• Why are ceiling spotlights so popular?

    Newer houses and apartments all seem to have ceiling spotlights in just about every room, even the lounge.  What is it all for?  They are too bright for mood lighting, and I don’t see why they are so fashionable.  Please explain.

  • pycups API documentation: epydoc?

    I’m about to start writing some proper API documentation for pycups, and I’ve been looking around for short-cuts. Seems like epydoc is just what I’m after, so long as there are no catches. I want to be able to write the documentation in the Python doc strings, and pycups is a Python extension written in…

  • system-config-printer branched

    I just created a 0.7.74.x branch for system-config-printer, for bug fixes only. Fedora 8 will follow this branch for the time being.

  • CUPS 1.3b1, CUPSDDK 1.2.0

    I’ve updated CUPS in Fedora devel to the 1.3b1 beta package. The cups-1.3-0.b1.2.fc8 build has support for Kerberos and DNS-SD (Bonjour/Zeroconf). The most recent build of selinux-policy is needed to get zeroconf working.

  • Watching the electricity meter

    When the electicity bill comes, I usually phone up to give a meter reading. They use an estimated reading, but I like to keep it accurate in order to avoid any surprise charges at the end of the year. Last July I decided to jot down those readings myself in a spreadsheet, and take my…