Batok

Nevow , a python based web construction toolkit , has a lot of nice features, that deserve attention:

1 - LivePage ( Ajax ).
2 - Canvas ( Flash to server ).
3 - XUL , the python way.
4 - Stan ( Python...ized XHTML )
5 - Formless ( automatic Form generation ).

Posted by Batok at 2:22 PM Comments

I've made a python class ( wxpython ) to dump the contents of a wx.Grid or wx.ListCtrl to an excel file.

The class and a demo app is available at www.smartics.biz/site/descargas/index_html

The messages of the class and the demo app are in spanish.

Posted by Batok at 7:36 AM Comments

In these days there are lots of kids using hacking tools that try to log in via ssh.

My servers are attacked every day in this way.

I decided to add swatch to monitor log files.

Also I installed sendxmpp to send xmpp messages ( jabber ) to my jabber server.

The combination is great!

Both tools, swatch and sendxmpp are written in Perl, and to be installed depend on other perl modules which are properly installed via cpan.

Posted by Batok at 1:39 PM Comments

wxPython , the marriage of wxWidgets and Python , is a very good option to develop multiplatform GUI apps.

Windows installation is a matter of running and exe, and follow the wizard.

For Mac OS X is a little bit trickier.

And for Linux , depends on the distro. For fedora core 3 or 4 is about compiling RPM source files and then installing the resulting binary RPM files.

Posted by Batok at 11:54 PM Comments

my desktop 

Posted by Batok at 2:03 PM Comments

Fedora core 2:

Everything was ok with one of my customers. Each user accesing a dos based app from dosemu/freedos had been working smooth... until fedora core 2 arrived...

Well the change from Xfree86 to X.org had its consequences. The new fedora user couldn't run the app as the other people ( which had Mandrake and Redhat 8 and 9 installed ).

After several tries I decided to access the app from one of the RH9 users. So I did this bash script:

#!/bin/sh

FONTDIR=/home/blabla/dosemu/Xfonts
cd $FONTDIR
mkfontdir
xset +fp $FONTDIR
ssh user@machine "dosemu/xdosemu"



.....

Now the problem was with Squid...

How to make a user access everything related to yahoo but nothing else ?

The trick was editing the /etc/squid/squid.conf file by prepending the domain def in dstdomain directive with a . ( dot ) like this ...

acl yahoouser src 192.168.0.152

acl yahoo dstdomain .yahoo.com
acl yahoo2 dstdomain .yimg.com
http_access deny yahoouser !yahoo !yahoo2

( See the . before yahoo.com and yimg.com )

Posted by Batok at 9:09 PM Comments

Introducing my dhcpf.conf file 

Posted by Batok at 12:26 PM Comments

One example on configuring squid to let navigate user(s) only to selected places ( it needs Squid to be run on the machine which is resolving names [ may be using bind with resolv.conf pointing to 127.0.0.1 ]. Once I tried this on a machine which was resolved by another one and the dstdomain feature didn't work ):

acl myipaddress src 192.168.0.111
acl firstdomain dstdomain www.oneallowed.com
acl seconddomain dstdomain www.anotherallowed.com
...
...
http_access deny myipaddress !firstdomain !seconddomain

( this means , 192.168.0.111 can't access anything but www.oneallowed and www.anotherallowed ).

Posted by Batok at 8:46 AM Comments

Tks Robert for the help on Combos 

Posted by Batok at 12:37 PM Comments

Ladies and Gentlemen: Bullwinkle 

Posted by Batok at 12:31 PM Comments

One pseudo-cop got my 6 screwdriver set at Mexico City International Airport just before departure:

- You can't have these on the plane.

- Why not, do I look like a terrorist or what?

- No Mr. you don't. You have to go where the clerk is ( 2 miles away ).

- Hey Pal, my plane is about to take off and I need to...

- You must go where the clerk.

Suddenly I looked over my shoulders and the screen displayed -- 5 minutes to go.

- Mmm. Happy Birthday ( damn cop ) . This is my gift ( fk* asshole ).

Goodbye screwdriver set :(

Moral : "Never get a screwdriver set at Mexico City Airport"

Posted by Batok at 7:30 PM Comments

Music and Lyrics by Mr. Louis Klink

Posted by Batok at 5:30 PM Comments

It's all about Python, WxWidgets, Postgresql and Vim 

Posted by Batok at 7:43 PM Comments

The way to post to blogger in python:

import xmlrpclib
server = xmlrpclib.server("http://plant.blogger.com/api/RPC2")
username = "your name goes here"
password = "your password goes here"
appkey = "your application key goes here, which is somewhat lenghty and hex"
blogid = "your blog number "
server.blogger.newPost( appkey, blogid, username, password, "Hello World", True)

Enjoy!

Posted by Batok at 8:59 PM Comments

This message was posted from
a python application
which is an interesting way of posting
Cheers!

Posted by Batok at 8:50 PM Comments

Mexico's Independence Day (15-16 th September ) celebration is rainy
and fireworks are not lightning the sky. Fiesta at Glorieta Chapalita
is interrupted by season's hurricanes friend --> rain ...

Posted by Batok at 9:35 PM Comments

Psi ... 

This is Psi, a jabber client program for Windows, in action

Posted by Batok at 7:00 PM Comments

I own this company and am the CEO.


Smartics 

Posted by Batok at 5:14 PM Comments

Squidview. A wonderful piece of software. Due to this nugget my squid's access.log file is easier to monitor ( bye tail -f /var/log/squid/access.log ).

The $HOME/.squidview/aliases file feature is great.

Finally I don't need to remember the IP address of every machine in the network.

Maybe some day I will port this software to wxPython.

Posted by Batok at 3:46 PM Comments

Yeap, every blog has a start.

This is not an exception to that.

If you like music, chess and technology then you are somewhat like me.

Posted by Batok at 3:40 PM Comments