Monthly Archives: February 2010
Install Pylint 0.19.0 on Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)
ShareUbuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) provides version 0.18 of Pylint by default. Unfortunately, this version of Pylint cannot be used to scan code that includes any module from PyQt4. The problem is described in this post and has been fixed in … Continue reading
KDE 4.4.0 Rocks !!!
ShareThe KDE folks recently released KDE Software Compilation 4.4 to the public and it totally rocks. I have been using it for the past week and it is the best KDE release so far. The Plasma Desktop Workspace has finally … Continue reading
Python and Default Argument Values
ShareI love Python as a programming language. For a sophisticated language it has very few gotchas and is mostly very intuitive. One confusing feature is that default argument values for functions or class methods are only evaluated once during the … Continue reading
Fedora: All Screwed Up
ShareI have not used a Fedora distribution since Fedora 10 because I was dissatisfied with it (for some reason I can no longer recall) and switched to dpkg-based Ubuntu instead. Last week, I decided to check if Fedora 12 is … Continue reading
Meet the GIMP
ShareLately, I have been watching this podcast about using GIMP for post processing digital photographs. The author, Rolf Steinort, records his computer screen as he demonstrates various GIMP-techniques and does an excellent job at narrating along the way. It helps … Continue reading
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Giving Window 7 a chance to be fair…
ShareI am going use Windows 7 for the next two weeks as my primary operating system to give it a chance and to be fair. I will post my likes and dislikes in two weeks. Who knows, I might turn … Continue reading
Wiki to go…
ShareTiddlyWiki is a great way to organize information such as notes, links, figures, etc. in a portable and editable manner without requiring full blown office software or a web server. The entire wiki is contained in a single file and … Continue reading
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