On May 9th from 4 – 7 PM (EST) the Ubuntu Kentucky LoCo along with the Blue Grass Linux User Group will be hosting a release party for Jaunty Jackalope. The event will be held at Tates Creek Christian Church in Lexington Ky and is open to the public. There is a facebook event for the party to help us know a rough number of how many to expect. With any luck I will have received the CDs that we ordered and will be able to pass them all out to those that come.
Event Flyer
Map to the event:
Some days it is just great to bring the kids to the office with you. This past Saturday I brought the whole family in for a few minutes so I could pick up something that I had forgotten and this is what my daughter wrote on my board.
White board message
Man I love being a dad.
After two long years of being a single car household my wife and I were finally able to purchase two vehicles. The van that we had was on it’s last leg and we were no longer comfortable driving it. It has been quite a while since we were in a position where we could make a purchase like this so it was pretty scarey signing on that line. However it did feel pretty good this morning driving my own car to work.
We purchased both of these from Enterprise Car Sales and I highly recommend them if you are in the market for a new vehicle. The entire process was very easy and pressure free.
On the last Free Linux Help Line show both I and another caller had an issue with getting an older model ATI card (ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV250 [Mobility FireGL 9000] in my case) to work with recent releases of the distros we like to use. I was able to find someone who was able to point me in the right direction to get it working though. Basically you have to set:
Option "AGPMode" "1"
in the Device section of your xorg.conf. Once you have that then you can safely set the driver to be “ati”. I have tested this on both Debian Lenny and Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS. Note that this will really only work after the you get Linux installed on the system. In my case I used the alternate CD for Ubuntu to get it going.
More information can be found on the following pages:
I first got introduced to Python a few years go. Between now and then I mostly did some hackish scripts solving various small problems that me or my colleagues had. It has not been until recently that I started writing something that can remotely be called serious stuff that often makes its way to production environment.
I recently got my hands on a copy of Python for Unix and Linux System Administration. After reading it, I felt the time I’ve invested in reading it was well spent. The author introduced the reader to many different situations where python would help make their lives as system administrators easier, without confusing the reader with some complex forms or statements. My feeling is that this book is aimed at people who want to use Python to solve their problems quickly and efficiently, but only have a limited experience with the language – and the books fits that purpose well with its rather superficial approach that the reader can later extend later on with various available resources. It would only be fair that I too mention some of the shortcomings that I noticed while reading this book.
Pros:
Cons:
When all is said and done I think I would recommend the book to others if I knew that they had at least some background with Python. And I would highly recommend that they check the addendum and errata pages.
