Anyway, I was doing something on the internet somewhere and I saw the evil AntiVirus2009 window pop up and the icon in my system tray. I knew the next few hours would be packed with fun!

The key, I found, was to completely clear all of the cookies from all of my browsers (FireFox, Internet Explorer, MineField, Opera, Chrome, Chromium, and Iron). This fixed the link redirection issue.

Here are the free projects that let me eventually remove all the crap from Windows XP:
1.) Ultimate Boot CD. I loaded it and ran EZ PC Fix to clear my temp files and recycler. http://www.ubcd4win.com/index.htm
2.) Malware Bytes: http://www.malwarebytes.org/
3.) SpyBot SD: http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
4.) AutoRuns: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx
5.) Hijack This: http://free.antivirus.com/hijackthis/
6.) LSPFix: http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm
7.) WinSockXP fix: http://www.snapfiles.com/get/winsockxpfix.html
8.) Fixwareout: Source unknown, can be found at http://ip2k.com/tools
9.) Dial-A-Fix: http://wiki.lunarsoft.net/wiki/Dial-a-fix
10.) Windows Installer CleanUp Utility (to remove broken MSI packages): http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301

I have the hard-to-find stuff mirrored here ( http://ip2k.com/tools ) so it never gets lost

This was written based on the original article at http://www.phonearena.com/htmls/Want-to-manually-update-your-Motorola-DROIDs-software-Heres-how.-article-comments-a_8232-p_2.html
md5sum of orig file (and my mirror): 3af35446905040a3123ec09195299596

It seems that with the iPhone encryption issues ( http://www.broadbandreports.com/forum/r22999133-iPhone-31-breaks-Exchange-Sync-for-pre3GS-phones , and even on the new 3GS: http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/07/new-iphone-hardware-encryption-not-even-close-to-hack-proof.ars ), the Snow Leopard data loss issues ( http://news.cnet.com/8301-31021_3-10373064-260.html ), and Time Capsules dying early ( http://gizmodo.com/5379865/are-apple-time-capsules-short-lived , http://timecapsuledead.org/ ) Apple doesn’t have it’s software development in line just quite yet.

With all these issues, it’s no surprise that at least a few people feel the same as this columnist: “I suspect that Apple has set back its enterprise cause several years, if not permanently.” ( http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/home/News.asp?id=54536&PageMem=2 )

http://ip2k.com/sitelist.sh

This bash script combines many useful little tricks that you may be interested in even if you don’t need the whole thing. Some include:

- Print a list of IPs on the linux system
- Print a list of websites hosted on the server that match a certain pattern (app = Magento in this case)
- Looping


trap sorry INT
#Two levels of debugging, 1 and 2. 1 shows just pings, 2 shows everything.
dbg=0

rm -rf tempfile
exit 0


Link: http://seanp2k.com/m.sh

It is below:

#!/bin/bash
# ----- BEING DECLARE FUNCTIONS -----

So without further ado, I present to you Download URLs to forgo the registration process and not let these jerks get more E-Mail addresses for their crappy software. ClipBucket is the only one that doesn’t require registration to download, but unfortuantely ClipBucket is even crappier than the others; I couldn’t even get the main page to come up without crippling errors.

——osTube
Community Edition: http://ip2k.com/ostube/osTube_2.6_osTube_2.6_community_edt.tar.gz
Clean URLS doc: http://www.ostube.de/files/download/documentation/osTube_2.6_CleanUrls_en.pdf
Installation Instructions: http://www.ostube.de/files/download/documentation/osTube_2.6_Schnellanleitung_en.pdf

——Vidiscript

http://vidiscript.com/get

——PHPMotion
For PHP 4.x – http://downloads.phpmotion.com/V3.0/php4/phpmotion.zip
For PHP 5.x – http://downloads.phpmotion.com/V3.0/php5/phpmotion.zip

SETUP INSTRUCTIONS
For installation instructions visit http://wiki.phpmotion.com/InstallingV3

——ClipBucket

http://clip-bucket.com/

If you’re looking for a quick breakdown on why each sucks:

osTube: Mostly foreign-language, setup process is much more complicated than modern PHP scripts…C’mon guys, this isn’t the 90′s anymore and not everyone has SSH access to install your garbage.

VidiScript:
It’s “beta” software from a “quality” developer…need I say more?

PHPMotion: Would be fine except it’s encoded with PHPShield (as if anyone would want to steal their AMAZING source code). Loader progress bar is broken and updates percentages incorrectly. Path settings don’t have any affect on actual paths that it’ll try to use. Doesn’t like being installed in a subdir; in fact, it won’t even work in a subdir.

ClipBucket: Couldn’t even get main page to load, that’s how terrible it is.

#!/bin/bash

# vars – no trailing slash please
THEDATE=$(date +%m%d%y%H%M%S)
BACKUPDIR=’/backups/mysql’
TEMPDIR=’/backups/mysql/temp’
LOGFILE=”$TEMPDIR/info-$THEDATE.txt”
USER=root
PASSWORD=password
date > $LOGFILE

date

echo -e “\e[1;35m[ " $(date +%H:%M:%S) "-- Starting MySQL Backup Script v0.3 by Seanp2k ]\e[00m"

# magic
DATABASES=$(mysql --user=$USER --password=$PASSWORD -e "SHOW DATABASES;" | tr -d "| " | grep -v Database)

echo -e "\e[1;35m[ " $(date +%H:%M:%S) "-- Found" $(echo $DATABASES | wc -w) "databases:" $DATABASES "]\e[00m"

# loop -- dump and hash
for DB in $DATABASES; do

echo -en "\e[1;35m[ " $(date +%H:%M:%S)
echo -n " -- Processing " $DB ".."
mysqldump --user=$USER --password=$PASSWORD --databases $DB > $TEMPDIR/$DB-$THEDATE.sql
echo -n "..md5sum..."
md5sum $TEMPDIR/$DB-$THEDATE.sql >> $LOGFILE
echo -e "Done ]\e[00m"
done

# compress and clean
echo -e "\e[1;35m[ " $(date +%H:%M:%S) "-- Creating Archive " $BACKUPDIR/mysql-THEDATE.tar.bz2 "]\e[00m"
time tar -cvvjf $BACKUPDIR/mysql-$THEDATE.tar.bz2 $TEMPDIR/*.sql $TEMPDIR/info-$THEDATE.txt
rm -rf $TEMPDIR/*.sql $TEMPDIR/info-$THEDATE.txt
date
echo -e "\e[1;35m[ " $(date +%H:%M:%S) "-- Finished ]\e[00m”

“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.com

What you need, when you need it”

Somehow, I HIGHLY doubt that.

Let’s start by looking at what we have and what we have to do:
Files on a Linux fileserver playing on a Windows server (via samba) in Winamp using EdCast to stream to sc_serv (Shoutcast) on a different Linux server in the DMZ. Currently, I have the X: drive on the Windows server mapped to the Linux Fileserver. Winamp re-scans the fileserver every 3 days for new music and adds it to the library, but I still have to manually go in and add new tracks to the playlist.

Some initial ideas and problems:
-Use XML-RPC / SOAP from another music cataloging program that I currently use
+I just really feel like there was an easier way to do what I wanted without going through all the trouble.

-Telling Winamp to [re]load the playlist: the Winamp API Uses C++…yuck…I don’t know or want to learn C++ just for this project. Plus, DRY applies, someone HAS to have thought of this before.
+Solution: httpQ, a simple http listener plugin for Winamp that uses a simple and easy to implement control scheme: simply call the right URL and Winamp does what you want. Awesome. ( http://httpq.sourceforge.net )

-Finding files that have been modified recently, and if none have been modified in the time specified, keep looking until you find enough files

So let’s look at what we’re going to do with this script:
-Set up some variables for internal use and for how many tracks we want in our playlist
-Loop through something to find our tracks and write them out to a file
-Check that file to see if if has as many lines as we want (I know a better way to do this would be to just store it in memory and index it until you have enough, but on a modest p4 this executes in about 1 second in a directory with ~300GB files…YMMV but it wasn’t slow enough to justify re-writing it for me)
-if it doesn’t, re-generate it and let some files that are a bit older get included as well
-Tell Winamp to drop its current playlist
-Tell Winamp to load our new playlist
-Tell Winamp to play, just to make sure it’s playing…you don’t want to have dead air, even on the internet.

And finally, the script:

#!/bin/bash

DAY=3
#set the default to search for files 3 or less days old

CNT=0
#initalize count…don’t really need to but it makes me feel better

DESIRED=200
#how many files do you want (at least)?

until [ $CNT -ge $DESIRED ]; do
#until the playlist has as many or more files than we specified, keep doing this over and over…probably should set some limit so it doesn’t go nuts if it has an error

find /foo/bar -mtime -”$DAY” -iname “*.mp3″ -print | sed ‘s^/foo/bar/^X:\\files\\^’ | tr ‘/’ ‘\’ > /foo/bar/current.m3u
#find files named *.mp3 in /foo/bar with a modified time of minus X days and echo the results…to sed which replaces /foo/bar with X:\Windows\Path…fix for converting slashes to
#backslashes…sed also works but tr runs faster

CNT=$(wc -l /foo/bar/current.m3u | cut -d\ -f1)
#count the lines of the playlist. Note that I’m passing a space as the delimeter to cut, by escaping with a backslash then double space until the next flag,
#which grabs column 1 (col2 is the filename, yick)

let DAY+=1
#shorthand for day = day+1…won’t be used unless we loop again.
done

wget -O – –quiet “http://windows:4800/delete?p=passwd”
wget -O – –quiet “http://windows:4800/playfile?p=passwd&file=X:\current.m3u”
wget -O – –quiet “http://windows:4800/play?p=passwd”
#the RPC calls to the Windows server. Note that we’re telling wget to output to -…i.e. drop the output.
#Also, be sure to double quote that URL.
exit 0;
#exit with no error code

I love Wikipedia, I really do.  In fact, one of the things I really appreciate about Wikipedia and the open-source community in general is the rejection of advertizing and the non-profit nature of it all.  However, sometimes nagware can be annoying, and I refuse to be annoyed by a computer.  One of my favorite Firefox plugins and probably the most useful is Adblock Plus.  Adblock Plus downloads a free, continually updated list of filters for things that should be blocked, and it does an amazing job of killing the ads on most sites without even wasting bandwidth downloading the ads.  Now, this may be great for the user, but I believe that it’s also not too terrible for the advertizers…if people that obviously aren’t going to be click on your ads anyway because they despise advertizing as a whole, why not let them do you a favor and save you bandwidth?  They don’t want to see your crappy banners and annoying flash pop-ups, so why try to get around Adblock?  Just accept it as an advertizing opt-out.  Now, Wikipedia should be accepting of this mentality more than anyone, so it’s with that reasoning that I publish a very simple hack that anyone remotely familiar with the way ABP and javascript works could easily figure out for themselves.  Without further ado, I give you the filter that will remove the annoying header from Wikipedia:

|*centralnotice.js?192xx

Be sure to include the bar “|” at the beginning. As a more generalized filter that would probably block stuff in the future, you could also try:

|*centralnotice.js*

but I have not yet tested it as they have not yet changed their banner. To add this filter, simply pop open ABP and click the “Add Filter” button at the bottom left of the ABP dialog and paste or type it in there. Couldn’t be easier. Enjoy.