It's been awhile...

I've moved to Scottsdale, Arizona, and got a new job. I've been pretty busy.

I will try updating with new content, later on. I have a lot to tell :-)

-Wrex

For my wrexforums friends...

Try this:

Click this: KCSB Shenanigans!

What do I think of the Government?

Well, this:

The Government Sucks

:-)

And you wonder why I ride a Sport Bike???

Cause chicks dig 'em. Don't believe me? It says so, right here:
http://www.playboy.com/playmates/features/playmates-prefer-motorcycles/

Heh heh. :-P

So I put up a forum...

For what it's worth. Not sure what the "theme" or main purpose of the discussions are, yet. Kinda did it, just for the heck of it. Check it out... or don't:
http://forums.wrex.org/forums/

Proposed Assault Weapons Ban (here we go, again)...

Fuggin Democrats!!

Yet Another "Assault" On Your 2nd Amendment Rights...

In 2004 the United States Congress rightly allowed the so-called "Assault Weapons Ban" to sunset after 10 years in law. It seems that the wisdom of the 2004 congress has been forgotten. On February 13, 2007, HR 1022 or the Assault Weapons Ban and Law Enforcement Protection Act of 2007 was introduced by Representative Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY). This bill (now in committee) proposes to permanently reinstate the 1994 ban and add even more draconian provisions; essentially banning all rifles not traditionally used for hunting or sport and high-capacity (or FULL capacity) magazines. Even more disturbing is the fact that, at his/her sole discretion, the United States Attorney General can determine the classification (therefore legality) of any firearm.

Contact your elected representatives and let them know that this proposed ban is an affront to the law abiding citizens that choose to safely and legally own firearms. I've even emailed the president (heck, it can't hurt).

Following are some excerpts from HR1022 that we find particularly troubling:

SEC. 7. STRENGTHENING THE BAN ON THE POSSESSION OR TRANSFER OF A LARGE CAPACITY AMMUNITION FEEDING DEVICE.
(a) Ban on Transfer of Semiautomatic Assault Weapon With Large Capacity Ammunition Feeding Device-
(1) IN GENERAL- Section 922 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting after subsection (y) the following:
(z) It shall be unlawful for any person to transfer any assault weapon with a large capacity ammunition feeding device.'.
...
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.
(a) In General- Section 921(a)(30) of title 18, United States Code, as added by section 2(a) of this Act, is amended to read as follows:
(30) The term `semiautomatic assault weapon' means any of the following
(A) The following rifles or copies or duplicates thereof:
...
`(ii) AR-10;
`(iii) AR-15, Bushmaster XM15, Armalite M15, or Olympic Arms PCR;
...
`(v) Calico Liberty;
...
`(viii) Hi-Point Carbine;
...
`(x) Kel-Tec Sub Rifle;
`(xi) M1 Carbine;
`(xii) Saiga;
...
`(xviii) Sturm, Ruger Mini-14;
...
`(D) A semiautomatic rifle that has an ability to accept a detachable magazine, and that has--
`(i) a folding or telescoping stock;
`(ii) a threaded barrel;
`(iii) a pistol grip;
`(iv) a forward grip; or
`(v) a barrel shroud.
...
`(L) A semiautomatic rifle or shotgun originally designed for military or law enforcement use, or a firearm based on the design of such a firearm, that is not particularly suitable for sporting purposes, as determined by the Attorney General. In making the determination, there shall be a rebuttable presumption that a firearm procured for use by the United States military or any Federal law enforcement agency is not particularly suitable for sporting purposes, and a firearm shall not be determined to be particularly suitable for sporting purposes solely because the firearm is suitable for use in a sporting event.'.
...
SEC. 5. REPEAL OF CERTAIN EXEMPTIONS.
Section 922(v)(3) of title 18, United States Code, as added by section 2(a) of this Act, is amended by striking `(3)' and all that follows through the 1st sentence and inserting the following:
`(3) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to any firearm that--
`(A) is manually operated by bolt, pump, level, or slide action;
`(B) has been rendered permanently inoperable; or
`(C) is an antique firearm.'.

Read the full text here: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:H.R.1022:

Happy Birthday Kevin Tanck (12.04.1984 - 01.29.06)

Today, marks the birthday of a dear and sorely missed friend, Kevin Tanck.

We miss you, brother. Ride In Peace.

-Wrex

UNIX: Simple one-liner to chop last field from file

So, I wanted to chop off the last field in a file extension (bob.joy.txt, for example).
Here's is a simple solution, using reverse (rev), ls, cut and a for loop:

for i in `ls *.txt`; do mv $i `echo $i|rev |cut -d '.' -f2-|rev`;done

There's prob a cleaner way, but this was quick and easy.

Fun Online Game

Check it out!

www.cybernations.net

Short Description:
About Cyber Nations - Welcome to Cyber Nations, a nation simulation game. Create a nation anywhere in the world and decide how you will rule your people by choosing a government type, a national religion, ethnicity, tax rate, currency type, and more in this new geo-political, nation, and government simulator. Build your empire by purchasing infrastructure to support your citizens, land to expand your borders, technology to increase your nation's effectiveness, and national improvements to build your nation according to your choosing.

More description, here:
http://www.cybernations.net/about.asp

Stay the course... or don't.

Bush: ‘We’ve Never Been Stay The Course’

I love watching this idiot try and back peddle.

BUSH: We will stay the course. [8/30/06]

BUSH: We will stay the course, we will complete the job in Iraq. [8/4/05]

BUSH: We will stay the course until the job is done, Steve. And the temptation is to try to get the President or somebody to put a timetable on the definition of getting the job done. We’re just going to stay the course. [12/15/03]

BUSH: And my message today to those in Iraq is: We’ll stay the course. [4/13/04]

BUSH: And that’s why we’re going to stay the course in Iraq. And that’s why when we say something in Iraq, we’re going to do it. [4/16/04]

BUSH: And so we’ve got tough action in Iraq. But we will stay the course. [4/5/04]


Watch Here

DISTURBED - LAND OF CONFUSION [DVDRIP]

Nice remake of Genisis's Land of Confusion. Kewl vid too.

Sometimes it's just painful, to be an American

Actually, I can't remember any time in my 37 years where I was almost embarrased to be an American.

Why does the current administration feel like we, America, can just do whatever the hell we want, all in the name of "protecting" ourselves against terrorism? I am talking about the following (from: thinkprogress.org) :

Congress moves to authorize torture.

The House voted 253-168 to approve legislation on military commissions that authorizes torture and strips detainees of the right to challenge their detention. Also voted down was a measure by Rep. Ike Skelton (D-MO) which called for an expedited judicial review of the constitutionality of the commissions, and required the bill to be reauthorized in three years to ensure congressional oversight in evaluating the effectiveness of the commissions. The Senate is expected to approve nearly identical legislation tomorrow. September 27, 2006 9:45 pm (103)

We've invaded countries for such acts against humanity.

We're spiraling down. I think someone needs to hit the reset-button and start all over again.

How to restart the OSX Desktop...

Without loging out and back in.

Useful for when desktop "freezes" or you have artifacts (see Macbook) and don't want to kill off background processes.

1. Open up term app

2. ps -aux|grep Graphics

3. Find the following:
windowse 52 0.9 5.6 915688 57592 ?? Ss 11:02AM 0:20.62 /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Frameworks/CoreGraphics.framework/Resources/WindowServer -daemon

4. then HUP the found process:
sudo kill -HUP 52

52 is the process id tht I found. Yours will be different.

This will restart the GUI, logging you out, but at least you won't have to reboot the whole machine.

The Apple Doesn't Fall Far From The Tree...

Today I have shed tears of joy.

My beautiful and wonderful daughter (Shyanna) of 13 years, came up to me today and said the following:

"Daddy, my laptop is dead again. I just get this blue screen that says "Fatal Error" and a bunch of numbers on it."

To which, I asked:
"Did you try rebooting it into "Safe Mode"?"

"Yes Daddy. And it's still broke! Can you just put Linux or something on it? I am so sick of Windows."

I almost fell-over!

So, tomorrow, my brilliant daughter will be running the latest version of Kubuntu :-)

Veritas Cluster GUI 4.x in OSX howto

I hacked this together, so I can run the VCS cluster GUI on my Mac, instead of relying on Winbloze. I am almost ready to dump MicroCrap altogether! :-)

I'll be working on the VEA gui, later.

While I prefer command-line, sometimes a GUI is still nice. Especially, in a complex cluster arrangement, such as the one I admin.





Veritas Cluster Manager 4.x in Mac OS X

Configuring the Veritas Cluster Manager to use the Mac OS X using OS X native Java.

1- Copy the Veritas GUI from server (/opt/VRTSvcs/gui) to a location of choice on your Mac.
2- Edit hagui script (this script, below) to reflect the location of VRTSvcs and the path to your JAVA Home
3- Open a terminal and run /path/to/VRTSvcs/hagui

The following is a copy of the modified hagui script (modify to your liking):
**************************************************************
#!/bin/sh
#
# START COPYRIGHT-NOTICE: 1998, 2003
#
# Copyright 1998, 2003 VERITAS Software Corporation.
# All rights reserved.
#
# VERITAS, VERITAS SOFTWARE, the VERITAS logo and all other VERITAS
# product names and slogans are trademarks or registered trademarks
# of VERITAS Software Corporation in the USA and/or other countries.
# Other product names and/or slogans mentioned herein may be trade-
# marks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
#
# END COPYRIGHT-NOTICE.
#

# change the environment's classpath and
# java_home
#unset JAVA_HOME
#unset CLASSPATH
PATH=".:$PATH"
export PATH

#VCS_HOME="/opt/VRTSvcs"
VCS_HOME="/Users/wallen/VRTSvcs"

#JAVA_HOME=$VCS_HOME/gui/jre
LIB_PATH=$VCS_HOME/gui/lib
LANG_PATH=$VCS_HOME/gui/lang

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LIB_PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

BCLASSPATH=${LANG_PATH}:${LIB_PATH}/VCSGui.jar:${LIB_PATH}/gui_images.jar:${LIB_PATH}/sounds.jar:${LIB_PATH}/VxHelpViewer.jar:${LIB_PATH}/VxHelpViewerl10n.jar

DEBUG=0
if [ "$1" = "-D" ] ; then
DEBUG=1
shift 1
fi

if [ "$#" = 0 ] ; then
if [ "$CSGA_DIR" = "" ] ; then
CONF_PATH=$VCS_HOME/gui/
else
CONF_PATH=$CSGA_DIR
fi
elif [ "$#" = 1 ] ; then
CONF_PATH=$*
shift 1
elif [ "$#" -gt 1 ] ; then
if [ -d "$1" ] ; then
CONF_PATH=$1
shift 1
elif [ "$1" != "-h" ] && [ "$1" != "-p" ] ; then
echo "$1: configuration directory doesn't exist."
exit 1
fi
else
echo "$SELFNAME: configuration directory is incorrect!"
exit 1
fi


CLASSPATH=${CONF_PATH}:$BCLASSPATH:$JAVA_HOME/lib/rt.jar:$JAVA_HOME/lib/i18n.jar
export CLASSPATH

if [ $DEBUG = 0 ] ; then
exec $JAVA_HOME/bin/java -Dbase.dir="/opt/VRTSvcs/gui" -classpath $CLASSPATH -mx128m VCSGui $* > /dev/null
else
exec $JAVA_HOME/bin/java -Dbase.dir="/opt/VRTSvcs/gui" -classpath $CLASSPATH -mx128m VCSGui $*
fi

Evolve or Perish...

You HAVE to watch this movie. You just have to. Understand what your future in America holds for you. Understand your surroundings and what is truly happening around you, and why. Visit http://www.freedomtofascism.com/. Watch the movie. Then judge for yourself.

Athiests video

Nice video in response to some people's narrow, judgemental views on us damned-evil Atheists.

"No, I don't know that Atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots, this is one nation under God."
-- George Bush Sr.

Nice conflict of interest (again). Is there ANYTHING in the constitution that he agrees with? I doubt it.

Check out this video (His quote is cited in it, by the way). I like Carl Segan's quote, at the end.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdVucvo-kDU

I am quite happy to be in the 10% of the populous, btw.

--Wrex

VERITAS Cluster Server configuration file - main.cf

Usefull Reference:http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/254430.htm

Cool Martial arts

This kid is good. Watch do jumps over trash cans buildings and people. cool jumps.

Bush Is Retarted...

I HATE THIS "MAN"!!

"Bush issues first veto of presidency on stem cell research

President Bush says he's vetoed a bill that would have allowed expanded federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research -- because it "crosses a moral boundary that our decent society needs to respect."

The measure, which cleared the Senate by a lopsided margin yesterday, eases curbs on federal funding of research that uses embryonic stem cells.

Bush says the funding crosses an ethical line -- by using taxpayer money for a procedure that destroys life.

Backers of the measure say the tens of thousands of frozen embryos in question are the byproducts of fertility treatment and are otherwise destined for destruction.

The White House says a number of "snowflake" children are present for Bush's remarks. They're what stem cell research opponents call the offspring of ebmryo adoptions."

So the dip-wad would rather throw the embroys in the trash, rather than cure an illness or save a life. This bastard needs to fall off a fracken horse and loose the use of his limbs, just so he can have a first-hand accounting of how the research could help. Jeezuz! ASSHOLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yea. I am sure my comments will piss some of you off, but I just don't understand how intelligent people can still believe in this inept bungle of a president!