I was trying to get scanning working yesterday on my HP LaserJet 3390. However, I was hitting the dreaded message about
failed to open device hpaio:/net/<my_device_here> Invalid argument
I tried just about everything. I read gobs of results in Google. Some said to upgrade HP LIP, some said …
more ...I was doing some network reconfiguration on a box recently. I was switching from a static IP setup (which was originally configured during install) to a DHCP setup.
Problem was, regardless of what I did, I could not get the default route from the DHCP server to apply. I end …
more ...We are having some issues with our LDAP server dying. This is part of an IPA setup, and it seems slapd stops accepting connections after too many queries. To debug this, I constructed a Python script to repeatedly bind and unbind to the LDAP server. I used python-ldap to do …
more ...I lost my password to my account on a Serendipity blog recently, but still had access to the database. I did some code digging, and figured out how to reset a user’s password.
First, you have to figure out your install’s hash key:
SELECT name, value FROM s9yconfig …A while back, I noticed KMail was starting to run really slowly, and was responsible for a few megabytes per second of disk IO (as reported by iotop). I did some google searching, and found a reference to a possible problem with importing large folders from older versions of KMail …
more ...Today I was troubleshooting an issue with Apache and LDAP authentication via the OpenLDAP server. I had copied an existing configuration to a new system (Debian Etch to Ubuntu 10.04). Most everything was working (logins via PAM and LDAP, and the like). However, authentication via Apache’s LDAP BasicAuth …
more ...So, it appears there is no way built in to cPanel to script the creation of a large number of Mailman lists. Since we are migrating around 50 lists, I was not looking forward to a lot of copy, paste, click, etc. There had to be a better way. Turns …
more ...I was doing some programming today (no, really?) and had need of a data structure that would return a value based on the key falling within a given range. Kind of like a dict, but each key in the dict would be two values, between which the querying key would …
more ...Started a comment on this post but it got a little long.
So, I follow Planet Python and have seen Greg Wilson’s posts on the Basie project.
Basie is a web-based software project forge that integrates revision control, issue tracking, mailing lists, wikis, status dashboards, and other tools that …more ...
I am using Python to do some data file processing, converting data from a horrendously verbose, repetitive format to a nice, clean, CSV format. The date and time are in two different fields, and the date is in MM/DD/YYYY format, plus, the MM and DD might be one …
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