Pronounceable password phrases generator.

I had to practice a bit in python, and this is what came out.

Presenting another pronounceable password phrases generator.

I always wondered how our University generated random phrases as passwords, that looked like real sentences. They are always good readable and pronounceable, but always altered so much, that they were definitely not from a dictionary any more.

This password generator attempts to do the similar task. The passwords are altered prases from random generated lorem ipsum text. I took the lorem ipsum text generator from James Hales (project homepage).

The generator comes in 3 packages – one is command line tool, another is with a GTK+ Gui and the third one is a mod-python version for your apache driven homepage.

Download password generator:

• GUI version
• Command line only
• mod-python version for apache (comming soon)

Uage:

• Command line version:
  $ python passgen.py [w] <n>
  where “w” is number of words in each password and “n” is number of passwords to generate.
• GUI version:
  Is pretty much selfexplaining. Just run passgen.py
• mod-python version:
  You have 2 attributes which you can use from URL:
  1. WORDS – words in each password
  2. PASSWORDS – number of passwords to generate

The result look something like this:

01:  lettis. mi Iatilis
02:  T3mpus, d3n3nypis ulpric3s?
03:  fync1 pony1r1; M1wyn
04:  ma0r0s f0sge wam,
05:  cincin1nc. s1m m1s
…

I hope this will be useful.

PuTTY Tango colors

For some time I was looking for a color theme for a famous Windows SSH client PuTTY, that would be readable. The problem with the default color theme is, that some colors are too intensive, so they are hard to read on some displays.

I decided to change the colors and for the template I took the color palette from the Tango Desktop Project. I also added some good looking monospace fonts – Bitstream Vera Sans. I am rather pleased with the result and now want to share it with you.

For better preview I’ve done some screenshots.
I captured ruby on rails validation example, opened in VIM via PuTTY (SSH) on my development server.

Default PuTTY Color Theme

PuTTY Tango Color Theme

Download the PuTTY tango colors theme:
http://www.box.net/shared/tdo4n2ewwg

It is a registry file, which describes a session named “Tango Theme” + directory with four fonts. Everything is packed with 7zip.

And at the end one little advice: if one puts PuTTY Tango Theme with VIM Tango theme, which can be found on Michele Campeotto blog together, one can get really good Tango experience.

The PuTTY Tango Theme comes with BSD License, whereas the fonts come with GPL. So you are free to use it. If you have found something interesting, please write it in the comments. I will appreciate all notices…

Here are the links to the Tools, mentioned in this post:

• PuTTY
• Tango Desktop Project
• 7zip
• Bitstream Vera fonts

Sinfonia for the blunt sword

Yesterday I received an e-mail from a friend, who told me a wonderful thing – he finished his work on his album.

It is already 3 Years ago, since I have heard some very first excerpts of the album. It sounded great to me. I was really impressed about what one can do using only “self made” equipment and imagination. kARHu, who did the main work in the project, writes about his album:

At last! Those years of nuclear bomb testing finally paid off – we’re hereby releasing Sinfonia For The Blunt Sword. Yes, it took quite some time – all the music production and composition over the years drove us insane in the end. So here it is, our work of brutal beauty: It’s possibly the soundtrack for taking your M1 Abrams on a lowride in your damned Metropolis before flipping it over your neighbor’s SUV.

The album is very melodic and is a great mixture of artificial and experimental sounds, which flow together with some folk motives and vocal and create a really exciting atmosphere, which gives an impression of something deep and fantastic. One does enjoy every sound.

Since the album is published under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported licence, it is Free as in Freedom.
You can download and listen to the whole Album at http://www.karhumusic.org/

Enjoy!