[Date1] [notice] child pid 19891 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Date] [notice] child pid 19857 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Date] [error] [client ] client sent HTTP/1.1 request without hostname (see RFC2616 section 14.23): /w00tw00t.at.ISC.SANS.DFind:)

*If* Errorlog entries similar to the above can be found in your apache/error.log …

You can try:

Restart apache, restart MySQL, kill all apache/sql instances, remove active transfer records from the tf_transfers table in the DB, restart your server entirely…

but it will do nothing to solve this problem, sorry! I’m yet to find the root cause, but it seems the /admin.php page SHOULD be available, in which the Maintenance -> Main -> Extended Maintenance Run performs something that kills whatever is causing the problem.

Seems this isn’t very well documented in the torrentflux world – hopefully this helps someone recover their install before they do a complete wipe/reinstall.

Obviously doing this may cause an outage to your seeding of those all important nix *.iso’s – you’ve been warned!

2. I REALLY need to put some time aside to finish this website – this holding template/theme isn’t really visually inspiring, but i guess it depends on me processing the 3000 images in my to-do list.

3. Shortlist is 100% the best Mens Magazine available in print today – as an avid subscriber of GQ, i cant help but admire Shortlist after reading GQ cover to cover and finding 5-6 worthy reads, yet every single page of Shortlist is readable-by-all and covers pretty much the entire world of Man-life. I wonder why they make it free – i’d pay a pound!

New Years? Well – as the entire world is adamant that all party goers should be on the fence until an hour before midnight our plans changed 5 times in 3 hours and in the end we went from central London spangly night down to a romp in Infernos, Clapham. Faced with Brixtaaaan as our intended target, i’m glad we moved towards Clapham instead. In the end all was good – cheap night, plenty of pre-drinks and a fast taxi to bed for work in the morning. Only a chump would have to work new years day at 8am, clearly i need to give up these shifts. Oh and next year i’ll try not to get kicked out and have to blag my way back in – all thanks to Simon knocking the building down from the inside out, and some scrawny girl decided it was me – thanks for that.

Onwards? Who knows, NY Resolutions – undefined as yet, though likely involve making more effort with hobbies (photography, web), and actually get out and DO something .. even if the insomniac routine makes it difficult for regular entertainment.

Oh and iPhone’s alarms are broken again – but once again i’ve avoided any bugs whatsoever .. i must be blessed by the Apple Gods.

My anger rant this week was kick started by the BBC Euro Recession map, and my inevitable shock at the state of the Eurozone. Wow – aren’t we screwed. What i don’t understand is how if everyone is in what amounts to € trillions of debt, we can possibly consider providing a loan of £7bn to Ireland. Sell our gold to China why don’t you. Thanks Gordon.

Why the rant? We’ve got hundreds of families worried about where their next meal will come from, areas in the north that are comparable to regions of Afghanistan in terms of desolate and deserted houses, roads and even towns. In these places you can’t give the houses away to even those who are dying for opportunity – the areas are so dead there’s no work as there are simply no businesses.

If the only industry in an area is inflated branches of the public sector. During a time when cuts are incoming and ongoing – how are these losing their jobs going to find new ones, nevermind those there weren’t enough public sector jobs for to start with?

Sorry – not everyone can simply up and move to London, and realistically – there’s no room at the Inn.

You only have to watch one episode of “the secret millionaire” to bring a tear to the eye and you’ll find yourself marching on Westminster yourself.

The military? Well – i’ve numerous friends now who’ve just lost out on their childhood dream (After pursueing it for ~15 years) now that they’ve canned harriers and essentially left us with a squadrons of Typhoons that are, contrary to what’s been fed to the media, simply not battle worthy. Meanwhile on the ground, soldiers are off to war for their country, only too often losing their lives, for £17,014 a year. Maybe those BA cabin crews will think twice next time they decide to go on strike because they arent happy with their pay rises during a global recession.
If a Soldier went on strike they would be locked up, court marshalled and lives could potentially be lost. If cabin crew want to go on strike all that happens is they ruin our long awaited and hard earned holidays. I hope BA replaces them instantly with the first hard working person in the queue desperate for a job.

Anyway, back to the economy. Let’s name a few countries currently suffering the worst effects of the recession: Spain, Greece, Ireland

Lets compare the Eurozone’s level of deficit for each of those countries:

11.2%, 13.6%, 14.3% respectively – the three highest levels of deficit in Europe? No, I lie, That would be us. Yes, the UK is the country with the third highest GDP per capita, yet we’re the 3rd worst for deficit (11.5%).

And what do the stats say countries with high deficit have in common?

Unemployment. Spain, Greece and Ireland are some of the worst offenders for unemployment rates, and with our new cuts you cant help but wonder what we’re doing to stop our unemployment levels jumping into the red alongside Spain and Ireland.

Times are not good, and it seems not one of our newly elected ‘revoloutionary’ politicians is willing to stick their neck on the line, make a stand, and have the balls to do something about the impending failure of our country. It’s not like we haven’t seen it coming, we’re the kings of Political Correctness, Human Rights gone too far, ‘no win no fee’, Media dominated politics, derivatives .. the list goes on; Now we add recession, unemployment, banking friendly government and Europe to the mix – what chance do we have?

So what will these cuts achieve? Well, currently the interest on our debt is so great it’s almost a waste of time writing it down the national debt because the figure will of changed so dramatically by the time you’ve read it. Probably easier to Google for it yourself! Lets just say it’s circa £1 trillion. oh my. The interest alone is currently around £44bn (according to the spending review, is more than we spend on schools), meaning our government cuts of ~£30bn in June are not even enough to balance the interest, and so the debt will continue to rise even with the hardship. Is it worth it?

While i can’t deny having less students go to university will increase the value of my degree, you cant help but sympathise with students going to university now; with student debt of anywhere between ~£30-100k, on top of the nations involuntary ~£20k national debt per person to pay off the banks that we all hate so much, what hope do we have? The only sector that asks for first class degrees from top 20 universities is the financial sector (arguably the cause of all of these problems), paying the most amount of money for more of our smartest kids to improve the banking sectors wealth and further increase the rich-poor divide.

It seems nobody has any balls any more – we have huge problems of never before seen magnitude, and politicians that are becoming more and more middle of the road that now all that happens is a group debate on how little of a decision they have to make, with the smallest action possible taken and in the grand scheme of things – nothing really changes.

Don’t get me started on voting – why we can’t just have one person one vote i don’t know. AV and FPTP are about as democratic as North Korea is friendly.

Here is today’s list of BBC doom and gloom articles. When you’re hitting 4 a day you really should start to worry:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11830532
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11830532
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11833652
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11830460

On top of impending Euro-doom, UK recession, tax hikes, unemployment and protests; is it just me that thinks we’re remarkably overdue a catastrophic event [insert specifics (terorrist attack, double dip, war with n.korea)]?

I pretty much have nothing to offer as a solution, all i know is that we’re very close to the point of rubicon and something pretty drastic is going to have to happen soon in order to recover our mighty country to it’s glorious powerful self again, and i can’t help but think the Prince’s wedding isn’t it.

Ttax cuts might help, and i mean real ones, not a 2.5% VAT drop.. Simple theory really, cut tax, cause spending, generate revenue and more taxable income. You end up with the same tax incoming as more is spent, yet everyone feels less pinch and as the increased spending generates growth, the taxable GDP will increase! Simples!

Some times you do have to wonder – could Clarkson really do much worse at number 10 than the current crop? Probably not. At least he might not be oblivious to the likes of the banking heads, murdochites and the global companies buying our great companies (kraft), football clubs (pick one), assets (bye gold!) and tradition (what military?).

The question is – what’s the countries key priority? What has capitalism screwed up the most and how do we fix it? Which shining star is going to King Arthur our asses out of this mess? Back to basics methinks!

After that – cheer yourself up with this nice picture of a cute little kitten:

IPv6 being 128 bit addressing, means, it’s size is beyond comprehensible… approximately 5×10^28 (roughly 2^95) addresses for each of the roughly 7 billion people alive in 2010. In another perspective, this is the same number of IP addresses per person as the number of atoms in a metric ton of carbon. {/wikipedia} Also known as 340 undecillion unique addresses!

Some feature highlights to look forward to:

Ironically a IPv6 status survey (link below) shows that even MIT’s public infrastructure isnt IPv6 ready yet.. though you can count on Google to be ahead of the game ( ipv6.google.com from an IPv6 enabled system ).

Oh, and the world can stop worrying about water, oil and gas shortages – we’ve only got 115 days worth of IPv4 addresses left…get em while you can, or before someone realises you could sell derivatives of them on the markets!

More information:

https://sites.google.com/site/ipv6security/
http://www.mrp.net/IPv6_Survey.html

Thanks to Joe Klein for the education via Hak5, and the anonymous comments helping with my understanding!

1. I went on a gap yah (google for hints)
2. I went to MoS #1 DJ announcement (rave on..)
3. I got a promotion at work, if you can call it that.
4. I organised some old photos in to my Flickr account
5. I now have over 3000 photos that need organising.
6. I’ve seen the Facebook film, poor Zuckerberg.
7. I’m back on nights at work
8. I’m becoming more organised, and I’m starting to like lists. Evidently.
9. Contrary to popular opinion – You can’t get too much of Zombie films and TV series (The Walking Dead rocks).

Oh and i decided some things..

Peru is not as cool as Bolivia, I still love Deadmau5 and I should do some work before probing Flickr..

So i can now consider hundreds of cars my own .. for pretty cheap! It works out quite nicely price wise too – i’ve so far spent £65, giving me a night and a few hours with a van, and an entire night with a 320d – for the Ikea / shopping trip! Ive also got a host of Golfs, Polos, Tourans, Vans and other random stuff within 50m of my door to test out.

Sadly i’d probably not buy any of the cars available; new or second hand – the BMW is just not quick enough (though 280lbs/ft is pretty nice!) and whilst its a good quality car it doesn’t feel like you get any more than a modern Mondeo. The van’s pretty handy for moving things about though. At least it gives me my driving fix .. for now.

http://www.streetcar.co.uk/cars.aspx

So far i’ve had pretty good experience with customer service – they’ve made a few mistakes but promptly and fairly resolved them – though i do believe they could do better. for example, on joining i was charged for insurance specifically said not to, a van has been a few minutes late once with no compensation and the “balance” display on the website/iphone app is basically generated using ‘random()’ – though otherwise simple to use! Otherwise they’re pretty helpful and obviously they are still learning as they go .. being a newish company. Lets see if we can get some even nicer cars for those of us willing to pay for it!

1 amount of chicken
1 amount of canned tomatoes, onions, peppers and other interesting veg.
1 amount of taco/fajita spice
1 handful of finest cheddar
1 sprinkle of jalapeños

Whack in the oven, spread evenly in the dish covered in all the sauces+spices you like, lid on – wait 2 hours @ an average temperature.

Eat in some wraps, or with rice, add extra cheese / salad and enjoy!

I’ve literally just made this recipe up, ive never actually tried it, but im gona find out what it tastes like tonight – as i discovered all of the above ingredients therefore making this a super low cost dinner for 2-4.

An image google for Mexican Chicken suggests what this COULD look like:

In the end i chose the iPhone 4 as a test for 7 days, as it was my eventual preference – pending whether the reported problems actually exert symptoms in my real world use or not. And they didn’t.

My reasoning, explanation and justification (yes, these days you MUST justify your purchase of an Apple product if you want to keep any kind of reputation as a tech fan) are all to follow once i get another spare minute.

..more to come…

First bit of “new” transport i’ve ever bought, just wish it rained less, and the shower in the office that i have to use on out of hours shifts was less parp. My Fuji Cross Comp:

So – as yet I’ve been doing the 7.1 mile ride in to work, and back again pretty much every day I’m working since acquiring the bike, plus the odd bike-ride. This takes roughly 35 minutes at reasonable speed, and 40-45 minutes if you relax. Easily speeds up my trip to the office, and it’s a lot more fun than the sweaty anti-social tube.

The cost saving is pretty awesome also – normally a tube pass for zones 1-2 is ~£100 a month but the bike is costing me ~£45 or something, saving me quite a bit – plus i sleep for longer, and get fit. win win all round.

I decided on a cyclo-cross bike for the added durability, slightly wider tyres and forks (for improved fork strength, compatibility and the option of semi off-road tyres), plus the extra set of cyclo-cross brakes (in the normal bike position) – which are very handy on London roads.

Oh, and as you’d expect you have a shower on arrival at the office – stops people’s bacon and onion armpits, turns out today storing a shower in the shower’s attached cloakroom is a faux pas according to the building landlord – mine along with ~10 other’s towels were confiscated today. Little do they know i broke in on my way home and got the bastard back.

Now i just need to find the perfect music for cycling in the morning (only one earbud in of course..). So far sad tunes make you go slow, trance you simply cant pedal fast enough to the beat and dnb makes you cycle dangerously – Any suggestions?