Archives week 42 of 2013

Apparently Kubuntu 13.10's version of the fglrx driver is now equivalent to the beta one I added to my 13.04 install to get it running, so I decided to do the upgrade. However, it kept failing with a cryptic error that it couldn't do the upgrade because I was either running a pre-release ubuntu (no) ...

Networking fun this week.

The big nasty that bit me was that a .bind( ('',port) ) on a multicast socket will get all packets sent to any local socket listening to that port, even if this socket has not registered membership in the group.  So if you have two capture processes, each trying to listen ...