This one was a crab and some fish professing their love for Boone, Kelly’s sister. I think it’s cool, especially with the seaweed surrounding.
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Category Archives: Geek
The Deer Hunter
The Deer Hunter was a 1978 movie starring Robert De Niro, John Cazale, John Savage, Christopher Walken and Meryl Streep, among others.
I have never seen the movie, however I have heard the Shadows rendition of “Cavatina” – the theme from the movie. I remember watching them play it as an interlude while Cliff Richard “counted money” at a live show they did together. I remember listening and enjoying how it flowed, and wished I could play it.
Being a guitarist, I looked up the tabs and gave it a try. It was an abominable failure, as it was beyond my abilities at the time. That version still is, but I found a backing track and learned how to play it in the same way the Shadows did and have been practicing on and off for the last couple of days. Today I recorded it – not the way I would have liked to, but I tried yesterday to make it work as a multi-track and couldn’t, so I played along with it and recorded it all as one track. It still doesn’t sound perfect, aside from a couple of slide mistakes (and a missed fret once) I think the guitar is slightly off tune compared to the track. It will suffice for now until I can record a better version some time.
I’ve uploaded an MP3 at http://rizzo.i-al.net/~zeke/Cavatina.mp3 for your ear-bleeding pleasure 😉
UPDATE: Credit where credit is due (I had this in my orignal post but it wasn’t saved etc etc..) – the backing track came from http://goran.tangring.com/index-filer/backings.htm
Brawling with iptables
I’ve been fighting for the last couple of days with iptables on my smoothwall machine, and I’m not sure where to turn next – might need to visit a forum or an IRC channel or something on the subject..
Anyway, at this point I have given telly a second IP, locked the webserver to one side and set up an iptables redirect from port 80 to 3128 (squid) on the other IP only, this tests fine, no problems, perfect.
The problem now lies purely on the smoothwall box.
I keep running in to RTNETLINK errors, and can’t figure out how to get around them.
yoda (root) / $ /usr/sbin/ip route add default via 192.168.1.5 dev eth0 table proxy
RTNETLINK answers: File exists
yoda (root) / $ /usr/sbin/ip route add default via 192.168.1.5 dev eth0 table 200
RTNETLINK answers: File exists
yoda (root) / $ /usr/sbin/ip route add default via 192.168.1.5 dev eth0 table 201
RTNETLINK answers: File exists
I’m pretty sure it’s a kernel module, but basically I’ve been sampling off some instructions I found to make this work and trying to debug as best I can, and it’s just not working:
yoda (root) / $ /sbin/iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -j ACCEPT -p tcp –dport 80 -s 192.168.1.5
yoda (root) / $ /sbin/iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -j MARK –set-mark 3 -p tcp –dport 80
getsockopt failed strangely: No such file or directory
yoda (root) / $ /usr/sbin/ip rule add fwmark 3 table 2
RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument
yoda (root) / $ /usr/sbin/ip route add default via 192.168.1.5 dev eth0 table 2
RTNETLINK answers: File exists
I’m lost at this point, and not sure which direction to look next. I found that xt_mark.ko wasn’t loaded and having loaded it it got me to these errors, but I’m not sure which way to go..
Twiddle the Snowman
This week I’ll post some more of Kelly’s fine MS Paint artwork, and given the near-end of Winter, I decided to post this one first. Me as a…snowman?
Twiddle Broke the Interwebs
Yep, I broke the interwebs. I messed up a firewall script on the smoothwall box while trying to make the proxy transparent (and failed, I might need to ask for some assistance on this one..) and the internet stopped. Not a huge deal, needed to reboot the router which wasn’t a major issue, but while I was gone trying to make it work without a restart Kelly made the picture on the righ left of me with the “interwebs” that I had pulled apart and broken..
Asked her to send it to me so I could post for the humor value.
Miley, Miley, Miley…
My brother in law, Matthew, hates Miley Cyrus and her character, Hannah Montana, with a passion. Every mention of her name brings up loud streamings of strong dislike about her, and why. It was with this in mind that his April Fools Day ‘gift’ was birthed.
I am a nerd. I admit it. Everyone knows it. I have a proxy server that I use with my computer systems for the purpose of speeding up windows updates and such, but I usually only use it myself.
Tonight I set it up to ‘replace’ every URL for a JPG or GIF file that passes through it. That is, 90% of images seen on the internet viewed via the proxy server will be replaced with images of my choice. In this case, Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana pictures. Still not making sense? Allow me to demonstrate. Let’s start with Youtube. Here is how Youtube’s main page looks through my replacing setup.
Still not making the point? Lets try Google Images. This is where the one or two non-jpg/gif files slip through. Here is a search for images matching the search term “Pooping”, according to my system:
On *that* one, I think Matt will agree, she is pretty poop-like 😉
Infinitely-aLive Project has Returned
After a long downtime, the Infinitely-aLive project has returned in a once-again reincarnated form. This time we are back as a small web-host, providing basic shell accounts and http hosting.
Because we are small (we have capacity for 20 clients max at this point) we can provide a more dedicated service, tailoring solutions for your individual needs.
At this stage we have no vHosts available for use as BNC hosts, so any eggdrop or BNC’s hosted will all appear to come from an IP address – this is also why our prices are so low. If you just want an eggdrop or a bouncer without the frills, I-aL is the place for you.
In the near future we hope to have an online-ordering system, and we’re still working through the finer details of how this will work out in reality. We’re also finalizing our prices for each package, although it will likely be $1/process (BNC = 1 process, eggdrop = 1 process, services = 1 process) with allowances granted based on a pre-agreed monthly charge, and IRCd or VoIP services being considered as 2 or more processes.
Oh, yeah!
I’m sick. My head hurts, my nose is rather clogged, and I generally feel pretty crappy…
I did, however remember what I was going to post last time. A friend of the Cullers family for some time, Fred and Rachel are two pretty awesome people, and with Fred you’re never sure if he’s being profound, humerous, or just found something interesting. This time he’d found something hilarious, and I’m working through watching all the videos on Youtube I can find of Mr Tim Minchin (proof that Australians are good for something ;-))
By far the most wide-spread seems to be his song “Inflatable You“, and he has some equally hilarious other songs. If you decide to watch, you need to be aware that in many places he’s offensive, mostly against religion, and not the best language usage, but I still think it’s pretty funny…
He’s also an awesome pianist, and alot of humour can also be drawn from the music as well as his dramatic pauses and weird looks…
Deciding which to post as an example was difficult, but this is called If You Really Loved Me.
Lost It..
I recall that earlier today I had an awesome idea for what to post tonight, and now it’s gone. Like yesterday is gone. Like summer break is gone. The world keeps moving on. It’s going, going, gone.
I got up early this morning (I need to do that more often, it hurt…it shouldn’t… not like that…) and went to work with Kelly. I was incredibly tired by 10am, another sign that I need to get up earlier and stay up longer and such. I took a bunch of photos in the parking lot and such when it snowed both times, and had a Wendy’s Baconater for lunch. I love those things…
Read a lot of magazines, from Model Railroader, to Garden Railway, to Trains, through another few on the same ideas and then Mac|Life. Quite the transition.. I’m thinking when Kelly’s power cable comes and I get my laptop stuff back, I’m going to try and build the P4 Dell laptop with Linux and see how much like OS X I can make it look.
I’ve also installed another eggdrop on Rhapsody, installed Icecast2 (need to talk to Mack and make sure it works), need to work through configuring a virtualhosts template and hopefully create a basic web-panel to configure Apache’s virtualhosts. I also still need to design a site for I-aL to sell hosting packages.
BTW, I have 10 eggdrop shells available for US$1/mo (No vHosts, sharing a single IP), and a single IRCd account available, starting at US$4/mo, services and price to be discussed although that price will permit 1 bg process plus the IRCd (so services, or an eggdrop). If you’re in need of customised webhosting, leave me a comment and we can work out pricing for that too. I’ll consider hosting a shoutcast/icecast stream or similar or a teamspeak/ventrilo server on request.
Triumph!
Yesterday I wrote in fear regarding my macbook, one of the most important physical possessions I have (the macbook, my camera, my passport, etc..) – holding alot of non-backed-up data (I need to buy another external hard disk at some point…) had water spilled on it and wouldn’t turn on. It’s sat in front of the floor-heater in the computer/art room for around 48-72 hours, the room heated to 60 F constantly, and I’ve been sitting in the desk chair across the room from it watching it nervously from the corner of my eye.
I was going to wait until the weekend to turn it on and see what the damage was, but I realised that having been sitting there this long that it was as dry as it was going to get. So I bit my lip a little and reached down and picked it up from under the table, picked up the battery from on top of the desktop, put the two together, turned the lock thing to secure the battery in place, and pressed the power button. And the screen flickered. Fans spun up. The screen turned white, the speakers made that “Ahhhhh!” noise, the apple logo appeared, it was starting up!
That was nearly 3 hours ago, and I’m blogging this from the macbook.
So thanks be to God who knew we couldn’t handle the mac being down, to Kelly who kept me calm and assured me there was still hope, and to Apple for making a product that can survive water spills.