Quick’n’dirty Mediawiki file crawler

URL='http://10.0.0.1' MIME='image/jpeg'   
 bash -c 'wget -q -O - "$URL/wiki/index.php?title=Special:MIMESearch&mime;=$MIME&limit;=500&offset;=0"   
 | grep -Po "\/wiki\/images[^\"]+"   
 | xargs -n1 -I {} wget "$URL{}"'

What it does: it uses the “MIME search” functionality on the wiki to locate ...

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Creating a non-MAC bound CentOS 6 machine

I was building VMs to be deployed with Vagrant / Virtualbox for our QAs and discovered that on new instantiations of the machine the networking interface wasn’t coming up. The problem was that Virtualbox was assigning a random MAC address to the NIC (and rightly so, to avoid conflicts). I ...

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Paving site review

This is a fairly trustworthy site to buy paving slabs and other construction materials. It checks out on on all sources I usually use: domain registration, physical address, reputation sites and a quick search for complains. So go ahead and look around, but remember that for larger purchases you should ...

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IVA site review

Reviewing this site pose a conundrum to me (other than how to write the word conundrum): on the one side they seem to be a legitimate site for IVA advice, with a long standing domain registration, a physical address and even an entry at the Office of Fair trading (which ...

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Setting up git-daemon under Ubuntu

The scenario is the following: inside a (somewhat) trusted LAN you would like to set up git-daemon so that your coworkers can access your repositories. This solution is not appropriate in cases where you want to share with random people on the interwebs. This short description is based loosely on ...

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adulttoys.com review

Sex sells, but in this case it is the reverse: money sold me to review an adult sex toys website. Here we go:

I didn’t use any sextoys myself to-date (although I would be open to try some of the lighter versions), but I can see how online shopping ...

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blackjackpractice.org review

I was hired to write a review about blackjackpractice.org which purportedly blackjack practice, however I wasn’t able to verify this, since the site is down (currently it is showing a default directory listing from Apache, earlier today it was showing an empty page). There is very little know ...

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