Content filters

Over the last few weeks, I have been experimenting with various content filters. The experiment is mainly geared towards a crazy idea of mine – blocking a few URIs I tend to spend lot of time on! Since the user we’re blocking has root access , the more number of steps it takes to disable, … Continue reading »

A wrapper for osd_cat

Few months ago, we discussed about a mail notification method for fetchmail/procmail and mutt combo. As you can see in that post, the script we wrote to handle notification was dependent on ratpoison. Well it makes life bit tough for my non-ratpoison X sessions. I thought it would be a good idea to make the … Continue reading »

[Update] Download youtube videos in linux

I had posted long back about a bash wrapper over youtube-dl to fetch youtube videos using your own download manager. The youtube-dl script had changed long since then. And good news is now we don’t need to change the script in any way to get the download url. So here we go! Grab the latest … Continue reading »

Sistine: A sify broadband client

Sify provides a connection client(they call it BBClient) for linux. If you use bbclient on *nix, these would have hit you: Sifyconnect is a pre-compiled (linked to old openssl libs) binary. I had to literally do some ‘n’ softlinks to get it start. As soon as I login, I am greeted with Sify homepage. That … Continue reading »