cool site

Visit this: http://langref.org/ !

It’s such a great website! I was amazed to see Scala is 90% covered. Surely this will help my learning experience.

tik tok

getting backtrack to work with ics

As far as I know, Backtrack4 pre-final is not one of the distributions that can autoconfigure the Internet access, if you’re connecting through a Windows’s station Internet Connection Sharing. That’s why, a while ago I wrote some scripts to setup that for me. I’m gonna post them here, so that I can have access to them in an easy way, and so that other people could benefit from them. Maybe they’ll help you configure your distro to work with ICS:

Script 1:

import os

target_file = "/etc/network/interfacesx"
fh = open(target_file,"w")

interface_string = """
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
	address 192.168.0.2
	netmask 255.255.255.0
	network 192.168.0.0
	broadcast 192.168.0.255
	gateway 192.168.0.1
"""
fh.write(interface_string)
fh.close()

and script 2:

resolve_path = "/etc/resolv.conf"
fh = open(resolve_path)
lines = fh.readlines()
fh.close()
fh = open(resolve_path,"w")
for line in lines:
	fh.write("#%s" % line)
fh.write("nameserver 192.168.0.1")
fh.close()

Run them in any order you please. However, to get the connection to work, you have to also run this:

/etc/init.d/networking restart

stuff i hate about perl

This would have probably been better as a tweet … but here it goes. Have you ever tried to install a module that uses something Moose-related? What do you think about the whole installation experience?

I f***ing hate that. I installed half of CPAN just to use one module. Perl guys, have you ever seen easy_install? Seen how little it takes to install something using it? You should do something about those installation times, I mean … come on! More than 30 minutes for a module? rly?

me & unit testing

Just started to learn about unit testing. Insanely useful!

quick tip:uninstalling a specific version of a ruby gem

I had two version of ParseTree installed on my computer: 3.0.4 and 3.0.3. Here’s how I removed 3.0.4:

gem uninstall ParseTree -v 3.0.4

ka ku ta

BEST SONG EVER!

vocal bliss

Heard a nice small vocal trance mix here.