My copy of Pink Floyd Live in Pompeii arived from Amazon.com yesterday and like a child with a new toy, I ripped off the packaging and popped it in the DVD player. I had read mixed reviews about the DVD, as it's the Director's Edition, which is a bit funky and has both good points and bad points.
I really enjoyed actual concert footage of the movie and I also enjoyed the added interviews and footage from the recording of Dark Side of the Moon. I, however, was a bit put off with the stock footage and computer animated space scenery. Note that there is the uncut and un-altered 4:3 original movie on the DVD. I watched both until Michelle had enough and made me turn it off ;).
That being said, it was really my first introduction to the band as individuals. That is I've never really watched any interviews or footage of them as people. I've enjoyed the music, and seen music videos and such... but now I have faces to the sounds and words, and it has made listening to certain things a bit of a different experience. I don't know what to make of it yet.
Pink Floyd Live in Pompeii
Posted on April 14, 2005
Security Tool
Posted on April 12, 2005
I recently started using the hardened-dev-sources in gentoo's portage and grsecurity has a cool feature to track ip addresses. There used to be an open-source python program called HostSentry that was developed by Psionic. Psionic was bought by Cisco and the package disappeared. After moving to these kernels I started thinking about HostSentry and how instead of watching wtmp, one could do trend analysis and alerting based upon /proc. Now with additional information such as the ipaddress, I've been thinking of a way to store process info in a table and then write a program to analyze the current activity vrs the previous activity and send alerts based upon it.
I've prototyped the data gathering tool in php, I call it "processripper" and it goes through /proc and extracts the data that could be useful and shoves it in a PostgreSQL table. The next step will to write a tool that builds some trend data, and then determines what kind of alerts to send.
I'm thinking a web interface showing trend analysis would be cool at some point too... Stuff like what user uses most of your cpu time, or what applications run the most processes on an ongoing basis.a Anyway, just thought I would throw that out there. Once I get something working I'll put it in the ehpg cvs.
I've prototyped the data gathering tool in php, I call it "processripper" and it goes through /proc and extracts the data that could be useful and shoves it in a PostgreSQL table. The next step will to write a tool that builds some trend data, and then determines what kind of alerts to send.
I'm thinking a web interface showing trend analysis would be cool at some point too... Stuff like what user uses most of your cpu time, or what applications run the most processes on an ongoing basis.a Anyway, just thought I would throw that out there. Once I get something working I'll put it in the ehpg cvs.
Alien vrs Predator
Posted on April 12, 2005
Watched it on DVD this past weekend. I liked the premise. The execution was pretty good, except I would pass on the script. The overly obvious plot devices really bothered me (Like the Italian archaeologist). The special effects and the ending were enjoyable. However, the special edition was a joke. It added a 30 second scene to the beginning that didn't need to be there.
April Fools Day
Posted on April 01, 2005
I have an April fools day tradition to do something on pathetic.org. Each year they expect me to top the previous year. Heavy expectations, ya know? Anyway, today pathetic.org has changed to Gavin M. Roy's pathetic.org. I've gotten a pretty good response thus far ;).
