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Comment on Printing to Windows XP printer from Ubuntu by Brother HL-2040 laser printer under Ubuntu (mini-review) « Nick

Brother HL-2040 laser printer under Ubuntu (mini-review) « Nick — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:36:09 +0000

[...] The tricky bit was finding the correct driver. The HL-2040 wasn’t listed in the printer selection dialogue, so I did a quick google to find a compatible printer driver. Got all the info I needed in a reply to a post on Rachel’s Knowledge Base [...]

Comment on UnicodeDecodeError using BeautifulSoup by Catherine Devlin

Catherine Devlin — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 13:35:29 +0000

I’m not sure whether the cause is the same, but in Python 2.6, BeautifulSoup is still throwing UnicodeDecodeErrors on valid UTF-8 documents (speciifically, the contents of pypi.python.org). You can work around it by omitting everything past ASCII with BeautifulSoup.BeautifulSoup(text.decode(‘ascii’, ‘ignore’))… but, of course, you lose data that way.

Comment on Bash: test for undefined variable by Niranjan

Niranjan — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:20:26 +0000

A VAR could take on teh following values:

VAR=
VAR=”" (Same as above)
VAR=” “, and
VAR=”something” (which is same as #3, VAR=” “)

The solution has to defend against all these options.

Assuming (Big assumption) that VAR’s value is always greater than a single alpha-numeric, one can test for the length of VAR.

Comment on “AttributeError: ‘module’ object has no attribute ‘blah’” by Pete

Pete — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:30:39 +0000

thanks. my problem was that i had two versions of a python package (numpy). i was trying to invoke a method that was only in the new one, however it found the old package first, so it couldn’t locate the new method.

anyway, your post got me looking in the right direction

Comment on things I hate: companies who won’t let you leave them by Rachel

Rachel — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 10:11:27 +0000

Oh I won, all right.

Once the telephone line got disconnected, and I put in an official complaint, they caved fairly quickly. But what a pain…

Comment on things I hate: companies who won’t let you leave them by Bozo

Bozo — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:59:32 +0000

Apparently Rachel’s efforts to terminate her internet worked as this was her last post

Comment on Printing to Windows XP printer from Ubuntu by Pari

Pari — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:28:55 +0000

whoops… i meant to say i used the ip address of my computer for the “host”

Comment on Printing to Windows XP printer from Ubuntu by Pari

Pari — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:25:48 +0000

If it helps anybody, i used the ip address of my computer for the
I was having a lot of problems with the verification. The guest account fixed that for me. Thanks!

Comment on “AttributeError: ‘module’ object has no attribute ‘blah’” by aksegaly

aksegaly — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 21:24:41 +0000

this is my error
attributeerror â€˜moduleâ€™ object has no attribute system
affer the compilation
help meâ€¦

Comment on “AttributeError: ‘module’ object has no attribute ‘blah’” by aksegaly

aksegaly — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 21:23:24 +0000

this is my error
attributeerror â€˜moduleâ€™ object has no attribute system
helpâ€¦