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Archive for February, 2005

Hitachi redux

Posted in hardware on February 22nd, 2005 No Comments »

I should have known better, but when I was incarnating the current noisy boat anchor that sits on my desk at home, I put a Hitachi hard disk in it. Not specifically one of the notorious IBM-era eat-your-data models, but something much more recent. It made it to about six months of age before developing [...]

The great Python vs ld.so smackdown

Posted in software on February 2nd, 2005 No Comments »

At work, I’m building an application in a combination of Python and C++. Working in Python is sheer pleasure, but trying to build a “shrink wrap” application in Python is a horrible task. The problem is that in order to have any hope of shipping a single package that should work on a number of [...]