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 [...]
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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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 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 on boot [...]
