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Fontana di Trevi [Flickr]

diego.russo — Sat, 12 May 2012 07:01:44 PDT

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Ready to fight? [Flickr]

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The Holy See [Flickr]

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Tower bridge [Flickr]

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Don't worry.. [Flickr]

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It seems small.. [Flickr]

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London Eye [Flickr]

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How i’ve got a job at ARM Ltd

diegor — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:58:07 +0000

It’s long time that I don’t write on my blog. I know, I’m bad guy even after all the pressure from my 2 readers I would wait because this post is particular, special, different from the others. I was waiting the right moment to write it and I think that this moment has arrived. I’d [...]

HOWTO: select a specific python package version using easy_install

diegor — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 13:25:25 +0000

“easy_install” installs the latest version available of a python package. Sometime you need to use a specific version and you can install an earlier version of the package you need. For instance, if you need django 1.1.4, you’ll type: #> easy_install "django==1.1.4" Pretty simple eh? Questions, doubts, comments are appreciated

HOWTO: import old logs in AWStats

diegor — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:13:50 +0000

AWStats is a great software to analyse Apache logs for having statistics about your sites. Unfortunately it doesn’t offer a tool to import old logs into AWStats. For that I’ve created a small python script to do this. Here you go: import commands raw_data = commands.getoutput('ls -rt /var/log/apache2/wespot-access80.log.*.gz') logs = raw_data.splitlines() for log in logs: commands.getoutput('zcat %s [...]

Something is changing

diegor — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 20:08:19 +0000

Stay tuned!

HOWTO: rename all files in lowercase

diegor — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:06:03 +0000

Pretty simple. If you don’t have a *NIX operating system, please skip this post. Create a script with this content: #!/bin/sh for f in *; do g=`expr "xxx$f" : 'xxx$.*$' | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'` mv -n "$f" "$g" done and call it “rename.sh” Give it execution permissions, typing: chmod u+x rename.sh Execute the script from [...]

HOWTO: postgresql on Dremhost Private Server

diegor — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 13:14:02 +0000

If you have a PS with DreamHost and you need to use PostgreSQL as database, you’ll see that’s impossible to login with postgres user and so you won’t able to use PostgreSQL. Dreamhost supports officially only MySQL, so they don’t provide any info about PostgreSQL. Anyway the problem of using PostgreSQL in DH’s PS is [...]

HOWTO: using telnet to make HTTP request

diegor — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 09:40:23 +0000

Telnet is an old utility used in local network to offer a bidirectional communication text-oriented using a terminal. Can be used also to make an http call to a remote server with the purpose of testing. Let’s see how: Open you favorite terminal Type (instead of diegor.it you can choose whatever server you want) #> telnet [...]

HOWTO: ignore requests without user agent in Apache

diegor — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 13:28:00 +0000

A public web server could be reached by many http requests with no user agent. Apache can avoid this kind of requests. The configuration is very straightforward: <Directory /path/to/a/directory> SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^-?$" noUserAgent Order Allow,Deny Allow from All Deny from env=noUserAgent </Directory> In this example Apache ignores [...]

HOWTO: “ip_conntrack: table full, dropping packet”

diegor — Fri, 20 May 2011 07:45:17 +0000

I used to manage a server based on linux and once I had this strange message: #> ip_conntrack: table full, dropping packet One of the effects of this message is that you aren’t able to make and receive new connections. To solve that is enough increase ip_conntrack_max value. As first step check the current value [...]

HOWTO: passing arguments to functions in Django Template

diegor — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 20:27:54 +0000

Django doesn’t permit you because it goes against MVC model, but sometime it’s useful to get output (in view level) depending on specific arguments. For example in my model i have this method: def get_value(self, arg_to_pass): if (arg_to_pass.is_type_A): return self.value_for_A else: return self.value_for_B In your template you’ll type {{ object.get_value }} but you can’t pass [...]