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ScribeFire has been installed again.  After a tumultuous summer, fitful fall we are in to the Winter.  Time to get back on the post wagon.  There will be more to follow now.

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Who would have guessed that MS would be the first to really put python in the browser? I know you can jump through hoops to make a browser support python but it was not something you could do for a public website.

There have been a bunch of announcements in the past couple of days about IronPython and SilverLight — will they beat firefox?
Personally, I’m giddy about the prospect of using Python instead of javascript.  John Udell’s blog entry tonight specifically mentions
that exact combination.
http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/05/01/watching-anders-hejlsberg-reinvent-the-relationship-between-programs-and-data/

Finally, things are starting to get exciting again.

To enable xdmcp in the terminal server client for Ubuntu (edgy). By default the
terminal server client program has xdmcp disabled. To fix this just
install xnest:
# apt-get install xnest

Ned Batchelder blogged some good PyCon advice tonight, “Talk to people.” I completely agree with him on that point.

This was my second PyCon and I spoke to a vastly larger group of people than I did when I attend PyCon 2002. While I did say Hello to a number, the one real conversation I had was with Tim Peters. This year I wasn’t the least bit shy about introducing myself and talking to others. I met a number of great people who just happen to be excellent pythonistas. There was Chris and Ted from ChiPy, Alvin from San Francisco, Christian Tismer, Mark Ramm, Michael Foord, Alex, Ben, Doug (nice job on the pycon schedule) and many, many more. I’ll be blogging about a number of these conversations as time goes on.