I just used the Python script located here and created getnasa.py in my home directory. I made it executable and added it to my System > Preferences > Startup Applications.
Now I have a nice new NASA space image refreshed each day!
I have a WordPress installation which uses LDAP against Active Directory to authenticate users. I upgraded PHP to version 5.3.8 from version 5.1.6 (using the Atomic Repository) and also upgraded WordPress and the LDAP plugin. I'm not sure which upgrade... » More
I had been asked to create some watercolour versions of my holiday photos so I created the following action file for Photoshop (CS2). What does the action do? Creates 3 new dupliacte layers Layer 1 - Filter > Artistic > Cutout (with... » More
Background: I made a tar backup of one system and wanted to untar that onto different hardware. A bit like cloning. However I needed to make sure the hostname and network settings were those of the new machine and not the cloned machine. So for future... » More
The simple way to wipe or zerofill a disk is: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd? bs=1M However I found an article describing how to zero-fill with a progress indicator using pipebench, installed on Debian/Ubuntu with: sudo apt-get install pipebench then... » More
Background: I had an existing CentOS machine as a virtual machine running on VMWare ESX Server and it was running out of space so for future reference I did the following. Incidentally my disk is sda with the new partition create on the extra space as... » More
Quick Reference Good PDF introduction to the GDL language. Libraries Hunting around the web there are people producing extra libraries which can be downloaded : NASA IDL Astronomy Libraries SDSSIDL - a set of general IDL utilities for... » More
The Gnu Data Language is an interactive interpreter/incremental compiler for the GNU Data Language, which is primarily used in scientific, astronomical, medical and geo-science data processing applications. It supports graphical output and is... » More
So I tested out Skipfish today to do a quick check on a website / web server. Hosted on Google at: http://code.google.com/p/skipfish/ download it, extract it and make and run: wget http://skipfish.googlecode.com/files/skipfish-2.01b.tgz tar xzf... » More
Background: I had an existing CentOS machine as a virtual machine running on VMWare ESX Server and it was running out of space so for future reference I did the following. Incidentally my disk is sda with the new partition create on the extra space as... » More
