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Best spam comment ever
Just noticed this little beauty sitting in my comment spam, found it hilerious so I thought I’d share it:
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Needless to say I’ve purchased several penis enlargement kits to ensure this persons safety.
Information
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E-mail : mattcut90@gmail.com
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Whois : http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=213.5.67.159
IP address lookup
If your already aware of the awesomeness of public key cryptography (e.g. PGP or OTR), then you will probably appreciate Bitcoins.
You send coins by typing in someone’s address and how many coins to send and then your transaction will propagate around the p2p network. You receive coins in the same way by giving someone your address. In order to track transactions you can also make more addresses (and labels for them) which can also add to anonymity. Bitcoins are currently worth $0.0201 per bc (source)
Bitcoin program running
Generating Bitcoins
You can opt to generate solutions to a specific crypotgraphic problem in exchange for bitcoins, by doing so your computer’s idle CPU will be used to solve this problem and when a solution is found you will be rewarded with some bitcoins, yay. There is also talk of speeding up the generation by using CUDA or similar tools here
5 Free Bitcoins
You can get 5 free bitcoins to start off your adventure into this new currency fromhere. This is a donation from somebody who wants to ensure that this currency is sucessful and as such this is a token of good faith and should not be exploited. You can also donate bitcoins to the fund to help this project.
Bitcoin casino (A Rigged Casino)
Now onto complain about a rigged casino that operates with bitcoins (Bitcasino).
Rigged and Broken roulette game on bitcoin casino
I continually placed a bet (free play mode) on red, and for over 40 rounds it came up black, this has a probability of (20/7)^40 or 0.000000000708%. As unfair as this was then game then started getting worse constantly resulting in 0, however it would say “31 black odd” and in the side bar of past numbers “un” kept appearing which I guess means unknown.
I also tested a few of the slot machines to see if they were rigged too, and surely enough each rotation of the slots resulted in the exact same result every time, which was of course a losing one.
This bitcoin casino is rigged, buggy and not worth wasting your time with, it is much easier to lose money in other ways.
Conclusion
Bitcoin is an awesome idea and hopefully it will catch on and become sucessful, however be sure to avoid bitcasino! Also if anyone would like to donate some bitcoins then please send them to:
12Qxwa4d8s7bYHWVvNLkQZAVkJZrz8ReKB
It used to be a real pain to try and get google calendar working with kontact/korganiser, however now it is very simple. I have also provided a screenshot walk-through to aide the process.
Just install akonadi-kde-resource-googledata using your package manager or in the terminal with:
sudo apt-get install akonadi-kde-resource-googledata
This will install support of google calendar and google contacts into akonadi. If you’ve not heard of akonadi before, it is a backend that manages communications and protocols. So rather than having developers of separate applications working on the same thing rewriting code that does the same thing they can simply plug into akonadi. Kontact/korganiser can load can load from an akonadi resource:
Walkthrough
(see below for walkthough with screenshots)
- Right Click on calendars and click add resource
- Select akonadi
- Click Manage Calendar Sources
- Click add
- Select Akonadi Google Calendar Resource
- Enter your email and password and select ok
- Your calendar should now sync and appear in korganiser
Screenshot Walkthrough
Google Caldendar integration with Kontact Korganiser 1
Google Caldendar integration with Kontact Korganiser 2
Google Caldendar integration with Kontact Korganiser 3
Google Caldendar integration with Kontact Korganiser 4
Google Caldendar integration with Kontact Korganiser 5
Google Caldendar integration with Kontact Korganiser 6
Google Caldendar integration with Kontact Korganiser 7
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Bash: Script to convert .flv to mp3
Flash Video (.FLV) is currently a very popular format of online videos, inparticular youtube. This post explains how to use a simple script to extract the sound from a flash video file and turn it into an mp3.
In order for the script to work you will need to download ffmpeg (to decode the video) and lame (to encode the mp3). This can be achieve in ubuntu by opening a terminal and running the following or alternatively you can use your package manager GUI to search and download the packages for you.
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg lame
You then need to create a new file named “flv2mp3.sh” and paste the following into it using your preferred text editor (which hopefully isn’t VI). Save the file and then change the file permissions so that it is executable (by running:`chmod a+x flv2mp3.sh` in the terminal or via the gui in you file browser)
#!/bin/sh
# this script should convert files from FLV to WAV and then to MP3
echo " "
echo " Welcome to FLV to MP3 converter! version 0.1"
echo " "
infile_name="$@"
# exit if the user did not enter anything:
if [ -z "$infile_name" ]; then
echo " "
echo "You did not tell me the file name, so I will exit now."
echo " "
exit
fi
echo " "
ffmpeg -i "$infile_name" -acodec pcm_s16le -ac 2 -ab 128k -vn -y "${infile_name%.flv}.wav"
lame --preset cd "${infile_name%.flv}.wav" "${infile_name%.flv}.mp3"
rm "${infile_name%.flv}.wav"
echo " "
echo "OK. I'm done! Have fun!"
echo " "
exit
You should now be able to convert a flashvideo into an mp3 by running the following command (changing the filenames to fit your purpose):
sh flv2mp3.sh videofilename.flv
Extra: Youtube
In linux it might be worth noting that youtube downloads the flv’s to your /tmp folder and you can easily copy them or convert to mp3′s (Ensure video is completly finished loading).
Also there is an application called ‘youtube-dl’ which can be installed from the repositories
sudo apt-get install youtube-dl
and then run using
youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/video_to_borrow
Of course it’s up to your moral guidance to decide what you can and can’t download.
I preformed some acid3 tests on the browsers I currently had installed.
Chrome: It is sexy (only thing holding it back in Linux is the lack of flash support)
Score: 100/100
Version: 4.0.203.2
Opera: I used to use opera however not really any more, just installed it for this test.
Score: 100/100
Version: 10.00 (build 4585)
Arora: I don’t tend to use Arora, however I’ve heard alot of good things about it. It is a light-weight browser based on web-kit (as are chrome, safari and konqueror) and excels at its speed, highly recommended for notebooks which don’t need the bloat of firefox.
Score: 100/100 Linktest failed.
Version:0.8.0
Firefox: It seems to handle flash better (without crashing) and has lots of useful plugins.
Score: 93/100
Version: 3.5.2
Konqueror:
Score: 89/100 Linktest failed.
Version: 4.3.1
Google’s chrome comes first (with chrome having smoother and faster animation) followed by Opera and closely followed by Arora only failing on the link test, then firefox and trailing is konqueror. But I still love konqueror as its so convenient have filemanager and web-browser in one.
