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Björk – I’ve Seen It All
[WRITTEN] 21. Nov 2009 03:11 [CATEGORY] Uncategorized

“I’ve Seen It All”

I’ve seen it all, I have seen the trees,
I’ve seen the willow leaves dancing in the breeze
I’ve seen a man killed by his best friend,
And lives that were over before they were spent.
I’ve seen what I was – I know what I’ll be
I’ve seen it all – there is no more to see!

You haven’t seen elephants, kings or Peru!
I’m happy to say I had better to do
What about China? Have you seen the Great Wall?
All walls are great, if the roof doesn’t fall!

And the man you will marry?
The home you will share?
To be honest, I really don’t care…

You’ve never been to Niagara Falls?
I have seen water, its water, that’s all…
The Eiffel Tower, the Empire State?
My pulse was as high on my very first date!
Your grandson’s hand as he plays with your hair?
To be honest, I really don’t care…

I’ve seen it all, I’ve seen the dark
I’ve seen the brightness in one little spark.
I’ve seen what I chose and I’ve seen what I need,
And that is enough, to want more would be greed.
I’ve seen what I was and I know what I’ll be
I’ve seen it all – there is no more to see!

You’ve seen it all and all you have seen
You can always review on your own little screen
The light and the dark, the big and the small
Just keep in mind – you need no more at all
You’ve seen what you were and know what you’ll be
You’ve seen it all – there is no more to see!
——–

This song captures the desired state of mind of the individual who would feel like the song describes her state of mind. An existence where all is fair and equal is desirable because it is constant and reliable.
There is nothing in this song to contradict the above resolution except the last stanza. In it, the voice transforms from being strictly wishful and descriptive about interior reflections, to doubt. – you’ve seen it all and all you have seen – is nothing but your own conceptions, remember that the outside is formed by your interior feelings. The song simply begs the sceptic, the determined mind, to reconsider.

I find this a truly powerful suggestion.

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Хандра
[WRITTEN] 09. Nov 2009 06:11 [CATEGORY] Uncategorized

Я познакомился с Евгением, героем Пушкина недавно.
Его рассказ читать забавно, но про себя читать печально.
В чертах характера героя я узнаю на мир свои взгляд
разочарованный, ледяной.
Да и пристрастия доля мне как Онегину попалась.

:’(

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quick ssh-keys intro
[WRITTEN] 09. Oct 2009 14:10 [CATEGORY] Uncategorized, geek

ever get tired of passwords? one of the areas where you can avoid re-entering password is with ssh logins. if you have a couple of boxes or even shells, then this will come in handy.

make a pair of keys.


$ mkdir ~/.ssh; ssh-keygen -d

copy your public key (~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub) to your authorized keys file (~/.ssh/authorized_keys) on a remote host

$ ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_dsa jaroslav@tryggve.lan
($ cat ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub |ssh jaroslav@tryggve.lan cat - \>\> \$HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys)

now shell into that remote host

ssh jaroslav@tryggve.lan

voila!

if you didn’t set a pass-phrase in the first step, you can do so now by issuing the command
ssh-keygen -p

the beauty of not having a password should be self-evident, the risk too. to avoid the risk and keep the benefits of ssh keys there is ssh-agent.

eval `ssh-agent`
ssh-add

…will span a key-agent in the background and add the identity of the private key you created in step one to that agent. now you can do just as you would without a password. for example:

remotely:
ssh jaroslav@tryggve uname -norp
host: tryggve.lan
tryggve 2.6.26-cpufreq AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ GNU/Linux

locally:
$ uname -norp
raptor 2.6.29-cpufreq-video Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz GNU/Linux

this is swell and fine, but opening new terminals or even killing your x would cause you to lose the socket name of the agent unless you do something like

ssh-agent > .variables
source .variables

that would work even from a different terminal. this is actually how i did it for a while:
alias ssh-agent="ssh-agent > .agent-ssh; source ~/.agent-ssh"

but that solution if flawed because old sessions of the agent are piling up and could pose a risk as well as … whatever.. it’s just not right.
thus i came up with

#
# the script is intended to be sourced from .bashrc
#
# it will start a new ssh-agent when you log in or connect you to the one
# already running. mind you if there are other ssh-agent(s) running for the
# current user with variables stored elsewhere than .ssh/vars.sh this script
# will do nothing to regain or remove them.
#
# original script found at http://www.nyetwork.org/wiki/SSH
# and as the author there says, it will not produce any output thus letting
# things like scp or rsync run smoothly
# latest version can be found here: http://genja.org/whatever/shellscripts/agent-ssh
#
# –jaroslav, genja.org
#
#
#
#
# rxvt rxvt-unicode woot

#
# leave unset if you wish to run ssh-add manually

ASK4PASS=yes

#Time format examples:
#
# 600 600 seconds (10 minutes)
# 10m 10 minutes
# 1h30m 1 hour 30 minutes (90 minutes)

SSH_AGENT_LIFE=”-t 90m”

SSH_VARS=$HOME/.ssh/vars.sh

# everything below this line should work without intervention
#

#
# this ps line works with:
# Linux procps version 3.2.7 http://procps.sourceforge.net/
# other *nixes will need different ps arguments
# TODO make a case `uname` in Linux)PSARGS=lol;; *BSD)PSARGS=blol;; Darwin)PSARGS=dlol;; esac
case `uname` in
Linux) psA=’-a -o pid,args -p’;;
AIX) psA=’-a -o pid,args -p’;;
SunOS) psA=’dunno…’;;
*BSD) psA=’axwwo pid,args’;;
Darwin) psA=’dunno..’;;
CYGWIN_NT-5.1) psA=’-e -f -a -p’;;
esac

# source the variables file and find out wether ssh-agent is
# still running
#
[ -s $SSH_VARS ] && . $SSH_VARS >/dev/null && \
RUNNING=`ps $psA $SSH_AGENT_PID |grep [s]sh-agent`

#
# do we have an agent?
#
#
if [ "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" == "" ] || [ ! -e "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" ]\
|| [ ! -S "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" ] || [ "$RUNNING" == "" ];
then

VAR=`ssh-agent 2>/dev/null`
eval $VAR >/dev/null

echo $VAR > $SSH_VARS
fi

# ask for pass-phrase on interactive shells
NOID=”The agent has no identities.”
if [ $ASK4PASS ]; then
case “$-” in
*i*) [ "$NOID" = "`ssh-add -l `" ] && ssh-add $SSH_AGENT_LIFE ;;
*) ## stay quiet ;;
esac
fi

for more information you could check out the following manuals:

$ apropos ^ssh[^d]
ssh (1) – OpenSSH SSH client (remote login program)
ssh-add (1) – adds RSA or DSA identities to the authentication agent
ssh-agent (1) – authentication agent
ssh-copy-id (1) – install your public key in a remote machine’s authorized_keys
ssh-keygen (1) – authentication key generation, management and conversion
ssh-keyscan (1) – gather ssh public keys
ssh-keysign (8) – ssh helper program for host-based authentication
ssh_config (5) – OpenSSH SSH client configuration files

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RFID FTW
[WRITTEN] 23. Sep 2009 02:09 [CATEGORY] economy, internet, ¤%"#!$

The Norwegian online press has grabbed gradually less of my attention. The articles show no literary prowess, and the news are simply translated from other online sources. Unless, of course, they are talking about cattle and domestic politics. The more I visit web-papers (vg.no, db.no adressa.no, itavisen.no to name a few), the less I want to come back. Here is an interesting header for you:

Av Harald Brombach, tirsdag 22. september 2009 kl 07:43

Nå skal Telenor og DnB NOR teste mobilbasert betalingsløsning.
Mange har snakket lenge om å bruke mobiltelefonen til å betale småutgifter, for eksempel når brukeren handler fra en automat hvor man i dag må putte på småpenger. Årsaken til dette er at kontanter både er upraktisk for brukeren og kostbart for både banknæringen og samfunnet forøvrig.

closely translated this means:
Telenor and DnB NOR are about to experiment with payments over the cellular grid.
Many have talked for a long time about using their mobile phones for casual transactions similar to coin machines in grocery shops and vending machines in general. The reason is because cash is both inconvenient for the consumer and costly for both the banking industry and society at large.

full article: Sim kort vil erstatte bankkort

I think only a Norwegian news article writer can fit the word both two times in a sentence. That is not the point, however.
Mister Brombach writes that cash is inconvenient. Clearly he is a bit less paranoid than a certain swede I have lived with. That guy makes a point by dragging his Swedish passport to the bank every week or so to draw some cash. He is absolutely positive that plastic cards are monitored and refuses to use them. I am fairly certain that anyone when asked will agree with Harald. It is really a drag counting and carrying the heavy kroner coins of 0.5, 1, 5, 10 and 20, in addition to the bills of 50, 100, 200, 500 and oh! The really big one of 1000. I mean, did any one ever think we would use math in real life once we left school?
I might be very arrogant and selfish in saying this, but this particular inconvenience of mine is more valuable than the expenses of the banking industry and the society combined. The charges for production and distribution of money go out from my pocket, as ruled by the government of the society, and end up at the bank anyhow, probably. I say let them pay for their fiat currency. Besides, the Swede has a point.

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expect.nist.gov
[WRITTEN] 04. Sep 2009 14:09 [CATEGORY] geek

if you haven’t discovered this tool already, it’s about time you did. this champ can automate any task performed on the console:

just install expect and autoexpect from expect.tgz and then run:

autoexpect -p anyinteractive-binary
> command one
> command two
> do this and this
> exit

this will make a file script.exp which you’d chmod 777 and then ./run
this is very useful for ftp, telnet, maybe grub, gpg –edit-key or any other interactive cli utility!

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I’m dreaming again
[WRITTEN] 04. Sep 2009 12:09 [CATEGORY] log, notes to self

it seems that i have regained the capacity of dreaming after spending three days doing little besides studying math. it has been a while since ive had a dream as vivid as the one just now. im wondering what triggered this. it could of be because ive been laying off lamb’s bread for a while, but then again it could be because i spent the last month drinking beer, or maybe because i started jujitsu. i wish i knew.

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Woman and feces
[WRITTEN] 04. Sep 2009 12:09 [CATEGORY] Uncategorized

after some careful observation and thorough scrutiny of the dynamics of female attraction towards men i have reached the following conclusion: woman are attracted towards men as flies are attracted towards excrement. i.e. the more of an anus a guy is, the more attention he gets from the opposite sex. i am one hundred percent positive that this is true. even to an extent at which many women have caught themselves thinking about this and realized that they would be far better off taking a swim in the sewers, than they are sustaining their relationship with an asshole.

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rocketdock.com icons from 09 2008
[WRITTEN] 16. Aug 2009 02:08 [CATEGORY] internet

iframe says it all:

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KA-CHING
[WRITTEN] 14. Aug 2009 21:08 [CATEGORY] norsk, short

Til kundenr: xxxxxxx  RAKHMATOULLIN JAROSLAV

Brev mottatt. Pengene blir overført til din konto i løpet
av 1-2 virkedager. Følg med på Dine sider.

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atheist spirituality 4 real
[WRITTEN] 11. Jul 2009 02:07 [CATEGORY] Uncategorized

http://www.youtube.com/user/ndclark

more precisely…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLIKAyzeIw4

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