It's no good, I can't leave it. H4x0r1ng people's files is wrong and I shouldn't do it, even if I can. I put this back to how it was originally. Sorry people. Just because you can doesn't mean you should (RjY misquotes from Jurassic Park)
PS As you might have guessed I seem to have lost the ability to go to sleep today. My brain is raging at me, my stomach is simply raging (I'm really hungry for some reason and I don't know what to have!) and I just can't be doing with lying in bed in the dark staring at the ceiling or trying to force my eyes to stay shut. So sod it. The unmetered access goes on until 8am, I might as well make some use of it.
Random H4X0R4G3!!!1
Yeah so Nelis is experimenting with PHP on Rutherford's Web server (damn that was a lot of "a href"s) and sends a mail round the triv tech list on about file permissions so I write a load of gumph, in particular about world-writable (chmod o+w) directories. So I'm idly thinking about this later on and I remember about the sticky bit so I wrote another mail about it, and to illustrate why you should set this bit for o+w directories I 1337ly h4><0r3d his little experiment just for a laugh, and because I'm quite horrible sometimes, well often, and I can see myself getting shouted at about this one.
PS By the time you read this it's probably been fixed or deleted and my account at triv has probably been disabled or deleted, and if so you won't be reading this page because it too will have gone.
Please gods I hope this gets taken as a joke
BLOG WARS!! (oh, and some crap about birthdays.)
Heh, okay so I'm a dickhead! I think I know why, but why not take the opportunity to enlighten all your other readers? (writes RjY, thinking "yeah! blatant flamebait!") It'll give you something to fill your apparent need to update your site five times a day:-p (RjY continues to write, as further flamebait if in the unlikely event the previous didn't work)
I'll be damned if I can remember your birthday though, the first date in August that springs to mind as a special anniversary for someone who isn't me, is the 4th, and that's more to do with Bex... (not her birthday by the way, as the ENTIRE WORLD knows that is the 21st of February) Maybe Danny's birthday on the, um... the 8th? I dunno... Like anyone should care about and celebrate the fact that they're a year nearer to their inevitable gruesome demise is beyond me. Oh well.
So I'm a dickhead am I, Pete? Way to insult your only reader:-p
Damnit I sobered up again but before I did I invaded the doom channels on irc.openprojects.net, and made an arse out of myself.
I was given ops on one of them. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Oh jesus chirsyt I'm puisssed
I was like reealy relaly bored and deprressed and just like damnit it's Saturfay night ad nI'm in the house again writign crprappy m\ials to CERTAIN PEOPLE hi Sarah and it's depresssing so I thought, hey Rob, great idea fo godwnstairs and theresa n open bottle odf Whhite Lighytnending Cider and have some, so I had like 2 cups that about s apingtt DAMNIT BY MTYPICING SUCKS and its gone strinayht to my head.
well aty leagtst I'm laughing again HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Good riddance!
So there's this guy who lives in my road, two doors up. He's quite old, I'd guess over sixty. Physically he has a number of things wrong with him; the most obvious is his walking difficulty, he walked with a stick. But all the cigarettes and alcohol he consumes can't help.
He is someone who needs constant attention. Since he lives alone, this comes out in the way he harasses everyone who lives in the street. If he sees you outside he'll try to trap you into a long and boring conversation about how ill he is and how all these people are taking advantage of him and crap. You can't get rid of him.
It gets worse. He traps you in a way you can't easily escape, like if you leave your house he'll walk over and stand outside your front door and talk at you. I see him do it every time some hapless new couple move into one of the houses opposite. You can see people itching to get away from him.
Of course he did this to me as well; for example, I'd be taking the dog for a walk and he'd stop me just after I'd left the house and was starting off up the road. Any idiot could see I was busy but, oh no, he needed attention. In fact he managed to get me inside his house once while he wrote Christmas cards for my mum and me. I couldn't be bothered telling him my name wasn't Richard. I stopped short of going to the shops and buying cigarettes for him.
He pisses me off. He goes into people's front gardens, and he trims their hedge. What do you do if you come home and find him in your front garden?! But there is a happy ending.
HE'S GONE
My mum was going past his house the other day. At that moment this other guy emerges. He has a mask on. Apparently he works for the council. He said that the council had moved him to a flat nearer the shops, a place more suited to his needs.
Now you could tell me I'm being insensitive and I should care about this man, it's not his fault he's infirm or whatever. But I don't. It's hard to care about people who really annoy you. He got on everyone's nerves, he made his house so filthy they had to send guys with masks in to fumigate it, and so I'M SO VERY VERY GLAD HE'S GONE.
The Daily Bilge 12th July 2002
MAILING LIST TRAGICALLY KILLED BY FIRE
Reading, England -- Nearly half a dozen people lost their on-line lives today as a flamewar destroyed the misc(at)triv.org.uk mailing list. Eyewitnesses reported sparks flying between two regular contributors, before a conflagration erupted, engulfing the list administrator.
"It's a disaster," sobbed Rob Young, 23, a long-time list subscriber. "I get like no [expletive] mail now, because of some stupid little disagreement I didn't even start. Now I feel even more unpopular and surrounded by retards than I did last week. It's so heavy man! I don't care who started it, I just want some mail from my friends once in a while!"
Fire officials suspect it could be some months before the list can be rebuilt, as the cost of an apology could run into literally millions of pounds worth of hurt pride.
(I wrote this earlier today in response to this: "Any idea what's going on? List activity seems to have plummeted to new depths")
Important anniversary
I have to post this. Today, the 24th, is 10 years (damn scarily long time!) since, um, blast, I can't explain it to anyone who isn't me. It is simply a very important anniversary in the history of my brain. Don't ask me to explain this further because I can't - but I have to post it.
10 years since The Start Of The Interesting Bit
~/.xchat/xchatlogs$ cat \#warwick.log | awk '$4 ~ /^<.*>$/ {print $4}' \
| sort | uniq -c | sort -rg
818 <RjY>
345 <Amy>
112 <iaint>
92 <Peter>
87 <Rutherford>
80 <Simon>
71 <BabyDave>
70 <bisc>
70 <Niall>
69 <itsrbot>
10 <RiY>
8 <Lllama>
7 <R|Y>
4 <RlY>
3 <peter>
1 <R>
1 <Nelis>
Yeah. I spam IRC. I'm so popular I get people impersonating my name as well.
Anyway that's only counting lines, not text volume. I type really short lines, okay? Like these:
Jul 22 00:51:28 <Amy> I'm tired.
Jul 22 00:51:34 <Amy> weird
Jul 22 00:52:03 <RjY> slap yourself:-)
Jul 22 00:52:52 * Amy slaps herself
Jul 22 00:52:57 <RjY> heh
Jul 22 00:53:03 <RjY> made you slap yourself
Robert Young, set 13
21st May, 1996
Dear Robert,
As you know, we have recently been counting the votes of staff and students as part of the process by which we elect prefects. Unfortunately, you were not chosen to serve on the prefect body. While this may be a disappointment to you, may we say that we hope very much that despite the fact that you will not be carrying out specific prefects' duties you will continue to be fully involved in all aspects of school life. This would include offering advice and guidance to younger pupils as appropriate; accepting positions of responsibility in House, sporting, music, drama and other activities; becoming involved in the school's developing PSE programme; providing role models for younger pupils; serving on various committees and helping with the planning and subsequently the management of the new Sixth Form Centre.
We believe that all our senior students have a great deal to offer which contributes enormously to both the smooth running of the school and the very positive atmosphere within the school - this is greatly appreciated.
| With best wishes, | |
| Yours sincerely, |
| C. Britton
C. Britton
Deputy Head |
H. G. Lewis
H. G. Lewis
Deputy Head |
MY ARSE!!! Amazing. I fall off my chair with laughter:-) I found this letter the other day during a clearout of my box of scrap paper. I'd somehow managed to forget about it. How could I? It's comedy gold! If you liked this, tell me, and I'll transcribe the letter I got from the Warwick accommodation office before the start of my second first year.
Debian...Sarge?
So Debian 3.0 (Woody) has come out. Here's the Release announcement, you can follow the links from there or something, or go to Debian Planet.
This doesn't have that much relevance to my computer at this present moment. I upgraded like two and a half months ago... But nevertheless it's the BEST THING EVER(tm).
Oh yeah, Sarge is apparently the name of the next release. Potato, Woody, Sarge. Okay... finally, a funny quote, from the developers' mailing list announcement.
(If you're a suit with a business imperative to obtain reassurance in regard to the enterprise suitability of Debian -- don't read on :)
Connection time
Our phone bill came in today. Total internet connection time was 587 hours, which compared with 491 from the last one. Four more days connected. It's still nowhere near the maximum for a surftime connection over three months; that would be of the order of 1500 or 1600:-)
This type of thing always makes me laugh. I am the Internet King. I can't provide an IP router that's compatible with a token ring ethernet LAN configuration, for the purpose of upgrading a 28.8 kilobaud connection to a T1 line...
AWOOGAH! LAME SIMPSONS GAG ALERT! AWOOGAH...
...just in case any of you idiots didn't get the reference. Um. I should go to sleep.
Strangely annoying server upgrades!
#warwick log from last night:
<Rutherford> Why do you want all this stuff for Apache? What's
wrong with PHP4? It suits me...
<RjY> dpkg -s apache
<RjY> Rutherford: since when did you have php on your server?!?!?!
<Lllama> since sunday
<RjY> bah
<Rutherford> Haven't you seen http://www.triv.org.uk/uptime.php ?
<Lllama> I helped him install it ;-)
<Rutherford> It's been there for ages.
<RjY> i asked him in like february and he wouldn't put it in
<Lllama> competition mate.
<Rutherford> No, I couldn't be arsed figuring out how to configure
Apache to match, and then Lllama came along and told me how easy it was.
So, apparently I can use PHP here now. Of course this is a new thing. I might have learned PHP and made a better attempt at the construction of this site if it had been installed back in March (not February as it says above) when I asked Rutherford for it, but only now has he been arsed enough to put it in...
Bah!!! So it ended up with this site being controlled by some dodgy perl script that was written by an idiot. (As opposed to dodgy PHP written by an idiot, yes, shut up.)
By the way the "competition" is generously provided by Felix, who wishes it to be known that due to apparent new policies by Apple, he'll probably be moving his site to his server (with its annoyingly hard to type in address... three "l"s in a row? Hah!) His page might be the top level one in /var/www/, or it might be /home/felix/public_html/ in the same way that my horrible PHP experiment is in /home/rjy/public_html/ (If those links are broken it probably means that Felix aka Lllama has switched the server off, it's apparently very noisy and also next to his TV:-/ )
But there is another side to the coin, and probably a good reason why I shouldn't bitch too much about events four months ago. It is this. I have TWO PHP-enabled websites now, accessible by ssh logins on TWO servers running Debian Woody, on TWO different cable modems. Ain't it grand...
Another dumb "what are you?" test
Stolen blatantly from Nelis: Which Colossal Death Robot Are You? I am apparently Calibretto, of whom I have never heard, and who sounds, quite frankly, like a bit of a pussy.
Pizza is no more than cheese on toast, damnit!
And finally, for now (I've been writing this update far too long already) I was invited out for pizza last weekend, and while eating the stuff it struck me that pizza is no more than cheese on toast with a fancy name. I've told far too many people of this, but I'm telling you, now, and I want you to go away and think about it. I think it's a conspiracy. Probably the Mafia, in league with the Taliban and David Icke's lizard people.
Hello
After a number of enquiries about why I haven't updated this thing for so long (mainly from Sarah, although there were others) I have decided to, err, update this thing.
1. Apology
Sorry.
2. Resolution
I resolve not to write personal stuff about what's going on in my head any more.
It was good, having a website as a ranting ground. That way, if I'm upset about something, I can post about it, and I'm not actually whinging at anyone in particular (I think it is important not to whinge at people, unless they are concerned and ask you to do so) but it was therapeutic to type it all out of my brain and into cyberspace. Of course whether someone chooses to read it or not is not up to me, so this satisfied my principle against unprovoked whinges.
However after the latest round of spleen venting I received a number of emails, which sounded at the very least worried, and even in one case quite angry. It is not, and has never been, my intention to upset people (even though often enough I do it unintentionally:-) )
Now I'm not getting at any of you who wrote these mails (despite the fact that I haven't replied to a single one of them; I don't know how to start such a reply, without it turning into a whinge, and like I said I can't be having with whinging directly at people, who I believe don't deserve to be whinged at) I simply decided I had better rethink what I can and cannot post.
So from now on it's going to be bland pleasantries, and non-controversial crap. Hopefully just stuff I find funny. Probably on one of the following topics.
- Doom
- Computers (esp. unixy stuff)
- Music; the odd thing about MP3s
- Stuff for or about people I know (maybe)
- Anything else I think will be funny! (or have forgotten in this list)
3. Thanks
I'd like to publically thank Felix for setting up his (apparently really noisy) P90 box as a web server running Debian Woody, installing such cool stuff as PHP on it, and letting me play merry havoc:-) He's even let me help sysadmin it, which is great because it means I can just do stuff instead of explaining to someone else what I want to do. Many thanks for your trust, sir, I will try not to abuse it:-)
Thanks to Elliot for sending me a tape of his tracks. Completely unsolicited;-) but never mind, they're really good anyway:-)
Also, of course, continuing thanks to my current host, Rutherford.
And to everyone who sent me those mails I was on about earlier, even though I didn't reply to them. You all deserve a reply, and I fail for not providing you with this simple courtesy.
4. MP3 update
I've nuked the MP3s mentioned in the previous update, pending a re-encoding. They weren't exactly well-received, with a number of reports of "high pitched squealing of constant tone" and "muffling" and so forth. Bah. Oh well, there is a discussion in this thread on aaw.
MP3 soundcheck please
Announcement posted to misc@triv, aaw and mirrored at http://www.triv.org.uk/~rjy/ - you can't get too much exposure, you know...:-)
http://www.triv.org.uk/~rjy/stuff/bexsrecord.mp3
http://www.triv.org.uk/~rjy/stuff/researchproject.mp3
Following experiments with mp3 encoding over the past month or so, I'd now like to go public with some sound checks. anARCHy's two previous mp3 releases have been re-encoded using the new method, and uploaded to the addresses above. (Thanks once again to Rutherford for hosting my site and all this rubbish on the triv server:-) )
If you downloaded one or other of these before, or are just curious, I'd like to ask you to get these new ones and see if you think they sound any better or whatever. Oh yeah, and tell me. Personally I think they do; they sound pretty much the same coming through my stereo from my Debian box as they do coming through my stereo from my old A3010 on which the tracks are written, instead of godawfully quiet and tinny like the previous encodings did (I checked this, having found the previous files on triv.org.uk and copying them home)
Please note those addresses are only temporary, I will probably move the files around a bit if the response is any good and I get inspired to encode some stuff you haven't heard before, and when I think of a better way to organise my site, can't just keep dumping files in the stuff/ directory you know.
Many thanks in advance.
