music video pieced together from many webcams

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Those who are admins may want to take a gander at Kon-Boot in case someone with ulterior motives and physical access to vital computers happens to stumble across this tool. Those who have ulterior motives, enjoy.

• OSNews (kon-boot is a tool to bypass windows and linux administrator passwords)

…and then: “a member of the conservative party (CDU) announced plans to also check if the law could be extended to include so-called ‘killer games’ like Counterstrike, only two hours after the law was passed.”

Two HOURS, Senator Conroy…

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Today I’ve put up the first “releaseable” version of autonose. Basically, it analyses your code’s imports, and determines exactly which tests rely on which code. So whenever you change a file, it’ll automatically run the tests that depend on the changed file (be it directly or transitively). Give it a go, and please let me know your feedback.

All you need do is:

$ easy_install autonose
$ cd [project_with_some_tests_in_it]
$ autonose

See the github project page for further information (and a screenshot).

Can anyone tell me why ruby’s instance_variable_set would possibly require the name of a variable to start with an “@”, rather than simply assuming it? It’s a ruddy instance variable, after all…

I can find no decent alternative to python’s setattr in ruby, which surprises me.

I was just struck by how lisp-ish javascript is getting (not in the powerful code-as-data way, just the “screw builtin language features, lets just use more brackets for everything” way). Exemplified by this tiny sammy example code:

$.sammy(function() { with(this) {
  get('#/', function() { with(this) {
    $('#main').text('Welcome!');
  }});
}});