Category: Tech
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Resizing a Solaris partition
This was originally worked out when I had to resize a Solaris 10 partition under VMware, but it applies equally to native Solaris installs too! WARNING: This only really works, if you have one partition. This should be true if you’re using VMware, and for the majority of Solaris installations. Partition, here, is in the…
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Dynamically loading modules in Python
Have you wanted to load modules, when you didn’t know their name? I recently came across this problem while refactoring GoogleBot (my IRC bot). I wanted to place loadable modules in a directory, and have them all loaded, without having to know what they are named. A good fellow called Issac at work helped me…
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Clever advertising
I was standing around Ironforge tonight, about to log out of World of Warcraft, when gnomes started falling from the sky. “Huh, that’s never happened before”, I thought. As it happens, the gnomes were falling in a very particular pattern, and when they landed they died, leaving their bodies on the ground in pre-determined spots.…
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Phil Gordon comes to Google!
Phil Gordon, WSOP final table, World Poker Tour champion and former host of Celebrity Poker Showdown came to Google on Friday. We had our annual company picnic at the Shoreline Amphitheater, it was pretty decent. One of the highlights was a 150 person no-limit Texas hold ’em tournament. I don’t know how they pulled it…
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Our new puppy
Ginger went to sleep about a week ago 🙁 Brandy and the kids were incredibly sad, so now we have a new puppy in our house! You can read about her in Brandy’s blog, here.
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Net Neutrality in the Senate
The Senate will be discussing it’s own version of the telecommunications reform act, which passed through the House last week. The bill in the Senate differs slightly from the bill that passed the House. The Senate version currently has the FCC doing a study to determine if network operators are deliberately manipulating traffic crossing their…
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The House is lost, on to the Senate
A little late, but an update as promised. The COPE act did indeed pass the House, and the net-neutrality amendment was defeated. The short of the story is, that several representatives argued that a neutral Internet would pass too much of the cost of building tomorrow’s networks to consumers. Here’s what I would like to…
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Net Neutrality update
Tonight the House voted on the Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Enhancement (COPE) Act of 2006. This Act would create franchises of regions which were previously monopolised by cable companies. The bill would allow telecoms companies to much more easily sell cable programming to customers over their IP networks, for consumers to watch on their computers.…
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Net Neutrality
This isn’t a widely read blog (yet), but I’m hoping that someone will read this and get the word out as best as they can. In a few days, a bill will be presented in the House of Representatives, which could have quite serious and lasting repercussions on the Internet. The bill has been lobbied…
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Shortening URLs in Mailman
Mailman is a great mailing list manager, and tonight I learnt how to implement my own functions. Contrary to the FAQ, there is actually a really good way to extend the functionality of Mailman and it’s quite easy too. Mailman uses python scripts called handlers, which are kept in mailman/Mailman/Handlers/. Each script contains a method…
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