Multithreaded Python scripts doesn’t always respond to signals. This is because it is not defined which thread will receive the signal. Also, it seems that if a thread is sleeping the signal might be interrupted altogether. The sympton of this that I saw the most often was that the script deadlocked and had to be [...]
I installed Ubuntu 7.10 on my stationary machine in an attempt to get it into a more working state, and I was very unhappy with the 7.10 version. The system kept freezing completely and not even the system recall key combos worked. After experimenting a bit I noticed that it happened whenever the machine was [...]
UPDATE: See this page for the latest version. I got my new cellphone yesterday and everything was bliss. I was happy. Everything was just great. I was impressed by the nice feel of it, the responsive interface and the form factor. Today, I wanted to transfer the contacts from laptop to the new phone and [...]
Today I had one realization. The customer is running OS X 10.3, and apple doesn’t officially support java 5.0 for anything else than OS X 10.4. I remembered having read that it is possible to do cross-compiling with javac. However, the cross compiling just means that you can link against the class files from one [...]
If you ever end up with a CD or DVD stuck in your Mac, and you can’t do a mechanical force eject because you don’t actually have a hole in which to poke your cdrom-drive through, you are still not without hope. The trick is to do a cold start with the computer (shut it [...]
