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I was attempting to reconfigure one of our Shark devices this morning and couldn’t use the web interface - RADIUS authentication had been half-configured, setting it to lock things down but with no way to allow me to reconfigure things (even with the admin account) After a little swearing I realised I could SSH into the Shark and reconfigure it that way.

It’s a fairly standard Fedora 10 build, with the Pilot software installed in /opt/local/pilot

My amnesiac 350d lost its date as usual and I accidentally set the date to 2012 instead of 2013, making the EXIF data and filenames all wrong when importing them through Dropbox’s file import.

Rather than going through and doing it one by one I figured scripting it would work. One-liners were breaking bash’s ability to play nice so I had to make a little file, and here it is.

Basically:

That’s what they say, just do it or get out. In this case the editor. I don’t have a clue what I’m supposed to be writing, but I’ve said to myself that I’m going to write more so I should actually do it once in a while.

Cabin fever, I guess you could call it - I’ve been sick for over two weeks now. Went to work for half a day the friday before last, it’s now two Sunday’s later. I feel a bit better now, but that’s how I felt that Friday morning. The wind’s going absolutely mental outside, some was-cyclone is hovering around and causing all sorts of crazy posts on FaceBook.

Just like in many situations throughout life, communication is the key. If you’re intending to do anything at all in a carpark, it’s generally best to indicate your intentions. A tonne and a half of steel and squish isn’t something you want to surprise someone with!

Flailing your arms, yelling, honking and flashing your lights are sure-fire ways of communicating poorly. Yelling’s only going to make your passengers cringe, unless you’re right next to each other and everyone has their windows down. The other, more visual methods are alright for attracting attention, but other than that you’re generally just adding confusion.

I tend to look up the medication doctors give me, mainly so I know what I’m taking and what its interactions are.

I got sick about a week ago, and the doctor prescribed me Doxycycline.

I checked it out and started with “Wow, it’s even used for preventing Malaria!” Then again, it cures the plague, anthrax, the clap, pneumonia and a whole bunch of other horrible things.

I’ve been given this for something I thought I picked up at the pool? Holy shit!

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It’s amazing what small film-making houses can come up with these days. I can honestly say after finding ShortOfTheWeek I’m utterly addicted. They’re these tiny slices of amazing ideas that just drag you in and if they’re good (I haven’t seen one yet that wasn’t) they’ll leave you wanting for more. It’s almost like getting blue-balled over and over again.

I tripped into it after checking out a post on io9 about 9 Amazing Short Films That Will One Day Be Feature Films. Honestly, if you’re into any kind of science fiction and don’t spend half an hour checking out every video in that post, you’re doing yourself a disservice.

If you can correctly pronounce every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world. After trying the verses, a Frenchman said he’d prefer six months of hard labour to reading six lines aloud. Try them yourself.

Dearest creature in creation,

Study English pronunciation.

I will teach you in my verse

Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.

I will keep you, Suzy, busy,

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Urgh, I hate our monitoring team some days. I was off sick for four days and come back to this in one of our generic accounts. I’ve got filtering set up, but for various reasons I can’t delete them permanently, just bin ’em.

17,306 Deleted Items. WHY?

To those that run monitoring systems, please listen to the people you’re sending things to - when they say they don’t need to get notified on EVERYTHING - they probably mean it.

Modified from a Salmon Risotto recipe on food.com.

Ingredients:

• 250 g salmon, skinned and cut in to 1cm cubes
• 250 g arborio/risotto rice
• 500 ml chicken stock (hot, ready to use)
• 125 ml white wine
• 1 tbsp. oil
• 1 tbsp. butter
• 1 large onion, finely chopped
• 1/4 tsp. dill, finely chopped
• 3–5 sun-dried tomato pieces, finely diced
• parmesan cheese to taste, grated

Directions:

1. In a risotto pot heat the oil and butter, then add the onion and cook for 4 minutes, until soft.
2. Add the rice and stir for 2 minutes or until the rice is transparent.
3. Stir in a ladleful of the hot stock, and a little wine. When all the liquid is absorbed, add a further ladleful of stock and wine. Continue adding the stock and wine, until the rice is cooked and has a creamy consistency.
4. Add the salmon, dill, sundried tomatoes and parmesan. Stir until salmon is poached.

Season with parmesan and serve.