w43l's blog http://blog.w43l.com programming is an art, only for those who can understand it Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:37:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 en The Art of Blocking http://blog.w43l.com/2008/06/the-art-of-blocking/ http://blog.w43l.com/2008/06/the-art-of-blocking/#comments Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:37:21 +0000 w43l http://blog.w43l.com/2008/06/the-art-of-blocking/ ok i know it is the second post in a row that talks about the websites blocking access based on the geographical Location of an IP address, i dont want to make my blog a bloked-websites-tracking-blog but i dont like to be treated as a fool, ok you want to block it is up to you just say it loud and clear “im blocking you because of your IP” dont try to fool me with this “500 Internal Server Error” or another stupid “404 not found” message.
posterous is the new player in this game, it gives “500 internal server error” from here, the guys at posterous didn’t bother to make it in header, if you take a look at the page headers it says 200 OK, they printed it in the page i mean c’mon is it that hard to change the headers.
again PHProxy wins :D

]]> http://blog.w43l.com/2008/06/the-art-of-blocking/feed/ google 404 or 403 http://blog.w43l.com/2008/06/google-404-or-403/ http://blog.w43l.com/2008/06/google-404-or-403/#comments Sat, 21 Jun 2008 07:46:43 +0000 w43l http://blog.w43l.com/2008/06/google-404-or-403/ when you surf from a country blocked on the US list and try to download something from google code you should get used to this

last night i was trying to download google talk for a friend and i was expecting the usual 403 but what i got was this

anyway i couldn’t believe that so i tried to open it using a proxy and bang the download started, it looks like download and code have different policies concerning user credibility .

thanks to the PhProxy team for making my life easier , and i would donate if only i could open paypal from here :p

]]> http://blog.w43l.com/2008/06/google-404-or-403/feed/ just another reason to move to python http://blog.w43l.com/2008/06/just-another-reason-to-move-to-python/ http://blog.w43l.com/2008/06/just-another-reason-to-move-to-python/#comments Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:35:03 +0000 w43l http://blog.w43l.com/2008/06/just-another-reason-to-move-to-python/
code_swarm - Python from Michael Ogawa on Vimeo.

]]> http://blog.w43l.com/2008/06/just-another-reason-to-move-to-python/feed/ Charging Lines http://blog.w43l.com/2008/06/charging-lines/ http://blog.w43l.com/2008/06/charging-lines/#comments Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:52:19 +0000 w43l http://blog.w43l.com/2008/06/charging-lines/ def: charging line is a collection of words connected together they form a sentence able to charge your mind giving it a power to start working like a crazy horse, they act like a power bar for the brain.

each time i step upon a charging line i move to another world, my habits change; i speak less i think alot more , i just love this feeling.

last line of this kind i found is qouted from Albert Einstein which is : “I wish to do something Great and Wonderful, but I must start by doing the little things like they were Great and Wonderful”, this line gives me answers i’ve been looking for for a very long time.

i hope i keep on this state enough because it brings the good stuff out of me.

]]> http://blog.w43l.com/2008/06/charging-lines/feed/ my first python script http://blog.w43l.com/2008/06/my-first-python-script/ http://blog.w43l.com/2008/06/my-first-python-script/#comments Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:40:48 +0000 w43l http://blog.w43l.com/2008/06/my-first-python-script/ i know im late in learning python, but you know what it is said “it’s better late than never”. python is a great scripting language and i wanted to start learning it along time ago, but i think the best way to learn something is by actually using it in something usefull.  last week i had a task to rename some folders, actually it was only a part of the folder name that i have to change , so the task needed some string manipulation and file system access, i know this job could be done using bash and regular expressions , but i thought it is really a good time to give python a try , i opened google and started looking for articles . it didnt took me a lot of time to figure out the script , and the final result was awesome , i  loved it even if it is a small script , i loved the way python combines OOP with scripting capabilities.

]]> http://blog.w43l.com/2008/06/my-first-python-script/feed/ Get Your IQ Rank http://blog.w43l.com/2008/05/get-your-iq-rank/ http://blog.w43l.com/2008/05/get-your-iq-rank/#comments Wed, 28 May 2008 09:16:56 +0000 admin http://blog.w43l.com/2008/05/get-your-iq-rank/ IQ League has a nice 60 seconds IQ test , but it is different from any other IQ test i’ve seen, why? the funny part of the story is that they not only ranking you against other people, instead they are ranking browsers on OS, countries , cities, and the coolest thing there ranking websites, they take the referrer of each visitor , save it , and calculate the IQ for that website to give a rank.

if you have 1 minute you could go and check it out.

]]> http://blog.w43l.com/2008/05/get-your-iq-rank/feed/ Time to Change ! http://blog.w43l.com/2008/05/time-to-change/ http://blog.w43l.com/2008/05/time-to-change/#comments Mon, 12 May 2008 14:32:41 +0000 admin http://blog.w43l.com/2008/05/time-to-change/ a question always been jumping in my mind from one corner to the other; When should somone leave a company? or even should (s)he?

when the company you are workin for doesn’t meet your standards for either salary or work quality it is reasonable to think of a change, but what about google, even if it is the dream of many programmers to work for, people do leave google !!

about a year and a half back when i was a fresh grauate and i got this job, it was like the dream job for me , a programming job with a very high speed internet connection (which was like my dream in college days) ,doing the stuff i like, the way i like, what do i want more?

Now when i look at my job it is mostly routine tasks , no more creativity, no more new stuff to learn. i realized (and it is only a thought) that it doesn’t matter how good the company is , or the job is , it is going to be like that; a routine task, and i dont like routines.

i think it is clear now that it is Time to Change

]]> http://blog.w43l.com/2008/05/time-to-change/feed/ Network http://blog.w43l.com/2008/04/network/ http://blog.w43l.com/2008/04/network/#comments Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:25:12 +0000 admin http://w43l.com/blog/network/ Network

]]> http://blog.w43l.com/2008/04/network/feed/ Star Wars via telnet http://blog.w43l.com/2008/04/star-wars-via-telnet/ http://blog.w43l.com/2008/04/star-wars-via-telnet/#comments Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:32:49 +0000 admin http://w43l.com/blog/star-wars-via-telnet/ so cool

http://lifehacker.com/373571/watch-star-wars-in-text-via-telnet

]]> http://blog.w43l.com/2008/04/star-wars-via-telnet/feed/ Revolution OS http://blog.w43l.com/2008/04/revolution/ http://blog.w43l.com/2008/04/revolution/#comments Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:28:16 +0000 admin http://w43l.com/blog/revolution/ The History of linux in a very nice movie

revolution os is one of the best documentaries i’ve seen

enjoy

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