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November 04, 2009

Kartik Mistry

Kavin@School


* This really deserve more than ‘twit’, so I am putting it here as NEWS.

We selected nearby no-nonsense, no-hype, no-big-fees kind of school running in somewhat 4 BHK kind of bungalow in residential area. He is in ‘Playgroup’ where primary motive is to interact with others, to learn by monkey business and to learn some good (hopefully) stuffs. I was glad that he did not cried while going to school, but we had to drag him to home and he cried a lot :P

Current school timings are 9.30 AM to 11.30 AM, so I must help K and need to wake up early in the morning and probably stop (or reduce) useless hacking till late night.

However, I’m kind of down due to RCT, Stomach issues and now some pain in shoulder – but still alive to write this.

by Kartik Mistry at November 04, 2009 04:57 PM

October 22, 2009

Guofu Xu

bwshare module refuse your requests -- cloning web

当你看到某个网站觉得有收藏的下来的冲动时, 用工具自动下载吧 -- teleport.

 

界面朴素, 功能当然一个不少. 今天在用到它下载techonthenet.com的内容发现该网站限制了ip连接频率和个数. 用了"不间断运行"的选项似乎不正常(停止之后就没有看到它在自动开启...), 换来代理很麻烦哪...

 

看到状态栏的线程启动得非常快, 让人看到一点希望  软件无壳  --vc. 中断在createthread, 梦游在堆栈中, 找到一个loop的结束点, 加一个1s的sleep.

 

现在跑的速度和原来差不多(我就没有见过哪个网站的一个网页1s内能好的), 只是界面卡, 下载的页面还是很欢快的.

 

记:

该网站的Excel函数公式例子很全, 没有编程经历的老婆一定会喜欢的(昨晚看那个sumif还在想range和sum_range有什么区别, 看例子很清楚了, sum_range是实际上是要选择的数据域).

by xygwfxu at October 22, 2009 10:12 AM

October 21, 2009

Eitan Isaacson

What I Did Today Before 9 AM

I needed a non-interactive way of generating PDFs from websites. I really liked Midori’s output, so I figured doing the same with the Python WebKitGtk bindings would be easy.

So I created a tool called interwibble, you could get it from my github repo.

There are probably other tools out there already that do the same thing, but I couldn’t find any.

This has been something that I have wanted more than a decade ago, when I thought it would be really cool to have a daily newspaper waiting on your printer every morning when you wake up.

by Eitan at October 21, 2009 05:21 PM

Git

Can’t get enough of it. I lurv Git.

If anything is worth doing, it could be done with Git.

Over the past few weeks I have written pre/post hooks and new Git commands for the most esoteric tasks.

I think Git overshadows any other achievement that Linus guy ever had. He should stop working on that hobby kernel, and put more time into Git, I think it has potential.

I need to migrate this blog to being Git based…

by Eitan at October 21, 2009 02:19 PM

Kartik Mistry

foss.in/2009


* Long awaited CFP is out! Lets see how we represent Debian this time. Last year’s I missed it completely and I am also not sure about this year, but as always – I am excited ;)

Go for it!

by Kartik Mistry at October 21, 2009 05:45 AM

October 20, 2009

Dobey

Web of Old

I miss the web, when it was the web, and not a platform for building giant applications that require a more expensive computer to use, than to play a very complex 3D massively multiplayer adventure role playing shooter. Then, all I needed to find some information was a keyboard, a screen, and average cheap hardware. Now I need a multi-core CPU with 8GB of RAM, just to load and render some pages. REST feels sort of in the same boat as RISC was 10 years ago, right now.


October 20, 2009 02:49 AM

October 19, 2009

Ara Pulido

Let’s test Karmic RC!


This Thursday Karmic reaches the last milestone before the final release. As for every milestone, we need to test all the ISO images we produce, with every possible installation.

All of these test cases will appear, with instructions to follow, in the ISO tracker. If you don’t know how to use the tracker, this blog post will serve as starting guide.

One of the complains of the new comers is that they don’t know which test case needs testing. The coordination is done at #ubuntu-testing at Freenode and not everybody can access IRC. This time, Dave Morley and I, will try something new. As the RC images start appearing and testing begins, we are going to update in Twitter, using #ubuntutesting as tag.

If you want to help us testing RC images, please, follow us in Twitter and make sure to search for #ubuntutesting for updates. And if you’re helping testing, please, tweet about it!

Of course, this is an extra way to get informed. Coordination will happen, as usual, at #ubuntu-testing IRC channel.

by Ara Pulido at October 19, 2009 09:02 AM