Archive for April, 2008
Dear IRC user
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008Please consider switching to screen+irssi, or bip+xchat, or irssi_proxy+irssi or xchat, etc. (This post and its comments has more details). It is very annoying when you ask me something while I’m away, then disconnect, and then when I finally answer you, you are not connected anymore. If I’m away and you are going to disconnect, [...]
Various stuff
Friday, April 25th, 2008New QA website I modified qa.debian.org‘s stylesheet/template, using the PTS‘s stylesheet as a basis. It looks a bit better. The content was also updated, so we should stop receiving totally outdated answers to the “What does the QA team do?” question in NM. Now, who is going to do the same thing with www.debian.org? :-) [...]
19 new Debian Developers! \o/
Friday, April 18th, 2008I am very happy that 19 contributors who were waiting for their accounts, sometimes for a very long time, became Debian Developers today. This is great news for them, and for the project as a whole. Many thanks to all people involved for making this possible, including Joerg Jaspert, Steve McIntyre and James Troup. And [...]
4 months and 10 days without any new Debian developer. Is Debian dying?
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008Update (2008/04/18): 19 Debian Developers accounts were created today! See this post for details. —– It has now been more than 4 months since the last Debian developer account was created. 18 contributors have been through all steps, and are simply waiting for this simple administrative task to be done. We are sending a terrible [...]
Things you should know before buying an Asus EEE PC
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008I’ve been using an EEE PC since december, and people keep asking me if they should buy one. So here are some things you should know before making a decision. Screen The screen is small, but that’s OK. I couldn’t find many applications that didn’t work in 800×480. And for the remaining ones, you can [...]