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Sorting Domain Names By TLD

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 23:19:26 +0000

Sorting Domain Names By TLD Suppose you have a list of domain names including subdomains, wouldn't it be nice to have those sorted by TLD first, followed by however deeply nested subdomain names? If you happen to use PHP, things are simple (but not as short as in Perl, see link below):

Sorting Images based on Exif data

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 23:17:06 +0000

Sorting Images based on Exif data Suppose you have a folder containing images taken by a digital camera over a period of time, wouldn't it be nice to sort these images into folders? The script below copies folders from one folder to another, creating subfolders in the target folder with the name of YYYY-MM (2010-07).

iPhone 4S: Convert Video to HTML5 for streaming

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 06:44:26 +0000

iPhone 4S: Convert Video to HTML5 for streaming Challenge When presented with the task of showing an iPhone 4S video to someone under the following circumstances: * Video should be embedded on a website * Recipient person does not have a Youtube or FB account

MD5 and shorter hashing techniques

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 10 Feb 2019 20:07:20 +0000

MD5 and shorter hashing techniques I had the need for creating a link in an e-mail which should have had an unique identifier appended to it. I did not want to use a numeric ID as it would have been to easy to “play” with and thus possibly creating information leakage further down the line.

Recover files from lost+found

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 15:12:26 +0000

Recover files from lost+found You know the feeling: you are beavering away with whatever it is what you're doing and suddenly, you are confronted with a hard disk failure in your file server. In a brave attempt to get the failing partition at least mountable again, you unmount it and let e2fsck do its magic:

Reading Smartcards with Gentoo Linux

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 15:18:04 +0000

Reading Smartcards with Gentoo Linux This page describes the steps necessary to read smartcards using Gentoo Linux. Card Readers There are USB and serial card readers. The discussed steps here are for serial card readers, the one used is Towitoko's CHIPDRIVE micro 100, which is fully supported. Also tested was the CHIPDRIVE micro 120.

Listen to Xfm London using Linux

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 20:22:32 +0000

Listen to Xfm London using Linux This article is heavily outdated and left here for nostalgic reasons only. There is one radio station which I could listen to all day and that is Xfm London (). That station and their music must be near the top of the things I miss the most since I don't live in the UK anymore.