Technical notes, my online memory

I'm often forgetting what this standard is. Here are some code snippets to generate ISO 8601 compliant datetime strings. Python In ...

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...