Eric Covener’s Journal

Scary Movie

King to work with Marvel comics on Gunslinger series

PSUdaemon: whenever i hear someone say “and” alone i think of covener telling a story then going “and” holding up one finger and then coming up with some outrageous punchline

PSUdaemon: he usually said “and” at least twice to get your attention

PSUdaemon: and….and…..he shot a dolphin

This story makes me think of the strongbad episode where they tell the joke several different ways, one of which is a radio morning show disk jockey with sound effects and copious amounts of “wait for it…”

ssh-agent is a utility that allows you to authenticate locally once, and then login to remote systems without typing in credentials again. On a real unix-like environment, if you kick off an agent in the parent process of your graphical login, it will be accessable to you any time you use ssh.

In windows, if you’re firing off some type of cygwin shell (you really ought to be using rxvt in native mode, yummy) you don’t have a parent process that allows you to inherit those environment variables.

The following is how I get new rxvt’s to share the ssh-agent created in the very first one. And you really must try rxvt over the default cygwin bash shell…

rxvt:

            c:\cygwin\bin\rxvt -e /bin/bash -login

.bash_profile:

eval `~/bin/agent.sh`

~/bin/agent.sh:

#!/bin/bash

FILE=~covener/bin/lastagent

function newagent
{

     eval `ssh-agent` > /dev/null 2>/dev/null
     echo export SSH_AGENT_PID=$SSH_AGENT_PID > $FILE
     echo export SSH_AUTH_SOCK=$SSH_AUTH_SOCK >> $FILE
     echo export SSH_AGENT_PID=$SSH_AGENT_PID
     echo export SSH_AUTH_SOCK=$SSH_AUTH_SOCK
}

if [ -f "$FILE" ] ; then
  . $FILE
  ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep $SSH_AGENT_PID > /dev/null
  if [ $? == 0 ] ; then
     if [ ! -e "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" ] ; then
       kill $SSH_AGENT_PID
       newagent
     else
      echo export SSH_AGENT_PID=$SSH_AGENT_PID
      echo export SSH_AUTH_SOCK=$SSH_AUTH_SOCK
     fi
  else
       newagent
  fi
else
newagent
fi

I desperately want to go as the “Burger King” King for halloween, but the Mask is sold out everywhere

The Return of the King

FInally getting on average 6.6x DVD burning out of my media/drive combination after using a Windows LiveCD to upgrade the firmware on my drive.

While 6.6x may sound slow given that 16x drives and 8x media are so cheap, you have to realize that no 16x, or affordable 8x DVD recorder writes with a constant linear velocity — and they certainly don’t advertise anything other then the max on the side of the box

Your typical 16x DVD recorder writes at different speeds in varying ‘zones’ around the surface of the media — slow early on in the center, and maybe at it’s max speed towards the outter edge.

So even if you came back from the future with perfect 32x media and hacked your burner to recognize it, you’d still write the inner tracks at closer to 8x.

Site has NWS advertisements

Street Fighter vs. Mortal Kombat

Caught a new little nuggest from the Best of David Spade they aired on Saturday.

Teri Hatcher hosting Spade in America as David Spade, interviewing David Spade as Teri Hatcher.

Teri even gets to deliver a “I liked it the first time when it was called…” w/ Black Sheep / Tommy Boy.

What skit features Norm McDonald, Jay Moore, and Sarah Silverman all with speaking parts?

Total Bastard Airlines w/ (ugh) Hellen Hunt.

So if you’re looking for some funny people on SNL, “go to Hellen Hunt for it”.

Let me tell you the same thing I told Elijah Wood… Yes..

I’ll meet you in your trailer in 15 minutes.