Archive for October 31st, 2006

October 31st, 2006

/backports is open for business

In news that I can’t quite figure out where to report, it’s nice to note that we opened the /backports media for 2007 /main and /contrib today. (Also opened were /contrib/testing and /contrib/updates ). This means there’s finally a simple way for packagers to build and users to get backported packages for stable releases, where [...]

October 31st, 2006

Outsourcing

So I did it - set up a Flickr account, that is. Photos will live there from now on, until they turn evil and attempt to take over the world. Ah, outsourcing…I feel evil.

October 31st, 2006

Contacts server?

Lazyweb, O lazyweb. I was struck today by the notion it would be quite neat to share my address book between Evolution running on my desktop, Evolution running on my laptop, and the roundcube webmail system.
A bit of basic Googling suggests I could probably do this via OpenLDAP, but it looks like using a nuclear [...]