I’ve had this issue happen to me several times, and I’m finally writing myself a note to fix it in the future. There seems to be an issue with downloading VMWare Workstation (.bundle). I first tried it with Firefox, but it just died at loading it into /tmp. Next, I tried it with Lynx, but alas, it tried to download it as a text file.

Ahah! The quickest solution I could find is to right click the link, save as, and save it as a zip. Rename it to .bundle when you’re done.

I’ve lived in several different parts of the world, and they all do internet differently. Back in the US I had 8Mb/sec cable (leaving just before Fios was really an option, darn!) In New Zealand, for instance, I was paying for “high speed ADSL” rated at 1.5Mb/256k. Vrooom. Up in Taiwan I was paying 1/2 what I paid in New Zealand, but for 12Mb/1Mb. Down to Sydney and we have a rated 24Mb/1Mb.

But there’s a catch with the plans in New Zealand and Australia: they are ‘capped’. This means you only get XGB/month – and it isn’t like Comcast capping at 250GB/month, I’m talking about 1GB/5GB/10GB and so forth. And there’s more – just like mobile phones, you get on-peak and off-peak times.

This all does make a bit of sense to me – there are only X amount of tubes going in and out of NZ and AU, and I would imagine they get pretty clogged.

Either way, last month was pretty painful. Two weeks into our plan I checked out usage: 14GB of 18GB! We had only 4GB left to use for 15 days. This sounds like a lot, but for the two of us, and my 10 virtual servers, it isn’t. The first thing I did was looking at a way to do WSUS with Linux – I ended up using apt-cacher (I’m using only Ubuntu at home). BitTorrent, out; downloading any new ISOs, out; streaming music, totally out. For a while I has to VPN to home, and then VPN to a client, as our router at work didn’t seem to like letting us access one of our clients. I even disconnected from the VPN if I wouldn’t be doing work for 20m!

We eventually made it, and used only 2GB in two weeks. What an accomplishment!

Two of my colleagues were having just a little bit too much fun with my blog, so I decided to have some fun back. Over a period of 10 minutes, they managed to leave 10+ comments. Luckily I have full control over my server, and was able to quickly create my practical joke.

$HTTP["remoteip"] == "123.45.678.910" {
url.redirect = (
    "^/(.*)" => "http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=annoying+person",
    "" => "http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=annoying+person",
    "/" => "http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=annoying+person"
)
}

I’m writing this just in case somebody runs into this same issue. I’m about to go live with a website and figured it would be best to have the latest SVN snapshot checked out from Django. I updated, and noticed that my voting module didn’t quite work as expected. I was getting the following error:

'module' object has no attribute 'GenericForeignKey'

I jumped into Trac and noticed that just yesterday some things were rearranged. In short, if you are using generic relations, you’ll need to change two parts of your code. First, the generic relations field must be imported out of conttenttype.

from django.contrib.contenttypes import generic

And second, you’ll need to change the ’location prefix’ (for lack of a better description:
From:

generic_field = models.GenericRelation(SomeOtherModel)

To:

generic_field = generic.GenericRelation(SomeOtherModel)

All should be find from there on out. For more information, take a look at the reference wiki article.

As you may know by now, I’m in Taiwan.  Live is pretty good here, especially the internet – I’m sitting on a pretty decent 12M/1M connection.  But the company I have my internet through seems pretty laid back about network usage
-- which for me isn’t good.  Their entire IP subnet appears banned from IRC, which means I have to be a little sneaky when I want to talk to my I.T. friends in New Zealand.  Worse, some websites even banned the entire subnet:

Your access to this site has been denied because of the large amount of abuse produced by the users from your country. The access will be enabled once we perform the investigation of the abuse issues. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Luckily, Tor+Privoxy+FoxyProxy provides a quick way around any blocks that might be setup.  So, to the developers of these solutions, my kindest thanks.