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Tag: linux

  • Kindle Fire on Linux

    This is just a quick note to say that Linux (or at least, Linux Mint 15, after a recent update), has just made Kindle Fire HD’s plug-and-play. Huzzah. That is all. ~BX

  • Restarting Demon threads in Python

    Having just spent over an hour trying to find how to do this, here is my contribution to the problem. Say that you have a thread that you have called start() on, and your run() method terminates with an exception, or quite naturally (for example, your listening to a socket, and it gets disconnected). Your…

  • Installing Fedora 11 vs. Installing Windows 7 RC.

    I decided, in some fit of madness to upgrade to Fedora 11, and to upgrade to Windows 7 RC on my dual-boot laptop. I thought that I would take advantage of the unaccustomed Generosity of Microsoft with their free version (that is, it’s free untill July next year). First, let’s start with the upgrade. Upgrade:…

  • Getting LaTex word count which ignores footnotes

    I’ve been wrighting my essays in LaTex every since I discovered that it made footnoting and other various items easier. The one thing it made harder, however, was doing the word-count. Wanting to know how far through my 5000 word essay I was, I started trying to work out how. Lots of people say things…