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From #elisa IRC:
(twi_) jcorrius you let ravioli cook in the microwave for _45_ minutes?
(jcorrius) twi_: yes, i think you italians call that “all dente”

Yes, today - July 23rd, 2008 - is the tenth anniversary of the release of Linux-Mandrake 5.1, the very first public release of what is now Mandriva Linux. It was versioned 5.1 as it was a fork of Red Hat 5.1 (it was more or less RH 5.1 with KDE 1.0 added).
Here is the original [...]

I do sometimes wonder about car companies.
They’re now saddled with a glut of absurdly gigantic models no-one wants to buy. Hence the advertising campaigns.
Honda’s big idea to sell its cavernous Pilot model? A series of ads depicting one or two people driving around in the thing. They come across a group of people with Stuff [...]

Well, that’s what I get for being a lazy boy.
I didn’t update from Wordpress 2.5 to 2.5.1 - something else kept coming up - and I think the site got compromised (thanks to my sister for alerting me). So I’ve spent this morning building an entirely new webserver VM and importing my posts from the [...]

So I just got done at the tennis courts: four rounds of 24 serves (12 first, 12 second) on a serve-volley drill; four court speed drills; and an hour or so of hitting practice. So that was a couple of hours. I’m just back for a shower and then I’m off to the pool for [...]

I have a feeling this new development in Cooker will make a lot of people with experience of the Debian world happy:
[root@lenovo libgadu]# urpme –auto-orphans
To satisfy dependencies, the following 2 packages will be removed (95KB):
(orphan packages)
perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-RSA-0.25-3mdv2009.0.i586
perl-Mail-DomainKeys-1.0-1mdv2009.0.noarch
Remove 2 packages? (y/N)