Blogging to Nowhere

Hello Everyone, welcome to Twenty-Ten (yes we finally get to sound like we live in the future!).

I’m very pleased to announce the release of my pet project Mu-Feeder, or at least a very early version of it. I actually released version 0.1.0 unofficially yesterday, but then found a bug which was tickled by Python 2.4, so fixed that and re-released as version 0.1.1.

If you want to try it out you can get it here, or you can download the code with:

$ bzr branch lp:mu-feeder/0.1

If you have a bug report, please post it on the Launchpad bug tracker, I’m also seeking feedback which you can send to me in a variety of ways (comment here, identi.ca or Launchpad answers page).

I hope someone finds this useful! Enjoy!

Apt is awesome. Plain and simple.

But it is kinda static. By this I mean it’s not particularly suited to environments where things change frequently. For example, we have a local mirror at uni, which of course it much faster than using the external Ubuntu or Debian ones, however as this is only available from internal University of Auckland IP addresses I would have to change my /etc/apt/sources.list file if I wanted to install something from home.

Today I knocked together a quick Python script to fix this, all it does is basically manipulate a symlink which points to the real /etc/apt/sources.list file, but I thought I’d share it anyway: (continue reading…)