• What the hell

    The default install of WhiteBox Enterprise Linux 4, when you choose a server profile, comes with X and gnome. WhiteBox is a de-branded RedHat Enterprise Linux distribution, so I suppose RHEL does the same. Hey, RedHat, where did you learn installing servers? During a Microsoft Windows NT meeting?…

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  • First Ubuntu annoyance

    [colin@jack ~]$ locate wireless-applet [colin@jack ~]$ sudo apt-cache search !$ sudo apt-cache search wireless-applet Password: [colin@jack ~]$ Now, where’s my wireless applet! The stupid thing resembling the Windows connection monitor is no good. I want something with a percentage….

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  • 1.9.14 taking the world over

    Paul did the latest release today… So far so good! On the contrary to what happens the most often, we had positive feedback, which is quite nice… Usually the rule seems to be « no feedback == good release ». What changed the most in this release could be the Addressbook, but people using IMAP might want…

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  • new laptop

    I have my new laptop! It’s an Asus M6BC that works well, apart from the usual culprit, the winmodem. I don’t care about it :-) It’s quite fast, it’s less fastidious to recompile sylpheed-claws than with the iBook… Thanks again to all the donators!…

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  • Twilight zone

    We have a user from the twilight zone (although he tries to hide as a French). He always has some unreproduceable bugs with stack traces straight from the X-Files. Hopefully, there’s often a real reason. Excerpt of the last bug-chasing-session (slightly edited):    any volunteer for a short bug chasing…

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