Jun 3, 2010
*nix have some strange concepts. This will be a brief blog because I have little to say. In the grep manual, I found a reference to an obscure option:
-Z, --null
Output a zero byte (the ASCII NUL character) instead of the character that normally
follows a file name. For example, grep -lZ outputs a zero byte after each file name
instead of the usual newline. This option makes the output unambiguous, even in the
presence of file names containing unusual characters like newlines. This option can be
used with commands like find -print0, perl -0, sort -z, and xargs -0 to process arbitrary
file names, even those that contain newline characters.
Did you read that? It's saying that you can have a newline in a filename, so I tested that out:
jvoss@localhost ~ $ touch 'blah > yak > dah' jvoss@localhost ~ $ ls Desktop j0anna1.crt regdev asos2l.txt j0anna1a.crt src blah?yak?dah j0anna1a1.crt stage3-amd64-20090611.tar.bz2 emerge_kate1.txt libusb-1.0.8.tar.bz2 suzy_make.conf emerge_kdebase-runtime-meta1.txt lin2632.cfg suzy_world.txt emerge_kdebase-startkde1.txt lin2632a.cfg time1.py emerge_konsole1.txt media use1.txt iwlist1.txt necessary.txt wmii+ixp-3.9-2.tbz iwlwifi-5000-ucode-8.24.2.12 portage-2010a.tgz wpa_lev1.conf iwlwifi-5000-ucode-8.24.2.12.gz recent xness.txt
See that blah?yak?dah file there? It's replacing newlines with ? because it doesn't want to display something else. That's probably very smart. Tab completion however, shows a completely different story:
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May 19, 2010
Now that AltSci is back up and fewer a few serious XSS bugs, I thought I would show you some awesome things that AltSci has given you in the past few years. AltSci Language AI is perhaps the most interesting, with gems like "悪政" and "День Победы", you may learn a lot more than a language or two.
Tonight I hacked on something for work and for humanity. At the same time a person I know worked for me on another project that will not so much advance humanity so much as prove something quite simple. Who did more for the world, who had more fun, and who did the most work are pretty much immaterial but I wished that everyone in the world could enjoy a fraction of the satisfaction that a programmer does when they create a piece of code. A piece of code that can be open sourced and that helps others, even better.
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May 13, 2010
AltSci is back up, with SSL as it should be. All the links that were broken (except one or two) should be working and shouldn't give any SSL warnings. Before AltSci went down in February, it had a really good uptime. My analysis of the hard drive was that age and not anything fishy caused the crash. I added a stick of RAM and a new terabyte (a thousand gigabytes) hard drive and AltSci is back up for business. I am looking at offering a few new services beyond the websites and shell for hackers. But when a person thinks of services, they must also think about their customer. So I ask you dear reader, would you use additional services? What do you think about each and would you be willing to pay for the service if it was offered by an allied service (not AltSci itself, but rather someone fully endorsed by AltSci)? If you would like a service but not be willing to pay for it, why not?
- Forums
- IPSec VPN
- KVM Virtual Server
- Open Source Software
- BitTorrent Tracker
- Web Hosting
- GnuPG E-mail *
Original Analysis: Sept 25, 2008
Updated Analysis: Aug 9 - Sept 8, 2009, Feb 15, 2010
Published: Feb 15, 2010
Japanese AI version 0.3
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Japanese AI version 0.1
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Over a year ago I released the concept and initial analysis of the Japanese AI project here. Since then I have been using the results off and on for translation, learning, and other projects. Not long after, I wrote a generic version of this project, AltSci Language AI using Twitter as the data source. It also utilized the Google Translate Language API to translate the conversations on the fly. It became obvious that the benefits of this type of language software would be quite useful, so I made a few quick user interface improvements to Japanese AI, so that I could release the full results.
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