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Amazing Film on Alien Reproduction Vehicle and ZPE
Update Aug 25th 2015 – Looks like James Gladman has released the full HD version of the movie on Vimeo. I’d recommend that you go view his instead of the one below: https://vimeo.com/133170463 ———————————————————————————————————————————————————- What’s interesting is that the director and writer (James Allen Higgins) of this film appears to have been poisoned to death.…
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s3fs install on CentOS AmazonEC2
In an attempt to determine the feasibility of creating an FTP server that is FUSe backed using S3 amazon storage I ran into issues of package dependence. This is the list of packages I had to install: sudo yum install curl-devel automake fuse fuse-devel libcurl-devel gcc-c++ openssl-devel libxml2-devel gcc After that the readme at https://github.com/s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse…
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Command line zip, unzip, and tar
In maintaining linux systems I often find that I need to zip the contents of a folder or unzip some settings. Zip is useful for compressing and transmitting files. There isn’t anything new here and it is straight out of the man pages but since I only use it once every 6 months I’m going…
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tcpdump
The command that will capture just about everything for tcpdump is: sudo tcpdump -lxxvventtteXSs 0 -w /disk1/TCPdebug/28.pcap
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Enable Java 7 plugin for Linux Firefox
So the new Java update came out yesterday (version 7.51) and messed up access to our Checkpoint VPN SSL client. And I find out that after installing the new version on windows you need to set the Java control panel security tab to Medium for our VPN to be trusted. But I’m using Fedora 19…
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Eidolon TLP, Hannibal, DARPA and the state of Artifical Intelligence
Update January 31, 2016 – I still think that this is a real story, deliberately buried. Let’s be honest as to why. The current system is likely a Blue Gene/Q. Costing 1.3 Million per rack. And operating cost per year will be close to 2.5 million per yea for cooling, housing, network access, security, and…
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Denyhosts on fedora 19
For whatever reason I had one hell of a time getting denyhosts setup on fedora. Come to find out there is one big reason for this, chkconfig has been replaced with systemctl. It’s simple to setup and install once you know that all you need to do is 2 simple commands: sudo yum install denyhosts…
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An EMP Will Kill your Car?
I borrowed a new book from Amazon today It’s about a Carrington Event that kills all electronics. I have an increasingly difficult time with this scenario. And the reason is that the electronics need to be grounded to be affected. The book starts off (as all EMP books do) with all the cars going dead…
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Chef calculate checksum
I’ve been working with Chef at work and there are several items that I keep looking up. The first of these is calculating the checksum for a file that chef downloads. Since we are doing some customized recipes I keep looking at having to grab a file and check the checksum, although not completely necessary…
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What this site is really about
I have not defined what I’m looking to do here but it’s along the lines of getting us off of oil and attempting a smooth transition to renewables. I think it might just be easier than all of us thought even 2 years ago. I’ll try and put up a page that goes over this because the math…
Got any book recommendations?