Can aptitude show older versions of packages if available in...
Dear Lazyweb, is it possible to tell aptitude to show older versions of a package next to the currently available one if it is still present in /var/cache/apt/archives? Like it does when you use...
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A few days ago I found this blog explaining how to improve the tab completion by tinkering with your .inputrc. The magic lines are: set show-all-if-ambiguous on set completion-ignore-case on set...
View ArticleSuggestions for a Graphics Tablet?
Dear Lazyweb, I’m looking for a good graphics tablet. I’ll mainly use it for post processing DSLR photos with Raw Therapee, Bibble, and Gimp. It should be cheaper than 200 EUR and must work with...
View ArticleUsability of git-http-backend with self signed SSL certificates
Why makes it git so hard to use a self signed SSL certificate in conjunction with the https protocol? At work we have a server for shared git repositories. For some reasons we can’t use the ssh...
View ArticleHappy Birthday Debian!
19 Years and still rocking! Huge thanks to all contributors for making this happen and a happy birthday Debian!
View ArticleAwesome Firefox Campaign
Gil writes about the awesome Firefox ad campaign running currently in Berlin Alexanderplatz. Good stuff!
View ArticleGive Camp Berlin looking for volunteers
My friend Martijn from Talentspender is co-organizing a Give Camp in Berlin. They are looking for IT professionals and designers who want to spend one weekend of their time to support non-profit...
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Introducing The Art of Asking
Since October 2011 my flatmate and I where quite busy realizing a little pet project of ours called The Art of Asking. The ultimate goal is to visualize the world’s opinion in an intuitive fashion and...
View ArticleShiny new iPod Nano 6G… fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu
So I got an iPod Nano (6th generation) for Christmas this year, just in time since my trusty old iPod Mini started beg for retirement after almost 8 years of usage. Since my old iPod was working like a...
View ArticleSynchronizing Google Mail Contacts with Thunderbird
Dear Lazyweb, can anyone recommend a good Thunderbird extension which allows for synchronizing the address book with Google mail? So far I tried Google Contacts, but something went wrong with the...
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Wee! Wheezy is out (better late than never)
Last week we released Wheezy, roughly two years after our last release Squeeze. I’d like to thank all the contributors in- and outside of Debian for your fine work! Every single contribution — no...
View ArticleHow to get the most precise time, comparable between processes in Python?
Let’s consider the following scenario: I have two Python processes receiving the same events and I have to measure the delay between when process A received the event and when process B received it, as...
View ArticleWhat are the most popular .vimrc options?
Hi always wondered what the most popular options are, you usually find in .vimrc files. So I downloaded 155 .vimrc files from the net (mostly from dotfiles.org and github.com), and wrote a little...
View ArticleGeneral Resolution is not required
The result for the General Resolution about the init system coupling is out and the result is, not quite surprisingly, “General Resolution is not required”. When skimming over -devel or -private from...
View ArticlePlease Help to Port python-debianbts to Python3
Dear Lazyweb, I’m currently trying to find a way to port python-debianbts to Python3. Debian’s standard bugreport tool reportbug depends on python-debianbts and can thus not convert to Python3 if...
View ArticleThanks!
Two months ago I asked for help porting python-debianbts, to Python3. Python-debianbts is a tiny little library that allows for querying Debian’s bug tracking system. Since Debian’s reportbug depends...
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