Shane Hathaway on April 9th, 2009

Ubuntu 9.04 is now in beta and I’m tempted to upgrade. I want to help test it. I even started “update-manager-kde -d”, but it warned me that since the new version is not yet fully tested, it could make my computer unstable, release a new strain of computer virus, kill babies, and reinstate [...]

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Shane Hathaway on April 8th, 2009

These step by step instructions describe how to install Plone on Ubuntu with RelStorage connected to MySQL as the main database. Familiarity with Linux systems administration is expected. Update: These instructions were revised in August 2009 for Plone 3.2.3 and RelStorage 1.2.0.

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Shane Hathaway on January 2nd, 2009

I’ve been using zc.buildout quite a bit over the past month.  Although it has been working, it has been doing strange things like using the wrong version of zope.interface.  Yesterday I finally figured out why, and today I found a possible solution.
It turns out that Ubuntu (8.10) provides a package called python-pkg-resources.  At least one [...]

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Shane Hathaway on December 17th, 2008

I recently bought a laptop for my new job.  I chose an HP dv9933cl, intending to install Ubuntu on it.  The verdict?  It’s great!  I bought it from CostCo rather than Newegg because I wanted to avoid shipping in case I needed to replace it, but so far I see no need to replace it.
It [...]

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