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Ian Ward's email:
first name at this domain
IRC: wardi on OFTC
Rob Lanphier will be giving talks relating to Urwid at OSCON and LinuxFest Northwest:
LinuxFest Northwest
Bellingham, WA,
April 24-25 (Exact time TBD)
Using Urwid and Python Console Applications
O'Reilly's Open Source Convention (OSCON)
Portland, OR,
July 22 (Thursday, 1:40pm)
Great User Interfaces in the Terminal Window
Tags: Urwid Software Linux Python
The development version of Urwid now has support for display and input on a Crystalfontz 635 LCD panel. These are small LCD screens that fit in a PC's 5ΒΌ" drive bay. They have six buttons, four red/green LEDs and a 20x4 character display with an adjustable backlight.
Tags: Urwid Hardware Software Linux Python
Something that has annoyed me for some time now (but not enough to google it, apparently) is Thunderbird's reply header. The default reply header has no date and time. Turning it on turns out to be pretty simple, it just hasn't been added to the configuration dialogs it seems. I need to do this on all the systems I check mail from so I'm documenting it here.
watch(1) is a very useful little tool when you want to see the results of a command changing over time.
Unfortunately it seems that it doesn't support Unicode or colours in its output. This is a short bash function that does much of what watch can do, but with no trouble handling Unicode or coloured output.
Another year another Linux Symposium. Here are links to some of the talks I enjoyed most (mainly so I can find them again later)
I will be giving an introductory Django talk at The Free and Open Source Software Learning Centre (FOSSLC) Summercamp/Geocamp 2009 Conference. The conference is taking place on May 13, 14, and 15 at Algonquin College, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and early bird pricing is available until April 5.
Tags: Django Ottawa Linux Python FOSSLC
I picked up an Asus EEE PC 900 a couple months ago, and it quickly became the most heavily used computer in my household. I have been running the included Xandros Linux OS and Firefox, Thunderbird, Skype (Beta for video conferencing) and Picasa (Linux Beta). Xandros makes a nice OS, and the EEE works very well in its default configuration. My only complaint is it that seems Xandros has abandoned the OS in favour of versions for the latest EEE models: there are few additional packages to install and fewer updates to the packages that are available.
The EEE community site has recommendations for adding external repositories, but that doesn't seem like a sustainable choice, with the steadily aging base Xandros packages. One of the biggest strength of Linux distributions is the constant improvements available and new software available from all over the world, something Xandros just wasn't going to provide. I use Ubuntu primarily on my other machines, so I gave Ubuntu Netbook Remix (NBR) a try.
This is a recording of the second Kernel Walkthrough given by Bart Trojanowski for the Ottawa Canada Linux Users Group. This time Bart covers the x86 boot process in Linux. He gives a presentation with Q+A in the first hour. In the second hour he walks thorough the Linux C and assembly code itself.
We were generously hosted again by TheCodeFactory, a local hotbed of high-tech startup companies.
Special thanks again to Richard Guy Briggs for help with this recording.