This amazing Cocker Skipool hat by Eisbär is sold in snow sports retailers, but it’s a real geek thing and I decided to wear it everyday in cold snowy winter. It keeps my head and ears warm and protected from wind thanks to internal polar fleece coating.
Monthly Archives: January 2010
Best links of the week 04/2010
Here’s your weekly concentrate feed in case you missed some juice: Panopticlick — EFF shows off user tracking by fingerprinting browser’s User-Agent. Misa digital guitar — Open Source touchscreen guitar runs on Gentoo. Preordering the Apple Tablet — You may like iPad or not, but you can’t forget the wait. Ian Bicking: A new way [...]
.gitignore for Django buildout
If you’re keeping your django buildout installation under git, you may find the following .gitignore list useful to prevent your commits from cluttering with ugly temporary files (of course it also applies to other revision control system ignore files). You may need to adapt folder names to your buildout.cfg setup.
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What evil lurks in OCFS2
In the beginning, Linux was a free general purpose OS and it was not clear how Linux companies would generate profits out of it. In 1999 RedHat company went public and started to develop a real business plan. After a few years, in 2003, one of its main competitors, SuSE Linux, was acquired by Novell. [...]
Gentooize Part 1: colorize console
One of the best lessons you can learn from Gentoo is you can export most of its juice to other OSes. I’ve been using Gentoo as main Linux distro since 2001. Currently I have a few setups where drawbacks of migrating to Gentoo would exceed benefits, so I decided to increase affinity by adding some [...]
My preparedness toolkit
After catastrophic events like Haiti earthquake, a lot of people start considering their personal survival capabilities. How long can one survive when civilization facilities are temporarily suspended? The answer is not equal for everyone: it depends on personal abilities and resources, location and duration of the emergency. I’ve evaluated a 48-hours emergency plan to survive [...]
Django dynamic template paths
Several add-on applications for Django bring in their own templates and expect user to hardcopy those files into project’s template directory. The problem raises when add-on egg is updated and its hardcopied templates are not. Another approach could be to add add-on template directory path to TEMPLATE_DIRS variable in project’s settings.py. However, once add-on application [...]
Best links of the week 03/2010
Sunday is a great day for relaxing and catching up with the zeitgeist, so I decided to write down a list of the 5 best clicks from the past week. Here it is: Humble Pied — nice tips to get inspired and productive. High Performance Enabled SSH/SCP — how to make your SCP session run [...]
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Windows back-to-the-future bug
According to this advisory written by Tavis Ormandy, Windows has been exposed to a vulnerability for over 15 years! Microsoft will only release a patch for supported products, so if you have any Windows 2000 or earlier in your lab, the only way to fix is disabling DOS and WOWEXEC.
Process management roundup/1
Under UNIX-like operating systems, there are several ways to manage long-running processes such as daemons. Process management is a crucial aspect of system maintainance and therefore it’s one of the aspects to take into account when planning a deployment. Since available solutions are getting more and more complex and specialized, I thought of writing a [...]