David McNett (Nugget)

First iPhone worm discovered

Apple iPhone owners in Australia have reported that their smartphones have been infected by a worm that has changed their wallpaper to an image of 1980s pop crooner Rick Astley. Once in place, the worm appears to attempt to find other iPhones on the mobile phone network that are similarly vulnerable, and installs itself again

On each installation, the worm - written by a hacker calling themselves "ikex" - changes the lock background wallpaper to an image of Rick Astley with the message: "ikee is never going to give you up".

( CVNP, November 2009 )

Pittock Mansion, Portland, OR

The Grand Staircase - Benjamin Kaufman - http://alderflats.com - My Flickr

Anyone know where I can get some 3D photos taken? Google isn't helping.

Suppose I have a bunch of a particular kind of file with scrambled names (ABCD.jpg CDBA.jpg BBCA.jpg, etc) all from www.website.com/foo/

Suppose then I would like to wget replacements for all of the files.
Who knows why? Maybe they're growing mold. Not the important part of the scenario.

Is it possible to make a bash script using grep to get the file names and insert them into a wget command? I am not very familiar with bash or grep, so assuming this scenario is possible how might one do it?

Thanks.
-bmach

howdy all,

so the nice people @ funfunfun fest let me in with my "professional" camera after all :-) i think what they were really trying to prevent is telephoto lenses, because my dinky little 17-55mm didn't seem threatening to them. i saw others near the stage with similarly-sized lenses, but everyone w/a telephoto had a 'media' wristband.

anyway i took some pics and some of them turned out really nice. check them out here. previews behind the cut.

check my flickr page later or add me as a contact if you want to see day 2 pics.

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A Weekend at Southdown Abbey

Come visit Austin, Texas, December 4th-6th, 2009 as it is transformed
into Southdown Abbey on Persephone from the Firefly and Serenity
‘Verse.

Join us as we celebrate Shepherd Book’s journey before becoming a crew
member on Serenity. We’ll start with an Abbey Fashion Show, showcasing
Asian-inspired designs, while offering Sereniteas’ blended teas, as
well as homemade hors d’oeuvres. We’ll have a costume picnic on the
Abbey grounds and then a dance in the Fellowship Hall with music by
The Bedlam Bards and food made primarily from produce grown at the
Abbey! We’ll end this shiny shindig with Serenity on the Big Screen at
our local Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek.

The best part – all proceeds from this event will go to support The Al
Wooten Jr. Heritage Center of which Ron Glass, our Shepherd Book, is a
Board Member.

Want to spend a weekend at Southdown Abbey? Tickets are $25, get them now. Space is extremely limited for this event, so don’t miss out!

For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit
www.lonestarshindig.com

A Weekend at Southdown Abbey

Come visit Austin, Texas, December 4th-6th, 2009 as it is transformed
into Southdown Abbey on Persephone from the Firefly and Serenity
‘Verse.

Join us as we celebrate Shepherd Book’s journey before becoming a crew
member on Serenity. We’ll start with an Abbey Fashion Show, showcasing
Asian-inspired designs, while offering Sereniteas’ blended teas, as
well as homemade hors d’oeuvres. We’ll have a costume picnic on the
Abbey grounds and then a dance in the Fellowship Hall with music by
The Bedlam Bards and food made primarily from produce grown at the
Abbey! We’ll end this shiny shindig with Serenity on the Big Screen at
our local Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek.

The best part – all proceeds from this event will go to support The Al
Wooten Jr. Heritage Center of which Ron Glass, our Shepherd Book, is a
Board Member.

Want to spend a weekend at Southdown Abbey? Tickets are $25, get them now. Space is extremely limited for this event, so don’t miss out!

For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit
www.lonestarshindig.com

http://cetan.org/index.php?showimage=982

Nate running in Federal Plaza, Chicago.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/arts/musicmachine.asp

Video clip purportedly shows a music-playing "farm machine" built at the University of Iowa.

• 12:25 playing w prezi today to create an outline of current status of banking software for the pitch neat interface - let see how it does! #
• 13:15 Do you have a really cool twitter list I should follow? like #privacy #identity #librarians #banking let me know! either @ or dm me I'll RT #
• 13:16 LOL great minds :-) RT @Mlsif: Has anyone made a Twitter list for folks covering/following the health care debate #
• 17:12 Just saw a peregrine falcon on my walk to meet @debs at @samovar castro 16th and sanchez #

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About 6:40 on my way home from work I saw a dog along walking up the sidewalk. I was coming down MLK, about a block away from the intersection at Lamar. The dog looked to be a german shepard (or a similar breed, I'm bad with dogs!) It had a collar on and one of it's tags was red (only thing I could see) It was casually walking up the sidewalk(away from Lamar), but I didn't see a human near it so I assume that he or she ran away from its owner.


Hopefully the dog's owner was nearby or someone here will find it!

The folks at MacHeist.com are offering 5 software apps (6, if they get 500K participants) for free.

The apps in this "MacHeist nanoBundle" are:

Shovebox $25 FREE

WriteRoom $25 FREE

Twitterrific $15 FREE

TinyGrab $14 FREE

Hordes of Orcs $25 FREE

And if they get 500,000 participants, they will unlock Mariner Write $50 FREE.

If you are interested, got to www.MacHeist.com to check out the offer. The offer is good for the next 5 days.

Signal generator board printed, etched, assembled, programmed, debugged, works!

Had a few minor screwups - one io pin routed to the wrong signal, two capacitors that shouldn't have been there (the reference schematic is wrooooong - with the component values it indicates you get a low-pass filter of a few tens of khz on the output).

Output is about 0.97 volts peak-to-peak at an offest of 0.48 volts - close enough to 1v:0.5v given my component tolerances.

Frequency tolerance is perfect - set it to 1.000 mhz and you get 1.000 mhz to the best of my ability to measure.

More here.

Thanks for viewing!

FUCKING. WOW.

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The startup disk on my MBP filled up completely over the last day or so. It was getting up there, but on Wednesday *the last time I checked* there was 14 GB free. When I woke the old boy up this morning, I was greeted with the "Startup disk is almost full" message.

Poked around but I must confess I am not really sure what I should be looking for. Or how to, really.

But I looked around found a few redundant files, moved them to the trash, emptied it. The disk size briefly fluctuated and almost immediately went to zero KB available.

I haven't got a clue what is going on here.

What should I be looking at or for?


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This guy's got a Depression-proof marketing strategy banking on epic badass.
Hell, I don't want to buy another monkeybox, and this guy has me thinkin double-wide!

thanks to jblaque for the link.

definitely not for those likely offended by irreverent handling of the topic.



Australian Jewish comedian tries to deal with growing up with the Holocaust.