Shriphani ‘PSP’ Palakodety

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Entries Tagged as 'NIPL'

NIPL URMS

December 12th, 2007 · No Comments · Code, Django, NIPL

Well, argo is closed and the URMS that was made on it is pretty much of no use now. I have hence planned to host it on google code. I feel bad whenever I look the work I did on Argo. Well here’s the application I made.

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GHOP, mukt.in stickers, sad news from NIPL and new ideas.

December 6th, 2007 · No Comments · Daily life, Google Highly Open Participation Contest, Linux, NIPL, mukt.in

I finished my GHOP (Google Highly Open Participation) task a few days back. I was writing the docs for different unix platforms and it was nice to have a person from caltech monitoring my progress. I won’t say it was fun filled because it was not. I literally had to struggle to get those commands [...]

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Another script.

August 9th, 2007 · No Comments · NIPL, python

This script will get list all processes affliated to a given user. Better than ps and can specify processes per user :)

#!/usr/bin/python
#adminscript.py
import pwd
from subprocess import *
import pwd
a = Popen(["ps", "axo", "euid"], stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)
output = a.communicate()
uid_list = output[0]
error_list = output[1]
for uid in uid_list.split(’n')[1:-1]:
uid1 = int(uid)
user_list = pwd.getpwuid(uid1)[0]
[...]

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NIPLWIKI

July 31st, 2007 · No Comments · NIPL, WWW, python

So, I’ve volunteered to make NIPL’s wiki. I was itching to try out kid templates some time back last year and I decided to use tg as it supports kid templates by default. After I finished my wiki, it was “weighed” against ikiwiki ( it uses berkeleydb eww!). ikiwiki was going to be lightweight any [...]

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First FOSS Project

July 26th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Django, NIPL, python

I just volunteered for a free shell providing service named NIPL. NIPL stands for Nouvelles Informationzes Positives Libres. I have been assigned the task of creating a User Request Management System. I picked NIPL for the following reasons:
1. I get to serve the open source community directly or indirectly
2. NIPL users are free in the [...]

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