Posted in daily on Feb 22nd, 2007
It will probably be hard for you to believe, but my girlfriend discovered a DoS vulnerability in Gaim. No, don’t worry. She is not a computer geek (One in a relationship is certainly enough). The story of my girlfriend’s important discovery goes like this:
I was chatting with her some days ago using Gaim (she uses [...]
Posted in python, turbogears on Feb 20th, 2007
This is the second installment of the lecture I gave at the Israeli Pythoneers Meeting. In case that you missed it, it is recommended that you read the first part of it.
At this point, I closed OpenOffice Impress and said that I would demonstrate how quickly you could get a functional Web application up [...]
If you happen to find a Sun Solaris server with a telnet daemon running, it is very likely that you can get superuser access on it by just typing:
$ telnet -l “-froot” server
where server is the server name. I was able to confirm this on a Solaris server nearby.
It’s amazing to see that this one [...]
Posted in python, turbogears on Feb 8th, 2007
One month ago, I gave an introductory speech about TurboGears at the Israeli Pythoneers Meeting. The discussion consisted of two parts. The first part introduced TurboGears, and the second part included live coding of a Flickr clone.
I hereby give the lecture again, in a written format. These are the original slides used in the lecture. [...]
Posted in howto, python, turbogears on Feb 4th, 2007
What good is an application—not matter how much information it contains—if the inability to easily search it renders it useless?
Xapian to the Rescue
Xapian is an excellent open source (GPL) search engine library. It is written in C++ and comes with bindings for Python as well as many other languages, and it supports everything you’d expect [...]