The Google Instructions for selecting which Calendars will sync to your iPhone are really really terrible.

These setup instructions tell you to visit http://m.google.com/sync/ on your iPhone to select your calendars. But when you visit that address on your iPhone, it tells you to visit http://m.google.com/sync/ on your computer--which, hilariously, takes you back to the original instructions.

Google is totally punk'd-ing us.

If you would like to *actually* select which calendars you would like to sync visit this address on either your phone or computer.

https://www.google.com/calendar/b/0/iphoneselect

When running syncdb for a Satchmo store (with South installed) if you get a weird sync error about a table not existing, then run the command with tha "--all" option.

python manage.py syncdb --all

http://www.mail-archive.com/satchmo-users@googlegroups.com/msg05867.html

#!/usr/bin/python

import sys

MAP = [
("SCRIPT","0x0001","1"),
("ACCOUNTDISABLE","0x0002","2"),
("HOMEDIR_REQUIRED","0x0008","8"),
("LOCKOUT","0x0010","16"),
("PASSWD_NOTREQD","0x0020","32"),
("PASSWD_CANT_CHANGE","0x0040","64"),
("ENCRYPTED_TEXT_PWD_ALLOWED","0x0080","128"),
("TEMP_DUPLICATE_ACCOUNT","0x0100","256"),
("NORMAL_ACCOUNT","0x0200","512"),
("INTERDOMAIN_TRUST_ACCOUNT","0x0800","2048"),
("WORKSTATION_TRUST_ACCOUNT","0x1000","4096"),
("SERVER_TRUST_ACCOUNT","0x2000","8192"),
("DONT_EXPIRE_PASSWORD","0x10000","65536"),
("MNS_LOGON_ACCOUNT","0x20000","131072"),
("SMARTCARD_REQUIRED","0x40000","262144"),
("TRUSTED_FOR_DELEGATION","0x80000","524288"),
("NOT_DELEGATED","0x100000","1048576"),
("USE_DES_KEY_ONLY","0x200000","2097152"),
("DONT_REQ_PREAUTH","0x400000","4194304"),
("PASSWORD_EXPIRED","0x800000","8388608"),
("TRUSTED_TO_AUTH_FOR_DELEGATION","0x1000000","16777216"),
]

def main(args=None):
orig_num = int(args[1])
calc_num = orig_num
mapping = [(m[0],m[1],int(m[2])) for m in MAP]
mapping.reverse()
flags = []

for name,hex,dec in mapping:
last_name,last_hex,last_dec = name,hex,dec
if dec == mapping[0][2]:
continue
if calc_num >= dec:
calc_num -= dec
flags.append(name)
print ' '.join(flags)

if __name__ == '__main__':
main(sys.argv)

Decoding Active Directory ridiculous time format....

#!/usr/bin/python
import time
import datetime
import sys

def ad2unix(adtime):
secs = int(str(adtime)[:-7])
#secs = int(adtime) / (1000*1000*10)
base = datetime.date(1601,1,1)
return base + datetime.timedelta(0,secs)

def main(args):
return ad2unix(args[1]).ctime()

if __name__ == '__main__':
print main(sys.argv)

Use the Inflation Calculator (the one on the very bottom).

It will tell you, for example, that the $10 you spent on booze last night, if instead, you had set it free into the financial wilds to work for you, say at 8% annual interest, and left it until you retired in 50 years it would be worth $469. Of course in 50 years $469 is only going to be worth about $107 (assuming inflation holds steady at 3%). In any case wouldn't you rather buy 7 cases of future-beer in 2058 then two shots at some crappy bar?

du -sL * | sort -n | cut -f2 -d"$(echo -e "\t")" | xargs du -hLs

example output:
16K system.log.1.bz2
16K system.log.7.bz2
20K install.log.2.bz2
20K system.log.3.bz2
20K system.log.6.bz2
20K weekly.out
24K system.log.0.bz2
28K system.log.5.bz2
44K windowserver.log
60K secure.log
68K fsck_hfs.log
100K windowserver_last.log
208K apache2
376K system.log
528K daily.out
668K install.log.0
732K asl.db
864K asl
du: samba/cores: Permission denied
2.0M samba
2.6M cups

cat /etc/services

Find the vpn service mappings on your machine:

cat /etc/services | grep -i vpn

-i tells lsof (which looks at all open files) to only look for TCP/UDP connections.
-P turns off the mapping of port numbers to port names.

netstat -anp

Dumps a crap-ton of networking data to terminal

Reference this as well: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/security-guide/s1-serve...

• Download the latest version of MacFUSE at http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/downloads/list/
• Download the latest version of NTFS-3G at http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/
• Install MacFUSE and NTFS-3G from the .dmg files (you need Adminitrative access). You will need to restart because these installs are futzing around with your kernel.
• Your NTFS partition should be auto-mount after restart. If not you may have to do something like...
  

mkdir /Volumes/WinPart/ && sudo mount -t ext2 /dev/disk1s1 / Volumes/WinPart/