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having used gaim for almost 9 months (and not being really satisfied with it) I looked around and decided to test centericq. and it basically looks (better: behaves) very nice, despite some minor glitches (hardcoded mozilla e.g.). let's see what happens if I really use it.

update: after my first chat I have nothing to complain about.
only an external action is not working, and maybe I should fine tune the keybindings.

after reading the posts/mails by greg and albert I decided to try synergy, too. at home, with belanna and guinan. results & impressions:

• the debian package is (half a year) old and only in stable: 1.2.2 vs. the current release: 1.2.4 at http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/
• the debian package is terrible (no man page, no conf in /etc, no runlevel scripts, ... )
• synergy does (well - obviously and as stated in the program's requirements) not run without an xserver (and I was really curious ...)
• though it doesn't run without X it can still be installed with xlibs only (did I mention that the debian package is terrible?).
• I guess it's a waste of time to file bug reports regarding the condition of the package ...

oh well ...

today I was surprised not to see a link to last month's archive in my blog anymore. after some fiddling around I found the reason, "patched" the source and filed a bug report (go there for details).

upgrading gxine from 0.4.1-1 to 0.4.7-0.1. what happened can be read in the Debian BTS.

grmpf.

update: 3 1/2 hours (!) later on sunday night (!) upstream (!) writes: "I'm releasing 0.4.8 now...".

update: soon afterwards the new package entered unstable.

added mail notification (on received new trackbacks) to tb.cgi (trackback script).
now I'm just waiting for a real trackback ping ;-)

update: just tried it with a friend and it works (both trackback itself and the notification mail)

I've been experimenting with adding trackback functionality to nanoblogger. using tb-standalone (with some changes) and a little plugin I seem to have reached a first success ...

published two plugins for nanoblogger in our debian repository.

Package: nanobloggerplugins
[..]
Description: additional plugins for nanoblogger
 Collection of additional plugins for nanoblogger:
 .
 calendar_prev.sh: Generates a calendar table for the previous month.
 .
 weblog_visits.sh: Counts hits on blog from apache access logs.

both have already been active on this blog for some days.

from now on the Release files in the ToastFreeware Debian repository are signed. the signing key is my personal one (0x00F3CFE4) which can be found on the usual keyservers or on my homepage.
if you are using packages from this repository you may want to add the key to your apt keyring: type (as root)

lynx -dump http://info.comodo.priv.at/0x00F3CFE4.asc | apt-key add -

check with apt-key list and don't forget to do a apt-get update or aptitude update afterwards.

update: and after the upgrade of apt from 0.6.40 to 0.6.41 I get errors on my sigs although I can successfully verify them manually. - wtf?

update: the errors are gone, maybe 0.6.42 fixed the problem or some other magic happened. well.

nanoblogger plugins
when taking a look at my blog today (someone could have written something there - errr?!) I thought that the empty 'september' calendar doesn't look nice. so I decided to add a little plugin that shows the previous month.
maybe I should package this plugin and the one showing the total visits some day ...

update: and I fixed it after thinking a little bit more about the number of days in months ...

update: built a package, cf. this entry

jabref
discovered jabref, a rather nice bibtex editor written in java that runs just by calling 'java -jar JabRef-1.8.jar'. - unfortunately the ITP for this software is rather old (over two years by the time of writing) ...

update:built my own debian package.

is there really no easy way to get sms (read: short messages sent via gsm) as emails? strange. - I googled in vain today but maybe someone has an idea ...

update: I know how to send an email via sms with t-mobile but what I'm looking for is a phone provider independent solution that allows me to collect sms as emails at the receiving end without any need for the sender to do something else than writing a standard sms to a specified number.