Hello,

I'm build a Python application at /home/www/

I'd like to put modules that I can import into my application in /home/www/stuff/bin,
say something like /home/www/stuff/bin/myModule.py, where myModule.py is:

def myModule():
print "This is my module."

To import myModule into my application I thought that I could add a file, say, www.pth, to /usr/lib/Python2.3/site-packages with the content /home/www/stuff/bin, but it doesn't work.

1) What am I doing wrong?
2) Is there a better (more Python-like) way to accomplish my goal; e.g. keep application specific modules in the directory structure of my application, yet still be able to import them?

he Lobby and the Israeli Invasion of Lebanon: Their Facts and Ours

By James Petras

08/30/06 "Information Clearing House" -- -- All the national, state and local Jewish organizations have launched a $300 million fundraising and propaganda campaign in support of the 21 Jewish civilians and 116 soldiers killed during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon (but not the 18 Israeli Arabs who were excluded from Jews-only bomb shelters). As adjuncts of the Israeli foreign office not a single one of the 52 organizations which make up The Presidents of the Major Jewish Organizations in the US voiced a single public criticism of Israel’s massive destruction of civilian homes, hospitals, offices, supermarkets, refugee convoys and churches and mosques, and the deliberate killing of civilians, UN peacekeepers and rescue workers with precision bombing. On the contrary the entire Jewish lobby echoed in precise detail the Israeli lies that the Lebanese deaths were caused by the Lebanese resistance’s “use of human shields”, despite the total devastation of the heavily populated southern suburbs of Beirut, completely out of range of any Hezbollah rockets.

I have trained SpamAssassin today.

To learn it what spam is direct it to a folder that include spam.
# sa-learn --spam --dir /home/magnus/Mail/Spam/cur

To learn it what is not spam direct it to a folder that include no spam.
# sa-learn --ham --dir /home/magnus/Mail/inbox/cur

Today I also found SpamPoison. It sounds fun. Create a links on your webpage what will redirect email harvesting bots to trap sites that will feed it with an almost infinite loop of dynamically generated fake email addresses. Hi,hi, it's payback time!
http://english-2163081833.spampo

From: http://www.xkcd.com/c149.html

Basically, GPL means that you are given freedom to do everything you imagine to the code. Now when it comes to present idea of what the code is this is more or less allright. But imagine the time in which, for example, it will be possible to program complex DNA structures. Your code would be a living being then (at least it would represent a living being). GPL, in that case, would be nothing more than ultimate control over that life form - pure slavery. For example you could take a code of a beautiful genius woman and turn it to a sex slave. GPL doesn't seems so right now, does it? :-)

This reminds me, though, of a present debate over stem cells. Maybe this issue is not a faraway future anymore.

Since I watch/read a lot of news, over the past couple of weeks I couldn't help but to have the Jon Benet murder speculation shoved down my throat by the corporate mass media (CMM).

Iraq? The US/Israeli attack on Lebanon? Hell no, none hold up to the CMM's titillation of showing a little girl dressed up and strutting around like a 20-year old.

But nowhere have I seen a better analysis of the whole phenomenon than this Los Angeles Times article entitled, "No Escaping Sexualization of Young Girls".

The mother who wrote the article places the sexualization of young girls right on target -- placed squarely on corporate America.

Hi all, I'm new to this group.
I've one problem regarding printer support on Debian.
I have HP640C printer and Sarge installed on my PC.
I have downloaded hplip-1.6.7 and installed.
But I could not able to use printer.
In openoffice printer administration hp640c name arrived and I
selected that printer. but still problem is same.
please help me.
Thanx in advance..

Hello,
Im looking for a document to see how to make a email-key and certification. I found some docs on the web, but they were a little bit contradictory. Which is the best Root-CA as a debian-user?

Thank you...

A critical moment happened on one of the Sunday talking heads TV shows last week. Those shows illustrate policy debates among US ruling elites. One news anchor was heard to moan:

Arrogance is galling enough, but it was the next story by [news correspondent] Allen Pizzey that really set me off. He reported that Hezbollah agents are on the streets of Southern Lebanon handing out U.S. dollars to people whose homes were bombed out.

One year after Katrina and we can't figure out how to get money to people who lost their homes in New Orleans, we're still not sure if it can survive another hurricane but a "terrorist group"[sic] has figured out how to get American money to the homeless in Lebanon?

In my efforts to set up a DNS server properly, with a zone for my own local domain, I have found that Webmin is quite useful, or rather the module for maintaining the BIND configuration (package webmin-bind).

I was getting initially confused by zone files, and where the webmin module is handy is getting the file started, and probably avoiding a number of commmon syntax problems. Also, if you need to update the zone configuration that is also very easy.

However, I find that in this case the module could be a little more helpful in describing what it's doing. In general Webmin modules assume a lot of knowledge about configuration parameters with little description about what they actually do. For inexperienced users, some help on each configuration page would be beneficial, while experienced users could just turn it off. Also, for actually setting things up, a wizard-like process could be set up where the user is guided through a task over several pages. Aside from the ease-of-use element, such an arrangement may help avoid errors in configuration even for experienced administrators, and that would be particularly useful for something as fiddly as BIND.

I tried to install debian on a HP Compaq nc6320, but the debian installer did not detect the harddrive. I need help.

I can't install debian on NEC E600 computer,when it run to "choose languages",the computer's keyboard will don't work.I must take off the computer.I need help!

Debian, sarge, where do I tell the system which modelines it can use?

Background, I have the same monitor (LG 995E) on four different linux computers through a KVM switcher (no problems there). I am mostly talking about terminal windows here btw.

Boxen 1 is historic rh7.1 and xfonts (tvm?) are fine when I run x. Mostly it is a VT.
Boxen 2 is ex spud, ex woody, now sarge with gnome. Default X fonts were crap. but the cntrl &+/- allows a nice readable font to be selected.

boxen 3 & 4 have crap fonts. Using icewm, I have found that I can swap the default terminal font and choose another, but the screens still look crap on these boxen. It is like the monitor is out of focus.

Hello people,

Has anybody tried to install debian or something else on HP nx9420? Or other duo core config? What are the experiences?

I should mention that this is the first time I am installing Linux to a laptop. Any precautions to take?

Debian Project Leader (DPL) Anthony Towns (aka aj) posted the below message into the debian-devel-announce mailing list today:

As a project, Debian is heavily committed to the ideals of free software. That's not news to anyone reading this, I'm sure, as it's something we've constantly worked to improve, whether that be by establishing our Social Contract and the Debian Free Software Guidelines or by working with other organisations such as Software in the Public Interest [0], the Free Software Foundation [1], the Open Source Institute [2], or Creative Commons [3] to further promote those ideals.

"He said the two men were forced at gunpoint to say that they were converting to Islam and took Muslim names."

Finally the true Islam has surfaced.
"You don’t have to be a weatherman to know which way the wind blows"
Bob Dylan

The New York Times
August 27, 2006
2 Kidnapped Journalists in Gaza Freed Unharmed
By STEVEN ERLANGER

JERUSALEM, Aug. 27 — Two journalists kidnapped in Gaza were released unharmed today after being forced at gunpoint to say on a videotape that they had converted to Islam.

The two journalists from Fox News — Steve Centanni, 60, an American reporter based in Washington, and Olaf Wiig, 36, a freelance cameraman from New Zealand — were held for 13 days in an abandoned garage in the Gaza Strip as hostages of a previously unknown group calling itself the Holy Jihad Brigades.

"Nasrallah also said he did not believe a second bout of fighting would break out with Israel. "The current Israeli situation, and the available givens tell us that we are not heading to another round," he said."

Nasrallah say's he didn't see the first one coming.
What an admission of incompetence on the part of the leadership. He let the Israeli's know that Hezbollah has no competent military or intelligence analysts.
Maybe Hezbollah, the number one Terrorist Organization, needs new management?

latimes.com
Hezbollah Head Didn't Foresee Such a War
By ZEINA KARAM
Associated Press Writer

Why should Europeans protect Israel?

The enlarged Nato/Unifil force is not going to preserve 'peace'

By Robert Fisk

08/26/06 "The Independent" -- -- First, it was to be a 15,000-strong foreign army to reinforce the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, Unifil. Now it is to be about 7,500. And it will not disarm Hizbollah. And anyway, Hizbollah refuses to be disarmed.

The French would send 200 men; then they sent 400. Then the Italians would send 3,000. Then the French would send another 2,000, making their total contribution 2,600, including the company that has remained in Unifil since the French were hurled out of the peacekeeping organisation back in 1986 after fighting Shia militias in the Lebanese village of Marrake (of which no mention will be made, any more than it is on the BBC). And now the Belgians might send 700. And the Turks? Well, the Lebanese Armenians are objecting to their contribution on the grounds - perfectly accurate, though the BBC will not tell you this - that the Turkish army perpetrated the genocide of one and a half Christian million Armenians in 1915. Oh, what a wondrous plot we weave when first we practise to deceive.

I'm not sure why, but apt-get refuses to find security.debian.org - I can ping it from the console, but apt-get apparently can't access the network. I get the following:

Err http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages
Could not connect to security.debian.org:80 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out

Why it's trying to connect to 1.0.0.0 I don't know...

Incidentally, I have the same trouble with lynx - can't seem to resolve any non-local addresses.

Webmin is another handy package I'd not discovered before, providing a web interface for some of the common administration tasks, such as setting up users and mounting volumes. Definitely worth a try for those who don't enjoy working with text configuration files.

The only thing I don't understand is why it's so slow to respond (on my system). While apache is running nice and quick, webmin can take up to 30 seconds to bring back a page.

Incidentally I have a similar trouble with proftpd, which also responds a little slowly, but only on the local network - accessed from the outside it's fine.

(A c++ question)

Hello,

I made a vector: std::vector bingo= new vector(100)
Then:
for (i 1 to 100) bingo.push_back(i)

When I say bingo.clear(), will it really free the memory of all those ints? In fact, my main problem is that i don't know how the primitives like int, long, float and double are handled in C++. In the case from above, are they dynamicaly allocated? How to clear them?

Also, in case i have class objects that I want to put in a vector, will the clear() function automatically call their destructors, or do i need to do it manually?

Look like the famed Israeli intelligence community is as hopelessly incompetant as the US one :-))

+++++++

Lebanese recover from Kafkaesque trip to Israel

By Jonathan Wright
Reuters
Friday, August 25, 2006; 12:49 PM

BAALBEK, Lebanon (Reuters) - Wellwishers gathered in Hassan Nasrallah's garden above the ancient Lebanese town of Baalbek on Friday, delighted to see him and four relatives back from a Kafkaesque three-week adventure in Israeli detention.

Nasrallah, a modest shopkeeper who happens to have the same name as the leader of the Lebanese guerrilla movement Hizbollah, shook hands with his visitors and seated them under the trees as the family prepared a feast of grilled lamb.

This is the second time I've tried Debian, and this time the samba configuration was somewhat annoying. It seems that the standard smb.conf file that gets installed with the samba package is a little too advanced for its own good. After some hours of wondering why I couldn't connect to the samba server from my windows machine, I ended up creating the config file from scratch, using the simple example in the howto. I'm not sure why the default config file caused trouble, but this post may at least help some others struggling with samba.

Pmcount for Linux on Power Architecture is a Linux tool for configuring, collecting, and printing the performance counter events on IBM PowerPC 970, POWER4, POWER4+, POWER5, and POWER5+ processors. This tool is necessary for analyzing performance issues and identifying or eliminating possible problems.