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forgot the power strip for my laptop at home. now roaming edinburgh on a sunday afternoon.

update: a few minutes later I found a little shop & a suitable cable.

my thinkpad had troubles with kernels in the 2.6.x series where x >= 21. a bugreport later I found myself on the kernel bug tracker.

today Thomas suggested to try an -mm-patch; I grabbed it from kernel.org, & played around. read my results in Bug 8463 on the kernel bug tracker.

if you like mutt, slrn, and irssi, and you happen to read a bunch of rss feeds take a look at newsbeuter, a feed reader for the text console; the documentation can be found either here or at /usr/share/doc/newsbeuter if you grab the package from Debian/unstable.

tonight I moved our svn repository. it's now publically available

• either via your favourite svn client at http://svn.toastfreeware.priv.at/projects/
• or with your browser at http://svn.toastfreeware.priv.at/wsvn/ToastfreewareProjects

contents:

$ svn ls http://svn.toastfreeware.priv.at/projects/
fullquottel/
mailtextbody/
quickappoint/
teleschorsch/
$ 

enjoy.

linux-source-2.6.20 has entered unstable, and I've built new kernels for guinan & belanna. on guinan everything worked out of the box, on belanna I had to use gspca-source instead of spca5xx-source for my webcam & of course run /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup to create a new kernel module for VirtualBox. — great!

for nerys linux-image-2.6.20-1-686 & linux-headers-2.6.20-1-686 would be available but linux-kbuild-2.6.20 is still missing (which is needed to build madwifi-source with module-assistant).

two out of three ain't that bad anyway :-)

after etch was released on the weekend I upgraded the server at the office (yesterday &) today, following the procedure in the release notes. — it worked without a problem, I just had to make 2 small adjustments to the spamassassin & logcheck config respectively.

great!

I've just

• reconfirmed my attendance at DebConf 7
• booked the flight MUC-EDI for DebConf 7
• applied for NM

after being annoyed several times that unison has no completion for my several profiles I decided to take my first plunge into the matter of bash completion & created a very basic attempt: bash completion in unison.

inspired by jan wagner's blog entry I decided to get rid of the lenovo boot image on my nerys. it took me some time to find out about all needed pieces but now it works:


I've put my notes online; maybe they are useful for others ...

on wednesday afternoon david & me bought a notebook (one each): a Thinkpad R60e. wow.
& a Linksys WRT54-GL router which is already up & running (though not yet with openwrt).