Warning: some of the text has swears. This is a parody of the late and great Notorious B.I.G.’s “Ten Crack Commandments”. After the break;;


(chuck d) one two three four five six seven eight nine

Uhh, it's the ten cracking commandments
What, uhh, uhh
Nukka can't tell me nothin bout this nmap, uh-huh
Can't tell me nothin bout this unix, this perl
To my cardin' nukkas
Nukkas on EFNet I ain't forget you nukkas
My CAPTCHA reader nukkas, word up

(chuck d) one two three four five six seven eight nine
Ten

I been on the net for years, it made me a animal
There's rules to this shit, I wrote me a manual
A step by step booklet for you to `git`
Attacks on track, not ya packets reflected back

Rule nombre uno: never let no one know
How much, root you hold, cause you know
The power breed jealousy 'specially
If that punk stuck up, in his 'rents base-munt

Number two: never let em know your next move
Don't you know bad boys hack on TTY lines and priv. nets
Take it from your highness (uh-huh)
I done squeezed mad hacks at these cats for they proxies and SWIPs

Number three: never trust no-bo-dy
Your sysadmin'll set that ass up, properly fast trunk
address masked up, shit, for that fast buck
He be creepin' in the logs to trace them pack-utts

Number four: know you heard this before
"Never drop by on your own WiFi"

Number five: never pull no hacks where you rest at
I don't care if they hitchu on Pownce, tell 'em bounce

Number six: that God damn Facebook, dead it
You think the feds ain't watchin'? Shit, forget it.

Seven: this rule is so underrated
Keep all of your personas completely seperated
Money and blood don't mix like v4 and v6 with no PIX (w/ NAT-PT)
Find yourself in serious shit

Number eight: never keep no dox on you
Them cats that hang on ya nets can leak shit too

Number nine shoulda been number one to me
If you ain't gettin bank stay the fuck from police (uh-huh)
If homies think you snitchin ain't tryina listen
They be starin' at TCP "listen", waitin' to start sniffin'

Number ten: a strong word called torrents
Strictly for dumb men, not for 1337 men
If you ain't got a seed box say hell no
Corporate lawyers want they money rain sleet hail snow

Follow these rules you'll have mad dox to break up
If not, twenty-four years in solitary; wake up (like Mitnick)
Warrant hit your temple, watch your doorframe shake up
FBI did a fake-up, PATRIOT Act
Your girl and you break up, heard from three sites
There was never a caek...what?
Heard she code a good C, and can hook a `make` up
Gotta go gotta go, more ELFs to break up, word up, uhh


Mashup I made a while back with Solar Stone’s amazing Solarcoaster. Czech it:

Solar Stone – Solarcoaster (ip2k mashup) by ip2k

…that you should check out.

Draconum vs. Ip2k – Gifted Space [WIP] by Draconum

It is based around the idea of a previous thing:
Royksopp – This Space vs N.A.S.A. – Gifted by ip2k

And also inspiration from Nana Chill’s EMO-THUG mixtape
MORSY – EMO-THUG Vol.1 by MORSY

somaseek.com is a new search engine for the history of all the great internet radio stations at http://somafm.com . It has near real-time history (updated every 5 minutes) and browsable history for each station. I’m working on getting pagination going for history, as well as a datepicker for browsing and Sphinx-powered search instead of the current MySQL fulltext search. I’m trying to keep it simple and not clutter it up with junk. I do plan on moving away from the very plain look of the site, but for now it’s usable and I’ve been tracking all of SomaFM’s stations since late February 2010, so there is already quite a bit of history that you can look through.

This project was born out of a few needs: I needed to get better at actual PHP / MySQL coding, I was annoyed with the twitter history of SomaFM (As of about a month ago, song history isn’t even listed on Twitter for the soma stations), and I always found good music through SomaFM but wanted to quickly learn more about the artist / song.

SomaFM has these key features to solve the above problems:
- Written in simple and extensible PHP / MySQL / JavaScript / CSS / HTML. Sphinx search coming soon.
- Tracks all of the stations, all of the time, so you can always search for what you were listening to.
- Provides links to LastFM, iLike, and Amazon Music (via SomaFM’s reseller link, so they get a portion of your purchase if you click through and buy via somaseek.com or somafm.com) to quickly find out more about songs / artists and give back to the community.
- Open source in actual implementation, just like Reddit. Other sites are starting to “see the light” and do this too. Hosted on Google Code is all the actual source code to the website, minus the database passwords, of course!
http://code.google.com/p/somaseek/

Please use and enjoy SomaSeek, and leave comments on this post if you have any ideas on how to improve it that weren’t listed above. I played with the idea of Facebook / Twitter “share” integration as well as trying to link to the groups on Facebook.

I made a thing. Check out around 2:00 if you’re wondering what’s new.

gifted-this-space

I own a pair of Shure E3cs that I bought at Target on sale for $30 (retail is around $200). It was an amazing find and I’ve been quite happy with them. I had some Etymotic ER6i IEMs before owning the Shures, and the Shure phones are a bit more durable (thicker cable) and easier to take in and out (soft rubber tips instead of comply foam tips). They both have their place in my collection and both get used.

However, to my dismay, the last time I pulled my Shures out of the case to listen to music, I found that the sound coming from the left driver was much quieter than the right. At first, I didn’t even hear anything and thought that the driver was dead. I frantically searched the internet and the forums on Head-Fi and found that it might just be wax build-up (eww). I took the rubber tip off and the sound was still very quiet. There was no visible obstruction and I poked around lightly with a paperclip to see if I could free the wax, but there was none.

When I got home, I used the paperclip to GENTLY remove the filter (without poking it through the end, I just pushed to the side and pulled back, the friction of the paperclip pulling the tiny silver plug with green filter out). I then soaked the filter in rubbing alcohol for about 10 seconds, using the paperclip to ensure there was no air and that the alcohol got in and through the filter. I then picked it up and let the alcohol drain through the filter. I let the filter air dry for about a minute, then re-installed it the same was it was installed before I removed it by gently inserting it, green “cap” side first, then pushing it down by the metal sides (DO NOT PUSH ON THE GREEN FILTER, IT WILL TEAR) until it was properly seated at about the same depth as the other side. Volia, worked.

The entire filter is about the size of one grain of couscous, maybe 2mm by 0.75mm. The filter has TINY holes to prevent wax from getting in the driver, and obviously did its job. Shure should really include instructions on how to change the filter like Etymotic does. Instead they advise you to contact customer service, and I’ve heard of repair bills around $80 to just clean and replace the filters.

Link to the User’s Manual

Sucks.

Check it

I had a problem: I wanted my radio station to automagically play my newer music and update the stuff that it plays every day, yet keep enough older stuff that there is still some variety, especially if no new music gets discovered for a while. I’d need to find some way to keep the most recent 200 or so tracks playing on my station.

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 recently got around to installing Reason after the reinstall of OSX after the Kalyway update to 10.5.2 made booting take around 20 minutes, most likely due to something not being perfectly compatible with the updated EFI patch that I also applied at the same time….so basically Time Machine had to step in and help out, further stressing the point of having good backups of everything, always.

Anyway, enough OSX86 talk for now, enjoy the preview of a recently-revived track I have been working on, Black and White

I’ve decided to try my hand at making something that sounds like the way I feel sometimes.

Have a listen.  The title is Broadcast0.  There is no artist as far as I am concerned, I’m just playing what I feel.

here