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.