http://www.pwan.org/wp In this economy, all you get is tech posts... Sat, 02 Jan 2010 18:40:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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:  $10,000,000 !!!! J:  What ?  I don't need that much.  I need a bailout. R:  What's that ? J:  A wheelbarrow full ... http://www.pwan.org/wp/?p=52 I was getting the message above on my laptop when I turned it on. Surprisingly, whacking the bottom 4 times fixed it.   Go figure. http://www.pwan.org/wp/?p=50 In setuptools, the bdist_egg command has an -exclude-source-files option that is missing in the bdist_rpm command. So what's the selfish sod to do if he wants to keep from distributing his source in an RPM ? Including the install script below worked for me. python setup.py bdist_rpm --install-script=install.sh where install.sh is python setup.py install --root=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT ... http://www.pwan.org/wp/?p=47 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 ... http://www.pwan.org/wp/?p=41 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 ... http://www.pwan.org/wp/?p=33 I've been using the python-module-for-puppet to make sure my build environment machines have the python modules they need. The modules been working as advertised, but unfortunately some of machines need to be running older versions of a couple packages, so I forked the project and added support for an optional $version ... http://www.pwan.org/wp/?p=29 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 ... http://www.pwan.org/wp/?p=22 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 ... http://www.pwan.org/wp/?p=11 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. http://www.pwan.org/wp/?p=4