Review of “Python for Unix and Linux System Administration”

I first got introduced to Python a few years go. Between now and then I mostly did some hackish scripts solving various small problems that me or my colleagues had. It has not been until recently that I started writing something that can remotely be called serious stuff that often makes its way to production [...]

AVUpdater.py

The servers in our DMZ do not have any access to the outside world. Getting Symantec dat files onto the DMZ AV server was kind of a pain. I would manually download the latest file (when I remembered) and then copy it to the correct directory on the server. I was getting kind of tired [...]

pyNetView

Have you ever wanted to just have a list of the machines on your network? One that you could easily pass to a script / application? Well I sure have.  So I do the net view > outfile.txt then scrub the text file dance. All I really want is a list of the machine names. [...]

Editra text editor

Thanks to this blog post I have started using Editra for my coding needs. It at version 0.3.38 which is its 14th alpha release at the time of this writing. Don’t let the alpha part fool you though. It is a very nice app that has some good features. It has syntax hilighting for 60+ [...]

hg vs git

Which to use. I have been using hg for some small things for a little while and I really like how easy it is to use. The commands are easy enough to remember and they make sense with what it is that you are trying to do. That with the fact that it is really [...]