Paul's Junk Drawer

bellwether: Dictionary.com Word of the Day
Word of the Day for Sunday March 26, 2006

   bellwether \BEL-weth-uhr\, noun:
   A  leader of a movement or activity; also, a leading indicator
   of future trends.

     Raised  to  believe they were among their generation's best
     and  brightest,  my class can be seen as a bellwether for a
     generation  caught without a compass on the cutting edge of
     uncharted territory.
     --  Elizabeth  Fishel, [1]Reunion: The Girls We Used to Be,
     the Women We Became

Seen in a Unix lover's mail signature.  What?  Not *that* kind of Unix
LOVER.  Well, maybe.  -Paul

who | grep -e blonde | date ; cd ~ ; unzip ; touch ; strip ; finger ;
mount ; gasp ; yes ; uptime ; unmount ; sleep

RFCs

RFC 1918 - Private IP Space
RFC 1191 - IPv4 Path MTU Discovery
      Enabling High Performance Data Transfers on Hosts
RFC1981 - IPv6 Path MTU Discovery

Cisco Notes / Sites

• Cisco Connection Online
• Cisco List Prices at Solunet.com
• Netgear gigabit ethernet NIC at Netgear.Baynetworks.com
• Cat-5e / Level-6 Cable at Insight.com
• Recovering A Lost Enable Secret Password (2500/4000)
• Console and Auxiliary Port Signals and Pinouts

Other Networking Stuff

• Foundrynet - Foundry L3/L4 switches/routers
• Nortel Networks who bought Bay who bought Synoptics who bought ...
• Bandwidth Test at ComputingCentral.com
• NANOG - North American Network Operators Group

1998 InfoWorld Compensation Survey - unfortunately missing the graphs :-(

My DVD List - Hey, someone might care (8/99)
BigPics - top DVDs for picture and sound quality at www.ohms.com (3/99)
Digital Bits - currently featuring the AFI Top 100 (2/99)
DVD Freaks at lardbiscuit.com (2/01)
DVD Price Search - meta-search for low DVD prices (2/99)
DVDresource.com (1/99)
BigPic DVD Reviews (12/98)
DVD Reference/Releases at pause.com (11/98)
Catalog of Anamorphic DVDs at laserviews (1/99)
HomeTheaterForum.com - geeky home theater chat room, I guess (1/99)

Wall O' Shame
Audiophile A/B test commentary from AudioQuest
Denon DCD-1015 CD player brochure - My baby, ooo you sound so good (PDF File)

GNU FTP Mirror - in New Mexico, USA
Century Rio Movie listings - I've sold my soul to Century
Local Movie listings (Abq Journal) - As if the rest matter
TYAN Tomcat MMX BIOS upgrade - next time try Asus
JavaScript
OpenGL
Invisible HTML
Albuquerque Weather

SNMP

RFC1213-MIB.my (MIB-2)
RFC1213-MIB in HTML
RFC1213-MIB with descriptions in HTML

BRIDGE-MIB.my
BRIDGE-MIB in HTML
BRIDGE-MIB with descriptions in HTML

OLD-CISCO-INTERFACES-MIB.my
OLD-CISCO-INTERFACES-MIB in HTML
OLD-CISCO-INTERFACES-MIB with descriptions in HTML

(I have a crude Perl script that generates these for any ASN-1 file; let me know if you want it.)

PNG Home - Portable Network Graphics, the next GIF (8/4/99)
DICOM Importer for QuickTime - Info/importer for DICOM medical images into qt-savvy apps (8/25/99)
icontact.usage - Notes on using icontact.

MPEG-2 - highly technical (local copy; beware slow links)

Guy Test - check your testosterone level
Sysadmin's Answering Machine - one can only hope this isn't real
Church Bulletins - from real church bulletins

40-bit SSL crack

When things get bad, don't do anything irreversible.  Always leave room
for things to get better.

"If nature started orgainizing itself like a modern business, you'd see, for
 example, a band of mountain gorillas led by an 'alpha' squirrel." -Scott Adams

"Even presidents have private lives. It is time to stop the pursuit of
personal destruction and the prying into private lives"

	-Pres. Bill Clinton, Speech, 8/17/98

You just remember that when the next cryptography bill gets passed around.

"I have, to date, never met a tolerant fundamentalist Christian -- I think
 the last one died by crucification."
			-- ratinox@denali.ccs.neu.edu (Richard Pieri)

find . -type f -perm -u+x -exec grep mactoip {} /dev/null \;

find . \! -group webusers -a \! -type l -ls

perl -e 'for (<*.txt>) { ($n = $_) =~ s/txt$/html/; rename $_, $n || die; }'

Clean DOS/Unix/Mac newlines to one standard:
perl -p -i.bak -e 's/[\r\n]+$/\n/'


"ZenCrafters:  Total Enlightenment in about an hour"

From "Redneck Computer Terminology", author unknown:

DISKETTE - Female Disco dancer
INTERNET - Where cafeteria workers put ther hair
KEYBOARD - Where you hang the keys to the John Deere
MODEM    - What ya did when the grass and weeds got too tall
SCREEN   - Helps keep the skeeters off the porch
SERIAL PORT - A red wine you drink with breakfast

"Now witness the power of this furry, armed, and
 operational battlestation!"
                  - Midi channeling Ryo-Ohki

The novice doesn't know the rules, and creates monstrosities. The
practitioner follows the rules, and creates good works. The master
understands when to break the rules, and creates wonders. -- Unknown

"Thank God we got the convicts and they got the Puritans."
   -- Editorial letter to the Sidney Morning Herald regarding Clinton/Monica

You cannot manage men into battle.  You manage things; you lead people.
                                - Grace Murray Hopper

As for Linux/Red Hat, date sets the system clock, but not the hardware clock.
Thus:
# date 04242123
# hwclock --systohc (to set the hardware clock)


Job Categories as listed in Server/Workstation magazine:

Corporate Management & Financial Management
         (Pres., Owner, CEO, VP, Marketing Dir., General Manager,
          Financial VP, CFO, Controller, Treasurer)
Computer Systems Management & Staff
         (DP/MIS Dir., Network Dir., Communications Mgr., Systems
          Analyst, Software Developer, CIO, Systems Administrator)
Engineering Management & Staff
         (VP Engineering, Chief Engr., Technical Director,
          Systems Integration Mgr.)
Consultants & Educators
         (Computer/Network Consultant, Computer Technology Educator) 

Job Categories as listed in Network Computing magazine:

Networking/IS Management:
   Centralized IS Management (VP, Director, Chief, Head, Manager, Supervisor, Project/Group Leader)
   Divisional/Departmental IS Management (VP, Director, Chief, Head, Manager, Supervisor, Project/Group Leader)
   Network/LAN/WAN Management (VP, Director, Chief, Head, Manager, Supervisor, Project/Group Leader)
   Data/Telecommunications Management (VP, Director, Chief, Head, Manager, Supervisor, Project/Group Leader)
   PC/Micro Management (VP, Director, Chief, Head, Manager, Supervisor, Project/Group Leader)
   Internet/Intranet Management (VP, Director, Chief, Head, Manager, Supervisor, Project/Group Leader)

Networking/IS Staff:
   IS Specialist (Systems Analyst/Engineer, Integrator, Application Developer, Programmer)
   Network/LAN/WAN Specialist (Systems Analyst/Engineer, Integrator, Application Developer, Programmer)
   PC/Micro Specialist (Systems Analyst/Engineer, Integrator, Application Developer, Programmer)
   Internet/Intranet Specialist (Systems Analyst/Engineer, Integrator, Application Developer, Webmaster)

Corporate Management:
   Executive Management (President, CEO, Chairman, Owner, Principal, Partner)
   Financial/Administrative Management (Finance, Purchasing, Administration, Human Resources, 
      with any of the following titles: VP, Director, Chief, Head, Manager, Supervisor, Project/Group Leader)

Consulting:
   Consulting


Songs to find:
  Total Eclipse of the Heart by Nicki French
  Where is Love and Happiness by Anything Box 
  Lost Soul Society by Armin
  Sexual by Amber
  I Believe by Denine
  Pearl River (Serial Diva Vocal Mix) by Johhny Shaker, 12" single on Low Sense U.K.
  Barber's Adagio For Strings (12" single) UK


Non-routable IP Addresses:

   A:    10.0.0.0      -   10.255.255.255 
   B:    172.16.0.0    -   172.31.255.255
   C:    192.168.0.0   -   192.168.255.255

<?php
function PrintDaVars($vars, $depth=0) {
 if (is_array($vars)) {
  while (list($var, $val) = each($vars)) {
    for ($i=0; $i<$depth; $i++) print "&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;";

    print "$var = $val <BR>\n";

    PrintDaVars($val, $depth+1);
  }
 }
}
PrintDaVars($HTTP_GET_VARS);
PrintDaVars($HTTP_POST_VARS);
PrintDaVars($GLOBALS);
?>


What does the following perl program output?

$Y=-1.2;for(0..24){$X=-2;for(0..79){($r,$i)=(0,0);
for(0..15){$n=$_;$r=($x=$r)*$x-($y=$i)*$y+$X;$i=2*$x*$y+$Y;$x*$x+$y*$y>4
&&last}print unpack("\@$n a",".,:;=+itIYVXRBM ");$X+=3/80}$Y+=2.4/25}

Answer: A mandelbrot set in ASCII. :)


# cd /usr/spool/mail
# cat user | formail -i "To: user@someplace.com" -R Cc: Old-Cc: -s /usr/lib/sendmail -oi -t

"formail" is included in the procmail distribution.  This method solves
several problems that come up when you try to do this.  Most notably, a lot of
the messages may have CC's to other people, or even be BCC'd to your user
(like mailing list messages), so that just feeding the original blindly back
to sendmail would result in having it sent to other people who'd already
received it.  The formail method takes care of that by nuking the Cc: and
replacing the To: field since you know where you want the message to end up,
regardless of how it was originally addressed.


Code for named.conf to make a caching DNS server only listen to itself:

options {
	...
    allow-query { 192.168.1.0/24; 127.0.0.1; 172.16.10.1; };
    listen-on { 127.0.0.1; };
	...
}; 


IF EARTH'S POPULATION WERE 100 PEOPLE, there would be:

57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the Western Hemisphere (both north and
south), and 8 Africans.

52 would be female; 48 would be male

70 would be non-white; 30 would be white

70 would be non-Christian; 30 would be Christian

89 would be heterosexual; 11 would be homosexual 

6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would
be from the United States.  80 would live in substandard housing; 70
would be unable to read; 50 would suffer from malnutrition; 1 would be
near death; 1 would be near birth; 1 would have a college education; 1
would own a computer



One hen; two ducks; three squawking geese; four Limerick oysters; five
corpulent porpoises; six pairs of Don Alfonso's tweezers; seven thousand
Macedonian warriors in full battle array; eight brass monkeys from the
ancient, sacred crypts of Egypt; nine sympathetic, apathetic, diabetic
old men on roller skates with a profound propensity toward
procrastination and sloth; ten lyrical, spherical, diabolical denizens
of the deep, who haul stones in and around the quarries of the Queasy of
Key; eleven neutramatic synthesizing systems owned by the seriously
cybernetic marketing division shipped via relativistic space flight
through draconian sector seven.