Download from Oracle directly with wget in a remote shell

1. Browse downloads in browser and select the one you need 2. Get the login screen 3. copy redirectUrl param from the address bar of your browser 4. get back to terminal window 5. type: wget \ --post-data='redirectUrl=<redirectUrl of your download from above> &username=<your oracle username>&password=<your oracle pass>' \ https://profile.oracle.com/jsp/reg/loginHandler.jsp hit Enter and...

Extract audio from compressed swf

Just a tip to remember: #get it wget http://some.net/some.swf #decompress it pyvnc2swf-edit -o some1.swf some.swf #get audio mplayer -ao pcm some1.swf #play it aplay...

Yet another thing I hate about computers

Sooner or later your slick new notebook is going to annoy you with fan noise and heat. You can even notice it is kinda slowing down. This is inevitable and you will have to open it up (usually happens after your warranty has expired, so no probs), carefully unscrew all these little shiny and black bastards hiding in mostly unexpected locations, scratch you head a hundred times to understand Chinese engineering mind...

Asterisk and Google contacts

So, now I’ve got this shiny new Milestone with Android 2.1 on board. And as a consequence of this fact, I have up2date contacts on google to sync the address book with. I also have a voicemail implementation on my own asterisk that sends me an email with wav attached in case of a missed call ( using voicemail “redirect” of the provider with my own number ). Why not to use both of these and get some...

N900: Using mail, mail developers?

In the Modest, n900 default (not that there are many alternatives) mail client, you can’t save the email you send to server. Not implemented. If an IMAP user, which is the one who usually wants to keep his messages in order, comes to n900 with all the glory, he will have to manually drag his mail from “Sent” folder on n900 (shared between accounts btw) to “Sent” folder on the IMAP...