Gunnar Wolf: Method for locating yourself in space and in time
Today I had a nice and productive day, code-wise. Maybe that's a side effect from being unable to lose my time following E-mail?Anyway, checking my code with git citool previous to today's git commit, I came accross this method. I didn't even pay attention to it while writing. But it did make me laugh in semi-awe thinking about the great implications it might have. The method signature:
def days_for(who, what, how)
The code itself? Naah, too pedestrian, to simplistic. It will ruin the sight. It just looks so beautifully universal!
Ok, I am compelled to share, even if it spoils it and renders it into a completely regular, even stupid method.
Listening to 
First you need to setup iptables for ip forwarding and masquerading, in order to be able to connect the new laptop to the internet:
I would like to point out that my 
A bit more than a week after Debconf9 ended here is a post summarising what I remember about it for myself to look back to later, for others that were there for a good memory, for those that were not there for insight and for organisers of future Debconfs to improve.
Let s start with something most people know I took photos, a lot of photos. The main photo naturally was the 
After the hike, the jumps and a hike back downhill we went into the buses and joined up with the people relaxing in the pool or in the bar right next to it. And after an hour or two later the day trip was over. While this was fun I would have preferred if after the hike we would have gone to some castle or other tourist attraction for more of a trip experience than sitting by a pool chatting.
Formal dinner was another traditional thing that we did this year. We walked over to a restaurant overlooking the city, sat down at many different tables occupying most of the place and then the waiters brought us plates with bits of food. Each plate was basically a set of 4 snacks for 4 people a plate of cheese, a plate of ham cuts, a plate of steamed vegetables and a plate of grilled meat. After that was coffee and desert. In my opinion the grilled meat was overcooked, the vegetables were passable, 1 of 5 cheeses was great (the local soft speciality) while other were ok and the ham cuts were ok. Desert was average. In all I was neither impressed by the food nor filled by it. There was also entertainment a singer with two dancers. They ware way too loud, so loud in fact that police came and shut the performance down, I did get a few interesting photos but otherwise I did not like them. They came to our venue the next night to continue the performance, luckily it was in an isolated patio and did not disturb people sleeping.
Wine and cheese party on the other hand was simply great this year there was a huge selection of wine and cheese as we were in the right part of the world for that. There were 7 tables full of cheese, wine and bread and also some extra stuff such as a barrel of peanuts and some great tea from Taiwan. People were walking around for hours eating cheese, cleaning the taste off with bread and wine, chatting and doing it all over again at another table. I left the patio at around 2am and there were still several dozen people around chatting, eating, drinking wine and tea. I m not sure how to get an event of similar size in NY as it is 
Yesterday, we attended the final game of French "Top 14", French rugby
league championship, between Perpignan (Perpiny in catalan) and Clermont.
Quite good game, though not as good as last year's final (Toulouse-Clermont won by Stade Toulousain).
We personnally had no real preferences as our support in rugby generally go to Toulouse, which had been beaten in semi-finals by Clermont.
Perpignan won 22-13 against the infortunate Stade Clermontois, who lost its thirdt final in a row. We were fairly sad for Clermont but the catalan game was really much better, particularly in forward lines.
As usual, the finals were a great feast for rugby, in the usual spirit of that sport. And the spectacle, in Stade de France, was not only on the field but also around the field, with a stadium turning out yellow (and red on one side, and blue on another).
That will conclude that season for rugby....and we're already looking
forward to next season where, of course, the Stade Toulousain will
revive from its ashes and win both Top 14 and H Cup (there has now
been enough of these for the British Isles, now...let's stop this).
This question keeps on popping up in many recent newspaper articles, on discussion boards and in seminars debating immigration issues in Finland. At the core of the question is a general impression that, between the enthusiastic supporters of multiculturalism and the pessimistic nationalist rednecks, very little constructive discussion is possible in Finland.
At one end, humanitarian help organizations, as well as politicians from the Green Party and the Swedish Folk Party, keep on taking excessively generous initiatives towards refugees and asylum seekers, all while labeling their detractors as racists. At the other end, nationalist candidates in the National Coalition Party and True Finns Party keep on painting every immigrant as a refugee who is abusing social security and label their detractors as turning Finland into the easiest country to abuse social security, at the Finnish taxpayer's expense. In between, candidates from the Christian Democrats and Center Party spread equally among these two camps. Meanwhile, while the Left is currently avoiding discussions on this topic, Social Democrats have previously shown that they tend to side with the nationalists in labeling all immigrants as social security abusing refugees.
One interesting point is that, no matter at which end of the political spectrum one looks, the whole Finnish immigration debate keeps on focusing exclusively on refugees and asylum seekers, despite the fact that migrant workers and foreign spouses of Finnish nationals make up for a good 70% of the foreign population residing on Finnish soil.
This recalcitrance to discuss immigration from any other perspective than refugees is rather painfully noticeable. Some recent examples:
The kernel in Debian doesn't have support for the fan control chip on
the D-Link DNS-323. Since some people said that their device runs quite
hot after installing Debian, I've prepared a 2.6.29 based kernel that
includes the fan driver.
If you want to install this kernel, edit the file
/etc/apt/sources.list and add the following line:
Today I attended