The main problem with XP is that to do anything remotely useful with it you need a decent terminal/shell. I love rxvt/bash and the best rxvt you can find for Windows is via cygwin. Out of the box cygwin is an ugly brute - bash in cmd.exe != a real term.

Install rxvt via cygwin, then add some Consolas fonts (from Windows Vista) and edit your .Xdefaults to get a much nicer term.

Download a sadistic editor. Drop in a beautiful colour-scheme (brookstream). You now have a sweet shell and editor.

Install Python via cygwin and away you go.

Perfection?

I was attempting to connect to a remote MySQL DB when my sweet setup failed me.

Nothing in cygwin's repository could help -- there is basically no support in cygwin for MySQL (odd). There is tons of support for Python and Postgres, so this MySQL FAIL surprised me.

After an entire morning of Googleing it turns out the people at Cygwin Ports have solved this problem. For the sake of your sanity follow these simple steps to get Cygwin + Python + MySQL working.

1. Follow the steps above to create a sweet cygwin development environment.
2. Follow the overly convoluted steps to enable cygwin ports in your setup.exe
3. Install the following package "python-mysql" including the crucial dependancy "libmysqlclient-devel"
4. Test your setup

Rejoice?

This process has saved you the experience of python eggs, installing gcc, compiling anything from source and best of all it just works.

Enjoy!

- Graver

One last note - if you have ever found a slick PNG that you wanted as an ICO (for Windows XP) check out this online converter site!

The code is very basic, but already it can do a few things:

• Display latest friends list updates.
• Display recent replies.
• Display recent sent and received DMs.
• Update your status.
• Send a DM.

Unfortunately the next update is most likely a week away, but when I get around to it, I plan on splitting the screen into multiple windows with your current status always displayed, along with a regularly updated friends list. Right now everything is jammed into a single window.

I do need to figure out how to get Twitter to display my client name (apparently I need to contact them for that) but so far, so good. Anyone wishing to take a look at my (very alpha) code, can check it out here.

For those of you wondering about the name... TwCuP kinda reminds me of 'hiccup', so I found it slightly amusing at ~4am when I was trying to come up with a name.

Eventually this will (hopefully) be a client that can be left idling in a screen session... that's my goal anyways.

Is this useful... perhaps? I could see a sys admin wanting a count of specific open ports on the network or a pen tester wanting to know the most common ports on a target network.

The python script is extremely basic and is called via nmap_port_frequency.py <XML Input> <png Output>. The result is an image similar to this:

The above image is the output from scanning three hosts.

getHeroes.py

Webfuzz Scripts

Peace,
HT

From the Readme:
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headerfuzz.py: This script takes a host and a max string size
as it's two arguments. It then iterates through
various Methods and Headers... The data for each
header will grow until max string size is reached.

mimefuzz.py: This script takes two headers (Accept and
Content-Type) and iterates through them.
Various mime types are appended to these
fields. The only input for this script is
a host.

randheader.py: This script takes host, max string size, headers
per send, and max times to run as it's arguments.
Randon headers are paired together (to the
supplied max) and each is populated with a
string of characters (to max string size).

randmime.py: This script takes a host, a number of iterations,
and a max mimetype count. It loops through each
iteration, appending random mimetypes.

webfuzz.py: My original intent was that this could be used
to fingerprint devices which speak http. Certain
"allowed" values are populated for various
headers. This is iterated through.

I just came across this today and felt I should share it... PyPy allows the translation of python into other languages... Currently it supports C, .Net, LLVM and a mimimal setup of Javascript (to be worked on during the next Google Summer of Code).

I was able to download and grab pypy 0.9 using svn by running the command:

svn co http://codespeak.net/svn/pypy/release/0.9.x pypy-0.9.x

I used their example... it worked quite well I had a small functional .NET application that executed under mono but didn't work under .NET quite yet (Edit: This was due to user stupidity... I forgot to copy over the associated dll) ...

Check it out @ http://pypy.org/

I will also attempt to add the code here in the next day or two.... (I've also got a couple smaller code releases planned)...

Due to errors with code formatting and my inability to get wordpress to display html without rendering it I'm going to attach the tutorial as a text file.

Download the Tutorial

Original (Remember even this one is over two years old... the others are three years.... I was still learning when I wrote these... but they're good for introducing the basics)
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Step-by-Step Process
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1. Open your favourite editor (Vi, Pico, Notepad, Wordpad, Textpad, DOS Edit).
2. Type (indentation lost -- email me if you need help)

code:
 """
Python Script to Deal with Tarballs Flags: c(ompress), d(compress), g(zip)
"""
import tarfile
import string
import sys
try : strFlags = sys.argv[1]
except :
strFlags = "-h"
decompress = "yes"
compress = "yes"
gzip = "yes"
if string.find(strFlags, "-") == 0 :
if string.find(strFlags, "h") != -1 :
print "Usage: %s -  " % sys.argv[0]
print "Flags: d[ecompress]n       c[ompress]n       g[zip]"
sys.exit(0)
try :
strArchive = sys.argv[2]
except :
print "Error Argument Missing"
sys.exit(0)
if string.find(strFlags, "d") == -1 :
decompress = "no"
if string.find(strFlags, "c") == -1 :
compress = "no"
if string.find(strFlags, "g") == -1 :
gzip = "no"
if compress == "yes" and decompress == "yes" :
print "ERROR - CANNOT DECOMPRESS AND COMPRESS"
sys.exit(0)
elif compress == "yes" and gzip == "no" :
try : strFile = sys.argv[3]
except :
print "Error Argument Missing"
sys.exit(0)
tarball = tarfile.open(strArchive, "w")
tarball.add(strFile)
tarball.close()
elif compress == "yes" and gzip == "yes" :
try : strFile = sys.argv[3]
except :
print "Error Argument Missing"
sys.exit(0)
tarball = tarfile.open(strArchive, "w:gz")
tarball.add(strFile)
tarball.close()
elif decompress == "yes" and gzip == "no" :
try:
tarball = tarfile.open(strArchive, "r")
except :
print "ERROR - FILE MISSING"
sys.exit(0)
for tarfile.tarinfo in tarball :
tarball.extract(tarfile.tarinfo)
tarball.close()
elif decompress == "yes" and gzip == "yes" :
try :
tarball = tarfile.open(strArchive, "r:gz")
except :
print "Error - File Missing"
sys.exit(0)
for tarfile.tarinfo in tarball :
tarball.extract(tarfile.tarinfo)
tarball.close()
else :
print "ERROR NO FLAGS GIVEN"
sys.exit(0)