Urwid on a Crystalfontz 635 LCD
The development version of Urwid now has support for display and input on a Crystalfontz 635 LCD panel. These are small LCD screens that fit in a PC's 5¼" drive bay. They have six buttons, four...
View ArticleUrwid at OSCON and LinuxFest Northwest
Rob Lanphier will be giving talks relating to Urwid at OSCON and LinuxFest Northwest: LinuxFest Northwest Bellingham, WA, April 24-25 (Exact time TBD) Using Urwid and Python Console...
View ArticleGood Linux Games
LWN.net just published an article listing some good Linux games (comments possibly even better than the article). I'm posting this here so I can find it again when I have the time to waste.
View ArticleWD HDD lying about 4K sectors
Many hard drives available today have 4K physical sectors instead of the old standard 512-byte sectors. The larger sectors allow the manufacturers to save space required for error correction, so they...
View ArticlePython Talk at OCLUG on Tuesday
I will be giving a talk on Python 2 and Python 3 at the Ottawa Canada Linux Users Group meeting on Tuesday. Hope to see you there.
View ArticlePython 2 and 3 Slides
Catching up on some more old business: here are the slides from the Python 2 and Python 3 talk I gave at last month's OCLUG meeting. I am also preparing some Python tutorials for the upcoming 2011...
View ArticlePython 3 Argument Sketch Slides
Here are the slides from my Python talk at OLS this afternoon.
View ArticleRecording Both Sides of a Call
I set up a VM to present software to a client remotely, but I needed a way to record both the audio in and out so that I could capture both my presentation and the client's questions. In the past I've...
View ArticleSpeedometer 2.8 Released
This release adds the long-requested linear scale feature to Speedometer. You can now also adjust the minimum and maximum values displayed, and switch all units shown to bits per second. Speedometer...
View ArticleSuper Meat Boy with Reconfigured Keys
The Humble Indie Bundle #4 was nice enough to bring Super Meat Boy and a bunch of other great games to Linux. The SMB people however seem to want to punish you for playing on a keyboard and leave you...
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