Random Musings - Day #344

How to create Windows Service by using sc.exe

You had me at "Hello World"

Converting Java app into a windows service

Creating a simple win32 service in C++

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Random Musings - Day #252

9/9/9
Today was 9/9/9 and thankfully that day passed through near enough quietly.

Twitter RANT
Decided to just use twitter as following tool. Maybe I am not using it right but I think it's useless if you want to talk to someone new, really... You can't direct message unless they are following you. How the hell are you supposed to get a message across @someone and everyone potentially could see your tweet. No thanks. RANT OVER.

BTW my twitter is Shy 90, which I am now only tweeting useless 90s facts.

Internet Radio
A couple more internet radio stations to look out for. Some DJs that I know of are at Rockin Radio. Also found fallen sword via twitter.

Java certify me
Sun is telling me to upgrade my Java Certification.

More one-liners
This one was done on-the-fly. Figure out what the awk does?

cat all-result.txt | grep 10.0.0.1 | grep HIGH | grep 'MS0' | awk '{where=match($0,"MS0?-???"); print substr($0,where,8)}'

Turns out it was easier to replace an enhanced grep...

grep -o "MS[0-9+]-[0-9]*."

As shown in the modified one-liner...

cat all-result.txt | grep 10.0.0.1 | grep HIGH | grep 'MS0' | grep -o "MS0[0-9]-[0-9]*." | sort | uniq

To read a argument from shell... "READ IPS"

Random Musings - Day #28

After regailing shutdown messages on Unix boxes at university and discussing Calvin Harris. The thought crossed my mind. I am sure I remember seeing something computery about Calvin and Hobbes. It turns out, it possibly because one of the earliest ever websites (back in 1995) was the digital calvin and hobbes site. One of Calvin's quotes is also considered a famous computer quote

"I'm not dumb. I just have a command of throughly useless information."

Java vs Flash. Well Java look to be taking be on Adobe in terms of dynamic content over the web. Recently, they have been promoting JavaFX. This not to be confused with the go-between solution of JFlash.

Hacker Meetup? I'll be keeping a close eye on these boys from songkick. They are hoping to have meetups every month. Interesting to also the UK govenment have set up a security response team, similar to our friends in the states.

Staying in is the new going out. There looks to be a positive side to the credit crunch for certain companies. Sky are creating a 1000 jobs and my sources tell me that Coca-Cola are creating jobs in London. So business is good. Why? Well more people are staying in as it is perceived to be more expensive to go out. Hence people are buying more drinks and watching tv/entertainment. That said Sky recently increased their broadband 5 pounds across the range (including the 'free' broadband + tv package).
Talking of going out, the Notting Hill Carnival is under threat of being cancelled for 2009. Interesting this forum suggests it should be banned. :( Come on people, it's part of the sub-culture in London! I suspect there are political undertones as the council / government are trying to cutback on expenditure. Hence why they are making these difficult demands to ensure that they do not have to fund the event. That's what it all boils down to.

I'll sign off with this eerie video that Amy Winehouse recorded with Pete Doherty

Useful Java/Perl/Javascript/Linux links

I find it annoying that I keep forgetting to grab the links I've found for certain websites that are worth pointing out that I have spent my precious little time researching.

Anyways I've decide to take a big step back and re-evaluate what are the key things that I like, use and need to focus on.

1. Java has always been on my mind even though I've barely touched in the longest while. It's been knocked for being slow and clunky but it does have its place in server-side computing. http://java.net appears to be a good resource on keeping tabs on Java as well the omega site http://java.sun.com

2. Perl. Ever since I went to yapc::europe in 2006, I've known about the good effort they have been putting into CPAN and Perl 6.

3. Rapid Javascript Development. Client side stuff. A lot has changed since I originally did web development. There's so much you can do. The basic knowledge is still there but there should be lots of tools to develop a quick application with fancy moving graphics and fancy moving windows. Firebug and Mozilla seem to a common thing that's cropped up in searches.

4. Linux. A lot of above languages go hand in hand with Linux. In particular, Perl's catalyst package has little support for Windows. This has to be a basic building block for me.

Java and flash patches

I'm falling behind guys because my social life gets in the way. I'll try my best to throw lil tidbits from now on in and show what is in my empty head of mine...

Interesting how vulnerabilities and patches were released for both Java and Flash on Friday the 13th. I'm still not superstitious!

Have a look at: The Register's take on those two patches.