2008 Oct 31 at 23:51 » Tagged as: weird, xml, python

I Thought, I would try my hand at XML parsing with the python DOM. Whatever programming llanguage yo...

2008 Oct 31 at 04:41 » Tagged as: broadband, python

Well, thankfully the speed of my Lanka Bell Broad Band connection is now back to normal. I don't thi...

2008 Oct 30 at 12:06 » Tagged as: broadband, python

Can't wait for Airtel to start their operations. I am getting quite annoyed with Lankabell broadband...

2008 Oct 30 at 08:41 » Tagged as: broadband, python

My downlink of my lankabell broadband connection has suddenly become slower than dialup. This is the...

2008 Oct 30 at 04:25 » Tagged as: wordpress, python

The other day, I changed the permalinks structure in my photo blog. I wasn't getting a lot of traffi...

2008 Oct 28 at 23:12 » Tagged as: virtualization, python

I tried to setup Xen virtualization on my media server and ended up with a messed up boot loader. Th...

2008 Oct 28 at 16:22 » Tagged as: qmail, anti spam, python

I find myself being Joe Jobbed yet again. I suppose this happens to everyone once in a while, but th...

2008 Oct 28 at 02:07 » Tagged as: weird, x11, python, rcs

To my great surprise (nay shock), I found that you cannot redirect output to /dev/null with cat for ...

2008 Oct 26 at 23:48 » Tagged as: quadruple play, python

Sure there is more than one way to delete all episodes of a recorded program with mythv - they are j...

2008 Oct 26 at 02:07 » Tagged as: toast, bootstrap, python

Well we know that fedora (a modified fedora actually) can boot up in five seconds. How long does it ...

2008 Oct 24 at 23:59 » Tagged as: weird, python

Several years ago when 64 bit java came out the sun java plugin for linux wasn't available. By the t...

2008 Oct 24 at 03:23

While trying sort out a recent mishap, I accidentally erased my sqlite rpm with drastic consequences...

2008 Oct 23 at 14:59 » Tagged as: wordpress, python

Ever since switching from movable type to wordpress, I have been posting like mad. That in spite of ...

2008 Oct 22 at 23:26 » Tagged as: wordpress, python

The other day, I changed the wordpress permalinks structure on my photo blog. Once you make the chan...

2008 Oct 21 at 23:17

Now that most distros, Fedora in particular insist that you use UUIDs instead of device names in the...

2008 Oct 21 at 04:05 » Tagged as: web 0.8, weird, python

Many geeks complain that they are not getting enough revenue from the banners on their site. That's ...

2008 Oct 20 at 16:27 » Tagged as: wordpress, python

At my photoblog, I don't get as much traffic as I should. The reason is that the posts are identifie...

2008 Oct 19 at 22:53 » Tagged as: green, bootstrap, python

I read with envy that the author of powertop (which I blogged about earlier) and some other blokes h...

2008 Oct 19 at 00:00 » Tagged as: weird, collaboration

I can never quite remember whether it's print_r or var_dump in PHP that can send a detailed dump of ...

2008 Oct 18 at 00:08 » Tagged as: toast, python

Readers of this blog must be quite bored of my hard drive failures, but the sad fact is that I have ...

2008 Oct 17 at 09:14 » Tagged as: python

I was quite surprised to learn that python does not use curly braces in the same manner that most ot...

2008 Oct 16 at 05:37 » Tagged as: weird, python

Having looked through some of the python introductory guides. I decide that my deep end of the pool ...

2008 Oct 15 at 01:49 » Tagged as: python

I know quite a few languages but I suddenly realized that I have not learned any new language for mo...

2008 Oct 14 at 00:22 » Tagged as: green, collaboration

Over the last few days I have been looking at ways of cutting down on my power consumption. I have b...

2008 Oct 13 at 05:59 » Tagged as: toast, collaboration

After upgrading from the 32 bit version of Fedora 9 to the 64 bit version I am seeing all kinds of p...

2008 Oct 11 at 07:56 » Tagged as: green, collaboration

Last few days, my computers have been without their covers - what with all the reinstallations/upgra...

2008 Oct 10 at 10:08

After that bait and switch the other day, I was left with the prospect of having to make three diffe...

2008 Oct 7 at 10:46

The office needed a new machine. We ordered a new machine (E7200 Core 2 Duo 2.53 Ghz, 2GB RAM, Asus ...

2008 Oct 4 at 02:47 » Tagged as: quadruple play, collaboration

I am seeing these messages when plugging in a Huawei CDMA phone with it's TI USB cable. I reckoned t...

2008 Oct 3 at 01:32 » Tagged as: web 0.8, collaboration

What's happening at adwords? Our ( Rad Inks ) ads apparently stopped running about 48 hours ago. Unf...

2008 Oct 2 at 11:34 » Tagged as: toast, collaboration

I tried svn update and got the following error: Reading one svndiff window read beyond t...

2008 Oct 1 at 09:43 » Tagged as: netbeans, xml

Ever since moving back to Fedora 9 (from debian) I have found that the netbean IDE seems to be rathe...