April 19th, 2009
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April 19th, 2009
Doing the ham radio VE thing – huge session, 29 hams upgrading to General. My hand hurts from signing my name so many times.
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April 18th, 2009
Should be in bed, but instead I’m installing git on my Macbook. Forgot how long this took – currently maxing out the CPU’s
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April 18th, 2009
I came across this computer/desk/office setup when catching up on LifeHacker. It is pretty impressive setup, especially all the monitors. We have a dev at work who has done similar crazy stuff, it is at the point he doesn’t have enough slots to add more video cards now.
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April 18th, 2009
So I was working on Pathfinder today, I was replacing the power run from the battery to radios because the current one was having trouble providing enough juice and I want to install another radio. Anyhow, this is very similar to what I was doing about two years ago when I tried to cut my thumb off. This resulted in a trip to the emergency room and lots of blood.
So you’ll never guess what I managed to-do today? Yep, I tried to cut off my middle finger. It was even on the same hand. Luckly this time it wasn’t so deep and I got the bleeding under control without a trip to a doctor. I can’t believe how sharp some of the edges are on Pathfinder.
Oh yea, I wasn’t even able to finish installing the power run. I got it almost done, but couldn’t install the new cable end, because my soldering gun wasn’t able to produce enough heat. I”ll have to go buy one of those little torches tomorrow to finishing soldering the last connection. Sigh.
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April 18th, 2009
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April 18th, 2009
Cloths shopping and lunch with Isaac. I think I feel a nap coming on.
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April 16th, 2009
I wanted to automate some of the stuff I do at work all the time and decided to use Twill. Twill is this simple shell interface/wrapper for Python which allows you to interact with a website and turn everything into a simple script(s). I found a really good how-to document on the web and was all set to go.
The only problem is that I couldn’t get the damn thing installed, which seems to be the biggest gapping hole in open source software. I’ll admit our linux desktops at work are old, but we have a current enough version of Python available. (2.5) But Twill doesn’t really have an install script/program, they want / force you to use another app called “easy_install”. Which of course doesn’t have an a install have a self-contained installer either, they want you to install something else. Now I’m three layers away from the software I want to install and NONE of the damn documentation is making any sense.
So I went home frustrated, but with a new idea. They have python for Windows, I have a Windows XP box at work as well. I’ll install Python on my XP box and then install Twill and I’ll be good. Nope – same damn story, first you need this other program before you can get to Twill, which requires Python. So I grab the latest Python, it has a nice .msi file and actually just works. Great, I’m finally getting somewhere. Then I grab the damn easy_install stuff, it also has a .exe installer. Launch that, it chugs along for a while and then throws an error. “Requires Python 2.5 or higher” Wait a minute, I have Python 2.6 install, I checked that. I poke at it, google search, poke at it some more, nothing works. Finally I get an idea, uninstall Python 2.6 and install Python 2.5. Bingo! The stupid install isn’t actually checking for higher, it wants just v2.5. Its basically acting like my 3 year old.
Long story short, after spending something like two hours I have a working installation of Twill on my Windows box. I’ve almost forgot what I wanted to-do with it now.
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April 16th, 2009
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April 16th, 2009
@nomadness only 3.5 years? Your way ahead of schedule!
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