I only just realized that the links to LibraryThing that I automatically insert into book posts only work if you have a LibraryThing account. I’ve now fixed that so that there is a link to a public page, as well as a link to your personal library if you use LibraryThing and also have a…
Guardians of the West
I read this book as a child, and must admit I didn’t like it. That’s interesting to me, because it quite liked it this time. Its not the greatest literature ever written, but it is a good read. You need to have read the Belgariad first though, because this book (the first of the Mallorean)…
Weird paramiko problem
I had a strange paramiko problem the other day. Sometimes executing a command through a channel (via the exec_command() call) would result in an exit code being returned, but no stdout or stderr. This was for a command I was absolutely sure always returns output, and it wasn’t consistent — I’d run batches of commands…
Couldn’t determine the video directory?
A couple of people have contacted me in the last couple of days with an error where MythNetTV can’t determine the directory to put videos in. The error would look something like this: Importing data/tekzilla–0050–tehbunniez–hd.h264.mp4 Traceback (most recent call last): File “./mythnettv”, line 453, in main(sys.argv) File “./mythnettv”, line 212, in main mythnettvcore.DownloadAndImport(db, guid, out=out)…
Foundation and Empire
This is the second book in the original foundation trilogy, which I am reading as part of the the extended Foundation series that I am working my way slowly though. This book contains two stories — both of them Seldon crises, although one of them unpredicted by Hari. As Hari had always said in the…
Foundation
Foundation is an interesting book, as its quite old and was originally written as a series of short stories (as much early science fiction was). Because I am reading the books of the extended Foundation series in the order that Asimov recommended towards the end of his life, I have read the two prequels to…
Forward the Foundation
This is a Foundation prequel, coming after Prelude to Foundation and before Foundation. The book is almost a series of short stories or novelettes — there are several year gaps between these stories. That was a shame in a sense, because each of these separate stories has its won startup cost — the time it…
Executing a command with paramiko
I wanted to provide a simple example of how to execute a command with paramiko as well. This is quite similar to the scp example, but is nicer than executing a command in a shell because there isn’t any requirement to do parsing to determine when the command has finished executing. #!/usr/bin/python # A simple…
Implementing SCP with paramiko
Regular readers will note that I’ve been interested in how scp works and paramiko for the last couple of days. There are previous examples of how to do scp with paramiko out there, but the code isn’t all on one page, you have to read through the mail thread and work it out from there….
Robot Visions
This was a pretty short read — in fact I read it on the bus into work this morning. That’s mainly because there are only three short stories in this book which aren’t covered in one of Asimov’s other robot short story collections. The three stories were good, but I am not sure they were…