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Good of Society?

posted May 10th, 2008 @ 18:47:37

- tags: python , development

- comments: 0

I've disabled comments because I have some neat captcha-less ideas for how to tell bots to fuck the hell off from my comments section but I don't feel like implementing them for django. The new system (mostly homegrown glue w/ selector, beaker, mako & werkzeug thrown in) has been in heavy development the past few weeks and commenting should be available by the summer. Sorry Mike; now you've no reason to come here.

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Swap is good for computers

posted May 1st, 2008 @ 02:06:49

- tags: linux

- comments: 0

Or, using the distribution upgrade for Ubuntu to move from 7/10 to 8/4. I've tried on 2.5 machines so far. The full install, if you are using Ubuntu and have already downloaded the ~1GiB of package data, can still take around 45 minutes to an hour, and stopping halfway could seriously bork things beyond what a journeyman could repair.

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