If I Could Just See You
… everything would be alright.
This is a great song by Lifehouse:
I find myself thinking … really thinking … about my mom less and less and the months pass by. Before I know it a year and a half will have gone by since the wretched phone call at 2:30 in the morning. I tend to bring her up nonchalantly in conversation on occasion, but I rarely spend much time making sure I don’t forget her anymore. It’s no less strange to wake up and her not be there today than it was when it happened. I guess it’s good that it’s not completely beating me up on the inside these days, although part of me wish it was (masochism?). I haven’t talked to my sister in months … I haven’t seen her since we went to see my mom’s grave on Mother’s Day. I wish I could say the same for my dad, but he just won’t accept the fact that I want nothing to do with his sorry self. He makes it easier to hate him as each day goes on. And as “un-Christian” I know it is, I like hating him. I like feeling like he’s epitome of what a father should not be and that he will have is own special level of hell to answer for all the pain and suffering he’s caused and continues to cause for all those around him.
Meh.
Finished setting up the server (for Guy) at Vanderbilt. Oh how I do not miss Pentium 3’s. Fedora installed pretty nicely on it … although I’m still partial to a Debian based Linux but there was some retarded backup program that Vandy required to be on there that they only provide in a rpm package, so everyone (but myself) thought Fedora was the only way to go … sigh. I still think rsync setup the right way would have been better, faster, and easier. But no one asked me, huh? (even though they really should have)
I’m really happy Apple released the 2.0.1 iPhone update. Before, I could be typing (or trying to type) on the keyboard and it would have like a 3 or more second delay. That wouldn’t be such a pain if it were real keyboard and you knew you were hitting the right keys. When you have to pretty much rely on the predictive spelling feature, having to wait for it to catch up and see the sentence you just wrote that is so illegible you want to shoot the person sitting next to you … yeah. It seems a little peppier all around now, although 1.1.4 (jailbroken at that) was a lot nicer in many ways minus a couple of the legitimate apps that are out now.
I’m considering redesigning the layout for TheSpiffyLife, but I pretty much loathe doing designs. I don’t mind the programming aspect of websites, but I really don’t have the creative touch that some people do. I’d be fine without any styles as long as it worked (I doubt the rest of the world feels the same :/ lol).
Looking forward to going to California for a week. I just hope I don’t cook like a french fry the first day :’( … sunburns are a real pain (hah) and I seem predisposed to becoming as red as a beet. Yay plane ride!
Not looking forward to the Fall Semester,
-josh
Ode to …
So installing Trac on a shared host is a pain in the ass … just a FYI 
Here’s my Ode to Guy:
lolz 
So I bought a whole cheesecake for me, myself, and I the other day. MMMMMMM It’s so good! I’m a 300lb man trapped in a 140lb body :D. (Don’t ask for any, it’s almost gone 
lol)
Got a 97% on my Differential Equations test! Yay, although I’m slightly upset I missed those 3 points :’( I wanted the A++ personal bragging rights lol. Had a friggin Calc 3 test today … I’m so tired of studying :/ it’s teh lameness.
If anyone’s interested (I doubt anyone is ) here’s the main class I use that powers TheSpiffyLife.com: comic.class.php
I’ve thought about making what I use available to others (admin section, etc) because I’ve only come across a couple of other methods to make a comic site with PHP. One being ComicPress (which is nice, but it’s a theme/plugin for WordPress [obvious by the name], and not everyone wants / needs WordPress along with what they have) and the other ComicCMS (which is fairly basic but doesn’t utilize an actual database to save the info, so it’s scope of future features is pretty limited).
PS. Ode to PHP
PPS. Hilarious Blast From the Past via Sega:
I totally still have mine too
Summer … Except Not
Summer is supposed to be a time of uber laziness … waking up at 10 in the morning (at the earliest) and going on all sorts of random trips to random places with friends.
Alas, I have class monday through friday at 7:30 in the friggin morning … what’s up with that? :/
It’s not all bad I suppose. Right now it’s rather easy, but I guess I have my “big head” to blame (or thank?) for that, now don’t I?
I made an ircbot in php out of sheer boredom. It was actually a lot easier than I had imagined. The main file is below, the others are here.
<?php
include("config.php");
include("functions.php");
$fso = @fsockopen($host, $port, $errno, $errstr, 2) or die("can't connect\n");
if($fso) register();
while(1) {
$buffer = fgets($fso);
if(strlen($buffer) > 2){
echo "[RECV] {$buffer}";
$bad = 0;
include("commands.php");
}
else{
++$bad;
if($bad >= 2) echo "connection issue?\n";
if($bad >= 10) $restarting = TRUE;
#if we haven't heard from the server in a while, reconnect?
}
if(feof($fso) && $restarting !== TRUE) die("connection broke!\n");
if($restarting === TRUE){
sleep(1);
$fso = @fsockopen($host, $port, $errno, $errstr, 2) or die("can't connect\n");
if($fso){
register();
$restarting = FALSE;
}
}
flush();
}
?>
The semi-interesting stuff is inside the commands.php file which plays ping/pong with the server, alerts NickServ to who you are, and replies to my random commands.
Yay for boredom!
Elaine’s coming over tomorrow, :D.
-josh
PS. fun convo with guy
Guy: who knows
Guy: hmm i’m going to go exercise and shower
Guy: brb
josh: at the same time?
josh: that’s nasty, i know what you’re doing in there
Guy: lol
Decrypt nested eval gzinflate str_rot13 base64_decode
So I went ahead and wrote a script to undo massively nested eval(gzinflate(str_rot13(base64_decode(‘STRING’)))); and eval(gzinflate(base64_decode(‘STRING’))); “encryptions” with a multitude of both of them inside it. The string from the original footer here had to go through 67 different iterations before it got to the real source code (talk about overkill).
If you have strings that aren’t nested, you can probably just do this:
$string = htmlentities($string, ENT_NOQUOTES);
echo $string;
If you have a string from that fits that description you can decrypt it here
Or if you just want to test it here’s the original string from the footer of this one of my old themes: