About

On this page you can find some simple but useful programs, scripts written in spare time for different purposes. Feel free to download and use them if you like. If you have any comments don't hesitate to share it with us (opoki in domain opoki.com).

Software

• photo-rename.py - simple script written in python for renaming JPG pictures according to date written in EXIF. It can handle several files if called like ./photo-rename.py *.jpg. The output name will be YYYY-MM-DD_HHMMSS. For more information please look inside the script.
• avi_rename.sh - a shell script for renaming anything to date-time format as above. I wrote that to quickly rename AVI files produced by my digital camera - hence the name. It simply searches a given file for date-time and picks the first found. Look inside for more details.
• num.py - once I come across some PPT showing some magic in numbers like adding this to that so many times looks so, etc. It looked really interesting, so to check this out this small script was created. Numbers are sometimes amazing ;-)
• rss-to-pidgin.py sets your pidgin status using latest news from some RSS feeds. We run some websites which we update from time to time. They have their own RSSes. We use excelent IM client pidgin (which together with pidgin-skype supports skype) and wanted to update its status to the latest link we published on our websites. And this script does exactly that. Inside are still hardcoded our feeds ;-)

Tools

• total stars for amazon products. We buy pretty often at amazon - it saves time and money. Before purchasing something I used to read through product's reviews, check what ratings it has, etc. Sometimes however I'd like to check reviews of the same product on different amazon sites. I did it by hand, but althogh it works, it is very tedious and borring and still does not provide a total ranking. That is why this tool was created.
  All you need to do is to find a product on any of amazon site. Copy the whole URL and paste it into the tool. It will:
  • check that product on other amazons,
  • count number of stars it received on them and calculate an average rating,
  • present you a page with links to total reviews, reviews by stars (only 5 stars, only 4 stars, etc.), so ofering an easy access to that information.
  
  Since it has to check a product on several amazons it takes some time - usually below 30s. It stores calculated values for 1 week, so next query about the same product provides data instantly.

Tips

• how to set up DHCP based on static IPs for particular MACs on Fritz!box devices
• how to set up Gitolite on Synology diskstation
• how to install redmine 1.1.3 on Synology diskstation
• using sshfs with Synology diskstation
• setting up debian on dell latitude e6520 and struggle with nvidia + HDMI (solved)
• installing ubuntu patched loop-aes-utils non-conflicting with fuse

Disclaimer

Here comes a fat, classical disclaimer. Basically: use at your own risk :-)

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