blogtk — Unsupported XML-RPC protocol

Earlier I had talked about this blog client, did I. If not then there is a nice blogging clinet called BloGTK, which can be used directly to post into the blog.

So today I reinstalled it and I was completely at loss with the client being unable to start with the error below:

/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/blogtk/BloGTK.py:407: GtkDeprecationWarning: gtk.TRUE is deprecated, use True instead
self.publishCheck.set_active(gtk.TRUE)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File ”/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/blogtk/BloGTK.py”, line 1244, in module
blogtk = BloGTK()
File ”/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/blogtk/BloGTK.py”, line 138, in __init__
self.grabConfig()
File ”/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/blogtk/BloGTK.py”, line 426, in grabConfig
self.rpcServer = proxy.get_xmlrpc_server(self.url)
File ”/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/blogtk/proxy.py”, line 66, in get_xmlrpc_server
return server(url)
File ”/usr/lib/python2.5/xmlrpclib.py”, line 1414, in __init__
raise IOError, ”unsupported XML-RPC protocol”
IOError: unsupported XML-RPC protocol

wordpress blog stats monitoring from remote using curl and bash and send it in mail.

Here’s something that I had been planning to do for sometime now. I have my blog on wordpress and have Statpress plugin installed. The plugin does give me a good idea of the visits to my site. Now, I have to keep logging in every now and then to check the stats. Also since I did not want to spend some more amount 🙂 so I do not have the shell access to the server, too bad 🙁

MySQL tutorial and reference manual

The refence for the mysql could be found at

<a class="aligncenter" title="MySQL Help" href="http://http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/index.html" target="_blank">MySQL Help

Useless use of cat awards

<a href="http://partmaps.org/era/unix/award.html#cat">Here you will find some useless use of cat command in linux. Really interesting and quite informative.

Useless Use of Cat Award

If you&#8217;ve been reading <a href="news:comp.unix.shell">comp.unix.shell or any of the related groups <a href="news:comp.unix.questions">(comp.unix.questions inter alia) for any amount of time, this should be a familiar topic.

I made this web page on the topic primarily so I&#8217;d have a simpler URL than one of those ghastly Deja News searches to hand to people. I&#8217;ve tried to reconstruct Randal&#8217;s standard form letter from looking at his postings <a href="http://partmaps.org/era/unix/award.html#forms">(see end) and added some comments of my own.

Getting the list of IOCTLS in the kernel.

Sometime back I was helping one of my friends in looking for all the IOCTLs supported by the kernel. Well we did not find the info we were looking for and thus thought to write a perl script to get all the IOCTLS supported by the kernel. Here it is, simple script to scan through the code and give you a list:

#!/usr/bin/perl —

@files = `grep -r &#8221; _IO&#8221; /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/linux-2.6.20/* |grep define ioctls_grep`;
open (DAT, &#8221;ioctls_grep&#8221;) ||die &#8221;could not open ioctls_grep&#8221;;
@files = DAT;
close(DAT);
my %ioctls_numbers;
print &#8221;Grep completed..\n&#8221;;
open (DAT, &#8221;ioctls_numbers_found&#8221;);

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5-reasons-i-like-linux-and-5-why-i-dislike-it

Last couple of days I was quite busy and thus could not catch up with my bloglines account. Today finally I got some time so am catching up on them and found some interesting things to share with you. Actually wanted to write them myself long time back but still thinking about it. And since someone has already done that, I will link to them. The first one for today is <a href="http://tech.shantanugoel.com/2008/04/20/5-reasons-i-like-linux-and-5-why-i-dislike-it.html" target="_blank">5-reasons-i-like-linux-and-5-why-i-dislike-it. This was not in the list that I was planning to write but some thing similar in line was pending after the distro comparisions I did some time back.