Monthly Archives for 2008 10
ImportError: No module named dom.minidom
I Thought, I would try my hand at XML parsing with the python DOM. Whatever programming llanguage yo...
Normal Service Restored
Well, thankfully the speed of my Lanka Bell Broad Band connection is now back to normal. I don't thi...
When does airtel get here?
Can't wait for Airtel to start their operations. I am getting quite annoyed with Lankabell broadband...
Who pulled the handbrake?
My downlink of my lankabell broadband connection has suddenly become slower than dialup. This is the...
Trying to Find a Fool Proof Way of Changing Permalinks
The other day, I changed the permalinks structure in my photo blog. I wasn't getting a lot of traffi...
Lame Virtualization messes up grub.
2008 Oct 28 at 23:12 » Tagged as: python , virtualization
I tried to setup Xen virtualization on my media server and ended up with a messed up boot loader. Th...
Joe Jobbed Again.
I find myself being Joe Jobbed yet again. I suppose this happens to everyone once in a while, but th...
"IOError: [Errno 95] Operation not supported"
To my great surprise (nay shock), I found that you cannot redirect output to /dev/null with cat for ...
Mythtv delete all episodes of a recorded program
2008 Oct 26 at 23:48 » Tagged as: python , quadruple play
Sure there is more than one way to delete all episodes of a recorded program with mythv - they are j...
Fedora boot time
Well we know that fedora (a modified fedora actually) can boot up in five seconds. How long does it ...
Sun Java Sucks (at least on 64 bit linux)
Several years ago when 64 bit java came out the sun java plugin for linux wasn't available. By the t...
Putting the fun back into blogging.
Ever since switching from movable type to wordpress, I have been posting like mad. That in spite of ...
Fixing the Wordpress Permalinks Migration Plugin
The other day, I changed the wordpress permalinks structure on my photo blog. Once you make the chan...
Adsense Targeting Gone Haywire
Many geeks complain that they are not getting enough revenue from the banners on their site. That's ...
Wordpress: Change Permalinks
At my photoblog, I don't get as much traffic as I should. The reason is that the posts are identifie...
Boot Fedora in Five Seconds.
I read with envy that the author of powertop (which I blogged about earlier) and some other blokes h...
RTFM causes 500 internal server error
2008 Oct 19 at 00:00 » Tagged as: collaboration , weird
I can never quite remember whether it's print_r or var_dump in PHP that can send a detailed dump of ...
Hard Drive Failure ? argh not again
Readers of this blog must be quite bored of my hard drive failures, but the sad fact is that I have ...
Python and Fortran
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...
subrequested from r->uri
Having looked through some of the python introductory guides. I decide that my deep end of the pool ...
The Serpent.
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...
Powertop.
2008 Oct 14 at 00:22 » Tagged as: collaboration , green
Over the last few days I have been looking at ways of cutting down on my power consumption. I have b...
Wrong Elf Class
2008 Oct 13 at 05:59 » Tagged as: collaboration , toast
After upgrading from the 32 bit version of Fedora 9 to the 64 bit version I am seeing all kinds of p...
Wrong Elf Class
2008 Oct 13 at 05:59 » Tagged as: toast
After upgrading from the 32 bit version of Fedora 9 to the 64 bit version I am seeing all kinds of p...
Spinning Down the Hard Drives in Fedora
2008 Oct 11 at 07:56 » Tagged as: collaboration , green
Last few days, my computers have been without their covers - what with all the reinstallations/upgra...
udevd[486]: lookup_group: specified group 'fuse' unknown
2008 Oct 4 at 02:47 » Tagged as: collaboration , quadruple play
I am seeing these messages when plugging in a Huawei CDMA phone with it's TI USB cable. I reckoned t...
What's up at Adwords?
2008 Oct 3 at 01:32 » Tagged as: collaboration , web 0.8
What's happening at adwords? Our ( Rad Inks ) ads apparently stopped running about 48 hours ago. Unf...
Reading one svndiff window read beyond the end of the representation
2008 Oct 2 at 11:34 » Tagged as: collaboration , toast
I tried svn update and got the following error:
Reading one svndiff window read beyond t...
Netbeans 6.1 - sluggish on Fedora 9
Ever since moving back to Fedora 9 (from debian) I have found that the netbean IDE seems to be rathe...