Archive | December, 2005

31 December 2005 ~ 0 Comments

Happy New Year’s

Everyone will be celebrating tonight, including Freenode:
04:55 [freenode] -lilo- [Global Notice]
Okay, folks, this is it. We are approaching New Year’s on Kiritimati, which is pretty much the first moment it’s 2006 on Planet Earth. Please come by #freenode-newyears and help us celebrate! :)
Heh. There are 363 nicks in that chan as of 11:35 AM [...]

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30 December 2005 ~ 0 Comments

Python command line arguments

Lucent Plum posted an annotated arguments class that uses the getopt and sys modules to parse command line options (including -s and –long forms).
Great example code.

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30 December 2005 ~ 8 Comments

Get Komodo for free

The kind people at ActiveState are currently giving away free licenses of Komodo Personal Edition.
Here’s what you need to do:

Go here and click the Buy button for Komodo Personal Edition. (Offer not valid for Pro edition)
Enter the promo code kmd3n9-ur8 and update your cart. If it worked, you’ll see that cost is now [...]

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29 December 2005 ~ 0 Comments

WordPress 2.0

Perhaps I’m the last person on the planet to notice, but apparently WordPress 2.0 has been released.
Quoth Crissy:
I’m absolutely terrified to upgrade to the new WordPress, because I am quite sure it’s going to cause huge portions of my site to break down. That said, I hate not upgrading, because I feel like I’m falling [...]

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28 December 2005 ~ 2 Comments

Debian on an Ultra 5

I gave up trying to get Gentoo installed on my Sun Ultra 5. Instead I downloaded the netinst CD for Debian Sparc and loaded that instead. Booted, and let the installer do its thing.
I’m currently running the 2.4.27-2-sparc64 kernel and everything seems to be working. Still getting some odd hard drive errors [...]

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