Playing ‘pretend store’ with my three-year-old nephew “R” last night.
R: What do you want ?
J: Some fresh figs please.
R: Here are some fig.
J: How much do I owe you ?
R: $10,000,000 !!!!
J: What ? I don’t need that much. I need a bailout.
R: What’s that ?
J: A wheelbarrow full of money.
R: OK. Here it [...]
I was getting the message above on my laptop when I turned it on.
Surprisingly, whacking the bottom 4 times fixed it. Go figure.
In setuptools, the bdist_egg command has an -exclude-source-files option that is missing in the bdist_rpm command.
So what’s the selfish sod to do if he wants to keep from distributing his source in an RPM ?
Including the install script below worked for me.
python setup.py bdist_rpm –install-script=install.sh
where install.sh is
python setup.py install –root=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT –record=INSTALLED_FILES
#goodbye py source
find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT -name [...]
At my current job, I had the misfortune of having to deal with some Oracle Pro*C code. Since I’m a -Werror weenie, I was annoyed that this code was spitting out a ‘warning: ’sqlstm’ defined but not used’ warning in all the proc generated source. Here’s how I inhibited the warning. [...]
I’ve published my first Haskell project on hackage. Augeas, is a FFI binding for the Augeas API. I wrote it mainly to learn about Haskell’s FFI, and to keep busy while I was between jobs. Also the API was small enough that it was a managable project.
Chapter 17 of Real World Haskell was very helpful [...]
A bunch of wonky Indiana time zones, were added to pkg-glibc/tzdata over 19 months ago, (along with a number of other time zone changes) but they still haven’t surfaced in the tzsetup-udeb package, as of 1/7/2009.
As a result, if you’re in one of these odd Indiana counties, the tzsetup portion of the installation won’t display [...]
I attended the first session of the novalang sessions on Real World Haskell. So far, I haven’t picked up too much, but we’ve only gone through the first two chapters. It looks like a pretty good group, with a lot of smart folks attending.
The group had a mixture of people using both [...]
One of my New Year’s Resolutions (from last year actually) is to revive this blog. So after digging up the administrative password for the site, I decided to look into WordPress a little, and here’s what I came up with.