That's as close as they let me get

2 hours tracking them, they were very very sneaky. Given that I was on a sloped terrain, I naturally went for high ground which was a mistake, they can fly away from you much faster going downhill.

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Turkey

I trailed them for 90 minutes on the worst terrain (these bushy woods in the back), 2 missed shots & 1 lost arrow later, a clean shot was very rewarding. Turkeys are very elusive, getting within bow range is tough.

Sorry buddy

New toy :D

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MDNS/Bonjour printer discovery script

Here’s a script I wrote whose purpose is to discover the printers that are currently being advertised by Bonjour on the network. The reason I wrote it was for a Nagios check that would in term verify that our printers were present. Writing it took me through the meanders of MDNS in Python & on Linux with multiple vlans. Let’s just say non-trivial.

Download

find_mdns_printers_1.0.tar.gz

Sample output