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pasta «الصيف في ايطاليا»

July 8, 2010 | Confusion 43, 3176 | 14:18

forgot to buy groceries again and rummaged through my fridge - then i had a brilliant idea. i made up this experimental italo-arabic  recipe and ended up with a really fresh and delicious summer pasta combination. strawberry-mint-basily pesto meets salty halloumi cheese. yummm.

Ingredients pesto

05-10 basil leaves
02-05 sage leaves
02-05 fresh strawberries
0.5 tomato
1.0 tsp. dried oregano
1.0 tsp. dried mint leaves (fresh probably even better)
1.0 tsp. tabasco sauce
1.0 tsp. pignolias
1.0 tbs. sour cream
1.0 tbs. tomato purée
2.0 tbs. milk

Other ingredients

0.5 halloumi cheese
3.0 tbs. chopped ham/bacon cubes
200g rigatoni pasta

Directions

cut the halloumi cheese into thin slices and fry them in hot olive oil in a pan. in a pot boil water and cook the rigatoni. meanwhile mix together all the pesto ingredients in a mixer / blender and mash it up. when the halloumi slices are brown and crispy, put them aside and fry the ham in the pan. add the pesto mixture to the pan and stir everything up. add the al-dente pasta to the pan and mix everything up. serve in a bowl and add the fried halloumi cheese. enjoy!

*aş-Şyf Fy Āyţālyā = ’summer in italy’ in arabic language as latin transcript

curry pasta con camarones del flux

February 22, 2010 | Chaos 53, 3176 | 21:57

…did some experimental cooking again - and this time the result exceeded all expectations. really awesome, spicy and fresh. my italian (real pasta fascist) and german (prefers more traditional) flatmates liked it too, so i decided to publish the recipe. enjoy!

Ingredients

1.0 cup cocktail shrimps
1.0 cup cocktail tomatos
1.0 onion
1.0 garlic clove
0.5 tsp. red thai curry powder
0.5 tsp. cumin
0.5 tsp. estragon
1.0 tsp. tabasco sauce
1.0 tsp. paprika powder
2.0 tbs. tomato purée
1.0 cup white rum
2.0 tsp. oyster sauce
0.5 cup sour cream
1.0 tbs. brown sugar
salt, pepper, white sugar

Directions

in hot olive oil stew together the onions, garlic, cumin, and tabasco. deglaze with the rum and add estragon, paprika, tomato purée, oyster sauce, brown sugar and cook until the smell of alcohol is gone. add the shrimps and sliced cocktail tomatos and stir it up. finally add the sour cream, stir it and season the sauce to taste with salt and optionally pepper and white sugar. serve with pasta (e.g. Barilla Fusilli no. 98) and enjoy!

ruling the wasteland…

August 6, 2009 | Confusion 72, 3175 | 16:39

…and maintaining order. fluxInterceptor Suzuki RV 50.

Set up a proxy to help the Iranian people

June 16, 2009 | Confusion 21, 3175 | 8:30

If you have a server at hand and wish to set up a proxy in order to help the Iranian people bypass censorship and net filters, I recommend squid.

For Windows, use the instructions here.

For Mac, use the instructions here.

For a Debian based Linux system use the following commands:

sudo apt-get install squid
sudo nano -w /etc/squid/squid.conf

(if nano is not installed, try the vi editor or install nano with sudo apt-get install nano)

in the nano editor, search (ctrl+w) for “http_access deny all” and replace the line with the following lines:

acl TRUSTED src 62.60.128.0/17 62.193.0.0/19 62.220.96.0/19 77.36.128.0/17 77.77.64.0/18 77.104.64.0/18 77.237.64.0/19 77.237.160.0/19 77.245.224.0/20 78.38.0.0/15 78.109.192.0/20 78.110.112.0/20 78.111.0.0/20 78.154.32.0/19 78.157.32.0/19 78.158.160.0/19 79.127.0.0/17 79.132.192.0/19 79.170.144.0/21 79.175.128.0/18 80.66.176.0/20 80.69.240.0/20 80.71.112.0/20 80.75.0.0/20 80.191.0.0/16 80.242.0.0/20 80.253.128.0/20 80.253.144.0/20 81.12.0.0/17 81.28.32.0/20 81.28.48.0/20 81.31.160.0/20 81.31.176.0/20 81.90.144.0/20 81.91.128.0/20 81.91.144.0/20 82.99.192.0/18 82.115.0.0/19 83.147.192.0/18 84.47.192.0/18 84.241.0.0/18 85.9.64.0/18 85.15.0.0/18 85.133.128.0/17 85.185.0.0/16 85.198.0.0/18 86.109.32.0/19 87.107.0.0/16 87.247.160.0/19 87.248.128.0/19 89.144.128.0/18 89.165.0.0/17 89.221.80.0/20 89.235.64.0/18 91.98.0.0/15 91.184.64.0/19 91.186.192.0/19 91.206.122.0/23 91.208.165.0/24 91.209.242.0/24 91.212.16.0/24 91.212.19.0/24 91.212.252.0/24 92.42.48.0/21 92.50.0.0/18 92.61.176.0/20 92.62.176.0/20 92.242.192.0/19 93.110.0.0/16 93.190.24.0/21 94.74.128.0/18 94.101.128.0/20 94.101.176.0/20 94.101.240.0/20 94.139.160.0/19 94.182.0.0/15 94.184.0.0/17 94.232.168.0/21 94.241.128.0/18 95.38.0.0/16 95.80.128.0/18 95.81.64.0/18 95.82.0.0/18 95.82.64.0/18 95.130.56.0/21 95.130.240.0/21 188.34.0.0/16 188.93.64.0/21 188.121.96.0/19 188.121.128.0/19 188.136.128.0/17 188.158.0.0/15 193.189.122.0/23 194.225.0.0/16 195.146.32.0/19 212.16.64.0/19 212.33.192.0/19 212.50.224.0/19 212.80.0.0/19 212.95.128.0/19 212.120.192.0/19 213.176.0.0/19 213.176.32.0/19 213.176.64.0/18 213.195.0.0/18 213.207.192.0/18 213.217.32.0/19 213.233.160.0/19 217.11.16.0/20 217.24.144.0/20 217.25.48.0/20 217.64.144.0/20 217.66.192.0/20 217.66.208.0/20 217.146.208.0/20 217.172.96.0/19 217.174.16.0/20 217.218.0.0/15

http_access allow TRUSTED

access_log none
cache_store_log none

and save the file. then restart the proxy with

sudo /etc/init.d/squid restart

the proxy will now allow people within an iranian IP range to use your server as a proxy to freely access the web and other HTTP based services. the last two lines prevent your server from logging users of your proxy. this saves resources and privacy.

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5 years of flux

May 28, 2009 | Confusion 2, 3175 | 15:04

On may 28th, 2004 i had my first serious VJ gig under the artist name ‘Kiritan Flux’. Cheers!

PHP4 to PHP5 Upgrade Horror

May 22, 2009 | Discord 69, 3175 | 11:28

Upgrading PHP4 to PHP5 on a vanilla Debian Etch / Plesk 8.6.0 system with apt-get eventually renders Plesk unusable. I had to learn this the hard way. DO NOT UPGRADE TO PHP5 BEFORE DOING THE FOLLOWING STEPS:

BEFORE upgrading anything with apt-get, add the following apt source to /etc/sources.list:

deb http://autoinstall.plesk.com/debian/PSA_8.6.0 etch all

save it and do

apt-get update

Now you may upgrade the system with

apt-get upgrade

If everything works fine, now you HAVE TO install the PHP5 support package for Plesk by hand:

apt-get install psa-php5-configurator

As a final step, restart Plesk with

/etc/init.d/psa restart

…and log into Plesk.

Tadaaa! Plesk runs with full PHP5 support now.

solution found at this site

N4™® m4cht glükcl!ch und fre!

April 20, 2009 | Discord 37, 3175 | 9:56

got it back running ^_^

pepp it up

January 19, 2009 | Chaos 19, 3175 | 23:53

my eyes began to shine today, walking through the small Edeka market, when my primal instincts dragged me to the soft drink shelf - in a bright epiphanic light it appeared: a bottle of Dr Pepper!

hell, i’ve been a Dr Pepper addict ever since my first sip - I even drank the infamous Dr Pepper Float - I even went to the Dr Pepper Museum in Waco, Texas!

here in Germany, the rarely to get Dr Pepper started to disappear more and more, until even my drink dealer of choice told me they cancelled all orders due to lack of consumers. I felt like the only person drinking that stuff in Berlin. I could only find it for a horrendous rip-off price at a few gas stations - and now, finally, thanks to Edeka - it is available again!

Dr Pepper seems to always having been kinda psychedelic - at least the commercial clips were.

voiding your apple warranty howto

November 28, 2008 | Aftermath 40, 3174 | 19:56

…apple helps you with it too! based on a true story.

1. wait until something strange happens to the internal hard drive of your macbook pro
2. decide to replace the internal hard drive
3. call apple support and have them on the phone going through the whole pram-zapping, pmu-resetting routine chitchat. at the end do not forget to ask at least three times if you void your warranty if you replace the hard drive yourself.
4. to make sure that you do everything correctly, consult your manual AND the photo illustrated iFixit guides
5. be AS CAREFUL AS POSSIBLE with the flat ribbon cables connected to the logic board.
6. you will have a good chance that a badly manufactured cable will break anyways - it’s adrenalin fun - gwaaaah!!
7. go to your local apple support dealer and tell them about it
8. pay attention to their babbling from the point where they tell you that attempting to replace a hard-drive all by yourself completely voids the regular warranty plus the apple care future warranty…
9. IF…you turn it in to the regular technical support procedure………….

Lessons learned:

1. never trust apple support hotline geeks
2. don’t just be careful with the ribbon cables, TREAT THEM LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON ‘EM!
3. sending your machine to official support can be worse than buying the replacement parts online and doing it yourself, because they will put a note that you voided the warranty. just replace it yourself (and get rid of the fingerprints and other DIY evidence) and pretend there was never anything wrong when you turn it in to apple support next time (ribbon cables have no serial number)…

fader.flux 0.2

September 17, 2008 | Bureaucracy 41, 3174 | 16:20

having read fAlk’s nice article about the faderfox DJ2 and about the problems of using the endless dial knobs with VDMX, i reacted to his question whether this would somehow be possible to solve. i created this little application with max that translates the endless dial’s signals to OSC messages which can be sent to VDMX5. fAlk created a nice splash-screen and manual for it. there may be more proto:flux projects coming in the future…stay tuned…

http://kiritanflux.de/lab/patch/faderflux

enjoy.