Author Archives: xiao_haozi
Weather Database Hits Half-Million
The Mutaku weather database project has finally surpassed a half-million datapoints. Large data achievements arriving right around Pi Day always seem that much sweeter.
Posted in Mutaku, Programming
Tagged data management, news, old mutaku, pi, projects, python, weather
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Transposing Matrices in Python
Situation: We have a list of nested lists (list of matrices) that we wish to transpose. Solution: Utilize chain to iterate over our master list (x), flattening it, and then we iterate over the elements and return these as a … Continue reading
Posted in Hacks, Programming, Python
Tagged Hacks, matrices, one-liners, programming, python
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Checking your SSH key Fingerprint
As many of you probably are already well aware, Github recently was made aware of a mass-assignment vulnerability (1). If you aren’t caught up, you can find the info here on the Github blog (2, 3). This afternoon, Github sent … Continue reading
Posted in Programming
Tagged bash, git, github, programming, ssh, system administration
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Analyzing Brute Force Attempts in BASH
If you have a public facing SSH server running on the standard port, your message log is probably filled with failed authentication attempts from brute force attacks. Let’s mash up some quick BASH commands to analyze this data. For our … Continue reading
Posted in *BSD, Hacks, Linux, Programming, Server/Webserver
Tagged authentication, bash, data management, Hacks, linux, network, security, ssh, system administration, webserver
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Finding Images with Python
Let’s say we wish to take a directory, the current directory in this example, and gather all the image files. This could be helpful if we were then going to use PIL or Image Magick to manipulate those files, or … Continue reading
STOP SOPA/PIPA!
Speak up here: https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/ Tell congress that we don’t want totalitarianism!
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Monty Hall Sneak Peak
Coming Soon: Monty Hall game player in Python. For now, here is a little teaser: The code is hosted, of course, on GitHub and can be found here: https://github.com/mutaku/Monty-Hall-Game As soon as I get the rest of it written up I’ll … Continue reading
Posted in Programming, Python
Tagged decorators, github, mathematics, monty hall paradox, object-oriented programming, programming, python
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Game Recommendations : Round 1
Try to throw up rudimentary, sometimes cringe-worthy quality recommendations on Steam of the PC games I’m playing. Figured that with my minimalist friends list on Steam that there may be some more benefit reaped from those inexpertly written reviews by posting them … Continue reading
Mutaku on Google+ Pages
We are now on Google+ Pages as you can see by way of the link on the right side of the page or by clicking here. If you are a G+ user feel free to swing by the page. Will … Continue reading
