I’m always using a US keyboard. However, I still often need to write french text with those keyboards, hence needing accents. Of course, I don’t like when what’s written on the keyboard doesn’t match what it does :-)
This provides a custom US keyboard layout for Linux, using unintrusive deadkeys for accents.
[more…]A script allowing to just move mail between folders in IMap to train antispam.
This script work but is unmaintened. There’s an issue which can tend to damage the automatic learning. It should not drop your mails, but that might generate bad classification or nuke your dspam learning base.
[more…]For some reason, I have a smtp server running completely as user and which cannot open port 25; it listens to port 2225 instead. So, I want to redirect port 25 to port 2225, using iptables.
[more…]Here is a python script to repair rrd databases where some data had been in the future.
[more…]I’m often playing with tools to manipulate full system images for virtual machines and so I often need to create disk images. The attached script allows to create a disk image of an arbitrary size with partitions and a working grub bootloader. This kind of script can be a bit dangerous, so I put it there just as an example, be careful. It is using qemu-img to create the disk image (which can be easily replaced by dd), sfdisk to create the partitions, and grub to install a boot loader.
[more…]While Python as the extremely useful virtualenv tool, I haven’t found anything similar for Perl. What I want is quite simple: being able to test random perl tools. They usually depend on a various set of libraries, some of them either too old on my system or not even present. Most of the time, I just want to test the tool, so installing random perl modules system-wide is not an option. Moreover, I really don’t like having to install something system-wide which is not coming as a package for my distribution. The solution is to have a virtual environment where I can install all the libraries I want, somewhere in my user directory. This has the advantage too of allowing to use a different version of a library for different perl tools.
[more…]Python has several more or less standard tools to properly create and/or distribute python code. This shows a practical starting point.
A few tools exists:
We’re going to use Distribute and PIP here it looks like they become the standard.
[more…]This python script allows you to start a Qemu in a screen with separated screen windows for qemu monitor and for serial port.
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