Tomei conhecimento do estudo da Electronic Frontier Foundation intitulado “Web Browsers Leave ‘Fingerprints’ Behind as You Surf the Net”, através do Miguel Almeida, mas já vi várias opiniões em vários sítios diferentes. Apesar de achar que os resultados do estudo são de facto preocupantes, acho que se está a exagerar bastante. Ao correr o teste [...]
Recently, one of my favorite blog aggregators died, but left us with a nice OPML file containing all rss feeds from the authors of the aggregator. Yahoo! My pipes couldn’t parse the opml file, so I built a python script to do it and hosted it in my server. The RSS File is updated every [...]
I just uploaded another script to my github repository. It’s a python script to parse an opml file and generate a rss file with entries from all rss feeds in the rss file not older than a certain number of days. You can get the script here: http://github.com/…/opml2rss.py The script has a few configuration parameters [...]
I just set up a github repository to hold my code. Here’s the link http://github.com/simao/mycode Currently, the repository contains only the code of my latest Python script, rssTorrents.py.
I was looking for a way to parse a RSS feed I built using yahoo pipes and add new torrents to Transmission to download them automatically. I couldn’t find anything useful, so I just wrote a python script to do just that. If you want to use it, you’ll need to configure the first lines [...]
I just found out about a another cool emacs plugin: WindMove This packages allows you to switch windows withouth using C-x o. WindMove is included with emacs, just include the following code in your .emacs: (when (fboundp ‘windmove-default-keybindings) (windmove-default-keybindings)) More info @ http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WindMove
I recently signed up for an account at Jungle disk, http://www.jungledisk.com. I’m paranoid about backups, I use Time Machine to do a full weekly backup and Jungle Disk as an off-site backup solution. It seemed the cheapest option since you only pay for what you upload, and although I have a full 160GB hard drive, [...]
Here’s a nice post on how to clean up macports: http://simenhag.blogspot.com/2008/11/cleaning-up-macports.html I do this cleansing from time to time.
The latest emacs pretest version (23.0.95) includes EasyPG making it easier to encrypt/decrypt files almost transparently. You just have to C-x C-f a file and C-x C-s and EasyPG takes care of the rest for you.
I had my Time Machine backup working and I used to do my backs every week or so. After I ran out of space, I bought a new external to use as a backup volume, so I formatted the new hard drive using Disk Utility and set it to use the GUID partition scheme and [...]