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Ido’s chess Journey: How to teach chess to a 3 year old kid

How to teach chess to a 3 year old kid? That’s a good question. I wanted to teach Ido chess for a long time, but each time I tried, he lost focus after 2 minutes, even just for teaching him just rook movements. I decided I needed to plan it a little more, make it […]

in chess, kid | 263 Words

Python snippet to get Mediawiki/Wikipedia Recent Changes externally

Mediawiki allows one to send Recent Changes (RC) to a UDP port. The ip address is defined by the variable wgRC2UDPAddress, and the port by the variable wgRC2UDPPort. It’s a really good idea that it’s a UDP transfer, since there is no need for any ACK, so Mediawiki doesn’t block if there is nothing listening […]

in mediawiki, python | 176 Words

How to skip the useless “you are now logged in” page in Mediawiki

You installed Mediawiki some time ago, and now something bothers you: aren’t you tired of having an intermediate page named “Login successful” saying “You are now logged in to” before being allowed to go to the page you wanted to go? I am. I found there’s a hook that is called just when a user […]

in mediawiki, software | 188 Words

How to dial a number using Asterisk and Python

I didn’t find any example in Python on how to Dial a number from an Asterisk server and link it to another channel. So here’s a quick code to do it. You just need to have a manager defined in your /etc/asterisk/manager.conf defined. import socket   HOST=”192.168.1.116″ PORT=5038   p = “””Action: login Events: off […]

in asterisk, python, voip | 176 Words

Synchronization methods of a file with Puppet

Usually, to synchronize a file with remote hosts, using puppet, one would use the following pattern: file { “/etc/init.d/pvfs2-server”: owner => root, group => root, mode => 755, source => “puppet:///files/pvfs2-server” } (using “source” to copy data as-is, and using “template(“filename”) to use a template structure as data). Or, if one wishes to directly set […]

in puppet, ruby, software | 253 Words

How to automatically run a script after inserting a USB device on Ubuntu?

Here’s the setup: you have a computer which has a SD port (small memory cards, mostly used in cameras, phones, etc.). You want to get all of your photos from that card automatically as soon as you insert your card (may be a USB key as well), that is, run a script which will search […]

in hardware, software | 495 Words

TurboGears and Pylons will merge! (and CleverHarold RIP)

Mark Ramm, one of TurboGears‘s core developers announced on TurboGears’s mailing list that they will merge with Pylons! To be more precise, the API of TurboGears will be implemented on top of Pylons. It seems they already made some test/proof of concept that are, as they say “a huge success”. That’s really good news for […]

in framework, python, web | 124 Words

CCT (CalCubeTimer) v0.2 is now available

CalCubeTimer in its newest version is now available! For people who don’t know, CCT is a java program that times for Rubik’s cubing performance. It is really cool not only because it is beautiful, easy to use, has a client mode to connect to a central server (for contests), but because it allows you to […]

in rubik | 65 Words

HOWTO Installation of OpenWRT on a WGT634U usb router Part 2

OK, we now have to configure the network. The goal is to be able to connect to our access point, where we’ll get information to connect to our “sound server” (I call it like that because I’ve still not decided between using mpd+mpc+samba or some more direct access like the use of esd). We’ll set […]

in hardware | 302 Words

Videos of every presentation of Journée Python 2007 are now online!

As the title says it, each presentation was filmed, and has just been uploaded for everyone’s pleasure! Here is the two-part video presentation of Twisted, done by Michael SCHERER. [google 8739163173039026567] [google 1837647658089311574] Oh, by the way, please take a minute to vote for your favourite Internet Engine!

in language, python, twisted | 46 Words

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