Free to good home, one Intel 510T 22 port switch. (There are a couple of dead ports but its otherwise fine - no glitches or anything).
I've just replaced my home ethernet switch - I was using 5 ports, and most of my wired machines have gigabit now. Yay.
So, if you need a 22 port network switch, let me know. If I don't hear from anyone, it'll go into next months local recycling pickup.
This will be a 'come pick it up' arrangement, unless you're going to be at the same place I am for some other event - in Sydney, if thats not obvious.
They should take a leaf out of the way people ask each other for recommendations. auspcmarket /kindof/ does that with the systems hierarchy - but only for a few categories.
What I want I guess, is a menu of tags/attributes I can search for on a vendors site (and/or review sites like CNet's and, google shopping and so on). Doing a google shopping search for my interesting attributes above is a pretty epic fail.
Please note that code you get from this repository is not intended for productive use (unless it's tagged as a released version, of course, in which case the usual alpha/beta disclaimers apply ;-)). We like to break our codebase, config files, database schemas and all kinds of stuff. We sometimes commit non-compiling revisions to facilitate collaborative development. Running such an unstable version might trash your settings, your backlog and maybe your computer. You have been warned!
Trunk should always at least compile, run, and pass all the tests.
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I have a problem that I believe will be easy for someone with a bit of UNIX coding knowledge to solve, so I appeal to those that can to help.
I'm trying to write a DBus service that will spawn a command, and provide the output to the user. The service runs on the system bus as root, and so it is a form of privilege escalation. However, the command may be long running, and produce a lot of output as it works, so I want to allow the calling process to get this output before the command completes.
My current approach uses gobject.spawn_async and so gets file descriptors back, one for stdout and one for stderr. I currently have a thread that uses select to wait for output, and then uses DBus signals to allow the client to access it. This works great, except that stdout and stderr can become interleaved in the middle of lines.
I believe that I can't just wait for full lines before signalling, as a command might do something like print "Username: " and then wait for input. I could normally do full lines, and then if the child blocks on stdin send whatever it has written so far, but that doesn't seem ideal. (I haven't implemented anything about proving input on stdin so far, but I don't want a solution that makes it difficult to do so).
It seems to me that this is something that will be implemented somewhere, for instance my shell can run commands and then interleave the output in a desirable manner, but I haven't found how yet. Any suggestions are welcome, but this is from python, so system calls that I can't make directly from python would be a pain, though I'm not that bothered about portability.
Latin (As in church latin, not latin character encoding) in Ubuntu Karmic will work better than it did in Hardy/Intrepid. I had missed one of the packages that want hard coded locale data when I did the initial enablement patch.
For reference, when adding a locale:
I came across Anthony Raijekov the other day, and was treated to some of his Trip-Hop, which is outstanding. That was an added bonus though, as I sought him out to download his Piano track: "Photo Theme: Window Like". You can find him on Jamendo and on ccmixter. I would highly recommending going to listen, and donating via Jamendo if you like what you hear.
This also led me to go back and listen to some new stuff from Amether, who I found a few years ago thanks to Rob Da Bank. Definitely worth checking out, especially their remix of "Artisan - Hold my breath".
On the freely available, if not freely licensed side I noticed a new station from the excellent SomaFM today: Lush. It is said to be "Sensuous and mellow vocals, mostly female, with an electronic influence," and so far I am enjoying it though it is rather similar to Groove Salad. I find that I can't keep SomaFM on all day every day while working though, as I find that it repeats tracks just a little too often.
I've also been listening a lot to Ombilikal which covers the harder edge very well, with some breaks, drum and bass, and dubstep amongst other things.
While in Barcelona I had the pleasure of meeting Karl Fogel (and hearing him play, which was a treat), and talking a bit about free content. He explained to me some of the things that they are trying to do with QuestionCopyright.org, and some of their methods. It's great to see more projects working on the issue in a very constructive manner, and I hope that they succeed. So that we can have many more artists like Anthony Raijekov that I can discover and reward for their work more directly.
def foo(bar):and generate a warning like:
baz = bar + 2
return 12
example.py:2: local variable 'baz' is assigned to but never usedI use pyflakes hooked up to flymake, so it's always running all the time on every Python file I'm working on. Relying on it has become as second-nature as relying on syntax highlighting. There's a whole class of mistakes I don't make any more, simply because it's on.
this hotel is fantastic, it has a piano bar, a scotch bar, a spa and
juice bar, and a helipad.
–
Elliot Murphy
I spent this past week in Barcelona with all the other Canonical employees at a meeting we call AllHands. I have the opportunity to travel to all sorts of nice places with Canonical, and experience lots of conferences. None of those other experiences hold a candle to last week's events in Barcelona. I'd like to share my experiences, notes, feelings, and overall energy in this post (and try and start a new flow of regular interval posts).
First off, I need to say something about my method for taking notes here. Prior to leaving for my trip, I picked up two Moleskine notebooks that have unlined pages in them. I'd seen them used by many of my colleagues and friends, but never really saw why they had such hype behind them. After looking through my notes, there was something about the Moleskine that absolutely changed the way I write notes. The diagrams, blurbs, and quotes I wrote down last week were in a completely different and amazing format that allowed me to actually capture a lot of the thoughts I usually just try to reference and hope I remember.
Collaboration has been on my mind for a while, and there are a lot of thoughts I have that are arranging themselves into blog post as we speak. I'm amazed at how much Canonical and its employees are thinking about collaboration. There was an overwhelming amount of questions like "How can we make X better?" and "What if we did Y like this? Would it be easier?"
Launchpad and Bazaar are two humongous examples of us trying to make collaboration easier. Launchpad has created this workflow for handling your code, doing merges of other people's code, getting bugs fixed, getting your code translated, releasing tarballs, and allowing people to easily install software into Ubuntu based machines. Launchpad has a rich code review system, which I am convinced is the best way to make open source software better.
The Ayatana Project excites me beyond my ability to express. Free software is generally written, tested, and (unfortunately) designed by geeks. This usually means that to find a tool with great design and usability is a gem. To have a team that is completely and totally devoted to making free software easy to use for my mother is amazing. Take your app (you know, the one you think is just amazing), get someone's attention in #ayatana on Freenode, and ask them (ever so nicely) what you can do to make it stellar. Do it. Do it now.
UbuntuOne is going to end up being a great service, and I would venture to say it will be a reference guide to the web services of the future. No data lock-in, open protocols, standards-based implementations, and the sky is the limit. UbuntuOne isn't about file sharing (although that is a cute first feature). It's about sharing data in any form, and as it fills out, it really will make collaboration even more social.
Finally, I wrote an open ended question to myself to think about, and thought that maybe I'd throw it out here as well. For context, Jono Bacon was talking about community (y'know, plugging his book and all that :), and I wrote "Open source thrives on a meritocracy - how can we prevent feelings of entitlement?" I see this a lot in open source communities: people earn their "commit rights" and then start behaving like everyone owes them something. Collaboration is about peers, not about hierarchies.
A highlight of the talks I attended was a talk by Jono Bacon on recognizing and avoiding burnout. It was on eye opener for me. I spend a lot of time writing code, and I have now recognized that at some level I'm getting burned out by it. I'm doing a lot of things at the same time, and doing them absolutely terribly.
The biggest thing that hit me was that my methods for staying organized are terrible, and they aren't working. When this happens, one may be working hard, but not accomplishing much of anything. I've since restructured what my daily planning is like, and will report when I have data on its success or failure.
This was my greatest experience at AllHands. The nature of Canonical is that most of us work from home. This means that we can easily miss out on the social aspects of co-located work, like going out for a beer (Coke for me thanks) after work, shooting Nerf guns at each other, etc. However, because we work with these people on a daily basis, we form these incredibly strong bonds, so much that when we actually meet on this physical plane, we're old friends that would bend over backwards for one another.
Daniel Holbach epitomizes the Canonical culture at the very core with his hugs. I think of my direct manager more as my friend than as my manager. I enjoy seeing the rest of my team in person, because they are all really great people. There is absolutely no difference in social status between Mark Shuttleworth himself and the newest hire. We all work together. There isn't this idea of "What I do is more important than what you do" but more that "What you do is so helpful that I want to make sure what I do is helpful in return" Canonical is really about Ubuntu, the product, and the meaning of brotherhood and working together.
We optimize for fun. If something works really well in theory but it makes things less fun, then we don't do it.
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