We had a Microsoft salesperson stop at our offices today to tell people about wonders of cloud computing and Microsoft’s Azure will save us all. The following is a short and non-exhaustive list of what Azure does not do according to their own experts: no Infrastructure as a Service – which means that they actually [...]
subj. don’t mix – just upgraded a simple Ubuntu 9.10 to Ubuntu 10.04 and it failed to boot. After careful examination, it looks that something replaced the munt line of my NTFS partition in the /etc/fstab and claimed that it is a VFAT partition and ‘mountall’ that is run during boot gets very, very confused [...]
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
This has robbed me of several days of my life, so I want to bring Google juice this this problem. IF you have a Pylons or TurboGears application or anything else that uses the fantastic EvalException WSGI middleware for web debugging of you web program and have the following symptom: * on a crash the [...]
Want a definition of a paper cut bug? Here it is. And here and here are two more side effects of the same bug. The original bug report will be 6 years old in a month. Can we do something to prevent this bug surviving that long?
My primary workstation is a 3 and a half year old Dell XPS M1710 laptop and it is getting old – the 320 Gb hard drive is getting small and slow, the 3 Gb or RAM (expanded from 2 Gb) look too small and screen is turning brown in one corner. Also dead or dying: [...]
Saturday, October 24, 2009
To get more Google juice to the problem. If you are trying qemu or libvirt or kvm or virt-manager and when you are starting up your second guest you see a message such like this: QEMU quit during console startup bind() failed Then two of your guests have the same port set for their VNC [...]
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Some time ago I wrote a test post with a Google Wave embedded into the post. Only a couple days ago I discovered that to make a Wave public one needs to add public@a.gwave.com as a participant to the wave. I did that and the Wave became visible also to people without Wave accounts. But [...]
Hello all, the latest craze is the Google Wave preview. I am in, so I am testing how a Google Wave will look when primitively embedded into a blog post using Wavr plugin for WordPress. And here it is: Update: to make it work – replace in the Wavr source the URL to the WavePanel [...]
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Matt, if you want to have something Pythonic that is as comprehensive as Rails is, look at TurboGears. Look at version 2.0 that is currently is in beta. The documentation is incomplete, but it is rather usable already. It is built around Pylons providing a neat pre-configured package of everything you need to develop a [...]
Sunday, December 21, 2008
What does it sound like when a commission is reinventing a wheel? Much like this. Guys, the technology you are looking for is called (*gasp*) a forum, with moderators and poster carma and such … It would not be too hard to implement a gateway that would receive emails posted to any list and republish [...]
