http://stuffivelearned.org/ 2010-07-29T06:00:05-05:00 http://stuffivelearned.org/ http://stuffivelearned.org/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2010-07-23T10:38:03-05:00 Jay Deiman http://stuffivelearned.org/doku.php?id=programming:python:better_getpass&rev=1279899483&do=diff UPDATE It looks like my version of getpass (using the tty) is actually the default in the standard library version of getpass as of python 2.6. If you are using python 2.6 or greater, use the standard library version as it also falls back to stdin if using the tty fails. text/html 2010-07-21T16:03:34-05:00 Jay Deiman http://stuffivelearned.org/doku.php?id=misc:newmail&rev=1279746214&do=diff Intro In the interest of eventually eliminating a physical machine from my home network and not having mail be “down” when my power goes out, I'm moving, etc., I decided to make this changeover. Not only does this grant you email access, you can also add a calendar, docs and other Google stuff to this email account. If you already have a gmail account, things will look and be identical in functionality to that. text/html 2010-07-20T16:16:43-05:00 Jay Deiman http://stuffivelearned.org/doku.php?id=start&rev=1279660603&do=diff Introduction Hi, my name is Jay Deiman. I've been in a computer related field of some sort now for quite a while now. I've noticed in my years that I seem to forget more than I actually remember. I've encountered the situation where I have a problem, I either find or figure out a fix for it, and then I promptly forget about it entirely only to need that same bit of information a couple of months later. That is the reason that this wiki is here. text/html 2010-06-29T10:52:20-05:00 Jay Deiman http://stuffivelearned.org/doku.php?id=programming:python:clcheck&rev=1277826740&do=diff What is it? A friend of mine asked me recently if I knew of a script that would perform a search on craigslist.org and send him an email when there were new results to his search. He's always looking for oddball stuff and by the time he finds it on craigslist and emails/calls the person, the item is already gone. text/html 2010-05-26T11:46:12-05:00 Jay Deiman http://stuffivelearned.org/doku.php?id=apps:chrome:sscert_import&rev=1274892372&do=diff Personally, I use a whole lot of self-signed SSL certificates. I like my info to be encrypted in transit, but I don't want to have to shell out hundreds of dollars per year for all the domains I want encrypted. I understand why the chain of trust exists, but I think it's a bit of a racket in terms of what companies charge just to sign your certs. Enough with the griping and on to the “how to do this” section. text/html 2010-05-26T11:25:10-05:00 Jay Deiman http://stuffivelearned.org/doku.php?id=apps:chrome&rev=1274891110&do=diff * Add Google HTTPS Searching * Self-Signed Certificate Import for Chrome (Linux) text/html 2010-05-25T13:19:10-05:00 http://stuffivelearned.org/doku.php?id=apps:chrome:https_search&rev=1274811550&do=diff Since Google recently (at the time of this writing) made their search accessible via HTTPS, I figured I would do a quick howto writeup on making that your default search engine as opposed to the normal unencrypted search. This is a full step by step for what is a pretty simple process. text/html 2010-05-11T15:59:32-05:00 http://stuffivelearned.org/doku.php?id=programming:python:albumcoverdl&rev=1273611572&do=diff Overview This is just a simple script that will recursively download album art for your mp3 collection stored in an Artist/Album folder structure, or at the very least .../Album folder structure. This script uses Amazon and it's product advertising api to get the art. The script will recurse through your folder(s) and add a folder.jpg file at every leaf directory that it finds mp3s in. Most players are smart enough to use this file for the album art. text/html 2010-05-11T12:07:52-05:00 http://stuffivelearned.org/doku.php?id=programming:python&rev=1273597672&do=diff * pyclamdscan * DictDefence * SMTPRelayTest * PHP vs. Python vs. Perl -- Regular Expression Showdown * Installing Python Milter * PS package * logging.handlers.SysLogHandler * py-radix search_all_containing patch * A better "getpass()" function for unix * A FIFO logging package for *nix * HLDS rcon script and library * Craigslist search and notify script * Album cover art downloader text/html 2010-02-09T14:38:17-05:00 http://stuffivelearned.org/doku.php?id=os:linux:general:hotswapscsi&rev=1265747897&do=diff I found some valuable Linux specific hotswap stuff today for working with hot-swappable SCSI disks. This should be pretty distro agnostic as well. I've been using FreeBSD, where you use camcontrol/atacontrol, for so long now that I had kind of forgotten how to do this stuff in Linux. Now it's time to make a record.