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MIS Ice Skating at Centenial Lakes

MIS Ice Skating at Centenial Lakes

Originally uploaded by Collin Anderson

Went ice skating Saturday night.

This one logs me into U of M Wireless

import getpass, socket, urllib

url = 'https://wireless.netaccess.umn.edu/cgi-bin/x5.cgi'

args = {'opt': 'auth'}
args['ip'] = socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname())
args['uid'] = 'ande7966'
args['upass'] = getpass.getpass()

response = urllib.urlopen(url, urllib.urlencode(args))
print response.read()
response.close()

Replaces %20 with spaces in file names. Useful for files from WebVista.

import os

for name in os.listdir('.'):
newname = name.replace('%20', ' ')
if name != newname:
os.rename(name, newname)

1103 Cheat Sheet

2nd Floor: Apt 3 - Apt 4
1st Floor: Apt 1 - Apt 2

AirTunes

I want people to easily be able to play their music on the speakers hooked up to Ficker’s KVM switch on the main floor of 1027. The most ideal way to do this would be to hook the speakers up to an Airport Express so anyone in the house who has iTunes can see the [...]

Some Things to Share

Joe was in charge of food for our household last semester. One meal in the rotation that I was assigned to cook was called Ziti. I had never heard of it before, but it was a very good Italian dish. Towards the end of the semester we asked Joe where he got it from. Turns [...]

The Lay of The Land

Here is the new lay of the land:

If something is labeled Men or Women, that means it’s a bedroom.
Here is an excerpt from Colleen’s “Before you cook” document:
Number of People in Sections
Finance: 8 + Harold on some nights
MIS: 8
Action: 11
Missionary: 12
Where’s the Food!?
The refrigerated food is divided up as follows:
Apt 1: Condiments (except sour cream) [...]

Photos from Last Week’s Move

On Flickr

Flickr Uploader in Python

After buying a Flickr Pro account at the beginning of the summer and uploading all of my photos, I wanted an automatic way of uploading my photos from my camera. I already had a Python script that renamed all of my photos to the date and time they were taken, so all I had to [...]

Logon Failure: the user has not been granted the requested logon type at this computer

I ran into this problem a couple weeks ago when trying to connect to a computer through windows smb:
“Logon Failure: the user has not been granted the requested logon type at this computer.”
Apparently you simply download “Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools” http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=4544
then type these commands:
net user guest /active:yes
ntrights +r SeNetworkLogonRight -u Guest
ntrights -r SeDenyNetworkLogonRight [...]