John's Blog

Finished the subnet search plugin for vim written in python.  Given a CIDR subnet, it will generate a regular expression to match all ip ad...

The goal at the outset was to get pymssql working with peewee , more specifically pwiz.py so I can build a set of class objects from a remo...

A camping stove that can cook with an open fire and produce enough electricity to charge a cellphone: BioLite Campstove. Just fill it wit...

Here are some networking resources and tools I've found useful: VisualLand - a combination network simulator, Animated howto, tutori...

I got chm2pdf working.  It came from google code , and needed chmlib, pychm, and htmldoc.  chmlib and htmldoc I installed using brew , and ...

The 0.8.1 GNS3 release now easily supports virtualbox hosts, and Tinycore linux is a nice easy way to add hosts to your topologies without c...

I have GNS.74 and wanted to run qemu to put hosts on network simulations.  I found I had to maunally start qemuwrapper with: python /Appli...

Been installing Natty on Virtualbox, and this is a summarized order of what I've been doing: Base install, no third party or downloadi...

http://www.keeness.net/yawas/index.htm I don't know why it's called "yet another" - its really the only one.  The next ...

To make Ubuntu more useful, here's what I've been doing after installing: run updates enable additional drivers set resolution ...

There is a tool ( unswindle ) to remove DRM from kindle files, which uses the Kindle4PC application and darkreverser's mobidedrm .  But...

JohnsBlog.name is now up and pointing to here at blogspot. More to come later.