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Xapian Python Bindings (Win32) 1.0.3 Released

Posted on October 3, 2007 by Alexandre Gauthier

I have compiled version 1.0.3 of Xapian for Windows, and I have built and packaged the Python Bindings for your convenience. You can find the new version here. This time they are available for both Python 2.4 and 2.5. Enjoy. … Continue reading →

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Xapian Python Bindings (Win32)

Posted on August 21, 2007 by Alexandre Gauthier

I have built the Xapian Python Bindings on Windows. They comes packaged with an easy, standard (distutils) installer. This may help with some of the headaches associated with running Xapian on Python and Windows. Getting the whole thing to compile … Continue reading →

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Xapian Python Bindings (Win32)

Posted on August 21, 2007 by Alexandre Gauthier

IMPORTANT NOTE The following page is maintained only for prosperity, as I am no longer building the recent Xapian releases, for Charlie Hull now provides binaries along with the makefiles. You may get recent releases here: http://www.flax.co.uk/xapian_windows.shtml I suggest you … Continue reading →

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Thank you Dell.

Posted on January 24, 2007 by Alexandre Gauthier

See the following link. Clicky clicky. I have waited so long for something like this to occur. Especially from Dell. Apparently they started offering machines without windows. They are called the -n series, the hard drives come unformatted. And they … Continue reading →

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New Parallels Workstation is awesome.

Posted on December 8, 2006 by Alexandre Gauthier

If you have an Intel Mac, you already know what Parallels is and what wonders it can accomplish. Virtualization is awesome, especially with Intel VT, of course. One new feature of the latest version that came out last week would … Continue reading →

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Crappy parser is craaaappy

Posted on December 1, 2006 by Alexandre Gauthier

Just when I was starting to actually enjoy (read: thinking “hey, it’s not so bad!”) Windows scripting after discovering documentation for the 32 bits command interpreter in Windows NT, I realize I have been spoiled by Unix shells and expect … Continue reading →

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Windows Tip: Remote Console with remote.exe

Posted on November 29, 2006 by Alexandre Gauthier

EDIT – 2008-03-03: Actually, screw this shady use of the remote debugger. Use psexec like a man instead, and enjoy the power of WMI. This is nifty. Not something to scream about while tearing your clothes off in a moment … Continue reading →

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