Random Musings - Day #303

The Japanese Premier, Yugo Hatoyama maybe launching an attack on the charts. Meanwhile Wham's "Freedom" was #1 many years ago.

It's 1000 days from the start of the Olympics.

Any interesting script in two lines to mess around with a script file and generate a listing ports in a way your mother likes it.

grep "^10.0.0.1" tcpscan1.ts | awk '{print $3$2}' | cut -c2- - | sed 's/)/|(/' > ,
for I in `cat ,`; do echo "$I/tcp)"; done | sed 's/|/ /'

More bits of useful scripting relate format modifiers and one-liners for sun. Talking of sun here's a blueprints guide

Random Musings - Day #302

Here's some Oddball stories for October.

Details about Solaris patching including PCA. A couple mroe scripts to help identify patch issues at bolthole and Waider

I went to the Floating Lotus and thinking that place might be a fad, I was pleasantly surprised to find food pretty decent. I particularly enjoyed the tender beef dish but the fabulous fried seafood with salt and pepper was the best.

It reminded of another place I went past whilst on a canal trip in Regent's Park called the Feng Shang Princess.

Random Musings - Day #301

Been very impressed with Mya's performance on Dancing with the stars. Only Len Goodman doesn't seem to be totally impressed but he does know that Mya has done a bit of dancing before.

Here's an allegedly generic-friendly client friendlysql.com

Random Musings - Day #300

I was looking at the weather map and noticed how close Scotland is to Northern Ireland. On closer inspection, it doesn't appear as close as it is from Dover to Calais but apparently you can get from Larne (N.I.) to Cairnryan (Scotland) in an hour by ferry!

McDonalds have pulled out of Iceland. You can work out on your own what the story is about. ;)

It's all about the cut. Once again, computerhope have a good guide.
Actually I am trying to split, mix'n'match fields delimited from a csv file. There's a bunch of useful linux and unix commands at laynetworks and one must get up to speed in using the powerful but tempermental awk.

Random Musings - Day #299

[Oct 26]
In Belfast and enjoying it. I'm by the river (laggan).
I jogged all the way around town, past the city centre, around the river, up to the university and up to St Peter's Cathedreal.
Everyone seems to smoke in Belfast, why I don't know.
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Random Musings - Day #298

[Oct 25]
I've not checked properly but I believe Cheryl Cole is #1 and x-factor now sucks as the wrong group goes out.
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Random Musings - Day #297

This weekend sees the World Crazy golf championships. Then there's also Rumfest.

FA Cup first round draw looks interesting. Both Oxford sides (United and City) are in the first round. Other interesting sides include: the Staines massive, Bromley, Sutton United and arguably the dangerous floater in the whole competition that no-one wants to face, last year's Johnstones paints winners, Luton Town.

Random Musings - Day #296

Asterix is 50 years old!

Saw VI was in general release in the UK and all-in-all, it had a bit more substance than the previous two disappointments. Jigsaw's character was more featured than the previous two could have something to do with it. Saw VI does indeed take a pop at the Insurance industry. Oh yes! Churchill could be next. Mind, I could swear that a couple of games were taken straight out of the industrial zone of the Crystal Maze.

I actually hope there is not another sequel to this. But sure enough the ending was open enough for that in mind.

Here is how to hping2. System Configuration guidance is available from many sites.

Random Musings - Day #295

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Random Musings - Day #294

Norwich has a church on every corner in the town centre or that's what it appears to be. Still I managed to visit the castle and the central Cathedral over lunchtime. Unfortunately everything goes dead quiet after 5pm. Even the bus station was dead between 7-9pm.

Random Musings - Day #293

Off to Norwich via Stratford. Annoyingly at Stratford, I had to wait for the ticket machine to go past 9:30am so I can get the off-peak ticket as those tickets do appear on screen before 9:30am. Nearly missing my train. There's a countdown clock next to the station, presumably for the Olympics 2012. It is set to over 1000 days still.
I did some running in the evening and almost found myself on the way to Ipswich somehow. Plumstead is in London but there is also one near Norwich.

Random Musings - Day #292

Forgot to mention Beth Tweedle and Lee Westwood were also winners for Britain. I would be slightly worried if Clare Balding interviewed Beth Tweedle at the Sports Personality of the year, particularly after her comments in her interview with Liam Tredwell after he won the grand national. Clint Eastwood showed up and took part in the ceremonies for the Lyon football game.

Rumfest is coming the following weekend.

Also saw Micro Men

Random Musings - Day #291

The fairytale story has been completed for Jensen Button. To think at the start of the year, he was without a car and likely to be sitting a job centre with us mere mortals rather than sitting on the grid makes this turnaround sublime.

Beachballgate has turned a few heads, particularly as it turns out, it probably should have disallowed as it was foreign object that interfered with the course of play. When I say foreign, I don't mean the players! Check it out for yourself as Darren Bent scored via a deflection from a liverpool beach ball.

Wow, the knives are already out for Whitney Houston after a sub-par performance. Her performance was ok and she looked good but it was her post-performance interview that was questionable. She seemed very slow, forgetful and unsure when interviewed about the competition. More thoughts found at unreality.

Talking of x-factor, last week's performers on the show debuted at #1 and #2 on the UK chart. Alexandra Burke long-awaited comeback song "Bad boys" gives her second #1. Whilst Robbie Williams is back with "Bodies". Meanwhile last week's #1, Chipmunk is now #3.

Random Musings - Day #290

I had some plumbers round and was looking at B&Q and Wickes

Random Musings - Day #289

Leona Lewis is ok after a punch in the face!

Random Musings - Day #288

Huge patch Tuesday updates. Sky has free news. Family guy helps out Microsoft. London techies get their kit off for charity. People are finding resetting accounts triggering account lockouts on twitter.

Random Musings - Day #287

I've lost a bit of respect for laterooms as they used to be very good at giving discounted hotels but these days everywhere I look they are very expensive now and in fact other sites are now cheaper.

Random Musings - Day #286

Fame is a remake of the 1980 movie. But like some of students at the performing arts, this movie was going nowhere.

Random Musings - Day #285

Not that impressed with comparison site, electrical comparison. It doesn't seem give much discrepancy between stores.

Here's how to keep your teeth white-clean

Random Musings - Day #284

Chipmunk is #1 with Oopsy Daisy. Saturdays at #2 with Forever is over. Jay-Z is #3 with Empire state of mind.

BTW I forgot to post last week and last week's chart had Taio Cruz at #1 (this week at #4), David Guetta with Akon at #2 and Jay-Z at #3.

Interesting blog where there is some commentary is at wwadh.

Random Musings - Day #283

England lost in Ukraine 1-0 after Robert Green was sent off. I found it amusing when a sky reporter said "England didn't get the rub of the green" referring to England's possession in the second half.
Just watched the start of "Murder by Numbers" and I swear my default alarm tone uses the same opening sequence.

Random Musings - Day #282

The aptly named whosampled is a database of songs that sampled other songs. I don't think the database is very big. A lot of sampled songs that I can think of, are not there. But then again, I can think of quite obscure samples. It may well be tailored for R&B tracks too.

Random Musings - Day #281

This article would scare people into believing SSL VPNs is not up to the task at all. Though it does have some good suggestions on handling a SSL VPN on a client device.

Random Musings - Day #280

The nicely named stackoverflow is a Q&A site for proggies. Some very nice codes and tools can be found at remote exploit. Downloads can be found at download32.

I thought I had this in my blog somewhere but some funny stuff with Super Mario Bros including the Super Mario Corrupter, Super Mario Gold Run, Super Mario rescuing the Princess

Random Musings - Day #279

I stayed at Jesmond in Newcastle. Seems pretty nice enough. There was a bar beneath the hotel I was staying at for the night. Incidentally, the hotelier tried to put me in the same room as another guest. When I tried the door there was some noises! House prices in Jesmond are quite dear and it does seem posh, well some of the people seemed posh.

Random Musings - Day #278

Well people in the UK that applied for the London Marathon 2010 are learning their fate. Unfortunately, I've been accepted. This time around I'm nearly a stone and a half heavier. So this is going to make life even more tougher than last time in 2008

Random Musings - Day #277

With "Strictly come dancing" and "Dancing with the stars" in full swing. I was disappointed to see Macy Gray already out despite her funny quirky dance on the US version. Meanwhile Anton Du Beke made be in trouble for making racist remarks. You know I've always wondered about the dance studio called 'Goodmans' in Dartford and sure enough it does indeed belong to none other than Len Goodman.

Interestingly, the dance studio is also home to Sugar Free who were beaten semi-finals in Britain's got talent.

Also Dartford is the home to the Mick Jagger Centre at the Grammar school. (Other bits and pieces in Kent

Random Musings - Day #276

The irony is that today saw both Portsmouth and Southampton go into positive points. Also there are reports that Harry Redknapp is to leave Tottenham.

Right now, youtube appears to be down.

The UK interest rate is set by the Bank of England.

Random Musings - Day #275

Caught a glimpse of Gladys Knight on Later with Jools Holland. The empress still impresses!

Random Musings - Day #274

I am trying to workout if this is real or it's been modified... this is the lady does not blink...

Here's the lovely Jessica Alba staring at you.