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Install Ubuntu on MSI Wind

The MSI Wind has a spec of 2Gb ram, 160Gb harddisk, and comes with 6 cells battery.
I first use the Wubi Ubuntu Installer to install Wubi 8.10 on Windows. This Ubuntu runs on the Windows file system, so we can test Ubuntu out without creating separate partitions. (The instruction is detailed at Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy [...]

Testing FAM with Python

There is a Python module python-fam that uses the client lib of FAM.
There is segmentation fault on deletion of python FAM obj, which can be checked using GDB. After replacing the code PyMem_DEL with PyObject_Del in _fam.c and rebuilt the extension, the segmentation fault goes away. (I submit this as a bug?)
Here is the test [...]

Compiling and Using GDB

GDB is the GNU Project Debugger.
I have some errors on compiling GDB:

gdb configure error: no termcap library found.
On searching, I find this solution to install ncurses-devel.
I downloaded and extracted ncurses-devel-5.2-2.i386.rpm.html.
Normally, you can install rpm by
rpm -i –nodeps ncurses-devel-5.2-2.i386.rpm
If this fails because it requires superuser access, you can extract with rpm2cpio using
rpm2cpio ncurses-devel-5.2-2.i386.rpm > ncurses-devel-5.2-2.i386.cpio
and then [...]

The Whack-A-Mole Project

From Titus blog.
It’s really apposite and funny description about bugs fixing and testing!
So anyway, I’ve been trying to stay on top of too many projects, and I’ve noticed that whenever I really focus on one of the projects (say, the testing books) the other projects all pop up a bunch of issues with [...]