Archive for September, 2007
Gogol Bordello – One Crazy Band!
by Nathan on Sep.20, 2007
I was just watching David Letterman and this band was on. WTF! – thats about all I can say.
http://www.gogolbordello.com/
GeekTool Rss Script
by Nathan on Sep.20, 2007
Here is a little script a friend help me put together. It it basically a caching RSS reader for GeekTool. I use it to display my Netflix query on my desktop, as well as My MeeVee listing. Just change the LOG, RSS lines and it will pull the title lines out of RSS feeds. If you want more you can change the curl lines. Have fun.
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#!/bin/sh
LOG=/Users/Nathan/scripts/netflix_queue.txt
RSS=”http://rss.netflix.com/QueueRSS?id=P1414648916102002442351662043565655″
size=$(ls -all $LOG | awk ‘{print $5}’)
if [ ! -f $LOG ]; then
curl -s $RSS | grep title | sed -E ‘s/<\/?title>//g’ > $LOG
else
age=$(echo $(date “+%s”) – $(stat -t “%s” $LOG 2>/dev/null | awk -F\” ‘{print $4}’) | bc -l)
if [ "$age" -gt 3600 -o $size = 0 ]; then
curl -s $RSS | grep title | sed -E ‘s/<\/?title>//g’ > $LOG
fi
fi
cat $LOG
Real Linux Commands
by Nathan on Sep.19, 2007
I stole this list from this blog.
% cat “food in cans”
cat: can’t open food in cans
% nice man woman
No manual entry for woman.
% “How would you rate Quayle’s incompetence?
Unmatched “.
% Unmatched “.
Unmatched “.
% [Where is Jimmy Hoffa?
Missing ].
% ^How did the sex change operation go?^
Modifier failed.
% If I had a ( for every $ the Congress spent, what would I have?
Too many (‘s.
% make love
Make: Don’t know how to make love. Stop.
% sleep with me
bad character
% got a light?
No match.
% man: why did you get a divorce?
man:: Too many arguments.
% !:say, what is saccharine?
Bad substitute.
% %blow
%blow: No such job.
% \(-
(-: Command not found.
$ PATH=pretending! /usr/ucb/which sense
no sense in pretending!
$ drink matter
matter: cannot create
New Theme – (Yes or No)
by Nathan on Sep.18, 2007
It has been over a year since I updated the theme, and I happen to run across this one. What do you all think. I have to change the pics on top, but I wanted some opinions first. I think it may be to bright, and also I don’t know how well the blue links work. Does it seem faster or is it just me?
Here is what the site looked like before, just in case you forgot.
Bioshock and the Mac Adventure that Ensued
by Nathan on Sep.17, 2007
This weekend I bought a copy of Bioshock. A Microsoft only game. This was fine as I thought all I would have to do is install Boot Camp. When I got home I fired up the MacBook Pro and went to installing boot camp. After burning the driver disc I was stuck waiting the the drive to be partitioned. I went to grab a sandwich and came back to find that the partition had failed. OSX said it couldn’t move some file and I would have to reformat the drive before I could partition it. Looks like this isn’t going to be as easy as I thought I said, and went to get out my external hard drive and peruse a reformat. After booting the OSX install disc I went to Disk Utility and made an image of my drive. Then booted back into my system and mounted the image just to verify that all my data was there. All the data was copied, so I reformatted the internal drive. All well and good so far. After the format I went to restore the drive from the image I had created, but to my surprise I was unable to do so. After spending a few hours online trying to figure out how to restore the image Apple.com left me with two options.
One: install OSX on another external drive and boot from that, then restore the internal drive.
Two: boot my Mac into disk mode and connect it to another Mac and restore from the image.
Neither of these options where going to work for me, so I decided I would just mount the image and copy everything to the internal drive. After that was finished I rebooted to find a black error screen. This wasn’t what I had hoped for. By this time my sandwich is long gone and its getting really late, so I say screw it I will just reinstall the OS and spend the next week getting things back to normal. Off I go on another long operation when I find an option that will copy my old system to a folder and reuse my User folder. About and hour later I was sitting at the Log In screen for my user account and everything was pretty much back to normal. Unfortunately I was out of time and didn’t get a chance to try Boot Camp again. But I would assume it will work.
What I Learned.
1. I am going to need to find a better way to back up.
2. Through all the madness I somehow gained 5-10GB of extra data.
3. Games are not always worth it.

