Blog Archive for May 1, 2010

Using Redis with Python

May 1, 2010

I have a dodgy hard drive, which contains some recordings from a mythtv box. This disk works ok after boot for a while, and then throws a wobbler, marking some of the files on it as zero length. I needed a plan for getting the files off it, but I …

Tags: redis python

Flashplayer Broken on Ubuntu 10.04

May 1, 2010

After an ubuntu upgrade from 8.04LTS to 10.04LTS I had trouble with flashplayer. sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-nonfree gave:

The following packages will be REMOVED flashplugin-nonfree 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 17 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 168kB disk space …