Brian C. Lane

v1.0

~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/MobileDevice/<DEVICE_NAME>
C:\Documents and Settings\<USERNAME>\Application Data\Apple Computer\Logs\CrashReporter\MobileDevice\<DEVICE_NAME>
C:\Users\<USERNAME>\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\Logs\CrashReporter\MobileDevice\<DEVICE_NAME>
mdadm --create /dev/md3 --level=raid1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1
echo frozen > /sys/blocl/md3/md/sync_action
pvcreate /dev/md3
vgextend raid5-vol1 /dev/md3
pvmove /dev/md0 /dev/md3

vgreduce raid5-vol1 /dev/md0A
lvresize -l xxxxxx /dev/raid5-vol1/raid5
e2fsck -f /dev/radi5-vol1/raid5
resize2fs -p /dev/raid5-vol1/raid5

echo check > /sys/blocl/md3/md/sync_action
#!/usr/bin/env python
"""
    Copyright 2011 by Brian C. Lane
"""
import sys
import email

raw_msg = sys.stdin.read()
msg = email.message_from_string(raw_msg)
date = msg.get('Date', None)
if date:
    from email.utils import mktime_tz, parsedate_tz, formatdate

    try:
        # Convert to local TZ
        tz_tuple = parsedate_tz(date)
        epoch_time = mktime_tz(tz_tuple)
        msg.add_header('X-Date', formatdate( epoch_time, localtime=True ))

        from cStringIO import StringIO
        from email.generator import Generator
        fp = StringIO()
        g = Generator(fp, mangle_from_=False, maxheaderlen=200)
        g.flatten(msg)
        sys.stdout.write(fp.getvalue())
    except:
        import traceback
        print traceback.format_exc()
        sys.stdout.write(raw_msg)
else:
    # just write it out
    sys.stdout.write(raw_msg)

set display_filter="$HOME/.mutt/local-date.py"
#!/usr/bin/python
#
# git-changelog - Output a rpm changelog
#
# Copyright (C) 2009-2010  Red Hat, Inc.
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published
# by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
#
# Author: David Cantrell <dcantrell@redhat.com>
# Author: Brian C. Lane <bcl@redhat.com>

import os
import re
import subprocess
import sys
import textwrap
from optparse import OptionParser

class ChangeLog:
    def __init__(self, tag):
        self.tag = tag
        self.ignore = None

    def _getCommitDetail(self, commit, field):
        proc = subprocess.Popen(['git', 'log', '-1',
                                 "--pretty=format:%s" % field, commit],
                                stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
                                stderr=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()

        ret = proc[0].strip('\n').split('\n')

        if len(ret) == 1 and ret[0].find('@') != -1:
            ret = ret[0].split('@')[0]
        elif len(ret) == 1:
            ret = ret[0]
        else:
            ret = filter(lambda x: x != '', ret)

        return ret

    def getLog(self):
        range = "%s.." % (self.tag)
        proc = subprocess.Popen(['git', 'log', '--pretty=oneline', range],
                                stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
                                stderr=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()
        lines = filter(lambda x: x.find('l10n: ') != 41 and \
                                 x.find('Merge commit') != 41 and \
                                 x.find('Merge branch') != 41,
                       proc[0].strip('\n').split('\n'))

        if self.ignore and self.ignore != '':
            for commit in self.ignore.split(','):
                lines = filter(lambda x: not x.startswith(commit), lines)

        log = []
        for line in lines:
            fields = line.split(' ')
            commit = fields[0]

            summary = self._getCommitDetail(commit, "%s")
            long = self._getCommitDetail(commit, "%b")
            author = self._getCommitDetail(commit, "%aE")

            log.append(("%s (%s)" % (summary.strip(), author)))

        return log

    def formatLog(self):
        s = ""
        for msg in self.getLog():
            sublines = textwrap.wrap(msg, 77)
            s = s + "- %s\n" % sublines[0]

            if len(sublines) > 1:
                for subline in sublines[1:]:
                    s = s + "  %s\n" % subline

        return s

def main():
    parser = OptionParser()
    parser.add_option("-t", "--tag", dest="tag",
                      help="Last tag, changelog is commits after this tag")
    (options, args) = parser.parse_args()

    cl = ChangeLog(options.tag)
    print cl.formatLog()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

git-changelog -t livecd-tools-15.0
- Fix incomplete rename of freespace variable (#656154) (fgrose)
- Bump version to 15.1 (bcl)
- Create tmpdir if it doesn't exist (#658632) (bcl)
- Wrap subprocess.call() so we can capture all command output for debugging. (jlaska)
- Work with the logging settings when emitting progress. (jlaska)
- Add a quiet option to surpress stdout. Adjust handle\_logfile to not surpress stdout. (jlaska)
- Fix partition number selection for MMC bus devices (#587411) (fgrose)
- Fix disk space estimation errors (#656154) (fgrose)
- Tolerate empty transactions (lkundrak)
- Merge livecd-creator and image-creator (lkundrak)
- Cleanup if/then blocks (#652522) (fgrose)

Oct 28 03:53:05 cat kernel:         res 51/40:00:fc:33:4e/00:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x9 (media error)
Oct 29 16:06:46 cat smartd[24427]: Device: /dev/sdb [SAT], FAILED SMART self-check. BACK UP DATA NOW!

/boot
/
/
/boot
/boot
/boot2
[root@cat ~]# parted -l
Model: ATA Maxtor 5T040H4 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 41.0GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt

Number  Start   End     Size    File system     Name  Flags
 1      1049kB  525MB   524MB   ext4                  boot
 2      525MB   2622MB  2097MB  linux-swap(v1)
 3      2622MB  41.0GB  38.4GB                        raid

mdadm --manage --set-faulty /dev/md0 /dev/sdb3
/boot
/etc/fstab
dmidecode
parted
[root@cat ~]# parted /dev/sda print
Model: ATA ST3500418AS (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number  Start   End     Size   Type     File system     Flags
 1      1049kB  1000MB  999MB  primary  ext4            boot, raid
 2      1000MB  2000MB  999MB  primary  linux-swap(v1)
 3      2000MB  500GB   498GB  primary                  raid

/boot
/boot
mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md1 --level=raid1 --raid-devices=2 --metadata=1.0 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1

/boot
mkfs.ext4 /dev/md1
mount /dev/md1 /mnt
rsync -avc /boot /mnt
umount /mnt

[root@cat ~]# mdadm --manage /dev/md0 --add /dev/sdb3
mdadm: added /dev/sdb3
[root@cat ~]# mdadm --manage /dev/md0 --add /dev/sdc3
mdadm: added /dev/sdc3

/proc/mdstat
[root@cat ~]# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1]
md1 : active raid1 sdc1[1] sdb1[0]
      975860 blocks super 1.0 [2/2] [UU]

md0 : active raid1 sdc3[3](S) sdb3[2] sda3[0]
      37458876 blocks super 1.1 [2/1] [U_]
      [>....................]  recovery =  0.6% (247296/37458876) finish=22.5min speed=27477K/sec
      bitmap: 1/1 pages [4KB], 65536KB chunk

unused devices:

mdadm
--manage /dev/md0 --fail /dev/sda3
mdadm --manage /dev/md0 --remove /dev/sda3
/boot
/etc/fstab
blkid
/dev/sdX
blkid /dev/md0
/etc/fstab
/boot
[root@cat ~]# grub
root (hd0,0)
setup (hd1)
root (hd0,0)
setup (hd2)

Bitmap must be
removed before size can be changed
mdadm --grow /dev/md0 --bitmap none
mdadm --grow /dev/md0 --size max
/proc/mdstat
watch -n 20 cat /proc/mdstat
mdadm --grow /dev/md0 --bitmap internal
resize2fs /dev/md0
df -h
touch /forcefsck
# rawdog plugin to tidy up html output using python-tidy module
# Brian C. Lane <bcl@brianlane.com>
#
from tidy import parseString
import rawdoglib.plugins, re

def tidy_html(config, box, baseurl, inline):
    data = box.value
    utf8 = type(data) == type(u'')
    if utf8:
        data = data.encode('utf-8')

    data = str(parseString(data, output_xhtml=1, numeric_entities=1, wrap=0))

    if utf8:
        data = unicode(data, 'utf-8')
    if data.count('<body'):
        data = data.split('<body', 1)[1]
        if data.count('>'):
            data = data.split('>', 1)[1]
    if data.count('</body'):
        data = data.split('</body', 1)[0]

    box.value = data.strip()

rawdoglib.plugins.attach_hook("clean_html", tidy_html)

<?xml version="1.0" standalone=’no’?>
<!DOCTYPE service-group SYSTEM "avahi-service.dtd">
<service-group>
    <name replace-wildcards="yes">%h</name>
    <service>
        <type>\_daap.\_tcp</type>
        <port>3689</port>
        <txt-record>txtvers=1</txt-record>
        <txt-record>iTSh Version=131073</txt-record>
        <txt-record>Version=196610</txt-record>
    </service>
</service-group>

~/.gitconfig
[color]
ui = auto
[core]
pager = less -R

#!/usr/bin/env python
"""
    Quick Newseum Frontpage Grabber script
    Copyright 2009 by Brian C. Lane
    Imp Software
    All Rights Reserved

    Modify CITIES list below to add the city designators (as seen in the
    URLS at http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/default.asp)
"""
import urllib2
import re
import os
import urlparse

# Add more cities here
CITIES = [ "AL_AS", "AL_MA",   ]

NEWSEUM_URL="http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/hr.asp?fpVname=%s"
NEWSEUM_IMG="http://www.newseum.org"

def fetchNewseumImage(city):
    """
    Fetch the image for a city
    """
    print "Parsing the page for %s" % (city)
    page = urllib2.urlopen(NEWSEUM_URL % city).read()

    # Quick and dirty grep for the image name
    match = re.search('<img class="tfp_lrg_img" src="(.*)" alt=', page)
    if match:
        img_url = NEWSEUM_IMG + os.path.abspath(match.group(1))
        print "Saving the image for %s" % (city)
        image = urllib2.urlopen(img_url).read()
        open(os.path.basename(match.group(1)), "wb").write(image)

def main():
    """
    Main code goes here
    """
    for city in CITIES:
        fetchNewseumImage(city)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

class DbSchema(object):
    """
    Database schema creation and modification
    """

    # Schema revisions, rev[0], etc. is a list of SQL operations to run to
    # bring the database up to date.
    sql = ["""  create table users(id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, username UNIQUE, password, email);
                create table sources(id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, name, type, path UNIQUE);

                create table schema(version);
                insert into schema(version) values(1);
            """,
            # Add default values
            """ insert into users(username, password) values("admin","badpassword");

                update schema set version=2;
            """,
            # Add media table
            """ create table media(
                    id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,
                    name,
                    path
                );

                update schema set version=3;
            """,
        ]

    def __init__(self, database):
        self.database = database

    def upgrade(self):
        """
        Upgrade the database to the current schema version
        """
        # Get the current schema version number
        conn = sqlite3.connect(self.database)
        conn.row_factory = sqlite3.Row
        cur = conn.cursor()
        try:
            cur.execute("select version from schema")
            version = cur.fetchone()['version']
        except:
            version = 0

        if len(self.sql) > version:
            for update in self.sql[version:]:
                cur.executescript(update)
        cur.close()
        conn.close()

schema = DbSchema("./library.db")
schema.upgrade()

cat host.tar.bz2.a? | tar tvjf - > ./directory.txt
DEVICE=eth0
HWADDR=00:21:97:9e:e1:15
NM\_CONTROLLED=no
ONBOOT=yes
BRIDGE=br0

# Bridge device
DEVICE=br0
TYPE=Bridge
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=yes
DELAY=0
NM\_CONTROLLED=no

systemhealth.py --html

Number	Fact
#74	You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world
#12	Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards
#15	All porcupines float in water
#23	The San Francisco cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments
#14	Camel's milk does not curdle
#25	The only food that doesn't spoil is honey
#17	A hummingbird weighs less than a penny
#47	Giraffes have no vocal chords
#48	Cats can hear ultrasound
#66	Americans eat 18 acres of pizza every day
#23	The San Francisco cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments
#45	Elephants are capable of swimming 20 miles a day
#54	The average smell weighs 760 nanograms
#60	The tongue is the fastest healing part of a human body
#92	Fish can drown
#75	The average person makes about 1,140 telephone calls each year
#184	The most used letters in the English language are E, T, A, O, I and N.
#164	The first vacuum was so large, it was brought to a house by horses.
#165	Your eye expands up to 45% when looking at something pleasing.
#122	A duck can't walk without bobbing its head.
#138	Hawaii is the only U.S. state that grows coffee.
#118	Honeybees are the only insects that create a form of food for humans.
#127	A hummingbird's heart beats 1,400 times a minute.
#158	The first MTV video was "Video Killed the Radio Sta," by the Buggles.
#186	A female kangaroo is called a Flyer.
#149	Theodore Roosevelt was the only president who was blind in one eye.
#153	The speed limit in NYC was 8 mph in 1895.
#122	A duck can't walk without bobbing its head.
#181	The first jukebox was located in San Francisco in 1899.
#127	A hummingbird's heart beats 1,400 times a minute.
#131	Penguins have an organ above their eyes that converts seawater to fresh water.
#158	The first MTV video was "Video Killed the Radio Star," by the Buggles.
#178	The first ballpoint pens were sold in 1945 for $12.00
#47	Giraffes have no vocal chords
#28	Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying
#119	The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards.
#148	The tallest man was 8 ft. 11 in.
#159	The first TV show ever to be put into reruns was "The Lone Ranger."
#??7	A queen bee can lay 800-1500 eggs per day
#53	The average woman consumes 6 pounds of lipstick in her lifetime
#163	The first penny had the motto "Mind your own business."

Number	Fact
1	A Goldfish's attention span is three seconds
2	Animals that lay eggs don't have belly buttons
3	Beavers can hold their breathe for 45 minutes under water
4	Slugs have 4 noses
5	Camels have 3 eyelids
6	A honey bee can fly at 15mph
7	A queen bee can lay 800-1500 eggs per day
8	A bee has 5 eyes
9	The average speed of a housefly is 4.5 mph
10	Mosquitos are attracted to people who just ate bananas
11	Flamingos are pink because they eat shrimp
12	Emus and Kangaroos cannot walk backward
13	Cats have over 100 vocal chords
14	Camel's milk does not curdle
15	All porcupines float in water
16	The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1
17	A hummingbird weighs less then a penny
18	A jellyfish is 95% water
19	Children grow faster in the spring
20	Broccoli is the only vegetable that is also a flower
21	Almonds are part of the peach family
22	Alaska has the highest percentage of people who walk to work
23	The San Francisco Cable cars are th only mobile national monument
24	The state of maine has 62 lighthouses
25	The only food that does not spoil is honey
26	The Hawaiian alphabet only has 12 letters
27	A ball of glass will bounce higher then a ball of rubber
28	Chewing gum while peeling onions will prevent you from crying
29	On average a human will spend up to 2 weeks kissing in his/her lifetime
30	Fish have eyelids
31	The average human will eat an average of 8 spiders while sleeping
32	There are one million ants to every human in the world
33	Termites eat through wood two times faster when listening to rock music!
34	If you keep a goldfish in a dark room it will eventually turn white
35	Elephants only sleep 2 hours a day
36	A duck's quack doesn't echo
37	A snail breathes through it's foot
38	Fish cough...
39	An ant's smell is stronger then a dog's
40	It is possible to lead a cow up stairs but not down
41	Shrimp can only swim backward
42	Frogs cannot swallow with their eyes open
43	A cat's lower jaw cannot move sideways
44	The bullfrog is the only animal that never sleeps
45	Elephants are capable of swimming 20 miles per day
46	Elephants are the only mammal that cannot jump
47	Giraffes have no vocal chords
48	Cats can hear ultrasound
49	Despite its hump...camel's have a straight spine
50	Mosquitos have 47 teeth
51	There are 63,360 inches in a mile
52	11% of people in the world are lefthanded
53	The average women consumes 6lbs of lipstick in her lifetime
54	The average smell weighs 760 nanograms
55	A human brain weighs about 3lbs
56	1/4 of the bones in your body are in your feet
57	You blink over 10,000,000 times a year
58	A sneeze travels out of your nose at 100mph
59	Brain waves can be used to power an electric train
60	A tongue is the fastest healing part of the body
61	Pigs get sunburn
62	The lifespan of a tastebud is 10 days
63	The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime
64	Strawberries contain more Vitamin C then oranges
65	A one-day weather forecast requires about 10 billion math calculations
66	Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza a day
67	There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal cracker zoo
68	The longest one syllabled word is "screeched"
69	No word in the english language rhymes with month
70	A "jiffy" is actually 1/100 of a second (Caller ID is illegal in California)
71	There is a town called "Big Ugly" in West Virginia
72	The average person uses 150 gallons of water per day for personal use
73	The average person spends 2 weeks of it's life waiting for a traffic light to change
74	You share your birthday with 9 million others in the world
75	The average person makes 1,140 phone calls per year
76	The average person spends 2 years on the phone in his/her lifetime
77	No piece of paper can be folded more then 7 times
78	Alaska is the most eastern and western state in the US
79	There are 119 grooves on the edge of a quarter
80	About 18% of Animal owners share their bed with their pet
81	Alaska has more caribou then people
82	August has the highest percent of births
83	Googol is a number (1 followed by 100 zeros)
84	Oysters can change genders back and forth
85	The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows
86	Until the 19th century solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia
87	A mile on the ocean and a mile on land are not the same distance
88	A ten gallon hat holds less then one gallon of liquid
89	The average American walks 18,000 steps a day
90	The average raindrop falls at 7mph
91	There are more telephones then people in Washington D.C.
92	Fish can drown
93	A Kangaroo can jump 30 feet
94	Lizards communicate by doing push-ups
95	Squids can have eyeballs the size of volleyballs
96	The average American will eat 35,000 cookies in his/her lifetime
97	A turkey can run at 20mph
98	When the moon is directly over you, you weigh less
99	You burn 20 calories an hour chewing gum
100	In a year, the average person walks 4 miles makeing their bed
101	About half of all Americans are on a diet at any given time
102	A one-minute kiss burns 26 calories
103	Frowning burns more calories then smiling
104	There are more then 30,000 diets on public record
105	You will burn 7% more calories walking on hard dirt then pavement
106	You way less at the top of a mountain then sea level
107	You burn more calories sleeping then watching TV
108	Licking a stamp burns 10 calories
109	Smelling apples and/or bananas can help you loose weight

Brian C. Lane

NASCAR Countdown for iPhone

Moving a BackupPC Pool

New MovieLandmarks Update

Local time for mutt email display

Changes to the Webpage and Blog

AIS Parser SDK is now Free

Nice %changelog entries

AIS feed is up again

Using RAID to Escape Disaster

Fedora Pumpkin

Kindle on Linux using Wine

tidy_html plugin for rawdog

Sharing Music on the LAN

Home Media Server Updates

color output from git log -p on OSX

Fixed live.aisparser.com

GUETech is back up

Newseum Page Grabber Script

ALMS Countdown Approved in Record Time

ALMS Countdown for iPhone

Screenshots

Submitted NASCAR Countdown app to App Store

Hygrosens Python Library

WZON T-Shirts

NASCAR Countdown Widget Updated for 2010

NASCAR Countdown Dashboard Widget

Simple SQL Schema Migration

Moved the blog home

Streaming Local Video With Your Roku

SharePics Accepted by Apple!

SharePics for iPhone

SharePics Rejected by Apple!

Backups, Archives and Overheating Processors

KVM on Fedora11

iPhone Tech Talk Seattle

LinuxFest Northwest 2008 Presentation

Replace Yourself With Python

System Health Monitoring Software

Safari Books Online Review

LinuxFest Northwest 2005 Presentation

MSP430 Programming with Linux

PICprg

PhotoAlbum

SN-15 PalmOS AR-15 Serial Number List

TrollBridge Network Authentication

up2dateiso

Snapple Real Facts

Linux Fest Northwest 2003

Olympic Arms Phoenix Rising Event

Build an AR-15 Rifle

Parts

Build

Problems

Range Report

XfreeCD audio CD player