Audiofumss Live Boocast Halloween / Samhain Special

Thanks everyone for tuning in.  It wouldn't have been such a fun show without you :) \m/

Here's the play list :


20:01 :: Type O Negative - Halloween in Heaven - Dead Again
20:06 :: Don Wilson - Witchcraft -
20:10 :: Deep Purple - Vincent Price -
20:15 :: Vincent Price - To Become a Werewolf -
20:18 :: Mark Handley - I Used To Be A Werewolf (But I'm Alright Noooooow) -
20:23 :: Transcend with Time - These Grey Skies - The Calling Whisper
20:27 :: SYRYNX - Crawl Space - EP 2011
20:33 :: EDGE OF PARADISE - Perfect Shade Of Black - Perfect Shade Of Black
20:37 :: Verona Septima - What is Dead May Never Die -
20:43 :: Dutch-Skeletons-remix -
20:47 :: 1:00AM Project - Moonrise...and The Fey Things Dance - Post
20:53 :: Glen Thomas - The Drones -
20:59 :: Gordon's Alive! - Strange Days - Strange Days
21:05 :: Throbbin Hoods - Theme Song -
21:10 :: SYRYNX - Scaryville - EP 2011
21:16 :: Type O Negative - All Hallows Eve - World Coming Down
21:25 :: House of Usher-one-candle

---Encore---

21:27 :: Frank Zappa - Cheepnis -
21:31 :: Deep Purple - Demon's Eye (remix '96) - Fireball: Deluxe Edition
21:38 :: Xandria - Vampire -
21:42 :: OOQ - Play With The Night - Melancholia

Audiofumes Podcast X

This show originally aired on Sunday, September 1, 2013 on http://audiofumes.ca

Thanks to everyone that tuned in and and thanks to the talented artists that submitted tracks for without them there would be no show.


Here's the playlist form the show: 

20:02 :: Shattervox - Grand Mal Seizure - Before There Was No After
20:05 :: Mike Haggith - Lost Time - 2013-03-29 1835
20:12 :: Hype! - Hype!-Weird -
20:14 :: MIKEWHITEPRESENTS/Jenni French - Heal Your Heart (radio edit) -
20:17 ::  Alex Final/ Alex Final/ Alex Final - FSOL -
20:23 :: Homicide Hargridden - The Ones -
20:27 :: Wily Bo Walker - Walk In Chinese Footsteps - Walk In Chinese Footsteps
20:31 :: Elaine Frost - Stargazer Mix -
20:37 :: Leroy Krome - Midnight Caller -
20:43 :: EDGE OF PARADISE - Perfect Shade Of Black - Perfect Shade Of Black
20:47 :: Ummagma - Risky - Ummagma
20:51 :: Minoti - So Will You - Secret Garden
20:54 :: Extinct Deity - Impact Winter - Impact Winter Single
20:58 :: Sounds of Sputnik - The Mission -
21:02 :: Threatpoint - The Beast Within -
21:06 :: Skarred Kage - Confounded Acceptance  -
21:10 :: Breed Of War - Reborn - Reborn Single
21:18 :: Verona Septima - What is Dead May Never Die -
21:22 :: David Wheeler - Drink - There's a Rhythm

-Encore -

21:29 :: Hype! - Hype!-Still right here -
21:32 :: Leroy Krome - Come Closer - RECORDED AT STREET LEGAL STUDIOS BALTIMORE MD
21:36 :: Rattlin Bone - Little Gina (Swamp Beat Burlesque) - Little Gina (Swamp Beat Burlesque)
21:41 :: EDGE OF PARADISE - Perfect Shade Of Black - Perfect Shade Of Black

The Naughty Step of Social Networking

I was given the naughty step on a Social Networking Site (SNS) after someone complained about a comment of mine in a thread.  The individual(s) was a member of a discussion group but was repeatedly hijacking a thread and the admin dropped the individual from the group after repeated attempts at derailing the group.   The individual was hurling insults, resorting to name calling and practically slagging everyone in the group.    Clearly, sour grapes where on the menu for the complainer and SNS  deleted an 'offending comment' I had made in the thread because it violated their T&Cs, but did not explain specifically what violated their T&Cs.  That's their right, but it would have been helpful for me to know.

This is nothing major as far as I'm concerned, but I am curious what exactly the following comment violated?

The SNS account shows as which seems to be a very unfinished account just a new one of 's I guess. Anyway, I had to go to my e-mail archives to fill in the blanks above. I'm reading the same troll-like, tone, intellect and playground name calling as The Plectrum from Outer Space ... are they in cahoots now?

I've been through the SNS's community standards and let me tell you, I am stretching to figure it out.

Was it that I mentioned a link to a SNS user, who was participating in a thread on SNS?

Was it that I mentioned their given name -the same one they use in their SNS account?

Was it that I expressed my opinion on the comments left by the individual?

I guess I'll never know...

Poor Mans' Splunk

There are many commercial products for scanning log files and reporting but I just needed something simple and low cost.    This is a very basic script that periodically scans a log file and e-mails an alert when a particular pattern is found.  I run this every 15 minutes on my syslog server.

#--------------------------------------------------
#!/bin/bash
#
# Poor man's Splunk - grep syslog for patterns and send e-mail alert
#

# number of seconds to wait between alerts
WAIT=3600
ALERT=0
CURTIME=0
LASTALERT=0
# Set the path to a file where we'll keep track of the last time we alerted
LASTALERTFILE=/path/LogMonLast.txt

LOGFILE=/var/log/syslog
GREP=/bin/egrep
#
# Add strings to search for
#

STRING[0]="Source: CiscoUnity_UMR|ID: 137"
STRING[1]="VLAN mismatch discovered"
STRING[2]="Duplicate address"
STRING[3]="Failover"

element_count=${#STRING[@]}

index=0

if [ -f "$LASTALERTFILE" ]
        then echo "Alert file found"
        else
        echo 0 > $LASTALERTFILE
fi


while [ "$index" -lt "$element_count" ]
do
        echo ${STRING[$index]}

        grepResult=`$GREP "${STRING[$index]}" $LOGFILE`
        if [ $? -eq 1 ];
                then echo "No match for ${STRING[$index]} in current $LOGFILE"
        else
                LASTALERT=`cat $LASTALERTFILE`
                CURTIME=`date +%s`
                TIMEDIF=`expr $CURTIME - $LASTALERT`
                if [ $TIMEDIF -lt $WAIT ]
                        then echo "Warning suppressed - not enough time elapsed since last warning"
                else
                        date +%s >$LASTALERTFILE
                        mail -s "LogMon: ${STRING[$index]}" -t your.email@address.ok << EOF
The search string

${STRING[$index]}

was found in $LOGFILE

the search result was

$grepResult

EOF
                fi
        fi

        ((index++))
done

exit
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