Archives week 15 of 2014

I just finished doing a clean test run across those 3 releases of Python with each of the 8 major config flags on/off (i.e. 48 runs of the test suite). As expected, almost all of the failures were in Python 3.x, and mostly related to unicode, where COPY_ON_ERROR generated failures when a unicode string was ...

Since this was a bit of a pain to track down, here's the process, on an Ubuntu Server 12.04 machine, to create many ALSA dummy devices:

$ cat /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-dummy.conf 
options snd-dummy enable=1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1 pcm_devs=4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4 fake_buffer=0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
$ modprobe snd-dummy

That sample creates 48 dummy devices (on 12 cards), though that's likely more than you'll ever need.  The ...

So you have a Dell Ubuntu 14.04 Laptop and it is running way too hot. You can configure it to run at a reasonable level using i8kmon. As with anything heat related, be careful. If you miss-configure the machine you are likely to wind up with a fried machine!

You create a file called /etc/i8kmon.conf and put the ...