LUFS lets you run Linux filesystems as user-space programs. LUFS-Python lets you implement such filesystems in pure Python. Can you imagine the possibilities? (Thanks to Ian Bicking for the link, and Simon Willison for hosting an interesting discussion.)
Next question: Is there a way to integrate LUFS-Python scripts with the Twisted event loop?
To all newly engaged people, event planners, and especially web crawling bots: If you’re looking for a non-traditional wedding photographer in the Southern Maine area, I encourage you to check out Hannah Fettig Photography. Hannah is a nice person, she takes beautiful photographs, and she’ll make your wedding day more fun. Thank you.
Today while reading Slashdot I came accross this reference to (or, if you prefer, shameless self promotion of)MusicMobs.org. MusicMobs is a site where you upload your iTunes xml file, which contains your complete library playlist and metadata. Then you can compare it to the playlists of other people.
The site is in beta currently, and there are some obvious features missing, like direct links to the iTunes music store (which I’ve already already suggested to the site admin via email). But it already seems like a good way to find new music to listen to. Actually, there are a whole lot of interesting things you could do with that data. Brilliant idea.
I’m in San Diego this week, courtesy of my employer, to attend the TDWI world conference. I’m blogging my notes from the conference for my workmates back home, but on a private page, so I can freely discuss how what I’m learning specifically applies to my work projects.
I was curious to see if there would be WiFi at the conference site – it seems like all the conferences I’ve read about lately have wireless access – but there isn’t. Not many laptops, either. But this is more of the corporate IT crowd, not many bloggers or hardcore internet people.
Fortunately it seems like there is WiFi everywhere else in this town – at the train station when we got in, on the balcony of our hotel room, and at the cafe where I ate lunch today.
Anyhow, it’s another busy week for me, so posting will be light.
Whew. After many hours of work, I’ve got this newer, nicer version of fettig.net up and running. Some URLs have changed (for the better), but I’ve tried to set up redirects for all the old pages, so hopefully nothing will be broken. The design is a work in progress. I’ll continue to tweak things in the coming days and weeks.
This redesign incorporates a lot of the things I’ve learned about the web over the last year. I’ll have to wait to explain these changes in detail, though – at the moment I’m wiped right out.
If you notice anything broken, please leave a note in the comments so I can fix it. Thanks.
iTunes for Windows is here. Hooray – finally a jukebox for Windows that
works like it should. Th-th-th-e-e-re’s o-o-o-n-ly one li-li-lit-le
pro-ro-rob-roblem: every time you go launch another program, or do anything
that ties up the hard drive for a few seconds, iTunes skips and stutters like
crazy.
Fortunately, there’s a fix for this issue. Quit iTunes, open QuickTime preferences in
the Windows control panel, choose “Sound Out”, and change the playback device
from DirectSound to waveOut. Close QuickTime Settings, restart iTunes.
No more skipping.
(Thanks to the Apple Quicktime for Windows Discussion Group for providing
this solution.)
There’s a lot happening behind the scenes here at fettig.net. I’m working
on a complete overhaul of this site, creating a better environment for
myself to write and work in. Meanwhile, ideas and updates
are queueing, waiting for the new site to go live before they can be
published. Expect a burst of writing once I get the new
site running, perhaps this weekend.
If you’re reading this, it means that fettig.net has successfully moved
to its new home – a virtual server hosted by
tummy.com. I wasn’t particularly
unhappy with my old host, but at $25/month for a whole virtual server, this
was too good a deal to pass up (thanks to the Twisted mailing list for
mentioning tummy.com, and thanks to tummy.com for hosting cvs.twistedmatrix.com
for free, which got them mentioned on the mailing list)
So now I have a my own little server, running Debian Linux, on which I’m free
to install my own software, run funky server processes, and pretty much
do whatever I want within the limits of the disk space and bandwidth I’ve been
allocated. Of course, the server itself only exists in software, but that’s
no concern of mine :-).
So far the service has been a dream. My server was up and running within five
minutes of filling out the order form, the connection is fast, and I’ve had
no problems with downtime. The customer
service has been very good, too. I wasn’t expecting to get any help with
administration –
my server, my job to keep up with
security updates – so I was highly impressed when, only a few hours after the news
broke about the ssh security flaw, I recieved an email from the tummy.com
people informing me about the problem and listing step-by-step instructions for
updating the ssh server on Red Hat and Debian.
I’m quite excited about the possibilities raised by having my own server again.
Stay tuned.
Oy. My day job is eating up way too much of my time and energy these days. I really want to work on Hep, and I’m tantalizingly close to getting a number of cool features up and running. But I have so little time, and after my work week all I want to do is rest up and do non-computer things so that I’ll be refreshed and ready to face my cubicle come Monday.
So, alas, this will probably be another quiet week for Hep development. Then the next week I’ll be on vacation, so I won’t be posting here or answering e-mail. I’ll be back on the 15th, at which point I’ll have some catching up to do at the old day job. So most of September is shot as far as being able to work on my personal projects. Sorry, folks.
A number of people have emailed me recently to report that Hep 0.3.3 breaks
after they upgrade Twisted to a version higher than (approximately) 1.0.2.
My response up to this point has been “downgrade to Twisted 1.0.2″ (and these
users have been kind enough to do so without complaining), but I finally
took the time to figure out exactly what broke, and fix it. So now you
can run Hep 0.3.3 with the latest version of Twisted – just download
and copy it over the pop3.py in your hep/servers/ directory.
(Thanks to Luc Stepniewski for the
email that nudged me over the edge towards fixing the problem, and for
testing the patch).