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// December 6th, 2010 // No Comments » // General, SysAdmin

I can finally say it, I’m officially a Systems Administrator. Not the kind that tinkers around with his old *nix server in basement reassuring himself that he’s learning something not just procrastinating. But the kind that actually gets paid.

Apprentice to Senior Sysad at ThoughtMatrix, Inc.

AutoBox – More Than Plain Vanilla Torrent Downloading

// October 17th, 2010 // No Comments » // Linux, Movies & TV, Tech

Ubuntu Server Setup

Hardware You Need: Any box that runs Ubuntu server edition with respectable performance.

Software:

  • SSH
  • rtorrent
  • Samba
  • Apache

More as I find time…

Google Gears Updated for Firefox 3.6

// March 6th, 2010 // No Comments » // General

google_gears_logo_153x43 Finally! Google Gears has been updated for Firefox 3.6! The only thing I use Gears is for WordPress Turbo and I was worried that Google has totally stopped updating Gears. It was finally updated today and the Gears plugin is working again and chugging along.

KeePass on Ubuntu

// March 5th, 2010 // 5 Comments » // General

I finally wanted to have KeePass to track my uncontrolled registrations all over the Wild Wild Web. I google’d a bit and found no perfect guide on the web, so I’m writing one. Now that I’m using Linux running KeePass, a windows executable, is not so easy. You need to have mono to run KeePass under Linux.

The Process:

  • Check mono is installed: Installed by default in Ubuntu
  • Install mono-devel: sudo apt-get install mono-devel
  • Install System.Windows.Forms for Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install libmono-winforms*
  • Download and extract KeePass portable
  • Run with the command: mono KeePass.exe

Tested on Ubuntu 9.10

Also works on Ubuntu 9.10 Netbook Remix

Python: Key Notes

// March 4th, 2010 // No Comments » // General

Level: Beginner – Intermediate

Some of the key concepts that I’m taking down as notes, while I was brush up my Python. I’ll keep updating this page as I move along.

  • Immutability of Strings
  • To find methods available with a specific object: dir(objectName)
  • Pattern matching: import re
  • Python (nested)lists → (multi-dimensional)arrays in other programming languages
  • Python Dictionaries → Java HashMap but more awesome, minus the java craziness.
  • Iteration Protocol
  • Tuples → Immutable Lists [ Ex: T=(1,2,3,4) ] Concatenation, indexing, slicing,etc., works.
  • Python Dictionaries → Java HashMap but more awesome, minus the java craziness.
  • Iteration Protocol
  • Tuples → Immutable Lists [Ex: T=(1,2,3,4)] Concatenation, indexing, slicing,etc., works