• More than this?

    Lost in Translation is really a fabulous movie – if you’ve travelled a lot while being in monogamous relationships (and probably a guy, or at least of a certain mindset), and in particular tokyo or somewhere that is really alien. The sense of awe and aloneness… and the grandeur of tokyo, which I’m already in…

  • HP firmware disks

    I’d been playing with them… and since I hadn’t seen this anywhere I’ll put it as a small hack o the day. The disks do what they say (e.g. … install firmware ;)) – basically you burn it to a cd, boot it up, and it has some sort of access to the system. Since…

  • lsof lite (III/III)

    Finally one that looks at a process and tells you what ports its listening to. WPCM450 /tmp]$ ps |grep ssh  1263 root       4532 S   /sbin/sshd -g 60  9730 root       9412 S   sshd: root@pts/0     10571 root       3556 R   grep ssh [WPCM450 /tmp]$…

  • lsof lite (II/III)

    Here’s one that looks up processes that have a file open… well, actually, more like a file expression; “foo” would match “/bar/foo” and “/foo/bar” (by intent), so use full paths if you’re not feeling frisky. And yes… busybox really does have that many duplicate processes with that file open…. [WPCM450 /tmp]$ ./lsof-pid-on-file.sh NVRAM_PrivateStorage00.dat /bin/fullfw  …

  • lsof lite I/III

    After beating on some really anemic linux installations that had… well, just about nothing installed (one didn’t have “tr”, one didn’t have “df”, etc… come on, that’s pretty sad ;)), I decided to start writing some shell scripts in very, very basic shell (you can do a lot with shell, awk, and sed!) Here’s one…

  • Sleeps with Butterflies

    Butterfly flaps have interesting consequences. Apparently Edward Lorenz came up with the term butterfly effect; later he wrote a marvelous paper presented at the 1972 AAAS (speech below, and taken from another site which had the text), which explains the effect… in a way that may or may not align with how you view it.…

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