Projects are being referred to as “grenades” (“grenade” here is a fruit, or rather a seed, of the “grenade pod tree” so it’s all nice and good, have a look here, if in doubt). I’ll be tracking how each and every one of them progresses and will post an update on how they are doing. Again, I’m experimenting on two fronts here: a) project in itself is an experiment and b) all projects are part of a bigger project, which can be summarised as “how do I find my ways on the internet”.
Grenade #1: Upside Down Text plugin for WordPress
This little plugin introduces new tag (<upsidedown>, how obvious is that?) that you can use in your posts, pages and comments. Any text placed between the tags will get turned 180 degrees or effectively upside-down. This is achieved by using Unicode characters that resemble mirror images of the original latin letters.
Useful to “hide” text in posts, so for example if you ask questions, you have a possibility to provide answers, just like the newspapers do.
Grenade #2: System administrator’s quiz
A compilation of questions and topics that you can use to assess someone’s knowledge in system administration field. Wide variety of topics is covered here, from OS internals to scripting and even some programming. OS questions are primarily Linux (RedHat/CentOS/etc) related, but the questionnaire is constantly being updated with the new questions and I will most definitely include questions about other systems.
I want this to be a joint effort, so comments are open for each questions, please provide your answers and views of the problems.
Looks like you can have similar on the bike wheels
Haha try convincing airport security: “hey this is just a camera!”
truly point-and-shoot…
it is old news, but the car still looks dogs
nice post, thanks! I’ve never used generic views before – kept on writing my own, but I guess I need to try.
Thanks anyway, Jan
So the generic view can only display items from the same model, or can I pass another model to the template? Let’s say I want to display list of ingredients for a dish, but I also want to have a list of related recipes listed along? If that makes sense?
of course you can. add ‘extra_context’ entry to the dictionary and include as many as you like.
Your classes:
Your ‘queryset’ dictionary:
Hope this helps
it’s also worth mentioning that with create_update functions you can set ‘login_required’ to True. if you do that, Django will only allows these URLs for people that are logged in.
You also need to change the corresponding link id in link category, because it will still be referencing the old ID. If you don’t want to mess with DB, remove the link before you make this ID change, then re-add it again.
http://www.grenadepod.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/AP_103444.jpg is the killer
yeah that’s a good one, like the face expression – whatcha lookin’ at?…
Your approach is spot on. You may run into some issues after a while if your list of IP addresses becomes long. You may want to use the excellent jQuery Timers plugin to manage the ping operations via jQuery/AJAX. It’s the closest thing to threading in JavaScript.
Nizam, cheers for pointing out this plugin, I’ll have a read a bout it.
You mentioned that long lists might cause issues, is that because all requests will be processed in parallel? In which case using this plugin I could process them in streams, ie 10-20 at a time only, and then next batch, or something along those lines?
This is a really lame idea, my friend. I can’t understand why anyone would want to use this plug in. And WP has it listed as “most popular” (with 32 downloads).
Am I missing something?
This post needs some upside-down sentences, just to spice things up. Don’t you think? I mean what the hell, no one’s reading it anyway…
haha, i know, i know!
truth is, i was testing how well amazon localisation plugin works, so i had to write something, can’t just put some links and leave them. so now i have two links and a post…
and the lesson i learned was – some codes are country specific. which is a bugger, because the plugin would replace amazon url, and the local amazon shop would simply not have the product… for example dvd is not available in uk.
yes you are. on the internets “lame” usually means “popular”. must have learned it by now…
Bob, TBH, if you don’t like it – don’t use it. I find it quite amusing.
Nice write up, thanks for that!
Just wanted to say that your selection of front page pictures for articles is spot on!
thanks!
Frankly, I think it’s easy enough to copy/paste for those few times where you’ll want upside down text in your blog post. For most people I don’t think this makes much sense in a plugin, because it’s a feature you’ll only occasionally use. I think for those one or two maybe blog posts that you’d like partially upside down you could use a site like Flip Text Upside Down
were they actually allowed to wear stockings? i mean, statics and stuff?
Ahh, I know you’d wish to take them off, wouldn’t you?
I wish there were as many IT females these days. I think all the windows stuff puts them off – they seem to like hardcore stuff.
Cigarettes?! In the server room??!!
Thats some cool collection of very useful plugins buddy.
Thanks and keep up the good work.
I have included may of the above in my site.
Hey!
The link is http://chromeos-blog.com/download-chrome-os-usb-drive/ . At least I promise I didn’t change the code at all after downloading it from the repository. The new version seems to support more wireless network controllers than the version from the tarball that you describe.
Thanks for linking. I built a USB drive version of Chrome OS yesterday and somehow you can see me as a trusted source…
Bye!
hi, well comment re security is generic, i absolutely did not have anyone in particular in mind…
re recency of the build, there’s always an option to build off the development tree. but i somehow tend to be bit cautious about super fresh builds…
method two:
http://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/chromium-os/building-chromium-os/getting-the-chromium-os-source-code
Thank you for the nice write up. Have you tried creating an RPM for 2.7 python? Can I use the same instructions?
You also need to install the
bzip2-develpackage along with the other*-develpackages if you want to get the standard Pythonbz2module. There’s no fatal warning about that module being skipped, just a warning message, which it can get buried in the noise.Any change of an update??
more make_local_repo.sh
#!/bin/bash
# This script is no longer needed. This stub is here to avoid immediate
# buildbot breakage and will be removed soon.
exit 0
Eddie, yup seen that one… I’ll be making a new manual soon. Thanks for pointing that out though!
Thanks for the tutorial, I think I’ll apply this to my future projects.
Just blowing some time on Digg and I found your article . Not normally what I like to read about, but it was definitely worth my time. Thanks.
zlib-develis one you might want to include as well. And those without access to therpmdevtoolspackage can usemkdir -p $HOME/rpmbuild/{SOURCES,SPECS,BUILD,SRPMS,RPMS} echo "%_topdir $HOME/rpmbuild" >>$HOME/.rpmmacrosinstead of the
rpmdev-setuptreecommand.It appears the configure/make/make install go okay but the build fails with the following. I can’t find any other errors than this.
+ rm -f mainpkg.files + find /var/tmp/python2.6-2.6.4-root-dkorz/usr/lib64/python2.6/lib-dynload -type f + sed 's|^/var/tmp/python2.6-2.6.4-root-dkorz|/|' + grep -v -e '_tkinter.so$' error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.34472 (%install) RPM build errors: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.34472 (%install)Something is not right building on a 64-bit system. lib64/python2.6/lib-dynload is empty; lib/python2.6/lib-dynload has all the .so files. The commands to build mainpkg.files fail due to this. Doing a configure/make/make install results in only {prefix}/lib (no lib64). It seems %{libdirname} is either being set incorrectly or is being used in places it shouldn’t be.
I’m running CentOS 5.4 x86_64 and building Python 2.6.4.
David, you’re right, this only produces 32 bit version. If you need 64 you need to change some build files, so that they point to lib64 instead of lib. I’m working on a patch at the moment, will add it to the page soon, check back in a few days.
What might be required to get the equivalent of make altinstall?
Try this:
http://www.givemebackmygoogle.com/
It appends the following to your google search keywords to filter out a lot of the crap:
-inurl:(kelkoo|bizrate|pixmania|dealtime|pricerunner|dooyoo|pricegrabber|pricewatch|resellerratings|ebay|shopbot|comparestoreprices|ciao|unbeatable|shopping|epinions|nextag|buy|bestwebbuys
Thanks for your post. I am new at development and this will be a big help.
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Any progress on the 64 bit version?