Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Lotus Notes Sametime with Pidgin (or gaim)
If you are one of those who use Sametime under Linux with Meanwhile protocol, and since your Lotus Notes guys upgraded to the 7.X version of Lotus Notes, you probably are having hard time using the meanwhile protocol, because it wouldn`t show user status correctly. (Check out the discussion on pidgin ticket #58) There is [...]
Earth Hour on 2008
I will be turning off my lights on the March 29th 2008 for one hour at 7:30 pm. Please join me, and many others on this symbolic event to create awareness for global warming. Try to spread the news in your community. Here is a video about EARTH HOUR 2008. Let`s help Sydney, Australia to [...]
python and resolving ips from a csv file.
Problem: I have a CSV file where I have source and destination IPs. I want to resolve only destination IPs. Format of my CSV file: (let`s call it test.csv) (it`s tab separated…) 99.88.77.66 11.22.33.44 118340.86 187 The solution is pretty simple with python: #!/usr/bin/env python import csv import socket reader = csv.reader(open(“./test.csv”, “rb”), delimiter=” “) [...]
RIP Arthur C Clarke
Rest in Peace Sir Arthur C. Clarke. Today Sir Arthur C Clarke passed away at the age of 90 at Sri Lanka…
24 inch iMac
I pulled the trigger on this 24 inch iMac. So far so good. I was expecting harsh battles with Leopard… But it looks like things are going very good so far. After some 8 hours of usage, I`m still happy with OS X. I have some projects in the future. But first i need to [...]
Happy pi day!
Happy pi day everyone. And happy birthday Einstein!
Simple merging two files with paste command
Today I learned something new! I had two files one with a list of domain names, the other with corresponding IPs. I needed to merge these two files to display domain names next to their corresponding IPs. It looks like it`s the simplest task with the command paste. All I had to do is: paste [...]
Security vs Privacy.
Here is a great explanation of Security vs Privacy. (I had to copy this image to my blog since I didn`t want it to disappear in the future)
ssh delays on trixbox
I had some ssh problems on my trixbox installations. Each time I try to connect to the trixbox using ssh I had some delay. The classical solution for this is to disable the reverse DNS lookups by changing the line in /etc/ssh/sshd_config to: UseDNS no But in this case, this didn`t solve my problem. I [...]
This is my birthday Pearls Before Swine.
Stop drawing me as Andy th dog! This was on my birthday damn it!
