I host a personal website on my pi - after losing my free dyndns account I came up with this solution. It's ugly but it works for me...
I have an account with Dreamhost for my other sites. On Dreamhost I created a subdomain pi.mydomainname.com. My pi checks it's external ip address every 10 minutes - if it changes - it ftp's its new address to pi.mydomainname.com. If you browse over to pi.mydomainname.com there is an index.php that does a redirect to whatever the latest pi ip address is.
My address changed last weekend and the site is still up.
I was fed up with password hell so came up with this solution - it's not perfect but it does work...
1.Think of a song lyric such as "Welcome to the house of fun" (Madness) 2.Think of this as "wtthof" (the initial letters) 3.Extrapolate a letter for a number. In this case "to = 2". So we now have "w2thof". 4.Some sites require 8 letters so (at this stage) we need at least 7 letters (we only have 6 right now). The word "Welcome" could be "wc" instead of just "w". So we now have "wc2thof". 5.Finally, take the first letter of the website you want log in to, "F" for Facebook, "E" for eBay etc and add a capital of that letter to the front of the password. So, Facebook password would be "Fwc2thof" Ebay password would be "Ewc2thof"
This gives up to 26 different passwords that cover all the rules and is easy to remember (WelCome 2 The House Of Fun)
If the website name starts with a number (such as 123-reg.com), keep the original rule (the first letter) but make the last letter a capital. This would make "1wc2thoF
Over here in Blighty we have a little known provider called giffgaff. It runs on the O2 network. It's a very community driven business, the only advert I've ever seen in before The Big Bang Theory. I've been using them for over a year. I pay (no contract) £10 a month and get 250 mins, unlimited texts and 1GB data (+ free giffgaff to giffgaff calls). For £12 you get the above with unlimited data. And they mean unlimited.
Pr0n is slang for pornography.[1] This is a deliberately inaccurate spelling/pronunciation for porn,[14] where a zero is often used to replace the letter O. It is sometimes used in legitimate communications (such as email discussion groups, Usenet, chat rooms, and internet web pages) to circumvent language and content filters, which may reject messages as offensive or spam. The word also helps prevent search engines from associating commercial sites with pornography, which might result in unwelcome traffic.
I was just having a look at the *official" North Korean website and did a whois on it. Interestingly the domain was registered in Spain:
Registrant:
korea-dpr.com #29996
Alejandro Cao de benos de Les Perez (vientian@hotmail.com)
Calle President Companys 4-8
Torredembarra -Tarragona,43830
ES
In the UK, Prince gave his last album out free in a newspaper - he then did about 20 nights at the O2 arena and, I imagine, made tons of cash. He is also giving his next album away in the papers so I guess we'll see him playing live sometime soon actually PERFORMING music like the minstrels of yore.
Most of them don't have any repsect for public spaces! I live in a pleasant town in South East England and in the summer like to go to down my local park with some friends, have a picnic, bottle of wine and play some Frisbee or football etc. Everytime there's a group of 'yoofs' there they leave a stinking pile of rubbish even though they have to walk past a bin on their way out.
Yesterday at the train station I saw a group of 6 'yoofs' walk out of the waiting room with that typical 'I don't give a fuck' look - I went in the waiting room - it stank of smoke, was littered with beer cans and burger boxes and there was huge globs of spit on the chairs. (I have nothing against smoking or drinking - I do both. I even eat the odd burger (but that's beside the point))
We (England) have a major problem with some of our kids - they are feral, violent, rude and they don't care about anything but themselves.
1: Google Chrome OS will be a 'very friendly' Linux distro.
2: This won't mean a thing to 95% of Intertube users who will keep using Windows. (I made that % up)
Everytime one of my friends PCs get p0rnd - I suggest a Linux dual boot solution - they just don't like it! To "us" geeks Linux is "safe, secure, etc etc". To the general population it's APITA (A Pain In The Ass) - 'cos it's different.
Teaching a parent BASIC...
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Hello World!
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· Score: 2, Funny
When I had my CBM64 I really wanted my dad to join in the fun of me learning to program - he seemed quite interested but this is how the conversation went...
ME: So, dad, we're going to print the phrase "Hello Dad" on the screen then print loads of them - it'll be fun DAD: OK ME: To print something we use the PRINT command so to print this phrase we type 10 PRINT "HELLO DAD" - 10 is the line number - like a number in an instruction book. DAD: OK - But why PRINT? ME: Errr, because that's the command... DAD: Hmmmm, OK ME: To print it loads we then type "20 GOTO 10", this means it will GOTO line 10 and print it again.. DAD: Why GOTO ME: Errr, because that's the command... DAD: OK ME: now we can run it by typing RUN (Hello Dad scrolls up the screen) DAD: Why RUN? ME: Oh FUCK OFF - you're like a 3 year old!
I'm not a fighter - I'm a computer programmer. I also used to live in Hackney (lots of knives and guns) and one night I was cycling home, it was raining, I'd just been dumped by my girlf - I was upset. I went to the local McDonalds (Mare St?) and on my way to the counter a group of black teens started taking the piss. I ignored it and ordered my food. I went to leave the store and still the piss-taking came. There was about 8 of them. I look like a geek. I unlocked my bike - it was a motorbike lock - heavy as hell. I put my food on the floor, grabbed the lock, went back inside the store, said to the gang "Oi!" and then whacked one of them round the head with the lock. I could have killed him. I turned round and walked and several of them jumped on my back and started hitting me in the face - I just kept walking, dragging them with me - I heard some of them say to leave it - most of them were trying to help their injured friend. I got outside to my bike - bleeding profusely - and cycled to my local pub round the corner (The Elephants Head) for help. I was covered in my own blood, had a broken nose and 2 black eyes. I was shaking like hell.
It was the most violent thing I've ever done. I'm not proud of it. I haven't told many people.
Just because I'm a mild mannered geek doesn't mean I can't fight back.
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I host a personal website on my pi - after losing my free dyndns account I came up with this solution. It's ugly but it works for me...
I have an account with Dreamhost for my other sites. On Dreamhost I created a subdomain pi.mydomainname.com. My pi checks it's external ip address every 10 minutes - if it changes - it ftp's its new address to pi.mydomainname.com. If you browse over to pi.mydomainname.com there is an index.php that does a redirect to whatever the latest pi ip address is.
My address changed last weekend and the site is still up.
I was fed up with password hell so came up with this solution - it's not perfect but it does work...
1.Think of a song lyric such as "Welcome to the house of fun" (Madness)
2.Think of this as "wtthof" (the initial letters)
3.Extrapolate a letter for a number. In this case "to = 2". So we now have "w2thof".
4.Some sites require 8 letters so (at this stage) we need at least 7 letters (we only have 6 right now). The word "Welcome" could be "wc" instead of just "w". So we now have "wc2thof".
5.Finally, take the first letter of the website you want log in to, "F" for Facebook, "E" for eBay etc and add a capital of that letter to the front of the password.
So, Facebook password would be "Fwc2thof"
Ebay password would be "Ewc2thof"
This gives up to 26 different passwords that cover all the rules and is easy to remember (WelCome 2 The House Of Fun)
If the website name starts with a number (such as 123-reg.com), keep the original rule (the first letter) but make the last letter a capital. This would make "1wc2thoF
Over here in Blighty we have a little known provider called giffgaff. It runs on the O2 network. It's a very community driven business, the only advert I've ever seen in before The Big Bang Theory. I've been using them for over a year. I pay (no contract) £10 a month and get 250 mins, unlimited texts and 1GB data (+ free giffgaff to giffgaff calls). For £12 you get the above with unlimited data. And they mean unlimited.
Silly name, great company.
According to the TV this morning (the delicious Susanna Reid), the Ceefax name came from "See facts".
I believe it is intentional.
From Wikipedia
Pr0n is slang for pornography.[1] This is a deliberately inaccurate spelling/pronunciation for porn,[14] where a zero is often used to replace the letter O. It is sometimes used in legitimate communications (such as email discussion groups, Usenet, chat rooms, and internet web pages) to circumvent language and content filters, which may reject messages as offensive or spam. The word also helps prevent search engines from associating commercial sites with pornography, which might result in unwelcome traffic.
I was just having a look at the *official" North Korean website and did a whois on it. Interestingly the domain was registered in Spain:
Registrant: ,43830
korea-dpr.com #29996
Alejandro Cao de benos de Les Perez (vientian@hotmail.com)
Calle President Companys 4-8
Torredembarra -Tarragona
ES
I've read some comments above the expense of owning a smart phone. Here's what I paid/pay (in the UK).
Handset: Android ZTE Blade - Cost new £100 ($159 USD)
Monthly cost: I'm on PAYG and pay £10 / mo ($16 USD) - I get 500MB data, 300 texts and £10 call credit.
That is not expensive for someone working full time.
Too late. The intertubes have already bolted from the stable. Good luck trying to catch them.
In the UK, Prince gave his last album out free in a newspaper - he then did about 20 nights at the O2 arena and, I imagine, made tons of cash. He is also giving his next album away in the papers so I guess we'll see him playing live sometime soon actually PERFORMING music like the minstrels of yore.
Undefeated bull here - the matador ran out the ring and got arrested...
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Strange-News/Bullfight-Matador-Flees-From-Bull-In-Mexico---Cristian-Hernandez-Arrested-For-Breach-Of-Contract/Article/201006315649393?lpos=Strange_News_Third_World_News_Feature_Teaser_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15649393_Bullfight%3A_Matador_Flees_From_Bull_In_Mexico_-_Cristian_Hernandez_Arrested_For_Breach_Of_Contract_/
Most of them don't have any repsect for public spaces! I live in a pleasant town in South East England and in the summer like to go to down my local park with some friends, have a picnic, bottle of wine and play some Frisbee or football etc. Everytime there's a group of 'yoofs' there they leave a stinking pile of rubbish even though they have to walk past a bin on their way out.
Yesterday at the train station I saw a group of 6 'yoofs' walk out of the waiting room with that typical 'I don't give a fuck' look - I went in the waiting room - it stank of smoke, was littered with beer cans and burger boxes and there was huge globs of spit on the chairs. (I have nothing against smoking or drinking - I do both. I even eat the odd burger (but that's beside the point))
We (England) have a major problem with some of our kids - they are feral, violent, rude and they don't care about anything but themselves.
I quote from the Apple site
"And because iPad has built-in Bluetooth wireless technology, it works with the Apple Wireless Keyboard, too."
http://www.apple.com/ipad/design/
Your post got me googling and I found this interesting (I thought) article about the Soyuz escape system...
http://www.russianspaceweb.com/soyuz_sas.html
My views:
1: Google Chrome OS will be a 'very friendly' Linux distro.
2: This won't mean a thing to 95% of Intertube users who will keep using Windows. (I made that % up)
Everytime one of my friends PCs get p0rnd - I suggest a Linux dual boot solution - they just don't like it! To "us" geeks Linux is "safe, secure, etc etc". To the general population it's APITA (A Pain In The Ass) - 'cos it's different.
When I had my CBM64 I really wanted my dad to join in the fun of me learning to program - he seemed quite interested but this is how the conversation went...
ME: So, dad, we're going to print the phrase "Hello Dad" on the screen then print loads of them - it'll be fun
DAD: OK
ME: To print something we use the PRINT command so to print this phrase we type 10 PRINT "HELLO DAD" - 10 is the line number - like a number in an instruction book.
DAD: OK - But why PRINT?
ME: Errr, because that's the command...
DAD: Hmmmm, OK
ME: To print it loads we then type "20 GOTO 10", this means it will GOTO line 10 and print it again..
DAD: Why GOTO
ME: Errr, because that's the command...
DAD: OK
ME: now we can run it by typing RUN (Hello Dad scrolls up the screen)
DAD: Why RUN?
ME: Oh FUCK OFF - you're like a 3 year old!
That was the end of my dad's programming.
Hey - we've got an unelected leader here in the UK also.
Any ideas?
I lost my sense of smell in a motorbike accident (crash helmet wasn't done up and I headbutted a Range Rover at 80mph).
The crap thing is losing your sense of taste because you can't smell food.
Errrrr, You're wrong. They're dead.
Hmmmmm.
:(
I'm not happy about this.
A geek fights back.
I'm not a fighter - I'm a computer programmer. I also used to live in Hackney (lots of knives and guns) and one night I was cycling home, it was raining, I'd just been dumped by my girlf - I was upset. I went to the local McDonalds (Mare St?) and on my way to the counter a group of black teens started taking the piss. I ignored it and ordered my food. I went to leave the store and still the piss-taking came. There was about 8 of them. I look like a geek. I unlocked my bike - it was a motorbike lock - heavy as hell. I put my food on the floor, grabbed the lock, went back inside the store, said to the gang "Oi!" and then whacked one of them round the head with the lock. I could have killed him. I turned round and walked and several of them jumped on my back and started hitting me in the face - I just kept walking, dragging them with me - I heard some of them say to leave it - most of them were trying to help their injured friend. I got outside to my bike - bleeding profusely - and cycled to my local pub round the corner (The Elephants Head) for help. I was covered in my own blood, had a broken nose and 2 black eyes. I was shaking like hell.
It was the most violent thing I've ever done. I'm not proud of it. I haven't told many people.
Just because I'm a mild mannered geek doesn't mean I can't fight back.
Phew - was good to share that!
-5 Off Topic!
I just always leave the seat down.
Errr, my cell phone (Mio A701) has TomTom on it so your point is moot.
I was in Manchester (England) last night and there wasn't a cloud in sight. Had a great view of the eclipse.
:P
I know your post was in jest - just wanted to set the record straight