python pip non root install

Ahhh finally found the right options,

pip install ipdb --install-option="--user"


Quick export of code to testing server

For bzr and git:

bzr export --format=tar - | ssh -C server tar x -C /path/to/overwrite/files/in

git archive --format=tar HEAD | ssh -C server tar x -C /path/to/overwrite/files/in


Not perfect, as deleted files aren't removed, but good enough most of the time

File server encryption setup

I've been in the process of setting up encryption on my server for a while. At work we use lvm encryption - which works well. The lvm server is running debian and has the dropbear package installed. If it is rebooted, we just ssh in and supply the password.

My server also provides dhcp service, so unless you manually configure the client's networking the ssh part doesn't work. So instead I've been setting up ecryptfs, since I use it all my client machines. The configuration on my server is slightly more manual - I'm using mount -t ecryptfs directly.

I'm using a custom cgi script to allow the partition to be mounted. Seems to be working ok.

After thinking about it while writing this I'm preferring making dhcp work somehow (move it somewhere etc) and using lvm in the long run - slight it makes it easier to make sure everything is encrypted. Also the client part would be slightly harder as you need to use a ssh client rather than a web client.

Got annoying

`menu_proxy_module_load': gedit: undefined symbol: menu_proxy_module_load

errors? do

dpkg --purge appmenu-gtk

to get rid of

/etc/X11/Xsession.d/80appmenu

that causes this

Here's my python implementation of Rob Pike's minimal regex (only supports ^.*$ special characters) algorithm:

def match(regexp, text):
    if regexp.startswith("^"):
        return matchhere(regexp[1:], text)
    for i in range(len(text) or 1):
        if matchhere(regexp, text[i:]):
             return True
    return False

def matchhere(regexp, text):
    if len(regexp) == 0:
        return True
    if regexp[1:].startswith("*"):
        return matchstar(regexp[0], regexp[2:], text)
    if regexp == "$":
        return len(text) == 0
    if len(text) > 0 and (regexp[0] == "." or regexp[0] == text[0]):
        return matchhere(regexp[1:], text[1:])
    return False

def matchstar(c, regexp, text):
    for i in range(len(text) or 1):
        if matchhere(regexp, text[i:]):
             return True
        if len(text) < 0 or c not in (text[i], "."):
             return False

import unittest

class Test(unittest.TestCase):

    def test(self):
        self.assert_ (match("a", "a"))
        self.assert_ (not match("a", "b"))
        self.assert_ (match("^a$", "a"))
        self.assert_ (match("^a*b$", "aaaab"))
        self.assert_ (not match("^a*b$", "aaacb"))
        self.assert_ (match("a*a", "aa"))

Here's hoping there's no other major bugs.