AcidWarp
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008AcidWarp in Python, to run on Linux… I remember this from my DOS days
Popularity: 34% [?]
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Conditionally send different proxy.pac file dependent upon client IP address
Thursday, July 10th, 2008in apache
# conditional proxy.pac
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^192\.168\.71.*
RewriteRule ^/proxy.pac$ /proxy-vpn.pac [L]
Popularity: 27% [?]
Copying your boot sector / MBR on windows
Saturday, June 28th, 2008If you want to do the equivalent of a dd on linux for your Master Boot Record (for example, if you have GRUB installed and are going to install windows which will zap the MBR) in windows, the tool MBRWiz is fantastic.
It’s very simple to back up your MBR to a file & restore it later.
Popularity: 24% [?]
How to rip the audio from a youtube movie
Saturday, June 28th, 2008(on Unix)
- Download the flv file with youtube-dl
- Extract the audio like so:
mplayer -dumpaudio nodame_theme.flv -dumpfile nodame_theme.mp3(thanks to here)
This method allowed me to rip the World In Action theme to mp3 for my ringtone… of course you could always use vixy.net.
Popularity: 27% [?]
gcalcli - google calendar for the commandline
Saturday, June 14th, 2008gcalcli - Google Code
gcalcli is a Python application that allows you to access your Google Calendar from a command line. It’s easy to get your agenda, search for events, and quickly add new events. Additionally gcalcli can be used as a reminder service to execute any application you want.
Popularity: 28% [?]
Greasemonkey 0.8 Release Candidate
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008Donald Knuth on multicore
Monday, June 9th, 2008Thinking about multicore and software | Paul Murphy | ZDNet.com
Interesting excerpts from an interview with Donald Knuth on multicore architecture.
Popularity: 29% [?]
e3 the editor
Sunday, June 1st, 2008e3 is a tiny text editor which is licensed under the GPL. It has a code size of less than 10 Kilobytes. It is completely written in Assembly language, but e3c, a version written in C, is available as well.
e3 has basic editing and arithmetic functions.
Popularity: 22% [?]
Pidgin developers attempt to star in new Dilbert
Thursday, April 17th, 2008Pidgin, an excellent multi-IM client for Linux and more has suddenly developed a feature hardly any users like. Basically they have forced the size of the window where you edit the text for outgoing messages to be fixed.
The developer responses in the thread (eg from seanegan) are the sort of thing that give developers a bad name. Fortunately someone has forked pidgin to get the features back: funpidgin.
Popularity: 51% [?]
Moving from bloglines (almost)
Thursday, April 17th, 2008I’m on the verge of moving from Bloglines. Newsgator offer fantastic desktop clients for Windows & Mac, as well as a web based version - but what is really great is that they all sync, so you don’t re-read the same articles if you read from multiple computers.
Unfortunately, the web reader is not as good as bloglines, and as far as I can tell none of the linux desktop aggregators such as straw or liferea support syncing with the open api newsgator provide.
Popularity: 50% [?]