Kategorie: linux
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Snake-o-matic
During my final diploma thesis, I need to collect a lot of data. Something like website-scraping, though a little bit different. Anyway, I needed (and still do need) some scripting language. I could have taken Perl, PHP, Ruby, … But no, there is also a snake present – so I decided to use Python as…
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Good news in linux-land
I have already mentioned earlier, that my new laptop and Fedora (back then in version 8) work quite flawlessly together. Things are always on a move, and since that other post, Fedora has been moving forward and it was released in version 9, codename Sulphur. The change delivered several improvements. For me particularily useful are…
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April, 1st
It’s joke time. This came on the fedora-devel list this morning: Subject: rawhide special report: 20080401 changes Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 12:08:17 +0000 (UTC) (14:08 CEST) New package apt Advanced front-end for dpkg New package dpkg Package maintenance system for Debian Removed package rpm Removed package yum Updated Packages: […] Funny 🙂
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Weltherrschaft aus dem Norden
Nachdem es ja schon klar ist, dass Finnisch Weltsprache wird, jetzt der nächste Schritt: Salmiakki, das Weltgetränk! Zumindest in der MySQL-Welt. Und die ist groß! 🙂 (danke an Kristian für die Anleitung)
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I wish I had internet
This: — google.com ping statistics — 49 packets transmitted, 30 received, 38% packet loss, time 54259ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1288.705/2175.903/3347.027/364.736 ms, pipe 4 really makes me want back my internet at home. But a good reason to finally install and configure presto. For the sake of all the poor Linux users, who do not have…