Author archives: Mike
I still have teeth! (Yay)
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Turns out my teeth aren't as bad as they expected them to be (despite it being 7 years since my last checkup and a decade since the last cleaning). I basically just brush too hard and too often. Anyway, downgraded from a 7.5 hour to a 5 hour cleaning (second half to start in a ...
Makes for a late day when you start at midnight (Caffeine helps...)
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Snaking.
I had two coffee's at Cafe Diplomatica after the PyGTA meeting. They've kept me productive enough to turn in a fairly full day's work. I'm still not really sleepy, but my hands are on fire. Guess it's time to call it a night. Tomorrow the 7.5 hour dental appointment starts. The TAUG meeting has been ...
Still no nVidia driver (Another couple of burned hours...)
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Tuxedo.
Spent the couple of hours between getting the wifi card working and the PyGTA meeting trying to get the nvidia driver to work with X windows. No luck (even with Seneca helping). Burned far too much time on the laptop today... I really should have just let it go and used the hard-link for access... ...
The key is to ignore what the package says (Orinoco Gold is actually an Atheros Chipset)
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Tuxedo.
The reason the bloody wifi card wouldn't work is that I was trying to load it with the wrong driver with a borked pcmcia bus. I eventually got the yenta-socket module loaded and that let me see Proxim Orinoco Gold wifi card was actually an Atheros AR5211. That card is supported by the madwifi-driver package. ...
No Orinoco Gold love (Silly pcmcia subsystem no longer has an ioctl operation it requires...)
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Tuxedo.
I came down to Linux Caffe to work today. So far no real work done as it turns out the Orinoco Gold network card can't be loaded. Have tried it with both Kubuntu and Knoppix, neither recognised it and both crashed whenever I touched the touchpad.
Apparently I'll have to upgrade to pcmciautils in order ...
PyGTA is tomorrow (Tuesday) (Toronto Python User's group meeting...)
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Tomorrow at 7PM is the monthly PyGTA meeting at Linux Caffe. It'll be a less formal meeting than normal, with short talks and discussions and more free socialisation time. If you want to do a 5-10 minute presentation on a project or topic, let me know and I'll put you on the schedule.
No suspense yet (Suspend2 doesn't just magically make it work, apparently...)
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Tuxedo.
Well, have spent a good couple of hours trying to get software suspend working on the new laptop. I've got the kernel compiled, but I can't get it to boot. I'm using:
kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-suspend2-r8 root=/dev/ram0
init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda4 resume2=swap:/dev/hda3 noresume2
in grub to boot and the kernel is panicking because it can't find the /dev/ram0 ...
Apparently joy in technology derives from ownership! (Or at least possession...)
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Pleasant VexMeet this evening. I sometimes wonder just how bored people must get hearing me prattle on about things. I really need to get out more so I'm not so driven to talk when I see people... coincidentally...
ACI has loaned me a laptop so I can work on various projects in locations other than ...
Need to speed up PySNMP 3.5.x (PySNMP-se (let alone PySNMP) is still too slow...)
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In one of those cases where I'm too clever for my own good, I coded Cinemon to automatically back off from SNMP v2c to SNMP v1 when there were timeouts with the v2c software. The problem is that with v2c I get timeouts all the time due to the rather slow processing of the (large) ...
Minor TwistedSNMP release is up (0.3.13)
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This release just adds an errback so that failures during tabular-retrieval message integration (which shouldn't, but apparently can, occur) will cause the overall table retrieval to raise the error (instead of reporting an uncaught exception). You can get it from the TwistedSNMP homepage, as normal.
Mike C. Fletcher, the VRPlumber, is a philosopher of design turned computer programmer based in Toronto, Canada. He works primarily in the Python programming language, and maintains a large number of Open Source software packages. You can reach him at: mcfletch@vrplumber.com.