September 2015
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Personal responsibility and fat people
Fat people are a western problem which is part them and environmental factors. Mind you with councils shutting libraries (my blog) and high streets going wrong (my blog) mean there are problems with activity. Chocolate bars have been reducing in size since forever. Sweet drinks and other processed foods are now in the firing line.… Continue reading
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Andrew Garfield ‘s spiderman
imdb: tt0948470 (the first) was seen on tv after Garfield got the sack after pissing off sony once if you read the ‘North Korean hackers’* dump. Oh god yet another reboot of spiderman. Over done with cgi. Meh. * my arse – Sony had shit security Continue reading
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the ipv6 router roulette game
So here’s a fun game for all you ipv6 gurus (my blog). The game is to buy an ipv6 capable soho router and find a manual online. No you cannot buy cisco. I have actually done this today so when i do find a model with the documentation i find that it either has the… Continue reading
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ipv6 and the chicken and the egg situation
Bananas would love to have ipv6 when purely by chance i find out that my isp has it in testing. So much for them keeping me informed after going for the glossy useless marketing speak of which ipv6 is not glossy and something idiots in pr do not grok – but i have other problems… Continue reading
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‘is it dead’, conversation at the dinner table
Bananas makes a great milkshake (my blog) and i can recommend it and also can perform other more complex feats. However what i like is not always liked by the other apes here in the monkey house. This can lead to scheduling issues as it sounds like somebody else is still clubbing to death the… Continue reading
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Modern b movies
Iron Sky (imdb: tt1034314) is a film that got a one cinema screening before ending up in the warehouse of things that you probably never heard of. It is a bit Charlie Stross influenced (see blogs i read) and is easy to find. I decided to see it. This is an odd film and eye… Continue reading
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rom-0 another good reason for dd-wrt and variants
One day i was looking at some logs* and the webserver was asked for rom-0 file. It was no issue 404 i think, so i did not use a microsoft search engine and discovered its a router flaw which with a tool means you can extract the router password. It means that software from brand… Continue reading
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bbc mainstream propaganda come ‘documentary’
Bbc three (my blog) is closing and as a very minor interest in stuff that is on mainstream bbc a couple of things caught my brains attention with the final conclusion that bbc three did it better. First up for comparison is a drama on mainstream bbc called our girl, it was a bit of… Continue reading
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the peoples republic of amnesia,Louisa Lim
isbn: 9780199347704 is an interesting if brief book on 1989 events It throws a lot of light on nationalist china as an dogma when corruption and other crimes are deemed a longer term issue. Either china learns from something that never happened or it becomes a regional problem. 4/5 bananas Continue reading
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Hubcaps, hooks and Frankenstein (or bbq assembly)
The monkey houses bbq (my blog) gets used a lot in the summer and ours is going a bit rusty inside despite storing it not outside in the winter. The zoo has been looking for a replacement since last year and we finally found one at a good price at the end of August. It… Continue reading
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Over the hills and far away (something with a satnav)
The gps sat nav (my blog) is clever, people using them not so. The monkey house gave our address and time slot one day and the time came and went a couple of latter our guest appeared after the sat nav took them the scenic. route. It was hard not laugh. Anyhow the human asked… Continue reading
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Heretic, Ayaan Hirsi Ali
isbn: 9780082333933 is an author i have read before (my blog) although i have skipped a few of her books. This is an interesting question as many in the left see radical islam as ok although being a lesbian women’s studies university professional might well be at odds with Daesh reasoning on the other side. Saudi… Continue reading
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Meanwhile in the crazy world of seo polluters…
Comment spam levels would seem indicate that my seo placing is rubbish. Somehow do i care ? no. Somehow these low life’s think it matters. Oh well no accounting for polluters is there. Continue reading
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The new library computer interface system – or lets copy amazon.
The old library online server is not that antiquated but it certainly does not look shiny like amazon. However it is fully functional unlike the stock which may or may not be available. There bought in ebook system (another computer) is a bit more modern but suffers from guess if it has drm or not… Continue reading
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really secure ssh
If like the monkey house you have to suffer fools probing ssh and do not want to move the location then the tools at cipherlst (not here) will not prevent those but give fail2ban (my blog) a rest for the more determined script kiddies. sshd[x]: fatal: Unable to negotiate a key exchange method [preauth] sshd[x]:… Continue reading
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compounded travel agent retard mistake with an email address.
Professor here in the zoo is off to the jungle for some gorillas in the mist experience that humans think is the real deal. Humans cities are more civilised. Anyhow the whole trip has been compounded by one travel agent fuckup that they used UPPER CASE LETTERS @zoo. That address bounces and always has. However… Continue reading
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something about haveged
HAVEGEd (Hardware Volatile Entropy Gathering and Expansion) is one of those linux things that i recently came across and its brilliant.for creation of certificates and dnssec (my blog) Worth having installed. If you have never heard of it or wonder what i am on then i will do something a bit more normal tomorrow. Continue reading
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Wind & Pinball, Haruki Murakami
isbn: 9780846558351 are early novels but in there first translation. I like this author (my blog) so i am biased. I began with hear the wind sing which i like and is well worth a read. 5/5 bananas Turning the book over gets you to Pinball which is more contrived imho 3/5 bananas. If you… Continue reading
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From cinema to high culture
The cinema here in the uk is going through some interesting changes. Our professor at our zoo reports that his now closed local non art house cinema* has more high culture events than it does super hero films. Films are still shown but at non peak times, or for the kids at those times. I… Continue reading
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The three body problem, Cixin Liu
isbn: 9781784971557 is one of those books everybody else seems to have read except me* Anyhow described as hard** to read it has chinese people in with porn star type names. The book starts in the past, and makes fools of the cultural revolution for if you deny that everything is wrong except by four… Continue reading
Bananas in the Falklands 