It’s difficult to recall the last time I laughed out loud when reading an Ubuntu changelog entry. Please direct any questions or comments you may have to the Department of Metaphor.
hunspell-en-us (20070829-2ubuntu4) karmic; urgency=low
* debian/extrawords.txt: added “misandry” and “misandrist” (LP: #436145)
— Mackenzie Morgan Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:38:32 -0400
Just mentioned it in the comments of my previous post, but it’s worth a more public reminder…
That’s what I would describe as “the hopes and dreams of a generation” (of Software Freedom lovers), and is the result of fantastic product definition, branding, genuine user excitement, years of incredible — and largely unsung — work of thousands of Debian developers […]
I have really enjoyed watching the iterative improvements to the original Ubuntu login screen theme. Well, at least until Intrepid, which looked awfully familiar… but the grungy additions kept me attempting to clean my screen in vain. Here’s a slightly earlier variant, quite a few lovely iterations beyond my original implementation (which was entirely too […]
If you have quite a few Debian or Ubuntu machines and you want an easy way to share and speed up package downloads — or reduce your bandwidth consumption — then approx is for you! It’s incredibly easy to set up, but there are a few tricks I’ve learned which can make it especially good for Ubuntu lovers.
I suppose […]
Much of Australia went into DST mode this week, with the only holdouts being the odd little backwaters of our country (generally referred to as “Queensland”) for whom daylight saving is a threat to curtains or farm animals… and anyone relying on PHP5’s bundled timezone database.
I filed a bug and test case regarding the problem […]
It’s wonderful to see that Matt Zimmerman has finally given in and started blogging. As a welcoming gift, I’d like to give him a hackergotchi. If it seems familiar, it’s because I tried to lure him into the blogging world with it way back in 2005! (You might want to click through for a hackergotchi […]
A few days ago I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS on my Linode VM (the machine which hosts this blog). I had upgraded to 7.10 a while back, so it was unlikely to be much of a challenge… But it was great to see another very smooth upgrade, without any manual workarounds required at all.
While […]
Apparently, the delightfully simple /etc/iftab is no longer used, replaced with the ugly and fiercely undelightful /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules. See, you can even tell from the name of the file that you’re not going to like it.
Surely udev could read and do something useful with /etc/iftab, even if it only provides a fraction of the functionality? Ubuntu […]
During a thread about daylight savings confusion here in Sydney, Martin Barry asked the SLUG list why updates to Ubuntu packages go into a separate “updates” repository. John Ferlito suggested that I blog my answer…
I’ve never understood the ${ubuntu_release}-updates thing.
A separate repositry for security I understand due to the need to bypass mirror lag.
But anything […]
A couple of weeks ago, while chatting with Rob, I mentioned that John gave me an awesome tip that I use all the time: The pget command in lftp, particularly for sftp downloads. That’s right: Not only does lftp provide a sweet interface for sftp, but it can also make multiple connections and download in […]
