Cloud Ready, or the blog formerly known as PyFly

Moving day

2011-10-13T08:23:00.000-07:00

I've moved to a new domain: cloud-ready.blogspot,com. All 5 of my posts are linked to there as well. Feel free to continue this journey with me over there.

Aimbot

2011-09-12T08:25:00.000-07:00

I responded today to the Aimbot that keeps trying to IM me. I had never done so before, and wanted to see what they would do. The following is a transcript of our conversation (with anasan26.) I love the internet.

Friday, August 19, 2011		3:24
anasan26	hello?		3:24
	Thursday, August 25, 2011		12:51
anasan26	hey.		12:51
anasan26	hello?		1:21
Chris DiMartino	?		3:20
	Sunday, August 28, 2011		4:50
anasan26	hi!		4:50
anasan26	hello?		5:19
	Monday, September 5, 2011		11:27
anasan26	heya.		11:27
anasan26	hello?		11:56
	Monday, September 12, 2011		11:16
anasan26	hi!		11:16
Chris DiMartino	hi!		11:16
anasan26	hey how are you today?		11:17
Chris DiMartino	I'm swell! Hey how are you today?		11:17
anasan26	I feel fabulous		11:17
Chris DiMartino	As do I! Fabulous indeed!		11:17
Chris DiMartino	do you prefer monkeys?		11:18
anasan26	i cant remember if we have talked before? 24f here. u?		11:18
Chris DiMartino	45l		11:18
Chris DiMartino	u?		11:18
anasan26	oh... well whats up?		11:18
Chris DiMartino	tiles		11:18
anasan26	cool. im so bored. theres nothing to do. any suggestions?		11:18
Chris DiMartino	what suggestions do you have? How cool is it?		11:19
anasan26	i got a idea. . i want be a stripper. but i dont know if im good enough		11:19
anasan26	do you want to watch me strip on cam and tell me if im good enough?		11:19
Chris DiMartino	I like fishing		11:19
Chris DiMartino	and monkeys		11:19
anasan26	ok you got to signup on this site so i can be sure your not a kid		11:20
Chris DiMartino	preferably together		11:20
anasan26	is that ok with you babe?		11:20
Chris DiMartino	are you an orangutan		11:20
Chris DiMartino	?		11:20
anasan26	k babe just go here http://<naughty link goes here>		11:20
Chris DiMartino	is that a yes?!		11:20
anasan26	then at the top click the goId JOIN FREE button and make a login ok?		11:20
Chris DiMartino	gorilla?		11:20
anasan26	oh and one more thing. it does ask for a credit card but but it dosent charge the card at all		11:21
anasan26	its just to make sure that your over 18 ok?		11:21
Chris DiMartino	does it take travelers cheques?		11:21
anasan26	k babe well hurry up so we can have some fun.		11:21
Chris DiMartino	can I use my library card?		11:21
anasan26	and if you want to have some naughty fun then just take me in private or tip me some gold.		11:21
Chris DiMartino	I		11:21
Chris DiMartino	I'm going to play farmville now		11:22
anasan26	lets talk on the site my aim keeps messing up.		11:22
Chris DiMartino	with monkeys

OsX Lion, cx_Oracle, and pain

2011-05-24T13:54:00.000-07:00

Fought all afternoon trying to get cx_Oracle to play nicely with OsX Lion DP3. It seems that the x86_64 libclntsh.dylib.10.1 library is segfaulting for some reason in Lion. Finally figured out a solution - install only the i386 libraries, and then force OsX to prefer the i386 library version (though this is a universal setting, so it is not the best solution).

defaults write com.apple.versioner.python Prefer-32-Bit -bool yes

or via shell var:

export VERSIONER_PYTHON_PREFER_32_BIT=yes

Upgrading to Natty Narwhal

2011-04-06T07:40:00.000-07:00

I'm in-process currently on the upgrade from Ubuntu 10.10 -> 11.04 (beta). I love that (almost) all Ubuntu upgrades tend to go smoothly. Let's hope I'm not shooting myself in the foot by making that statement.

Natty marks the shift from Gnome to Unity as the default desktop for the OS of choice for many a geek. I'm not sure that I'll be making the jump... I have a lot of muscle memory invested in shortcuts for compiz. Some call it eye candy, but I very much use the compositing features in my work flow. Grouping/Tabbing windows is a godsend on my 13" Macbook Pro screen, where real-estate is definitely at a premium. And call me silly, but I now find that windows that don't "wobble" feel somewhat incomplete... an ersatz, juvenile imitation of a window.

Anyways, hopefully my upgrade is painless and has some nice new features to play with.

Ubuntu 10.10 + Liquorix == ZOOM

2011-02-10T05:50:00.000-08:00

I've been craving getting my hands on a kernel running 2.6.37 (big power saving bugfix in there) with the awesome AUTOGROUP patch applied. I was about to start down the path of building my own kernel from kernel.org with all of the ubuntu patches and fixes applied. A daunting task... I don't really have time for that!

I came across the Liquorix repo, and decided to give it a try. They are a "distro replacement kernel" repo. They take the latest and greatest patches and apply them to the kernel to make an ultimate replacement kernel for desktop use.

So far, results have been good. My only complaint currently is that cpu frequency scaling was disabled in this kernel for most modules, in turn causing my core2 duo proc not to scale. Regardless, the battery life has been better than it was on 2.6.35 with frequency scaling enabled. I'll be rebuilding the liquorix kernel with the frequency scaling reenabled soon.