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Eye of the Tiger

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According to this fangdangled contraption the number one song in the UK of the day of my birthday was ‘Eye of the Tiger - Survivor’.

Sounds awesome to me! It’s the no.1 song at LanSmash to get push the admins at the end to finish packing up after a long hard day of gaming!

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October 27th, 2005 at 12:58 pm

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WordPressDash = pretty cool

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Just quick plug of a new Widget I found today called WordPressDash. It’s just thing for adding 5 minute rants (see previous post) and various other quick edits.

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October 25th, 2005 at 11:33 am

Posted in Mac OS X, Technical

I hate Nano!

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I hate that cursed text editor. This morning I spent 5 minutes trying to figure out why a fresh crontab wasn’t working as I ssh’d into a server… My syntax was correct yet crontab refuse to save my entry stating bad minute errors in crontab file.
I then realised it was the crap characters nano was feeding into the beginning of the file!

A swift export EDITOR=vim and my crontab problems were gone.

Note: After bitching to a friend of mine who is pro Nano he stated to me that nano > 8. My point exactly, he’s so handicapped from using nano that he can’t even type an Asterisk.

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October 25th, 2005 at 11:25 am

Posted in Linux, Technical

F-Secure Bricks a PSP on camera

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F-Secure shows what it looks like when you run some code that kills your PSP entirely.

Haha, DS > PSP :P

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October 21st, 2005 at 10:07 am

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Stupid me - hit my head

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I feel stupid.

This morning I was rushing around (as usual, last minute stuff) to get going and opened the drivers side door to my awesomobile (Honda Jazz) and sneezed. Sure, sneezing is annoying except this morning I sneezed quite violently in to my opening car door and my head colided with the very tip of the door. I was quite pissed off at myself and drove away and then realised that I was bleeding when blood started dripping on my nose. Who say’s handkerchief’s aren’t usefull!

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My mother recommended me to go out and get something to treat it with after hearing of my stupidity. So I went to the local chemist and asked ‘got anything to fix this?’ pointing to my the middle of my head. I thought it was in plain view enough but the chemist lady sort of stared blankly at me. I guess after seeing a gazillion weird things you sort of try not to pay attention to them.

$20AUD later I picked up a bottle of honey.
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It’s sticky, it’s goey and it definately tastes like honey. So I’m not quite sure WTF it’s meant to do but I’m applying it on tonight and with a few bandages we’ll see how quickly this old man will heal up.

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October 20th, 2005 at 5:37 pm

Posted in Diary

Linux

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I came across a selection of delciously funny captions for a swag of Linux distributions. Those who aren’t Linux fan-boys/girls will probably just scratch their heads.

Caldera, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Mandrake, RedHat, Slackware, Ubuntu.

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October 18th, 2005 at 2:37 pm

Posted in General, Linux