Category Archives: Geekery

Testing with Python 2.4 on Ubuntu 10.10

Posted on February 3, 2011 by Anthony Batchelor

Recently I needed to test a Django app under Python 2.4. I’m using Ubuntu 10.10 and the lowest packaged version of Python in the repositories is 2.6. I decided to compile Python 2.4 myself and use it in a virtualenv … Continue reading →

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Using Django FormWizard in a view

Posted on January 2, 2011 by Anthony Batchelor

I recently needed to use a Django form wizard from a view. I needed it in a view as I had some permissions that I needed to check and also wanted to supply some initial data as the form would … Continue reading →

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Moving from Slicehost to Linode

Posted on November 15, 2010 by Anthony Batchelor

Spent the weekend moving HairCrazy from Slicehost to Linode. A few times over the past year and a bit, we’ve had issues with high steal times on Slicehost, with the only cure being to move to another host server (and … Continue reading →

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Netbooks

Posted on October 30, 2010 by Anthony Batchelor

I’ve been thinking about buying a laptop or a netbook recently. I like the idea of a netbook but was a bit worried that it would be too small, crappy and underpowered. Today I got to play with David’s Samsung … Continue reading →

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Of Fonts and Typography

Posted on October 12, 2010 by Anthony Batchelor

Recently, I wanted to use some nice @font-face on a website. When I was looking around I stumbled on Font Squirrel’s generator that packages up the fonts for you nicely, and auto-generates the proper CSS for their use. Nice. I … Continue reading →

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Speeding up Liferea

Posted on August 21, 2009 by Anthony Batchelor

Liferea was taking a couple of minutes to open for me, so I thought I’d look for a solution to that. I have >100 feeds, but I’m not about to cut the amount down (not addicted, honest). Liferea stores a … Continue reading →

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Handy Hints: Emptying log files

Posted on April 16, 2009 by Anthony Batchelor

When emptying log files, don’t just rm log_file.log as the disk space won’t be freed until the application that is logging is restarted. It is better to use > log_file.log as that will allow the file system to free the … Continue reading →

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Handy Hints: What is using up my disk space?

Posted on April 6, 2009 by Anthony Batchelor

Here are some commands I use to find out what is eating all of my disk space on a remote server: df -h Shows how much disk space is available. The -h means that you get G for gigabytes, M … Continue reading →

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git-svn new branches don’t show up…

Posted on February 23, 2009 by Anthony Batchelor

Working with git-svn I noticed that new branched didn’t show up when I did the usual git svn rebase to get the remote changes. After a bit of searching and not coming up with much, I worked out that git … Continue reading →

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Enabling bash/git auto-completion in Ubuntu

Posted on February 19, 2009 by Anthony Batchelor

I now use git quite a lot for various projects.  I noticed that on one computer I had very handy tab completion, and the other one did not.  They are both running Ubuntu 8.10, so there shouldn’t be a difference. … Continue reading →

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