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Book review: Python 3 for Absolute Beginners

Python 3 for Absolute Beginners, Tim Hall and J-P Stacey, Apress (ISBN: 978-1-4302-1632-2)

Disclaimer: I was asked to review this book through the Hampshire Linux User Group. I did not receive any instruction for the outcome of the review nor any payment for the review (though I did get to keep the book).

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dpatch – using patch files in Debian packaging

I do a fair bit  of packaging of Debian and Ubuntu packages at work, often having to make tweaks to upstream packages. I used to just hack the upstream source directly, but have now discovered dpatch.

dpatch is a clever addition to the Debian packaging process which allows all your changes to be stored as . . . → Read More: dpatch – using patch files in Debian packaging

Cross-platform realtime collaborative editing

I recently stumbled across Gobby:

Gobby is a free collaborative editor supporting multiple documents in one session and a multi-user chat. It runs on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and other Unix-like platforms.

It looks really cool, and the realtime-editing would be very well suited to trying to draw up any form of document . . . → Read More: Cross-platform realtime collaborative editing

Garmin Etrex-H on Ubuntu

Last month my wife got me a Garmin Etrex-H walking GPS for my birthday. On friday my usb data cable from Kawa Mall (bought via ebay) arrived.

Getting data from the gps was trivial with gpsbabel (thought you might find it easier to use the gebabbel gui frontend and getting a track uploaded to a . . . → Read More: Garmin Etrex-H on Ubuntu

New gpg/pgp key

I suspect only a few readers here will care, but I have a new gpg/pgp key

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Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala released

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download

If possible, use the Torrent download: http://releases.ubuntu.com/9.10/ubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso.torrent (it should be faster and saves money for all the mirrors)