I’m home sick with a cold today and got bored. I wanted to play with packet capture in python, and the documentation for pcapy is a little sparse. I therefore wrote this simple little sample script: #!/usr/bin/python # A simple example of how to use pcapy. This needs to be run as root. import datetime…
Daggerspell
This is yet another book I read as a kid and liked. I must admit that I find the Celtic names used through out the book to be quite confusing, especially when there are multiple similar names in use at the same time. Despite that, I really enjoyed this book — even though its a…
Foundation and Earth
I really like how Asimov wraps up the extended Foundation series. Specifically, I’d previously complained while reading Pebble in the Sky that it was hard to believe that everyone simply forgets that they originated on Earth — this book and Foundation’s Edge go a long way to resolving that annoyance for me. Its also good…
Foundation’s Edge
I’m back to reading Foundation Series books actually written by Isaac Asimov. This one is the fourth in the Foundation Series if you count them in the order they were written, but is the second last in chronological terms. Its set 500 years after the failure of the first galactic empire, and follows the first…
Automatically creating folders for mailing lists
I’ve been using some simple procmail rules to automatically create folders for mailing lists for ages. Tony asked me for those rules today, so I figured I’d just put them online. ########################################################################## # Mailman :0: * List-Id:.*]* $MATCH :0: * List-Post: ]* $MATCH ########################################################################## # Majordomo lists (sometimes don’t have ‘s around the address :0:…
Wanted: someone to edit / review some MythTV stuff for me
I’m looking for someone with solid MythTV experience and a good grasp of the English language to help me out with a project. All I can promise in return is glory, and that will be proportional to the eventual success of the project. If you’re interested in spending some time (probably around 40 hours or…
The Riftwar Series
This series follows to young kids who grow up in a rural castle on the edge of an empire. Pug ends up being the greatest Magician to ever live, and Thomas ends up being merged with an ancient being of massive power. Its a good series, even if people accuse it of being steeped in…
A Darkness at Sethanon
This book took longer to read that I would have liked, because I have been busy with other things. Its a good book though, and a fine conclusion to the Riftwar Series. I liked this book a lot, although I do think that Magician (Apprentice and Master) was a better book. [isbn: 0553263285]
irtrans remote control stops working
I’ve been using a Zalman HD160B media center case for quite some time, and I love it. It came with an irtrans based LCD and remote control built into the case, which has always worked nicely as well. Until yesterday when the remote stopped working. When I run the irserver command in a terminal so…
Finding locking deadlocks in python
I re-factored some code today, and in the process managed to create a lock deadlock for myself. In the end it turned out to be an exception was being thrown when a lock was held, and adding a try / finally resolved the real underlying problem. However, in the process I ended up writing this…