Planet DebianPlanet Debian - http://planet.debian.org/Sandro Tosi: Debugging Python scripts- August 19, 2008 I was trying to squash a bug (for the reference, 494545) of reportbug and I felt I needed a tool to help me debugging that Python script.So googling up a bit, I came across pdb: it's a really powerful tool, and this guide helped me getting used to it (another one, with extended examples, is here).Whilst for sure the power of import pdb;pdb.set_trace() is huge and keep adding it in the right places let me fix the bug, but what I was really searching for was something like set -x for a shell...http://sandrotosi.blogspot.com/2008/08/debugging-python-scripts.html loldebian - Can I has a RC bug: Maximiliano Curia, LOLed by Diegote- August 19, 2008 Maximiliano Curia, LOLed by Diegotehttp://loldebian.wordpress.com/2008/08/19/beer-no-mor/ Biella Coleman: Anthropology ofin Circulation: The Future of Open Access and Scholarly Societies,- August 19, 2008 Anthropology and the social sciences in general are not at the forefront of thinking of open access in publishing but thanfkfully there is a crew of anthropologists who are thinking about such questions and have some insights about the (sorry) direction our national organization has decided to take. Read more ...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Interprete/~3/368570468/ Fabio Tranchitella: Looking for a laptop with a looong battery life- August 18, 2008 I'm looking for a new laptop to substitute my (very old) Acer Travelmate. I have a powerful desktop system in the office, so I'd use the laptop only when travelling. In fact, in the last months I started travelling a lot, going to Budapest visiting our customers at least once a week (6 hours of train back and forth) as well as spending at least one week in Italy every month (12 hours of train-airplane-train from Pecs, Hungary to Torino, Italy).For these reasons, I'm more interested in...http://kobold.it/blog/2008/08/looking-for-a-laptop-with-a-lo.html Junichi Uekawa: Running a unittest in C, for emacs, the simplest way.- August 18, 2008 Running a unittest in C, for emacs, the simplest way. I was looking at running a functional unittest for C, and there are so many tools available. I wrote a little emacs script which runs test_FILENAME.c via binfmtc in compile-mode, and running tests using good-old assert() macros. 'assert' macro output has the program name, which is the same as the C source file name when running binfmtc, and emacs compile mode doesn't like that. Hmmm.. and I found that auto-compile.el seems...http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/diary/daily/2008-Aug-19.html.en#2008-Aug-19-06:15:40 Jurij Smakov: DebConf8 impressions- August 18, 2008 What I liked Excellent organization, orga team fully deserved all the praise they got. Meeting people - it was the first DebConf I attended in person, so it was a pleasure to meet lots of folks whom I&8217;ve only known online before. Quite a few interesting talks (videos are available, or will be available shortly, in DebConf8 video archive). Particularly recommended: quality assurance talksBOFs by Lucas Nussbaum, BTS development progress by Don Armstrong, method diffusion in large volunteer..http://blog.wooyd.org/?p=12 Jeff Licquia: Standards and Conversations, Part 1- August 18, 2008 So it looks like the project I&8217;ve been laboring on has been getting some attention: Ever thought it was difficult to write software for Linux For multiple distros InternetNews reports that the LSB is making a push for their next release (due out later this year) that should help make all that much easier. They even link to our project status page. Cool! Of course, good publicity invites criticism. This time, there seem to be two themes. William Pitcock seems to have the most succinct...http://www.licquia.org/archives/2008/08/18/standards-and-conversations-part-1/ Benjamin Mako Hill: Charles Kane and Jim Gettys- August 18, 2008 I watched Citizen Kane several weeks ago and was shocked to learn that the major villian in the film is a political boss named Jim Gettys. Of course, a real Jim Gettys is a well known X Window System contributor who is currently working at an OLPC manager. Last night someone reminded me that OLPC's new President and COO -- who I'd always just thought of as Chuck -- is named Charles Kane! Here's a short clip from a video of the fictional Charles Kane giving a rather long speech decrying the...http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/20080818-00 Alexander Reichle-Schmehl: How to make my live easier...- August 18, 2008 ... (at least concerning the Debian Project News): Often when reading planet I notice something which might be interesting for the next issue of the Debian Project News. Often I don't write something up right now, but just add a link to that on the todo list. So when finally writing the DPN, I often end up with the link to a blog not mentioning to whom it belongs. It's quite difficult to write an article about someone bringing up a topic, without mentioning who it was ;) So pretty please:.http://blog.schmehl.info/Debian/dpn-how-to-make-our-live-easier Gintautas Miliauskas: Buffalo buffalo- August 18, 2008 "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is a gramatically correct sentence! See Wikipedia for an explanation.http://gintasm.blogspot.com/2008/08/buffalo-buffalo.html |