Keeping Track of Electioneering | Election Leaflets 2011 : ‘See or post leaflets shoved through your door by parties and candidates across the land. RSS feeds and email alerts available by constituency. Add new leaflets through a web form or by email.’
(tags: election leaflets pamphlets ge11 ireland politics fianna-fail)
Month: January 2011
Data Protection Commissioner warns the parties not to spam in advance of the coming election : Any teeth though?
(tags: dpc data-protection ireland spam law)The worst week for the worst Taoiseach in the State’s history : incredible insider account of Cowen’s final ineptitudes as FF leader. Beyond GUBU
(tags: gubu funny inept ireland brian-cowen fianna-fail dail crazy politics)
where Fine Gael got their new poster source images : “Google Image ‘People’ = Ethnic Diversity”. bwahahahaha
(tags: funny fg fine-gael inept design lame google stock-photos people enda-kenny boards)gist: 782263 – How to redirect a running process’ output to a file and logout : a nifty gdb hack; essentially dup()s a couple of files in /tmp in place of fd 1 and 2, then uses the bashism “detach” to nohup the running process
(tags: gdb hacks linux process shell unix via:hn nifty dup detach bash)apenwarr/sshuttle – GitHub : ‘Any TCP session you initiate to one of the proxied IP addresses [specified on the command line] will be captured by sshuttle and sent over an ssh session to the remote copy of sshuttle, which will then regenerate the connection on that end, and funnel the data back and forth through ssh. Fun, right? A poor man’s instant VPN, and you don’t even have to have admin access on the server.’
(tags: vpn ssh security linux opensource tcp networking tunnelling port-forwarding)Why djb redo won’t be the Git of build systems : A counter-argument: “so, redo, from a conceptual point of view, has a really good and simple approach (very djb-y), and I’m sure it’s an excellent tool for new projects, but for existing projects that already use make in a non-recursive fashion, it would a maintenance PITA. And that’s why I conclude that redo in its current conceptual state will never be the Git of build systems. make is still more flexible, and even though it has its flaws, it’s still good enough for most people, and also a de-facto standard.”
(tags: redo build djb building make compilation)The things make got right (and how to make it better) : jgc provides a good demonstration of how a general-purpose programming language tends to make a crappy DSL — specifically Rakefiles
(tags: dsl build make coding jgc languages configuration makefiles rake ruby)good Hacker News thread on djb’s “redo” : YA make-replacement build system. the thread is better than the linked article, btw
(tags: hacker-news via:fanf make build djb redo compilation building coding open-source)
Hudson’s future : renaming to “Jenkins” due to Oracle asshattery
(tags: oracle hudson exodus stupid ci via:jamesc)
Bicycle Safety: How to Not Get Hit by Cars : really quite good advice — all except for “take the whole lane”, which in my experience aggravates drivers and causes road rage and risky behaviour. avoid
(tags: safety bike cycling bikes)tvrenamer.pl : Another TV file-renaming script. looks a little fragile/hacky at a glance though
(tags: tv downloading torrents boxee xbmc)Boxee TV Show Download Automation : organise downloaded TV shows into the directory format Boxee (and by extension, XBMC) wants; some votes for Sickbeard here
(tags: tv torrents downloading boxee xbmc automation)Reset Ireland : ‘Greater access to information on the workings of government empower the public in making informed decisions on the direction they want the country to take. Open Government and media reforms can make this a reality. The key inspiration for Reset Ireland comes from projects such as the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative along with various other projects promoting openness, transparency and accountability in Government around the world.’
(tags: ireland politics open-data open-access open-government data)
Rules of SCRAM : ‘GOATS just stand around during this phase and stare at each other, rolling their eyes frequently at howlers (such as using serialization to SOAP for storage, or databases as RPC mechanisms). It is often useful for GOATS — or anybody, really — to take notes for the monthly BACKSTABBING drill.’
(tags: funny scrum software project-management coding work)Tunisian government harvesting usernames and passwords : injects JS onto Google, Facebook, Yahoo! non-encrypted login pages to submit the typed username and password against nonexistent http URLs, e.g. ‘http://www.google.com/wo0dh3ad’, presumably so that DPI logging can collect them. apparently the HTTPS login pages are blocked to force use of HTTP
(tags: tunisia via:pjakma security snooping surveillance https javascript)
Hacker Culture: A Response to Bruce Sterling on WikiLeaks : good article from Gabriella Coleman in The Atlantic
(tags: hackers bruce-sterling wikileaks julian-assange politics blackhat hacking)