Monday, June 13, 2011

Installing the shitty Amazon MP3 downloader on Ubuntu Lucid

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While it sucks to have to use a MP3 downloader app at all, it's good Amazon actually has a linux version (it wasn't always the case)...
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Contacting file owners: using find, awk, and xargs to creating lists of files and operate on them

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Say you want to contact a bunch of file owners to do some cleanup or housekeeping. This will get you a list of files sorted by owner. fin...
Friday, May 20, 2011

Adding other arguments when using *args and **kwargs in python

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Sometimes you need to use *args and **kwargs to pass your positional and keyword args to another class. But what if your class takes an add...
Monday, May 16, 2011

HOWTO: delete/rename files with special characters (! ~ %) on the linux commandline

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Sometimes you (or your code) screws up and you end up with a filename that is hard to address on the filename because it has special charact...
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Thursday, May 5, 2011

HOWTO tunnel through multiple boxes with SSH

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Making ssh tunnels, even through multiple machines, is easy. These two commands will effectively link localhost:9999 with box3:80, via box2...
Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Loving the Cyber Bomb? Why don't we love the Cyber Security Bounties instead?

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A paper Loving the Cyber Bomb? The Dangers of Threat Inflation in Cybersecurity Policy by Brito and Watkins of the Mercatus Institute at Vi...
Monday, May 2, 2011

HOWTO mount a remote luks encrypted volume on demand

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I wanted to create a cron'd backup to a luks volume on a remote machine. My preference was to not have the volume mounted automatically...