Recently wunderground announced the end of new registrations for “free” API access making an earlier eggdrop weather script [here] somewhat less useful. The script below attempts to replicate the functionality but using the very nice people over at openweathermap.org API….
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Recently another script I used to search for film information got broken. After a quick look around I found the nice people over at OMDb (http://www.omdbapi.com/) who have a good API to expose things like IMDB rating and other information…
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I’ve started to play around the the Twitter API a little and created a small script to grab the contents of a spammed tweet link and display it in the channel. Requires an API key etc for Oauth which you…
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This script uses the API from newsapi.org to return the latest headlines from a users preselected news site. Requires +news set on the channel and your own free API key Any comment or suggestions more then welcome 🙂 Script can…
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Kodi MythTV PVR automated packages from rpmfusion. and unitedrpms. sadly haven’t been working on my Fedora 24 or 25 systems for quite sometime with crashes and failures to load that I couldnt figure out easily. I’ve manually built the addon…
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Just another small script that uses the nice API over at giphy to return gif links based on the query from a user. Requires +giphy set on the channel but hopefully a very simple and straight forward script although as…
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In this GNS3 lab we’re looking as the various options on how we can filter updates between EIGRP speakers and then how that affects the traffic flow (as EIGRP is a distance vector protocol we can filter updates :))This is…
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Recently ZEN announced an open IPv6 trial in the UK and first impressions are very good (just like the rest of their service 😀 ) DHCPv6 using prefix delegation (RFC 3633) is being used to issue each subscriber with a…
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Sadly one of the few APIs that still provides access to image search now the Bing API provides all the results for this script. Again a very simple script (it has a simple function? :)) Users can trigger and image…
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This is a simple script tcl script for an eggdrop that will allow users to set a default location and then grabs current conditions or a 3 day forecast using that default location or a defined search each time. The…
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This is a quick lab to look over how 6to4 tunnelling can be implemented using GNS3 1.3 and 3725 (running c3725-adventerprisek9-mz124-15.image). The topology will be as below but the important part if the colouring of the network segments and noticing the…
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Quick guide to installing the quite awesome GNS3. Very similar process to Fedora 20 but this time using DNF and a small adjustment on some package names with some extras included now for dynamips to compile since it now uses…
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Wireshark has some very nice SSL/TLS decryption features tucked away although you need either of the following two: Access to the servers private pki key Access to the client machines and its (pre)master secrets (also need Firefox or Chrome) ***Unfortunately,…
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