Hello my name is Jeremy, and I ride bikes.

I should start a bike rental shop for tourists in Santorini.

Hotlinked Like a Mother

From Batasso Preserve 1/18/09 9:41 PM

This is such a fun bike!

Now that I have your attention.

As many of you know I went through cancer about three years ago this month. One of the things that got me through is my Friends and Family. My buddy Jamie got me the sticker above from his brother’s fiancee Sam. You see, she also fought through cancer and won!

She holds a raffle every year or so and now is the time to get in on it.

See what YOU could win below…If nothing else the HERA foundation wins too.

Jeremy

One way to battle cancer and help friends and family is to participate in a great cause for HERA. Whether you are a climber, cyclist or just want to give back and get a chance at some primo sch-wag, please buy a raffle ticket (or a bunch) and some stickers to benefit HERA (http://www.herafoundation.org/)

Escape from Granogue’s Big Bike Gear Raffle benefiting HERA Women’s Cancer Foundation

Presented by
Independent Fabrication, Snappy Caps, Stoopid 50, White Industries, and MORE!

Montchanin, DE
Sunday, May 03, 2009
Online Registration Closes
Saturday, May 02, 2009 at 12:30 AM ET

Buy a ticket here:

http://www.bikereg.com/events/register.asp?eventid=8318

I’ve link a cool satellite/aerial image of Mt Redoubt in Alaska.

http://media.adn.com/smedia/2009/03/31/0/756-APTOPIX.standalone.prod_affiliate.7.jpg

Here is where I got it from:

http://www.adn.com/photos/environment/volcanoes/story/672347.html?/1521/v-section_front/gallery/672348-a742914-t3.html

Have fun,

Jeremy

From Slashdot:

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Comment by Dynamoo

1. Download and install Python 2.6.1: http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6.1/python-2.6.1.msi [python.org]
2. Download Impacket from http://oss.coresecurity.com/repo/Impacket-stable.zip [coresecurity.com] (or maybe http://pypi.zestsoftware.nl/impacket/ [zestsoftware.nl] or some other mirror)
3. Download the scanner from http://iv.cs.uni-bonn.de/uploads/media/scs.zip [uni-bonn.de]
4. Unpack Impacket into a folder, then install Impacket from a command line with c:\python26\python setup.py install
5. Run the scanner with the command c:\python26\python scs.py [start_ip] [end_ip]

(Hat tip to an AC comment at El Reg [theregister.co.uk]). Just a warning – it runs like a dog. I found that a passive Honeypot like Honeybot [atomicsoft...utions.com] works well and is easier to install.

This basically searches for the signature of the Virus via network scanning.

J

Free and Open Source Software has a really good feature. It is always there! So today I decided to destroy my Linux Virtual Machine. I needed more room, and didn’t feel like running it through VMware converter. Since deploying a new VM takes about ten minutes, I just decided to start from scratch. This is also a good time to practice worse case scenarios.

Click “Read more” to view the whole article.

[Update #1 - I needed to do a "apt-get install dselect" to install dselect on my gOS 3.1 distro.]

First we will need to know what is installed on the system. Apt-get is the package manager for Debian/Ubuntu. We will use this to get all our installed programs and re-install them automagically.

First the Backup of the list of installed software

This lists all your installed programs:
$ dpkg –get-selections

This sends it to a text file in your current location:
$ dpkg –get-selections > installed-software.log

Save “installed-software.log” to somewhere safe like an external drive, or your Mac

Next, we will need to backup our files. I personally keep everything in my home directory. so we will be backing up /home/user or in my case /home/jeremy

To do this we will be using Tar to archive since it is native to most Linux distros and easy to use. We will need to be logged out as our regular user and logged in as root (the super admin).

To compress the directory use this command:
# tar czvfp home-backup.tgz /home/jeremy

This will create an archive called “home-backup.tgz” in your current directory. Back this up to CD/DVD/HardDrive/Mac or something that will not break.

### Now to Restore ###

First we need to install Ubuntu/Debian, and run the updates (covered elsewhere in the internet or another article if I make it).

Restore previously installed software from backup list

This command tells dpkg to select the previously installed programs:
# dpkg –set-selections < installed-software.log

This command tells the machine to “Just doit!” in a Bronx accent.
# apt-get install dselect
# dselect

Select ‘i’ for install the software then just hit enter.

Once that is done…after many, many, many minutes. you will have a system with the same programs as you previously had except for programs built from source, but that is another topic for another day.

Next we restore our files.

Copy over the “home-backup.tgz” from you secret secure bunker, and untar it into the unsuspecting home directory on the new system.

# tar xzvf home-backup.tgz /home

Reboot or Login and you will be good to go.

J

PS – If you have any comments or questions, hit me up on Twitter or Facebook.

Behold The 2009 Worst Company In America Bracket!

http://consumerist.com/5180539/behold-the-2009-worst-company-in-america-bracket

This year is going to go to the Banks. I have all the banks in the final four and AIG for the win.

Anyone want to get in a pool?

Jeremy

PDF

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/consumerist/2009/03/wciaprint.pdf

As many of you know I am a BSG geek. Here is why…

I was messing around yesterday on the internet as I always do. I found this article on Splash Screen: Create a colorful stream of light with particles via http://www.gimpusers.com

I made a cool little image and reworked it to be a wallpaper. The tutorial makes it easy to make a new unique image in Gimp.

Gimp is a free open source image manipulation program. I use it in Linux, but it is also available for Mac and Windows. Get it here @ gimp.org

Here is the Tutorial:

http://www.gimpusers.com/tutorials/colorful-light-particle-stream-splash-screen-gimp.html

Here is my wallpaper:

From WebFun

Have Fun,

J

I had to let go of my best friend today. Dakota, my dog for the last eleven and a half years.
He was thirteen and a half. His cancer spread too far and we had to put him down today.

Dakota you will be missed.

J

From Life photos