Category archives: Snaking
Discussions of programming, particularly of programming Python
Today's slogging in glorious text-ni-colour (At least it's working again...)
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Spent the first 4 or 5 hours figuring out what the heck went wrong with the dratted ping scanner (which if you will recall was supposed to be working fine on Friday, but which wound up hung for most of the weekend). What was going wrong was that I was doing something like this:
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Today's slogging in glorious text-ni-colour (At least it's working again...)
Written by
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Snaking.
Spent the first 4 or 5 hours figuring out what the heck went wrong with the dratted ping scanner (which if you will recall was supposed to be working fine on Friday, but which wound up hung for most of the weekend). What was going wrong was that I was doing something like this:
result ...
Eric3 wins the day (With just a few little nits)
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Snaking.
Eric's code editing is just about perfect; the default keyboard mapping is almost identical to PythonWin (AFAICR only comment/uncomment are different), it deals nicely with TrueType fonts (but it doesn't, for some reason provide bold versions for those fonts which don't have an explicit "bold" version, which is annoying, as my favourite editing font is ...
Eric3 wins the day (With just a few little nits)
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Snaking.
Eric's code editing is just about perfect; the default keyboard mapping is almost identical to PythonWin (AFAICR only comment/uncomment are different), it deals nicely with TrueType fonts (but it doesn't, for some reason provide bold versions for those fonts which don't have an explicit "bold" version, which is annoying, as my favourite editing font is ...
This week we tried a few games of pool (I still won ;) )
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Snaking,
Vindaloo.
Grams and I played 1 game of snooker and then 3 of pool. Going to have to brush up on the rules of pool, it's been way too long, and there's at least 2 major variants that we're conflating. Still working on getting Gentoo set up for real work. Eric3 (a Python IDE) is crashing ...
This week we tried a few games of pool (I still won ;) )
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Snaking,
Vindaloo.
Grams and I played 1 game of snooker and then 3 of pool. Going to have to brush up on the rules of pool, it's been way too long, and there's at least 2 major variants that we're conflating. Still working on getting Gentoo set up for real work. Eric3 (a Python IDE) is crashing ...
First entry written from within Gentoo (It's still compiling...)
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Snaking.
Still no luck with getting the binary packages (even with Darryl's suggestion). I'm guessing that something's messed up with my GENTOO_BINHOST setting. Not a huge issue, now that I have KDE up and running I can compile the rest of the packages as I work.
First entry written from within Gentoo (It's still compiling...)
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Snaking.
Still no luck with getting the binary packages (even with Darryl's suggestion). I'm guessing that something's messed up with my GENTOO_BINHOST setting. Not a huge issue, now that I have KDE up and running I can compile the rest of the packages as I work.
Gentoo is not for the impatient (More than 12 hours to compile XFree86 and KDE)
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Granted, my machine is old, but that's 12 hours! And that still leaves me needing Mozilla and OpenOffice, both of which are apparently huge installs (though I can use the machine to some extent while those are going on). Need to figure out how to get the binary packages working if this is going to ...
Gentoo is not for the impatient (More than 12 hours to compile XFree86 and KDE)
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Snaking.
Granted, my machine is old, but that's 12 hours! And that still leaves me needing Mozilla and OpenOffice, both of which are apparently huge installs (though I can use the machine to some extent while those are going on). Need to figure out how to get the binary packages working if this is going to ...
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.