Operation DSLR is underway
After getting back from a holiday where I got quite annoyed by my point-and-shoot camera, I have decided to get back into photography again (yet another expensive hobby). I am planning to buy myself a Canon 450D DSLR, so I'm having a fund raising ebay adventure starting with my nokia N810. So if you are interested in buying one head on over to eBay and have a look.
Happy Birthday ORG!
The Open Rights Group is 3, and now has reached over 1000 fivers a month. To celebrate ORG have issued each of the first 1000 members with web badges, I have added my ORG badges into the sidebar.
If you care about any of these:
- Automatic Vehicle Tracking
- Copyright
- Creative Commons
- Data Protection
- DRM
- e-Voting
- Freedom of Information
- Identity
- Intellectual Property
- Net Neutrality
- Open Geodata
- Open Source
- Police Records
- Privacy
- Public Domain
- Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act
- Release The Music
- RFID
visit the site and sign up to help reach them target of 1500 fivers a month by December.
Packaging workflow
After watching the Packaging with version control systems talk by Martin F. Krafft ( thanks debconf video team ). I really want to update my packaging workflow, Martin's workflow seems too complicated to me. I'd like to have a simplified version for my packages. The question is though which VCS do I choose, I have experience of bzr but have never used git or mercurial. Changing my packaging workflow is not something I want to be doing too often, so I would like to make the "right" choice from the outset.
So to that end I will be trying each major Distributed VCS, and looking at the associated packaging helpers to decide on which to use. If you have any insight or opinions on this, please leave a comment or mail me.
Tags Debian, Packaging, VCS
Thanks Guys
Just over three weeks ago I started a new job, I left my position as a Network Manager to start a job as a Linux Consultant. On my last day I was given a rather generous collection from everyone there. The purpose of this post is to show everyone that the money was well spent, the picture shows the books and DVDs that I bought.
Thanks guys.
Tags Life
Switched back to Epiphany
Ah, back to Epiphany this week and I came to a realisation. All of the time that I was using Firefox I had completely stopped using bookmarks. Strange I know, but I had stopped adding or even using any of my existing bookmarks. I would instead just leave pages open and let Firefox open them again each time it started.
It was during the switch when I realised that in order to continue with the pages I had open in Firefox I would have to bookmark them before I switched. Now that I am back using Epiphany I'd like to let people know about my favourite feature, tag based bookmarks. Instead of placing each bookmark in a folder, you simply tag each one like del.icio.us and a bookmark hierarchy is built automatically.
So if you haven't tried out Epiphany recently, or at all. Please give it a try.
Now if I could just get Epilicious to sync with del.icio.us properly I'd be very happy.
Tags Debian, Web
Faulty cats
Daniel, mine seem to like cheese and onion crisps. So maybe the whole batch is faulty.
Tags Cats, Life
Open Source social networking
There seems to have been a lot of talk recently about using Open Source software for social networking, which has been something that has been at the back of my mind for quite a while now. If you could take a web site and using the presence information and IM features from jabber, you already have the beginnings of a social networking or community site.
The main advantage I can see is that anyone could start their own social networking site, rather than joining one of the larger existing (closed source) sites or basing a community around a web forum (which I tend to avoid if at all possible).
Now if I can just properly gather my thoughts on this I would start some coding.
Tags Jabber, Social networking, Web, XMPP
It's about time
I decided that I really needed to start making proper backups of the data on my server this week. I did have a tape drive in the server at one point but I never remembered to change the tape, or indeed ever test the backups.
Now that I have a Linksys NSLU2 (a slug), which I bought to use as a local Debian mirror. "Why not use it for backing up my important data?" I thought, so I leapt into action. The first job was to replace the drive in the USB caddy with a 250Gb drive. 250Gb should be plenty for both the mirror and the backups, which is mostly source code, mail and photos. After that installing and setting up rsnapshot was a snap.
It sure beats the "keep some stuff on my laptop" backup method I was using, which did save me from a major brain fade moment involving my Maildir folder.
I shall now wallow in the warm glow that only a backup provides.
Tags Debian, NSLU2
