PyCon Canada is going to happen in downtown Toronto. The conference is Nov 12-13th and then two days of sprints. The call for proposals is up and you have until the end of August to get your talk/tutorial proposals in. PyCon Canada is a pleasant conference with lots of friendly people, not as overwhelming ...

So yesterday I tried connecting an external monitor to my nVidia proprietary driver KDE laptop. It went meh, as the external display is so much lower resolution (and so much larger) than the configurations on the laptop make the monitor look like a VGA blown up to ridiculous proportions. Oh well, unplugged the monitor this ...

It's half-way through 2016 and to get Tensor Flow installed on Ubuntu 16.04 one has to register for an nVidia developer's program? Here's a hint, current LTS for Ubuntu installing a widely-used AI library should require (in total):

apt-get install tensorflow tensorflow-gpu

Seriously, why make installing a widely used library a ...

I use multicast a lot in my work, and I almost always wind up using my branch of PyZeroconf's mcastsocket module... and that's not cleanly pip installable, so I've now broken out the mcastsocket module into its own project. Changes with this release:

• implements (IPv4-only) single-source-multicast support
• should work cleanly on python ...

There's a rather annoying bug in the synaptics driver on Linux on the Dell XPS 15 9550. Basically, if you are using one finger to move around and another to click the "button" areas at the bottom of the screen, instead of taking that second finger as "click here", it sometimes interprets the second ...

So I finally got a replacement for the old laptop, which works, but is winding up out-of-RAM basically all the time. This time, instead of going for the cheap inspirons I decided to plunk for a higher-end machine that includes a discreet nVidia card. Installing Ubuntu on it was... not particularly fun. All of the ...

My talk from PyCon.ca is now up, you can watch it here:

Just a reminder, as of tomorrow Let's Encrypt should be in public Beta (i.e. *every* public-facing server you create from tomorrow on should have SSL-by-default).

So this morning every single VirtualBox VM refuses to load. Ever-so-helpful "there was an error" messages. I'm assuming I'm looking at a driver, libc, or similar failure from the dist-upgrade of the host this morning. Yay. This is *not* what I needed to work on this morning.

[Update] a workstation/server reboot (Egads ...

Chatting about Python in the warmth and Sunshine in February sounds awesome. If you're interested in speaking, you've got a week to get those proposals in (November 20th). Flights seem to be around $600 to $800 per person from Toronto. More details on the PyCaribbean site.