Blog from the Loft

I want to test out amd64 bit ubuntu. Django keeps failing on syncdb. Turned out the python Postgresql library, psycopg2 is “severely broken” in the 64bit packaging. You will get a segment fault when trying to run the simplest thing like syncdb on an empty system if you are using postgresql. Oh well, for now, [...]

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I try to dump my database in Postgres to json so that I can load it into my test system. Executing manage.py dumpdata gives me an error:
Unable to serialize database: Decimal(”349.00″) is not JSON serializable
Some googling finds ticket number 3324, a problem with the serializer. This is patched in the development tree already. Since I [...]

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Seems like a normal workflow to me. When I import my pictures from my camera, I import them into a “year” project and a “year-month” album. That become their default “location” in Aperture. However as I arrange my pictures, I want to move them into other projects and albums.
Because of the way Aperture use projects [...]

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Today I finally got time to test out my new tube amp, a Audio Space Mini Galaxy I. First, the amp does make the K701 sounds much better. Before going into the amp’s sound, I needed to decide my audio path setup.
There are two main paths (with a small variation) that I can use:
1a) iMac [...]

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