640 GB, 7200 RPM, 32 MB cache, 5 year warranty: $75 ($0.12/GB), free shipping. It’s almost too good to be true.
Still, the best drive for MythTV is Western Digital’s low power series. I’ve been using the 750GB GP model with MythTV for about a year now and it has been silent and completely reliable the [...]
The 3D printer is working and I’ve begun calibrating it. There’s still a lot of tweaking to do, but now I can finally watch the whole process in action!
All of these are done with ABS. This is a chronological sequence. On the left, the extruder nozzle was too high above the bed and the ABS [...]
I just posted the detailed bill of materials for the hardware and electronics in my Rep(St)rap. Most of the lines have a comment. The comments and URLs would have made this whole process a lot easier for me, so I hope the spreadsheet helps someone else!
This is the first time I’ve used Google Docs and [...]
What if I were to take a Plone install, delete all of the Zope 2 code (leaving mainly Zope 3 stuff), then mangle the code (including CMF) until Plone works again?
I know I’m foolish for saying this, but my intuition tells me I could actually do it, especially if I got a lot of help [...]
I never noticed before that if I open a Konqueror window, point it at an SFTP location, navigate to an image, and right click to open that image using GIMP, that GIMP retrieves from the SFTP URL directly. When I save that image, GIMP saves it directly to the server. Sweet! That means I can [...]
Over the past couple of months, I have been working to make it easy for administrators to create and maintain a complex security policy for a giant archive of digital artifacts. In the process, I think I have found a useful way to configure complex software systems such as Zope 3.
A Security Policy for Dead [...]
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I put together my fourth heater on Friday and Saturday. It worked fine for a while; I was able to extrude both HDPE and ABS! However, after I allowed the plastic to cool in the extruder, I could not get the extruder to drive the plastic again, no matter how hot I melted it. I [...]
I listened to the Doug Wright Show this morning. He was adamant that all voters should vote for a “viable” candidate rather than the candidate they believe to be best fit for office. He claimed it is more important than ever to vote strategically in the upcoming election.
No matter how I vote (and how all [...]
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It turns out I am supposed to unleash my inner dork. In other words, I should write about my passion.
I am passionate about building a family business. That’s what Willowrise is. We have plenty of skills and talent, but we’re still working out how to present our skills to the world. We’re certainly not a [...]
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Before I release RelStorage 1.1, I believe I should set up a complete test environment. The test environment will test different versions of Python, ZODB, the supported databases, and the supported database adapters.
I started by installing buildbot, hoping it would solve most of the problem for me. However, I wanted a builder that would check [...]