Month: August 2011
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Debian turns 18
In Australia, 18 means you can do things like vote and drink. While most don’t get terribly excited about the first, the second usually happens on your 18th. And so 18 years ago Ian Murdock brought together the new Debian distribution. I’ve been along for the ride for 14 of those 18 years and it…
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Be careful with dspam and multi-arch
Do you use the Debian dspam packages, specifically with one of the database backends? Recently upgraded the packages? Does noone email you anymore? You might be bitten by a bug, or perhaps undocumented misfeature, that bit me this morning. No emails were coming in and yet the mailserver logs said they were coming in, but…
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Making peace with Network Manager
Painless they say, automatically they say. This is what the NetworkManager manual page describes the daemon. I’d like to say annoying and intrusive and I know there are a lot of people out there that feel the same. The program is used to set-up network connections and provides a system tray thingy for Gnome and…