Updating Ubuntu, Part 2
I’ve also just updated another one of my ubuntu machines, the netbook, to the latest 9.04 netbook remix that was released yesterday. It had been running an 8.10 eeebuntu release that had some issues....
View ArticleFun with SWIG, wxPython, and the Windows event system
One of the things that I do at the day job is write support for various models of check scanners into our scanning application. It’s a python app, running on Windows using wxPython for the interface....
View ArticleRandom Linkage
An Open Tab Link Dump: – An easy way to do all the steps required to get a well behaved unix daemon in python. – Atlas Shrugged, Revisited – Useful Emacs Commands – Python mail server. Looks like...
View ArticleSlicehost
Round about mid-November, email sorta blew up here. It took a good weekend of not so spare spare time to get it sorta back working, including some horrific hacks that really shouldn’t be necessary and...
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Lego WeDo
So, Ben is in a Lego robotics class at his school where they’re using the Lego WeDo kits to do a little exploration of robotics at an early elementary level. I’ve been helping in the class a bit, since...
View ArticleNot exactly obvious: Lighttpd + fast-cgi
According to the lightroom docs, if you are using a config like this: fastcgi.server = ( ".php" => (( "socket" => "/tmp/php-fastcgi.socket", "bin-path" => "/usr/bin/php-cgi", "max-procs" =>...
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Dear Apple…
The first rule of backups is to have one. The second rule of backups is to never delete the most recent backup. Rewind to this morning, I see this: What this doesn’t say, in large red letters is...
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iOS 6
Just updated to iOS 6 on the iPad. Nice enough, except…. Maps. Langley is not on Hat island, and it doesn’t take over an hour and two ferries to get there from Freeland.
View ArticlePi day
It’s Pi day. My poor little raspberry pi is hanging out, finally connected to the controller board for the chicken coop door. It’s only waiting on a final enclosure and some programming. And then the...
View ArticlePillow compilation failure on OSX 10.9.2
For those of you installing Pillow/PIL on the latest version of Mavericks, 10.9.2, using XCode 5.1, it’s going to fail with this error: clang: error: unknown argument: '-mno-fused-madd' There is a...
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