Eddy Petrișor: software for managing finances
Dear lazyweb,I decided to track our (mine and my fince 's) expenses more closely and I am in search of some software for this task.
The requirements for the software:
- not to hard to use (I don't want to read a whole manual to know how to use it)
- possibility to assign a category for a given expense (so I can locate problematic type of expenses)
- can easily extract statistics (e.g.: top last month's expenses, expenses split per category)
- appropriate for domestic (small scale) accounting
- available in Debian (or will be soon :-) )
- preferably GNOME/GTK based
Thanks in advance!
Ein ‘grml-live -t /dev/shm -c GRMLBASE,I386 -s etch’ und keine 5(!) Minuten sp ter hab ich dann mein 135MB kleines grml:
Mit grml-live kann man sich somit seine pers nlich angepasste Linux Live-CD erstellen, ohne sich erst mit 
Who'd have thought it ... Dan Lyons (one of the louder SCO backers) actually
published a 
I was asked for a story on good or bad media sponsored online conversations.
I'd not really had much to do with them
until this summer.
Yesterday I landed in Subversion a branch of 
There is one remaining task left before this is ready to be released: undo
support in the edit dialog entries. Once this is done, the next release
of Tasks will be announced. I also plan to work with Iain on cleaning up
this code and submitting it for inclusion into GTK+.
NP: Money Jungle, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Max
Roach
. I’ve added it to my 
In other news, it seems that two out of the four drives in the RAID-10 array
for the SAN that provides all of the storage for my MythTV installation have
decided to fail. I noticed that the array was acting a bit weird and there
were a pile of errors reading from one drive yesterday, so I booted it out
of the array.
This afternoon, I unplugged it, and was going through Seagate's online RMA
procedure, when I noticed another drive had failed as well. Miraculously,
it seems to have been the one drive that could fail without any
data loss.
So I'm hoping the two remaining drives were in a different batch or
something, otherwise I'm going to have a really bad time really soon.
At/after Debconf it transpired that various people didn't get the
T-shirts they should: attendees who left before the Ts were released
by customs in the UK, and volunteers and orga team who didn't fit in
the small allocation that we had printed up-front.
In the weeks since then, we've got more shirts printed thanks to
Gunnar and Gaby. I've just sent out (almost) the last of them this
weekend to people all over the world, and I'll be hand-delivering the
last couple next month. A small number of people also asked for extra
Ts if they could pay for them, and I'm emailing them now to confirm
what the cost is.
UPDATE: Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear enough in the above. We have
had more Debconf Ts made for people, but they asked ages ago either at
Debconf or shortly afterwards. I'm not planning on getting any more
printed for people that ask now. Sorry, it's too late.
My Python development environment consists of a GVim window for editing code and a gnome-terminal for running the unit tests. This works out well, but leaves some integration to be desired. In particular, jumping to a test failure point is a little cumbersome. I used to do it this way: copy the filename from the traceback, switch to vim, then type :e, paste the filename with middle-click (now I know I can use * instead) and press Enter, then enter the line number and press G. That is barely acceptable; this particular wart has even contributed to pushing a ex-co-worker towards Emacs (the horror!).
I have written a small vimscript function to make the aforementioned use case slightly easier. Now to jump to a failure point, just triple-click the corresponding line in the traceback (that selects the whole line), switch to Vim and invoke the function, which scrapes the clipboard for a filename and line number and opens it in the active buffer.
Installation: paste the 
There are many amazing things in Puerto Rico and one of them is the technologically (and I would add, aesthetically) stunning 
I just read Sun's announcement of "Project Hamburg". I am not sure what
it is about, but that is not very important in this context. I have
worked a bit with Intel lately and gotten introduced into a whole new
world of code names such as Mccaslin, Menlow and so on. Up until now,
most of them were obscure enough that I thought they were just random
names picked from somewhere, but they are, like Sun's names of
geographical features, be it towns, cities, rivers or something else.
The reason for this naming is, like Sun's, that geographical names can't
be trademarked, though in this particular case, Sun supplied a short
list of "why Hamburg" with some references to Hamburg's history.
After one day off, we watched Argentina-Georgia yesterday evening.
Interesting game because it directly affect France's chances to qualify
after Argentina's win on Friday.
Argentina had a big disadvantage by playing only 4 days after their historic
battle against France. As a logical consequence, they appeared quite tired
and very imprecise. On the other hand, Georgia fought very courageously with
a strong pack of forwards, encouraged by most of the crowd in Lyon. Finally,
Argentina won *and* scored the bonus point by scoring a try in the very last
minute (which might become very important to qualify in this pool. Good game
even if Argentina was not that impressive, but I still think this is mostly
because of the 4-days delay.
Today, 3 games were scheduled. We didn't watch USA-Tonga (15-25). USA was
slightly favourite for that one but they also were quite tired by playing 4
days only after their battle against England on Saturday. This was the first
match for Tonga and obviously the island players were less tired and played
a good rugby to win that one. Japan-Fidji (31-35) seems to have been the
most uncertain match as of now. I somewhat regret not watching it as these
two are among the teams I like watching and 7 tries in the match probably
made it very interesting.
Tonight, we watched Italy-Romania (24-18). The italians compete with
Scotland for the remaining qualifying spot in that pool, if one assumes that
New Zealand will obviously win all its matches. So, Italy *had* to win that
match. The quality of romanian rugby has decreased in the last 10 years,
but they still have a good set of great players, most of them playing...in
France (just like one third of the italian team, indeed). The match was
quite indecise with italy keeping the ball all first half long, but only
leading 8-0 on half time....and being surprised by two romanian tries at the
beginning of second half (8-12). After a strong domination of Italy, Romania
was logically sanctioned by one expulsion and a penalty try (for successive
voluntary faults), but, until the end, Italy was still in danger. They
finally made it, which was the most important for them, 4 days after they
were sweeped out by the All Blacks.
We're now eagerly waiting for *THE* game of this week, England-South Africa
in the Stade de France on Friday. Elizabeth found out that a few tickets are still
available, but for 253 euros each, we decided to watch it on TV. So, between
21:00 and 23:00UTC that day, don't even think about pinging me on IRC. I
still haven't decided who I'll support the most as I'm not a huge fan of
either team....but they're still among the best in the world, of course.
For my diploma thesis (on clustering of high dimensional data, especially
correlation clustering, i.e. clustering data by properties such as data
correlation) I needed an easy way to filter out data from CSV files as used
by gnuplot (actually, they are whitespace-separated).I hacked together a small tool that would allow me to easily 'grep' out
certain parts of the datasets. If you know of a similar tool, please send
me an email to erich AT debian DOT org.Currently, the tool allows you to do commands such as:
