06 Jun 2002
Wow… what a week for hard drives
- The hard drive holding /var on k92 (the sever that hosts this) starts kicking out errors, almost exactly one year after installed. Steve, the guy who’s ISP this k92 lives at, had to drive 80 miles to Fry’s just to find they wanted to rip him off, then installed another hard drive that was more trouble than the current one was, until getting a 60 GB that worked. Lot of fun.
- A 60 GB hard drive that Bob left in my care while in the Peace Core for 2 years makes funny noises as certain times. ASAP I’m going to get another drive and do the hard drive hokeypokey with it (“you put one in, you take one out, you call up maxtor and scream and shout”)
- Bob’s computer that I’m trying to set up for my wife, Laura (Bob is her brother) has major hard drive problems to the point that I’m not sure if I can recover all his data before I fdisk it (I believe it a “windows has crappy filesystems” problem, not a hardware error.
- My good buddy zooko just had his laptop hard drive crash, losing a lot of irreplacable data.
I’m thinking …. RAID 1 is the only way to fly, Baby!
04 Jun 2002
I got a copy of my brother-in-law’s music collection while I was in NY last weekend… all 24 GB’s of it. He and I had a lot of the same stuff so I made a TRM fingerprint of all the files in both of our collections and stuck it in a mysql database. Now I’m writing a tool to grade the duplicates using code from mp3guessenc to discover the encoder used and other mp3 checking tools to see if the file has any errors.
If I could get TuneTagger up and running then I could do it using that. (more on tunetagger later)
04 Jun 2002
[arma] i think we live in a parallel unauthorized copy of earth. crop circles are the tell-tale signs of break-in.</p>
[arma] (speaking of digital rights management)
[coderman] lol
[tvoj] 34Rth 1z mY w4r3Z!!!!
[tvoj] arma: how kn i use UR crop-cirlce algo to h4ck pr0n?
[arma] well, the theory is, the watermarks are indistinguishable while they’re working,
[arma] but since obviously people have been removing watermark-sized pieces of corn fields,
[arma] then pretty soon we’re no longer going to have control over those fields.
[arma] ...the implications for hacking porn should be obvious.
[arma] i can give you a hint, if you need it:
[tvoj] arma: kn U send m3 sum l337 KoRn?
[arma] step 1: place crop circles in porn
[arma] step 3: profit.
[tvoj] U r g3nus.
[tvoj] arma: i tried k0rn pr0n but all i got was bitchslapped with a trout. was this success?
[arma] you must keep trying.
[tvoj] shite h4xx0R1ng iz fuct
[arma] perhaps you should read a book? take a walk?
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03 Jun 2002
This is from Jason, my long time friend and co-conspirator, whom I’ve know since I lived overseas
Actually I’m sitting in an internet cafe in Bangkok, Thailand […] on all someone elses tab. :) Sometimes life deals you a royal flush. This trip has been such a blast. In the last week alone I have seen the Great Wall of China, a cock fight, thousands of dirt cheap DVD’s, the Forbidden Palace, met the VP for the largest telecommunications network in the Middle East and been almost killed numerous times ridding in a took-took. Asia is awesome! […] PS. Want any DVD’s? I can get Episode II for $2.
Grrr…. and I have to go to meetings….
03 Jun 2002
Nevermind writing a paper saying open source software works, Germany just went with Linux across the board. Actions speak louder than works.
You will fall Mr. Bill. :)