Fedora

At the end of August, Cherie and I (and the cats) will be moving to Toronto. I’ll still be working with Red Hat on RHN; we just decided it was time to return to our own Country. It should be good times. »

Last Sunday was Canada Day. Cherie and I celebrated with some homemade poutine and fine Canadian beverages. »

While discussing a new software feature, I made the following typo: 17:56 <@jbowes> and then people would use it, and then we'd have to paintain it 17:56 <@jbowes> i meant to type maintain, but that word is awesome I think paintain aptly describes what many of us do daily. »

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Today was a good day, TCB-wise: I finished reading Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman. There are a few really terrible entries in this collection of short stories, but mostly it’s a good read. Upgraded this blog to the latest Wordpress, and switched to the veryplaintxt theme. I’m enjoying the minimalist theme, but Wordpress appears to have eaten a lot of my tags. Submitted Elixir for inclusion in Fedora. Elixir puts an Active Record layer on top of SQLAlchemy, meaning you can do SQLObject-like things with better database support. »

I like using gnome-terminal, but I find the default fonts hard on my eyes. So I don’t forget (and for anyone who is interested), here are the steps to use xterm’s default font in gnome-terminal: As root, run yum -y install bitmap-fonts As root, run ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.avail/70-yes-bitmaps.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/. Close all open gnome-terminal windows. Launch gnome-terminal and edit the current profile. Uncheck ‘Use the system fixed width font’ and click on the font button. »

Thanks to skvidal for adding me to Planet Fedora. A bit about myself: By day I work on Red Hat Network By night I work on yum My hackergotchi’s hair is not to scale. »

I needed to process some IP addresses the other day to associate them with their originating Country. I implemented the code in Python (as usual), and decided to try out Hostip for the IP address to Country mappings. Hostip provides freely downloadable bdb data files (along with a mysql db and a CSV file). Using the bdb files isn’t straightforward, so here is a general recipe for consuming them: Download the bdb files from hostip. »

fold - wrap each input line to fit in specified width Great for when your text editor is being stupid. »

<@[kryptos](http://dgoodwin.dangerouslyinc.com)> hey i'm 4500 lines of python spaghetti code! stick some bugs in me! Bonus points for anyone who can guess what he’s talking about. »