Computing

Python URLGrabber: Ignore System Proxy Settings

The Duke URLGrabber package for Python makes it incredibly easy to retrieve files from remote servers, and it abstracts urllib2 for you in a protocol-independent way, so you can focus on your application instead of spending time working with Python’s built-in urllib2. On Windows and Mac OSX, by default, urllib2 (and therefore URLGrabber) will use …

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FreeBSD: Monitor Your Disks’ Health with Smartmontools

Whether you’re using FreeBSD for your workstation, a simple home server, or in a complex IT environment where reliability is critical, losing the data on your hard disk(s) is probably the worst type of failure you can have.  I’ve already gone over a backup strategy for FreeBSD, but it’s best to try to prevent data …

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