Andrew Gone Digital

Moving Servers

andrewthefree — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 23:22:13 +0000

I decided to run wordpress myself and use my own domain name. From now on all new things will be at www.andrewfree.com

Fractions & Decimals In Python

andrewthefree — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 05:28:58 +0000

Made in one day . It just takes either a decimal and turns it into a fraction (reduced) or takes a fraction and reduces it.

Code Below
My Python Code!

Examples

rawr:Desktop toXic$ python fractions.py
Choice 1 for decmial to reduced fraction, choose 2 for just reduced fraction: 1
Enter a decimal: .25
fraction is: 1/4
rawr:Desktop toXic$ python fractions.py
Choice 1 for decmial to reduced fraction, choose 2 for just reduced fraction: 2
Enter your fraction: 421/1200
fraction is: 421/1200
rawr:Desktop toXic$ python fractions.py
Choice 1 for decmial to reduced fraction, choose 2 for just reduced fraction: 2
Enter your fraction: 300/500
fraction is: 3/5

Verifying Checksums

andrewthefree — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:35:42 +0000

When you download something on the internet it goes through lots of routers and networks. When you receive the file it has a checksum, you can verify this checksum on osx and see if it was changed on its destination to you from where ever its from. (If the person its from gives you the checksum before the transfer). It looks a little something like this.

openssl sha1 /path/to/file

An example:

myComputer# openssl sha1 views.py
SHA1(views.py)= 7690e79719d9080942b8aa1a8f9ca743da718aa1

What.cd Python Music Script

andrewthefree — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:22:16 +0000

Hey this is a simple script python script in python for what.cd users who use Transmission as their bit-torrent client (OSX and Linux only (I think)). This is only to be used for free music please do not change it to download any non-free music.

How it Works. You will need the twill library, BeautifulSoup (library to parse HTML), and simplejson (Encodes POST data in JSON format). These can easily be found on the web. You basically just enter in an artist (after logging in) and they either choose an album or see a list of available albums then choose one. Next it will prompt you for what exactly you want (EX: mp3 320 CD, V2, FLAC, etc..) After that it will automatically add that album to your bit-torrent client (Transmission).

I should point out, the main idea of this is through an ssh shell via an iphone. So you could download something at home why your on the go.

Disclaimer: Use at your own risk, I take no responsibility for anything you do, and or mess up. Example, if you some how manage to screw up your whole hard drive, dont come crying to me. Thanks and enjoy!

Teh Script

Reading Man Files In Text Edit

andrewthefree — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:37:18 +0000

The point of this blog is going to be to provide useful computer tips and also tell what I have been up to. Now on with the post.

This is hopefully going to be a useful tip to some people. For those of you who are new to unix (on osx or linux) and are reading about commands using “man [command]” in the terminal it gets very annoying to move through it at the slow speed of using arrow keys, here is a little fix. In terminal your going to type (I use zip as the example command)

man zip >test.txt

open -e test.txt

rm test.txt

Now you should have a text edit window with that man file up!

Enjoy

Good Tech SItes

andrewthefree — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 08:13:31 +0000

If your one of those people who just likes to read about technology some sites I recommend are

www.gizmodo.com & http://nerdlove.tumblr.com/ & for the true hardware nerds http://www.tomshardware.com/us/#redir enjoy

First Blog Post!

andrewthefree — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 07:40:57 +0000

Its weird… I want to do all the html and css myself . WordPress stop doing me favors!

Well that was kinda a short post, almost like a twitter message. I shall tell you a bit about myself.

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