Me – Page 3 – Ryan Schulze

Organizing your Steam library

March 27, 2018April 3, 2018Ryancategories, library, steam

I’ve had a steam account since 2003, so unsurprisingly I’ve accumulated a bunch of games over time thanks to summer sales, winter sales, humble bundles, …
As a way to give users a means to sort and categorize games, Steam introduced categories a while back. You can add arbitrary categories, and have a game in multiple categories, and categories are synced to your account so they appear on multiple devices. The downside is that you have to set categories for each game manually.

Here is where a nifty tools come in hand: Depressurizer (download)

It provides a user friendly interface for organizing your categories, making it easy to mass categories games. But it’s most useful feature is the ability to auto-categorize games. It can do so via various criteria like genres, Steam flags (e.g. “Single-Player” or “Steam Cloud”), Steam tags, Developer & Publisher info, How Long to Beat times, release year, and/or Steam review user scores.

Once automatically categorized it is easy to find games on your library that are Local co-op, or maybe you are feeling like playing a Dungeon Crawler game today, or just want to browse games you have with an Overwhelmingly Positive rating.

I use a unique prefix for the different auto-categories so it is easy to tell them apart in steam. It also doesn’t mess with existing categories, so it’s easy to manage both categories from depressurizer and your own manual ones.

And this is an example of how the end result looks like
in Steam

A script to diff files/directories on two different servers

February 6, 2016February 6, 2016Ryanbash, linux, scripting

Ok, short one today. This is a straightforward script that simplifies comparing directories on different servers. There is no magic in it, it just rsyncs the directories to a local temp directory and runs diff against them (then deletes the directory afterwards). Mainly intended for config files, I wouldn’t recommend trying to diff gigabytes of binaries with it.

#!/bin/bash 

set -o nounset

if [[ -z ${1:-} || -z ${2:-} || -z ${3:-} ]] ; then
	echo "Usage: ${0##*/} <file|directory> <server1> <server2>"
	echo
	echo "e.g. ./${0##*/} '/etc/pam.d/' 10.0.0.1 10.0.0.2"
	echo
	exit 0
fi

Dir="${1}"
IP1="${2}"
IP2="${3}"

tmpdir=$(mktemp -d)
trap 'rm -rf "${tmpdir}"' INT TERM EXIT

for ip in ${IP1} ${IP2}
do
	rsync -az "${ip}:${Dir}" "${tmpdir}/${ip}"
done
diff -BZEburN "${tmpdir}/${IP1}" "${tmpdir}/${IP2}" | colordiff --difftype=diffu

#!/bin/bash

set -o nounset

if [[ -z ${1:-} || -z ${2:-} || -z ${3:-} ]] ; then

echo "Usage: ${0##*/} <file|directory> <server1> <server2>"

echo

echo "e.g. ./${0##*/} '/etc/pam.d/' 10.0.0.1 10.0.0.2"

echo

exit 0

Dir="${1}"

IP1="${2}"

IP2="${3}"

tmpdir=$(mktemp -d)

trap 'rm -rf "${tmpdir}"' INT TERM EXIT

for ip in ${IP1} ${IP2}

rsync -az "${ip}:${Dir}" "${tmpdir}/${ip}"

done

diff -BZEburN "${tmpdir}/${IP1}" "${tmpdir}/${IP2}" | colordiff --difftype=diffu

Picture galleries from last fall

March 24, 2013March 24, 2013Ryancave, death valley, grand canyon, national park, pictures, sequoia

This weekend I finally got around to uploading some pictures from our trip last fall to the Grand Canyon, Las Vegas (no pics), Death Valley, and Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks.
The cave pictures at sequoia national park are from crystal cave.

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Picture galleries from trips this summer

September 13, 2012Ryannew york, oldtimer, pictures, renaissance, summer

Since we are going on a small vacation tomorrow I wanted to get a couple picture galleries up before I start filling my drive up with new pictures. These are all from small trips/excursions we took over the summer. Unfortunately no pictures from the canoe on the st. croix river.

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silica.dopefish.de – catching data leaks

July 11, 2012July 11, 2012Ryan

I was testing a PHP script for security flaws today and needed a way to check if it was possible to “accidently” leak sensitive data to an external server. So I threw together a small script to save the contents of the $_SERVER $_COOKIE $POST and $_GET arrays and dump them in a file. Since it worked so good I decided to leave the site online.

Why did I call it silica? Because silica gel absorbs and stores fluids like this website absorbs information thrown at it. How to use it? Just get your application to connect to silica.dopefish.de instead of where it intended to connect to (by overwriting variables, DNS foo, be creative) and see what happens.

Base Domain: silica.dopefish.de
The webserver will catch any URL (regardless what path or filename) and log the environment. The only exception is the logfile.

Logfile: http://silica.dopefish.de/access.log
The log is automatically emptied every 10 minutes, so save the output if you need it.