Silence Is Defeat Security Notification
I just received this in my email. Passing it along! From: SD Support <support@mail.silenceisdefeat.com> Date: Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 2:04 PMSubject: Silence Is Defeat security notification You are...
View ArticleDropping Privileges in Python for Tornado Apps
Today, I’m going to show you how to drop from the root user to an unprivileged user in Python for the purpose of running a Tornado app. First make a system user for your project to run as. In my...
View ArticleWho Regulates Financial Reporting?
As previously discussed, financial statements can sometimes have their own “dialect,” in a manner of speaking. Additionally, financial statements can be subject to accounting fraud because management...
View ArticlePython: subprocess module on BackTrack 4
I had trouble getting the subprocess module onto BackTrack 4. apt-get install python-subprocess wouldn’t do it, nor would easy_install subprocess. As it turns out, the name of the backported subprocess...
View ArticleNew URL/Domain for my Blog (formerly subversity.net)
As I stand before you sipping my celebratory Wilco Tango Foxtrot, I would like to present to you the new home for my blog. The reason for this migration is that I am downsizing the amount of...
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How I Made Money Spamming Twitter with Contextual Book Suggestions
Two winters ago I left a position as a system administrator that was paying pretty well and moved cross-country to a region with less jobs than where I moved from. Three months later, I was still...
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The HN Effect in Numbers
For the unfamiliar, I wrote an article about a week and a half ago titled How I Made Money Spamming Twitter with Contextual Book Suggestions and promised that I would follow up with a post on the type...
View ArticleI think and think for months and years. 99 times, the conclusion is false....
“I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.” — Albert Einstein I think Einstein was onto the equal-odds rule.
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Three Reasons Why I’m Ditching ChunkHost
I’ve been using ChunkHost for the past eight months to host my website and some minor web applications. After my short, free “beta” period I was given a 30% discount (forever) and billed like a normal...
View ArticleValidating Data with New-Style Classes in Python
Every once in awhile in my reading I come across a minor reference to what pythonistas refer to as new-style classes. One of the nice things about new-style classes is the `property` decorators. These...
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