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Ubuntu Custom CD: a quick and dirty way
A few notes on my practical experience of building custom ubuntu disks. I work here with Ubuntu Precise (12.04). But any other Ubuntu distro should be ok, unless the bug I mention below is fixed, then you can stick with the official guide. Anyways, lets start ( Read more... ) -
OpenVAS 4.x/5.x from SVN source
Didn't see any around. so here are my notes ( Read more... ) -
socket proxy in erlang
Since I started spitting out some code here, here's another thing I've been playing recently. Erlang. For kicks, I decided to implement a socket proxy/connection bouncer. The erlang socket programming model is slightly different from the ones we used to in python/c/perl/... so here is the piece (docs and original example here ( Read more... ) -
Chunked decoding in python
I haven't been able to find any short and quick method of decoding "chunked-encoding" encoded data in python without whacking 3rd party libraries, so here is my bet ( Read more... ) -
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Everyone knows that Kyrgyz Internet magically went down when the whole revolutinary mess, purchased by north american or russian democrats, kicked off. Makes me thinking: we should build a p2p-ble framework for twitter/file and video swaps. so as long as there are bytes that could make it from one network to another, the network would be ( Read more... ) -
Refused US visa. 2 times
What's wrong with all those dudes sitting in embassy I wonder!! I have 1 week-short business trip planned. I have all the invitation letters and flights in place. full time employed, coming with all these papers to the embassy just to waste 10,000NT going into pockets of American political system and 20 minutes of fruiteless conversation with some ( Read more... ) -
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肏 - the book (http://www.chinasmack.com/pictures/niubi-eveline-chao-chinese-bad-words-reactions) says that this is a rare character, and rarely included. hmm.. for some reason in my input prompt it was 2nd character after 草 ( Read more... ) -
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now this is funny :) ripped off from some chain letter. "A foreigner decides to start learning chinese. on the first class he gets list of words for 'wife' and 'husband'. here's the list ;-) (use translate.google.com if you want to find the actual meaning :))
Wife =
1妻子，
2老婆，
3太太，
4夫人，
5老伴，
6愛人，
7內人，
8媳婦，
9那口子，
10拙荊，
11賢內助，
12對象，
13孩他媽，
14孩他娘，
15內子，
16婆娘，
17糟糠，
18 ( Read more... )
