Asif Tamuri

Position active window using xwininfo and wmctrl

Asif Tamuri — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:30:36 +0000

Here’s a Python script that attempts to replicate the functionality of the Compiz ‘Put’ plugin (well, the numpad positioning part of it) which allows you to put any active window in any position using keypad bindings. Create a set of commands for each 3×3 grid position with a corresponding keybinding to execute the command. I’m using the Metacity keybinding_commands (use gconf-editor to edit /apps/metacity/keybinding_commands/) and global_keybindings (/apps/metacity/global_keybindings/). (more…)

Linux is for…

Asif Tamuri — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 11:44:14 +0000

…geeks, developers, networking, everyone, nerds, losers and bitches, according to Google. Seems about right.

Taking a break from the commercial world and returning to academia means that out goes “Solitaire for Grandmas” and in comes Linux in the shape of Ubuntu.

First off: the hardware in my Thinkpad X60 was all detected correctly, which was nice; the SD card reader worked, as did wireless. I don’t know about Bluetooth or IR as I don’t use either. (more…)

RNA gets curtain call

Asif Tamuri — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 05:13:01 +0000

In what might be the understatement of the year, the scientific director of NHGRI has said of the machinery of the human genome “oh my gosh, this is really complicated”.

Quite! I finally had some time to read the ENCODE report published this month in Nature, along with the updated definition of a gene proposed by Gerstein et al. The project, which has been running for 3 ½ years, has analysed and reported in detail on 1% of the human genome (around 30 Mb), particularly its functional aspects.

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Save your Motorola phonebook to a text file

Asif Tamuri — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:04:44 +0000

I can’t imagine many are fans of Motorola’s slow and bloated Mobile PhoneTools. Looking at the functionality offered, it makes using a mobile phone simply for making calls seem an anachronism.

Why can’t we quickly backup the phonebook: name & number? A text file would be fine. Yes, I will type them in again if I lose the phone. No, that doesn’t fill me with dread.

Thankfully, there is a way.

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How to get a better Windows command-line

Asif Tamuri — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 06:03:05 +0000

Being one of those Luddites that uses both Windows and the command-line, I’ve managed to setup a tolerable command shell and window. There are plenty of resources out there about Cygwin, bash, 4NT, Putty, Console, tab-completion and fonts etc. but here’s what you need to do to get this:

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Wistful

Asif Tamuri — Fri, 25 May 2007 18:21:53 +0000

Dreams of Flying - touching and inspiring photographs by Jan Von Holleben.

Take 2

Asif Tamuri — Thu, 24 May 2007 17:05:22 +0000

Let’s hope it works out this time.

ColdFusion Cached Query Manager

Asif Tamuri — Wed, 03 May 2006 11:55:57 +0000

(Migrating posts from the old website…)

This is a CFC version of the (older) popular custom tag. It uses Java reflection to manipulate the underlying ColdFusion classes to gain access to the cached query store. I’ve tested it on ColdFusion MX 6.1 and 7, running on Windows. It is also a little easier to follow than the custom tag version.

This component lets you:

Get a query in which each row contains the age, hits, and key for each cached query entry currently stored on the ColdFusion server.
Delete a single query cache entry using the entry’s key.

This is an improvement over the current techniques for flushing any cached queries i.e. running exactly the same query with a timespan of 0 (if you have dynamic queries, this is problematic), or running (which flushes all cached queries).

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ColdFusion PGP CFC and custom tag

Asif Tamuri — Mon, 01 Dec 2003 12:12:55 +0000

Important: please read updates at the bottom of this post regarding compatibility with PGP 8.1 and 9.0.x.

ColdFusion component that gives you access to the commercial PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) libraries. It uses the nsdpgp3 PGP COM wrapper, which allows “KeyID and UserID lookup, the listing of all valid keys on the keyrings, File/String analysis, File/String conventional encryption and decryption, File/String public key encryption, decryption, signing and verification, File wiping, key pair generation, key deletion, revocation, enabling and disabling, and key import and export from/to File/String/KeyServer”.

(Includes custom tag, for ColdFusion 5)
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