• Slowly reaching 2.0.0…

    Our last release was on November 8th, much more time than usual before two releases! I think we’re finally seeing the end of the tunnel, since this release we’ve only been fixing stuff, updating the manual to something less shameless, and mostly doing grunt work… Now, there’s only one page of the manual left to…

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  • EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL – Free software !

    A few weeks ago, Greg KH proposed a patch that moved all pci symbols from EXPORT_SYMBOL to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL, stating that the days of proprietary modules were numbered. Arjan Van de Ven further explained how tolerating proprietary modules was hurting the kernel in the long run. Today, I see that Andrew Morton did one of his…

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  • Ubuntu packages, again

    The unofficial repository now contains signed packages. To stop getting warnings, use the following: wget https://www.colino.net/colin.publickey sudo apt-key add colin.publickey sudo apt-get update…

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  • RSSyl

    I didn’t mention it here, but Andrej, who is now on our planet, released his first plugin, RSSyl. It is, as its name states, an RSS feed aggregator plugin for Sylpheed-Claws. In my opinion it’s one of the most important external plugin written, as it finally enables hardcore Claws users who have its shortcuts hardwired…

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  • Crazy ideas

    This post by Miguel de Icaza makes me wonder whether it’s April 1st already. I could export [my photos] to a folder and then scp the files over, but thats just because am a beautiful and unique snowflake. Other non-hacker types might not be able to pull the scp trick. Non-hackers types will have, I’m…

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