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Gunnar wonders what the strangely-marked ⊼ on apple keyboards is.

I got my scanner working today by using the experimental genesys backend for SANE.

10.0.0.0/24 is something very different from 10.0.0.0/8 and it appears Linux doesn’t really like to masquerade itself, as it then sends RST to the originating host.

Do not ever get cooling liquid into your PCI and AGP slots.

I hate those pages which try to set a cookie just because I GET them.

Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wonders about how to do pyblosxom meta-categories.

So, since Anders has continued blogging about beers, I figured I might try blogging about interesting beers too.

Slowly, DebConf5 is coming to an end.

Debconf 5 has been a good experience so far.

I just released pkg-config 0.18 which fixes some annoying bugs in earlier versions.

LaTeX is a really nice typesetting language and it has a nice tool called listings which handles program listings for you.

Ok, the sky is definitively falling.

21:09 -!

I’ve finally gotten around to releasing version 0.2 of the tdb backend for evolution-data-server.

A couple of years ago, I stumbled across linuxjewellery, a jewellery store selling small brass BSD daemon statues, Apache feathers and various forms of Debian bracelets, earrings and so on.

Inspired (or provoked or whatever) by Joey Hess’s blog entry about pymarkdown in pyblosxom.

Since I don’t have a decent media player at the moment, I’m using my laptop for listening to music.

When travelling back home yesterday, I was bored on the final leg from Amsterdam to Trondheim so I decided to read the KLM in-flight magazine (whatever it’s called).

The first, initial version of the libtdb backend for evolution-data-server is ready.

Evolution-data-server (or e-d-s for short) seems to be a fairly nice piece of software.

I finally got around to changing my system to a UTF-8 system the other day.

Yesterday was all about breaking and not getting stuff to work properly.

Basically, the problem with Planet having feeds “break” it is that Planet uses an ultra-liberal feed parser which ignores errors (and thereby breaks the XML spec).

The first pkgconfig release in about 1.5 years is now out.

Inspired by Md’s efforts to provide numbers showing how many packages have been downloaded off ftp.it.debian.org, I decided to try to get the same numbers for another mirror.

Julien, please don’t reinvent the wheel.

After about a week of gcc compiles, I have multiarch working now.

I’ve gotten multiarch working again today: root@shonap:/# ls -l /lib/libc-* /lib/ld-linux.so.2 ls: /lib/libc-*: No such file or directory lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Jan 25 18:56 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 -> i386-linux/ld-2.3.2.so root@shonap:/# ls /lib/i386-linu…

Since SSL doesn’t support more than one virtual host per IP/port pair and I want to run a few vhosts on my server, I am using port-based SSL-vhosting.

My blog’s visual appearance has been overhauled a bit.

Old version of pymarkdown: Ran 75 tests in 0.349s FAILED (failures=57, errors=2) Ouch.

Roland Mas complained about that PGP.com doesn’t tell him what key he’s verifying.

So, I guess more or less “everybody” has gotten a mail from pgp.com asking them to verify it so it can be included in their Global Directory.

This semester, I’m taking a class which is called “Management of Very Large Data Volumes”.

Four months have passed since the last Canonical Conference, which happened in Oxford.

Wouter blogged a bit about how he has problems with using GNOME because it lacks sloopy focus.

This is more of a heads-up for people who wonder why freedesktop.org doesn’t answer (or why fooishbar.org, daniels’ box is down).

I changed the base URL of my feed last night, which made Planet Debian think all my posts were new.

Last night, I was at a debate between IBM and Microsoft on the benefits of open source software and commercial software respectively.

Today, I had the dubious pleasure of hacking a bit of perl which clearly wasn’t written by a Perl coder, but rather somebody who learned “programming” by hacking together PHP or something similar.

I’ve talked a fair amount about my fan controller project earlier, but today, the project entered a new phase.

Annoyed at Liferea not handling Daniel Silverstone putting … entities in his blog feed (which really isn’t the fault of him, nor of Liferea, but rather of Planet, which doesn’t make sure it spits out valid XML.

When I came back from Oslo last night and took in my mail, I discovered that a shop had the fairly new Sony P150 at a bargain.

It seems like the new Spamassassin 3 has some serious problems relating to memory usage: 7122 root 15 0 660m 332m 4692 D 0.0 43.8 8:18.64 spamd 7123 nobody 15 0 287m 257m 4692 D 0.0 34.0 0:17.01 spamd As my server “only” has 768MB mem…

Julien Danjou seems to be looking for “a viable file transfer protocol with encryption support” and mentions that HTTPS isn’t a file transfer protocol.

I’ve gotten my hands on small ARM development board with a LCD touchscreen.

Evolution 2.0 does not work properly on AMD64 in Ubuntu.

Why does Subversion require write access to check out anything of the repository?

Some people recommended I take a look at gnus as an IMAP client.