #1s in the top 11 and that's excluding the current #1. So you could say 6 of the top 11 have been #1. New #1 as Amelle from the sugababes teams up with Tinchy Stryder on "Never leave you". Black eyed peas are back to #2 and Mr Hudson and Kanye at #3

Random Musings - Day #220

Here's some points to look at... Password cracking,
Terminal Server Grinding,
15 minute pen test part 1 and part 2

In Reading over the weekend for work. Err have a look on google maps for Reading FC. Half the pitch looks to be metallic!
I tell you Reading is very vibrant over the weekend. It's a real shame, I am too tired from working to enjoy it. I mean the Yates for example was packed out and people queuing a fair way. You probably wouldn't get that any other Yates in the country!

Random Musings - Day #219

Sometimes I surprise myself. Despite the things going on in my life, my sub-conscience is quite positive. I dreamed that I was telling someone

For every one, two people that have a bad life like me, there's another one, two, three, four people that things worse than you

There's probably going to be something made of this. But there are a lot of twitter results coming up for camtweet... specifically this one

Briefly, Susan Boyle has had one too many makeovers as now she looks like Anthea Turner

Irony strikes as the man who appears in the swine flu adverts (catch it, bin it, kill it) has got swine flu himself.

Random Musings - Day #218

Candy
The Cameo song, Candy seems to have a dance for it...

Two steps right, two steps left, two steps back, one step forward, one step back, turn left... repeat

In sad news, Renato who had a Christmas #1 in 1982 with Renee on "Save your love" and of course song on the old just one cornetto advert, died from a brain tumour

A side note check out some of the best remembered 80s adverts

Random Musings - Day #217

At the recent world swimming championships, 43 world records were broken. Partly due to the controversial polyurethane suits. It's amazing how difficult it is to get on. I heard rumours it takes over half-hour to put the suit on. But it does work.

Random Musings - Day #216

RDP can be made more with secure sockets.

Ever wondered why the administrator account disappears when another account is created. This explains how to get around it.

Was reminded that former Flippiano President Corazon Aquino died recently.

Random Musings - Day #215

It's funny that someone said, 'the more free time you have, the less work you get done'.

OPP stands for Other People's property and not Ontario Provincial Police.

One of the main perl websites, perlmonks got hacked and the implications could be serious in that users may have the same account set up for the perl repository, pause.

And finally, good old Dickie Davies get a mention on msn

Random Musings - Day #214

An amazing story as it turns out as Catriona Matthew won the women's British Open. What made it amazing was she only gave birth to a second girl 11 weeks old at ripe age of 39 and was also caught in a fire in a hotel the previous week.
I was a bit curious about her playing partner on the final round, Christina Kim who likes to wear berets backwards. With her pigtails, she look a bit like cammy (or to be more exact a cross between cammy and chun li). She's a got a twitter page.

The UK singles chart is turning into a merry-go-round as the top 3 is the same as last week but in a different order and certainly not in the order expected. Having got stuck at #3 last week, Black eyed peas climb to the top displacing JLS at #2 whilst Mr Hudson and Kanye West fail to improve their debut entry at #2 last week as they slip to #3.

It's funny whilst waiting for a bus, I started to retrance those dance steps that I saw on youtube. Well unbeknown to me, a couple of kids were looking at me practising and wanted to know what/how I was doing that. Made me think if I were younger or more to the point why didn't do dancing sooner?

Random Musings - Day #213

Well that's it for the John the baptist of British ladies tennis as Anne Keothavong messes up her knee and misses the rest of the year. She's done really well to be the first women to make top 50 for a long time and with the future looking promising (i.e. Laura Robson and Heather Watson), there's possibly better to come. I fear Keothavong's ranking though. She'll probably fall outside the top 100 as a result. Look what happened to Maria Sharapova. She fell from being #1 at the French Open 2008 to being out of the top 100 after a long term shoulder injury in March 2009.

I didn't know ladies golf was... cool? Apparently Natalie Gublis, a winner on the LPGA tour has been on FHM. I've only really heard of Michelle Wie who I thought would be dominating the sport by now.

I've been looking at tents as I have to go a conference in a field. go-camping is a good start. But having a head-scratch about tents. I've seen reviews and those tents that claim to be 2-man tents should be for 1. Likewise, 3-man tents should be for 2 and 4-man tents should be for 3, etc. The lightest tents are the quickdraw ones but are notoriously hard to put away. This video shows it can be easily be put away given a good technique.