Archive | November, 2006

20 November 2006 ~ 1 Comment

Bandwidth increase?

According to the Speakeasy Speed Test…

Wow! That’s about twice the speed I was getting back in August… I even tested it twice just to make sure.

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19 November 2006 ~ 0 Comments

Django on a USB stick

There’s a page on the Django code wiki describing “a bare bones installation of Django on a USB stick using Movable Python.” It does not, however, cover getting a database installation on the stick.

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19 November 2006 ~ 0 Comments

RPN calculations in Python

Add some RPN to the python interpreter with rpncalc:
The rpncalc package adds an interactive Reverse Polish Notation (RPN) interpreter to Python. This interpreter allows the use of Python as an RPN calculator. You can easily switch between the RPN interpreter and the standard Python interpreter.
Not sure why you’d want that, but must admit [...]

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19 November 2006 ~ 0 Comments

Python 411: Python for Cell Phones

The latest Python 411 (mp3) is all about “various options for running Python on cell phones.”

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16 November 2006 ~ 2 Comments

MySQL upgrade breaks PHP

As I’ve mentioned before, I use Cacti at home to monitor my systems. If you’ve ever used Cacti, you know that the most common way that people poll their systems is using the PHP poller. Well, today I upgraded MySQL on my server (Gentoo) and that apparently broke PHP.
Running the Cacti poller yielded this [...]

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