Archives 2007
Delays and more delays... (Plane and network...)
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on
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Tuxedo,
Vindaloo.
The plane wound up about 2:45 hours delayed in total (laptop didn't even last 5 minutes on its battery). More frustrating, when I finally got here and sat down to work I couldn't get wpa_supplicant to log into the pycon network. It always wanted to choose the stupid hotel access point and even when I ...
Need to get to sleep (5am wake-up call)
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Vindaloo.
Have to be up by 5am tomorrow to get to the subway by 6am and from there the airport by 7am. I think I'm packed, so off to sleep I go. See some of you in Dallas!
Dallas (FW) veterans, good place to meet for taxi sharing? (Never been there...)
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on
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Snaking.
For Taxi Sharing it would be nice if there were a place to meet, that is, some place which is easy to find, which any person could find (potentially with help from a friendly airline person). Some place where you could sit for an hour or so without causing problems. For instance a given coffee ...
PyGTA introduction to Django tonight (Linux Caffe @ 6:30pm)
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on
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Snaking.
Clifford is going to present on Django today (possibly in a tag team with another developer). Presenting how to use the framework for building a web-site for fun and profit.
Time to replace the server/workstation (3.5 hours wasted this evening...)
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on
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Vindaloo.
Got the missing cable from Canada Computers today to get the SATA drive installed in the workstation. One of the ATA drives started giving DMA failures last week and this was to be the replacement drive. Problem is the silly thing doesn't work.
Well, more precisely, it doesn't seem to work with the motherboard in ...
Okay, beginning to feel real (Businesses are so inconvenient sometimes...)
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on
in
Snaking.
The reality of being just 2.5 days away from leaving (and thus having to have the month's work wrapped up) is beginning to sink in. Also just realised it's only 7 days, not 10 (February being rather short). I'm expecting I'll need to sit in the lobby late a couple of nights getting work done ...
Apparently it's been a while since I used mythtv (Been down for at least 3 days...)
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on
in
Tuxedo.
Being just about exhausted, I thought I'd take an hour or two to catch up on the science fiction shows I watch (Doctor Who, StarGate Atlantis, Battlestar Gallactica, and movies that come along). However, nothing could connect to the back-end server. nmap shows the ports for myth just plain not open. The logs just say ...
Slipping quickly toward PyCon (Doesn't seem real yet...)
Written by
on
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Snaking,
Young Coders.
Weird to realise I'm leaving for PyCon on Thursday morning. So many things to get done before then, but somehow the idea that I'm leaving for 10 days just doesn't seem to be sparking the urgency it should. Oh well.
I'm beginning to think about what to do for the sprints. I'd love to have ...
Though necessary, hardware is almost always problematic (At least, I only notice the hardware when there's a problem...)
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on
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Tuxedo.
Wednesday evening one of the (5) fans in the workstation/server at home died. No big deal, you say, the machine has 4 other fans...
I cracked open the case a few hours later to see which fan to replace and the internal cages for the drives were too hot to touch. One of the other ...
New release of PyOpenGL is out (PyOpenGL-Demo too...)
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on
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Snaking.
Took the bulk of the day off today to get the next release of PyOpenGL out the door. I've re-enabled the numarray support, using the same underlying library as for the Numeric support (i.e. no binary modules). I've also stripped out the "Demo" directory and made a separate egg for that so that projects that ...
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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.