Technical notes, my online memory

So I'd gotten the Fintek IR receiver to work previously under ubuntu , but the upgrade to precise broke it. Little did I know that thing...

Some notes on using sqlite3 from python. First, lets create a table in an in-memory database: import sqlite3 DB_TABLE_NAME = 'cache...

From the "huh, I didn't know you could do that" files: In [41]: list=[1,2,3] In [42]: for x in list: ....: print x ...

Nice security presentation from Facebook . Of interest to the mac security world: basic persistence (launcha/launchd etc.) logged and white...

Disabling the horrible compiz workspace switching animation in Ubuntu precise is doable, if not particularly easy: sudo apt-get install co...

Tavis continues his damning analysis of Sophos AV.  The latest full disclosure post has a good summary, and includes links to sophail1 and...

Microsoft has recently provided a set of VMs for testing , which is great. The set includes images for XP, Vista, and 7. They are built f...