MoinMoin 1.9.1 desktop edition

Here is a patch file to build MoinMoin 1.9.1 for windows as a desktop edition You'll need python , docutils, and PyXml installed. This will build everything into the dist directory. You should be able to copy this directory where you want and run wikiserver.exe. No language files have been install. You will have to install them first to have a working wiki.

• download moinmoin 1.9.1
• unzip the patch file into the directory.
• Run the patch file
• run python setup_py2exe py2exe
• look in the dist folder for output

For those looking for a prebuilt archive, you can find it here

The number that wasn't

Signed numbers on computers are handled in a special way. Computers deal with bits (1s and 0s). Numbers are represented using a number of bits, usually 8, 16, 32. To represent a signed number one of the bits is used to tell if its positive or negative, usually the 1st bit. Usually this all works and everything goes well. Sometimes you want a number using a different number of bits, like 3, 4, or 5. Some languages allow you to do this automatically. In C this would look like

struct {

int foo : 5

int bar : 1

} my_number


This makes foo 5 bits and bar 1 bit. Both of these are defined as signed numbers. foo can represent a number from -16 to 15. The question now is what values can bar hold? Because it is signed, the 1st bit will be used to tell if its negative or positive. There are no bits left to tell what the value will be. So what values can it hold? If you were wondering it is possible to define a number in your program like this.