Cover of The Girl Who Played With Fire book

The Girl Who Played with Fire

The Girl Who Played with FireMillenium Author: Stieg Larsson I remember The Girl Who Played with Fire as the most “thriller-like” of the trilogy. It dives deep into Lisbeth’s past and gives her even more of the spotlight, which I liked. The plot moved quickly - maybe even too quickly at times - and the whole hacking/outcast vibe was still strong. I can’t say I remember every detail, but I remember enjoying the momentum. It felt more cinematic than the first one.

2015-11-12 · 1 min · timor
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

The Girl with the Dragon TattooMillennium Author: Stieg Larsson I read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo quite a while ago, back when everyone seemed to be talking about it. The hype was real - and I could see why. It’s a solid crime story with a dark edge, and I especially enjoyed the touches of hacking and cyber intrigue. Sure, the tech parts weren’t always realistic, but they still hit a certain vibe that I appreciated. ...

2015-10-12 · 1 min · timor
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Ruby

RubyProgramowanie Authors: David Flanagan, Yukihiro Matsumoto

2015-08-13 · 1 min · timor
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GIT

GITRozproszony system kontroli wersji Author: Włodzimierz Gajda

2015-02-10 · 1 min · timor
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Copy GTP partiotion table between disks

When configuring RAID it’s quite important to have the same partition tables on every disk. I’v done this many times on msdos partition tables like this: sfdisk -d /dev/sda | sfdisk /dev/sdb but it’s not working any more on GPT partition tables. Hopefully it still can be done but with different toolstack 😄 Install gdisk: apt-get install -y gdisk Then use sgdisk like this: sgdisk -R /dev/sd_dest /dev/sd_src sgdisk -G /dev/sd_dest First command will copy partition from /dev/sd_src to /dev/sd_dest. Second will randomize partition UUID’s - needed only if you want to use disks in same machine (this is my case).

2014-07-28 · 1 min · timor
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Quickly setup SQL query logging on console in Django

There is need plugin for Django, named django-debug-toolbar but it needs some time to configure. So when I need simple way to debug SQL queries I use small hack. Add to your settings.py: LOGGING = { 'version': 1, 'disable_existing_loggers': False, 'handlers': { 'console': { 'level': 'DEBUG', 'class': 'logging.StreamHandler', } }, 'loggers': { 'django.db.backends': { 'handlers': ['console'], 'level': 'DEBUG', }, } } To get this working DEBUG option have to be set to True: ...

2014-05-28 · 1 min · timor
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Changing default php.ini file for PHP-CLI on CentOS

On Debian in default installation you have different configuration files for PHP in Apache, FPM, CLI, etc. But on CentOS you have only one php.ini for all of them. In case I have, I need to have different configuration file for scripts running in CLI mode (more memory, etc). I could run it like this: php -c /etc/php-cli.ini script.php But this a little burdensome. So I do it like this: ...

2014-05-08 · 1 min · timor
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Command to change root password

Everybody knows passwd command but it’s useless when you need to change ex. root password from command line without waiting for input. In such case oneliner below could help: echo "root:new_password" | chpasswd

2014-05-08 · 1 min · timor
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Install Steam on Debian/Ubuntu

These are few steps to get Steam running on Ubuntu: wget -c media.steampowered.com/client/installer/steam.deb dpkg -i steam.deb apt-get install -f apt-get update Solutions for some issues Some time ago I needed 32 bit flash even on 64 bit system - I don’t need it currently but I’m living this as a tip. apt-get install adobe-flashplugin:i386 After Ubuntu upgrade I was unable to run Steam anymore - It shouted on me with strange “networking problem”. I have to clean Steam configuration with: ...

2014-04-22 · 1 min · timor
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Rebuild yum/rpm database

When I was trying to update packages on one host I’ve stuck with yum hung on update. I run strace and see: strace -p 43734 Process 43734 attached - interrupt to quit futex(0x807c938, FUTEX_WAIT, 1, NULL <unfinished ...> Process 43734 detached It looks like yum database was corrupted, to repair this run: rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* rpm --rebuilddb yum clean all yum update Instead rm on db-files you could use gzip to have backup of these files.

2014-04-04 · 1 min · timor