TL;DR: I’m shutting down the twitfeeder project (it was on lifesupport for a long time) so I mirrored a technical article from the blog in the hope that it might be useful for somebody someday. Proxying URL fetch requests from the Google App Engine Hosting on the Google App Engine means giving up a lot…

Sometimes you need to quickly start up a webserver that serves up static files (I will describe such a case in the next post). Python to the rescue (works on both Linux and Windows if you have Python installed): For Python 2.x (this is what most sites show you): python -m SimpleHTTPServer 9914 For Python…

A little background about this post: while I was vaguely aware of RoboForm, I never took a closer look at it until I saw the following post by Derek: Beware of fake shopping sites. What it basically says is that a password manager (such as Roboform) will help you avoid phising sites, because it will…

Vista automatic updates have deleted all of the data on my desktop. Posted: 25 Dec 2009 08:37 AM PST I love "Indian-English": By doing automatic updates you want lose the Data saved on the system. net toolkit::index Posted: 31 Dec 2009 04:28 AM PST Appendix G: Windows Update Agent Result Codes Posted: 31 Dec 2009…

As the readers of the blog know, I’ve been slicing and dicing the Twitter RSS feed for some time. Finally I launched a free service which wraps all the improvements in one, easy to use and best of all, free (!) service: The Twit Feeder. Cross-Posted from The Twit Feeder blog: Efficiency is key for…

As they say: just because you’re paranoid, it doesn’t mean that you’re not being watched! Here are a couple of links which freaked me out recently: Warily, and with much trepidation – a blogpost about how one deleted his facebook settings because of privacy concerns. I do have a facebook page, but I only use…

The short answer is: I don’t know 🙂 While I was watching National Geographic, I caught a glimpse of the BMW “Efficient Dynamic” advertisement campaign. The claims made by this campaign were quite extraordinary and – being the cynic that I am – I thought: hang on, this sounds too good to be true. The…

Scenario: you are typing away in your blog editor on Ubuntu doing a (somewhat) Flash-heavy post. You make the mistake of hitting “Preview” and the blogging software hangs. How can you get your post out? Find the PID of your blogging software Coredump it (gcore [PID] – this will create a file called core.[PID] in…

Quick note: I was listening to the latest episode of Watchguard’s Radio Free Security podcast (no relation with them, other than a listener to the podcast) and they discussed an interesting technique for filtering websites (I’m no fan of traffic filtering, but the technique seemed interesting): Usually SSL requests are either blocked by the target…

Apparently Google isn’t the only big web company closing down some of its offering. I got this email today: I didn’t use the service, but some of my readers (all 2 of them :-p) might, so watch out. As a security side-note: it is nice how Yahoo attaches a little icon to their “official” mails.…