http://www.keptshut.com Mon, 26 Jul 2010 03:50:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've worked to develop an IP Information and DNS Lookup tool to replace some other commercial products that offer similar functionality. Currently, the tool displays IP Information (including AS Number, AS Name, BGP Prefix and Allocation Date), as well as IP Information from DNS, IP Geolocation, Spam Blacklist lookup ... http://www.keptshut.com/2010/07/25/free-ip-information-and-dns-lookup-tool/ At home, having a headless, dedicated machine for server tasks can be a very handy thing. I have an Ubuntu machine connected directly to our router that I use for development, storage and occasional torrenting. Finding the adequate BitTorrent tools has been a challenge, since this machine is ... http://www.keptshut.com/2009/02/22/bit-torrent-from-the-command-line/ Photos of the Grand Canyon from the summer of 2007. It's an amazing sight, emerging from the forest and seeing the vast emptyness below. From the perspective we were at, the canyon seemed wholly out of place. [gallery=3] Obligatory song per post: Girl Talk - No Pause Pay what ... http://www.keptshut.com/2008/09/20/grand-canyon/ While I thoroughly enjoy the album version of this song, seeing and hearing them play it live definitely lights it up in all the right places. From Pitchfork TV http://www.keptshut.com/2008/09/19/video-of-the-walkmen-performing-in-the-new-year/ I use my PlayStation 3 primarily as a media player. Aside from its inability to playback some of the more common open-source media codecs, such as OGG and FLAC, it is a very flexible machine, and will readily playback the most common audio and video files. A full ... http://www.keptshut.com/2008/09/01/using-an-external-hard-drive-with-a-ps3-to-play-media-files/ wget is a rudimentary program used to download files from the web. It can be configured to simply download single files, or, with the right options, much, much more. If used with the complete indiscretion, it can be turned into an efficient web spider, following links and voraciously ... http://www.keptshut.com/2008/08/27/use-wget-to-download-all-mp3s-on-a-webpage-and-more/ The ever industrious Damon Albarn is on another side of the globe, again working with new people, sounds and styles. Monkey: Journey to the West is an "Operatic" adaptation of a Chinese folk story dating back to the Ming Dynasty. Albarn collaborated with Chinese director Chen Shi-Zheng and ... http://www.keptshut.com/2008/08/25/damon-albarn-monkey-journey-to-the-west/ Short-lived but successful Swedish hardcore band, Refused, broke up about a decade ago. The band couldn't reconcile their own success, and major-label status, with their anarchist leanings and lyrics. After the break-up, some members started a project called TEXT, which culminated in a single self-titled album release from ... http://www.keptshut.com/2008/08/24/archive-refused-text/ Ratatat released their second set of remixes as a free download. Yeah, I know that this is almost a year old. I'm playing catch-up. young buck, t.i. & ludacris - stomp notorious b.i.g. - party & bullshit notorious b.i.g. - allure z-ro, devin the dude & juvenile - the mule young buck - ... http://www.keptshut.com/2008/08/22/ratatat-remixes-volume-2/ Daytrotter has an excellent studio version of Sunset Rubdown performing their song "The Mending of the Gown." It's much slower and more organic sounding than the (in my opinion) artificially manic version included on the album. However, in this slower version, the listener may be quick to judge ... http://www.keptshut.com/2008/08/21/the-mending-of-the-gown-slow-version/