I’ve been watching the tweets of @cubespherical with a sense of irony in the back of my mind. The story is so far fetched, the monetary goal beyond ridiculous. I won’t present a whole lot of reference material in this post, it’s merely an insomniac’s rant. However, read through and you just might agree with a few of my points. First and foremost, if you’ve kept up with @th3j35t3r’s (now defunct) twitter account, you’ve seen “a certain writing style”. What’s more, if you’ve used IRC at all in places he has been known to lurk, you’ve seen a few writing...  

If you’re using Windows 7 as a host OS, there’s a chance you may need to occasionally use VPN to cover your ass. VPN services are excellent, but it’s an open-ended technology with a wide variety of possibilities. One of those unfortunate possibilities is that internet transfers can be resumed if your VPN connection is dropped for whatever reason. Well, kids, I’ve got a solution for you- a Windows 7 native solution at that. I’ll use uTorrent as my example.

1. Open the Network and Sharing center while connected to your VPN provider. Ensure that your home wired/wireless connection is set as “Home/Private” and the VPN is set as “Public”.

   

2. Open “Windows Firewall with Advanced Security”.

   

3. Add a new rule for Inbound Connections.

4. Select “Program” for rule type. Choose the path of the program you’d like to restrict to VPN only. For action, select “Block the connection”. In Profile application, check “Domain” and “Private”. Leave “Public” unchecked.

   

5. Name your rule, then repeat the steps for Outbound Connections.

Now you’re safe against the evils of the MAFIAA. Congratulations. I’m lazy as hell and didn’t feel like screencapping every freaking step, so use your imagination, play around, learn something new. If you have problems, it’s not my problem, it’s your problem.

Today’s “Cover Your Ass” tip is brought to you by this guy. Don’t get Sabu’d, do this RIGHT NOW.

NOTE: Just want to mention that the rules added by this guide are on a “per program” basis, which means if you set up these rules selecting ‘utorrent.exe’, firefox and other executables will be wholly unaffected if your VPN connection drops. It’s probably possible to sever all connections if VPN drops, though. Poke around and let me know what you find.

It’s that time again. Time for me to try to sleep and fail miserably. But this time I only have a three hour window in which to make the attempt, so I’m considering giving up on the effort entirely. Instead, I’ll just post a bash script that downloads 4chan thread content effortlessly. It’s pretty damn handy, if you think about it. Just execute as such: 4chan <url>. It was based on this script and modified to use xargs and concurrent downloads. Without further ado, a quick hack of a quick hack.

#!/bin/sh

if [ "$1" = "" ]; then
	echo "Usage: `basename $0` <4chan thread url>"
	exit 1
fi

echo "4chan downloader"
echo "Downloading until canceled or 404'd"
LOC=$( echo "$1" | egrep -o '([0-9]*)$' | sed 's/\.html//g' )
echo "Downloading to $LOC"

if [ ! -d $LOC ]; then
	mkdir $LOC
fi

cd $LOC

while [ true ]; do
	TMP=`mktemp /tmp/4chan.XXXXXX`
	TMP2=`mktemp /tmp/4chanm.XXXXXX`
	WGET_CMD='wget -nv -nc'

	wget -O "$TMP" "$1"
	if [ "$?" != "0" ]; then
		rm $TMP $TMP2
		exit 1
	fi

	egrep '//images.4chan.org/[a-z0-9]+/src/([0-9]*).(jpg|png|gif)' "$TMP" -o | uniq > "$TMP2"

        sed 's|//images|http://images|g' $TMP2 > $TMP

        cat $TMP | xargs -P 5 -I _URL_ $WGET_CMD _URL_

	rm $TMP $TMP2
 
	echo "Waiting 30 seconds befor next run"
	sleep 30
done;

EDIT: This guy is a real one-upper. If I were you, I’d use his insane script.

I think in four months I’m going to have to plan something big…

#thatisall

For the next five days, I’m going to be quite scarce. Even moreso than is typical of me. I’m writing this as a stub. A placeholder to keep this rotten corner of the Inter-ass warm whilst I’m away. I’ve been busy as hell. Real life™ has kept me busier than most. Auto repairs, financial affairs, rather typical and mundane things that a lot of slackers won’t have to worry about.

I’m continuing the Piracetam regimen. It seems as though adding Lecithin helped make the headaches disappear. It also seems to boost the overall eficacy of Piracetam as well. This little experiment will probably continue for some time, and I may or may not devote more time in writing on it.

Seeing as how I have a tiny wedgie of a window in which to sleep, I’m going to leave you punks now. Don’t have too much of a party on the internet while I’m away. It really isn’t that big of a deal. Nonetheless, I’ll be watching. I’m always watching, whether I’m actively participating or not. Good luck watching the watchers; it’s the quiet ones you have to worry about.

Later, bitches.