How to edit the ReCaptcha look

May 01
2009
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Take a look at recaptcha.js for DOM elements details.

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Simple Ruby Text Parser

Mar 20
2009
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filename = "sample records.txt"
file = File.open(filename)
data = []
record = {}
 
class MyParse
  Tokens = [
    ### change the regular expressions accordingly ###
    ### sale date, sale time, sale address,
    [/^Sale:\s*(\d+\/\d+\/\d+)\s+(\S+\s+\w\w)\s+(.+?)\s*$/,
        lambda { |m| m.to_a &&
            {"sale date"=>m[1], "sale time"=>m[2], "sale address"=>m[3] } }],
    ### seller name, seller time, seller address
    [/^Seller:\s*(\d+\/\d+\/\d+)\s+(\S+\s+\w\w)\s+(.+?)\s*$/,
        lambda { |m| m.to_a &&
            {"seller date"=>m[1], "seller time"=>m[2], "seller address"=>m[3] } }],
    ### Trustor: trustor
    [/^Trustor:\s+(.+?)\s*$/,
        lambda { |m| m.to_a && {"trustor"=>m[1] } }],
  ]
 
  def self.read(text)
    parse(text)
  end
 
  protected
  def self.parse(text)
    text.each do |line|
      Tokens.each do |token|
        if m = token.first.match(line)
          return token.last.call(m)
        end
      end
    end
    nil
  end
 
end
 
begin
  while line = file.readline
    if line.match(/^\s*$/)
      record = {}
      next
    end
    line.sub!("\r", "")
    if record = MyParse.read(line)
      data.push(record)
    end
  end
rescue EOFError => e
  puts "'#{filename}': #{e}"
ensure
  file.close
end
 
puts data.inspect
 
exit(0)
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a quick remedy for ipod shuffle illnesses

Mar 18
2009
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Symptoms: one green light flash, followed by two green ones.

Conclusion: the player is dead.

Remedy: download ipod reset utility, reset the player and

# change _path_to_the_device_ with the real path (see `dmesg|tail`)
 
mount /dev/_path_to_the_device_  /mnt && cd /mnt
 
# download rebuild_db.py from http://shuffle-db.sourceforge.net/
# copy 'rebuild_db.py' in /mnt and create the dirs' structure
 
python -c '
import os
os.makedirs("iPod_Control/iTunes")
os.makedirs("Music")
'
 
cd /mnt && cp ~/Music/*.mp3 Music
python rebuild_db.py
cd .. && umount

That’s it.

P.S. you can format an ipod device as many times as you like,
just follow the above procedure to reset it.

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How to download an image from flickr

Mar 11
2009
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I wasn’t able to download a photo from flickr. It happened to be 1px transparent image over the other. Here is a simple scaper in cases of such “protection”:

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require 'rubygems'
require 'www/mechanize'
 
url = 'http://www.flickr.com/photos/46457493@N00/3162339409/in/set-72157612102050814/'
 
my_id = url.split("/")[-3]
agent  = WWW::Mechanize.new
page   = agent.get(url)
 
url   = page.search("//div[@id='photoImgDiv#{my_id}']/img").attr('src')
 
agent.get(url).save_as((File.basename(url)).split("?")[0])
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Code refactoring

Feb 21
2009
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An example (The Bible, Genesis 1)

1: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

…

4: And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

… and God saw that it was good.

… and God saw that it was good.



and so on …

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iptables – blocking incoming traffic

Feb 14
2009
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This iptables config will block all incoming traffic, except from machines, identified by thier MAC addresses:

iptables -F INPUT

iptables -A INPUT -m mac—mac-source 00:3f:5f:ab:2c:7d -j ACCEPT

iptables -A INPUT -m mac—mac-source 00:1e:32:36:97:4a -j ACCEPT

iptables -A INPUT -m mac—mac-source 00:44:11:a5:1d:6d -j ACCEPT

# or by ip address:

#iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -s 1.1.1.1 -j ACCEPT

#iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -s 2.2.2.2 -j ACCEPT

#iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -s 3.3.3.3 -j ACCEPT

iptables -A INPUT -m state—state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT

iptables -A INPUT -s 127.0.0.1 -j ACCEPT

iptables -A INPUT -j REJECT
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PS1 colors

Feb 14
2009
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I like to see green prompt for userid > 0 and red for root, also the hostname and the history number of a command.

PS1="\[\e[32;1m\]\u\[\e[30;1m\]@\[\e[32;1m\]\H[\!]\W\[\e[30;1m\]\\$\[\e[0m\]"
PS1="\[\e[32;1m\]\u\[\e[30;1m\]@\[\e[32;1m\]\H[\!]\W\[\e[30;1m\]\\$\[\e[0m\]"
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just another perlmonks’ post

Feb 06
2009
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perldoc perlfaq1 | perl -ne ’/((?< =”)(.+hack…(?:OR)?))/&&die$2.$/’ -

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how to monitor ip addresses from a log file

Jan 28
2009
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tail -f production.log  | egrep "([[:digit:]]{1,3}\.){3}[[:digit:]]{1,3}"
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Security Problems with KDE

Jan 18
2009
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From tcpdump it becomes obvious that some kde apps are contacting jamaica.kde.org through http!?
I cannot understand this M$ type of behavior in UNIX env, neither I want , so here is a quick solution:


iptables -A OUTPUT -d 62.70.27.118 -p tcp -j DROP
iptables -A OUTPUT -j ACCEPT

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