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Farewell life blood (caffeine)
Caffeine is a staple in computing and nerdom. ThinkGeek.com for example has tons of caffeine products! Everything from caffeinated soap to mugs with the caffeine molecule on them.
Why does caffeine have such a following in the tech community? Well it could have to do with how caffeine works.
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Week In Links – 8/21/2009
Over the last few weeks I’ve noticed a few things,
- I always have a lot of links open in FireFox that I haven’t looked at yet.
- Blog traffic drops like mad on Fridays
These are just some sites or articles that I found interesting or helped me in some way this week.
So here’s what I have this week! (other posters can add to this page as they wish)
- http://www.infoq.com/articles/agile-version-control
- http://kenai.com
- http://oauth.net
- http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/DebuggingTechniques
- http://blog.lowkster.com/2008/01/getting-to-pesky-foreign-key-data-in.html
- http://www.box.net
- http://beanstalkapp.com
- http://www.ducea.com/2006/08/11/apache-tips-tricks-deny-access-to-some-folders
- http://www.fogcreek.com/FogBugz
- http://www.sitepoint.com/article/build-to-do-list-30-minutes
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Podcast Episode #6 – Way behind Schedule
Well we are extremely behind in recording these. I hope to get caught up at some point.
Here’s some of what we talked about…
- Topics
- Win 7 RC – is it worth getting hyped up for, windows mobile sweetness – gAlarm
- Agile/processes – New toys (Macbook Pro, Nokia BH-503), boxee
- OS X Java Vulnerability
- IT Conversations (Stackoverflow)
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How to get a Sansa Clip working with Rhythmbox in Ubuntu
So I got me an 8gb Sansa Clip from Walmart the other day for $50. Yeah I know pretty decent deal for an 8gb. Anyway I was trying to get it to work with Rhythmbox, and I was having some trouble but then I ran across this post on Ubuntu Forums.
So apparently all you have to do in order to get the player to show up in Rhythmbox is to add a file called “.is_audio_player” in the root directory of the Sansa MP3 player.
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Python Scripting within a Python Script
UPDATE: In order to use reload in Python 3, it must be imported from the imp built-in module. Thus, some of the examples below will require the line from imp import reload in order to work in Python 3.
I’ve been mulling over an idea for a little while now, but didn’t have the chance to do anything with it until today. Turns it it was way easier than I thought it would be. For reasons I won’t go into here, I wanted to have a Python program which could write and run other Python programs. Clearly Python can write programs (since it can save text as a .py file), and it can easily run programs just by importing a module. The trouble was editing those files and running the updated code in the master program without having to restart the master program. Here’s how I did it.
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Episode #0
This is the zeroth episode of Pointless Rants (of course it’s zero-indexed, it’s a technology podcast).
In this episode of Pointless Rants we did the following:
- Introduced ourselves – where we’re from, who we are.
- Tom talked about Linux distributions coordinating their distribution schedules so that people will take Linux more seriously.
- Tom introduced us to the amazing, searchable repository of http://koders.com
- Trevor confessed about how he cheats at Facebook games using GreaseMonkey (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748)
- Steve droned on about functional programming languages and got distracted by chat messages. (http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html) (http://www.lisp.org)
- We all discussed our different philosophies on laptop selection.
- Trevor introduced us to some of the new features of Windows 7 (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/)
- Tom informed us that it usually isn’t a good idea to pretend to be 10 years old.
- Tom and Steve griped about the many shortcomings of Hotmail (http://v3.izymail.com/Default.aspx)
