assertRaisesRegex on the external function is not a good idea
Čt 03 dubna 2014
Category: computer Tagged: culture faith politics privacy
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Read MoreIt is a sad day today. … Or let’s start from somewhere else. I have grown up in the Communist Czechoslovakia. I remember that moment, I was probably something around seven years old, and I was sitting on the floor of our living room and thinking where to hide a …
Category: computer Tagged: culture faith politics privacy
Read MoreAs a followup to my previous rant on the locked-in nature of the Google Groups, I have created this Python script for scrapping the messages from Google webpages.
Thanks to Sean Hogan for the first inspiration for the script. Any comments would be welcome via email (I am sure you …
Category: computer Tagged: Fedora google lock-in email liberation OwnCloud
Read MoreI have created a simple Python package cucutags for parsing behave feature and step files and vim plugin for jumping from feature file to appropriate step (using normal Ctrl-]). Creating similar plugin for other editors (especially Sublime Text) able to cooperate with Python module should be trivial as most logic …
Category: computer Tagged: Fedora python tags behave vim gedit
Read MoreI have mentioned in one internal email discussion (yes, on the fabled memo-list) that I have my emails in Zarafa run by me on my own server down in the living room. And one of my colleagues asked me for some comments on IRC. After we have chatted for a …
Category: computer Tagged: Fedora ourcloud wordpress
Read MoreWhile reading blogpost by Karl Dubost of Mozilla I was again irritated by the quotation Karl used which mentioned Google’s claim of the universal access to the world knowledge. I have replied in probably not the best way on Twitter and lead Karl into confusion on what I wanted …
Category: computer Tagged: google ourcloud liberation identity privacy xmpp
Read MoreJust a brief update on my previous post about Firefox OS phone.
Geeksphone started to deliver updates. For a brief moment I had both working EMail (via IMAP/SMTPs) and Calendar (via CalDAV), but with the latest update CalDAV got broken again and I am not sure about the status …
Category: computer Tagged: firefoxOS review
Read MoreYes, even I’ve got my Geeksphone Peak, and yes I like it. I am sure, that I have collectible item in my hands … it will be either that historical model which changed the world to the open standards on mobile, or maybe it will be in one of those …
Category: computer Tagged: firefoxOS review
Read MoreMy employer started to use system which allows using Yubikey for authentication [added later: the most important thing is that whole system is Open Source, which is very very good thing], so I have finally gave up and bought one myself as well. It works really well, and comparing to …
Category: computer Tagged: yubikey xorg Gnome
Read MoreAll packages are in and waiting on Bodhi making them available.
You can read upstream release notes, watch the release video, or (if you have enough time) browse through closed upstream tickets.
The most interesting change is completely rewritten media (images, video, audio) management, and more modern (more mobile-friendly) theme …
Category: computer Tagged: wordpress Fedora
Read MoreReading Charles’s blogpost on software obsolence and I cannot help myself but to be confused ... on the one hand I hear everywhere, that web applications are dead, and everybody should write applications for mobile phones (I don’t think I need a reference for this statement, do I?), on …
Category: computer Tagged: email webapps
Read MoreI am not sure I have written it somewhere here, but I have been persuaded that identity is the most important and yet unresolvable issue circling around Internet since at least 1997 (don’t bother to read the paper, it is pretty poorly written and I didn’t have courage …
Category: computer Tagged: identity OwnCloud privacy
Read MoreWhen reading this Evil Brain’s post I was thinking about my mom and wife, how both of them hate ANY update of any software. And even more about the title of this post. Price paid might not be in money, but I guess it is still true. Developers who …
Category: computer Tagged: jetpack firefox
Read MoreJust to record for myself link to the awesome discussion about deficiencies of github. I have been tempted lately to the sweet proprietary arms of github lately (yes, their cheap commenting threads are a killer feature and as awesome as cheap branches in git itself). It also leads to the …
Category: computer Tagged: git github
Read More(I had this post in draft queue for a long time, but for a moment I couldn't get into one of my code.google.com projects which made me panick; it seems to be fixed now, but now when this panic made me to finish this post, I will publish …
Category: computer Tagged: culture OwnCloud privacy google
Read MoreWhen joining Red Hat I felt suddenly so professional that I have finally opened my LinkedIn account. Since then I wondered why I did so and whether there are any benefits of having been constantly spammed with various spew LinkedIn decided to throw in my direction. With every email and …
Category: computer Tagged: OwnCloud privacy
Read MoreThis is very retro, but I like the idea. From Norman Walsh’s blog:
> “Grab the nearest book, open it to page 23, find the 5th sentence, > and post its text along with these instructions. Point back to where > you got the idea so that we can follow the threads …
Category: computer Tagged: joke
Read MoreOur former president, Mr. Václav Havel, died yesterday.
A congregation where we are members organized yesterday a benefit concert for the relief of the hunger in the Horn of Africa. Our pastor, being American, immediately asked me and two other Czech members of the congregation before the concert, whether he …
Category: computer Tagged: culture faith
Read MoreFor various reasons we have agreed with my supervisor, that my working on the Xorg bug triage as a full time job will be terminated (feels like a relief) and I will switch to working as a programmer for the Red Hat internal Desktop QA team (which is a good …
Category: computer Tagged: bugTriage firefox jetpack
Read MoreJust to let the world know that I have just created json_diff.py, which is very simple Python script to generate a JSON of differences between two JSON files. One would thing that such thing must exist already, but all what I was able to found was not working much …
Category: computer Tagged: python json
Read MoreWhat are you doing reading this? You should be reading this post. It is much better reading. And about more important stuff than the rest of this planet.
Category: computer Tagged: desertStream
Read MoreI was reading a blogpost about WebSocket and NAT and all this stuff and I cannot stop thinking “Do we have to really reinvent the wheel all the time?” Of course, when Apple et al. reinvent the wheel, it is probably a deliberate attempt to lock in clueless customers. But …
Category: computer Tagged: xmpp reinvent wheel websockets
Read MoreAfter writing previous rant against SwallowCatcher (among other things) I re-checked author’s blog to find out that actually he has already released version 0.2.0 without pushing it to f-droid (yet?). I have built it from his git repository (yay, gitorious!), but there is also a binary on …
Category: computer Tagged: android podcatcher
Read MoreI was for a year more or less happy owner of the Nokia N900. Then a week or more ago, it suddenly stopped charging the phone. One day it was running on battery although the cable was plugged in and in the evening it just went down because the battery …
Category: computer Tagged: android review
Read MoreFixed connectivity-problems (no more endless waiting with spinning activity-wheel)
While getting used to my new Android phone (which will be subject of another post(s)) I have found in the f-droid repository application Tiny Tiny RSS Reader, which is a reader application for Tiny Tiny RSS Reader, a RSS reader …
Category: computer Tagged: atompub OwnCloud
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