HackNBlog @ Salamanteri Server

Okay, I just shamelessly copied this entry with minor modification from one of my favorite blogs, Steve Parker’s uRandom, but I felt it was important enough. The entry at uRandom quoted another webpage and linked to it. Below is just a copy of what Steve has on his entry.

From the page:

In just 20 minutes, he found and cloned the passports of two very unaware US citizens

Do watch the 5-minute video: http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/02/video-hacker-war-drives-san-francisco-cloning-rfid-passports/.

Btw, Steve, if offended about me copying your entry, take contact and I’ll remove or rewrite the thing. Hope you wont though ;)

So, on my last post, “1,234,567,890th second since UNIX epoch. Where will you be?“, I predicted that on that particular second in time I would propably be sleepind or high. But I wasnt. Instead I was very sober and still awake - watching Futurama movies with my friend. It was all good time but now it’s gone. Still asking, what did *you* do on that moment?

“At 11:31:30pm UTC on Feb 13, 2009, Unix time will reach 1,234,567,890. Where will you be at this momentous second?” - from Bell Labs

Surely you would want to find out what time this second comes in your local time? Well, provided that your *nix system has perl installed you can run the following command in shell:

perl -e 'print scalar localtime(1234567890),"\n";'

Here in Finland this will not happen on Friday 13th but very soon after midnight on Saturday. More precisely at “Sat Feb 14 01:31:30 2009″, as was reported by the above line of perl code… I myself will most likely be high or sleeping at that very moment - where will you be?

P.S. See also: One of those magic times: On Friday the 13th! by Jon maddog Hall & The 1,234,567,890th second approacheth at Linux-Watch.

On the right is one of the wallpapers I found on Bablotech blogs article 12 Wallpapers in which linux criticizes windows. While I personally have little use for wallpapers, beeing user of Ion3 Window manager, I know that many visitors here might find these amusing :)

I’m proud to have released my first WordPress plugin, phpinclude… It allows to include any file apache can access into your post or page. Including PHP files it also executes them. Naturally there is some security settings to make sure that only editors authorized for that can do it. You can check the overall info, view syntax highlighted source and download the plugin at Software / Wordpress Plugins / phpinclude page. Naturally it’s released under GNU GPL license.

Also, if you havent glanced the “Quick News” list on the left of the posts you might want to know that I have released a proramming example of DOS tree command implemented for *nix bash shell in Shell Scriping subsection. So to check tree.sh, go through any of those or go straight to tree.sh for full info and that syntax hihlighted fabulous source (I make a joke, hehe).

Yes, you read it right, Linus-blog, not Linux… What I actually meant was not that some random Bob has started a fan-site/blog about Linus but that it’s Linus Torvalds own blog… The future of it’s content is still unknown and currently is ran on test basis…

…but whatever, you should go and read Linus’ blog anyway, decide if you like it or not and… well, do what you do :)

Wow! I didnt know how fast google scans sites and was very suprised when I tried to google with my latest bloggings title “Watching legal DVD’s on Linux claimed illegal“.

I wrote the blog entry earlyer today, my site is so far barely known, my homeserver a small one and there is a gazillion of sites to scan - google had already noticed my site update the same day! What I cant imagine is how much of power googles spidering uses to scan the internet through… beeing able to notice even the smallest servers little updates so fast… I’m impressed.

Update: By googling I found out that google actually indexes blog updates within couple minutes…

A friend noted me today that it’s funny that I carry all my posessions with me wherever I go… I found the comment amusing, specially because it’s partially true.

I decided to tell what is so special in it. I’m a punk rock-like person and a hacker and what I always carry on my bag is following:
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