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From http://thanhsiang.org/faqing/node/129 Here is the summary of the steps (replace with your desired kernel versions). 1. Download the working kernel files: wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19976056/linux-image-2.6.27-9-generic_2.6.27-9.19_i386.deb wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19976058/linux-headers-2.6.27-9-generic_2.6.27-9.19_i386.deb wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19976059/linux-headers-2.6.27-9_2.6.27-9.19_all.deb 2. Next, install the three downloaded DEB files with dpkg: sudo dpkg -i linux-* 3. Reboot your computer. 4. Put your current kernel on hold (otherwise it would be upgraded once again during your next "aptitude update && aptitude safe-upgrade" routine): sudo aptitude hold linux-image-2.6.27-9-generic linux-headers-2.6.27-9-generic linux-headers-2.6.27-9 Note: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/intrepid/+package/linux-image-2.6.27-9-generic https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/intrepid/i386/linux-headers-2.6.27-9-generic/2.6.27-9.1...

I discovered winetricks today. This handly little script and set of tools allows one to easily install IE8 in Ubuntu. Here are the details: http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks Basically, once you've downloaded the script, run sh winetricks and then install the Windows component from the default wine config. After that, if you'd like a shortcut, you'll need to create a link to the iexplore.exe file in the c:\program files\internet explorer folder of your wine instance.

I ran into a problem trying to get my Python script to locate an etree node in an XML document that had declared a namespace for all elements in the document. The trouble I was seeing is that the find and xpath functions weren't returning anything for any of the searches I was doing. Nothing seemed to make sense until I realized that I wasn't including the namespace in the search. The bugger with this is that you have to declare the ns on each and every element in the document! To simplify things a little, i went with code that looked a little like this: The full code: from lxml import etree as ET fp = open("sitemap.xml","r") element = ET.parse(fp) namespace = "{http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"}" e = element.findall('{0}url'.format(namespace)) for i in e: print i.text

My favorite new tool for editing XML in Linux? Eclipse. That's right. The does-it-all-and-comes-with-batteries-too tool does a great job editing XML, XSLT, xpath, etc. All you need to do is add the plugin for Eclipse Web Tools (available in the standard list of plugins). Just enable the software site and install the latest version! Very simple and very powerful.

I work with XML-related content on a day-to-day basis at work. I come from a .NET background and have written dozens of applications that leverage DOM when manipulating XML. Recently, I've started broadening my horizons to include more languages. I've written a few applications in Python now to do similar tasks as my .NET applications and there's one area that I always find lacking: XML manipulation with eTree. Perhaps I'm mistaken, but it appears from community pages that eTree is the defacto standard in Python for manipulating XML. Sure, it does *most* things correctly, but every once in a while, I can't help but stop and think, this was a whole lot easier with such and such method in .NET or, why does etree.xpath() work when etree.find() doesn't? Why are there two ways to do essentially the same thing in the same class library anyway? One area that eTree really lacks cohesive support is mixed type XML ( Some Text some more text even more text. ). Dealing ...

I was struggling with code completion/hinting in PyDev on Eclipse 3.5.2 (default for Ubuntu) and came across this little useful tidbit on the Internet: 'To enable code completion, go to Window > Preferences > Pydev > Editor > Code Completion, and check the 'Use Code Completion?' box, as well as the other boxes for what you want to complete on. It seems to take a second to load, the first time it has to complete something.' Problem solved! I now have my autocomplete settings just the way I want them! Thanks Internet! If I haven't said it lately, you're awesome.

I don't mean to be completely cynical, but it seems like Ubuntu's releases have sort of lost their 'umph' over the past few releases. 10.04 seems like the last "big deal" to come from Canonical, and even that's debatable. Some would claim 8.04 or 8.10 as the last big thing. As for 11.04, I don't know if it's the promised break with Gnome as the default desktop, lack of ground breaking improvements, or what, but it just doesn't seem to be getting the clout 8.x, 9.x, and even 10.04 releases had. Personally, I'm done with non-LTS releases unless something EXTREMELY significant comes along. I guess you can tell that the switch to Unity doesn't impress me all that much. Honestly, I just haven't seen the same level of innovation I had grown accustomed to in past releases. I could be wrong, so let's hear your thoughts.