post-punk revival band
Chupacbra (wikipedia) is a cryptid (urban legend creature) from Latin America, supposed to attack and drink the blood of other animals (hence its name, "goat sucker").
Chupacbra (wikipedia) is a cryptid (urban legend creature) from Latin America, supposed to attack and drink the blood of other animals (hence its name, "goat sucker").
A funny patch name from Bill Nottingham:
$ grep ^+ SOURCES/sysvinit-2.86-godot.patch | tail -n 1
+ {"WT",WAITING},
It comes from a Samuel Beckett play, En attendant Godot (Waiting for Godot)
Quite unsavory, the environment is nicely set and the theme could have been promising, but the story is plain straight and extremly easy.
Could have a been a decent TV series episode, but probably not what one expects from The X-Files (it could have been fine in Without a Trace or 1-800-Missing).
Curiously, Xzibit (host of the Pimp my Ride show) perfectly fits in his FBI agent character.
(spoil possibly follows)
Scully goes find Mulder in his reclusive live, to help the FBI solve a non-X file, just because a psych is involved. And since Mulder is the only stubborn being on earth, he almost succeeds in solving the case, mostly by following the primary lead, how surprising. Too bad he's so clumsy at tailing and catching the bad guys. Fortunately for him, Scully starts to believe right at the suitable time...
The only "supernatural" substance is the poor pedophile priest which happens to have visions, but a psychic may appear in pretty much all sorts of productions nowadays, nothing very fancy.
And too bad the scientific themes (stem cells and body transplant) are so superficial, it's not even close to Grey's Anatomy...
An average man, working in a cubicle, learns that his accelerated heartbeat is actually not an anguish issue, but a skill that would allow him to be a perfect assassin. A fraternity of assassins offers him the choice to become part of them, to start his real life.
Non-stop action, spectacular special effects, great stunts, a nice castle-like factory in Chicago, and a typical Morgan Freeman character
A drunkard and careless super-hero, hated by the whole LA, gets some help from a PR guy.
Funny, decent CG, and an unexpected third act
A nice club in Paris, indie rock and electro friendly
The awayproxy script (see irssi scripts) allows to get IRC logs when reconnecting to an irssi proxy.
From Tumblelog article on Wikipedia:
A tumblelog (or tlog) is a variation of a blog that favors short-form, mixed-media posts over the longer editorial posts frequently associated with blogging. Common post formats found on tumblelogs include links, photos, quotes, dialogues, and video. Unlike blogs, tumblelogs are frequently used to share the author's creations, discoveries, or experiences while providing little or no commentary.
If the articles count or list gets wrong in Gnus with the nnml backend (for example because of full disk), it can be rebuilt this way:
M-x nnml-generate-nov-databases
A more generic way is to go in the Server buffer (^ from the Group buffer) and use g to regenerate all its data structures.
Here are the marks that I should use to distinguish important articles in my gnus mail client:
See matching entries in the Gnus manual:
From: Erwan | OuiFM
The Buffaloes used to say roam where you roam
To show the list of flags and langs together with a rpm files list:
rpm -q --queryformat '[%{FILEFLAGS:fflags}\t%{FILELANGS}\t%{FILEMODES:perms}\t%{FILENAMES}\n]' <package>
Complete list of rpm tags:
rpm --querytags
It's quite easy to build a low cost whiteboard for Linux, using a Wiimote as pointer detector: Low-Cost Multi-point Interactive Whiteboards Using the Wiimote
Linux links:
Hardware HOWTO: Tableau Numérique à base de Wiimote (Fabriquer un TNWii pour 41 euros)
Worth noting, Johnny Chung Lee also designed Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the Wii Remote, and a $14 Steadycam The Poor Mans Steadicam.
For an unknown reason, after updating Mozilla Firefox to latest cooker package, it failed to start with 1 as exit code. Though, it started fine with another user.
I tried to remove files in my profile one after the other, to see which one was causing the issue. It appeared to be ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/compatibility.ini. This file is described in Profile folder - Firefox (Files section).
iBurst (or HC-SDMA, High Capacity Spatial Division Multiple Access) is a wireless broadband protocol (can be compared to WiMAX).
It is for example deployed by iBurst.com.au (PBA) in Australia.
There is an ib wireless broadband driver (sourceforge) for Linux.
pam_console will be replaced by HAL fdi files and ConsoleKit to manage devices permissions. The rules are described in /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/20-acl-management.fdi (they were previously in /etc/security/console.perms*).
From the wikipedia article:
The Gulag Archipelago is a work based on the Soviet forced labor and concentration camp system by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. It is a massive narrative written based on eyewitness testimony and primary research material, as well as the author's own experiences as a prisoner in a Gulag labor camp.
A random Thomson ST2030 VoIP phone is quite easy to configure/hijack, provided that is uses the default admin password, specified in various documents. It even includes a DHCP server and an addtional Ethernet port, simplifying rebel customizations :-)
It can use ringtones in the RTTL format:
The Tor network allows to get stronger anonymity, but does not ensure data security. Data is encrypted between the relay nodes, but exits in clear text at the exit node, where it can be sniffed.
Dan Egerstad was able to collect a lot of e-mail information:
Setting up a Tor relay:
Multiple tools exist to manage and switch network profiles based on the physical location:
More on the Network discovering... too many options thread from the debian-laptop ML.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a large area of the Pacific ocean, where a vortex of currents accumulates plastic wastes.
Use post-receive hook to send commit emails (see contrib/hooks/post-receive-email and upstream doc).
From: Grey's Anatomy 2x04
she drank beer with coca-cola and thats the way i like it they play good charlotte on the radio and thats the way i like it
(lyrics, from ben-lee.com)
The /dev/full device, full(4), can be useful to test bugs occuring on full disks (ENOSPC), such as some glibc bugs.
Psych (IMDB) is a fun TV series about a son of a policeman pretending to have (fake) psychic powers to help the police, while he is actually extremly observant.
This leads to hilarious situations, and to emotional relationships with his suspects.
It's broadcasted as Enquêteur malgré lui on the French TV network TF1.
From: leeloo
A New York City homicide detective has a very big secret: the grim curse of immortality. (tv.com)
Airs: Friday February 22, 2008
Multiple routing protocols can be used in ad-hoc wireless mesh networks (wikipedia). Some are described in the Wireless Networking in the Developing World (WNDW) book (HTML version).
OLSR, Optimized Link State Routing protocol (RFC 3626, INRIA HYPERCOM project, wikipedia), is a routing protocol for wireless ad-hoc networks.
OLSR is proactive, it runs a distributed election to choose Multipoint Distribution Relays (MPRs), which flood peridiocally the network topology (Mesh Networking with OLSR, in WNDW).
A popular implementation is the olsr.org OLSR daemon, with a link-quality extension (README) using an ETX (Expected Transmission Count) metric, making it a Radio-Aware OLSR implementation (RA-OLSR).
The Open Mesh project is developping an alternative to OLSR, called B.A.T.M.A.N. (overview).
AODV, Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector (RFC 3561), is another routing protocol for wireless mesh networks.
It is reactive, it creates routing traffic only when needed.
The OLPC laptop project plans to use the upcoming 802.11s standard (wikipedia), see the mesh network details.
It uses a new routing protocol as default: HWMP, Hybrid Wireless Mesh Protocol. It is based on AODV for layer 3 routing and uses a modified Rapid Spanning Tree protocol for layer 2.
RA-OLSR was initially included as an optional routing protocol for the 802.11s draft, but it has been dropped because of extra complexity for the standard, with no added value. Though, it can still be used as a routing protocol, since the 802.11s specification allows optional routing protocols (without defining them).
The Arcfour cypher mode (RFC 4345) uses less CPU power than most other cyphers used for ssh connections (like AES). It may be less secure, but is interesting when fastness and low ressources consumption is important. Arcfour stands for "Alleged RC4", see RC4 history (wikipedia). The Cipher::Arcfour perl module is also full of worthy details (pm file).
HPN-SSH (High Performance Enabled SSH/SCP) is a patch to enlarge openssh buffers based on the link BDP (Bandwidth Delay Product), thus removing a network throughput bottleneck:
