$ perl -MTest::Unit::Lite -e bundleIt copies the Test::Unit::Lite module to the inc directory in the distribution source. The Test::Unit module isn't perfect. The most annoying behaviour is the random order for calling test cases. The Test::Unit::Lite sorts the function names and calls it always in the same order. There is not so many Perl modules distributions that use Test::Unit. I hope a little that my package could change this situation and the test units will be more popular and easier to use.
"Your right to ride on the road is in jeopardy. The revised Highway Code says cyclists should "use cycle facilities where possible". [...] The implications of this are bad. First, we will suffer more abuse and intimidating driving. Secondly cyclists will be disobeying the Highway Code when they assess that a cycle lane or path is dangerous and act accordingly. Thirdly, if a cyclist is involved in an accident and tries to claim damages, the insurance companies are likely to argue that the rider contributed to the accident by not using the cycle facility. The Highway Code has been laid before parliament. It will automatically be approved possibly by 20 May unless it is referred to a House of Commons Committee which cannot amend it and can only recommend the whole document be rejected. [...] There is a petition on the government website. One can be sceptical about the value of these petitions but the publicity is valuable as can be seen from this Sunday Times article of 7 May. It is interesting to note that 35 MP's objected to the original revised wording. Unfortunately, the replacement wording is worse. 11,000 objections were received to the previous wording. There are 70, 000 in the CTC alone who should now be objecting. If this Highway Code is approved by government cyclists will effectively lose the right to ride on the road where there are alternative routes or adjacent facilities. Please register your name on the petition and persuade others to do the same."(via nscycle )
"Unlike other ISPs, we will not impose any other restrictions to your service or how you use it"which surprised me. Are heavy users still TOS'd off the network by other ISPs? They also announced a pound a month discount for combining ADSL and line rental, which suits me fine!
Registrations for the Munich Lindy
Exchange (20. - 23. September 2007) are open.That will be a Lindy exchange to remember: this is the first Oktoberfest
weekend, and of course the Lindy people will rock the Oktoberfest, too (apart
from doing all kinds of other fun stuff, of course).(And yes, that means you should plan ahead - flights could become rather
expensive during Oktoberfest. :-( )So if you are a Lindy Hop dancer, and want to meet some fun people, come to
visit us. You won't be just a tourist, but you'll have "Munich natives" around
you to show you all the cool places.Organized by Swing and the city
(Christine von Scheidt).
GetAllCalendar event and
worker will do all for you including progress reporting.
If you want to write own application using this new wrapper, you can
look at example which is in sources. It shows all current
possibilities, but it will be enhanced in future.
ACHTUNG! ALLES LOOKENSPEEPERS! Das Internet is nicht fuer gefingerclicken und giffengrabben. Ist easy droppenpacket der routers und overloaden der backbone mit der spammen unt der me-tooen. Ist nicht fuer gewerken bei das dumpkopfen. Das musclicken sichtseeren keepen das bandwit-spewin hans in das pockets muss; relaxen und watchen das cursorblinken.This is, obviously, a play on the old blinkenlite thing, which I also found:
A C H T U N G ! ! ! --Alles Touristen und Non Technischen Lookens Peepers-- Das maschine control is nicht fur Gefingerpoken und Mittengrabben. Oderwise is easy schnappen der Schpriggenwerk, Blownfuse, und Poppencorken mit Spitzensparken. Der Maschine is Diggen by Experten only. Is nicht fur Geverken by das Dummkopfen. Das Rubbernecken und Sightseeren keepen das Cottonpicken Hands in das Pockets. So Relaxen und Watsch das Blinkenlite.If I ever have an actual machine room, these will go on the wall.
lapse:~# ip l dev eth0
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000
link/ether 00:0a:e4:30:43:16 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
# notice: not UP
lapse:~# rmmod e1000
lapse kernel: unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0 to become free.
Usage count = 1
lapse kernel: unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0 to become free.
Usage count = 1
[...]
# goes on forever, uninterruptible; thus new shell:
lapse:~# ps u -C rmmod
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 5624 0.0 0.0 1656 480 pts/2 D+ 00:02 0:00 rmmod e1000
As we all well know, state 'D' uninterruptible sleep means: reboot.
Especially since I cannot ssh into the box anymore (doh!), and su and
sudo just end up in state 'D' as well, if I try them.
So, on to reboot. Or wait, that doesn't work as the shutdown process will hang
long before the filesystems get unmounted. Great.
It's become impossible to argue that Linux is the more stable operating
system
Update: a few people responded with workarounds, ranging from use of
watchdog to automate the reboot (this
is my laptop, so it's not really necessary) to various combinations of flags
to /sbin/shutdown or the use of sysrq to force the system to reboot
without cleaning up or unmounting filesystems essentially the same as
pressing the reset button.
Ben Hutchings says:
I think this happens when the driver repeatedly attempts to fix an error condition and keeps scheduling future work (retaining a reference to the device) rather than giving up.I thus ended up filing a bug against the kernel.
Boycotts are consumers doing judo on corporations:So, it is helpful to boycott harmful companies and it's more helpful to do so noisily.
- Most corporations aim to maximise their profit and their shareholders usually push them to do so.
- Boycotts are an overt way of linking lost sales to a particular issue.
- If it looks like it's costing more profit to suffer the boycott than to address the cause, the corporation is not maximising their profit.
- So, the executives should answer the boycott or the shareholders should replace them with some who will.
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