mx's grotto v7.3.3

WordPress mass update script 3.3.2

wget http://b.ri.mu/files/wordpress-upgrade.sh
bash wordpress-upgrade.sh

Well it’s not often the Daily Mail gets have a story half right….

P2P Real-time TV
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2098759/Tribler-New-file-sharing-technology-IMMUNE-government-attacks.html
http://torrentfreak.com/p2p-next-introduces-live-bittorrent-streaming-080718/

Barclays launches pay by mobile – Pingit, nothing radical but with zero charges, Pingit to be available to non Barclays customers in the future. Note well – no Windows Mobile support.

Did somebody say in the back, reduce the budget deficit in ten years? Wow nice one George! On the ‘ead, it’s diamond Geezer.
And – so if you provide this transaction free banking for the proletariat scum, we won’t split commerical from retail banking…. Interestingly put there Mr Cross.
http://www.barclays.co.uk/pingit

Rashberry Pi meets the real world, an Android phone you can plug into your monitor, keyboard/mouse and use as a PC – using all you cloud data with a local copy in your phone. Due 2012. This leaves Microsoft and Apple eating dust. Linux could REALLY GO mainstream 2013. My old Nokia N73 had the processing power of my first work PC of 1993.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/21/ubuntu_for_android/

WhatApp Messenger – disruptive technology ALERT, this KILLS Blackberry, as it removes it’s USP, it’s killing text by IM. Will they need to IPO and why?

Industry analysts at Ovum reckon mobile network operators lost more than $13bn in 2011 as SMS finally gets replaced – a staggering estimate backed by stats from Allot.

But what’s most interesting is that among the free messaging services, such as Facebook and Yahoo!, 18 per cent of ‘net messaging traffic is now being generated by WhatsApp – a paid application that seeks to replicate the text experience, standing in stark contrast to the ad-supported services that hope to make money from advertising aimed though behavioural analysis.

This is 18% on a 250 million user survey.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/21/over_the_top_sms/

Atos boss Thierry Breton defends his internal email ban by 2014

Mark’s CRUCIAL 2012 Trends

• Internet Messenging – cross-platform, like WhatApp / Fring
• Encryted P2P Email for Dummies – Zot protocol -> Friendika < - Most important for anonymous
• Real Time P2P TV – Tribler & live.bitorrent < - Second most important for anonymous
• Linux goes mainstream – Ubuntu on Android
• Pingit – availble to any UK current account bank holder

http://dl.tribler.org/download.html

http://live.bittorrent.com/downloads.html

charlie@charliesays:~$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 8192 x 8192
VGA-0 connected 1920×1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm
1024×768 60.0
800×600 60.3 56.2
848×480 60.0
640×480 59.9
1920x1080_60.00 60.0*
DIN disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DVI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

Had to manually define 1920 x 1080 @ 60 Hz

cvt 1920 1020 60
xrandr --newmode "1920x1080_60.00" 173.00 1920 2048 2248 2576 1080 1083 1088 1120 -hsync +vsync
xrandr --addmode VGA-0 "1920x1080_60.00"
xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode "1920x1080_60.00"

Windows 7
Toshiba Software Installer for Windows 7 – both 32bit & 64bit installer in one.
Job Done

Re:The answer is still keepass (Score:4, Interesting)
by omglolbah (731566) Alter Relationship on Saturday December 31, @01:56AM (#38544890)

1. Buy domain.
2. Set up *@domain to forward to your real email account, optionally apply a label (I do this with gmail labels)
3. Register with sitename@domain as email address.
4. Check real email and verify account.

Unique email for each site. No need to guess.

A bonus is that if you start getting spam you can see where it originated by what email it starts coming in on.

I noticed a year or so ago that curse got hacked as I started getting wow phising emails to the email I registered for curse with
Just redirect to /dev/nul when it happens :p

Set Google as default search

IE v9 shit

http://www.google.com/insidesearch/instant-about.html
http://www.google.com/insidesearch/features.html

http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators.html

Updates in XP – just plain FUCK OFF in XP Pro. If you run Microsoft Windows, your machine has high degree of being hit by a Zero Day Exploit, so why loose 15% of your boot up time to all the patches, that alledgely make it more secure? TLD4 – BBC Newest Adobe zero-day PDF exploit ‘scary,’ says researcher

Fuck off updates in XP Home

http://forum.notebookreview.com/hp-compaq/132849-how-burn-hp-recovery-disc-without-using-recovery-manager.html

Re: How to burn HP Recovery Disc without using Recovery Manager?
you can restore the MBR, the procedure is given below and then use the

Quote:
F11 key to restore your system completely. After that you can burn your recovery discs.

This procedure will perform a destructive restore ( delete all data on the hard drive). So make sure you backup your data before starting out.

The recovery partition is visible as

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D:
after a clean install. It may be another drive letter on your system so make sure you change it to D: . Explore this recovery partition, the files may be hidden so you may need to go to

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Tools > Folder Options > View >
, select

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show hidden files and folders
, and uncheck

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Hide Extensions for known File types
and uncheck

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Hide protected operating system files ( Recommended )
. Then you must be able to view a folder named

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miniNT
and inside this folder
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System32
.

Make sure you have two files inside the D:\miniNT\System32 folder, the first one

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MBRInst.exe
and the second one

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MBR.ini
now go to
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Start > RUN >
type
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D:\miniNT\System32\MBRInst.exe /ini D:\miniNT\System32\MBR.ini /r /q
and hit enter.

restart your system, your system will boot into recovery mode & resotre your system completely, after which you can create your recovery disks.

hope this helps

regards

Last edited by cluelessME : 08-29-2007 at 04:16 AM.

This jem is copied in case the original site goes tits up.

Seth Godin – The story of sliced bread
Mass media dead
Big Corp has no means to cheaply market to the middle SD
The TV Industrial Complex doesn’t exist anymore

Sucess lies in marketing to the niche, your niche

Which leads us to “Open Source Social Networking Software To Create Your Own…”

The Next Big Thing in Social Business Software…

One of the questions he was asked was “What is the next big thing in Social Business software?” Alistair mentioned the drive to incorporate social into the process of business. This is a welcome development from one of the major players in social business software.

When booting off yoru USB stick it will hang at:
boot:
press the TAB key and type “live”
wait a long time
User = “eee” password is blank

hit the “install v4″ icon when you see it

When Leeenux starts, it may ask you for keyring password. Enter "2", and then do the following:
1. Open up your Home Folder
2. Press CTRL-H (or click View>Show Hidden Files)
3. Find a folder called .gnome2 (it has a period at the beginning of the name) and open it by double clicking on it
4. In side of the .gnome2 folder, there is another folder called keyrings. Open it up.
5. Delete any files you find within the keyrings folder
6. Restart the computer

Do above or you will have to keep entering your keyring to get remembered WiFi to work

There’s been a lot of talk about this renogade OEM Gigabyte mobo – maybe too much talk.
mobo GA-8SIMLNF R2

Ordinarily the Audio_Realtek_5.10.0.5628_XPx86_A.zip driver crashes out with this dialogue box:

updatedriverforplugandplaydevices failed
-536870397

Solution.
Get hold of the R111.zip from I cannot remember through the madness of it all!
Which essentially the same stuff

Google “sis drivers windows xp 7012″

Go to the XP directory
And edit the SIS7012.inf file

At the end of the [SIS] section
add to end:
%SiS7012.DeviceDesc%=SiS7012, PCI\VEN_1039&DEV_7012&SUBSYS_200B1631

The Hardware ID key was missing so the mobo motherboard sound chip is screwy.

Job sussed – DONe

Jim, you never guess what? I ‘d just finished a job installing a router and it was second visit having got another one and the husband normally used to pick phone every time and he wasn’t around the house both times. So on after she’d settled up and was on the way out I casually asked “How’s your husband?”.

to which she said “he died last week”

then there was a pause

“it’s been bad time for the Internet to go down”

PAUSE

Jim: “Yes it’s bugger to sort inheritance without the Net”

Mark: shit I think I better send a sympathy card

PAUSE

Jim: “I’m sure you can claim that under business expenses”

Can’t work out the difference between inches and millimeters?
Magnolia v white paint
It says in Wikipedia… (the weekly spot)

MX interviews Sam “the fencer” as a continuing theme about the “economy”, looking at the current fiasco on a weekly basis.

Monolog by Jim about the issue about

Gmail Attachment Downloader Script

sudo apt-get install git
git clone http://github.com/thekindofme/gmail_attachment_downloader
cd gmail_attachment_downloader/
sudo apt-get install ruby
sudo apt-get install rubygems1.8
sudo gem install tmail
sudo apt-get install vim
vi gmail_attachment_downloader.rb

And below based on hacks.
here and here


#!/bin/bash
PATH=$PATH:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
FILES=/home/wizard/printque/*.pdf

# Delete stray attachments which weren't PDF files, but got downloaded anyway
rm /home/wizard/printque/*


#Make shutdown executable by any user for cron to be able to handle
sudo chmod u+s /sbin/shutdown

wizard@printer:~/gmail_attachment_downloader$ crontab -e

*/3 * * * * ruby ./gmail_attachment_downloader/gmail_attachment_downloader.rb 2>&1 > /dev/null # JOB_ID_1
01 19 * * * /sbin/shutdown -h now 2&1 > /dev/null # JOB_ID_2

“No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.” — John F. Kennedy

Gordon posted this on FaceBook, headed:

Citizens of the USA: you have a choice between Obama and this.
Glenn Beck: “Everybody For Anal Probes”

In response I wrote:

Well – they are about as bright as us when it comes to making choices. I mean somebody out there voted for a UK Government which allowed for social security support beyond two children. Which “Eric half a bee” could have worked out it would have been a financial nightmare later.

The public deserve the Government they get, because 90% of the electorate are too stupid to vote / insufficient education. 5% control the system/media/voting/boundary changes. And the 5% that see the corruption, wouldn’t take up arms to do anything about it, it’s easier for the educated to turn a blind eye and get by on £20-100k.

Essentially “we’re middle class and comfortable – so I don’t see the problem” (& then move to Totnes) and this “equality” is created by the truly selfish bastards – the first 5% I narrated above who brand it as “Capitalism”.

Well that’s my first rant for the day… MX

Introducing YouTube HTML5 Supported Videos – WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 2010
Will Apple’s new iPad support Adobe Flash when it ships in March? / Apple video shows Flashed iPad – the Register 29/01/2010

Wired January 30, 2010 quotes Jobs as saying: “They have all this potential to do interesting things but they just refuse to do it. They don’t do anything with the approaches that Apple is taking, like Carbon. Apple does not support Flash because it is so buggy, he says. Whenever a Mac crashes more often than not it’s because of Flash. No one will be using Flash, he says. The world is moving to HTML5.”

And here’s a great piece that is common to all these mobile internet devices (MIDs)

Apple + iPad + Huxley = Orwellian nightmare
If the iPad is a big success, we’ll all be at the mercy of one of the world’s biggest control freaks: Apple

John Naughton
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 31 January 2010

Apple boss Steve Jobs shows off the new iPad, criticised for being ‘just a big iPhone’ but potentially another world-beater. Photograph: Kimberly White/Reuters

WATCHING STEVE JOBS unveil the Apple iPad, what came to mind was something that Neil Postman, the most influential media critic since Marshall McLuhan, once said. Our future possibilities, Postman thought, lay on a spectrum bounded by George Orwell at one end, and by Aldous Huxley at the other: Orwell because he believed that we would be destroyed by the things we fear; Huxley because he thought that we would be undone by the things we love.

As the internet went mainstream, the Orwellian nightmare has evolved into a realistic possibility, because of the facilities the network offers for the comprehensive surveillance so vividly evoked in 1984. Governments everywhere have helped themselves to powers to read every email or text you’ve ever sent. And that’s just the democracies; authoritarian regimes are far more intrusive.

Until recently, the Huxleian nightmare seemed a more distant prospect. Then, two years ago this month, Jobs launched the iPhone, a product that was initially underestimated by many commentators (this columnist included) but which has radically transformed the mobile phone market.

What was revolutionary about the iPhone is that it’s a powerful handheld computer that can also be used to make voice calls. But it’s the computing bit that matters – a fact implicitly confirmed by Apple when it launched the iPod Touch, which runs the iPhone operating system but doesn’t make calls. A year after that launch, Apple revealed its strategy for harnessing the device’s computing power by launching the app store – a marketplace for small, mostly inexpensive, programs that could run on the phone. This generated a perfect storm of software development: there are now more than 100,000 apps available, and more than 3bn have been downloaded since the app store launched. At a stroke the consumer software business has been transformed. As ever, the New Yorker’s cartoonists are tracking the change in the zeitgeist. In one recent cartoon a depressed-looking man arrives home and is greeted by his anxious-looking wife: “Bad news, hon,” he says. “I got replaced by an app.”

The iPhone evokes powerful emotions. Users gibber lovingly about it and become dependent upon it. They buy lots and lots of apps. And, most significantly, they find that they use their PCs less – sometimes a lot less. They discover, in other words, that the phone has become their de facto gateway to the internet.

Which brings us to the iPad. Critics and naysayers of all stripes piled in to complain that it was “just a bigger iPod Touch”. Spot on: that’s exactly what it’s intended to be. Good though the iPhone/Touch was, it has one drawback — the screen’s rather small. The iPad’s screen is bigger and better. And it has a beefier processor, so it handles graphics brilliantly. It’s a racing certainty, therefore, that the possibilities of this improved display performance will lead to another explosion in apps.

As with the first release of the iPhone, there has been lots of carping about alleged deficiencies: no camera, no physical keyboard, no USB slot, no removable battery, no memory card slot, doesn’t do Flash, etc. Some of these probably don’t matter much. Or, in Stephen Fry’s words: “They all fall away the minute you use it … No YouTube film, no promotional video, no keynote address can even hint at the extraordinary feeling you get from actually using and interacting with one of these magical objects.”

Which is where I begin to think of Huxley and Soma, the hallucinogenic, hangover-free drug in Brave New World that makes users contented with their (subjugated) lot. If the iPad takes off as the iPhone did, then it will have as disruptive an impact on the computing and media industries as the Apple phone has already had on mobile telephony.

And if that happens then we will all have to take a long, hard look at the company that has made it possible.

For the implication of an iPad-crazed world – with its millions of delighted, infatuated users – is that a single US company renowned for control-freakery will have become the gatekeeper to the online world. The iPad – like the iPhone – is a closed, tightly controlled device: nothing gets on to it that has not been expressly approved by Apple. We will have arrived at an Orwellian end by Huxleian means. And be foolish enough to think that we’ve attained nirvana.

guardian.co.uk © Guardian News and Media Limited 2010

TiK ToK – Ke$ha
I Kissed a Girl – Katy Perry
The Fear – Lily Allen

Starry Eyed – Ellie Goulding, I suspect this was the backdrop “tune” for many people in the Summer of 2009 – the lucky people, I only Shazam’d in half way through on Radio One on the 23rd Jan, talk about being slow…
- (Max Vangeli & AN21 Remix), World Premiere on BBC Radio 1 by Pete Tong
- Dexcell Remix – A Drum & Bass Mix I like for the 6 minute length
- Starsmith Remix – Different mix, still 3 mintues, but a slightly distinctively different balance
I’ve got a feeling – Black Eyed Peas

OK, I think am going to start doing a rolling list and revise it from time to time, this first list is going to be skewed to sci-fi/tech, it’s just the way I am feeling today!

• Brazil / The Matrix (sorry it’s a solid classic)
• Enemy of the State
• Blade Runner – used to be #1, but unfortunately I cannot play it home anymore, Missus X’s client over played it + the book is way better
• V for Vendetta
• Gattica
• Code 46
• Leon (the nice US uncontroversial version)
• The Ipcress File
• A wonderful life – thanks Paul, watched it 2009-09-26, yes I was in tears at the end..

Rewatched Mercury Rising again, I really like, being into the history of cryptography and Bletchley Park, from an acting perspective, I think it’s got to be one of Bruce Willis’s films.

Microsoft may have stirred some corporate spot light the sort it doesn’t want, in the vacuum of an economic slow down that will wipe out sales of “Windows 7″ new PCs and thus Office for Win7 sales where the meat is in the MS profit (for the shareholders).

hmm this could snowball, if the analyst figures come into play for Q1/Q2 2010 before the action goes to trial The proverbial would hit the FAN. Figures in public domain, spotlight in the computer and financial sectors media – BANG!

Deduced dividend leaks out predicting Q1/Q2 2010 profits, followed by punitive damages issued by the US Government with very little effort from the FOSS Community. This would then force the analysts and brokers into having to declare Microsoft a SELL until Q3/Q4 2010 figures come into being or some incredible good announcement to over look another set of appalling figures caused through this unusual economic downturn.

Again in Q3/Q4 2010 figures are going to be a blood bath because of the PC consumer slowdown is going to stop the market dead in it’s tracks. The market for PCs going to people who do not currently have a computer is practically ZERO for all intents and purposes.

1. What are the users going to be able to do in windows 7 that you cannot do with Windows XP that justifies $350 for a new computer?
2. When people cannot pay their mortgage because they lost their job, and they going to buy a new PC?
3. If you are retired, or about to retire you will be seeing your pension vapourising and stock market seriously affecting your long term financial prosperity – are you going to buy a new PC?

And the buggers are even starting to print money to prop up this whole charade, and remember what happened when somebody last tried that stunt… IE printed money out of thin air.

See quantitative easing.

Bummer we could almost turn it into a sad short selling sport, to “spot” stock in the correct sequence in order to do short selling roll overs with the profits from each sinking. Now all you need to do is think laterally about products and their associated industries, and for the industries that float into your mind, think about the suppliers lead times and inventory levels held for a particular line item or BOM. Scary or what?

They will have to switch the financial systems off in every single electronic settled market place if the hedge funds started doing this – which they will. Surely?

Because as I say to people, if you’ve just thought about it, the odds are if you Google around your thought meme. You’ll find a community of like minded thinking individuals, and this networking is being accelerated by del.icio.us and Mag.nol.ia and other folksonmy driven bookmarking systems in our 2.0 world.

Did somebody say wheel? (PS I had a drink this evening so it may not make much sense!