http://blog.eugeneoden.com random ramblings about nerdy things Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:16:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en if you ever need to rebuild an ubuntu kernel beware when using their supplied config file from /boot/config-$(uname -r) i went through this exercise recently and wasted quite a bit of time trying to figure out why my new kernel package including modules was over 700mb uncompressed when the original package ... http://blog.eugeneoden.com/2008/07/30/disable-kernel-debugging-before-using-ubuntus-kernel-config/ my coworker, dan smith, recently expressed frustration with apple's lack of bulk message deletion in the iphone sms app.  sometimes our monitoring scripts go a little crazy and send hundreds of emails to us when things go wrong and its extremely tedious to delete these extra useless messages one at ... http://blog.eugeneoden.com/2008/07/28/script-to-delete-all-iphone-sms-messages/ after holding out and suffering with my treo 650 through the launch of the first iphone i couldn't help myself when the iphone 3g came out and had to get one. it's awesome. sure, it crashes at least once a day, apps randomly stop working, it doesn't record video or send/receive mms, ... http://blog.eugeneoden.com/2008/07/26/my-favorite-iphone-apps/ i'm a big fan of automated unit tests. my preferred testing utility is py.test. for most things it works pretty well and its super easy to use. threads are tricky to deal with but especially while trying to test them if you have a lot going on at the ... http://blog.eugeneoden.com/2008/05/12/testing-threads-with-pytest/ add this to ~/.vimrc: if $TERM=='screen' exe "set title titlestring=vim:%f" exe "set title t_ts=\<ESC>k t_fs=\<ESC>\\" endif and vim will automatically set the title of screen windows to: vim:<file opened> thanks go to: http://gunkies.org/blog/?p=19 http://blog.eugeneoden.com/2008/04/22/awesome-screen-vim-hack/ made it back home yesterday with only a 45 minute delay after nearly getting stuck in san antonio because of bad weather in austin. i hung out in the bazaar/olpc sprint room monday. i'm pretty new to bazaar and wasn't really able to contribute anything but i spent the time ... http://blog.eugeneoden.com/2008/03/19/back-home-from-pycon/ the first keynote address was really good, calling for an easier way of getting a standardized python distribution on windows to make it easier to distribute single python scripts. the second keynote address, snake charming the dragon, was also good but dragged on a little too long with perhaps ... http://blog.eugeneoden.com/2008/03/16/pycon-2008-day-3/ some of the keynotes from this morning were great. others, less than exciting - informative at best. i used the time to check out allmydata.org's tahoe distributed filesystem, connecting to an ad-hoc p2p network started by other pycon participants. cool stuff. i haven't quite figured out ... http://blog.eugeneoden.com/2008/03/15/pycon-2008-day-2/ day 1 of pycon 2008 is wrapping up.  i'd say it turned out pretty well.  aside from wireless issues and some minor registration problems everything seemed to run smoothly and on schedule. all of the talks i attended were interesting: buffer interface in py3k - nice idea - might have some use ... http://blog.eugeneoden.com/2008/03/14/pycon-2008-day-1/ since my last post i've made some progress with my bitbake recipe to build the pjsip project for openmoko. the first problem i ran into with the install was bitbake complaining that files from a .svn subdirectory from the source tree couldn't be installed because of a permission problem. those ... http://blog.eugeneoden.com/2008/02/28/adding-pjsip-to-my-openmoko-overlay-part-2/