The Dailymotion REST APIs currently honour the family_filter cookie that
their user-facing website uses to manage filter settings. This makes the API,
effectively, not RESTful because there is state involved.
The bigger implication however, is that injecting one cookie
(family_filter=off) into your iPhone/iPad-application will fully disable the
family ...
On numerous occasions I have lamented both the design and the typical usage of cron to friends and other geeks. My main gripes:
For a simple blog-to-twitter posting gateway (source code) I’m
relying on the excellent feedparser and twitter modules, and I am
trusting them to handle unicode strings without trouble. With most
well-written Python modules (and these two are no exception!) methods
will return unicode strings as they see fit, and ...
I’ve been a Tweetie 1/Mac user for a long time now, and it has suited my needs well. However, there are minor annoyances. After Twitter acquired Tweetie developer Atebits, posts from Tweetie/Mac started showing up as posted from ‘Twitter for iPhone’. Also, Tweetie has semi-excellent keyboard navigation ...
read moresnappy comeback, n.:
a witty retort designed to make the audience go ‘oh, SNAP’
Also – sometimes you don’t think of a snappy comeback until hours later. Is there a word for that?
read moreI occasionally run into weird, funny or surprising aspects of Unix and Unix-like Operating Systems. I'll try to post about those regularly because they're fun.
This one popped up on irc a few weeks ago; a google search suggests it's at least 6 months old. I have ...
read moreI'm used to smooth upgrades of both single packages and full distributions, with Debian and Ubuntu. Not so for this upgrade from 9.10 to 10.04. I'll sum up the failures I encountered and my suggested fixes:
This article on the SQLite wiki details how to efficiently maintain a small window on a big dataset without sacrificing performance, in environments that cannot maintain actual cursors, or where doing so is prohibitively expensive. Rule 2 in the article applies to other databases too; the method detailed in the ...
read moreInitially I had a more elaborate version based on the exact connect()
code in the higher class, but this simpler version works just fine.
Incidentally, what the xen xm commandline tool uses works identically
;)
class UHTTPConnection(httplib.HTTPConnection):
"""Subclass of Python library HTTPConnection that
uses a unix-domain socket.
"""
def __init__ ...find -L . -type l
Replace . with the directory you want to investigate, of course. Works
with both GNU and (Free)BSD find. Rationale: -L makes find act on the
(transitive closuse of the) target of a symlink -- unless the target
doesn’t exist, in which case find acts on the ...