Author archives: Mike
Yesterday's Smile
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Vindaloo.
A hug yesterday
From some pretty young thing
Made this old man smile
Laptop is getting closer (About 20hrs total I'm guessing...)
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Tuxedo.
The laptop is still trundling away building packages. It's up to 162 of the 183 it has to build, I've seen most of KDE pass by, as well as Firefox and a few others. Unfortunately, some of the versions of the desktop apps (e.g. Firefox) are the "stable" (read old) versions, so I'll have to ...
Hmm, got a little distracted (Happens sometimes...)
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Tuxedo.
I turned on Rose's laptop last night intending to copy the presentation over and upload it. While I was there, though, I googled for the laptop's model and Linux. Apparently the captive drivers work nicely for the wireless card, and everything else is either working or work-aroundable...
So I downloaded the new Gentoo 2006.0 LiveCD ...
Passable talk (Should have prepared more...)
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Snaking.
PyGTA went well, not a huge crowd, but 16 or 17 I suppose. Took far longer than I'd hoped to get through the background material (some people had never heard of Asterisk before). I also forgot (stupidly) that the call-duration-callback demo only works locally. Oops.
I'll upload the final version of the slides next time ...
Connection decides to take a vacation (So much for demoing tomorrow...)
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The VoIP connection from our service provider over the internet to my little Asterisk development box has decided it doesn't want to work any more... well, it "works" in the sense that it connects, but the call breaks up too much to transmit DTMF reliably, which makes demoing somewhat difficult.
Now would be a great ...
PyGTA is tomorrow (Don't avoid it just because I'm speaking...)
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For those in Toronto, PyGTA is tomorrow, 7pm at Linux Caffe. I'm going to be doing a general overview of StarPy for those interested in Asterisk programming with Python (and Twisted).
Comment spammers suck rocks (But I built a mass-comment manager in response...)
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As some of you may have noticed, some low-life comment spammers have been trashing the comments here all day. So, I created a view that reduces the work of removing a comment down to a single click (three if I'm not sure the comment is spam) from 8 or 9 with the default CoreBlog install ...
Better parallel iteration for Twisted (Annoying to discover the problem is something so simple...)
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Snaking.
I spent a solid 7 hours this afternoon/evening working on Cinemon. Over the last few days I've left the live system running with the code that traps blocks, and it had identified the two places where unreasonably long blocks were occuring.
The second of those two is the one that's been causing problems on the ...
Poetry and food consume the day (No complaints...)
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My plan for today had been to work for a few hours before heading down to the Toronto Poetry Meetup, then come home and work some more. Instead I woke up too late to get any work done, attended the (quite pleasant) TPM (basically a low-key workshop), then headed home thinking I'd work on the ...
Just what I needed (If not the most productive of days...)
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Design Theory,
Vindaloo.
Spent the whole day at Linux Caffe (~13 hours). Putatively working on my thesis for the first 6 or 7 hours, but that broke down into conversations for about 80% of the time. After that I just gave up and talked to people, though there was a brief episode where I tried to get the ...
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.