index.html

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(function() {
      $('[data-toggle="modal"]').click(function(e) {
        e.preventDefault();
        var href = $(this).attr('href');
        if (href.indexOf('#') == 0) {
          $(href).modal('open');
        } else {
        $.get(href, function(data) {
          $('<div class="modal">' + data + '</div>').modal();
        });
        }
      });
    });
</script>

<a href="/beta/detail/{{ result.host_id }}" data-toggle="modal">{{ result.host_name }}</a>

result.html

<div class="modal-header">
  <a class="close" data-dismiss="modal" >×</a>
  <h3>{{ result.host_name }}</h3>
</div>
<div class="modal-body">
  {{ result.host_name }}
</div>

To make graylog2-web respond to HTTP queries you have to increase the initial 256MB heap size. In my case I set it to 4GB.

Edit /opt/elasticsearch-0.19.0/config/elasticsearch.yml and uncomment:

# ElasticSearch performs poorly when JVM starts swapping: you should ensure that
# it _never_ swaps.
#
# Set this property to true to lock the memory:
#
bootstrap.mlockall: true

Set necessary shell variable by editing /opt/elasticsearch-0.19.0/bin/elasticsearch:

ES_HEAP_SIZE="4g"

Finally, edit /opt/elasticsearch-0.19.0/bin/service/elasticsearch.conf and modify these variables:

set.default.ES_MIN_MEM=4096
set.default.ES_MAX_MEM=4096

Now restart ES and enjoy it.

root     32286 32284  8 17:06 ?        00:01:31 java -Delasticsearch-service -Des-foreground=yes
-Des.path.home=/opt/elasticsearch-0.19.0 -Djline.enabled=true -XX:+UseParNewGC -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC
-XX:+CMSParallelRemarkEnabled -XX:SurvivorRatio=8 -XX:MaxTenuringThreshold=1 
-XX:CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction=75 -XX:+UseCMSInitiatingOccupancyOnly 
-XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -Xms4096m -Xmx4096m -
...

If you're like me, spent several hours figuring out why celeryd wasn't updating the djcelery_taskstate table and the Django admin page was showing zero tasks, look no further 'cause I have good news! Solution is to run celerycam:

./manage.py celerycam
[2012-03-16 16:18:31,687: INFO/MainProcess] -> evcam: Taking snapshots with djcelery.snapshot.Camera (every 1.0 secs.)

And finally, the moment of truth.

Say, you have some NFS share you would like to mount after typing a predefined password. Here's a little GUI program to demonstrate the basics of AppleScript.

set question to display dialog "" buttons {"Mount", "Unmount", "Cancel"} with title "Ready?" default button 3
set answer to button returned of question

if answer is equal to "Mount" then
	tell application "Finder"
		activate
		set Input to display dialog "" default answer "" buttons {"OK", "Cancel"} default button 1 with hidden answer
	end tell
	if text returned of Input as string is "qwerty" then
		do shell script "sudo mkdir /Network/nas/personal"
		do shell script "sudo mount -t nfs -o vers=3,resvport 192.168.100.200:/volume1/Personal /Network/nas/personal"
		tell application "Finder"
			--activate
			open folder "Macintosh HD:Network:nas:personal"
		end tell
	else
		return
	end if
end if

if answer is equal to "Unmount" then
	do shell script "sudo umount -f /Network/nas/personal"
	do shell script "sudo rmdir /Network/nas/personal"
end if

if answer is equal to "Cancel" then
	return
end if

Passing HTTP headers using urllib2 is a straightforward thing.

def logIn(self):
  req = urllib2.Request(self.login_url)
  req.add_header('Host', 'foo.com')
  req.add_header('User-Agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:6.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0')
  req.add_header('Accept-Language', 'en-us,en')

You can also put everything in a dictionary:

headers = {
  'User-Agent':'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:6.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0',
  'Accept-Language':'en-us,en',
  'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
}

And then just execute your query:

req = urllib2.Request(self.login_url, form_data, headers)
log_in = urllib2.urlopen(req).read()