Monitor SETI command line client progress
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Command Line Progress Bar 1.09
Command Line Progress Bar 1.09
06/01/2004 10:34 AMA simple command line tool to display information about a data
transfer stream.
Command Line Progress Bar 1.04
Command Line Progress Bar 1.04
10/31/2003 05:11 PMA simple command line tool to display information about a data
transfer stream.
Command Line Progress Bar 1.10.4
(Default branch)
Command Line Progress Bar 1.10.4
(Default branch)
04/06/2005 05:32 PM
Command Line Progress Bar is a simple command line tool to display
information about a data transfer stream. It will display the number
of bytes transfered, the speed of the transfer, and if the size of the
data stream is known it will display the ETA, percent complete, and a
progress bar.
Changes:
Minor changes to allow the bar to compile on systems without
snprintf().
SETI Monitor v3.42
SETI Monitor v3.42
12/06/2003 10:54 AMSETI Monitor is a free add-on for SETI@home. It allows you to monitor
the activity of your SETI@home client and see what it finds using
almost no CPU power. SETI Monitor shows the signals found by your
SETI@home client and saves information about completed work units.
[Freeware 207 KB]
SETI@Home Results Monitor 3.1.1 released
SETI@Home Results Monitor 3.1.1 released
07/12/2002 06:40 AM SETI@Home Results Monitor is a small PHP script that you can use to
show off your current SETI@Home work units total on your Website. When
invoked, the script connects to the SETI@Home server, retrieves your
user stats, and generates a PNG image to display the total number of
work units processed so far.
Seti@Home updates client
Seti@Home updates client
06/24/2004 04:40 AMThe Gang at SETI who are using un-used processor cycles on millions
of home computers worldwide in the search for ET have updated their
home client software. Which runs under something they are calling
BOINC which will make it software upgrades and various other things
less cumbersome on the participants. [SETI]
Monitor Safari download progress on the
desktop
Monitor Safari download progress on the
desktop
04/26/2004 10:24 AMThe download icons for Safari are dynamic (under 10.3, at least).
While Safari is downloading a file to a location like the Desktop,
Safari will create a download icon. The icon will have a progress bar
that runs horizontal...
Command Line PHP
Command Line PHP
12/20/2002 10:51 AMCommand Line PHP
Since I was doing this yesterday, I appreciated this pointer from
Keith (who also helpfully has links to Lord of the Rings Reviews)
[_Go_]
Command line blacklisting
Command line blacklisting
09/09/2004 01:15 AMJust over a year ago, I started blacklisting domain
names from links featured in comment spam. My idea then was that these
blacklists could become a shared resource: people would publish their
own blacklist and subscribe to those of people they trust, thus making
it much harder for spammers to operate. While the sheer volume of spam
domains meant that the technique was much less useful than I
originally anticipated, I've continued to maintain my blacklist ever
since as a preventative measure against repeat spammers.
I have a confession to make: all of my blog administration
(with the exception of adding entries and blogmarks) is performed
using phpMyAdmin. The trouble
with writing your own software is that it's very easy to skimp on the
backend tools, since you're the only person who will ever see them.
Incidentally, this is the main reason I plan to switch to WordPress just as soon as I find the
inspiration to write the necessary import scripts. Comments are
deleted in phpMyAdmin, and domains are blacklisted by manually editing
the blacklist.txt
file via FTP.
This has been really bugging me, especially since I have
so little other use for FTP that my only installed client is an
unregistered version of Transmit (closes after ten
minutes, won't save passwords along with account details). I've been
muddling along with that for longer than I care to admit, but today I
decided to take 10 minutes out to solve the problem once and for all.
I could have put together a web interface for adding new domains but I
wasn't really in the mood, so I decided to put time spent reading The Art of Unix
Programming to good use and knock out a simple command line
application.
The result (minus my login details) can be found here. Sample usage: ./blacklist.py
www.domain.org www.domain2.com. It follows the Unix ideal of
being the simplest-thing-that-could-possibly-work, and ended up taking
longer to write than I expected thanks mainly to the craziness of
Python's ftplib
. I've seen complaints about this before, and it thoroughly
deserves its bad reputation.
Here's one example: retrlines is the method
used to retrieve ascii text from the server. Bizzarely, it doesn't
actually return the text receieved; instead, it expects you to provide
it with a callback function that will be fed each line in turn, minus
the newline. Sounds like a job for Stri
ngIO, but StringIO objects don'y have a writeline
method (required to add the newline back on). I ended up writing my
own extension of the StringIO2 class and adding a
writeline method just to preserve the newlines returned from the
server!
Strange APIs aside, I'm pretty pleased with the final
result. It follows a bunch of Unix design patterns (and skips others
such as those related to configuration, but I'm not overly bothered
about those) including the following:
- A usage note is displayed if no arguments are provided.
- Multiple domains can be blacklisted at once, by providing them as
multiple command line arguments.
- Domains that are already in the blacklist are skipped, and a
message is written to standard error.
- If the script suceeds, it doesn't say anything at all.
It also uses the common Python idiom of wrapping the
principle logic in a function and then calling that from a block that
runs only if the file is executed directly (the __name__ ==
'__main__' idiom) so that other Python code can import the
module and reuse its functionality if required.
There's plenty of room for improvement: being able to pipe
a list of domains in via standard input would be nice, and hard coding
the (unencrypted) username and password is sloppy (as is expecting the
blacklist.txt file to live in the FTP home directory). Even better, with SSH access the whole thing could be
replaced with an infinitely more secure one-liner: echo www.domain-to-ban.org | ssh username@server "cat -
>> blacklist.txt". I'm happy though: an irritating task has
become much less irritating and I have some example code to fall back
on next time I need to get mucky with ftplib.
10.3: Fax from command line (or
AppleScript)
10.3: Fax from command line (or
AppleScript)
12/05/2003 11:21 AMI was working on this to be able to fax from Filemaker with FM
scripting and AppleScripting. I needed to print to a file (a .ps
file), then send the resulting file to the fax. Fax is actually a CUPS
print queue, and I just ne...
Command Line Timeclock 0.2
Command Line Timeclock 0.2
06/07/2004 09:17 AMA command line timesheet application.
Pizza From the Command Line
Pizza From the Command Line
05/07/2004 07:14 PMPHP on the Command Line - Part 1
PHP on the Command Line - Part 1
06/16/2004 07:29 PMRoutine administration of your PHP Website is easily achieved via
PHP's CLI, or command line interface. In the first instalment of his
two-part series, Harry looks at the fundamentals of working with the
PHP command line.
Command-Line Accountant 0.2
Command-Line Accountant 0.2
02/17/2004 05:39 AMA command-line personal finance utility.
Command Line Accountant
Command Line Accountant
12/09/2003 12:22 AMVersion 0.1 has been released
Command Line Timeclock 0.2-r2
Command Line Timeclock 0.2-r2
06/13/2004 09:25 PMA command line timesheet application.
SitePoint: PHP on the Command Line (Pt.
1)
SitePoint: PHP on the Command Line (Pt.
1)
06/16/2004 08:26 AMA new article has been posted over on
SitePoint.com from Harry Fuecks
covering the first part of a series on
PHP on the
Command Line.
ISU Command-Line Switches
ISU Command-Line Switches
01/01/2005 10:21 AMPHP on the Command Line - Part 2
PHP on the Command Line - Part 2
08/11/2004 07:01 PMTake your knowledge of the command line interface a step further with
Harry's PHP-centric series. Part 2 shows how you can hook up a command
line PHP script with existing command line tools provided by your
operating system.
The Command Line Is Your Friend
The Command Line Is Your Friend
03/06/2004 01:56 AMIf you're in the tech field, it might behoove you to know your
command line utilities, and to have a copy of Cygwin handy if you run Windows.
There are reasons why those old-school UNIX guys look down their long
beards at the rest of us with disdain for not knowing the system
shell. I ran across a great use of command line tools today that I
thought I'd share.
Continue reading "The Command Line Is Your Friend"
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SitePoint: PHP on the Command Line (Pt.
2)
SitePoint: PHP on the Command Line (Pt.
2)
08/11/2004 08:33 AMNew on
SitePoint today, there's
a new posting from
Harry
Fuecks in a continuation of his "PHP on the Command Line" series -
Part
2.
Abusing the command line
Abusing the command line
04/09/2004 04:08 PMIf you're running OS X, try this:
say -v Kathy `curl --silent
http://api.technorati.com/getinfo?username=simonwillison | grep
'<inbound' | sed -e 's/ <//' | sed -e
's/inboundblogs>/Simons blog has /' | sed -e
's/<\/inboundblogs>/ inbound blogs and /' | sed -e
's/inboundlinks>//' | sed -e 's/<\/inboundlinks>/ inbound
links/'`
Your computer should read out to you my Technorati inbound blogs
and inbound links, extracted from the Technorati web API. Parsing
XML using sed is
a nasty trick I picked up from this O'Reilly article;
speaking the output of a command using the 'say' and the backtick
shell operator was my moment of inspiration for the day.
A command line ogg to mp3 converter
A command line ogg to mp3 converter
08/09/2004 11:34 AMUsing the same paradigm as ChrisR's flac to mp3 command line script,
I've done the same to convert ogg files to mp3s using command line
tools.
You'll need to download and compile the vorbis player/encoder tools
for everyone ...
MSI FAQ: Command-line for SMS
Distribution
MSI FAQ: Command-line for SMS
Distribution
06/24/2004 11:31 AMISU Command Line Syntax
ISU Command Line Syntax
07/26/2004 03:52 AMMac OS X command line tab completion
Mac OS X command line tab completion
09/23/2004 03:00 AMTech-Recipes Sep 23 2004 5:45AM GMT
SMS Command Line Script
SMS Command Line Script
12/28/2004 11:27 PMCommand-Line Accountant 0.11
Command-Line Accountant 0.11
12/21/2003 04:45 PMA command-line personal finance utility.
PHP Command Line Module
PHP Command Line Module
06/04/2004 10:43 AMPEAR Console
Classes: Here's a tutorial on a fascinating little PEAR module
that facilitates using PHP from the command line. It has methods for
rendering tables, displaying progress bars, and doing color formatting
on ANSI compliant terminals, this giving you some flexibility when
developing PHP command line apps. Fascinating what these guys come up
with.
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Building MSI command line
Building MSI command line
01/19/2004 12:34 AMFirstClass Client 7.1: Command Execution
via Email Web Link
FirstClass Client 7.1: Command Execution
via Email Web Link
01/06/2004 01:03 PMRichard Maudsley (Jan 05 2004)
PowerArchiver Command Line Support
Add-On v3.51
PowerArchiver Command Line Support
Add-On v3.51
06/30/2004 05:48 PMPowerArchiver Command Line Support Add-On is a free cosole utility for
Windows which includes full built-in support for creating ZIP, CAB,
LHA (LZH), BH and JAR archives, as well as extracting ZIP, RAR, ARJ,
ACE, CAB, LHA (LZH), TAR, GZIP, BH, ZOO, ARC, JAR, XXE and UUE
archives. [Freeware 1.15 MB]
InstallShield: Compiling at the Command
Line
InstallShield: Compiling at the Command
Line
06/10/2004 04:48 AM10.3: Turn fax services on and off from
the command Line
10.3: Turn fax services on and off from
the command Line
01/22/2004 02:36 AMFaxing is a cool feature on OS X, but few people purchase a separate
phone line for a fax machine at home. So, if you want to receive a
fax during the day on your home Mac, then legitimate callers will get
the fax tone rathe...
Accessing a VPN (PPTP) via the command
line
Accessing a VPN (PPTP) via the command
line
03/13/2003 10:23 AMMy employer has a Microsoft VPN (PPTP) server and I finally got
connected to it. The Internet Connection app allows you to access a
VPN, but it has a couple of parameters that may cause problems, and it
also might be useful t...
Is the command line necessary for most
Linux users?
Is the command line necessary for most
Linux users?
01/05/2004 04:50 AMEvery time I write an article about normal people using Linux with
little or no training, a few weisenhimers inevitably accuse me of
being an overly optimistic advocate by not warning readers that it
takes a least some knowledge of Bash to run and maintain a Linux
installation. The problem with this accusation is that it might have
been true in 1998, but it is not true in 2004. It is now possible to
run Linux without knowing any commands beyond point-and-click,
cut-and-paste, and drag-and-drop. Indeed, those are the only ones I
use for everyday computing myself.
Command-line pizza-orderator
Command-line pizza-orderator
05/07/2004 03:35 AMpizza_party is an open-source command-line app for ordering pizzas
from Domino's.
pizza_party [-o|--onions] [-g|--green-peppers] [-m|--mushrooms]
[-v|--olives] [-t|--tomatoes] [-h|--pineapple] [-x|--extra-cheese]
[-d|--cheddar-cheese] [-p|--pepperoni] [-s|--sausage] [-w|--ham]
[-b|--bacon] [-e|--ground-beef] [-c|--grilled-chicken]
[-z|--anchovies] [-u|--extra-sauce] [-U|--user= username]
[-P|--password= pasword] [-I|--input-file= input-file] [-V|--verbose]
[-Q|--quiet] [-F|--force] [QUANTITY] [SIZE] [CRUST]
* Can order pizza with only a few keystrokes.
* Can save pizza preferences.
* Can use batch files for ordering many pizzas.
* Has easy to use flags for ordering different toppings.
* Runs on most UNIX-like operating systems.
* Supports most currently popular topings like "mushrooms", and
"pepperoni"!
* Unattended / background operation.
* Pizza Party is distributed under the GNU General Public License.
Link
(
via Kottke)
Get the dimensions of most images from
the command line
Get the dimensions of most images from
the command line
12/02/2003 12:38 AMYou can use the file unix command in the Terminal to quickly find the
dimensions of (most) images.
karma:~/Sites/somepics me$ file *
yel-pale-grad.gif: GIF image data, version 89a, 20 x 125
m46.jpg: JPEG ima...
Command line Futurama quotes
Command line Futurama quotes
02/10/2004 02:44 AMToday's command line amusement:
lynx -mime_header http://slashdot.org/ | head -n 6 | tail
-1
Grok Description matches for Monitor SETI command line client progress
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SETI@Home Transitions To BOINC
SETI@Home Transitions To BOINC
06/23/2004 05:24 PMSETI@Home (finally) begins transitioning
to BOINC
SETI@Home (finally) begins transitioning
to BOINC
06/24/2004 01:19 PMSETI@Home begins their transition to the BOINC client and
infrastructure. Congrats to Team Lamb Chop members for their efforts
in the "classic" portion of the project and we look forward to your
contribution using the new BOINC client.
lin-seti - A cache manager for Seti@Home
lin-seti - A cache manager for Seti@Home
06/26/2004 11:19 AMlin-seti 0.8.1
New Command Line Tools in Windows Server
2003
New Command Line Tools in Windows Server
2003
06/07/2004 10:45 AMNew Command Line Tools in Windows Server
2003 - Today's Tool: DEFRAG.EXE
New Command Line Tools in Windows Server
2003 - Today's Tool: DEFRAG.EXE
07/27/2004 07:50 PMNew Command Line Tools in Windows Server
2003 - Today's Tool: CMDKEY.EXE
New Command Line Tools in Windows Server
2003 - Today's Tool: CMDKEY.EXE
09/09/2004 01:33 AMNew Command Line Tools in Windows Server
2003 – Today's Tool: EVENTCOMBMT
New Command Line Tools in Windows Server
2003 – Today's Tool: EVENTCOMBMT
06/05/2004 10:30 AMNew Command Line Tools in Windows Server
2003 - Today's Tool: DSADD.EXE
New Command Line Tools in Windows Server
2003 - Today's Tool: DSADD.EXE
08/30/2004 01:35 PMPerl Command-Line Options
Perl Command-Line Options
08/10/2004 06:02 PMAfter looking at special variables, Dave Cross now casts his eye over
the impressive range of functionality available from simple
command-line options to the Perl interpreter.
chi.pm: Field Guide to Perl Command Line
Switches
chi.pm: Field Guide to Perl Command Line
Switches
10/29/2003 12:09 AMinkdroid writes "chicago.pm has secured space through the gracious
generosity of WDI in Vernon Hills. This means we have a nice, quiet,
non-smoking space with a projector and room for a couple dozen
mongers. Our first Tech Meeting will be November 4th, ...
SETI STATUS JAVA SCRIPT
SETI STATUS JAVA SCRIPT
01/12/2004 01:53 AMGoing ahead
Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 administrative
command line utilities PART4
Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 administrative
command line utilities PART4
06/02/2004 06:17 PMMicrosoft SQL Server 2000 command line
utilities (Part 2)
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 command line
utilities (Part 2)
02/15/2004 09:28 AMMicrosoft SQL Server 7.0 administrative
command line utilities PART3
Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 administrative
command line utilities PART3
12/30/2003 12:03 AMMicrosoft SQL Server 7.0 administrative
command line utilities PART5
Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 administrative
command line utilities PART5
07/03/2004 09:26 PMA quick way to get command line switches
with Deployment Server for Clients 5.6
Components
A quick way to get command line switches
with Deployment Server for Clients 5.6
Components
06/24/2005 09:43 PMSETI@Home to take a closer look
SETI@Home to take a closer look
03/13/2003 10:20 AMSETI@home - Mac Style
SETI@home - Mac Style
04/24/2004 06:06 AMWorking hard
SQL Server forum stories - How to backup
an entire mssql database from a command
line
SQL Server forum stories - How to backup
an entire mssql database from a command
line
05/25/2004 04:37 PMThe Windows Installer Software
Development Kit Command Line Merge and
Install Tools - Part two Msitran.exe
The Windows Installer Software
Development Kit Command Line Merge and
Install Tools - Part two Msitran.exe
09/12/2004 10:55 AMSETI@home Turns Five Today
SETI@home Turns Five Today
05/21/2004 11:36 AMSETI@Home: Our flagship is sinking
SETI@Home: Our flagship is sinking
12/02/2003 01:49 AMSETI.Germany is closing in on Team Lamb Chop in the SETI@Home
standings. Read on to see how you can help!
Candidate signal from SETI@home
Candidate signal from SETI@home
09/02/2004 11:51 AMDirect and Related Links for 'Candidate
signal from SETI@home'
“In February 2003, astronomers involved in the search for
extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) pointed the massive radio
telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, at around 200 sections of the sky.
The same telescope had previously detected unexplained radio signals
at least twice from each of these regions, and the astronomers were
trying to reconfirm the findings. The team has now finished analysing
the data, and all the signals seem to have disappeared. Except one,
which has got…
retrieve your SETI@home stats
retrieve your SETI@home stats
12/11/2003 05:04 PMseti-stat on line
Monitor SETI command line client progress
