• pushing of files is now supported thanks to a nice pull request bu Mike Birdgeneau
• a default device can be designated in the ~/.rpushbullet.json file or options
• initialization has been rewritten to use recpients which can be indices, device names or, if missing entirely, the (new) default device
• alternatively, email is supported as another recipient option in which case the Pushbullet service will send an email to the give address
• pbGetDevices() now returns a proper S3 object with corresponding print() and summary() methods
• the documentation regarding package initialization, and setting of key, devices, etc has been expanded
• more examples has been added to the documentation
• various minor cleanups, fixes, corrections throughout

This post by Dirk Eddelbuettel originated on his Thinking inside the box blog. Please report excessive re-aggregation in third-party for-profit settings.

last [x] = x
last (x:xs) = last xs

last (x:xs)
    null xs == True = x
    otherwise       = last xs
last (x:xs)
    length (x:xs) == 1 = x
    otherwise          = last xs
last (x:xs)
    length xs == 0 = x
    otherwise      = last xs
last xs
    lenght xs > 1 = last (tail xs)
    otherwise     = head xs
last xs
    lenght xs == 1 = head xs
    otherwise      = last (tail xs)
last (x:xs)
    xs == []  = x
    otherwise = last xs

last xs = xs !! (length xs - 1)
last xs = head (drop (length xs - 1) xs)

last (x:xs) = lastHelper x xs
  where
    lastHelper z [] = z
    lastHelper z (y:ys) = lastHelper y ys

last x = head (reverse x)

$ zrun spellintian --picky /usr/share/doc/RFC/best-current-practice/rfc*
/tmp/0qgJD1Xa1Y-rfc1917.txt: amoung -> among
/tmp/kvZtN435CE-rfc3155.txt: transfered -> transferred
/tmp/o093khYE09-rfc3481.txt: unecessary -> unnecessary
/tmp/4P0ux2cZWK-rfc6365.txt: charater -> character

$ zrun mwic /usr/share/doc/debian/social-contract.txt.gz
DFSG:
   an Free Software Guidelines (DFSG)
   an Free Software Guidelines (DFSG) part of the
                                ^^^^
Perens:
     Bruce Perens later removed the Debian-spe 
  by Bruce Perens, refined by the other Debian 
           ^^^^^^
Ean, Schuessler:
  community" was suggested by Ean Schuessler. This document was drafted
                              ^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^
GPL:
  The "GPL", "BSD", and "Artistic" lice 
       ^^^
contrib:
  created "contrib" and "non-free" areas in our 
           ^^^^^^^
CDs:
  their CDs. Thus, although non-free wor 
        ^^^

1. Concurrent cannot-conflict content e.g. the discussion about the bug. In general everyone should have this in their local bug database as soon as possible, and anyone can write to it.
2. Observations of fact e.g. the code change that should fix the bug has landed in Ubuntu or Commit C should fix the bug .
3. Reports of symptoms e.g. Foo does not work for me in Ubuntu with package versions X, Y and Z .
4. Collaboratively edited metadata tags, title, description, and arguably even the fields like package, open/closed, importance.

Note that this is spelled GRUB_ENABLE_CRYPTODISK=y in GRUB 2.02 betas (matching the 2.00 documentation though not the implementation; not sure why Andrey chose to go with the docs).

# echo GRUB_CRYPTODISK_ENABLE=y >> /etc/default/grub
# echo 'GRUB_PRELOAD_MODULES="lvm cryptodisk mdraid1x"' >> /etc/default/grub

E:Failed to mount /efs (Invalid Argument)

1. Using heimdall, flash the TeamWin recovery onto your phone (drop into download mode first hold VolDown+Home+Power):

   heimdall flash --recovery twrp.img
   

2. Boot into recovery (VolUp+Home+Power), select Advanced -> Terminal , and take an image of the EFS partition onto the external SD card you should have already in the phone:

   dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p3 of=/external_sd/efs.img
   

3. Shutdown the phone, mount the SD card on your computer, then turn your EFS partition image into a loopback device and fsck it:

   sudo losetup -f .../efs.img
   sudo fsck -f /dev/loop0
   

   With a bit of luck, the partition won t be a complete write-off and you ll be able to salvage the contents of the files, if not the exact filesystem structure. Incidentally, if the filesystem was completely stuffed, you could get someone else s EFS partition and change the IMEI and MAC addresses and you d probably be golden, but that would quite possibly be illegal or something, so don t do that.
4. Now comes the fun part putting the filesystem back together. After fscking, mount the image somewhere on your computer:

   mount /dev/loop0 /mnt
   

   In my case, I had about a dozen files living in lost+found, and I figured that wasn t a positive outcome. I did try, just in case, writing the fsck d filesystem image back to the phone, in the hope that it just needed to mount the filesystem to boot, but no dice. Instead, I had to find out where these lost soul^Wfiles were supposed to live. Luckily, a colleague of mine also has an S3 (the ever-so-slightly-different GT-I9300T), and he was kind enough to let me take a copy of his EFS partition, and use that as a file location template. Using a combination of file sizes, permissions/ownerships, and inode numbers (I knew the -i option to ls would come in handy someday!), I was able to put all the lost files back where they should be.
5. Unmount all those EFS filesystems, losetup -d /dev/loop0, and put the fixed up EFS partition image back onto your SD card for the return trip to the phone.
6. Now, with a filesystem image that looks reasonable, it s time to write it back onto the phone and see what happens. Copy it onto the SD card, boot up into recovery again, get a shell, and a bit more dd:

   dd if=/external_sd/efs.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p3
   

7. With a bit of luck, your phone may just boot back up now. In my case, I d done so many other things to my phone trying to get it back up and running (including flashing custom ROMs and what have you) that I needed to flash Cyanogen, boot it, and wait at the boot screen for about 15 minutes (I shit you not, 15 minutes of Gah is my phone going to work?!? ) before it came up and lo! I had a working phone again. And about 27 SMSes. Sigh, back to work

#define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
static unsigned long long_target;
static char *target;
module_param_named(syscall, long_target, ulong, 0644);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(syscall, "Address of syscall");
/* mov $-1, %rax; ret */
unsigned const char bytes[] =   0x48, 0xc7, 0xc0, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff,
                                0xc3  ;
unsigned char *orig;
/* Borrowed from PaX KERNEXEC */
static inline void disable_wp(void)
 
        unsigned long cr0;
        preempt_disable();
        barrier();
        cr0 = read_cr0();
        cr0 &= ~X86_CR0_WP;
        write_cr0(cr0);
 
static inline void enable_wp(void)
 
        unsigned long cr0;
        cr0 = read_cr0();
        cr0  = X86_CR0_WP;
        write_cr0(cr0);
        barrier();
        preempt_enable_no_resched();
 
static int __init syscall_eperm_init(void)
 
        int i;
        target = (char *)long_target;
        if (target == NULL)
                return -EINVAL;
        /* save original */
        orig = kmalloc(sizeof(bytes), GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!orig)
                return -ENOMEM;
        for (i = 0; i < sizeof(bytes); i++)  
                orig[i] = target[i];
         
        pr_info("writing %lu bytes at %p\n", sizeof(bytes), target);
        disable_wp();
        for (i = 0; i < sizeof(bytes); i++)  
                target[i] = bytes[i];
         
        enable_wp();
        return 0;
 
module_init(syscall_eperm_init);
static void __exit syscall_eperm_exit(void)
 
        int i;
        pr_info("restoring %lu bytes at %p\n", sizeof(bytes), target);
        disable_wp();
        for (i = 0; i < sizeof(bytes); i++)  
                target[i] = orig[i];
         
        enable_wp();
        kfree(orig);
 
module_exit(syscall_eperm_exit);
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
MODULE_AUTHOR("Kees Cook <kees@outflux.net>");
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("makes target syscall always return EPERM");

• not announce what it s doing
• remove the exit route to not restore the changes on module unload
• error out at the end of the init function instead of staying resident

# modules-disable - disable modules after rc scripts are done
#
description "disable loading modules"
start on stopped module-init-tools and stopped rc
task
script
        cd /root/modules/syscall_eperm
        make clean
        make
        insmod ./syscall_eperm.ko \
                syscall=0x$(egrep ' T sys_kexec_load$' /proc/kallsyms   cut -d" " -f1)
        modprobe disable
end script

2013, Kees Cook. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License.

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import urllib

print "pyflakes example"
urlib.urlopen('http://www.linux.it')

$ pyflakes example.py
example.py:1: 'urllib' imported but unused
example.py:4: undefined name 'urlib'

pip install coverage

$ coverage run --source=codicefiscale tests.py
.......
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 7 tests in 0.003s

$ coverage report -m
Name            Stmts   Miss  Cover   Missing
---------------------------------------------
codicefiscale      73      4    95%   61, 67, 95, 100

1. Package fiefdoms waste people's time quite frequently: MIA processing, duplicated effort in DELAYED NMUs, conspiracy and infighting, trying to get an absentee maintainer to respond, the ridiculous things that happen when a maintainer is still around but not doing his job for 3 consecutive years, and so on. Having all packages maintained by "Debian Developers" is a great idea.
2. The current hierarchy might work better than some lesser evils, but that doesn't mean it's good at all. We should strive toward ZERO hierarchy, not some magical fiction where people imagine themselves wiser than everyone else because their drinking buddies said so.

• 1 c almond flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• tsp salt
• c Steviva blend
• 3 tbsp grapeseed oil
• c milk
• 1 large egg
• 12 fresh plums, pitted and halved
• tsp cloves

Lightly coat an 8"x8" pan with cooking spray. Heat oven to 350 degrees. In medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt and Steviva. Add grapeseed oil, milk and egg. Beat at medium speed 4 minutes. Pour batter into prepared pan. Place plums on top, cut side up, pushing down slightly into batter. Sprinkle cloves over the plums. Bake about 50 minutes or until a toothpick tests clean. Let the cake cool in the pan so the plum juices will be reabsorbed to create a moist cake. Sprinkle with confectioners' sugar, if desired, and cut into 16 squares.

• 1 c almond flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• tsp salt
• c Steviva blend
• 3 tbsp grapeseed oil
• c milk
• 1 large egg
• 12 fresh plums, pitted and halved
• tsp cloves

Lightly coat an 8"x8" pan with cooking spray. Heat oven to 350 degrees. In medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt and Steviva. Add grapeseed oil, milk and egg. Beat at medium speed 4 minutes. Pour batter into prepared pan. Place plums on top, cut side up, pushing down slightly into batter. Sprinkle cloves over the plums. Bake about 50 minutes or until a toothpick tests clean. Let the cake cool in the pan so the plum juices will be reabsorbed to create a moist cake. Sprinkle with confectioners' sugar, if desired, and cut into 16 squares.

• [1] http://etbe.coker.com.au/2011/02/10/lca2011-harassment/
• [2] http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Rape_apology_on_LCA_mailing_list
• [3] http://finallyfeminism101.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/rape-culture-101/
• [4] http://adainitiative.org/2012/10/open-source-software-open-to-all/
• [5] http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/18505.html
• [6] http://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/57290-garrett-slams-tso-as-rape-apologist
• [7] http://blog.valerieaurora.org/2012/10/29/the-linux-community-cant-remain-silent-while-leaders-make-anti-woman-comments/
• [8] http://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/57296-tso-denies-ever-saying-rape-is-not-a-problem