Archive for July, 2005

To a special woman:

Thursday, July 21st, 2005

Concerts at Ram’s Head Live, the Yabba Pot, the Aquarium, paddle boat rides, pedicures, vegan burgers, pumpkin pie, cookie, hiding under the bed, trips to the harbour when the Lion King is sold out, mango tango and “the usual”, tango in the parking lot, flaming tissue roses, Star Wars, summer movies, creepy ghost visions, cocktails and tapas at Red Maple, flamenco dancers, flowers, trips to DC, the Sandman, Death’s ankh, Murakami, letting you sleep, my dark corner at Sam’s, the ferret at Petco, vegan pancakes, afternoon tea at Xando, waking up early for work, lunch at Orient Express, Sunday night television, banana songs, car rides, getting lost, Radiohead covers, talented and effeminate drummers, Swan Dive, Tree Hugger, Fireman’s Pole, not letting go, evening walks and climbing trees… this summer couldn’t be any more perfect. Estella, mahal kita!

run_and_log

Tuesday, July 12th, 2005

[code]
#!/bin/sh

#
# Runs a file and stores output (if any) to log files. Meant to be run
# by cron jobs.
# -Los
# http://www.carlos-m.net/
#

unset PATH
DATE=/bin/date
SH=/bin/sh
CAT=/bin/cat
RM=/bin/rm
ECHO=’/bin/echo’

TMPDIR=$HOME/tmp

TMPFILE=$TMPDIR/`$DATE +%Y%m%d%H%M%S`.$$
TMPLOG=$TMPFILE.log
TMPERR=$TMPFILE.err

LOGDIR=$HOME/var/log
LOGFILE=$LOGDIR/cron.log
ERRFILE=$LOGDIR/cron.err

TORUN=$@

$SH $TORUN > $TMPLOG 2> $TMPERR # only run Bourne Shell scripts

STAMP=”`$DATE` — $TORUN”

if [ -s $TMPLOG ]; then
$ECHO $STAMP >> $LOGFILE
$CAT $TMPLOG >> $LOGFILE
fi

if [ -s $TMPERR ]; then
$ECHO $STAMP >> $ERRFILE
$CAT $TMPERR >> $ERRFILE
fi

$RM -f $TMPLOG $TMPERR
[/code]

bugtraq.rc

Monday, July 11th, 2005

[code]
#
# Sort mail from bugtraq mailing list
# -Carlos Macasaet
# http://www.carlos-m.net/
#

:0: bugtraq.lock
* ^List-ID:.*bugtraq\.list-id\.securityfocus\.com
| $RCVSTORE +bugtraq
[/code]

And so it ends…

Monday, July 11th, 2005

Carlos,

Your diploma hold has been released. Please come to the transcript window in the Office of the Regsitrar to receive your degree. If you have left Baltimore, please provide a current mailing address to receive your diploma.
Otherwise, your diploma will be mailed to the permanent home address on record on Wednesday morning July 13 if you do not respond with other instructions.

Gail L. Rauenzahn
Student Insurance/ Commencement Coordinator
Office of the Registrar


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