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26Aug/090

Inglorious Rubbish

Well I have not walked out of the cinema for a while, since the assasination of richard nixon, but today warrented it, and instead of being tortured with the utter rubbish that was Inglorious Basterds I had a sureal wander around the city at night nothing open but bars unfortunately...

I should explain my rapid escape from the cinema after 20 minutes. I liken Tarentino films to a trashy fashion gossip magazines, there is a certain level of curiousity to see it, even though you know it will be cheap rubbish but you have to check it, you also do not need to read or see the entire thing to see it for what it is.

It started poorely with some rigid script reading dialogue followed by some horrendous over acting by Brad Pitt, there was then some over the top violence to keep the plebs interested and then the start of an un-believable storyline which just annoyed / bored me to the point of leaving.

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26Aug/090

MySQL 5 and Sphinx

I just thought I would put some help points on compiling and installing Sphinx and SphinxSE with MySQL 5.0.37 to help anyone out there who is currently working on the same process.

1 download the mysql source for version 5.0.37 from http://downloads.mysql.com/archives/mysql-5.0/mysql-5.0.37.tar.gz

2 download sphinx source unpack it and the mysql source in the same root directory eg home/youruser/

3 from within the mysql source dir where sphinx source is in the same director cp ../sphinx-0.9.8.1/mysqlse/sphinx.5.0.37.diff ./

4 patch -p1 < sphinx.5.0.37.diff

5 sh BUILD/autorun.sh

6 cp -R ../sphinx-0.9.8.1/mysqlse sql/sphinx

7 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mysql --with-sphinx-storage-engine (this is important as the sphinx instructions just mention the --with-sphinx-storage-engine, without the prefix mysql is very difficult to get started believe me

8 make (takes ages for mysql)

9 make install

10 cp support-files/my-medium.cnf /etc/my.cnf

11 cd /usr/local/mysql

12 chown -R mysql .

13 chgrp -R mysql .

14 bin/mysql_install_db --user=mysql

15 chown -R root .

16 chown -R mysql var

17 /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld_safe --user=mysql &

18 then complete the instructions for installing Sphinx on Linux, complete the sphinx.conf and run the indexer

Instructions for compiling with SphinxSE
http://www.sphinxsearch.com/docs/current.html#sphinxse

Instructions for installing Sphinx on Linux
http://www.sphinxsearch.com/docs/current.html#installing

Instructions for installing MySQL from source
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/quick-install.html

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24Aug/090

Can One Become A Pirate Bay Mirror?

Pirate bay, according to the news has been shutdown due to threats from the Swedish government to fine it's primary bandwidth supplier, Black Internet.

Maybe the pirate bay should open it'self up more, distribute it's site amongst many volunteer webservers constantly appearing on new webservers while others close down, distributed on as many web servers as possible.

So far I have seen that one person had effectively wget'd the site, which is not the same thing, it needs to be a clever distribution of the main site across hundreds of mirrors.

In many respects it's no different to the torrent style of the site, and would just suffer from DNS propogation delays, other than that it should be a flexible way to keep the pirate bay afloat, if lot's of webmasters were willing to donate bandwidth.

Although I do not download from them, I agree with their freedom of speech and I certainly feel that film makers and record companies have been massively over paid for far too long, there is nothing to say that an actor or actress should be paid millions, or a singer for that matter. Certainly not the greedy record executives that savagely protect the industry by making a mockery of the legal system, forcing it to give out hugely disproportionate penalties to small infractions.

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22Aug/090

Iran flight 655

Related to my previous post, I have read that the motivation for the lockerbie bombing may have been the horrendous shootdown of an Iranian passenger aircraft by the US missile ship USS Vincennes.

This is an incident again where seemingly law means nothing to people with power, the international community should really have insisted on a complete explanation of the situation, had it been for example the Iranians shooting down a passenger aircraft full of americans just off the US coast and over US airspace I am convinced the international response would have been quite different!

I just hope changes can be made internationally to address these misbalanced responses. They re-inforce the knowledge that there is no equality between countries and their people in reality. Unless this international level of respect for others is observed there will never be peace between the countries that are treated as second class and those who believe themselves to be superior, this does seem to be someting that the US is misunderstanding.

Either that or they fully understand it and have no intention of allowing other countries to grow and develop and are thinking from a purely selfish narrow minded perspective.

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22Aug/090

Lockerbie Bomber

Strange political games going on these days, really weakening the respect that remains for the already frail justice system in the UK.

Almost amusing now how after the Libyan's didn't do what they were told to, and treated the return of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi as a heros return that the shift has been to effectively to blame the Scottish. Any mention of the British system has been quickly edited to read Scottish as they run for cover.

I imagine the Scottish as a whole feel rather humiliated by the waving of their flag amongst the jubilation of the return of a mass murderer underlining their weakness to the whole world.

I think it is fairly evident that whilst some wishy washy left wingers in the Scottish legal system had a hand in the release alot of the pressure was put on them by people in power in the British government for trade purposes.

I think this just needs bringing to light and looking into as it is starting to errode any respect we have for the legal system. It appears that politics and money are getting too much control over the law, this certainly includes the mass of new anti terrorism laws introduced over the last few years.

As much as the theory of compasionate release sounds civilised, the reality is that the families of those who cannot go back to their families, ever and who did no wrong feel utterly utterly betrayed by the system.

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16Aug/090

Motorbiking weekend

Plenty of motorbiking this weekend, think I need another weekend to recover. It seems the riding my Honda is like being at the gym after a couple of hours back shoulders and arms all feeling it hehe but it's all good.

I did about three hours of riding today and the bike is really running great now so smooth through all the bends and I took her down the most bendy roads I have seen before, proper single carriage way roads with hairpins and massive inclines through the derbyshire dales.

Great to see the motogp this weekend too, my ideal result Rossi first, Pedrosa second and Lorenzo sliding out on his butt hehe. Harsh but everyone's a Rossi fan aren't they?

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