I'm proud to release first public version of BurnerOnFire. BurnerOnFire is written in Python, providing simple GUI(GTK+) and CLI interface to burning .iso images simultaneously to multiple CD/DVD burners. Documentation and install instructions are located at kiberpipa.org. Features: write iso image to multiple CD/DVD burners count number of successfully burned discs option to limit number of discs to be burned detects write speeds and intersect results eject/close tray burner TODO: write multiple iso ...

I'm building an GUI program that will be used on Windows platform. I already accepted the fact that I will need three installers (Python, GTK stuff, and one for my package). Now, I want my installer to place shiny little shortcut on my desktop. Here is the command to generate Window installer: python setup.py egg_info -RDb "" bdist_wininst --install-script postinstall.py egg_info -RDb will clear and developemnt tags from release name, so the output ...

Today I was looking for a GNU tool to output current rates of networking traffic. Seems there is no built-in tool in GNU Linux. I decided to go for third-party software and vnstat does it's job pretty good. $ vnstat -i eth0 -tr 6 packets sampled in 5 seconds Traffic average for wlan0 rx 7.34 kB/s ...

I've been programming for about two years, all this time only in Python. I'll say that those 500 lines I wrote in Flash AS2 before going to Python does not count. I'm fluent with standard library that Python provides, but I've noticed quite a few times now; I'm getting stuck on issues that correlate to low level knowledge. I'm thinking it may trigger someday motivation to learn C. Going on topic, everyone that has ...

Just a note to myself, easiest way to merge .pdf files: $ sudo aptitude install pdftk $ pdftk 1.pdf 2.pdf output 12.pdf ...