Archive for January, 2007

Quick Searches and Answers

Friday, January 12th, 2007

These are links associated with recent searches I’ve done. They’re not difficult enough to warrant to their own posts but you may still find them useful.

From .py to .deb on ShowMeDo
Making a debian package dealy from a Python script.

SVN to ICAL – Life of Brian Ray
The basics for converting your SVN logs to iCal format. I’m thinking from here you could even show your SVN logs on your Google calendar. That would be neat.

Google Help Center: How do I publish web content events using the iCal format?
How do I publish web content events using the iCal format?

WordPress Permalinks – Everything You Ever Wanted to Know
I changed Answer My Searches to “Pretty Permalinks” just now. I hope it will help with the Google.

Getting Listing of All Installed Programs – Ubuntu Forums
Here’s a handy way to get a list of everything you’ve installed in Ubuntu. It could be useful for knowing what you have in case you reinstall.

KeyScrambler Personal | Firefox Add-ons | Mozilla Corporation
This looks promising at least the concept. I’m not sure if it’s ready for prime-time yet. And how on earth does a FF extension access your kernel anyway??

Nearly Drop-in Javascript to add a Filter to a Table
I haven’t tried it yet but it looks promising especially since it might be hard for a javascript new bee to program this myself.

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

Add this post to Del.icio.us - Digg

How to Pronounce the Most Important Latin Phrase of Our Time

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

The phrase is:

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

In English it means; “Who will guard the guards?”

And here is the pronounciation. I can’t guarantee that it is correct but it was suggested by my friend who majored in Latin so it’s the best we can hope for:

Kwis kus-tow-de-at ip-soos kus-tow-des

If you want to verify his prounonciation, go knock yourself out on these informative Latin Pronouncation websites and leave a comment here to let us know what you find:
http://www.utexas.edu/courses/cc303/sounds/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_spelling_and_pronunciation
http://community.middlebury.edu/~harris/LatinBackground/Pronunciation.html

And feel free to comment on why this is or is not the most important Latin phrase of our time …

[tags]Latin, Quis, custodiet, ipsos, custodes, Quis custodiet ipsos custodes[/tags]

Posted in Other | Comments Off

Add this post to Del.icio.us - Digg

Quick Searches and Answers

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

These are links associated with recent searches I’ve done. They’re not difficult enough to warrant to their own posts but you may still find them useful.

Keyboard Blank Key-top Stickers
Blank keyboard stickers. We need these at my job. Believe it or not this took a few minutes of searching. Is it an obscure product? They also have white.

Tweak ubuntu for speed – TVease Wiki
6 tips on how to speed up Ubuntu. I’m not sure how safe they are though. I haven’t tried any of them yet.

Inheritance Trilogy – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
What book comes after “Eragon”? “Eldest”.

Driving Directions – Best Places to Get Free Driving Directions Online – Review of Mapquest Yahoo Google and Other Online Driving Directions Tools
A listing of all of the free driving direction websites out there. It’s on About.com so be prepared to be baraged with ads :-(

Google Maps API Tutorial – Getting Directions
Google’s route finding service is not available under the API. The only way to currently offer directions is to throw a request at maps.google.com, and have the results be displayed on a real Google map. This page should provide some resources on how to d

Posts tagged with wiki | Ask MetaFilter
I was searching for wiki engine reccomendations today and eventually ended up here. I’m going to reccomend this page as your first stop for ANY general wiki question.

Quantum Physics Double Slit Experiment – What The Bleep Movie – Google Video
I say, watching this short video is probably the easiest way for you to understand the basis of quantum mechanics. It’s a cartoon, so you’ll easily follow it.

Illustrations of Different types of RAID
Go here first to get your RAID knowledge.

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off

Add this post to Del.icio.us - Digg

Quick Searches and Answers

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007

These are links associated with recent searches I’ve done. They’re not difficult enough to warrant to their own posts but you may still find them useful.

SQL Server Performance Tuning / ADO Performance Tips
This was the page that finally speed up my SQL Server driven intranet site. Apparantly “adLockReadOnly” is pretty useful for the recordset object.

How do you know when to use “who” or “whom” in a sentence?
Answer: If you can replace a word with “he” or “she,” then it is the subject of the sentence and you should use “who.” If you can replace the word with “him” or “her,” it is the object and you should use “whom.” Read this page if that tip doesn’t help.

HOWTO – Manage multiple libraries in iTunes 7
Here’s something you may want to do in iTunes someday. I’m sure I’ll think of a reason eventually.

MythTV – How To: Changing Physical Locations (zip code and cable provider)
I ended up following these instructions and it seemed to change my location and cable listing just fine. It’s strange though, while MythTV worked fine for me using broadcast, cable was causing it to skip a lot. Dell L700cx=Too slow for MythTV

Comparing Python Unit Testing Frameworks – Google Groups: comp.lang.python
This is an interesting read for someone getting started in Python unit testing. My take from reading this is that pyunittest is more verbose but also more accepted and mature.

Excellent Python Unittest Example
This section of Dive into Python presents an easy to follow example of using unittest (pyunittest).

Agile Testing: Python unit testing part 1: the unittest module
A three part series introducing unit testing in Python.

pytest – a Python Unit Testing Framework
This is the URL for pytest which looks like a promising unit testing framework. Seems to be maturing too.

((An Unofficial) Python Tutorial Wiki)
A neat little Python tutorial.

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

Add this post to Del.icio.us - Digg

Newer Entries