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September 5, 2009

retrieve skype contact photos using python

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , — cyrenity @ 2:18 pm

tonight i was looking for a way to retrieve display pictures of my skype contacts from .dbb files and ended up with this small piece of code. i don’t find it much useful though but someone might be interesting so here it is.

#!/usr/bin/env python
#
# Author Ghulam Mustafa <mustafa.pk@gmail.com>
#
## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
## modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version
## 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.

## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
## General Public License version 2 for more details.

## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
## version 2 along with this program; if not, write to the Free
## Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston,
## MA 02110-1301, USA.

profile = '/home/mustafa/.Skype/cyrenity/'

skypefiles = ["user256", "user1024", "user4096", "user16384", "user32768", "user65536",
              "profile256", "profile1024", "profile4096", "profile16384", "profile32768"]

##retrieve contents of skype binary files and store them in a single variable
skbin = []
n = 0
for f in skypefiles:
 fil = "%s%s.dbb" % (profile, f)
 try: skbin.append(file(fil, "rb").read())
 except: pass
 n = n + 1

binary = "".join(skbin)
##

## get_icon(username, binary)
## returns
##    True if successfull
##     None if failed
##    -1 if user not found
def get_icon(buddy, binary):
 startmark = "\xff\xd8"
 endmark = "\xff\xd9"

 startfix = 0
 endfix = 2

 nick_start = "\x03\x10%s" % buddy
 nick_end = "0"

 nickstart = binary.find(nick_start)
 if nickstart == -1: return -1
 nickend = binary.find(nick_end, nickstart)
 handle = binary[nickstart+2:nickend]
 blockstart = binary.rfind("l33l", 0, nickend)
 imgstart = binary.find(startmark, blockstart, nickend)
 imgend = binary.find(endmark, imgstart)

 imgstart += startfix
 imgend += endfix
 if (imgstart < 1): return None
 ##print "JPG %s from %d to %d" % (handle, imgstart, imgend)
 jpg = binary[imgstart:imgend]
 jpgfile = file("%s.jpg" % (handle), "wb")
 jpgfile.write(jpg)
 jpgfile.close()
 return True

users = ['cyrenity', 'gmustafa9']
for user in users:
 status = get_icon(user, binary)
 if status and status != -1:
  print "success [%s]" % user
 else:
  print "failed[%s] [%s]" % (status, user)

p.s. you are encouraged to send me update if you found a bug or fix something. :)

July 16, 2009

howto install Karaka: xmpp gateway to skype!

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , — cyrenity @ 9:56 am

You came here searching for howto install karaka. Vipdia Limited doesn’t tell much on how to setup karaka step by step, yesterday someone asked this question on karaka-discuss mailing list, this post is helpful for you if you are thinking about giving karaka a try.

more here: http://groups.google.com/group/karaka-discuss/browse_thread/thread/d6eb8fcd61bd3e05

December 15, 2008

evolution of a programmer

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , — cyrenity @ 12:23 pm

High School/Junior High

  10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"
  20 END

First year in College

  program Hello(input, output)
    begin
      writeln('Hello World')
    end.

Senior year in College

  (defun hello
    (print
      (cons 'Hello (list 'World))))

New professional

  #include
  void main(void)
  {
    char *message[] = {"Hello ", "World"};
    int i;

    for(i = 0; i < 2; ++i)
      printf("%s", message[i]);
    printf("\n");
  }

Seasoned professional

  #include
  #include 

  class string
  {
  private:
    int size;
    char *ptr;

  public:
    string() : size(0), ptr(new char('')) {}

    string(const string &s) : size(s.size)
    {
      ptr = new char[size + 1];
      strcpy(ptr, s.ptr);
    }

    ~string()
    {
      delete [] ptr;
    }

    friend ostream &operator <<(ostream &, const string &);
    string &operator=(const char *);
  };

  ostream &operator<<(ostream &stream, const string &s)
  {
    return(stream << s.ptr);
  }

  string &string::operator=(const char *chrs)
  {
    if (this != &chrs)
    {
      delete [] ptr;
     size = strlen(chrs);
      ptr = new char[size + 1];
      strcpy(ptr, chrs);
    }
    return(*this);
  }

  int main()
  {
    string str;

    str = "Hello World";
    cout << str << endl;

    return(0);
  }

Master Programmer

  [
  uuid(2573F8F4-CFEE-101A-9A9F-00AA00342820)
  ]
  library LHello
  {
      // bring in the master library
      importlib("actimp.tlb");
      importlib("actexp.tlb");

      // bring in my interfaces
      #include "pshlo.idl"

      [
      uuid(2573F8F5-CFEE-101A-9A9F-00AA00342820)
      ]
      cotype THello
   {
   interface IHello;
   interface IPersistFile;
   };
  };

  [
  exe,
  uuid(2573F890-CFEE-101A-9A9F-00AA00342820)
  ]
  module CHelloLib
  {

      // some code related header files
      importheader();
      importheader();
      importheader();
      importheader("pshlo.h");
      importheader("shlo.hxx");
      importheader("mycls.hxx");

      // needed typelibs
      importlib("actimp.tlb");
      importlib("actexp.tlb");
      importlib("thlo.tlb");

      [
      uuid(2573F891-CFEE-101A-9A9F-00AA00342820),
      aggregatable
      ]
      coclass CHello
   {
   cotype THello;
   };
  };

  #include "ipfix.hxx"

  extern HANDLE hEvent;

  class CHello : public CHelloBase
  {
  public:
      IPFIX(CLSID_CHello);

      CHello(IUnknown *pUnk);
      ~CHello();

      HRESULT  __stdcall PrintSz(LPWSTR pwszString);

  private:
      static int cObjRef;
  };

  #include
  #include
  #include
  #include
  #include "thlo.h"
  #include "pshlo.h"
  #include "shlo.hxx"
  #include "mycls.hxx"

  int CHello::cObjRef = 0;

  CHello::CHello(IUnknown *pUnk) : CHelloBase(pUnk)
  {
      cObjRef++;
      return;
  }

  HRESULT  __stdcall  CHello::PrintSz(LPWSTR pwszString)
  {
      printf("%ws\n", pwszString);
      return(ResultFromScode(S_OK));
  }

  CHello::~CHello(void)
  {

  // when the object count goes to zero, stop the server
  cObjRef--;
  if( cObjRef == 0 )
      PulseEvent(hEvent);

  return;
  }

  #include
  #include
  #include "pshlo.h"
  #include "shlo.hxx"
  #include "mycls.hxx"

  HANDLE hEvent;

   int _cdecl main(
  int argc,
  char * argv[]
  ) {
  ULONG ulRef;
  DWORD dwRegistration;
  CHelloCF *pCF = new CHelloCF();

  hEvent = CreateEvent(NULL, FALSE, FALSE, NULL);

  // Initialize the OLE libraries
  CoInitializeEx(NULL, COINIT_MULTITHREADED);

  CoRegisterClassObject(CLSID_CHello, pCF, CLSCTX_LOCAL_SERVER,
      REGCLS_MULTIPLEUSE, &dwRegistration);

  // wait on an event to stop
  WaitForSingleObject(hEvent, INFINITE);

  // revoke and release the class object
  CoRevokeClassObject(dwRegistration);
  ulRef = pCF->Release();

  // Tell OLE we are going away.
  CoUninitialize();

  return(0); }

  extern CLSID CLSID_CHello;
  extern UUID LIBID_CHelloLib;

  CLSID CLSID_CHello = { /* 2573F891-CFEE-101A-9A9F-00AA00342820 */
      0x2573F891,
      0xCFEE,
      0x101A,
      { 0x9A, 0x9F, 0x00, 0xAA, 0x00, 0x34, 0x28, 0x20 }
  };

  UUID LIBID_CHelloLib = { /* 2573F890-CFEE-101A-9A9F-00AA00342820 */
      0x2573F890,
      0xCFEE,
      0x101A,
      { 0x9A, 0x9F, 0x00, 0xAA, 0x00, 0x34, 0x28, 0x20 }
  };

  #include
  #include
  #include
  #include
  #include
  #include "pshlo.h"
  #include "shlo.hxx"
  #include "clsid.h"

  int _cdecl main(
  int argc,
  char * argv[]
  ) {
  HRESULT  hRslt;
  IHello        *pHello;
  ULONG  ulCnt;
  IMoniker * pmk;
  WCHAR  wcsT[_MAX_PATH];
  WCHAR  wcsPath[2 * _MAX_PATH];

  // get object path
  wcsPath[0] = '';
  wcsT[0] = '';
  if( argc > 1) {
      mbstowcs(wcsPath, argv[1], strlen(argv[1]) + 1);
      wcsupr(wcsPath);
      }
  else {
      fprintf(stderr, "Object path must be specified\n");
      return(1);
      }

  // get print string
  if(argc > 2)
      mbstowcs(wcsT, argv[2], strlen(argv[2]) + 1);
  else
      wcscpy(wcsT, L"Hello World");

  printf("Linking to object %ws\n", wcsPath);
  printf("Text String %ws\n", wcsT);

  // Initialize the OLE libraries
  hRslt = CoInitializeEx(NULL, COINIT_MULTITHREADED);

  if(SUCCEEDED(hRslt)) {

      hRslt = CreateFileMoniker(wcsPath, &pmk);
      if(SUCCEEDED(hRslt))
   hRslt = BindMoniker(pmk, 0, IID_IHello, (void **)&pHello);

      if(SUCCEEDED(hRslt)) {

   // print a string out
   pHello->PrintSz(wcsT);

   Sleep(2000);
   ulCnt = pHello->Release();
   }
      else
   printf("Failure to connect, status: %lx", hRslt);

      // Tell OLE we are going away.
      CoUninitialize();
      }

  return(0);
  }

Apprentice Hacker

  #!/usr/local/bin/perl
  $msg="Hello, world.\n";
  if ($#ARGV >= 0) {
    while(defined($arg=shift(@ARGV))) {
      $outfilename = $arg;
      open(FILE, ">" . $outfilename) || die "Can't write $arg: $!\n";
      print (FILE $msg);
      close(FILE) || die "Can't close $arg: $!\n";
    }
  } else {
    print ($msg);
  }
  1;

Experienced Hacker

  #include
  #define S "Hello, World\n"
  main(){exit(printf(S) == strlen(S) ? 0 : 1);}

Seasoned Hacker

  % cc -o a.out ~/src/misc/hw/hw.c
  % a.out

Guru Hacker

  % cat
  Hello, world.
  ^D

New Manager

  10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"
  20 END

Middle Manager

  mail -s "Hello, world." bob@b12
  Bob, could you please write me a program that prints "Hello,
 world."?
  I need it by tomorrow.
  ^D

Senior Manager

  % zmail jim
  I need a "Hello, world." program by this afternoon.

Chief Executive

  % letter
  letter: Command not found.
  % mail
  To: ^X ^F ^C
  % help mail
  help: Command not found.
  % damn!
  !: Event unrecognized
  % logout

November 25, 2008

if the matrix ran windows

Filed under: videos — Tags: , , — cyrenity @ 2:05 pm

Funniest video of the year, quality and content of the video is incredible, and looks really good.

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1886349

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