04 Mar'12
Sublime Text 2
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/sublime-text-2 sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install sublime-text-2
22 Feb'12
django default manager
You can add a manager to all models of some type if you subclass an abstract model which declares a manager.
For example, you can declare ugcModel with publication status and published_items manager.
Link: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/db/managers/#custom-managers-and-model-inheritance
15 Feb'12
MSP430 Launchpad
This is a link to a web page: https://cacheattack.blogspot.com/2011/06/quick-overview-on-interfacing-msp430.html
Copy: PDF
15 Feb'12
Git through http proxy
Use this command to globally configure git:
git config --global http.proxy http://10.108.4.62:8080
10 Feb'12
Git default remote
git branch --set-upstream master <strong>origin</strong>/master
origin - name of the default remote
10 Feb'12
Sync folders between computers within your home network via SyncToy 2.1!
Before I knew this great software for file sync in Windows 7 exists I used to run PowerShell scripts.
Here is the interface of this program by Microsoft developers:
It has few operational modes:
- Sync folders
- Echo folders
- Contribute to folders
08 Feb'12
Generating keyboard events
import pyatspi reg = pyatspi.Registry.generateKeyboardEvent reg(36, None, pyatspi.KEY_preSSRELEASE) #Enter
08 Feb'12
Python chroot
What is important to remember is that chroot will allow you cd into /, and that will correspond to the dir you chrooted in:
os.chroot(os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__)))
for opt in glob.glob("/*"):
print "\t-> %s" % opt
try:
os.chdir("/root/")
print "Chroot FAIL"
print os.getcwd()
except Exception as e:
print "Chroot OK"
08 Feb'12
Nonblocking console input in Python
By Nemesis Fixx:
import sys
import select
import tty
import termios
from threading import Thread
program_run = True
input_thread_timeout = 0.005 #seconds
quit_key = '\x1b' # x1b is ESC
#check stdin for input...
def isData():
return select.select([sys.stdin], [], [], 0) == ([sys.stdin], [], [])
#check n terminate program on terminal condition,
#from a separate thread
class waitOnInput(Thread):
def run(self):
old_settings = termios.tcgetattr(sys.stdin)
try:
tty.setcbreak(sys.stdin.fileno())
global program_run
thread_run = True
while thread_run:
if isData():
c = sys.stdin.read(1)
if c == quit_key:
break
thread_run = False
program_run = False
finally:
termios.tcsetattr(sys.stdin, termios.TCSADRAIN, old_settings)
thread_run = False
t …07 Feb'12
DAA
DAA is a PowerISO type of image. To mount it with Daemon Tools, use DAA 2 ISO tool first