There's a lot of different ways to partition disks and split outfilesystems. Mine isn't necessarily the best one, it's just whatI use, partly because I am cautious and conservative.

My workstation has two disks, partitioned identically and generallymirrored. I split the filesystems up like so:

• /boot is a separate and non-mirrored filesystem. I have a /boot2 on the second disk which I synchronize by hand every so often (usuallynot, to be honest, which is

How to help (Unix) programmers: silently omit data under certaincircumstances. From the Python 3000 release notes :

Note that when os.listdir() returns a list of strings, filenamesthat cannot be decoded properly are omitted rather than raising UnicodeError .

(Background: in Python 3k, os.listdir() is normally called with adirectory name that is a str Unicode object.)

Yes, os.listdir() had problems , butthis is not a solution; this is making

One of the problems with Python's current approach to CPAN-like packagesis, to put it in a particularly blunt way, that it hasn't quite sunk inthat not everyone has root.

(I am aware that Python doesn't have an approach to packages as such;it's all done by distutils et al, although distutils is part of thestandard library. That's part of the overall problem.)

Oh, sure, you can use distutils to install packages in places besides