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Drupal python background server
Heres some code attached I wrote last year but havent published it on drupal.org just yet, it's my python background server for drupal actions, or put simply "Asynchronous python daemon for Drupal interaction"
Just perfect for managing actions that require long, cpu or filesystem intensive operations such as encrypting, building a file, or even interfacing with other hardware/usb/bluetooth etc etc
This is born out of the need to have aThe internet is expanding!
GOLD! Absolute genius
New drupal module: simplenews schedular ( reoccuring newsletters )
A simple but effective drupal newsletter module
Simplenews scheduler sends a newsletter as a re-occurring item based on a schedule.
Simplenews scheduler does so by creating a new "edition" (rendered copy) of a node at the time that it required to be sent again, the original newsletter is never sent but all editions are according to a pre-defined schedule, this is triggered via hook_cron
Normalizing your democracy / miro podcast volumes automatically
Heres a handy script I use to normalize and compress the audio in podcasts downloaded by my Democracy / Miro player.
This is much nicer when im sitting at my desk working and listening, i dont need to fiddle with the volume-knob mid sub-routine when i'm coding, very handy for smoothing out audio in news feeds where they have a loud news banner/jingle/intro sound followed by various voices.
This just runs at cronjob using 'normalize-audio' audio package
Looking at opensource desktop - part 2
As promised, I've emailed KDE. I think the questions here-in are pretty decent and something everyone who uses open-source desktop should be concerned about.
Looking at opensource desktop - part 1
I've been involved with Linux since around the 2.0.2x series kernels in around November 1996. Admittedly I was of pure hacker-mentality had no real idea of what it would take to run a business that depended on the desktop to perform it's duties, such as printing, saving, loading/retrieving, web-browsing, network file system connectivity. I was just happy to be able todo interesting stuff with my TCP stack and write my own software without having to fork-out big dollars for the experience.
Which PHP devel environment to use on AMD64 ?
That's it, I quit, I'm throwing Zend IDE in the bin, I almost considered paying for it after trialing it, until I moved to AMD64 platform, I'm sure the IDE itself is not to blame, but rather Java's stupid problems adopting 64bit architecture (can someone remind me what the point of java was in the first place?)
Yes, I've tried Zend IDE 5.5.1 for x64 and it still crashed or got other errors - no I dont care about playing with the JRE libraries, I'm payed to develop PHP web-apps not mess around with Java.
I got flash working on 64bit AMD under debian/linux !
Alright, it IS possible to get flash working, it's not THAT hard.
heres the s3kr3t - you need to use the nspluginwrapper util that lets you run stuff on a different architecture (not platform)
$ apt-cache search nspluginwrapper
nspluginwrapper - A wrapper to run Netscape plugins on other architectures
Grab the library .tar.gz from this adobe url
extract it, you'll find a .so in there, just move that flashlibrary.so to /usr/lib/
and then just run
Debian Lenny on the Dell Aspire 5520
Got a new laptop, my old acer's screen died after a couple of months of backpacking (including leaving the laptop under my tent at metal festivals, in my backpack at the front of 75000 crowd mosh pot etc) and rigorous work, i must say, they are pretty good value considering it supplies me with my yearly income, socialising, projects, hobbies etc.
minor glitch installing mysql 5 on lenny
Looks like the mysql system tables were missing on my fresh install of Debian Lenny on my Acer Aspire 5520 laptop.
just run mysql_install_db , after this you'll need to get your mysql debian credentials back in line, these are usually stored under /etc/mysql/ (this is so mysqladmin etc will work again)
/usr/bin/mysql_install_db
WARNING: The host 'nine' could not be looked up with resolveip.
This probably means that your libc libraries are not 100 % compatible
with this binary MySQL version. The MySQL daemon, mysqld, should work
