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I bought the professional version of Komodo 4, the multi-language Web-Dev IDE. I bought the personal version of 3.5 and actually started using it, so I decided to buy the professional version of 4 while ActiveState was offering me a big discount. I'm happy with it, but I spent a few hundred dollars on it before I realized this:

the Gui builder toolkit (previously present only in the pro version) has been removed from pro 4... and is now available for free here.

This is where the magic happens...

I finally got my CoCo working. After all the adapters and switchboxes and modulators, it just turned out that the TV I drug out of the closet didn't work anymore... So the final (and easy) combination was a simple RCA cable out of the CoCo's "to TV" jack, into an RCA to COAX adapter, and into the COAX input of my TV, and after a very silent power-on (no moving parts) I was greeted with this:

Apparently, Sysadmin magazine is just handing out published articles like candy... because yet another pal-o-mine is published now... check it out, "ZFS Administration" by Corey Brune, in the January 2007 issue. it's a very informative article on ZFS (the greatest FS known to man...)

Check out Derek's blog and his article on mysql clusters on ZFS in the new issue of ... SYSADMIN Magazine

I'm not going to tell you how old he is... It would just piss you off...

I've been looking for a good way to have a python script source a .properties file for environment variables and I found a few posts that pointed to ConfigParser and it works perfectly. Here is the sample script:

I've seen a lot of requests lately on the Big Brother mailing list for a Solaris 10 SMF manifest for Big Brother. I uploaded mine to the Big Brother script repository:

http://www.deadcat.net.au/

It is called bigbrother.xml and is available for download here:

http://www.deadcat.net.au/viewfile.php?fileid=980