Icedove, Iceape, Evolution, Sylpheed, Sylpheed-Claws and Mutt.
Is your favorite mail client missing? Does your mail client accept URLs in mailto-format? If yes, please drop me a note containing the name of your mail client, if it needs a terminal (like mutt) and an example call which starts the client …
read moreJust a few minutes ago reportbug-ng was accepted and should be available in unstable tomorrow (For the impatient: you can already get it from incoming).
If you can spare some time please test it and send me suggestions, bugreports and stuff.
read moreYesterday I mentioned a small project of mine called reportbug-ng. The feedback so far was very positive. Looks like quite a few people out there would like to see a desktop version of reportbug.
Since I’ve already received a few patches via email, I decided to move the project …
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It’s still in a very early stage (I’ve started coding it yesterday), but it’s basic functionality is already there: You can query the BTS, filter the list of bugreports in realtime by typing something and view the full bugreports in HTML. You can even provide additional information …
read moreSo the security team decided to kick Wordpress from Etch since they assume it won’t be sanely maintainable over the course of 30-36 months. This practice surprises me a bit, especially since upstream plans to support the 2.0.x series until 2010 and the package is currently very …
read moreShort version:
$ sudo aptitude install desktop-base splashy splashy-themes $ sudo splashy_config --set-theme debian-moreblue $ sudo vim /boot/grub/menu.lst
[...]
timeout 3
hiddenmenu
[...]
# defoptions=quiet splash
[...]
$ sudo update-grub
Long version:
A few weeks ago I tried to improve the visual appearance of my boot process using usplash and a matching grub splash …
read moreReading Sam’s platform, I applaud his plans to sex up our web appearance which is IMHO overdue.
While redesigning our website shouldn’t be much of a technical problem, redesigning our BTS could become one:
I noticed that reportbug and bts are basically querying the BTS via HTTP as …
read moreDid you ever want to rebuild the archive, but setting up this whole wanna-build/sbuild/buildd stuff somewhat scared you? Then this small script might be for you. All you need is cowbuilder, the rights to build inside a cowbuilder environment and this script.
When you call it with a …
read moreFor those who don’t follow -vote regularly, it seems like we have currently four official nominations for this year’s DPL vote:
and two pending ones:
A totally unrelated note: If you want to get …
read moreI’m still working on a grub/usplash splashscreen in order to pimp my boot process.
Let’s see what we have:
Creating the grub image is rather easy. What’s obviously missing here is the correct position and color of the text stuff.
Creating a working splash image for …
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