Technical notes, my online memory

This just annoyed me enough to figure out how to stop it. Ubuntu turns on 'use-agent' by default now: # For Ubuntu we now use-age...

Getting a 'seconds since epoch' timestamp in python is easy, but there are also some wrong ways to do it, a number of which are bein...

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...