Mini Searches with Answers

These are links associated with recent searches I’ve done. They’re not difficult enough to warrant to their own posts but still super useful.

Ubuntu Server Guide
This is supposed to be an excellent and thorough guide for setting up an entire Ubuntu server.

IIS.net : FastCGI Extension for IIS6.0 and IIS5.1 – Go Live : Download : Microsoft Internet Information Services
Wow, a fastcgi for Windows. I hope it works with Python. I’m going to try it soon.

Generating and working with GUIDs in .NET – Program – .Net – Builder AU
To make a GUID in C# just call:

System.Guid.NewGuid().ToString();

… I hope

Tim Golden’s Python Stuff: Win32 How Do I…?
Really useful Python windows tasks such as catch system wide hotkeys, lock a workstation, see if a workstation is locked, show mapped drives, and lots more. Yay!

Digg – LINUX: Securely deleting files with shred
This command might work for journaled filesystems like reiser, and ext3. (use at your own risk)

cat /dev/urandom > DELETEME ; sync ; sleep 1 ; rm -f DELETEME

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