As it’s only a couple of weeks till another Linux.conf.au is underway, I thought I better post this draft from the last one! This year LCA is in Wellington, New Zealand, sadly I didn’t get my act together enough to make a proper holiday of it. I’m definitely looking forward to catching up with all the cool [...]
Tagged hot plug, kernel, ksplice, lca09, lca10, lca2009, lca2010, lguest, linux, linux.conf.auI have recently been watching and really enjoying a little known series called Starhunter. At first I thought it was an enjoyable rip off of Firefly, so i was surprised to find out that it was made first.
It has so many of the same elements, the quirky ship mechanic, the captain who doesn’t play by [...]
So one of the other things I worked on at Linux.conf.au was a project Joel Stanley started, “Open Velociraptor Per Child, the Game!”.
The game comes out of the Open Velociraptor Per Child project’s ideas. The OVPC project aims to give every child in the world their very own Velociraptor. The game simulates what would happen [...]
So for the past week while I have been at the best conference in the world I have been trying to compile tpserver-cpp for Windows. I had done the hard work and gotten it to compile (as documented here, here and here) on Windows previously. However, as I was in Hobart at a Linux conference [...]
Tagged cross compile, cross compiling, cygwin, linux.conf.au, mingw32, thousand parsec, tpserver-cpp, windowsSo last year at the end of November I spoke at OSDC. I had been meaning to blog about the conference but never gotten around to doing so. The conference was great, but like previous OSDC’s I came down with something. Sadly, this meant that missed Andrew Tridgell’s talk about the EU-Microsoft agreement. Joel, who [...]
Tagged freedom, gaming, late, osdc, paperYesterday, I wrote about how to reading the cookies from Firefox 3.0 from Python. This code snippet extends the previous example by adding code which finds the cookie file on various different operating systems (Windows, Linux and Mac OS X). Hope this helps people who need to do this.
#! /usr/bin/env python
# Reading the cookie’s from [...]
On previous versions of Ubuntu, the scripts which are called after a resume from suspend have been found in /etc/acpi/resume.d directory. I used this functionality to turn off some of the hardware in my Vaio which I don’t use (such as the bluetooth and the cdrom drive).
This stopped working when I upgraded to Ubuntu [...]
This is not a post about using UTF-8 properly in Python, but doing evil, evil things.
Python dutifully respects the $LANG environment variable on the terminal. It turns out that a lot of the time this variable is totally wrong, it’s set to something like C even though the terminal is UTF-8 encoding.
The problem is [...]
I found the following code snippet on my hard drive today. It allows you to access Firefox 3.x cookies in Python. Firefox 3.x moved away from the older text file format to a sqlite database.
This code is useful if you want to access something behind an authentication gateway and you also access the page through [...]
I wrote this post while in New Zealand but never posted it, now I’m at Linux.conf.au I have time to finish it up.
Well its been a long time since I have posted on my blog. As I lasted mentioned I now work at Google, which has been going well but keeping me fairly busy. For [...]
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