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Monthly Archives: May 2009

How not to do a parcel tracking system

May 28, 2009 – 7:00 pm

The SEUR tracking system in amazing in the wrong way.
I got a tracking number from a bike shop that dispatched a bike from spain to sweden.
Ok, so I go to http://www.seur.es (because http://seur.es didn’t work) and put my tracking number there. Nothing, the tracking number is not yet in the system. Disappointment number [...]

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Conceptronics CSATACOMBO is not a Hardware RAID card

May 15, 2009 – 7:45 pm

As clearly stated in Linux SATA RAID FAQ the Conceptronics CSATACOMBO card based on VIA vt6421 chipset is not a Hardware RAID.
The CSATACOMBO is called a “fake raid“, “BIOS RAID” or “BIOS-assisted software RAID” that means that actually a driver at OS level is needed to get the RAID features (see more info [...]

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Python support for SSL and HTTPS is not installed

May 8, 2009 – 9:19 pm

I was getting “Python support for SSL and HTTPS is not installed” while trying to use Mercurial on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. I upgraded python to 2.5.2

sudo port upgrade python

and mercurial too (1.2.1)

sudo port -u upgrade mercurial

But that didn’t fix it. I’m glad that I found the solution on Twitter
Just do an

sudo port install [...]

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Painting LabelWidgets on top of the ConnectionWidget – Netbeans Visual Library

May 7, 2009 – 10:03 pm

I was fiddling with the Netbeans Visual Library again, trying to show a complex graph on screen and I run into a problem: There were so many connection in the graph that some widgets were hard to read because the ConnectionWidget arrows were printed over them.
So I tried to I try to rearrange the [...]

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