Eric Covener’s Journal

National Lampoons Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj (December 1)

Kumar Triumphant!

that Bob Kelley is doing shows called Tourgasm that don’t feature Dane Cook?

Snopes is running an entry on a (true) urban legend about a girl playing in a pile of raked leaves being run over by her father and killed.

The girls name is “Natalie Gravel“

A Fox Shocker: In Depth With O.J. Simpson for A Ratings Boost

“If I Did It” is also the title of the former pro football player’s new book that, Fox said yesterday, hits bookstores Nov. 30 — just in time for the holiday gift-buying season, ho, ho, ho. And who wouldn’t love to find a copy of O.J.’s sordid sort-of hypothetical confession in his Christmas stocking on the morning of the day in which we celebrate the birth of baby Jesus?

STRACE(1)

Arguments are printed in symbolic form with a passion.

On Linux, exciting as it would be, tracing the init process is forbidden.

Roosevelt Island has one of the worlds few Automated Vacuum Collection systems.

The Automated Vacuum Collection (AVAC) system, also called “pneumatic refuse collection”, transports waste at high speeds through underground tunnels to a building where it is compacted, sealed in containers and then carted away.

One of many WTFs in my head while reading the Roosevelt Island article above.

http://entertainment.iafrica.com/news/413967.htm

Sacha Baron Cohen, in character up as the fictional Kazakh journalist he created, approached a man in the street and said: “I like your clothings. Are nice! Please may I buying? I want have sex with it.”

The New Yorker failed to see the joke and reportedly punched the 35-year-old comedian in the face.

The scuffle took place after Cohen had appeared on ‘Saturday Night Live’, the popular US sketch show, to promote his new film, ‘Borat: Cultural Learnings of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan’, The Sun newspaper reported.

Although the comedian shouted for help, the New Yorker punched him repeatedly before Cohen’s friend, actor Hugh Laurie, came to the rescue.

Did you know bash does some magic when you try to redirect to [code]/dev/tcp/host/port?

Bash handles several filenames specially when they are used in redirections, as described in the following table:
/dev/tcp/host/port
If host is a valid hostname or Internet address, and port is an integer port number or service name, bash attempts to open a TCP connection to the corresponding socket.

As in:

#!/bin/bash
(
    printf "GET / HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n" >&3
    cat < &3
) 3<>/dev/tcp/google.com/80

Support for this is disabled in the debian packaged version of bash.

Anyone have a 3c905 wake on lan cable?

Or a network card w/ WOL cable they want to donate?

edit for another news gem: