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Archive for April, 2007

Example: using an extractor class in Boost.Python

Sunday, April 15th, 2007 Posted in Software development | No Comments »

The documentation for the Boost.Python extractor class is not terribly enlightening for a new user. The examples given in the tutorial are code fragments, and it's never clear exactly what the context is or what they are supposed to accomplish. ...

How do you say “bye bye Ubuntu” in Zulu?

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I finally had enough and wiped Ubuntu off of my computer at work, and now Gentoo is happily running.  Maybe I could have gotten Ubuntu to do what I wanted if I had spent more time with it, but I ...

Climate change catastrophe: filler for a slow news day

Saturday, April 7th, 2007 Posted in Climate change | No Comments »

When there's a slow news day, and no interesting disaster has taken place to make a good headline, you can always count on global climate change to fill in the gaps.  Yesterday we learned about  "natural wonders" that are being ...