Category archives: Snaking

Turns out that 99.99% of the work of doing ebuilds for Python packages is done for you. You just need to tell the script what the name, description, filename, and download URL of the package are. For SourceForge projects (almost all of mine) there's even built-in support for downloading from the SourceForge mirror sites.

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Most of the day was spent on graphics :) . Basically on planning out and experimenting with how to create an overview graphic to show the entire cable-modem plant in a compact and efficient-to-create format. Planning to use SVG output with simple substitutions into string templates to keep the overhead down. The client machines are ...

Most of the day was spent on graphics :) . Basically on planning out and experimenting with how to create an overview graphic to show the entire cable-modem plant in a compact and efficient-to-create format. Planning to use SVG output with simple substitutions into string templates to keep the overhead down. The client machines are ...

Tim came over (mostly to play with his laptop), so I decided to play with Gentoo while he was over. In doing so, I compiled a new kernel and copied it to my boot drive... which was suddenly full!

Turns out that reiserfs by default allocates 8000 blocks for its log. The drive is only ...

Tim came over (mostly to play with his laptop), so I decided to play with Gentoo while he was over. In doing so, I compiled a new kernel and copied it to my boot drive... which was suddenly full!

Turns out that reiserfs by default allocates 8000 blocks for its log. The drive is only ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...