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The other night I had a wacky idea of extracting each pixel from an image in order to save it as a plain text ASCII file.

There has been a number of times when I’ve needed to clear the Varnish caching server’s cache, but had no clue how to do this.

So there are a few ways to run system command using python, but I tend to find the below approach the easiest to use and has error handling.

So today I thought I would be neat to show how to quickly create QR codes using Google’s Chart Tools .

Since my last post showed how to check a salted password, I figured this time we can look over some example code for brute forcing a salted password.

Well today I spent a bit of time looking up how /etc/shadow created their shadow passwords.

After a bit of thinking I believe I have a better way to create all possible ASCII pass phrases, rather than create a recursive function that calls itself as I did in the previous post.

So in my last article I talked a little bit about using libvirt to start and stop QEMU domains.

Lately I’ve been using Jenkins as a central hub for automated task across multiple machines, think a central cron system with a slick web interface.

So I was doing a bit of research on a Diablo III API, and stumbled across this article: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/4877377752 It seems they are still in the early stages, but there is a Character Calculator API, and it is in JSON.

Binary Binary is nothing more than a base 2 numbering system using the numbers 0 and 1.

Today I decide to toy around with a KVM server we have running in house for testing.

The other day I was playing with some Python challenges found on a popular sites, this challenge worked with xy coordinates on a 2D plane.