ConvolutedTheory

Bands:

Android Lust
Ayria
I:Scintilla
Jakalope
Mira
Murder By Death
Nine Inch Nails

Geek:

milw0rm
Mindspill
Shell Storm

As many of you may or may not know, I fancy myself a decent poker player. Not decent like I could make a living, but decent to where I could become a degenerate gambler who smokes Lucky Strikes and spits on cars off of the Spring Mountain exit ramp. Anyway, everyone who plays poker has had a few bad beats happen to in their poker life. I am no exception. Here are some of my recent ones:

I’ve got A-10, flop is KQJ, Heads up, I bet like a madman, Turn and river are both 7’s. Guy turns over Q7 for a full house.

I’ve got 67, flop is 458, I flopped a straight. I bet, guy calls. Turn is a 9. I bet, guy calls. River is 8. I check, guy bets $20, I move all in over the top of him for $60 more. He instacalls with 89 for a full house.

I’ve got AK of clubs. Preflop, I raise to $7. Two callers to the flop. Flop is 3c8c7d. I bet $10 on a semi bluff. Two calls. Turn is 7c, giving me the nut flush. I now bet $20, two callers. (seriously, wtf?). River is 7h. I check because now anyone with a 3 or an 8 has a full house. Guy to the right bets $35, other guy calls, I have to call because I’m a freaking moron who can’t let go of the nut flush. They both turn over 8’s for the full boat and split the pot.

In the same instance, all poker players have some hands that are unbelievable. Here are a few of mine:

I have AsAc preflop. I bet $7, this guy who talks alot of crap goes over the top of me and raises to $15. I raise to $30. He calls. Flop is 7s8sAd, giving me the nuts. I check into him, he bets $40. I grumble for a while, putting on a show, and call the $40. the turn is the Ace of hearts, giving me quad aces. I check, he bets $50, I grumble, look at my cards, sigh, etc. And call his $50. (Right now, he’s drawing dead. There is no way he can have a better hand than mine). River is the K of spades. I go all in for $120. He grumbles and calls. I flip over the Aces. (Not only was that pot massive, I also got a high hand bonus for $400).

I have a few other hands that involve quads, full houses and the like. Never had a straight flush or a royal yet. Which kinda sucks, because the high hand bonus for those sometimes hits over $2k.

Well, since I’m amazingly absent at posting lately, I’ll put a list of cool people to follow on Twitter up.

why not.

* androidlust (Shikhee from Android Lust)
* trent_reznor (Trent Reznor from Nine Inch Nails)
* amandapalmer (Amanda Palmer from The Dresden Dolls)
* thelindsayellis (Lindsay Ellis the Nostalgia Chick)
* drtiki (Dr. Tiki from TikiBarTV)

There, I posted! Yay.

Link dump time.

A UNIX poem.

A cool little post on using Ferret and ruby to do search magics

A post about putting NetBSD on an NSLU2 (ARM)

A little web server I use for static content servation. That’s right, I said servation. DEALWITHITKTHX.

BlackBerry Curve General Discussion forums over at Blackberry Forums

There, just a few links that I have in my Bookmarks. Figured someone could use them.

(Jejunum is here.)

The app of the day is… Max. What does Max do exactly? well it rips CDs into various audio formats on Mac (OSX). “But why don’t you use iTunes? Its superior!”, said the monkey. “Because iTunes is the devil, and it will eat your soul”, I replied. And then the monkey ripped his Birthday Massacre CD using Max, and was astonished that he could specify simple things, like output directories and formats, and also, he could rip into FLAC. And the Monkey smiled, and there was great joy across the land. For the land was prosperous in its ripped music, because never again would it lose a CD to scratching, maiming, or iTunes DB corruption.

The End.

Wait, I think I lost the focus of what I was doing. Oh. Use Max. Doitnow.

Just checked out lynis from rootkit.nl. Lynis is:

Lynis is an auditing tool for Unix (specialists). It scans the system and available software, to detect security issues. Beside security related information it will also scan for general system information, installed packages and configuration mistakes.

This software aims in assisting automated auditing, software patch management, vulnerability and malware scanning of Unix based systems. It can be run without prior installation, so inclusion on read only storage is no problem (USB stick, cd/dvd).

Lynis assists auditors in performing Basel II, GLBA, HIPAA, PCI DSS and SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley) compliance audits.

It’s pretty cool, actually. I wont include all of the scanning output here, but I will show the results of a scan from a (somewhat) default CentOS 5 install. Take a look if all of this magic security stuff interests you.


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Well, I started rewatching the entire series of The 4400 the other day. It’s a decent scifi show that USA Networks made a couple of years back. Plot summary (thanks to imdb.com) is:

“As the reappearance of 4,400 missing persons on a single day confounds the global community, federal agents on the case slowly discover the ways in which the victims have been changed.”

Meh. Not the best plot summary ever. But you can’t really say much more than that without giving alot of plot away. The plot of this show and how it interleaves is pretty well put together. In most scifi, you can definitely feel a sense of continuity as the seasons go on, and “The 4400″ isn’t any exception.

I was planning on going on a rant about how the real world needs an event like this just to give ourselves a wake up call, but I’d rather wait until I have some coherence.

Sorry about the downtime today. There were some config changes that apparently broke things. Doh.

SCP is a great way to copy files from somewhere to somewhere else, but as we all know it can be slower than (insert slow metaphor here). Here’s a way you can get way speedier(really a word?) transfers using scp.

scp -c arcfour -C sourcefile desthost:

Yay! I posted.

Recently, I was looking for a way to charge my Pearl under Linux, and stumbled across this project: Barry .. Well thats nice and all  (as a matter of fact I may install it when I get home to sync my BB), but right now, I just want to charge it! Barry has a small app included called bcharge that sets your USB port to 500mA (the power level that the BB expects when you plug it in).

I’ve repackaged the bcharge app and the headers, and you can get it here: bcharge.tgz

To compile, make sure you’ve got at least g++ and libusb installed, and then do:

tar xvzf bcharge.tgz
g++ -o bcharge bcharge.cc -lusb

And then just run bcharge a la: ./bcharge  and your Blackberry should be off and charging!