09 May 2005
Highly versatile generic CUPS backend capture & dispatch
Tea4CUPS is similar in functionnality to the *nix tee command, but available as a 100% plug and play generic CUPS backend wrapper.
Neil Schemenauer's Web Log
A few days ago I decided to try the SIT trick. The idea is to prefix your regular voice message with a SIT and that will cause the telemarketer's automated dialler to hang up, maybe even mark your number as out of service.
06 May 2005
The College Bums » Buffer Overflow
(via)Every now and again we all hear about an exploit that takes place thanks to a buffer overflow, but what is a buffer overflow? By definition it is when a program attempts to store more data in an array (buffer) than it was intended to hold, thus overwriting the return address of the function. To show how this is actually done, I’ll explain how to do a simple attack on a fairly small program.
15 things you can do with RSS (it was supposed to be 10, but I got carried away) - Tim Yang's Geek Blog
by 14 othersBasically, you can perform any task with RSS that requires search or information retrieval from a server. Automatically and repeatedly. Here are my favourites...
05 May 2005
KHRONOS PROJECTOR - Alvaro Cassinelli
by 6 others (via)The goal of the Khronos Projector is to go beyond these forms of exclusive temporal control, by giving the user an entirely new dimension to play with: by touching the projection screen, the user is able to send parts of the image forward or backwards in time.
OPeNDAP Aggregation Server Guide
This document describes version 0.6 of the OPeNDAP Catalog/Aggregation Server, a service designed to create logical groupings of individual data files.
Unidata - THREDDS
(via)The THREDDS (Thematic Realtime Environmental Distributed Data Services) project is developing middleware to bridge the gap between data providers and data users. The goal is to simplify the discovery and use of scientific data and to allow scientific publications and educational materials to reference scientific data.
Rob Hetland’s web journal
Ultimate Citizen: Make a THREDDS catalog
http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/projects/THREDDS
of your DODS-served data so folks can view it with tools like the IDV.
These are simple XML files that just tell tools like IDV the protocol and
location of the data. Check out an example at:
http://cove.whoi.edu/~rsignell/adria-models.xml
04 May 2005
Wink - [Homepage]
by 72 others (via)Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users.
03 May 2005
Python: module __init__
(via)The Shallow Water Ocean Model (swom) is designed as a toolbox to develop
Arakawa A through D grid numerics for the shallow water equations.
Python seawater package
The seawater package provides basic functions in Python for physical properties of sea water.
02 May 2005
The Vega Science Trust - Freeview Video On The Web - Richard Feynman: The Douglas Robb Memorial Lectures
(via)A set of four priceless archival recordings from the University of Auckland (New Zealand) of the outstanding Nobel prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman - arguably the greatest science lecturer ever. Although the recording is of modest technical quality the exceptional personal style and unique delivery shine through.
29 April 2005
Documento sem título
PRIMEIRAS ESTÓRIAS
28 April 2005
.c( whytheluckystiff )o. -- Bumpspark Library-less Minigraphs
by 1 otherWith just a few lines of Ruby, we can take an array of digits (0 to 100) and construct a sparkline bitmap, a miniature graph originally seen here. Best of all, it requires no additional libraries!
[Python-Dev] should sre.Scanner be exposed through re and documented?
(via)You create a Scanner instance with a list of re's and associated functions, then you use it to scan a string, returning a list of parts which match the given re's. (Actually the matches are run through the associated functions, and their output is what forms the returned list.)
Casting Spels (sic) in Lisp
by 1 otherThis comic book will let you find out how Lisp's unique design makes it so powerful!
The Hype Machine
by 40 othersClick a link on the right to open up a playlist with all of today's music in your favorite media player!
Mike Davidson -- sIFR 2.0: Rich Accessible Typography for the Masses
by 33 others (via)It's getting better.
iCalendar package for Python
(via)The iCalendar package is a parser/generator of iCalender files for use with Python.
mesozoic.geecs.org/cogito: Defgen: Just one more reason that Twisted freakin' rocks
by 1 other (via)"Now you can write deferred procedures that look synchronous."
