Crash/Highway bars for my Honda VT750C Shadow 2008

It is a common knowledge that bikes are made for an average height person so when your legs are slightly longer than ones of an average Joe biker you are destined to get less comfort. At least on a cruiser or a custom. It is not an issue on short rides but at least speaking for myself I start to get some painful discomfort after 100km or so. There are several solutions including moving the feet controls more towards...

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...

Yet another encrypted backup way

Problem: you have a shared remote backup space and you want to backup sensitive data from your servers There is a plenty of options out there, in my situation I have a Linux server with shell access where to take files and a shell account on BSD with 75GB of space where to put these files. I need to keep a daily copy of everything for a week. After some thinking and experimenting here is what I’ve got with...