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Month: September 2009

CIT Premarket

CIT Premarket

CIT is down considerably during pre-market around 45% at the time of writing, I decided to try my luck, in @ 1.30 and out @ 1.35 its like playing with fire though. I wonder how far down it will go once the market opens, I may buy up if it dips to $1.10 again, lets see what the news says. From what I understand they are in talks for a $10 bln loan. Level 2 quotes are showing alot of…

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cPanel VPS DNS problem

cPanel VPS DNS problem

Well, another minor set back when setting up my VPS today, every time I tried to assign an ip address it would just sit there indefinitely, however if any of you need a fix, after a bit of google searching I stumbled upon this: WHM -> Server Configuration -> Tweak Settings and checking Disable whois lookups for the nameserver IP manager My server is running: cPanel 11.24.5-R38506 – WHM 11.24.2 – X 3.9, CENTOS 5.3 i686 virtuozzo. The fix.

CIT day trades

CIT day trades

Well, another successful 2 trades today, CIT in @ 1.96 and out at 2.10 on the IRA, and again in at 2.07 and out at 2.16 on the cash account. I think I’m going to call it a day today.

CBAI another HTDS?

CBAI another HTDS?

Well, I haven’t updated my positions in ages, but today I decided to play around a bit on the market early on, many of you probably saw CBAI if you are on google finance. Anyways I have no idea where it will go, but i was in at 0.0070 and out at 0.0077. The volume is still strong, and while I think it may push over 0.0085, I’m not willing to risk it with this stock. I may be wrong…

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WinRAR on CentOS with cPanel

WinRAR on CentOS with cPanel

I’ve seen alot of people get stumped by an error that looks like this, rar: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.7′ not found (required by rar) even I did for a while, after numerous google searches I found nothing, however today I finally ran into the site that saved me! Basically rm -rf /usr/bin/rar ln -s /usr/local/rar/rar_static /usr/bin/rar For me the location varied a little because I extracted everything in a different spot! http://www.123tweak.com/how-to-install-winrar-on-centos/

Relocation Kuwait City

Relocation Kuwait City

Well for those of you that have no idea, I have moved (temporarily?) to Kuwait city. I should be updating my blog regularly again. My portfolio will begin to get updated again, not much has gone on. The only bad news for me this week is the airline lost my bag & its been about a week, so I put in my claim, I’ll see how good they are to me. I have receipts to show how much everything in…

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FSLR First Solar, Inc.

FSLR First Solar, Inc.

First Solar, shares were up around 10% today, I closed my position with a modest gain, for those of you that didn’t see in the news; First Solar, Inc. announced a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Chinese government to build a 2 gigawatt solar power plant in Ordos City, Inner Mongolia, China. Pursuant to the MOU, signed in the presence of Chairman Wu Bangguo of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of China, the solar project in…

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Silkroad Online

Silkroad Online

Well, other than school, perl, linux + vmware, and going out I need a new hobby to eat up some of my downtime without spending tons of money :), I decided I’ll start playing Silkroad Online again! Previously, when the cap was level 80, I had an 80 Full STR blader. Lets see how far I can get this time, word has it I will need 750,000 – 1,000,000 SP (Skill Points). In order to do alright, and more with…

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Second Perl Experiment

Second Perl Experiment

After a bit of reading online and book reading (Learning Perl 2nd Edition), I came up with this; #!/usr/bin/perl # Revision 1 – 09-03-09 1530 # Countr Code list, stdin, perl # SRC for codes: http://www.kropla.com/dialcode.htm use Term::ANSIColor qw(:constants); $Term::ANSIColor::AUTORESET = 1; #reset colors after each line print GREEN “Please enter the country code you are trying to look up.\n”; $cc = <STDIN>; chomp $cc; if ($cc eq “1”) { print GREEN “United States of America or Canada.\n”; } elsif…

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Experimenting with Perl

Experimenting with Perl

Well, this is my first actual experiment with Perl. All it does is chmod 750 some fetch utilities. In my next build I want to set it up so that if the file exists, and if it doesnt, it will prompt you that the file is not on the system and it is being skipped. #!/usr/bin/perl # Revision 1 – 09-03-09 # Initial Build # Chmod 750 of rcp, wget, lynx, links, elinks, scp, nc, ftp, telnet, curl print (“Permissions?\n”);…

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