Before they rehauled Google Reader for G+ you could import a YouTube channel feeds into your Google Reader just by copying and pasting channels link into Google Reader, no problem. A link that looks like this used to work:

http://www.youtube.com/user/CHANNEL_NAME

But, now it doesn’t work any more (I wonder why they broke it and why isn’t it fixed?).. Fortunately I was left with some of the older YT feeds that still worked so I looked at how their links look now. What you can now do to import channels into Google Reader is to use this link form:

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/users/CHANNEL_NAME/uploads?alt=rss&v=2&orderby=published&amp

Make sure to replace CHANNEL_NAME with your desired channel name and there you have it.

As REminiscence README indicates (“To hear background music during polygonal cutscenes with the PC version, you’ll need to copy the .mod files of the Amiga version”), you will have to copy Flashback sound files into the DATA directory within your REminiscence directory. They can be obtained here. After you have downloaded and extracted the files, you will rename them as follows:

ascenseur -----> mod.flashback-ascenseur
ceinture ------> mod.flashback-ceinturea
chute ---------> mod.flashback-chute
debut ---------> mod.flashback-jungle
desinteg ------> mod.flashback-desintegr
donneobj ------> mod.flashback-donneobjt
fin -----------> mod.flashback-fin
game_over -----> mod.flashback-game_over
holocube ------> mod.flashback-holocube
intro ---------> mod.flashback-introb
journal -------> mod.flashback-options1
level4 --------> mod.flashback-teleporta
logo ----------> mod.flashback-logo
memoire -------> mod.flashback-memoire
missions ------> mod.flashback-missionca
missions2 -----> mod.flashback-fin2
options -------> mod.flashback-options2
planetexplo ---> mod.flashback-teleport2
reunion -------> mod.flashback-reunion
taxi ----------> mod.flashback-taxi
voyage --------> mod.flashback-voyage

If you did everything properly, you should hear this beautiful music after you launch REminiscence (and all the other music clips throughout the game of course).. Voila!

Let’s say you need to filter a Python list and remove all elements that match a given criteria. If you wanted to remove a single element, you could just use ‘del list[i]‘ (example). But if you wanted to remove multiple elements this might be a problem since you would be modifying and iterating over the list at the same time (keeping track of list indexes can become very confusing, very fast).

A simple solution to this problem would be to keep record of all list elements (indexes) that need to be removed, and to remove tham afterwards. Also, one other thing to be wary about is that the removal process should be done in reverse because otherwise you would shift all the elements to the ‘left’ every time you removed an element from a list and you would (again) have to keep track of list indexes.

A simple function example:

This might not be the fastest ‘algorithm’ to do the job, but it works well enough for me..

Turning on History plugin in Pidgin will insert the last conversation into your current conversation. All this lastsaid entries can be found somewhere inside of blist.xml file which is located in your Pidgin conf directory (/home/username/.purple directory in GNU/Linux (not sure about where it is in MS Windows though)).

This is convinient if you want to view what was written before you accidentialy closed the chat window or if you forgot what were you last talking about with someone and if you want that information quickly. But, it is not convinient at all if you want to wipe it along with chat logs since lastsaid entries are at a different location and are not the only entries that can be found in blist.xml so you can’t just remove that file either. If you use a couple of protocols and have more than just a few buddies, removing lastsaid lines from blist.xml manually would probably prove to be pain in the ass.

So, what every curious programmer does in case he doesn’t have a feature he wants/needs? – He just makes it. :D Since I started playing with Python, I decided to create a small py3k script I could use every once in a while to completely wipe both lastsaid history and chat logs from Pidgin.

What you need to do to make this script work is – you need to put it into your Pidgin conf directory (just put it into a file called something.py) and after that just run the script (you need to have python installed on your machine to run this script).

I hope this helps. Also, if you have any questions/problems with the script, feel free to drop a comment..

This one might just spare you about 2-3 hours of your time doing SVN+SSH kdesvn googling. One would think it would work out-of-the-box, but it doesn’t. To get kdesvn to work with SSH, there is one small undocumented trick – using an environment variable (as if you were using command line SVN+SSH). To do that, put the following line into your .bashrc:

If you try using SVN+SSH without it, kdesvn will try to login to remote server using your current username (the one you are using on your local machine). Of course, each time unsuccessfully because it’s not the right username. After that, go to Subversion->General->Checkout a repository, and enter:

…in the URL field. Also, choose the target directory and check any other desired options. After that, just bookmark the connection and you’re all set up.