I had a copy of /etc/hosts.deny that I wanted to format up to extract the hostnames from… Every other line started with a comment, though, and I wanted to strip those…
:g/#/d
Will match all lines (:g) which contain (not necessarily “start with”) # and delete (d) them.
I frankly don’t use AIM that much these days, but will often sign on and think, “Wow, lots of people are on tonight!” or, “Wow, almost no one is on tonight!” So I just wanted to list my thought process after noticing this:
Is there anything that can’t be graphed? Or made into a shell script?
Can you guess the state?
Okay, so the link gives it away. But this wasn’t really meant to stump people anyway.
I’m now (essentially) graduated, with a Bachelor’s of Science.
As I was walking across the stage, there were five different people who shook my hand. A few congratulated me; the President beamed with joy as she shook my hand (given that I’m a W-name, her facial muscles must have been aching?). But the last guy’s words of wisdom, imparted with a serious, dignified tone?
“Do not.
Fall down.
The steps.”
Words to live by!
I had a bit of time to kill today, so I threw together a quick script to take every blog post of mine here, throw it all into one big file, and then use the Markov Chain script I’m so enamored with to “write” a blog post. What follows is essentially a slightly more incoherent version of me. The conclusion, incidentally, is perfect.
[T]he logout shutdown button locks up the machine for 30 seconds before it displays. This is apparently a known problem with several different causes, but it seems to be growing. And from what he said, but it was always an easy leave, so I have 2 columns. You can remove sponsored links, although I don’t. You can number the results. And there’s the “Autoload” for more, which I thought was interesting we think of OPEC as a cartel that has tons of power. In actuality, our power of demand far outweighs their supplier power, and we have the money to buy a faster lens.
I noticed that the flags often served as a replacement for “true patriotism.” And… Did Carville mean to equate Hillary with Jesus in his analogy?
the URL was just a fraction of what he’s made.
of the rooms. How this isn’t a bug I don’t quite buy the bit about them “checking your tags”? And is Houston a reference to Bush’s wiretapping , and how we should end the war, etc. But he seemed too young to have made millions. Maybe he was just from a rich family?
activity. I use thttpd for this idiotic venture, which lets me get a lot of calls? The DNC is at the forefront of… rights?
duty in the Caribbean.
the wrong way, and have the computer find times that work for each of us within certain constraints. I’ve invented what I call “shotgun scheduling,” which seems to want to run bleeding-edge alpha code as our main OS.
so it’s down to a science. Put it mid-way in the playlist for when you’ve already found your groove. It’s also good if you’re just looking to keep the camera perfectly still on a tripod for 15 seconds, but I wouldn’t try to take my ‘radio arbitrage’ skills and apply them to autos, except that having an extra radio is well and good, but having four broken-down cars in my parents’ driveway might not be profitable, but it’ll at least defray the costs of maintaining the atomic clock , the server really doesn’t know the true time. Thus we can only measure how the time differences compare. In this, I essentially just assume that my setting of 16MB is ideal for you!
comes a third benefit, too done right, I think a second is the tolerance . Here, the worst server is 0.022841 seconds 22.8ms off, and one of the videos he was showing was quite degraded, but that he’d make the arrest. He also mentioned expectations of privacy, framing the issue as a question caused me to be able to get to class. I counted, trust me. And that was all.
I’ve always been a little creeped out by some of the stuff on Craigslist. There’s pretty obvious prostitution and drugs going on, in addition to people seeking affairs. And if you read through the “personals” section (which is pretty entertaining), watch out for ones with pictures… Something they’re, uhh, graphic.
So I went through about 20 recent postings, merged them into a textfile, and used my old Markov chain code to “learn” the text and then spit out text based on it… Some of the stuff on Craigslist is so bizarre that it’s hard to tell what’s nonsense the script spits out, and what’s real. (I’ve omitted anything wildly obscene.)
I love to read, movies, anything to do my hair today medium length i need a new look today im off from work hit me up I have a personality that is a cheater because whats is the beginning of something possibly beautiful and long term. I love to have a great day! A little about me…I am very mature. I am a very comfortable passenger seat. I may or may not have a degree Good stimulating companionship and conversation is the point of being with someone if your going to cheat on them. I’m new to this online service and hoping to make new friends.Hope it works… I love to read, movies, anything to do my hair today medium length i need a new look today im off from work hit me up I have a personality that is a cheater because whats is the beginning of something possibly beautiful and long term. If you are Interested to have a big black cruiser with a good place for drinks dancing live music with a rumble between her legs, for occasional rides. Feel the rumble as we hit the open road…wrap your arms around me, and press in close. meet you, after some phone conversations, in public places only unless of course it is business related or anohter type of function, in which case I would meet you, after some phone conversations, in public places only unless of course it is business related or anohter type of function, in which case I would meet you, after some phone conversations, in public places only unless of course it is business related or anohter type of normal and fun people, between 30-40 years of age, who are looking to meet some new people to hang out today and maybee 420 a bit. I love being out in the rewards you crave. Where you do not. Once a week, I will visit you. We will go over the goals you set yourself and your mobile number and let’s start texting! I’m looking for someone to be a hypocrite. Anyone know of a good place for drinks dancing live music with a lot of chrome, and a very open, spontaneous, and down to earth person. I’m not looking for a coffee and a very comfortable passenger seat. I may or may not have a great companion. My friends think Im mischievious and I hate writing, so that’s it for me. I have all camping gears. I am burned out of shape so don’t be shy, just be sensual. Interested in normal and fun people, between 30-40 years of age, who are looking to make new text message with on a regular basis…what are we going to cheat on them. I’m looking for someone to play with soon, because the weather is getting to be a marathoner!!! I’ve heard about Cuddle Parties on the back of a good bar to watch the Celtics where they actually put the sound on the radio and internet but there are none I’m certainly not someone who puts a twinkle in my stomache hey im a leo male looking for possible another mom who is self motivated I am open to a totally awesome 2-year-old boy. My problem is that I am looking to spend some time with an older 30-50. so please be mature and not very interested in going out at night. I consider diversity to be really nice ! If you’re not interested in talking through emails because, honestly, I can respond to anyone with a picutre Good stimulating companionship and conversation is the point of being a hard worker. It’s simply that you have one? Reply now for flirty fun on the TV. I have always tried to be on the radio and internet but there are none in the Boston area. I am thankful for every day that I feel like I have no friends!! this poing in my eyes and butterflies in my eyes and butterflies in my stomache Please be a real person, please be open-minded and if you would like to get to know me, please just hit a back button, don’t reply. Anyone know of a good listener and would love to go out and paint the town with. I look forward to talking to a loser I work 2 jobs and do not allow myself to be really nice ! my friends are married, and not very interested in talking to a totally awesome 2-year-old boy. I can occasionally get a sitter but sometimes those are hard to come by so I need a new look today im off from work hit me up I have problems in life. I am open to speaking to people of all races.
Quick clarification, since I was horrified at first… “Black cruiser” is a guy referring to his motorcycle; he was looking for other motorcycle enthusiasts. As was the “rumble” bit. It just happens to come up in the most inappropriate places. Also, the “2-year-old” thing comes from someone discussing that they have a child.
I used to get a couple hosts bounced a week… They’d try to brute-force username/password combos over ssh and DenyHosts would ban their IP after 5 failed logins.
For a couple days last week, I probably had about 50 in a 24-hour period, and then they went away as quickly as they started.
Today… Well, today is insane. As this site confirms, GMail limits a “conversation” to 61 conversations. So as this screenshot shows…
This falls into the category of things very few people would notice, but….
Microsoft provides time.windows.com, a public NTP server, operating in stratum 2.
I just came across NTPmonitor, a novel Windows app to monitor a handful of NTP servers. (Sadly, it doesn’t offer the option to sync to any of them, probably because most peoples’ computers let them configure it… Mine syncs to a domain controller which seems to want to give me the time, but not with too much accuracy.)
As with most full-featured NTP clients, it shows you what the remote timeserver reports as its reference clock. I’ve got my server in there, ttwagner.com, showing that it’s currently synced to clock.xmission.com. The “pool” server is pool.ntp.org; whichever of the many machines I connected to is synced to rubidium.broad.mit.edu. On the right we have time.nist.gov, synced to “ACTS,” a NIST protocol.
On the left is time.windows.com, the Microsoft NTP server. Its upstream timeserver?
clock3.redhat.com.
Screenshot attached, since I wouldn’t believe it without one.
I keep coming across things like this eBay listing. Sun Enterprise 4500, 12 SPARC processors (400 MHz, 4MB cache) and 12 GB of RAM. This one looks to have a couple Gigabit fiber NICs, too. (Although it’s fiber, so you’d need a pricier switch to use it on a “normal” copper home LAN.)
Even if you foolishly assume that a 400 MHz SPARC is no better than a 400 MHz Celeron, with 12 processors, this is still a net of 4.8 GHz. With a dozen processors, this is clearly best for something that’s very multi-threaded.
Of course, there’s one problem: these machines use SCSI disks. SCSI’s great and all, but it’s expensive, and you can be sure that, if this machine even comes with hard drives (none are listed?), they’re 9GB. So pick up one of these. What’s that you say? Oh, it’s ATA and won’t work with SCSI? No problem!
Nowhere that I see does Sun mention whether Solaris 10 / OpenSolaris will run on older hardware, but I assume it will. Some Linux distros also excel at running on platforms like SPARC.
Now the real question: how much electricity does this thing use?
It’s no secret that gzip is handy on UNIX systems for compressing files. But what I hadn’t really considered before is that you don’t have to create a huge file and then gzip it. You can simply pipe output through it and have it compressed on the fly.
For example: tt>[root@oxygen]# mysqldump –all-databases -p | gzip > 2008May10-alldbs.sql.gz
That backed up all the databases on this machine and compressed them. (It’s a 31MB file, but that’s nothing when you realize that one of my databases is about 90MB in size, and I have plenty others at 10-20MB each.)