For some reason Paramiko’s SSHClient.exec_command has an issue with setting timeouts. For example, despite passing the timeout=3 to the client.connect, the code below will not timeout if the connection to the server is flaky. client = paramiko.SSHClient() client._policy = paramiko.AutoAddPolicy() … Continue reading →

We have a python application that polls directories using threads and inotify watchers. We have always run this application in a cloud server provided by Voxel. We are currently testing a different cloud server provider StormOnDemand and when we ran our … Continue reading →

Tomboy Web Sync Explained View more documents from Mohanaraj Gopala Krishnan. This was a talk that I gave during the foss.my 2009 conference. It covers a bit of background on Tomboy before focusing on the web based sync that shipped … Continue reading →

Introduction The following guide is meant to be an addendum to Tomboy guide to creating addins on the Tomboy wiki. It shows how to create and compile the addin using MonoDevlop. Although written based on MonoDevelop for the Mac, I … Continue reading →

2Way HTTP Compression Servlet Filter A Java servlet that allows for both request and response compression

mod_deflate – Apache HTTP Server “The mod_deflate module also provides a filter for decompressing a gzip compressed request body . In order to activate this feature you have to insert the DEFLATE filter into the input filter chain using SetInputFilter … Continue reading →

Setting up software RAID in Ubuntu Server | Security Viewpoints A clearly written article on setting up s/ware raid for ubuntu 8.04. Covers enabling grub on both disks to allow booting up in degraded mode

Zemanta – Zemanta – contextual intelligence for everyone! Web based service for term extraction

Python Package Index : topia.termextract 1.1.0 Python based term extraction library. Uses part of speech tagging algorithm

Caveat This is a very simple and straightforward setup. It is a setup of londiste where I only install londiste on one machine, the provider (or master) and not the subscriber (or slave). I have checked that this setup is … Continue reading →