From the cc-devel mailing list post a few hours ago:
I’ve finally finished creating and updating the liblicense packages for Debian and Ubuntu.
For Debian, just make sure your system is set to pull from Debian sid (”unstable”) - the packages are in the official archives; take a look at http://packages.debian.org/liblicense ! (Thanks to Mako for sponsoring [...]
Mutt 1.5.18-1 just came out recently, and the news just hit google reader, so I decided to build it. Why am I going with the debian package and not with the source straight from the mutt website? Two reasons. The first is that I run Ubuntu, so the build process is the same as [...]
LOL:
[22:55] <norsetto> crimsun: have you built this in a ppa? Trying to build it locally just trashes my hd to death
[22:59] <crimsun> norsetto: I’ve tried twice to build it locally. I gave up after, each time, it ate through all RAM and swap. I finally got work permission to build it on a machine there. [...]
If you run Ubuntu and aren’t subscribed to Tombuntu, I recommend you grab your feed reader and go add it. Inspired by this post on screenlets, I mac-ified my Ubuntu:
The little flower-pot-looking-thing on the left is in fact a flower pot. You have to right-click and “give water” for the flower to grow. I’ve heard [...]
Why do I feel really self-conscious looking at this?
cmpalmer@kant:~$ history|awk ‘{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’|sort -nr|head
85 ssh
58 sudo
57 cd
53 ls
40 host
34 ping
24 ifconfig
13 top
13 svn
13 mplayer
(hat tip: lucidfox)
I felt all responsible for having whole-disk encryption on my laptop, but sadly that’s defeatable:
Perhaps my google-fu is failing. I can’t seem to find an equivalent to debian’s apticron in Fedora. My specific requirements are for a tool that:
shows what packages have updates available
shows what kind (eg. critical security, moderate security, bugfix) of update each package is
checks at user-configurable intervals
sends mail at user-configurable intervals
includes changelog or similar info in [...]
The box that hosts this blog, garp, is now running Ubuntu 7.10 “gutsy gibbon” for great most-recent-release justice. It had been happily running 7.04 for some time. The intersession break gave me the breathing room to push through the upgrade.
Garp had been mirroring gutsy since Thursday, so the upgrade was a convenient matter of pointing [...]
I just finished giving a demo for a database class, and I was very happy to do this as soon as I was done:
root@kant:~# dpkg -P oracle-xe-universal
(Reading database … 121041 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing oracle-xe-universal …
Purging configuration files for oracle-xe-universal …
root@kant:~#
When it works, it seems to work fairly well, but there were FAR too [...]
