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16 March 2008

Daniel Burrows: aptitude 0.4.11 released

I've released version 0.4.11 of the aptitude package manager (release notes). Due to ongoing work by the installer team, I uploaded this release to experimental rather than unstable; once things are clear I will upload a build to unstable (probably promoting the experimental cwidget to unstable at the same time). The initial upload accidentally left out libept support, so I'm preparing a new upload as I write this. The aptitude search language and its documentation have gotten particular attention in this release. The most visible change is the introduction of a new syntax for search expressions: in addition to the old style of ~i, you can now type ?installed. Not only is this more readable and more memorable, it means that I'll be much more able to expand the breadth of the query language: it was becoming rather difficult to select new single-character flags for search terms, so expanding the namespace is nice. On this note, a number of search terms have been added to the language; see the release notes or the aptitude user's manual for details.
PS: if you're wondering about the quote in the release notes: I just needed to vent a little about that incident in a way that I found amusing and harmless; I'm over it now, and hopefully this will be the last time I mention it in public.

Cyril Brulebois: Getting things done

emacs-goodies-el pkg-games pkg-phototools Misc. Of course, that's just an excerpt of the actual todo-list

Joerg Jaspert: Moving away from Blosxom?

I’m currently playing with a new blog software, the OpenSource Edition of MovableType. As a long-time user of Blosxom thats probably a huge step, from a textfile based blog to one thats entirely based on some web interface to blog. Anyway, the worst part was actually the importing of old entries. As I blog since about 2004 I had some entries I wanted to keep (101 to be exact). MT itself is too dumb to import other blogs, but luckily a user wrote a helpful blosxom plugin, so I got everything imported. Only need to go through them and add tags and keywords, possibly trackback urls to others if I linked to them in the past, lalala, to make the system a little more useful. One advantage I hope to get is the comment/trackback stuff it offers. While I limit it to users that login (comments) and manual approval (comments and trackbacks), lets see how much the Spambots try to annoy me. If its too much I can just skip that part, but lets see. Of course MT isn’t simply better than Blosxom. It has it’s own drawbacks - like that of requiring some sort of database instead of simple textfiles. Lets see if it can copy with my HUGE amount of blogging… :)

Joerg Jaspert: Moving away from Blosxom?

I’m currently playing with a new blog software, the OpenSource Edition of MovableType. As a long-time user of Blosxom thats probably a huge step, from a textfile based blog to one thats entirely based on some web interface to blog. Anyway, the worst part was actually the importing of old entries. As I blog since about 2004 I had some entries I wanted to keep (101 to be exact). MT itself is too dumb to import other blogs, but luckily a user wrote a helpful blosxom plugin, so I got everything imported. Only need to go through them and add tags and keywords, possibly trackback urls to others if I linked to them in the past, lalala, to make the system a little more useful. One advantage I hope to get is the comment/trackback stuff it offers. While I limit it to users that login (comments) and manual approval (comments and trackbacks), lets see how much the Spambots try to annoy me. If its too much I can just skip that part, but lets see. Of course MT isn’t simply better than Blosxom. It has it’s own drawbacks - like that of requiring some sort of database instead of simple textfiles. Lets see if it can copy with my HUGE amount of blogging… :)

Steve Kemp: E.T. phone home

I've just finished reading "Don't You Have Time to Think", a collection of letters written to and from Richard P. Feynman. A birthday present from my wishlist. Previously I've read the collection of letters to/from Tolkien. (Several times actually. Very nice collection!) It suddenly struck me that over my lifetime I've probably written <200 letters to people. When I was young I had a couple of pen pals, and when I was entering university I was involved with a couple of play by mail games which involved writing random letters involving strategy & etc. Personal letters though? I've written very few, and I think they've mostly consisted of letters to my partner/partners of the time. (For example Megan went home for a few months at the end of a university year about two months after I initially met her. So there were many letters back and forth. Recently she spent two months working in the USA; counting eggs and avoiding alligators so again there was a flurry of written letters, maybe 20 total during the duration of her trip.) I guess that most of my (hand)written messages to people have been in the form of postcards whilst on holiday. A long time ago I offered to mail postcards to Debian developers. I know I sent at least two, and I received at least one back - but the thing I remember most was exchanging addresses with Amayita and getting into character set issues. Her emails, containing her Spanish address, were difficult to understand as my mutt/console refused to display the foreign character set properly. I can't recall whether she did ultimately receive a card from me, but I'm sure she'll remind me if she did. Anyway I have no resolution, intention, or expectation that I will suddenly start writing more physical mails to people. But I think it almost counts as something we do less of these days. The telephone and internet have become the norm. In some ways this is fantastic. In others it less good. On the left my handwriting is so bad that maybe this isn't necessarily a problem. ObQuote: E.T.

15 March 2008

John Goerzen: At long last, software.complete.org migrated to Redmine

I've been writing a bit about Trac and Redmine lately. For approximately the 1/3 of the publically-available software that I've written, I maintain a Trac site for it at software.complete.org. This 1/3 is generally the third that has the most interest from others, and there's a bug tracker, wiki, download area, etc.

Trac is nice, and much nicer than one of the *Forge systems for a setup of this scale. But it has long bugged me that Trac has no integration between projects. To see what open bugs are out there on my software, I have to check -- yes -- 17 individual bug trackers.

To keep track on the wikis to make sure that nobody is adding spam, I have to subscribe to 17 different RSS feeds.

It took me some time just to hack up a way so I didn't have to have 17 different accounts to log in to...

So, mainly, my use case for Trac isn't what it was intended for.

Enter Redmine. It's similar in concept to Trac -- a lightweight project management system. But unlike Trac, Redmine allows you to have separate projects, but still manage them all as one if you please.

Redmine didn't have Git support in its latest release, but there was a patch in Redmine's BTS for it. I discussed why it wasn't being applied with Redmine's author, and then went in and fixed it up myself. (I used Git to make a branch off the Redmine SVN repo -- very slick.) Unlike Trac's Git support, Redmine's is *fast*. I tested it against a clone of the Linux kernel repo on my local machine.

There are a few things about Redmine I don't like, but I have learned that they mainly have to do with Ruby on Rails. As someone pointed out on Planet Debian lately (sorry, can't find the link), the very nature of Rails makes it almost impossible for OS developers like Debian to include Rails apps in the distribution.

Not only that, but it seems like Rails assumes that even if you are just going to *use* an app, you know how to *write* one. For instance, this is pretty much the extent of documentation on how to set up a Rails app to be able to send out mail:


# See Rails::Configuration for more options


And of course, googling that turns up nothing useful.

Redmine is a rails app, so it cannot escape some of this. It seems to be a solid piece of work, but Rails seems to make things unnecessarily complex. That, and I've found some bugs in the underlying Rails infrastructure (like activerecord not quoting the schema name when talking to PostgreSQL) that make me nervous about the stack.

But the site is up and running well now, so I'm happy, and am planning to keep working with Redmine for quite some time.

Daniel Burrows: Suck less T-shirts on Cafepress

A few months ago I made up a chart at work showing our development team's goal. It was popular enough around the office that I decided to make a similarly themed design in my spare time and sell it on Cafepress. The chart looks like this: suckless-graph-thumbnail.png This is available in the usual assortment of T-shirts, as well as a few other items. If you'd like an item that's not listed (say, a coffee mug), please email me and I'll add it to the store.

Daniel Burrows: aptitude 0.4.10 released

I've just released version 0.4.10 of aptitude, a terminal and command-line package management tool for Debian. This release has many user-visible changes (see the changelog below). It also fixes an annoying and much-reported segfault. The Debian packages of this version are built against the new version of cwidget, which is sitting in NEW, but if you're impatient you can compile it by hand by dropping the versioned dependency. The dependency is there to ensure that we don't get dependency skew across architectures (aptitude depending on libcwidget0 on some archs and libcwidget1 on others) and doesn't represent an actual build requirement of aptitude.
[12/15/2007] Version 0.4.10 Oscillating Reindeer
  • New features:
    • In command-line mode, if the resolver fails to produce a solution for whatever reason, then instead of aborting the program entirely aptitude will now display a prompt at which you can fix the dependency problems by hand. Enter r at this prompt to try to automatically fix dependencies again.
    • safe-upgrade will now install new packages to fulfill dependences (but it will never remove packages, downgrade packages, or install a version that's not the default). The option --no-new-installs will disable this behavior.
    • Updates and commands that install, remove, or upgrade packages will now display a brief summary of what changed. For instance: 
      There are now 64 updates [+10], 3 new [+1].
      Unfortunately, this change requires reading the cache after an update is complete. Passing -q will disable this behavior, but also make the update progress bar less attractive. More work on resolving this tension between features and performance remains to be done.
    • Add an option --allow-untrusted to override trust warnings. (Closes: bug #452201, bug #452541)
    • Recommended packages are now hidden if quiet mode is enabled. (Closes: bug #452202)
    • The options Aptitude::ProblemResolver::Trace-File and Aptitude::ProblemResolver::Trace-Directory allow you to generate a minimal cut of the cache that allows a problem resolver run to be reproduced. The eventual aim is both to simplify bug reporting and to generate a corpus of automatic test cases for the resolver (although more work needs to be done to accomplish the latter).
    • When run in command-line mode, instead of displaying many separate and sometimes duplicative groups of packages (e.g.: installed, auto-installed, auto-installed in a light cream sauce, etc), aptitude displays packages in a few exclusive categories and uses tags (like the existing purge tag) to provide more state information. For instance: 
      $ aptitude -s install wesnoth
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  wesnoth wesnoth-data a  wesnoth-music a 
$ aptitude -s remove freeciv-data
    (... dependency resolution ...)
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  freeciv-client-gtk a  freeciv-data freeciv-server a  ggzcore-bin u 
  libggz-gtk1 u  libggz2 u  libggzcore9 u  libggzdmod6 u  libggzmod4 u
      Here a indicates that a package was automatically installed or removed, and u indicates that a package is being removed because it is unused. Hopefully this will be less confusing than the old format.
  • Bug fixes:
    • Crashes and serious errors:
      • Track down and fix a SEGV triggered on the first action after a cache reload (sometimes). There are multiple bugs where this might have been the root cause, but it's confirmed that it was the cause of at least bug #454695, bug #454700, bug #455349, and bug #453362. Bug bug #455865 is almost certainly the same issue, and bug bug #352278 may be another manifestation of it.
      • If StepLimit is set to 0, refuse to solve dependencies instead of going into an infinite loop. (Closes: bug #451311)
    • Minor bugs:
      • Return a failing exit code after jumping from the command-line to visual mode if the last install run failed. (Closes: bug #282408)
      • Return a failing exit code from aptitude update if any download fails. (Closes: bug #233129)
    • Cosmetic and UI bugs:
      • In addition to Enter, Space will now activate checkboxes and radio buttons. (Closes: bug #451765)
      • Abort the program if we get EOF at the resolver prompt instead of claiming the resolver failed.
      • Command-line searches will now only print each result once. (Closes: bug #450798)
    • Documentation bugs:
      • The options menu documentation now minimally describes the new configuration interface.
      • The documentation of the configuration file options has been placed back in alphabetic order after apparently suffering bitrot over the years.
      • Corrected the documented default of Parse-Description-Bullets to match reality.
      • The manpages for aptitude-create-state-bundle and aptitude-run-state-bundle are now generated using DocBook, which should produce higher-quality and more consistent typesetting, as well as making the manpages more maintainable and allowing translators to easily produce localized versions of the manpages.
  • Internal changes:
    • Removed some unit tests that really tested cwidget.
  • Translation updates:
    • French (Christian Perrier)

Daniel Burrows: The power of self-delusion

Groklaw has a link up to an interesting interview regarding behavioral economics. I haven't listened to the podcast, but the posted text is quite interesting. This line, in particular, struck a chord with me:
Feeling that your work is useful, even if you know it's an illusion, has motivational power with respect to that work.
This resonates with some thoughts I've been turning over in my head lately. Back when I was in college, I thought my work in Debian was useful and I was really excited to work on it. I'd sit around thinking up new ways to improve the system and spend all my spare time hacking code to implement my ideas. Then I graduated, and went into the real world, and got a job, and suddenly I discovered that working on Debian was not so much useful as it was worthless self-indulgence with no value to anyone but a small and marginal group of individuals. This sent me into a funk for a good year or so, during which time I released a few bugfix uploads for aptitude but didn't do much else free-software-related. I spent my time on the bus reading science fiction novels and computer science textbooks. However, at some point last year I realized a couple things:
  1. In the grand scheme of things, the work I do for pay is no more important than the work I do for free. It might be more important to the people who pay for it, but to most of the world I simply don't matter no matter what hat I'm wearing, and I need to learn to live with it.
  2. At the end of your life, you're dead and no-one asks you whether you made yourself miserable enough by doing useful stuff, so you might as well do things you enjoy instead.
  3. The only practical effect of my delusions regarding Debian was that I spent my spare time hacking code and enjoying it, instead of playing video games and feeling like a loser.
  4. If there's any chance that I might ever have a kid, I certainly want to write free software now, while I don't have one. Based on observing my coworkers who have kids, it's pretty much impossible to be both a free software hacker and a parent: after the paid job and the kid, there isn't much time left over for writing code.
So, I decided to try deliberately believing a false thing: namely that my Debian work is valuable and worthwhile. And hey, it worked! I still know that what I'm doing is worthless, but I can convince myself otherwise for stretches of time, and I have enough fun while I'm working on the project that I consider it worth a small amount of unreality. It sure beats the heck out of computer games (which I still spend a distressingly large amount of time on). The doublethink aspect of it creeps me out, but I can't argue with the results. The one problem is that this state of deluded motivation seems to be a bit fragile and is vulnerable to being popped by rude shocks. In December, I found myself mentally composing a letter in which I resigned from Debian to go spend my free time on stuff that was more gratifying, or at least where the expectations and (more importantly) level of abuse were commensurate with the pay and hours. As usual, I had enough sense to not follow through, and everything seemed less dire in the morning, but it was still weeks before I could bring myself to begin to think about spending my free time working on Debian. Presumably the only way to avoid this is to find something to do in my spare time that I enjoy and that is actually meaningful to the world. But since I don't know of any activity that meets these criteria, I'll keep my self-delusion for the time being, thank you very much. At least I know I'm doing it -- I suspect that most people don't.

Davide Viti: Font tips #3: digits width

A while back Frans filed an interesting bug explaining the reason why digits width should always be the same.

Finding out if the previous condition is true, is just a matter of creating a sample text file

FONT="DejaVu Sans Oblique"
OUTFNAME=$(echo $ FONT    sed -e "s   _ g")
numdigits=100
for i in $(seq 0 9) ; do
   for j in $(seq 1 $ numdigits ) ; do
   echo -n $i >> numeri.txt
   done
   printf "\n" >> numeri.txt
done

and creating a waterfall image:

pango-view --font="$ FONT " --waterfall --dpi=72 -q -o $ OUTFNAME .png numeri.txt

The resulting image shows how Dejavu Oblique is victim of a regression at size 9 and 10 (credits to fjp who spotted it once more!)
bugreport filed.

Patrick Winnertz: How to get most spam?

I've created a small contest together with several other guys. We'll try to get as much as possible spams on a emailadress. The people with the most spam and viruses on his emailaccount will win. I think a good starting point is to publish here, we'll see. Some other things which could end in having success are: If you have other ideas how to get as much as possible spam to this address please write a Comment to this post to the Discussion page. Thanks in advance The emailadress which should recieves as much as possible spam is: winnie@qsc218.credativ.com.

Mark Brown: github pricing

I see that github have recently announced their pricing plans. Looks like they’ll not be having many kernel developers using their “open source” plan - my current working Linux .git is 261Mb but you start having to pay at 100Mb. git may be very space efficient but the kernel is an enormous project. Mind you, the whole web service based approach of github is fairly alien to kernel development - a large part of what it’s doing is replacing the combination of mailing lists together with git send-email and git am (or their equivalents) that the kernel relies on for code exchange and review. Interestingly it appears not to have done anything that provides the discussion and review side of things - that seems like a surprising omission for a web 2.0ish thing.

William Pitcock: A look at SCO Unixware 7.1.3

So, you know, SCO has been suing various people in the Linux community for the last few years, claiming that some code in Linux was stolen from them. So, I’m willing to bet that a lot of people were wondering: what exactly is SCO UnixWare? Well. Have I got a treat for you. Thanks to this wonderful thing called the Internet, you too, can experience SCO UnixWare in it’s full glory. Right, so! I wouldn’t want to stop you from experiencing perhaps, the most enterprisy OS ever. Lets get it on. Installing the OS — the most enterprisy installer ever. The SCO installer is the most ass-backwards convoluted thing someone could have ever invented. It’s downright bloody insane. But, a picture is worth a thousand words, or something like that. This is the boot splash screen. You’ll see it a lot. The release 7.1.3 text goes back and forth a lot, kinda like the Windows XP startup screen except with less artistic talent. After a little while, you boot into a language selection screen. SCO UnixWare Installer Language Selection Screen You choose English, and it presents you with: Welcome to the SCO installer !!!1111one+1 You press F10 to continue. Pressing F10 is kinda like rolling a 2d6, except it’s more enterprisy. You’ll be pressing F10 a lot. It asks you to enter a license key. But, SCO doesn’t really care about licensing it seems. You press F8 to tell it that “you don’t have a license”, and it gives you the option to use an “evaluation license which expires in 60 days”. Licensing You choose yes, you anti-capitalist pirate. Don’t worry, at this point, the SCO installer has probably phoned home and told them to add you to their SCOsource litigation. It starts unpacking drivers, and asks you if you would like to use the driver configuration utility. Driver installation You exit out of the driver configuration utility. It asks you for the system hostname, and installation method. Nodename? Select install method Time to partition your hard drive. Finally. This is what it’s all about. fdisk step 1 fdisk step 2 fdisk step 3 Wow, that was easy wasn’t it. You press enter three times, kinda like the free software OS we know and love. It asks you what packages you would like to install. Package selection You choose the default. Mostly because I couldn’t be assed. Now you go back to setting up the network??? You think back, and recall vaguely that you set up the network already. Apparently you didn’t, as it now wants you to manually configure your ethernet adaptor, despite the fact that it autoconfigured itself moments ago. Network configuration, part 2 Network configuration, part 3 You enter in some information to make it happy. It asks you to set the clock. Time configuration You enter in some data and press F10. It asks you to set up a user, set the root password and set the system security level. User configuration Security level? It asks you to accept the license agreement, in a very enterprisy way. Infact, it’s so enterprisy you don’t have to read the actual license. License Agreement You choose “display licenses”; because you’re curious. You see the following copyleft licenses: SCO uses GPLv2 software SCO uses Artistic-Licensed software. It asks to be sure you really want to install this enterprisy OS. Are you sure?! You hit F10, acknowledging your willingness to sell your soul to satan SCO. Installation begins, you wait about 20 minutes, and the thing is finally installed. File Installation, part 1 File Installation, part 2 You look up and see it installing netscape. You sigh, as you know what that means. It installs documentation. You nearly fall asleep. File Installation, part 5 Wasn’t that percentage meter more a little while ago? You go back to whatever you were doing. Finally, it “sets up UnixWare”, and tells you that it has finished. You hit Enter. But, you forgot to eject your CD. Ok, you reboot finally. It boots back into unixware, and you get presented with the bootsplash: It boots up for the first time. It asks if you would like to install anything off of CD2 or CD3. You choose no, and it spams you about some update support contract thing. It decides to rebuild your kernel for some random reason. By rebuild, I mean, “relink using binary blobs”. But, I digress. The system reboots, because it rebuilt the kernel. The system boots, you’re presented with even more advertising. This concludes our look at SCO UnixWare. I hope you’ve found it fun. There’s more fun images in this directory, including a mollyguarded shutdown and much more.

14 March 2008

Cord Beermann: being busy / Request for Help

Because of some modifications at my Real Life Orkplace, I decided to reduce other duties to get a better chance to deal with my new duties. So i requested help for my four packages in the Distribution

RFH: jove
My first package. A small, but powerful Emacs-relative, with all those uneeded things stripped which makes emacs fat. Maybe these days especially useful for small memory devices, as it gives you emacs-likeness for the price of nvi or ae. I have no idea how well it works in a real utf-8-environment.
RFH: milter-greylist
A greylist-milter which makes running a mailserver somehow possible for me. it keeps away about 2/3 of spam, which leaves me with only 400spams/day. I already have two contacts who want to help with that.
RFH: nn
No news is good news, but nn is better. This is a USENET reader, for those people who grow up with Webforums and Blogs: This could be still the most effective way to celebrate flamefests, gather information or communicate with people sharing same interests. And nn has in my opinion the best UI for it, and makes it easy and fast to find interesting articles and skip others. Well, Upstream Development has ceased to exist around 1994. I think if no one takes over, this package will become finally useless when IPv6 gets widely used (right after the release of 'Duke Nukem Forever') and it also doesn't deal well with non iso-8859-1-charsets. So best for this package would be to rewrite it from scratch (my dream: message/mime-handling/threading from mutt, scoring from slrn, and UI from nn) because the User Interface is much better than those of all still alive Newsreaders i tried.
RFA: synergy
This is my most popular package, which makes it possible to share one mouse and keyboard over many computers and displays. (It is available for UNIX/Linux, Windows and MacOS) This is a very very useful software, and i use it permanently. Sadly the Upstream Development mostly ceased to exist, and so i put this to RFA (instead of RFH) because many Debian-Users use it according to popcon. This software should be taken over by someone who is able to help Upstream. There is a RC-Bug, which caused the package be pulled from testing.

Interesting is that while filing those RFH/RFA all the same day, i only got responses for the packages which scores lowest in popcon, (24 for milter-greylist, 1196 for synergy).

12 March 2008

Sylvain Le Gall: Linux 2.6.24 and Debian Etch on a Thinkpad x60s

I just installed a new kernel on my thinkpad. The migration was done from a 2.6.23 kernel and brings a new 80211g driver: iwl3945. This new driver is fully included in the kernel and only need an additional firmware, which can be found in firmware-iwlwifi Debian package. It works pretty well, seems to connect faster, but the blinking WIFI antenna on my laptop doesn't work anymore. It replaces ipw3945 with a daemon in user space. The installation was not straightforward, since ipw3945 and udev persistent net rules prevent it. The solution is to remove lines concerning the net interface using ipw3945 (the line "# PCI device 0x8086:0x4227 (ipw3945)" and the line after) in the file /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules. After this, you must do: 
modprobe -r iwl3945
modprobe iwl3945
The file /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules now contains a line for the iwl3945 driver. Installing the driver for etch requires to update the package wireless-tools using its backport to etch and downloading/installing the package firmware-iwlwifi from unstable.

11 March 2008

Steve Kemp: Cecile, this is what I like to call "quiet time"

So early this evening I looked for more bugs to fix in the Debian packages I use the most, instead of doing security work. (Because I'm waiting for buildds..) Anyway I figured I'd take a peak at the mutt-patched package - since I have my own patched backport for Etch these days. I'd like to get into the habit of making sure it stays current, but honestly I'll probably forget in a few months. One bug #464189 caught my eye. It is asking for a couple of patches, neither of which I'd heard of. One of them is obviously extremely useful though - it is designed to change the sidebar in such a way that it only displays mailboxes with unread messages in them. I hunted high and low for the patch and had to admit defeat. So I wrote my own, and now my backported package contains a suitable patch. In other news I made a new release of the chronicle blog compiler, which I'm now using in a few more places. All in all it has been a busy day and I got a fair amount of hacking done! The other thing, that I can speak about, which I did today was package the Perl Lingua::Identify module so that my spam filtering service can offer users the opportunity to reject mails written in, say, Russian, or Italian. I'm tempted to give them up to Sarah for adoption, as she was making noises at the weekend about joining Debian (then again so was Jacob Appelbaum). The only issue is that I think she should use the Debian Perl group to get involved, and I've not seen any sign of activity there from her since she first mentioned joining it. Sarah: Consider this a reminder! Update: Feel free to nominate any *crash* bugs you'd like me to attempt to fix. Providing they're not in video or audio playback code! Could be a fun challenge.. ObQuote: Cruel Intentions.

Isaac Clerencia: On why I love The Wire

I have just watched The Wire’s last episode. For those who don’t know about it, The Wire is the greatest TV series ever created (Salon and Slate back me on this). It’s been acclaimed by critics, but widely disregarded by audience. I’ll never forget Jimmy McNulty, a troubled Irish American dipsomaniac murder detective (played by brilliant Brit Dominic West) or Omar Little, a Robin Hood-like stickup homosexual man in west Baltimore. The rest of the deeply portrayed characters of the show are great too, but above all of them, the real starring role belongs to Baltimore. I am sure Baltimore’s reality goes way beyond this show, but I don’t think a show can get more real than The Wire. Each season focuses on a different topic, such as drug-dealing, unions, politics, the press, always keeping the police department around. The story arcs are really long and complex, The Wire is not the kind of show you can enjoy watching a single episode of, but more like, as its own creator - a former Baltimore Sun journalist - put it, a “66 hour movie”. Well, I could keep praising it for hours, but lots of people have done that already, even Barack Obama loves it (:P, let’s ride the hype). Praise available in Spanish too :P Besides, Eliot Spitzer has made wiretaps really popular again these last days ;) Really, you must see it.

10 March 2008

Raphael Geissert: Earth Hour 2008 online



Sidney, Adelaide, Atlanta, Bangkok, Brisbane, Canberra, Chicago, Christchurch, Copenhagen, Dublin, Manila, Melbourne, Montreal, Odense, Ottawa, Perth, Phoenix, San Francisco, Suva, Tel Aviv, Toronto and Vancouver all turning off their lights for an hour in the name of fighting global warming.


NASA to take orbital photos of Earth Hour cities on March 29.


watch the video digg it!

Filip Van Raemdonck: PyGTK/glade object reuse

Someone asked on the PyGTK mailinglist if it is possible to reuse certain parts of a libglade window several times within an application.
It certainly is, and it's not even hard to do!

I've quickly written a demo application to show how it's done.
Glade widget tree

The user interface designed in glade is really simple, a textbox with two toggle buttons underneath. Activating one button will display a second, disparate textbox beside the original one. Deactivating it will remove that second textarea.
The other button will display and remove a copy of the first textbox which was there from application startup.
The full widget tree of this interface is shown in the first screenshot.

The actual code to the demo application is rather brief.
Continue reading "PyGTK/glade object reuse"

Filip Van Raemdonck: PyGTK/glade object reuse

Someone asked on the PyGTK mailinglist if it is possible to reuse certain parts of a libglade window several times within an application.
It certainly is, and it's not even hard to do!

I've quickly written a demo application to show how it's done.
Glade widget tree

The user interface designed in glade is really simple, a textbox with two toggle buttons underneath. Activating one button will display a second, disparate textbox beside the original one. Deactivating it will remove that second textarea.
The other button will display and remove a copy of the first textbox which was there from application startup.
The full widget tree of this interface is shown in the first screenshot.

The actual code to the demo application is rather brief.
Continue reading "PyGTK/glade object reuse"

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