[ nicinabox ]

David LaRoche for State Representative

nic — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:46:41 +0000

David LaRoche is a young and upcoming candidate running for State Representative. LaRoche has raised more than any other state House candidate.

Localscene.fm

nic — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 21:59:33 +0000

Localscene.fm is a site created to help bring together and consolidate the local music scene. It provides a running list of shows with support for any city. By being location aware, you always see what’s relevant to you, with minimal searching.

MTSU Resnet Helpdesk

nic — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:17:24 +0000

This is a custom web-based system I created while working for the Housing Department at MTSU. The ResNet Helpdesk is a student run desk that fixes students computers for free. I felt that organization was severely lacking so I took a the summer to create this web app. No computers have been lost to date.

Fixed Gear Calculator

nic — Thu, 07 May 2009 01:26:46 +0000

This is a little project I did in an afternoon. I wasn’t really happy with the way any of the other ones worked. They were all too complex to fill out, or gave bad out, or were just programmed poorly, etc, etc.

So, like so many things, I couln’t find what I wanted, so I made my own. Just fill it out the fields and hit Calculate.

Note: This is is like uber version 1. I’ve got some more features planned for it soon

GeekTool Scripts

nic — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 04:29:51 +0000

This are an ever growing compilation of scripts and code snippets that I have written or collected in a format that’s easy to understand and use. If you need any help feel free to email me at nic@nicinabox.com.

I encourage you to checkout some of the Desktop screenshots on Flickr (some are very nice!) for ideas.If you have a script or something clever you’d like to add to this collection, please contact me.

Current Version: 0.6

Includes:

Network info
Unread Gmail
Uptime
Calendar (with current day denoted)
Weather
System Stats
Recent Music plays

Network Info

ifconfig en1 | grep "inet " | awk '{print $2}'

161.45.27.132

Unread Gmail

chkgmail

4 Unread

Uptime

uptime | awk '{print "Uptime : " $3 " " $4 " " $5 }' | sed -e 's/.$//g'

Uptime : 1 day, 17:54

Calendar

cal | awk -v cday=`date "+%d"` '{ fill=(int(cday)>9?"":" "); \
a=$0; sub(" "fill int(cday)" ","["fill int(cday)"]",a); print a }'

     March 2009
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
 1  2  3  4  5  6  7
 8  9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31

Weather

weather -cm 37130

55F | 81F
Fair

weather 37130

80F

System Stats

top -orsize -FR -l1 | grep % | grep -v Load | grep -v COMMAND | cut -c 7-19,64-69

firefox-bi     281M
kernel_tas     160M
iTunes         113M
WindowServ      63M
Finder          61M
Quicksilve      56M
mds             47M
Last.fm         42M
ForkLift        37M
TextMate        31M
Font Book       27M
YouControl      21M
GrowlHelpe      19M
coreservic      18M
GeekTool        16M
Spotlight       14M
mysqld          12M
ATSServer       12M
Dock            12M

Recent music Plays

curl -s http://localhost/tunes.php

4:58 Sigur Rós : Untitled #6 Reversed
4:56 Talkdemonic : Indian Angel
4:46 Caspian : Moksha
4:42 The Album Leaf : Another Day
4:35 A Silver Mt. Zion : For Wanda
4:30 Mogwai : I Know You Are but What Am I
4:17 Mono & World's End Girlfriend : Palmless Prayer / Mass Murder Refrain (#2)
3:55 Godspeed You! Black Emperor : Motherfucker=Redeemer (Part One)
3:52 Rachel's : The Last Light
3:49 Set Fire to Flames : Small Steps Against Inertia/Echo Of A Dead

The Coalition to Save Our Schools

nic — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 01:04:46 +0000

CSOS is an organization dedicated to maintaining the quality of higher education in Tennessee. This site was created as a media and information outlet for them.

Web 2.0 Color Palette

nic — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 01:36:53 +0000

This is a Web 2.0 color palette that I’ve compiled in hopes of making having quick access to great colors. Feel free to use for any of your needs

Recent Last.fm Plays

nic — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 01:35:46 +0000

This script uses the Last.fm API to get your 10 most recent played tracks. It dynamically displays and links to last.fm

Password Generator

nic — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 01:31:35 +0000

Introduction – the problem

Once every while, you encounter a website, which has interesting stuff available to you as a registered user only. No big deal, you just create an account and there you go. However, over time, the many, many user accounts with their passwords become hard to remember. You’ll just forget the cleverly crafted variation eventually, to find you struggeling again with yet another “forgot password” service variation.

A common solution is to have just one password for all of those sites, which are considered of low to medium risk if broken into. The problem with this is, that a rogue site owner might go out and impersonate as you, once they find out about other sites you may hang out with the same account. A little “social engineering”, and you can be in big trouble.

The solution

Now there is nothing wrong with a single, strong password, as long as it is not used literally. Enter the concept of a Master Password that generates a strong password, unique for every web site where it is used.

How it works

The password generator takes your master password and combines it with the domain name using the SHA1 algorithm created by the NSA. The, for added security certain letters are converted to uppercase

Credits

Inspiration for this project here

Password Gen Update

nic — Wed, 28 May 2008 08:14:56 +0000

One of the major shortcomings of the web form was that the password was shown in plain text. After a bit of hacking around I was able to get Firefox to send the password to the clipboard for easy pasting. The password is no longer shown.

Check it here

UPDATE: It apparently only works with Firefox. Ill add cross browser support in a bit