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The UNIX security model sucksUnfortunately, we are likely to be stuck with it for the next hundred quintillion years, it will outlive the sun and possibly humanity as we flee to other stars and trade our technology to species across the galaxy.  I understand this fact.  I can live with it ( Read more... )

From the PyCon feedback survey:

• favorite talk: #2, Robert M. Lefkowitz's keynote.
• topic which should have been covered at PyCon: #1, Twisted.
• tutorial you would like to attend: #1, Twisted.
  
• what city should PyCon be in: #1, Boston, MA.

How do you troubleshoot completely random problems?

My home desktop machine has been suffering from a Linux kernel "Oops" approximately once every two days for the last few weeks. I would really like it to stop doing that. When I get a stack trace in my logs, it's consistently in the "kswapd" process, even though I disabled all swap weeks ago.

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You all thought I'd forget, didn't you?  About the dire consequences, that is?

• Chrisopher has not responded yet.
• Jonathan has not responded yet.  Jonathan has responded.
  
• Travis has not responded yet.
• Raffi has not responded yet, but the Synthesis blog seems to be offline, and it isn't really a personal thing anyway, so maybe I was out of line to tag ( Read more... )

My saga of ndiswrapper on the macbook continues.

In fact, the dw102 drivers do cause crashes when associating with certain access points. Unfortunately the dw101 drivers don't work with certain (still other) access points, and the lenovo "abgn" drivers have some very peculiar problems with extremely bad UDP performance on the access points the ( Read more... )

Twisted is the goddamn engine of your Internet.

Don't let anyone say otherwise.

Update: We're over the line now - 33 to 32!  Keep on voting though, make that bar bright green.

So, it seems that it is possible to get the last feature that I really, really wanted to use on my MacBook, NetworkManager, to work under Ubuntu Edgy without a custom kernel.  The steps involved are not difficult, but they are tricky, due to an interlocking matrix of bugs.  Thanks to some insomnia and procrastination I've decided to write it up.

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Last weekend, I attended PyCon 2007. I hadn't originally intended to go, but I could hardly miss my father giving the final keynote.

The keynote was riveting as expected. To be honest, I hadn't expected much of the conference beyond that. The first PyCon was an amazing experience, but as the topics drifted more towards "web frameworks" and away ( Read more... )

The attendance list seems a bit anemic so far, so I thought I'd point it out:

Twisted Birds of a Feather session at PyCon 2007

I'll be there.