http://www.szakmeister.net/blog Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:58:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ..since I've posted anything. I've been in the process of rewriting my site. I'm tired of Wordpress, tired of escaping code, tired of futzing with code to make it readable, and basically tired of Wordpress working against me rather than with me. So I took a look ... http://www.szakmeister.net/blog/2008/04/25/its-been-a-while/ I wanted a copy of my svnsync'd version of the SVN repo while at PyCon. It's about 450MB (and it's not up-to-date currently)... but it has quite a few files. In 20 minutes time, it only got about 60MB of data across the wire. I killed it ... http://www.szakmeister.net/blog/2008/04/01/a-great-way-to-copy-a-large-directory-of-files-while-away-from-home/ This has been sitting in the queue for a while, but didn't publish it for some reason... I got this link from Daring Fireball and saw something interesting in the comments section (Comment 19): Now, I've worked on embedded devices--and if I ever had to say "Oh, you need to reboot your ... http://www.szakmeister.net/blog/2008/04/01/you-shouldnt-need-to-reboot-your-ipod-touch-or-iphone/ It turns out that by default, on Leopard, Python 2.5 looks at ~/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages for Python modules. The problem is that nothing installs there by default. However, distutils (and setuptools) will read settings from ~/.pydistutils.cfg allowing you to configure some default settings for the install and easy_install commands. ... http://www.szakmeister.net/blog/2008/03/27/installing-python-modules-to-your-home-folder-on-a-mac/ It was an exciting first day at PyCon. I met Ben Collins-Sussman, Brian Fitzpatrick (who is just as down to earth as he appears to be), Ted Leung, Steve Holden (Director of the PSF), and many, many other great contributors to the community. I was completely beat at the end ... http://www.szakmeister.net/blog/2008/03/15/getting-ready-for-pycon-day-2/ So, I bought IWork '08 the other day and started playing around with it. I was glad to see they fixed a couple of things with IWork '06--there was some bug with gradient fills and tables that ended up leaving a thin line of background near the top edge ... http://www.szakmeister.net/blog/2008/02/21/charting-in-numbers-is-rather-disappointing/ Yesterday I was setting up a new VM under VMWare Workstation when I noticed that mouse grabbing was not working. Now I use my VMs extensively, so I expect this feature to work as it slows productivity when it doesn't. After digging around, I found that the VMWare ... http://www.szakmeister.net/blog/2008/02/09/mouse-grabbing-in-vmware/ So, I was at work yesterday, trying to troubleshoot a problem we were having with our customer's build system. For some reason, we're seeing make fail with a complaint about a missing endif—an error that they've never seen. So we proceed with the usual check of tools and ... http://www.szakmeister.net/blog/2008/02/06/when-version-numbers-dont-work/ I'm very excited to be attending this year. I wanted to attend the last couple of years, but had some family matters to attend to. I'm hoping to learn a few things and run into a few people while I'm there. If you haven't signed up ... http://www.szakmeister.net/blog/2008/01/25/going-to-pycon-2008/ I downloaded the software upgrade for my ipod touch so that I could get the Mail application. Unfortunately, our mail servers use a self-signed certificate so whenever the Mail tried to verify the IMAP connection it would pop up a box asking to continue. I hit 'continue' and ... http://www.szakmeister.net/blog/2008/01/17/mail-for-ipod-touch/