HypeR BomB :

canada corporatized democracy

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:26:00 +0100

or why i believe we are living in a state of corporate feudalism, as proudon would say

ugh

i dunno why im so pissed about the politcal landscape in canada

im sick of this falsified democracy we live in

why cant we take out the middle men and vote directly on the issues?

the rest of it just corrupts

corporations have their lil hands in every pocket of the government, and what pockets are left are designated for military and religious purposes

meanwhile the rest of us are sitting here saying, thats not why i elected so and so ..

who the fuck cares about so and so, they just make shady deals and leav us in the wallows

itrs time , i think, for a new way of governing, not just a new face in the old farted-in seat

how does a population say, we are sick of this FORM of governance, we want to re work our political structure?

is their no option but revolt?

id would hope so, but i dont see it,

most of us are too apathetic or calmed by various forms of entertainment to quell our appetite for destruction

those that are left are designated as wack jobs

my fave firefox add ons

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:59:00 +0100

hey

I got pretty addicted to fire foxs add ons

here is a list of my top 5 all find able on mozillas addon page

noscript

kinda a nuisance, as you have to allow websites to run scripts, better than having your browser hikacked

adblock plus and adblock filterset.G updater

aweeome ad blocking add on , with its companion update addon you can stop being pummelled by ads

foxmarks and bookmark duplicate detector

foxmarks is a bookmark syncronizer and im suure you can guess what bookmark duplicat detector does

brief

new reader plugin,, this is a real time saving addon for me i dont need to visit all my news sites

roll your own ssl certificates

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:50:00 +0100

if any of you are like me ssl certificates still seem like a black art hell most encryption seems like it was found in some hidden inner pocket of the cryptinomicon

anyways here i go again, i ll be explaining how to generate one of these bad boys

and maybe even explain how to config apache or nginx with them

ssl 101, all you need

ok first off there are three files in a web certificate , SITE.key is the private key, SITE.csr the csr, or certificate signing request and SITE.crt or the actual certificate itself

you make all these using openssl

how was that for a crash course? .. onward…

I am the Keymaster-———are you the Gatekeeper???

k, first step is in generating a private key for all this to work off of

so here we go , using the SITE.key example from above


>openssl genrsa -out SITE.key 1024

Generating RSA private key, 1024 bit long modulus
......++++++
.................++++++
e is 65537 (0x10001)

thats it key is done

May I Please have a certificate?

now we take the private key and make a certificate signing request, this is what we use to ask for a cert from a signing authority


>openssl  req -new -key SITE.key -out SITE.csr

You are about to be asked to enter information that will be incorporated
into your certificate request.
What you are about to enter is what is called a Distinguished Name or a DN.
There are quite a few fields but you can leave some blank
For some fields there will be a default value,
If you enter '.', the field will be left blank.
-----
Country Name (2 letter code) [US]: CA
State or Province Name (full name) [NY]: BC
Locality Name (eg, city) [NY]: Vancouver
Organization Name (eg, company) []:
Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []:
Common Name (eg, YOUR name) []: your.domain.here
Email Address []: something@your.domain.here

Please enter the following 'extra' attributes
to be sent with your certificate request
A challenge password []:
An optional company name []:

notice you have soem fields to fill out , make sure your domain and email are both off the server you are setting up also make sure you have no space at the start of any of the entries as this can cause errors no need for password unless you want to remember it every time you restart your webserver ….

Getting the Certificate

there are lots of signing authorites out there, open up SITE.csr and copy the csr data

go to one of the CA ’s , i dont like refering anyone to one particular one here is a list

follow their instructions, and you should get a crt either via email or web site, usually they confirm via the email youve set up in the previous csr stage

just copy the crt info into SITE.crt in a text editor and your done

h2.. config your server bonus round

im not covering basic setup of your doain here, ....

in nginx .conf

server
{
    listen your.domain.here:443;
    server_name your.domain.here;

    ssl                  on;
    ssl_certificate     /where/you/put/SITE.crt;
    ssl_certificate_key  /where/you/put/SITE.key;
    ssl_ciphers          ALL:!ADH:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:-LOW:-SSLv2:-EXP;

    index index.html;
}

in apache

NameVirtualHost *:443
<VirtualHost *:443>
    DocumentRoot "/your/www/directory" 

    SSLEngine on
    SSLOptions +StrictRequire
    <Directory />
        SSLRequireSSL
    </Directory>

    SSLProtocol -all +TLSv1 +SSLv3
    SSLCipherSuite HIGH:MEDIUM:!aNULL:+SHA1:+MD5:+HIGH:+MEDIUM
    SSLRandomSeed startup file:/dev/urandom 1024
    SSLRandomSeed connect file:/dev/urandom 1024

    SSLSessionCache shm:/usr/local/apache2/logs/ssl_cache_shm
    SSLSessionCacheTimeout 600    

    SSLCertificateFile /where/you/put/SITE.crt
    SSLCertificateKeyFile /where/you/put/SITE.key

    SSLVerifyClient none
    SSLProxyEngine off

</VirtualHost>

restart your servers

that is all

Dont click on the yellow link- organizing bookmarks

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 23:52:00 +0100

I just organized all my book marks, yay!

i had them spread over at least a decade and 3 html files

it was a mess! but after planning it out i managed to organize them in less than 24 hours

of course to do such heavy lifting i wasnt using no graphical tools

here are some steps i took on the unix cli, basically these shit should work on every thing out there besides windows and macs pre os X

Where have all the good bookmarks gone?

Well fortunately for me im pretty meticulous in one sense, i know where i put all my files

in this case it all went into one main dump an archive folder of bookmark.html files and *.URL internet shortcuts

a quick


 find /media/disk/ |grep -i "url$"

found any i had dragged into any other folders i had for projects and research

filtering out the goods

now the heavy regex commands and useful unix tools

there are two types of bookmark storage going on here

to get the data into this script use something like this to get out of a internet shortcut


cat  /where/you/store/your/internet/shortcuts/*.URL |grep "^URL" |sed -e"s/URL=//" >>/home/user/listofbookmarks.txt

to break this down,

you are basically looking in every shortcut for a line that starts with URL and use sed to replace anything that starts with URL= with nothing and pushes that filtered line into list of bookmarks

or like this to filter it out of an html file


 cat /where/you/store/your/internet/shortcuts/*.html |grep HREF|sed -e"s/<DT><A HREF=\"//" |sed -e"s/\".*$//" |grep "^\Whttp" > /home/user/listofbookmarks.txt

to break this down , here you are breaking down every line that has an href and filter out using sed everything but the actual link and again pushes that filtered line into the list of bookmarks

a lil bit a grace a lil bit of doubt – how to tell if the url is still good

like i said these files also stretch back to the baked potato days, are they still relevant? how knows? they do!

i made this lil script named listofbookmarks.pl all you need to do is right click and download it and then append all your links to the end , where the sourceforge.net link is

this should do the trick


cat /home/user/listofbookmarks.txt >> /path/to/listofbookmarks.pl

make sure there are no spaces after DATA or inbetween your urls

so what does the script do you ask, well

it takes every url in the list, make sure it exists and if so writes out an a href link line using the url and the title is grepped out url call to get something to fill in the link name

you should be able to run it like so


perl /path/to/listofbookmarks.pl > mygoodbookmarks.html

then open up firefox and

click on bookmarks

click on organize bookmarks

the click on import and backup

import html

the wizard should guide you through the rest

stay tuned for next issue on organizing in firefox

for those about to cron, we remind you

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:37:00 +0100

anyone who has touched a linux box for other than bragging rights has probably heard of the cron, a way of telling your computer to do something at a certain time, its great you can tell it to do most things really well like run this script every 5 minutes or, 15th of the month run this report

http://www.adminschoice.com/docs/crontab.htm

well it cant handle stuff like run every first wednesday of the month

it just aint equipped

in comes remind, which isnt new by anyones standard either http://wiki.43folders.com/index.php/Remind_FAQ

for ical conversion to from and other apps using this, such as geektool for mac http://wiki.43folders.com/index.php/Remind_Sync_FAQ

you can use it as a calendar or automation scheduler or both http://wiki.43folders.com/index.php/Remind_FAQ has this example

For an item that repeats, say, the 15th of every month, you’d omit the month and year, like this:

REM 15 MSG Pay the bills.%

below has another example where, if in daemon mode it can run a script
REM Monday RUN /Users/gina/Documents/todo/todo.sh listpri

and it can do stuff like first wednesday of every month

REM Wed 1 MSG OCLUG Meeting.

more examples here: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3529

BTW REM here stands for remind not remark , it was throwing me because of my BASIC beginnings

incron

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:46:00 +0100

this is an ingenious

instead of basing your tirgger on a time , trigger it based on file modifications etc

http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com/index.php?/archives/102-Productive-Monday-Incron-Execute-commands-based-on-filesystem-activity.html

check out the examples

for instance one can process a file after tis been uploaded

reload a server after a conf file has been modified

can i rant for a min

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:45:00 +0100

linux audio

i mean its complex and complicated , do we need 8 billions audio systems? esd openal etc

one computer one audio driver , simple

there im done

Yaletown still smells like a warehouse

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 06:32:00 +0100

Its so funny down in amongst the wtf of yaletown

in the rain , it still smell like a rain logged warehouse

the mildewy smell of wood and whatever is in the walls rotting within and upon and inside of itelf.

a gust of wind carries on it the rancid smell of rotten milk

i cur through an alley and startle a junkie shootin up in the alcove of a high rise condo

it wasnt long ago this was a ghost town not unlike the meat packing district of nyc

old warehouser awaiting somewhere to go

we used to walk down here late after dreezlyland, the superdome or what else…

walking down in here with pierre and rejoice, looking in the dumpsters for organic dumpster bananas

we find tonnes , i cant remember how much 4-6 boxes?

enuff for food not bombs to be in banana bread for a few weeks

and really nothings changed

lots of people scrounging around for scraps

nowadays its scraps from an age we hardly know, or wonder about, just something we errily imitate like some bad monkey training excercise

privacy and party lines

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:43:00 +0100

only you country bumpkins from yesteryear would know of suych a thing , the party line!!

back in the day before civilized tele-communications people’s telephones were on what was called a party line, nowadays everyone is one their own separate line, but back in the day there was… you guessed it, the party line!

and what a party!

everyone had thier own special ring

some were two short rings, one long , one long one short

but who cares.. its the party line!!!

yup no matter whos ring rang, everyone picked up, so much for privacy, and of course, the switch board operator hears it all lol.

gossip {or dissemination of local information , if you prefer} happened way faster, youd know if your neighbors cows were sick and who he was fighting , fucking and drinking with

it got me thinking how much things havent changed , the internet is one big party line!

but in some ways we do have more privacy than yesteryear, i dunno, i mean back in the day you could say you were someone and who was to judge.

nowadays there are all sort of ways for someone to validate who you are, but back in time not even a few hundred years ago and people marked their signature as an X and didnt carry much identification if at all

jam

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:37:00 +0100

now i have completely moved away from windows as well

lets see how i can cope without it

im super stoked about some of the cross elements happening between the synergy of Mac and Microsoft

basic hardware is always fully supported

and running it on this eeepc means such a low foot print

since ive been travelling the three electronic devices i run are my cell phone my laptop my mp3 player

its amazing

i am loving this multitouch mousepad as well i havent fully explored it but the twofinger scrolling is so usefull