great guide for building a livecd from an existing linux distribution

it was relatively easy to build a livecd from a custom ubuntu distribution built using debootstrap following these directions:
http://www.remastersys.klikit-linux.com/capink.html

pycon 2008 – day 1

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 for this for parsing binary [...]