Comments for Bones' Blog of Stuff About Things http://www.manwiththebones.com Intention, Dissention and Some Stuff We're Not Supposed to Mention - Games, Software Development and Curmudgeonry Sun, 01 Apr 2007 11:00:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on Upgrade Chicken by Stuart http://www.manwiththebones.com/2007/03/18/upgrade-chicken/comment-page-1/#comment-401 Stuart Sun, 01 Apr 2007 11:00:50 +0000 http://manwiththebones.dyndns.org/wordpress/?p=122#comment-401 <p>I listened to your advice and didn't upgrade to Vista. It's not like I was in any rush - it took me over a year to upgrade laptops. Ok, it might be that there is a delay of 6-8 weeks while they ship the Vista disks. It does sound a nightmare with all the incompatibility problems and even when I do get the disks I will wait several months - as you know I'm not big into the hassle of computers.</p> I listened to your advice and didn’t upgrade to Vista. It’s not like I was in any rush – it took me over a year to upgrade laptops. Ok, it might be that there is a delay of 6-8 weeks while they ship the Vista disks. It does sound a nightmare with all the incompatibility problems and even when I do get the disks I will wait several months – as you know I’m not big into the hassle of computers.

]]> Comment on Amarok Acquitted, Samba Owns Up by patrick http://www.manwiththebones.com/2006/07/31/amarok-acquitted-samba-owns-up/comment-page-1/#comment-48 patrick Mon, 09 Oct 2006 21:38:24 +0000 http://manwiththebones.dyndns.org/wordpress/?p=117#comment-48 <p>Thanks - I just spent a whole weekend tearing my hair out because I couldn't play mp3s from a samba share .. then thanks to your post I went looking for a samba update and found 3.0.23c on http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/1646 - now everything's back working again. </p> <p>I never had this trouble with smbfs and I'm really not impressed that it just disappeared and I had no choice but to use cifs which didn't work.</p> Thanks – I just spent a whole weekend tearing my hair out because I couldn’t play mp3s from a samba share .. then thanks to your post I went looking for a samba update and found 3.0.23c on http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/1646 – now everything’s back working again.

I never had this trouble with smbfs and I’m really not impressed that it just disappeared and I had no choice but to use cifs which didn’t work.

]]> Comment on Amarok Acquitted, Samba Owns Up by Bill Glaholt http://www.manwiththebones.com/2006/07/31/amarok-acquitted-samba-owns-up/comment-page-1/#comment-40 Bill Glaholt Mon, 11 Sep 2006 15:39:39 +0000 http://manwiththebones.dyndns.org/wordpress/?p=117#comment-40 <p><em>whew</em> Thank you very much for this entry. I spent probably seven hours yesterday screaming at FC5 (the client machine) because my SMB mounts against my FC4 server would no longer work. </p> <p>I guess I'll just have to chomp at the bit while I wait for the appropriate FC4 server package to get distributed... </p> <p>(<em>chomp chomp</em>)</p> whew Thank you very much for this entry. I spent probably seven hours yesterday screaming at FC5 (the client machine) because my SMB mounts against my FC4 server would no longer work.

I guess I’ll just have to chomp at the bit while I wait for the appropriate FC4 server package to get distributed…

(chomp chomp)

]]> Comment on Dabbling With RoR by import this. » Blog Archive » Ruby on Rails vs. Django http://www.manwiththebones.com/2006/03/29/dabbling-with-ror/comment-page-1/#comment-32 import this. » Blog Archive » Ruby on Rails vs. Django Fri, 04 Aug 2006 03:09:31 +0000 http://manwiththebones.dyndns.org/wordpress/?p=105#comment-32 <p>[...] Bones has been dabbling with RoR and has posted his some thoughts about using it, including a good comparison of RoR vs. Django. To me, it sounds like a fair assessment of both frameworks. [...]</p> [...] Bones has been dabbling with RoR and has posted his some thoughts about using it, including a good comparison of RoR vs. Django. To me, it sounds like a fair assessment of both frameworks. [...]

]]> Comment on Dapper Laptop by Riyad Kalla http://www.manwiththebones.com/2006/07/28/dapper-laptop/comment-page-1/#comment-28 Riyad Kalla Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:44:48 +0000 http://manwiththebones.dyndns.org/wordpress/?p=115#comment-28 <p>Great post Bones. I think these kinds of reviews are the most valuable. There are always plenty of "screenshot" review, but it's when you start twisting/turning/bending the OS that you know if it's going to work or not.</p> <p>I wanted to add that I did some digging on Banshee's site (the upcomming favorite media player for Gnome, sorta like Amarok was, a re-birth of a new/awesome player for the desktop) and there are two plugins in the works for the 0.11 release that not only add nicely integrated iPod synchronization support, but there is also a plugin in there that will add iTunes-Store support, so you can shop and buy music and stuff... pretty crazy. I'm not sure how media playback would work though since copyrighted AAC files don't play on Linux right now.</p> <p>Link here: http://www.breakitdownblog.com/2006/07/24/get-ipod-podcast-synchronization-working-on-ubuntu-606/</p> Great post Bones. I think these kinds of reviews are the most valuable. There are always plenty of “screenshot” review, but it’s when you start twisting/turning/bending the OS that you know if it’s going to work or not.

I wanted to add that I did some digging on Banshee’s site (the upcomming favorite media player for Gnome, sorta like Amarok was, a re-birth of a new/awesome player for the desktop) and there are two plugins in the works for the 0.11 release that not only add nicely integrated iPod synchronization support, but there is also a plugin in there that will add iTunes-Store support, so you can shop and buy music and stuff… pretty crazy. I’m not sure how media playback would work though since copyrighted AAC files don’t play on Linux right now.

Link here: http://www.breakitdownblog.com/2006/07/24/get-ipod-podcast-synchronization-working-on-ubuntu-606/

]]> Comment on Swinging with Django by Mark http://www.manwiththebones.com/2005/09/15/swinging-with-django/comment-page-1/#comment-26 Mark Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:12:59 +0000 http://manwiththebones.dyndns.org/wordpress/?p=71#comment-26 <p>Well, in my case at least, it was a problem with apache2's httpd.conf not including the correct directories for PythonPath. Honestly, given the nature of the issue, I would have expected a better error message. I'm sure that makes perfect sense to an experienced Djangoer, but some further hand holding would have been appreciated.</p> <p>Thanks for your response in any case!</p> Well, in my case at least, it was a problem with apache2′s httpd.conf not including the correct directories for PythonPath. Honestly, given the nature of the issue, I would have expected a better error message. I’m sure that makes perfect sense to an experienced Djangoer, but some further hand holding would have been appreciated.

Thanks for your response in any case!

]]> Comment on Swinging with Django by mwtb http://www.manwiththebones.com/2005/09/15/swinging-with-django/comment-page-1/#comment-25 mwtb Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:58:35 +0000 http://manwiththebones.dyndns.org/wordpress/?p=71#comment-25 <p>In my next entry I mention that I "resolved" the issue by copying the django directories to my python site-packages directory. For some reason the symlink wasn't working. I'm afraid I haven't gone further in investigating why the symlink setup didn't, there's no reason for it not to.</p> In my next entry I mention that I “resolved” the issue by copying the django directories to my python site-packages directory. For some reason the symlink wasn’t working. I’m afraid I haven’t gone further in investigating why the symlink setup didn’t, there’s no reason for it not to.

]]> Comment on Swinging with Django by Mark http://www.manwiththebones.com/2005/09/15/swinging-with-django/comment-page-1/#comment-24 Mark Mon, 17 Jul 2006 10:32:10 +0000 http://manwiththebones.dyndns.org/wordpress/?p=71#comment-24 <p>Did you ever figure out what the issue was with this? I'm having the exact same problem and Mr. Holovaty's suggestion does not apply to my situation at least.</p> Did you ever figure out what the issue was with this? I’m having the exact same problem and Mr. Holovaty’s suggestion does not apply to my situation at least.

]]> Comment on Image Conscious by mwtb http://www.manwiththebones.com/2006/06/15/image-conscious/comment-page-1/#comment-22 mwtb Fri, 16 Jun 2006 13:15:01 +0000 http://manwiththebones.dyndns.org/wordpress/?p=110#comment-22 <p>I took the Django code from trunk on June 4th, so if it has been supported for "a few weeks", I don't quite know why it doesn't work for me. I'll get the latest version this evening and see what happens. Thanks for letting me know.</p> I took the Django code from trunk on June 4th, so if it has been supported for “a few weeks”, I don’t quite know why it doesn’t work for me. I’ll get the latest version this evening and see what happens. Thanks for letting me know.

]]> Comment on Image Conscious by Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai http://www.manwiththebones.com/2006/06/15/image-conscious/comment-page-1/#comment-21 Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai Fri, 16 Jun 2006 12:07:14 +0000 http://manwiththebones.dyndns.org/wordpress/?p=110#comment-21 <p>psycopg 2.0.2 has been released on 11 June and is marked as stable. Django supports it since a few weeks already.</p> psycopg 2.0.2 has been released on 11 June and is marked as stable. Django supports it since a few weeks already.

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