What is a calorie?
Calories are the little bastards that get into your wardrobe at
night and sew your clothes tighter…
MY WARDROBE IS INFESTED WITH THE LITTLE SHITS.
Google Plus – Shorter URLs of your own
Google+ is here, and its great! the only problem is passing out the link to your profile… its huge!
Mine looks like this https://plus.google.com/u/0/114228869493885222559/
However, with some small html i have now made it this http://velofille.com/g+
If you have your own domain, this is fairly easy to do. Open a notepad or html editor, paste in something like this
<html>
<meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="0; url=https://plus.google.com/u/0/114228869493885222559/">
</html>
Change the url= part to match the URL you have on google+ . Once done, upload that page then go to http://yourdomain.com/pagename.html . Most servers have modules which allow you to drop the .html so you can go to http://yourdomain.com/pagename and it will assume the .html and just work (pays to test this, each server is different).
For another way, you can use PHP also. I entered into my text editor
<?php
header("Location: https://plus.google.com/u/0/114228869493885222559/");
?>
I named this g+.php and uploaded to my webserver, this allows me to just link to http://velofille.com/g+ (it checks for the suffix and assumes the .php).
In case none of these work, try using any other URL shortening service, some let you choose the name you give your link. http://is.gd/velofille works for mine also. To be noted, there is a google+ short linker which has been setup here http://gplus.to
Finding a Flash video in chrome – Saving files open but deleted
Flash movies are online, but sometimes i want to save some for offline usage so i can watch them later or offline (laptops) etc.
Often there is no way to save/download these files, but they are not held in the tmp dir or cache as they used to be due to changes in flash. In Linux this is easy to overcome using the following methods. This also works for any file that’s been deleted but is still running in memory.
First, you need to find what or where the file is. For flash try
velofille@apple:~$ sudo lsof |grep Flash npviewer. 8774 velofille 16u REG 9,1 253092771 396153 /tmp/FlashXXDfgiS7 (deleted) velofille@apple:~$
Bingo, i found my file! Of course the file /tmp/FlashXXDfgiS7 is deleted, so i cant just copy it like the good old days. Now i can copy that file from the proc filesystem using the following
cat /proc/8774/fd/16 > movie.flv
Now to breakdown where i got those parms from. The 8774 is the pid and 2nd number on the line, the 16 was from the ’16u’ which is the file descriptor . So when you do your lsof you can change those according to what you have open.
To find files open from a particular app, use ps to find the pid, then use
lsof -p 8774
Output is something like this
chrome 26572 velofille mem REG 9,1 1285536 1836431 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6.3.0 chrome 26572 velofille mem REG 9,1 141088 3146088 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.13.so chrome 26572 velofille DEL REG 0,16 34257353 /dev/shm/.com.google.chrome.i96CPN chrome 26572 velofille DEL REG 0,16 34257687 /dev/shm/.com.google.chrome.W9M2O5 chrome 26572 velofille mem REG 9,1 377352 4587538 /opt/google/chrome/libppGoogleNaClPluginChrome.so chrome 26572 velofille 0r CHR 1,3 0t0 5778 /dev/null chrome 26572 velofille 1u REG 0,20 953173 5767170 /home/velofille/.xsession-errors chrome 26572 velofille 2u REG 0,20 953173 5767170 /home/velofille/.xsession-errors chrome 26572 velofille 3u REG 0,20 953173 5767170 /home/velofille/.xsession-errors chrome 26572 velofille 4r FIFO 0,8 0t0 34257284 pipe chrome 26572 velofille 5u unix 0xffff88002c61f740 0t0 34257940 socket chrome 26572 velofille 6u sock 0,7 0t0 34257281 can't identify protocol chrome 26572 velofille 7u CHR 1,9 0t0 5783 /dev/urandom
The only ones you can take like this are the ones with a file descriptor to play with.
Good luck, an have fun!