So what does python have to offer? It is a nice mix of procedural programming, object oriented and functional. That is what I love about it. It allows you to work in a mix of all three. It also seems that it is made by a bunch of people that understand that while flexibility is important (Perl code) you have to be able to READ and UNDERSTAND something written by another human being.
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The current state and future of Python
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GCC branches for the 4.4.0 release
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At long last, I have created the GCC 4.4 release branch. We are now in Stage 1 on the mainline. Please go ahead and begin checking in approved patches. Please try to coordinate so that we do not have multiple overlapping radical changes. Please announce your intent to commit a major in advance of doing so, and avoid committing two major changes within a day of each other.
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CentOS 5.3: This Works
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All I can say is “WOW!” No, not the fan-boy stuff; it has to work the way I work.
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Compiz 0.9.x - Where are we now, and where to from here
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Compiz 0.9.x started in december when onestone announced his core rewrite on the mailing list. Currently, we are in the process of porting plugins to the 0.9.x branch.
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Xen: finishing the job
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Once upon a time, Xen was the hot virtualization story. The Xen developers had a working solution for Linux - using free software - well ahead of anybody else, and Xen looked like the future of virtualization on Linux. Much venture capital chased after that story, and distributors raced to be the first to offer Xen-based virtualization. But, along the way, Xen seemed to get lost.
Read more »Python everywhere: computer games
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This is the second article in my Python everywhere series and covers the use of Python in computer games.
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Howto Enable Process Accounting in Ubuntu
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If you Enable process accounting in your system, it will help you to keep track of your user processes. It is very useful for System administrators for keeping log of your users.
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Solutions for tracing UNIX applications
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If you are developing a UNIX® application, then you can trace and debug the running application and extract the information you need from it.
Read more »To PulseAudio or Not To PulseAudio . . .
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The Developers and MOTUs for Ubuntu have seen fit to add PulseAudio to the audio stack. And I do mean add it to the stack. It sits on top of Alsa and attempts to manage the way people use their audio. And yes, it sits on top of Alsa, not replaces it.
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Problems running PHP as a separate FastCGI process
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The article describes one particular problem the author encountered when running PHP as a standalone FastCGI process. The PHP process would after a certain number of requests stop responding altogether and this way cause all newly incoming requests to hang. The article does of course include a solution for the problems it mentions.
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Linux Kernel 2.6.29 -- more than just a point release
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2.6.29 is made up of 11,010,647 lines of code, with the number of developers who contributed to it reaching a record high of 1,166. Unlike the lines of code that make up the kernel, the number of developers has not been constantly climbing.
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Network wide Conficker scanning
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The Conficker worm has infected several million computers since it first started spreading in late 2008. In this paper German developers presented several potential methods to repel Conficker. The approaches presented take advantage of the way Conficker patches infected systems, which can be used to remotely detect a compromised system.
Read more »GUI Programming in Python For Beginners: Create a Timer in 30 Minutes
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Python programming is all the rage, because the language has such simple, clean syntax, is easy to learn and has lots of libraries available. But best of all, you're not limited to writing command-line applications. Python has at least four ways to make graphical apps, but today I'll concentrate on one: TkInter.
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Multiprocessing with Python
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Learn to scale your UNIX® Python applications to multiple cores by using the multiprocessing module which is built into Python 2.6. Multiprocessing mimics parts of the threading API in Python to give the developer a high level of control over flocks of processes, but also incorporates many additional features unique to processes.
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Open Source Study Reveals High Level of Code Reuse
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An analysis of 1,311 open source projects revealed that open source developers reused code from those projects in other projects more than 365,000 times, saving the open source community over 316,000 staff years and tens of billions of dollars in development costs.
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