Friday, June 19, 2009

Vote for my short! at Film Racing | ave Makeup, Will Travel - Vote For Us

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Monday, June 15, 2009

The Atlantic: Happiness

This month's issue of The Atlantic takes another perspective on happiness, highlighting a study - The Harvard Study of Adult Development - that began in 1937. It offers a much-more nuanced look at what determines happiness. Among its more interesting details is an examination of how our defense mechanisms



http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200906/happiness


Sunday, June 14, 2009

Comfort Wipe Commercial

Uuuuh...



Thursday, June 11, 2009

100 Best Movie Lines in 200 Seconds



Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Linux: Find ip of known MAC address

Useful for DHCP only networks where you can't get a reservation and have multiple machines (laptop / desktop) and you reservations are short. Requires nmap, and nmap must run as root to get the scan the subnet and get the MAC. Copy and paste this into a script file.

#!/bin/bash
# enter known values
other_mac=00:00:00:00:00:00 <-- change for the mac of the machine you want to find
subnet=1.2.3.1-254 <--change for your subnet

# don't modify from here on down
# set current date stamp
prefix=`echo $subnet | /usr/bin/cut -d "." -f1`

# find the mac of wanted pc with nmap and get current ip
# requires nmap, and nmap has to run as root, you can add your account to sudoers with visudo
# username ALL= NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/nmap
newip=`/usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/nmap -nsP $subnet | /bin/grep -B1 -i "$other_mac" | grep $prefix | /usr/bin/cut -d " " -f2 | egrep -iv "[a-z]|[A-Z]"`

#do whatever you want here, add to your hosts file, launch command with ip, etc...
#vncviewer $newip -compresslevel 0 -quality -5
echo $newip

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Monday, June 08, 2009

Ubuntu Jaunty: Gmail as default mailto: handler

First, make Firefox 3 use Gmail for sending page links (right click Send Link) and handling mailto: links.
  1. Open Firefox
  2. Click Edit/Preferences
  3. Click Applications
  4. Find mailto: and change to "Use Gmail"
Now make Ubuntu Jaunty (Nautilus really) use Firefox to handle email.
  1. On your desktop toolbar, click System/Preferences/Preferred Applications
  2. On the "Internet" tab, Mail Reader, change to Custom
  3. In the "Command" box type: firefox %s
  4. Click close to save your new settings.
Test it by sending your self an attachment from nautilus.
  1. Right click on any file and click "Send to..."
  2. Change Send as: to "Email (Evolution)"
  3. Put email address in the Send to box.
  4. Click Send.

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Friday, June 05, 2009

Ubuntu Jaunty: Getting WMV to Play

Add the medibuntu repo's and get them approved
  1. sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/jaunty.list --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
  2. sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get update

install smplayer and the supporting codecs and libraries
  1. sudo apt-get install w32codecs libdvdcss2 mozilla-mplayer smplayer

that should do it. if you are not running jaunty, just rename the jaunty bits to your distro on medibuntu, that "should" work.

UPDATE

Alternatively, install this package (which I haven't tested) to play and record most common multimedia formats, including MP3, DVD, Flash, Quicktime, WMA and WMV, including both standalone files and content embedded in web pages. (should work for Jaunty, Ibex and Hardy)
  • sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
Source: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/

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Thursday, May 28, 2009

Mary Roach: 10 things you didn't know about orgasm

We are all wankers.



Monday, May 18, 2009

Leonard Nimoy on the Spock "Star Trek" Vulcan Salute

Oy. vey!!! Who knew!!!



Musopen - Free Public Domain Classical Music

 

Musopen - Free Public Domain Classical Music

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