Muffinresearch Labs by Stuart Colville

Archive for the 'Code' Category

1. Recover Files from Nandroid Backup - 27th October 2011
2. Linux: Spotify Screensaver D-Bus Script update - 27th October 2011
3. Linux: Spotify Track Notifier with added D-Bus love - 23rd March 2011
4. Updating Vim to Use Plugins From Branches - 11th February 2011
5. Fake SMTP server with Python - 15th October 2010
6. Inverting Screen Colours for Late-Night Hacking - 30th September 2010
7. Ubuntu: Spotify Screensaver Toggle - 13th September 2010
8. Taking Screenshots of your Android Phone - 7th September 2010
9. Development Workflow - 28th July 2010
10. Debugging Elusive Puppet Errors - 8th June 2010
11. Ubuntu: java.net.SocketException in ec2-api-tools - 4th June 2010
12. Ubuntu: Installing the Beebem BBC Micro Emulator - 27th May 2010
13. Adding more disk space to a Linux Virtual Machine - 30th March 2010
14. Linux: Fix for apt-get update – Waiting for Headers - 30th March 2010
15. Solved: VirtualBox Ubuntu Karmic Server VM crashes - 8th February 2010
16. Howto: SSH into VirtualBox 3 Linux Guests - 8th February 2010
17. Ubuntu: Changing the default java binary - 5th December 2009
18. Updating Speedtouch 585 DNS settings - 5th December 2009
19. Ubuntu: Lock Screen and Pause Spotify - 22nd October 2009
20. Open Redirects and Phishing Vectors - 30th September 2009
21. Cross Platform Keyring Library for Python - 26th August 2009
22. PHP: Multiple DNS Queries Using fopen - 12th August 2009
23. VirtualBox: Error: Cannot register the hard disk - 23rd July 2009
24. BASH: Using brace expansion - 22nd June 2009
25. vim: automatically highlight long lines - 22nd June 2009
26. Fixing setuptools “TypeError: swig_sources()” error - 8th March 2009
27. Unix Permissions Calculator - 2nd March 2009
28. Favicon Generator Launched - 10th February 2009
29. Bazaar: Moving files after the fact - 29th January 2009
30. Puppet: Server Configuration Made Easy - 18th January 2009
31. Large Temporary Files Left Behind by ImageMagick - 18th January 2009
32. Checking tarball contents before extraction - 10th November 2008
33. Bash: Resolving Symlinks to Shellscripts - 10th October 2008
34. Ubuntu: change editor globally - 7th October 2008
35. Linux: Changing UIDs and GIDs for a user - 24th September 2008
36. Ubuntu: BUG: soft lockup – CPU#0 stuck for 11s! - 20th August 2008
37. Working around uTidyLib’s unicode handling - 29th July 2008
38. VMWare: Fixing Time Drift in AMD Dual-core Systems - 22nd July 2008
39. Ubuntu Hardy: Setting up VMWare-tools from the CLI - 13th July 2008
40. Vmware: “SIOCSIFADDR: No such device eth0″ after cloning - 13th July 2008
41. Search Django Snippets with GreaseMonkey - 8th July 2008
42. CSS Sprite Generator Version 2.0 - 24th June 2008
43. MySQL Moves to Bazaar for Source Control - 22nd June 2008
44. No Interfaces Available Using Wireshark on Mac OSX - 2nd June 2008
45. Fixing the display of history in terminal.app - 1st June 2008
46. Titlecase.py: Titlecase in python - 27th May 2008
47. VMWare Importer for converting Parallels images - 4th May 2008
48. Python: Debugging with PDB - 27th April 2008
49. mac tip: Lock screen and pause iTunes - 24th April 2008
50. Google App Engine - 8th April 2008
51. Automatic asset versioning in Django - 8th April 2008
52. Avoiding the use of .htaccess for performance - 7th April 2008
53. pwdn: show last n dirs of current directory - 2nd April 2008
54. Mac OSX tip: ls command color output - 1st April 2008
55. Django: Switching between development branches - 9th March 2008
56. From the command line to your clipboard and vice versa - 4th March 2008
57. Does setTimeout solve the DOMContentLoaded problem? - 15th February 2008
58. EU Hackday 5: Django and Python FTW - 10th February 2008
59. Sqlite: ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN fail on OSX 10.4 - 5th February 2008
60. CSS Sprite Generator code available at launchpad.net - 1st February 2008
61. Bazaar 1.0 released - 17th December 2007
62. Presentation: De-centralised Version Control with Bazaar - 8th December 2007
63. Running a Safari 2 Standalone Alongside Safari 3 - 20th November 2007
64. Extracting a single file from a tar backup - 12th November 2007
65. Using ‘select’ for multiple choices in shell scripts - 8th November 2007
66. Python: Transposing Lists With map and zip - 16th October 2007
67. Case Insensitive File-systems and Bazaar - 28th September 2007
68. CSS Sprite Generator Tool - 27th September 2007
69. Showing last two directories of pwd in BASH prompt - 25th September 2007
70. Contributing to projects on Launchpad.net with Bazaar - 14th August 2007
71. Dealing with Text Conflicts in Bazaar Version Control - 5th June 2007
72. Multimap opens up it’s API to developers - 29th May 2007
73. Mark all mail as read in mail.app - 25th May 2007
74. Online and offline development with the YUI and Charles - 26th April 2007
75. Bazaar Version Control - 22nd April 2007
76. BASH: Single-quotes inside of single-quoted strings - 30th January 2007
77. Basic DOMTool Tutorial - 13th December 2006
78. DOMTool - 28th November 2006
79. No more iframes? - 27th November 2006
80. Getting relative form actions with javascript - 24th October 2006
81. Bug when creating select options using innerHTML in IE - 19th July 2006
82. getElementsByClassName Deluxe Edition - 29th April 2006
83. Element Ready - 12th April 2006
84. Don’t use Javascript to hide bad markup - 30th March 2006
85. Yahoo! launches UI library and Design Patterns - 15th February 2006
86. Dreamweaver lock files exposed - 22nd November 2005
87. Dvorak’s comment spam fix - 26th September 2005