(Moved over from my Massey site.
Future entries will be separate, but in the Tools category).
These are the tools that I regularly use, and which I would obviously recommend:
Archive for the ‘Old’ Category
3 Jan
Tools
13 Dec
Universal Student Allowances: A Better Solution
Students’ Associations, like my own ASA and the NZUSA, are continually pushing for a “universal student allowance”. This is quite clearly an unworkable solution – not even the Labour Party is in favour of it – and nor is it a desirable one.
[Note that throughout this document, student refers to tertiary students. Secondary, primary, [...]
13 Dec
After Hours Sign-in Books
A recent Massey Albany announcement:
As part of our Health & Safety requirement it has been necessary to provide after hour sign in books in all multi-storey buildings on campus.These have now been put in place and can be found either by the after hour entry doors or in the case of the Quad A and [...]
13 Dec
Visiting Australia (Passport Requirements)
I’m visiting Australia (just for the day) next week, and realised last night that I foolishly have let my passport reach the stage where it expires in just over two months. I know that many countries require the expiry to be a certain amount of time after arriving (e.g. six months) and wondered if I [...]
13 Dec
Stability of email addresses
Massey’s ITS department have been at it again (see also the comments about their security blunder earlier this year – somewhat patched up now).
Ever since email began, it has been customary for an email address to take the form username@domain – for example, I have a username “ta-meyer” with which I log into Ihug, and [...]
13 Dec
Email Quoting
Like many people, I deal with a lot of email every day. Something that makes it much easier to deal with is when people quote properly. Here are some guidelines (originally prepared for 139.177 / 119.177) for effective email quoting.
13 Dec
Finding libstdc++.so.6
When I tried to build Python 2.4.1 on doublehelix I ran into two problems:
configure wouldn’t complete, saying that it couldn’t run compiled C programs. I looked at the configure script and right before this it had something about not removing this section with autoconf 3.0:
# FIXME: These cross compiler hacks should be removed for Autoconf [...]
13 Dec
The importance of priority
As part of my PhD research, I have to link together a lot of separate components, many of which are running on separate machines, as they’re too much for a single one. You’d think that this was relatively simple, given that a good non-blocking synchronous socket module is part of the standard Python library. [...]
27 Oct
Reply All
This is primarily intended for people corresponding with me via spambayes@python.org.Those that have will have noticed my signature generally includes these lines:
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Please always include the list (spambayes at python.org) in your replies
(reply-all), and please don’t send me personal mail about SpamBayes.
http://www.massey.ac.nz/~tameyer/writing/reply_all.html explains this.
Here is an explanation of what that means, why I am asking you [...]
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