Mixture Posture: August 2021

Tuesday, August 31, 2021

From the video description:

Being a father isn't easy, especially in the apocalypse. Enjoy these moments with Rick connecting with his children throughout the seasons of The Walking Dead.

The Afghanistan Collapse: An Analysis

YOU CRINGE YOU WIN || CLOWN WORLD #3

American PANICS Learning Biden Abandoned Her, Admin LIED That Americans Chose To Stay In Afghanistan

Coming Soon!

I wish there was an .ics file with all of these dates so I could add them to my calendar...

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/tv-premiere-dates-2021-the-complete-guide/november-7/

I never would have guessed

Why Brett Butler Is Broke: ‘Grace Under Fire’ Star on Struggles and Survival After a recent GoFundMe plea alerted the world that the actress was in financial straits, she opens up about her depression, her squandered sitcom fortune and her potential comeback. August 19, 2021

Monday, August 30, 2021

Metallica - EXCLUSIVE - Black Album - (STUDIO) - Rare Unreleased material

METALLICA - Lars Ulrich only - The Making Of Hardwired...To Self-Destruct

Spotify Has Changed Music Libraries Forever - The Atlantic

12 Minutes

Local Couple Sticks To Household Budget For Full Twelve Minutes | The Babylon Bee

SCOTUS Strikes Down Biden's Illegal Eviction Moratorium, Biden Broke The Law And Admitted He Knew

RIP: Charlie Watts

Charlie Watts skips the high hat when playing the snare drum!

Friday, August 27, 2021

12 minutes? Awesome

https://babylonbee.com/news/local-couple-sticks-household-budget-full-twelve-minutes

Thursday, August 26, 2021

Numbing Comment about This Tune

Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Tuesday, August 24, 2021

The Office Fire Drill with Slipknot

This is my favorite scene in "The Office" - its flow is excellent and the camera angles are perfect.

A pandemic of the unvaccinated: What you can do right now to fight the delta variant

Friday, August 20, 2021

The Story of Metallica

From the link below:

A living, breathing sonic blender of a podcast. Over eight episodes, we’ll celebrate the re-release of The Black Album (“Enter Sandman,” “Nothing Else Matters”), and the incredible band that made it. This is more than a “Making Of” look at the album. It’s the story of James, Lars, and Kirk — not just how the album got made, but why.

Metallica Podcast

Iowa City mayor issues mask mandate, governor’s office calls it ‘against the law’

Afghan Women Throwing Babies Over Barbed Wire To Save Them: Report

Funny Pictures from August 15, 2001

Seeing The Jealous DM in 36 Days!!

Knotfest 2021 in Indianoloa, IA, is fast approaching - only 36 days away! It seems surreal that it will be 1534 days (4 years, 2 months, 1 week, 4 days) between the last time I saw Megadeth in concert at Chicago Open Air 2017 and Knotfest 2021. I was thinking about Megadeth in relation to this article from Blabbermouth.net in which the writer Dave Mustaine Explains Why He Was So 'Jealous' Of Metallica's Success. I have no inside information as to whether Mustaine's "jealousy" of Metallica's success is why "Mechanix" is on the Megadeth setlist or not. What is special about a song called "Mechanix"? It's basically a demo / early version of Metallica's "The Four Horsemen" - except that the lyrics are different.

Thursday, August 19, 2021

Worth Remembering

Hello!

In this email I'm going to teach you a quick, but valuable lesson on shell scripting.

First off, a shell script is simply a file that contains a series of Linux commands and shell statements. When a shell script is executed, it in turn executes the commands listed in the script. It starts at the top and executes the commands on each line, one line a time, until the end of the file.

By the way, the script's filename doesn't matter. You may be used to a different operating system where files have to have a specific file extension before they will be treated as an executable. (I'm talking about ".exe" files in Windows, for example.) That's not the case with Linux shell scripts.

By convention, shell scripts end in ".sh", but it is not a requirement. The following are all valid shell script names:

· use-the-force.sh

· do_or_do_not_there_is_no_try

· ThisIsSomeRescue

What IS important is that your shell script has executable permissions. (We'll get to that in just a second.)

If you remember the advice from my previous email, it's best to start with the end in mind. So, the goal for this shell script is to collect and display some basic information about a Linux system.

If you want to follow along, open up a terminal on a Linux system and create a new file named "sysinfo.sh". If you have a favorite text editor, use that. If you don't, I suggest that you use nano as it's simple to use and always displays help at the bottom of the screen.

The very first line of every script you write should begin with "#!" followed by the path to an interpreter. We're going to write a bash shell script, so we'll use "#!/bin/bash". If you were going to write a Python script this line would be "#!/usr/bin/python"; a ruby script would be "#!/usr/bin/ruby" and so on.

One very common task you'll perform in your shell scripts is displaying messages on the screen. To do this, use the echo command followed by whatever you want to display to the screen and enclose it in quotes. Like this:

Now save your changes and exit your editor. If you're using nano type Ctrl-X to exit, then type "Y" to save your changes, and finally press ENTER to write the changes to your script.

The next step is to add executable permissions to your script. You do this with the chmod command, which stands for "change mode". There are different ways to add executable permissions to a file, but the simplest is chmod +x FILE_NAME.

Now you're ready to execute your shell script. You do this by typing "./" followed by the script name. In this example, you would run "./sysinfo.sh":

You'll see the text you supplied to the echo command displayed on your screen.

Now that you have a working shell script with the proper permissions, you can continue writing your script. Let's add some commands that will display information about the Linux system.

First, display the current date and time when this information was collected.

Next, display the hostname of the system.

Next, display the kernel release followed by the architecture. You'll need to use the uname command to do this.

Display the disk usage in a human readable format.

Finally, end the script by letting the user know that it's done.

It's time to see what your script does! Save your changes and execute your script.

Now you have a script that displays some basic information about the system you're on. You could easily expand this to show information about the CPUs, memory, networking configuration and more.

If you would like to write even more in-depth and practical scripts, reserve your seat in the upcoming shell scripting class. Registration closes a week from Sunday and class runs for 4 weeks. I'm limiting the number of students, so I can give individual attention to everyone in the class.

Hope to see you there!

Jason

P.S. The shell scripting class is currently being offered at a deeply discounted rate, so now is a great time to enroll. ;-)

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Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Live Music is Returning, right?

The Future of the MCU

Tuesday, August 17, 2021

Metal Greatest Hits Volumes 1-5

Volume 01: Volume 01

Sorted by Band

Aiming High	Accept	Volume 5
Balls To The Wall	Accept	Volume 1
Monster Man	Accept	Volume 2
Alison Hell	Annihilator	Volume 3
Indians	Anthrax	Volume 3
Medusa	Anthrax	Volume 5
Metal Thrashing Mad	Anthrax	Volume 4
Last Train Home	Armored Saint	Volume 2
Too Late For Change	Atrophy	Volume 4
Headless Cross	Black Sabbath	Volume 5
Circle Of The Tyrants	Celtic Frost	Volume 4
Painted Skies	Crimson Glory	Volume 2
Time Does Not Heal	Dark Angel	Volume 4
A Room With A View	Death Angel	Volume 3
Voracious Souls	Death Angel	Volume 4
King Of Fools	Edguy	Volume 2
The toxic Waltz	Exodus	Volume 1
The Toxik Waltz	Exodus	Volume 3
Step By Step	Forbidden	Volume 4
Rock You To Hell	Grim Reaper	Volume 1
Rock You To Hell	Grim Reaper	Volume 3
A Little Time	Helloween	Volume 2
Follow The Sign	Helloween	Volume 2
Starlight	Helloween	Volume 1
Aces High	Iron Maiden	Volume 5
Be Quick Or Be Dead	Iron Maiden	Volume 3
Sea Of Madness	Iron Maiden	Volume 2
Where Eagles Dare	Iron Maiden	Volume 1
Electric Eye	Judas Priest	Volume 2
Eletric Eye	Judas Priest	Volume 1
Freewheel Burning	Judas Priest	Volume 5
Painkiller	Judas Priest	Volume 3
The Hellion	Judas Priest	Volume 2
A Mansion In Darkness	King Diamond	Volume 3
A Manson In Darkness	King Diamond	Volume 1
Sleepless Nights	King Diamond	Volume 5
Betrayer	Kreator	Volume 4
Crazy Nights	Loudness	Volume 5
You Shook Me	Loudness	Volume 2
Hangar 18	Megadeth	Volume 3
Holy Wars...The Punishment Due	Megadeth	Volume 5
In My Darkest Hour	Megadeth	Volume 4
Into the Lungs of Hell [Instrumental]	Megadeth	Volume 1
A Dangerous Meeting	Mercyful Fate	Volume 2
Evil	Mercyful Fate	Volume 5
Badlands	Metal Church	Volume 3
Metal Church	Metal Church	Volume 1
Watch The Children Pray	Metal Church	Volume 5
Blackened	Metallica	Volume 4
Leper Messiah	Metallica	Volume 3
Ride The Lightning	Metallica	Volume 1
Whiplash	Metallica	Volume 5
Brainwashed	Nuclear Assault	Volume 4
Hello From The Gutter	Overkill	Volume 1
Hello From The Gutter	Overkill	Volume 3
Talk To The Moon	Pink Cream 69	Volume 2
Sign Of The Crimson Storm	Riot	Volume 2
Bad To The Bone	Running Wild	Volume 2
The American Way	Sacred Reich	Volume 1
The American Way	Sacred Reich	Volume 3
24 Hrs.Ago	Savatage	Volume 2
Hall Of The Mountain King	Savatage	Volume 1
Hall Of The Mountain King	Savatage	Volume 1
Inner Self	Sepultura	Volume 4
Behind The Crooked Cross	Slayer	Volume 1
South Of Heaven	Slayer	Volume 4
Hell's Still Alive	Stormwitch	Volume 2
How Will I Laugh Tomorrow...	Suicidal Tendencies	Volume 1
Waking The Dead	Suicidal Tendencies	Volume 4
F.T.W.	Sword	Volume 5
Electric Crown	Testament	Volume 5
Over The Wall	Testament	Volume 4
Practice What You Preach	Testament	Volume 1
Trial By Fire	Testament	Volume 3
The Heretic ( The Lost Child )	W.A.S.P.	Volume 5
Fight For Rock	Warlock	Volume 5
Kiss Of Death	Warlock	Volume 2