Andreas Schneider

a cosmological pedestrian

Monthly Archive: January 2015

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Development / Linux / RedHat / Samba

New uid_wrapper with full threading support.

Today I’ve released a new version of uid_wrapper (1.1.0) with full threading support. Robin Hack a colleague of mine spent a lot of time improving the code and writing tests for it. It now survives funny things like forking in a thread. We also added two missing functions and fixed several bugs. uid_wrapper is a tool to help you writing tests for your application. If...

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Taking your bike on a plane

Here is a totally computer unrelated post! Several people asked me how do I protect my bike to transport it safely on a plane. One possibility is to use a bike box, but the issue with a box is that airline personal likes big boxes, because they can use it to pile a lot of suitcases on it. I prefer to just wrap it with...