Turnkey Linux appliances

For all those times you don't want to do your own split horizon DNS configs....

in reference to: Turnkey Linux Virtual Appliance Library | Best of Open Source: Simplified (view on Google Sidewiki)

How much does it usually rain ?

Cut the weather marketing crap.
How much does it usually rain ?

in reference to: NCDC: U.S. Normals - Products (view on Google Sidewiki)

How much has it actually rained ?

Cut through all the weather marketing.
How much as it actually rained ?
(he says, having camped 3 weekends in
October in the pouring rain, currently listening
to more rain outside)

in reference to: AHPS Precipitation Analysis (view on Google Sidewiki)

Google Visualization API Gallery - Google Visualization API - Google Code

Google Visualization API Gallery - Google Visualization API - Google Code

Yadis! Backup Software

Yadis! Backup Software

Need to compute sunspot frequencies ? Here's some code for you !

#! /usr/bin/python
# $Id: sunspots.py,v 1.1 2009/05/31 12:08:08 george Exp george $
#
# Plot sunspot data.
#
# Adapted from
#
#   http://linuxgazette.net/115/andreasen.html
#
# this was the original program.  Dataset from
#
#   http://linuxgazette.net/115/misc/andreasen/sunspots.dat
#
# Nice examples of using the newer plotting libraries can be found here:
#
#   http://www.daniweb.com/code/snippet691.html
#
# History:
#   Created: George Jones , 5/30/09
#
#   $Log: sunspots.py,v $
#   Revision 1.1  2009/05/31 12:08:08  george
#   Initial revision
#
#

import math
import pylab  # matplotlib
from scipy import *
import scipy.io.array_import

# Generate x,y datasets (year,wolfer)
tempdata = scipy.io.array_import.read_array('sunspots.dat')
year=tempdata[:,0]
wolfer=tempdata[:,1]

#
# Plot year vs number of sunspots
#

pylab.xlabel("Year")
pylab.ylabel("Wolfer number")

pylab.plot(year, wolfer, 'b')

# save the plot as a PNG image file (optional)
pylab.savefig('sunspots_time.png')

# show the pylab plot window
# you can zoom the graph, drag the graph, change the margins, save the graph
pylab.show()


#
# Take FFT of #s of sunspots, generating real and imaginary
#

Y=fft(wolfer)

pylab.xlabel("real(FFT)")
pylab.ylabel("img(FFT)")
pylab.title("Meas")
pylab.plot(Y.real, Y.imag, 'ro')
pylab.xlim(-4000,2000)
pylab.savefig('sunspots_FFT.png')
pylab.xlim(-4000,2000)
pylab.show()

#
# Compute the frequency of sunspots
#

n=len(Y)
power = abs(Y[1:(n/2)])**2
nyquist=1./2
freq=array(range(n/2))/(n/2.0)*nyquist

pylab.xlabel("Frequency [1/year]")
pylab.ylabel("|FFT|**2")
pylab.title("Meas")
pylab.plot(freq[1:len(freq)], power, 'b')
pylab.xlim(0,0.20)
pylab.savefig('sunspots_freq.png')
pylab.xlim(0,0.20)
pylab.show()

#
# Given the frequency, compute the period
#


period=1./freq

pylab.xlabel("Period [year]")
pylab.ylabel("|FFT|**2")
pylab.title("Meas")
pylab.plot(period[1:len(period)], power, 'b')
pylab.xlim(0,40)
pylab.savefig('sunspots_period.png')
pylab.xlim(0,40)
pylab.show()

Linus on the "Security Circus"

Torvalds: Fed up with the 'security circus' - LinuxWorld

 

 

 

The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

- Ronald Reagan

Skype Protocol & Security Issues

Blueprint: Circuit-to-Packet

When you want those network traces...

PktAnon - Packet trace anonymization

American Thinker: Christians, Pacifism and the Sword: "

December 22, 2006

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Zero second Interruptions - lifehack.org

Slashdot | Tiny Particle With No Charge Discovered: "Re:What did the bartender say to the axion?
(Score:5, Funny)
by proxy318 (944196) on Wednesday December 06, @06:31PM (#17138838)
An atom walks into a police station and says 'One of my electrons has been stolen!'
The police say 'Are you sure?'
And the atom replies...

'Yes! I'm positive!'"

Give the PDA the heave-ho !

Introducing the Hipster PDA | 43 Folders

JonesFamily

Captin Crunch @ Toorcon 8

Saturday Night at Toorcon 8 there was a "Nostalgia" panel.
"Captain Crunch" was one of the panelists. The panel
was a mix of Crunch talking about phone phreaking and
the others (half is age at best) talking about Apple II
hacking using simulators. There was an ASCII art theme.

Crunch was a presence that could not be equaled.
He is to the hacking community what Richard Stallman
is to free software.

Stories included how he got into phone phreaking...
he was testing a low power FM transmitter he
had designed and asked anyone who heard him to call.
"Some blind kids" who later identified themselves
as "phreakers" called and eventually got Crunch
started on the path to free dial-tone and mapping
the AT&T phone system.

He discovered special testing phone numbers (developers
never put in back doors...), reverse engineered
the touch tones (new in those days) and frequencies
needed to make free calls and built his own tone generator
boxes.

He talked about mapping the 800 number system,
discovering the CIA's special number to reach the
president (Nixon), being able to listen in to part
of the calls, and then trading that number (warez
anyone ?) to another phreakers for a number he wanted.

Oh, he also had some things to say about Apple II
hacking. He related a story about a disagreement
he had with Woz over hardware design (6 vs 8 bit DACs)
when he was working for Apple designing the hardware.

Been there. Done that. Listen up kiddies.

Scenes from the Gulf Coast, 11 months after Katrina. *Many* people are living
in trailers.