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21Jun/100

The Video YouTube Won’t Let You See

Animals who are bred and killed for their fur in China live in misery from birth to death. Chinchillas, foxes, minks, raccoons—and, yes, even dogs and cats—are jammed into crowded wire cages, and the close confinement and filthy conditions quickly lead to mental illness. As documented in our undercover video, fur farmers kill animals by bashing their heads in or breaking their necks while they are still conscious.

Animal protection laws are nonexistent in China, but PETA Asia is working overtime to change that. Whether by submitting recommendations for China's first-ever animal protection legislation, going undercover at fur farms, or exposing the hideous conditions for animals in Chinese zoos, PETA Asia is tirelessly on the front line for animals.

Please take a moment to write to the Chinese ambassador to the U.S., Zhang Yesui, and ask him to do everything in his power to put animal welfare on the agenda in his country. Share the video with family and friends, and remember: If we don't watch it, we can't stop it.

For more information on animal welfare in China, please check out PETA Asia's Web site.

Original post by Jennifer O'Connor

Tagged as: Animal, Bunny, Death, Fox, Kill, Minks, PETA, Skinned No Comments

13Apr/100

iPhone OS 4 multitasking great, but closing needs some work.

The multitasking system of the new iPhone OS 4 works quite well.

When you press the Home button twice it popups at the bottom of your screen and you can scroll between the running applications and switch to it by tapping on it.

In case you want to close an application, simply hold your finger on the icon until you see the 'remove' button, then tap the remove button and the application will be stopped.

One thing I would like to see in this tiny popup is the ability to close multiple applications in a row. Maybe not at the same time but at least it would be nice to not have to hold your finger on the icon over and over.
My idea would be adding a circle with a plus sign in it just as you have on the Dashboard on Mac OS X and when you tap that, it holds the closing feature to be able to close multiple programs a bit faster.

Here some images I made with Photoshop to just show how it could look.

Inactive close view:

Active multi close view:

Update
Apple changed the way how you close the applications, instead of being able to close one application at the time the close feature remains open with multiple close icons until you press the home button.

Tagged as: Close, Dashboard, iPhone, iPhone OS 4, iTunes, Kill, Mac OS X, Multitasking, Quit No Comments

11Mar/102

Western Digital Sharespace to Sharespace backup solution

There is a newer version of this script available here.

For a script running from a FreeBSD server check this script.
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Lately I've been busy with making a backup script to automate the backup of a WD Sharespace drive.

This script has been made to backup between two Sharespace drives.

The script works quite simple. In a endless loop it keeps on running when you start it to the background with: ./backup.sh &

It scans for the shares on your master drive and it will Rsync it to your slave drive on the share backup.

Put this script on your slave drive in /root/backup.sh

If you decide to modify this script please leave my name in the script.

#!/bin/sh
time=5
src_ip="192.168.3.3"
log="/root/backup.log"
 
# Written by Marius van Witzenburg
# http://mariusvw.com
 
PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin
PID=$$
cleanup() {
    rm -f ${log}
    return $?
}
s_hup() {
    echo -e "\n*** SIGHUP! Ignoring ***\n"
    cleanup
    #exit $?
}
s_int() {
    echo -en "\n*** SIGINT! Exiting ***\n"
    kill ${JOB}
    exit $?
}
s_term() {
    echo -en "\n*** SIGTERM! Exiting ***\n"
    kill ${JOB}
    exit $?
}
 
trap s_hup SIGHUP
trap s_int SIGINT
trap s_term SIGTERM
 
echo "Having a rest for the first run..." > ${log}
sleep 30 &
JOB=$!
wait ${JOB}
 
echo "Running backup..." >> ${log}
while [ "true" ]
do
    for x in `ssh ${src_ip} ls -l /shares/| grep "^d" | awk '{ print $9 }'`
    do
        if [ ! -z ${x} ]
        then
            output=''
            if [ ! -z "`expr ${x} : '\(usb[0-9]-[0-9]share[0-9]\)'`" ]
            then
                if [ -d "/shares/${x}" ]
                then
                    echo -e "USB Syncing '/shares/${x}' to '/shares/${x}'\n" >> $log
                    rsync -qau --no-t --checksum --delete ${src_ip}:/shares/${x}/ /shares/${x}/ & 2>> ${log} 1> /dev/null
                    JOB=$!
                    wait ${JOB}
                    echo -e "\n${JOB} -- finished.\n\n" >> ${log}
                else
                    echo -e "Skipping USB for '/shares/${x}'\n" >> ${log}
                fi
            else
                echo -e "Syncing '/shares/${x}' to '/shares/backup/${x}'\n" >> $log
                rsync -qau --no-t --checksum --delete ${src_ip}:/shares/${x}/ /shares/backup/${x}/ & 2>> ${log} 1> /dev/null
                JOB=$!
                wait ${JOB}
                echo -e "\n${JOB} -- finished.\n\n" >> ${log}
            fi
        fi
    done
    message=`cat ${log}`
    echo -e "From: noreply@persc.nl\nTo: info@mariusvw.com\nSubject: ShareSpace backup output.\n\n${message}" | /usr/sbin/msmtp info@mariusvw.com
    echo -e "Waiting for cycle (${time} minutes)...\n" >> ${log}
    sleep `expr ${time} \* 60` &
    JOB=$!
    wait ${JOB}
    echo "Running cycle..." > ${log}
done
# EOF

Comments and donations are more than welcome

Tagged as: Backup, Bash, Daemon, Disk, HUP, Kill, Mail, Rsync, Sharespace, Sync, TERM, WD, Western DIgital 2 Comments

20Dec/090

GLASS WALLS (reblog from http://www.worldofomnia.com)

This is a blog post on the website of OMNIA. I want to spread this movie just that people start thinking about life! And I mean not only their life but also life of others... Especially the life of animals!

The movie Steve talks about can be viewed at the bottom of this post. But first READ the text before you watch it!

~~ START
Sic's incomprehensible blog no.18
Do you still like the Beatles? I've always loved the Beatles because their music was so non-conventional,non-genre, diverse and refreshing.(like the music that OMNIA makes nowadays actually).
Well Sir Paul McCartney (the most famous still living "Beatle") has just proved to me that he is still a prime-mover in non-conventional thought by helping to make the documentary "Glass Walls" about the absolutely shocking and vicious evils of the MeatIndustry.
I hope that by watching this movie more people will realise how downright disgusting and sickening this violent genocide of our fellow living creatures is.
go to this webpage: http://meat.org/ to see the movie that I'm talking about.

if you are already a vegetarian or a "Eco-meat" eater: don't watch this! it's just so shocking and sick it will make you upset for a long time to see how far "Homo sapiens sapiens" can go to make a few dollars and your frustration about this cruelty will get so bad you will really wanna start a war to stop it...
(like me)

BUT If you are a (non Eco) meat eater: WATCH THIS FILM!!,from start to finish...watch it twice or more.
Earn the right to eat cheap meat if you dare... Realise that all this is happening for YOU! yes YOU!
If you feel you can't handle what you see, or if you feel like crying or vomiting because of it THEN don't stop watching this movie but
STOP EATING THIS FECKING INDUSTRIALISED MEAT!!!

just stop it and never ever do it again! If you really want to eat meat, don't eat it everyday and buy it from a certified "Green" butchershop. (this will actually improve your own health aswell!)
Or better still if you feel you can get rid of the "habit" of eating meat become a vegetarian!

there that was my "verbal" two cents about the senseless torture of animals... the physical two cents would involve either a recording studio or a "molotov coctail-party" somewhere ,I'm not really sure yet...hmmmm?

Greenthingz and a Love of ALL LIVING THINGZ!
Steve Sic

~~ END

Find out more at Meat.org.

I hope you learn something of this... I know that a lot people wont...

Tagged as: Animals, Blood, Chicken, Dead, Death, Horse, Industry, Kill, Life, Meat, Money, OMNIA, Pig, Vegetarian No Comments

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