Ronnie Drew - Cunla

Who's that there that's rapping the door to me?
Who's that there that's rapping the door to me?
Who's that there that's rapping the door to me?
'Only myself', says Cunla

Chorus:
Cunla dear, don't come any nearer me
Cunla dear, don't come any nearer me
Cunla dear, don't come any nearer me
Maybe I shouldn't', says Cunla

Who's that there that's tapping the windowpane?
Who's that there that's tapping the windowpane?
Who's that there that's tapping the windowpane?
'Only myself', says Cunla

Chorus,

Who's that there that's climbing the stairs to me?
Who's that there that's climbing the stairs to me?
Who's that there that's climbing the stairs to me?
'Only myself', says Cunla

Chorus,

Who's that there that's pulling the blankets down?
Who's that there that's pulling the blankets down?
Who's that there that's pulling the blankets down?
'Only myself', says Cunla

Chorus,

Who's that there that's tickling the toes of me?
Who's that there that's tickling the toes of me?
Who's that there that's tickling the toes of me?
'Only myself', says Cunla

Chorus,

Who's that there that's tickling the thighs of me?
Who's that there that's tickling the thighs of me?
Who's that there that's tickling the thighs of me?
'Only myself', says Cunla

Chorus,

Who's that there that's raking the fire for me?
Who's that there that's raking the fire for me?
Who's that there that's raking the fire for me?
'Only myself', says Cunla

Chorus,

Cunla dear, don't come any nearer me
Cunla dear, don't come any nearer me
Cunla dear, don't come any nearer me
Yea ra 'Maybe I shouldn't', says Cunla

two nice theorems in plane geometry

There are two very nice theorems I've learned not so far. The theorems were discovered by Frank Morley and John Conway.

1. Morley's trisection theorem
in any triangle, the three points of intersection of the adjacent angle trisectors form an equilateral triangle, called the Morley triangle.

2. Conway's circle
if you continue the sides of a triangle beyond every vertex at the distances equaling to the length of the opposite side, the resulting six points lie on a circle, which is called Conway’s circle.

sed for a set of lines

this script helps to make a sed operation (like search and replace) for only very certain lines in a file. let's say we have a data file (project.dat) and an index file (project.idx) with the line numbers, which we are interested to be changed. for the replacing all 'C' to 'L' we can do the following

#!/bin/sh

#make script for sed
sed 's|$|s/C/L/|' project.idx > project.scr
#or with awk
#awk '{print $1 "s/C/L/"}' project.idx > project.scr

#run sed with -f 
sed -f project.scr project.dat > project.new.dat

#remove the script
rm -f project.scr

exit 0

source: http://www.unix.com/

Hachikō

This movie is the Americanized version of the true story about a dog named Hachiko who was found at a local train station by a college professor.

I cried - I'm a grown strong man who literally cried after the movie. I can't even put in words how touching this movie is. What else can I say...

(added after a while...)

In spite of the strong emotional effect the stage direction of the movie is quite unremarkable. All the movie's characters (except the dog, of course :-) are primitively stilty, simplified, and look unreal. My personal opinion is that Lasse Hallström, the author of such movies as "The cider house rules (1999)" and "Chocolate (2000)", could make it much better.

Somehow i did not like the music from this movie... hard to explain why it's so. there is something in the soundtrack that repels me.

Finally, you must be a really big fan of Richard Gere to appreciate his playing.

BUT!!! I liked the movie! And I would like to recommend it to all my friends. Don't miss it! (prepare tissues -you'll need them for sure)

Funny numbers

****

1 x 9 + 2 = 11

12 x 9 + 3 = 111

123 x 9 + 4 = 1111

1234 x 9 + 5 = 11111

12345 x 9 + 6 = 111111

123456 x 9 + 7 = 1111111

1234567 x 9 + 8 = 11111111

12345678 x 9 + 9 = 111111111

****

1 x 8 + 1 = 9

12 x 8 + 2 = 98

123 x 8 + 3 = 987

1234 x 8 + 4 = 9876

12345 x 8 + 5 = 98765

123456 x 8 + 6 = 987654

1234567 x 8 + 7 = 9876543

12345678 x 8 + 8 = 98765432

123456789 x 8 + 9 = 987654321

****

1² = 1
11² = 121
111² = 12321
1111² = 1234321
11111² = 123454321
111111² = 12345654321
1111111² = 1234567654321
11111111² = 123456787654321
111111111² = 12345678987654321

Велик, могуч наш русский языка!

В худой котомк поклав ржаное хлебо,
Я ухожу туда, где птичья звон,
Я вижу над собою синий небо,
Косматый облак и высокий крон.

Я дома здесь. Я здесь пришел не в гости.
Снимаю кепк, одетый набекрень.
Веселый птичк, помахивая хвостик,
Высвистывает мой стихотворень.

Зеленый травк ложится под ногами,
И сам к бумаге тянется рука,
И я шепчу дрожащие губами:
"Велик, могуч наш русский языка!"

(с) Александр Иванов

Vladimir Vysotsky. I hate

I hate

I hate the fatal end - it’s so clear,
Life never makes me tired, faint or blue,
And I do hate each season of the year
When I don’t sing my merry songs to you.

linux log files

• /var/log/message: General message and system related stuff
• /var/log/auth.log: Authenication logs
• /var/log/kern.log: Kernel logs
• /var/log/cron.log: Crond logs (cron job)
• /var/log/maillog: Mail server logs
• /var/log/qmail/ : Qmail log directory (more files inside this directory)
• /var/log/httpd/: Apache access and error logs directory
• /var/log/lighttpd: Lighttpd access and error logs directory
• /var/log/boot.log : System boot log
• /var/log/mysqld.log: MySQL database server log file
• /var/log/secure: Authentication log
• /var/log/utmp or /var/log/wtmp : Login records file
• /var/log/yum.log: Yum log files