Monthly Archives: July 2009

Chroma-Hash implementation in Python

I’ve just read an experiment by mattt.me about creating a multi-colored area beside the password area in order to let people who have extremely long passwords know that their passwords matches.

http://mattt.me/2009/07/chroma-hash-a-belated-introduction/

Personally I thought that this is an extremely…

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[Design] Abstract Wallpaper

abstract

And once again, the text fails me…

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Overcomplicated Hello World example in Lua

As we all know, writing a hello world script in Lua consists of no more and no less then the simple use of print(“Hello World!”). However, given the simplicity of such a task, I set out to create something much…

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Auto-restart in (Python) and subprocess.Popen goodness

This is an auto-restart script for Orbited, but it can be modified to be used with other apps. This is presuming that there’s only one instance with that name running.

Basically, this script takes into account the fact that if…

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How-To: Use Zlib and Ez_Setup.py in Python 2.5

As many have noticed while install easy_install on Python 2.5, a mysterious message appears that a previously very prevalent package has disappeared from python.

[root@server]# python

Python 2.5.4 (r254:67916, Jul 11 2009, 12:13:45)
[GCC 4.1.2 20080704 (Red

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