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Roadkill

humanumbrella — Mon, 17 May 2010 04:09:17 +0000

What happens after a deer gets smacked by a vehicle?
How does it always end up off the road, in the shoulder?
Is it like the deer knows, you know, after it gets hit ‘OHH I shouldn’t be out here!’ and he wanders back off the road before death overtakes him?
Is(are) there a(several) good Samaritan(s) running around dragging deer carcases from the middle of a lane to the side of the road?
Is that a state government position? Do the police do it?
I honestly have no idea.

Script Kiddies

humanumbrella — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 14:14:44 +0000

Hehe.. I just spent the morning cleaning up my webserver from the script kiddies… mostly because the moron broke the webserver by trying to execute apache from a directory that doesn’t exist… Or maybe I’m the moron for not keeping my system up to date. (:

Anyway, I think I’ve cleaned up the nonsense from ‘lordmax’, and patched the holes.
Just goes to show that it doesn’t matter how pompous an OS is about security… someone will figure out how to get in.

Windows, Mac, Linux — it’s not any different. Updates are strongly suggested for a reason.

So do them. (:

Adding this to ‘definition page’

humanumbrella — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:01:00 +0000

“We’re all connected — to each other biologically, to the Earth chemically, to the rest of the Universe atomically…” — Neil deGrasse Tyson

Watch this video about mirror neurons.

Another good video

humanumbrella — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:01:37 +0000

Fall Semester 2009

humanumbrella — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 00:14:53 +0000

Well, another semester of grad school is over — I’ve not been very good about updating this site… sorry for that.

I’ll try to be better about it in the coming months! (:

Cheers,
–Justin

AWESOME

humanumbrella — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:12:34 +0000

Adobe Flex

humanumbrella — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 05:25:03 +0000

Starting to play with this… looks pretty sweet.

Semester has started back up… Back to being busy! (:

Cheers!

Automated Unrarring

humanumbrella — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:31:27 +0000

So, I had a pack of National Geographic TV Episodes — but each one is packaged in little rar packs. In general I have to unrar the files, and remove the pieces. But since there was a folder of like 100 of these episodes I wrote a python script to do it for me! (:

It’s very rudimentary, and probably mostly inefficient –> for example, I didn’t know if there was ‘contains’ method so I just run through a for loop to find the right file. (:

This will remove everything but the avi file that remains once the unrarring is complete. a real time saver for me! (:

You will need this python module to use winrar: it’s by ‘chilkat’ –> http://www.example-code.com/python/rar_unrar.asp

Here it is:

import sys
import os
import chilkat

rar = chilkat.CkRar()
dirs = os.listdir('./')

for dir in dirs:
    if (dir.find("National") >=0):
        print dir+"\n\n"
        fileList = os.listdir(dir)
        for possibleMatch in fileList:
            if (possibleMatch.find(".rar") >= 0):
                rarFile = possibleMatch

        success = rar.Open(dir + "/" + rarFile)
        if (success != True):
            print rar.lastErrorText()
            sys.exit()
        else:
            print "opened"

        success = rar.Unrar(dir+"/")
        if (success != True):
            print rar.lastErrorText()
        else:
            print "Success."

        print "\n\n"+dir+"\n\n"

        path = "C:\\National.Geographic.Pack\\"+dir
        samplePath = path+"\\Sample\\"

        sampleAvi = os.listdir(samplePath)

        os.remove(samplePath+sampleAvi[0])
        os.rmdir(samplePath)
        for file in os.listdir(dir):
            if (file.find(".avi") < 0):
                if(os.path.isdir(file)):
                    os.rmdir(file)
                else:
                    try:
                        os.remove(path+"\\"+file)
                    except OSError:
                        print "OS Error"

            else:
                print "good"

I also wrote another one which would then take the period-explosion of names from downloads and rename it to something a little more human readable/nicer looking:

import sys
import os

dirs = os.listdir('./')

for dir in dirs:
    if (dir.find("National") >=0):
        asdf = dir.split('.')
        length = len(asdf)
        new = ''
        for x in asdf[2:length-2]:
            if (x.find("WS") < 0):
                new+=x+" "

        print new
        os.rename(dir,new)

DJ Steve Porter

humanumbrella — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:25:44 +0000

If you haven’t heard any of this stuff yet… you better get on it! It’s amazing! (:

He took this:

and made this:

AWESOME!

Google Search Results

humanumbrella — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:19:26 +0000

Is it just me or did google’s search results just gain a whole lot more whitespace?! Maybe they’re incorporating some kind of user feature to set up how you want the results back.. I don’t know.

I thought it was just me, but I’m pretty sure something changed!

It will take some time to get used to it, but I like it.