When you are making your Python code pep8 conformant or want to have a good pylint score and you are using vim, there are a few ways to make it easier and faster. First you need to know a bit about the vim option -q. -q takes a filename as a argument, and vim then [...]
Configuring the Buffalo WHR-HP-54G as a bridge is quite easy, given that you can get Tomato firmware on there. The default Buffalo firmware doesn’t support bridging or, I couldn’t find it. only thing I found was WDS bridging which is not what I want. Install Tomato You need to install an alternative firmware, fortunately most [...]
At work, I have been tasked with setting up a Linux terminal server to lighten the load of our exsisting Windows server. LTSP (Linux Terminal Server Project) is quite a nice piece of software. It makes good use of PXE netbooting, but it should also work with RDP. Get Suse Download the openSUSE-Edu-KIWI-LTSP-live-unstable.i686 iso from [...]
So, i have been using the G1 for some time now, and thought it was time for a somewhat more in depth review. I’m writing this post on my G1 with postbot. Lets start with the keyboard. The keyboard is quite comfortable, and I can almost type blind on it. I can feel where the [...]
Yesterday when I got home there was a nice present waiting for me. My G1 Phone arrived! I ripped open the packaging and found a phone that was smaller than I expected from the images from the internet. First tries Popping in the sim card and the battery was easy, turning it on was a [...]
I’ve been explaining myself a lot lately for my deep hate for the apple mighty mouse, so here is are a few points on why i hate it. Scroll wheel gets dirty and is hard to clean I have never had a mouse with a scrollwheel before where the wheel needed cleaning. Apple doesnt give [...]
Default argument values for functions are a nice shortcut in python. They save you from writing many wrapper functions and make the code more readable and also easier to use. They can be used wrong though: >>> def foo(a=[]): … a.append(‘bar’) … return a … >>> foo() ['bar'] >>> foo() ['bar', 'bar'] Like described in [...]
Aah Latex… A love hate relation ship. Working on my thesis I use the hyperref package for some nice linking support in my document. unfortunately this also causes them to get link boxes around them. Here’s the code to remove them: \usepackage[pdftex]{hyperref} \hypersetup{ colorlinks,% citecolor=black,% filecolor=black,% linkcolor=black,% urlcolor=black } This makes the links use colors [...]
Tagged color, frames, hyperref, latex, link, thesisI have always wanted to do some stuff with Pygame. When i saw the logo on the HAR2009 wiki I whipped up a little python program that draws squares and fades between colors. It looks pretty cool! Needed: Python, Pygame Downloads: har_squares [edit]Seems i have uploaded the wrong file… My apologies to the original writer. [...]
Tagged HAR, Pygame, Python