tag:siafoo.net,2007-12-02: 2010-03-01T03:56:50.320818-08:00 Siafoo tag:siafoo.net,2010-03-01T03:56:50.320818-08:00:/article/52,rating:188 2010-03-01T03:56:50.320818-08:00 Anonymous http://www.siafoo.net/user/ The new average is 5.00 of 5.0 with 13 ratings. rate tag:siafoo.net,2010-02-28T15:11:18.460818-08:00:/snippet/356, 2010-02-28T15:11:18.460818-08:00 jlugocp http://www.siafoo.net/user/jlugocp Wraps a ListIterator so that we don't have to worry about whether we need to proceed to the next or previous item in the iterator. This class figures that out. As long as there are items remaining... more tag:siafoo.net,2010-02-25T05:23:42.490818-08:00:/snippet/355, 2010-02-25T05:23:42.490818-08:00 monkey103 http://www.siafoo.net/user/monkey103 It's important to attach it to the package phase. Installs zip, tar.gz etc. to the repo.... more tag:siafoo.net,2010-02-23T14:46:32.790818-08:00:/article/52,version:22 2010-02-23T14:46:32.790818-08:00 David http://www.siafoo.net/user/david Reverted the abstract. diff tag:siafoo.net,2010-02-23T14:20:05.960818-08:00:/article/52,version:22 2010-02-23T14:20:05.960818-08:00 David http://www.siafoo.net/user/david Reverted the abstract. diff tag:siafoo.net,2010-02-21T17:09:27.550818-08:00:/news/2010/02/21/Yes-that-was-spam#comment_253,comment:253 2010-02-21T17:09:27.550818-08:00 David http://www.siafoo.net/user/david Maybe we could have some sort of rate limiting feature, so you can only send so many messages per hour. Or is there some sort of public IP blacklist? Or we can start banning IP ranges (or emails?)... more reply tag:siafoo.net,2010-02-21T10:22:11.840818-08:00:/news/2010/02/21/Yes-that-was-spam, 2010-02-21T10:22:11.840818-08:00 Stou S. http://www.siafoo.net/user/stou It appears that this morning a very dedicated spammer created a Siafoo account and manually sent spam messages to about 90 users. Their account has been disabled and we are looking into ways to... more tag:siafoo.net,2010-02-20T23:48:59.140818-08:00:/snippet/354, 2010-02-20T23:48:59.140818-08:00 David http://www.siafoo.net/user/david Something I was playing with; turns out you can make fairly decent spam-email-style English easily. Parses any strings you give it and returns a gibberish response to any query.... more tag:siafoo.net,2010-02-18T20:44:23.530818-08:00:/blog/yar/2010/02/18/I-have-no-words#comment_252,comment:252 2010-02-18T20:44:23.530818-08:00 David http://www.siafoo.net/user/david I thought it was kinda cool actually, there is a whole community of people building big blue police boxes! reply tag:siafoo.net,2010-02-18T20:11:56.400818-08:00:/blog/yar/2010/02/18/I-have-no-words#comment_251,comment:251 2010-02-18T20:11:56.400818-08:00 Stou S. http://www.siafoo.net/user/stou Laugh all you want but that forum is far more active than the one on here... reply tag:siafoo.net,2010-02-18T19:30:46-08:00:/news/2010/02/18/Facebook-Sponsors-and-Privacy, 2010-02-18T19:30:46-08:00 David http://www.siafoo.net/user/david A few new things this week:... more tag:siafoo.net,2010-02-18T00:40:26.070818-08:00:/article/81, 2010-02-18T00:40:26.070818-08:00 David http://www.siafoo.net/user/david Getting kicked off the internet all the time? Can't use BitTorrent? Is stuff slow? Well if you have the EQ-660R modem, you probably just need to update your firmware. tag:siafoo.net,2010-02-17T21:21:57.790818-08:00:/blog/yar/2010/02/18/I-have-no-words, 2010-02-17T21:21:57.790818-08:00 David http://www.siafoo.net/user/david http://tardisbuilders.com/ tag:siafoo.net,2010-02-14T01:43:19.600818-08:00:/snippet/353,version:2 2010-02-14T01:43:19.600818-08:00 Steven http://www.siafoo.net/user/steven Added file name for download diff tag:siafoo.net,2010-02-14T01:38:10.290818-08:00:/snippet/353#comment_250,comment:250 2010-02-14T01:38:10.290818-08:00 Steven http://www.siafoo.net/user/steven Pretty sure a lot those "unset" are useless in a script. reply tag:siafoo.net,2010-02-14T01:37:13.920818-08:00:/snippet/353, 2010-02-14T01:37:13.920818-08:00 Steven http://www.siafoo.net/user/steven Paste this into chewtoy, and chmod +x chewtoy... more tag:siafoo.net,2010-02-14T01:24:09.960818-08:00:/snippet/352,version:2 2010-02-14T01:24:09.960818-08:00 Steven http://www.siafoo.net/user/steven diff tag:siafoo.net,2010-02-14T01:22:48.270818-08:00:/snippet/352, 2010-02-14T01:22:48.270818-08:00 Steven http://www.siafoo.net/user/steven Convert the pretty readable /proc/meminfo output and mangle it into meminfo.csv tag:siafoo.net,2010-02-13T23:13:42.220818-08:00:/group/2/blog,version:2 2010-02-13T23:13:42.220818-08:00 Stou S. http://www.siafoo.net/user/stou diff tag:siafoo.net,2010-02-13T23:03:19.330818-08:00:/group/2,version:3 2010-02-13T23:03:19.330818-08:00 David http://www.siafoo.net/user/david Added website. (Last edit: added blog) diff tag:siafoo.net,2010-02-13T22:58:44.010818-08:00:/group/2,version:3 2010-02-13T22:58:44.010818-08:00 David http://www.siafoo.net/user/david diff tag:siafoo.net,2010-02-13T22:47:43.710818-08:00:/group/2/blog/2010/02/14/Adjector-Beta-2, 2010-02-13T22:47:43.710818-08:00 David http://www.siafoo.net/user/david Last night I released the second beta of Adjector, our fast, flexible, open source ad client. There's a couple of small but important fixes: precaching now works correctly (I don't know how it even... more tag:siafoo.net,2010-02-12T23:31:30.610818-08:00:/snippet/351#comment_249,comment:249 2010-02-12T23:31:30.610818-08:00 Stou S. http://www.siafoo.net/user/stou It only requires `-shared` and `-framework Python` and since my boost is in a random place it needs an extra couple of include directories. The OS X dev tools really should ship with Boost though. reply tag:siafoo.net,2010-02-12T22:09:27.040818-08:00:/snippet/351#comment_246,comment:246 2010-02-12T22:09:27.040818-08:00 David http://www.siafoo.net/user/david Dare I ask why the mac requires so many extra flags? Okay putting your libs in a weird place was part of it : ) reply tag:siafoo.net,2010-02-12T19:04:02.040818-08:00:/snippet/351, 2010-02-12T19:04:02.040818-08:00 Stou S. http://www.siafoo.net/user/stou A SCons SConstruct script for generating Boost::Python modules under Linux and OS X.... more tag:siafoo.net,2010-02-10T22:11:11.170818-08:00:/user/stou/blog/2010/02/10/Fn#comment_245,comment:245 2010-02-10T22:11:11.170818-08:00 Stou S. http://www.siafoo.net/user/stou HA what's more dangerous is when I got used to pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del to lockthe screen on windows since I would do it all day long on my laptop. Then I'dcome home and accidentally reboot my linux... more reply tag:siafoo.net,2010-02-10T21:33:35.910818-08:00:/user/stou/blog/2010/02/10/Fn#comment_244,comment:244 2010-02-10T21:33:35.910818-08:00 David http://www.siafoo.net/user/david And if you hold down the control key, it activates the self destruct system. You have to hold it for a while though... reply tag:siafoo.net,2010-02-10T21:29:52.450818-08:00:/user/stou/blog/2010/02/10/Fn, 2010-02-10T21:29:52.450818-08:00 Stou S. http://www.siafoo.net/user/stou Ever since I got my first laptop, nearly a decade ago, I have attempted to awaken it from suspended mode by randomly taping on the Fn, Ctrl, Alt, or Shift keys. It always annoyed me that the system... more tag:siafoo.net,2010-02-10T20:33:18.060818-08:00:/news/2010/02/10/Moral-of-the-Story-Check-your-Config#comment_243,comment:243 2010-02-10T20:33:18.060818-08:00 Stou S. http://www.siafoo.net/user/stou Welp... I am glad you took responsibility for that little problem. You should try to be more careful with apache next time. reply tag:siafoo.net,2010-02-10T20:28:16.810818-08:00:/news/2010/02/10/Moral-of-the-Story-Check-your-Config, 2010-02-10T20:28:16.810818-08:00 David http://www.siafoo.net/user/david You might have noticed Siafoo was down for a few hours today. It turns out, like back in 2008, it all comes down to a configuration value setting.... more tag:siafoo.net,2010-02-10T19:02:16.310818-08:00:/snippet/250#comment_242,comment:242 2010-02-10T19:02:16.310818-08:00 David http://www.siafoo.net/user/david haha better than it all being black i guess. wtf shouldn't the syntax highlighter actually do something interesting here? reply tag:siafoo.net,2010-02-10T18:23:56.550818-08:00:/snippet/250#comment_241,comment:241 2010-02-10T18:23:56.550818-08:00 Stou S. http://www.siafoo.net/user/stou I am so glad this snippet is syntax highlighted... reply tag:siafoo.net,2010-02-09T22:00:30.972815-08:00:/snippet/104#comment_240,comment:240 2010-02-09T22:00:30.972815-08:00 Stou S. http://www.siafoo.net/user/stou This is just an example of how to use PyPar to communicate between processes. You might use a ring type deal for a fluid flow in a pipe simulation where each process could be a radial slice and you... more reply tag:siafoo.net,2010-02-09T21:43:50.822815-08:00:/snippet/250,version:3 2010-02-09T21:43:50.822815-08:00 David http://www.siafoo.net/user/david Added instructions on how to change individual corners, updated description. diff tag:siafoo.net,2010-02-09T21:34:15.762815-08:00:/snippet/104#comment_239,comment:239 2010-02-09T21:34:15.762815-08:00 David http://www.siafoo.net/user/david Is there some reason you would want to do this IRL, or is it just to show that message sending works? reply tag:siafoo.net,2010-02-09T21:30:37.202815-08:00:/article/57,version:12 2010-02-09T21:30:37.202815-08:00 David http://www.siafoo.net/user/david Added some keywords. diff tag:siafoo.net,2010-02-09T21:29:44.742815-08:00:/snippet/108,version:4 2010-02-09T21:29:44.742815-08:00 David http://www.siafoo.net/user/david added link to underscore methods article, keyword diff tag:siafoo.net,2010-02-09T18:11:14.872815-08:00:/snippet/350, 2010-02-09T18:11:14.872815-08:00 David http://www.siafoo.net/user/david A completely opaque way to determine the date of easter for any year, using Gauss's algorithm.... more tag:siafoo.net,2010-02-09T17:59:43.822815-08:00:/snippet/349, 2010-02-09T17:59:43.822815-08:00 David http://www.siafoo.net/user/david Determine the phase of the moon, either numerically or descriptively.... more tag:siafoo.net,2010-02-09T10:34:50.442815-08:00:/article/52,rating:185 2010-02-09T10:34:50.442815-08:00 Anonymous http://www.siafoo.net/user/ The new average is 5.00 of 5.0 with 13 ratings. rate tag:siafoo.net,2010-02-06T21:13:27.292815-08:00:/snippet/348,version:2 2010-02-06T21:13:27.292815-08:00 David Underhill http://www.siafoo.net/user/dound fixed bug in my reST syntax; added a link to an article explaining the motivation of this snippet diff tag:siafoo.net,2010-02-06T20:48:32.432815-08:00:/snippet/348, 2010-02-06T20:48:32.432815-08:00 David Underhill http://www.siafoo.net/user/dound This script parses a Python file and comments out logging statements, replacing them with a pass statement (or vice versa). The purpose of commenting out these statements is to improve performance.... more tag:siafoo.net,2010-02-05T16:35:54.862815-08:00:/article/52#comment_238,comment:238 2010-02-05T16:35:54.862815-08:00 David Underhill http://www.siafoo.net/user/dound _ reply tag:siafoo.net,2010-02-05T16:35:01.592815-08:00:/article/52#comment_237,comment:237 2010-02-05T16:35:01.592815-08:00 David Underhill http://www.siafoo.net/user/dound You did a nice job with this article. I found the bits on decorators, generators, and any/all particularly helpful. Thanks David!David Underhillhttp://www.dound.com reply tag:siafoo.net,2010-02-05T16:31:39.702815-08:00:/article/52,rating:184 2010-02-05T16:31:39.702815-08:00 Anonymous http://www.siafoo.net/user/ The new average is 5.00 of 5.0 with 13 ratings. rate tag:siafoo.net,2010-02-04T21:11:57.692815-08:00:/snippet/347, 2010-02-04T21:11:57.692815-08:00 David http://www.siafoo.net/user/david Strips tags from a string, leaving only the text bits. tag:siafoo.net,2010-02-04T21:02:33.022815-08:00:/snippet/346, 2010-02-04T21:02:33.022815-08:00 Stou S. http://www.siafoo.net/user/stou This is some sort of monte-carlo simulation of 10 particles in a Lennard-Jones potential that I wrote for what appears to be thermodynamics. It uses the ROOT framework so good luck getting it to... more tag:siafoo.net,2010-02-04T20:33:46.442815-08:00:/snippet/342,version:2 2010-02-04T20:33:46.442815-08:00 David http://www.siafoo.net/user/david diff tag:siafoo.net,2010-02-04T20:32:29.732815-08:00:/snippet/345, 2010-02-04T20:32:29.732815-08:00 David http://www.siafoo.net/user/david Uses the Newton-Raphson Method to find zeros of a function. tag:siafoo.net,2010-02-04T20:27:03.952815-08:00:/snippet/341#comment_236,comment:236 2010-02-04T20:27:03.952815-08:00 Stou S. http://www.siafoo.net/user/stou Man I remember when I bought a 350MB Hard Drive from circuit city for around $300... reply