Hi, this is a call for contributors for the new christine release, the christine development team have been working on improving christine, and think it is time to make a new release, but before, we want you to test it and report every single fail you detect. We also make use of launchpad's translation page.

You can find the code Here, the page for tracking bugs is Here, and the translations are Here.

Glad to hear that Netbeans 6.5 release shows an Early Access Netbeans IDE for Python

That I want one of these ! :

Hi again readers!.

In this week I have been pretty busy, bugfixing the Juvi desktop application. We don't want Banana products (those that mature with the user) and the test team is doing their best to hit every bug and report it to have a very stable application.

I have been also busy "porting" the Supramax Evo4 driver to run on windows, the port is quite easy to do since the program was written in Python and I have to fix some paths. In my tests I was doing to the driver I found a Not so funny issue with M2Crypto for MS Windows.

We have a parameter in the driver, as most Unix programs do the "-v" do a verbose run, spitting to the stdout the logs, if you don't use the verbose parameter then it saves it somewhere. Well, running on verbose mode was easy, it just run perfectly, storing the logs wasn't I had an error with OpenSSL... but wait.. we where talking about logs and not about OpenSSL.. what does OpenSSL has to be with logs?.

Well, there is an issue with M2Crypto and Python where it doesn't ship a special file and this causes OpenSSL crash if you use I/O. M2Crypto let you load a RSA key in pem format that you can use to crypt/decrypt something this method is called load_key and is part of the M2Crypto's RSA package, you only have to pass the path to the key as first argument and in the second argument a function (anything callable) that returns the password for the key (if it is private). Well, this I/O was crashing M2Crypto.

There are two workarrounds for this. The first, is to compile at least M2Crypto (I didn't do it, some blogs says that you have to compile python) against OpenSSL and include this specific file... at least Google points to blogs that says that... The other and easier way is just use RSA's function load_key_string where you pass as first argument the string that holds the key instead the path, doing this you will eliminate the I/O done by OpenSSL and then, there is no crash.

Last Thursday Cristina and I went to Maquiavelo's house to an informal meeting with xbitcarry, unfortunately Maquiavelo was too busy and the meeting wasn't really done but was nice to see xbitcarry again.

I think that's all for today my readers. Fortunately I don't have to work tomorrow and now I have to work a bit on christine

Siguiendo a Rodrigo Garcia

1. Grab the nearest book.
   
2. Open it to page 56.
   
3. Find the fifth sentence.
   
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
   
5. Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

Podre escoger la posicion para dar a luz?
- Nuevo libro del embarazo y nacimiento
dra. Miriam Stoppard

Let me check my Address book

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I remember when I went to Villahermosa.... I went to see cristina, but in this picture I was looking Liliana's phone number. Anyone who knows me knows that my memory is not good with numbers, names or dates. In the picture is my first laptop "voladora" (because I bought it in Papantla, Veracruz).

dsc08337.jpg

Originally uploaded by markuz

Time to post again, and again I have almost nothing interesting to say, but I don't care, I will not dig in my memories to entertain you, Just want to say what I have done in the past days.

In the last week I have been teaching some python to a workmate, and I want to teach this fabulous language to another workmate. I'm also teaching some PyGTK stuff, I really want my coworkers to know this tools, because then I will be a lot more free.

Cristina want us to put the christmas tree, I want that too, but would be better if we can put it on my parents house. We will try to get there by December 24.

We watch the National Geographic Documental "En el vientre materno" (sorry, don't know the english name). It's amazing how a couple of cells can become in something so beautiful like a child, we wanna see our baby now, well, wee see him/her last Thursday when we get to the gynecologist and see the baby, we see his legs, his arms, but the most incredible was his hearts and the way it beats!. We are so excited about the baby, we wanna have it now.

Find the error

Originally uploaded by markuz

Today I found that my battery seems to be broken.. So, I try to completely discharge it just to recharge it and see if something was wrong with the gnome power manager or if in fact my batter is broken.

I was checking the state using

And Found something funny about the info in the battery state file. It looks to be discharging even when the remaining capacity is 0. As a bonus the present voltage with no capacity is more than 0.

I like a lot this comic:


While reading (watching) the blog I found an interesting link to this image which explains clearly 10 reasons why software projects fails.

I can't remember where, but I have read that most software projects fails, and now I'm understanding why.

A bit late but here is it:


Me

Originally uploaded by markuz

1. Take a picture of yourself right now.
2. Don’t change your clothes, don’t fix your hair…just take a picture.
3. Post that picture with NO editing.
4. Post these instructions with your picture.

One thought... If apt could download chunks of the packages from several servers like any p2p network the upgrade process may be faster.

update Finally, I have upgraded my Ubuntu to 8.10. the process took about 6 to 8 hours most of them downloading packages.

Desktop

Originally uploaded by markuz

So, there is a nice screenshot of my desktop

Python gobject.GObject

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Found in the gobject reference manual