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This post is both an attempt at replying to a bug against telepathy-glib, but also an attempt at explaining what Requires.private do (and don’t).

Gunnar Wolf claims that Ubuntu ships a passwordless sudo by default.

I finally got tired of Achievo not remembering what projects I last used, so I whipped up a small greasemonkey script to do that.

I am currently working on implementing a cryptographic file system using FUSE.

In Soviet Boston, button pushes you.

I’m in the process of moving servers at the moment, and amongst the services I am moving is my authenticated, but public SMTP relay service.

Daniel Burrows writes about the feature of some call centres whereas if all operators are busy, it gives the caller the option of being called back.

Recently, I added some photo related blogs to my reading list, amongst them strobist, and so I came across a post about the Open Source Wireless Trigger.

Just like an infinite number of monkeys, given infinite time are likely to produce infinite copies of Hamlet, I knew that given an infinite number of blog postings by Clint, I had to find one which both made sense to me and which I agreed with.

I just read Sun’s announcement of “Project Hamburg”.

Some people on Planet Debian seem to think that using oil for pancakes is a good idea.

Your lucky number is 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0.

Yves-Alexis Perez writes a bit about Debian and crypto-containers, comparing cryptsetup and encfs.

Plug all the power plugs back in.

A small update of my contentless ping script has now been released.

Russel Coker writes about using multiple Ethernet devices in Xen and wonders about if there is something similar to RFC1918 addresses, but for Ethernet.

At home, I have had a setup with a wireless router for quite a while.

I have been walking to and from work lately and have become increasingly restless over not having anything to listen to, so I bought a small media player, a Samsung Z5F.

One of the jobs of an archive administrator in Ubuntu processing sync requests.

Enrico writes about putting a live CD on a removable disk.

Adrian von Bidder writes about retty, a tool to make processes reattach to your terminal.

So, the Ubuntu release candidate was released today.

People tend to just ping me on IRC, which is annoying and useless.

A bit surprising, really. : tfheen@thosu ~ > history 1|awk '{print $2}'|awk 'BEGIN {FS="|"} {print $1}'|sort|uniq -c | sort -nr |head -n 10 21477 ls 18170 cd 10640 ssh 9257 sudo 5559 less 3015 grep 2407 bzr 2101 ps 1980 man 1980…

A Lithiuanian light lager, 0.33 bottle.

I am currently working on something which hopefully end up being a good calendar server.

If you are using “loose” when you mean the opposite of win, please stop.

(and what we want to do to avoid similar problems in the future) A few days ago, a broken xserver-xorg-core was uploaded to dapper-updates.

A bit later than the others, with a bit of manual hacking of debian-cd scripts as well as the publish-release script (so we didn’t lose the other arches) and with a great effort from Fabio, Adam and Celso, Dapper for SPARC (with Niagara support) is now ou…

Since I’m impatient and Robot101 didn’t respond within ten minutes of me pinging him on IRC, I’m just posting the result of his request for a hackergotchi.

(By way of magnio) Go through the list.

In Drammen, a bit outside Oslo, there’s a small brewery called “HaandBryggeriet” (meaning “The Hand Brewery”).

A fairly light beer made for Easter.

-*- zone -*- in one of the first two lines of the file.

So, I did my first Ubuntu release today.

From evolution’s widgets/misc/e-dateedit, a custom date field: e_utf8_strftime (buffer, sizeof (buffer), _("%m/%d/%Y"), &tmp_tm); You see that _("%m/%d/%Y") there?

Eric Dorland wonders how to enable the Compose key just using XKB.

Adam Rosi-Kessel writes about humans failing Turing tests.

Everybody who has used an Ubuntu live cd over the last nine months or so has used casper.

I have no idea how happy can be a social dysfunction, but here we go: Your Social Dysfunction: Happy You're a happy person - you have a good amount of self-esteem, and are socially healthy.

This is the second of a set of sample beers Karianne and I brought home from Canada.

Last night, I ended up hacking on the usplash and casper codebases until about 0500 (local time) in the morning (mostly due to the developer status meeting at 0200 UTC). usplash had a fairly icky bug where it would choke and die if the fifo filled up and…

Philipp Kern asks about mail-based tracking systems.

Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo writes that I’ve not put a licence on my fakecat plugin for pyblosxom.

As Benjamin Drieu noted, ccache is a wonderful tool.

Ian Murdock writes a bit about OpenSolaris and the Nexenta people who are creating a GNU+Solaris based OS.

which is what was shipped with it, and I think there might be a newer firmware out there which fixes some of the issues.

Joey Hess checks out the modifications to his packages in Ubuntu compared to Debian.

Stephan Hermann complains about the missing hwinfo in Ubuntu.

(ok, this isn’t really tech related, but it’s about penguins, so.)