Using the following python script you can pull the meta info from a playing stream. The headers variable will contain the Radio Name and other things, and the meta’s returned will include the currently playing track.
source
Example output:
dan@x ~/ $ ./get_icy_name.py
{'headers': {'icy-genre': 'Techno Drum and Bass', 'icy-notice2': 'SHOUTcast Distributed Network Audio Server/Linux v1.9.93atdn
', 'icy-pub': '1', 'icy-br': '128', 'icy-name': 'Bassdrive - Worldwide Drum and Bass Radio', 'content-type': 'audio/mpeg', 'icy-metaint': '24576'}, 'metas': {'StreamTitle': 'G-Shock Radio Feb 25th 2010 - hosted by Kasio', 'StreamUrl': ''}}
dan@x ~/ $
So last week I screwed up in a royal fashion. I caused 1 core on 12,000 servers to be running at 100% with a zombie process. In conversation with a friend he asked “So how many BogoMIPS were you wasting?”, of course I had to find out.
So I grepped out the first core on each box’es BogoMIPS value and summed it up.
Per second: 61099300 BogoMIPS
If you take that figure and multiply it up for 12 hours.
Total: 2639489760000 Million Instructions
For more information on BogoMIPS please see this nice FAQ.
“If your ISP has registered with the appropriate databases, our servers are updated on a regular basis so you will have to wait until the next refresh to gain access.”
Would you interpret that to mean they are using whois lookups on IP addresses/blocks to check its location for limiting content to certain contries?
If like me you like to pipe things around in the shell then when I looked at aircrack-ng I wanted to script using it. Therefore I wrote a simple patch for the current version that disables buffering to allow the stdout/err to act like they are writing to a log file so good for timely greping around in a bash script. Once I have my WEP scripts polished I will post them up. 
You can find the patch here.
I often work on many machines and end up with multiple sessions to each. Therefore I finally got around to checking out the ControlMaster and ControlPath configuration of ssh. I added the following to my ~/.ssh/config which is for a virtual machine I use on my laptop, so no network issues in play.
Host vm
Hostname 192.168.100.101
User dan
ControlMaster auto
ControlPath /Users/dan/.ssh/master-vm
Then in a terminal I ran the following, twice. Once on its own then with an ssh session running in another terminal.
for X in `seq 1 5`; do time ssh vm "pwd; uptime; hostname;" >/dev/null; done;
Without avg.: 0.268s
With avg.: 0.035s
I think that is quite impressive.
For the raw terminal output, please see here.
Update
Of course you can do this dynamically.
Host *
ControlMaster auto
ControlPath ~/.ssh/master-%r@%h:%p
Then each socket will be used only when the user, host and port are the same.
So I am setting up something to automatically download iPlayer episodes and needed to install iplayer-dl onto a Centos 5 machine. I don’t like installing stuff on a host without using package management therefore I have created a RPM for it.
You can find the SPEC, RPM and SRPM here.
Well would be apart from hosing the box within 3 hours.
Once Xen is up an running, mini boxes will be doing it all.
Update: An image I took a while back.
Chinatown Lanterns Jan 2009
I have added userfly to my blog, let’s see how it works.
So I said I would do it and here is is. The current and as I update it kernel configuration for the eee PC 901.
I currently have NOT got the ethernet or bluetooth working, I actually havn’t even started to get the bluetooth working, but ethernet doesn’t seem to want to work. If anyone has any ideas, then hit me up!
http://github.com/DanBUK/gentoo-eeepc/tree/master/kernel/config-2.6.27-gentoo