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Eclipse with PyDev under OS X Lion

Submitted by iss on Wed, 01/04/2012 - 18:21

Yesterday I wanted to start using the Eclipse extension PyDev, because I was tired of using the pdb module. Even more sophisticated debugging modules like pudb did not satisfy my need for intuitive and comfortable python debugging. Even though I heard of the PyDev extension quite a while ago, I never gave it a try, as I was reluctant using the Eclipse Framework for Python.

Late Update for Mathworks' Matlab Java Crash Solution

Submitted by iss on Thu, 12/22/2011 - 01:53

Just want to note, that the previous post about solving Matlab crashes whenever a figure or plot command is called after a Mac OS X Java update has an update by Mathworks itself. Check this link and learn how to solve the problem also for older Mac OS X versions!

Cheers,
iss

Site Clean-Up

Submitted by iss on Sat, 11/26/2011 - 01:59

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You might have noticed, I made this site a bit cleaner and added the possibility for you to support nesono.com a bit by flattr. The search field is now in the header and the right sidebar is completely gone. Just in case you've been searching for it... ;)

Cheers,
iss

rm2trash for OS X update

Submitted by iss on Sat, 11/26/2011 - 01:32

I recently updated the shell add-on for OS X, that overloads rm to not remove the items, but move them into trash instead. Before the update, a for loop moved every single item given in the command line into trash using one osascript (Apple Script) call per item. This caused a blocking shell with one 'flupp' sound effect for each moved item, which can be quite tedious, when removing many items, even if they are small. Now, after the update, a item list is created and filled with all given items to remove and in the end passed to one osascript call.

The change is committed to my github repo, as usual.

Best,
iss

start: Unable to connect to Upstart: Failed to connect to socket /com/ubuntu/upstart: Connection refused

Submitted by iss on Sat, 11/26/2011 - 01:23

This is another remind me blog entry: If you suffer from above message, then you are probably using Ubuntu under a virtual host. If so, you will need to modify initctl to simply return true using the following steps. First, you need to tell dpkg, that you are going to change the upstart package installation using:

sudo dpkg-divert --local --rename --add /sbin/initctl

Then, you need to create a dummy initctl as a link to true:

ln -s /bin/true /sbin/initctl

That's it,
iss