As usual something sorrowful has to happen at the beginning of the year, when I'm hopeful that's going to be better year than previous. Today my dog has been knocked down and that f*cking driver didn't even stop to see what he made.
Radar was only four year old and now unfortunately he's six feet under :(
I miss you Radar.

That'll be about World Cup 2006 in Germany.
Poland has Germany, Equador and Costa Rica in its group. It's always hard to play with an organizer of cup, but maybe we can at least draw with them. Rest of teams seem to be within our range, but at previous cup we disregarded potentially weak teams and didn't promote to second round ;)
Good luck to every competitor!

I've just uploaded sponsored package libpam-encfs. With it it's possible to have encrypted home directory, which will be mounted during login.

I'm working on new fuse (filesystem in userspace) packages and I really wonder if I should simplify their postinstallation procedure as it was mentioned in #337572. That would make my life much easier, cause there's quite many bugreports against undefined behaviour of post-debconf tasks, which are pretty hard to track for me. In fact I suppose that most users simply accept default answers so asking them about anything seems to be overhead.
Let's assume I will remove these superflous questions... now the problem is that if someone answered for them in some previous installation then I could leave unneded group and some config files on their systems. On the other head removing this group could even lead to nonworking system because of one of these bugs: #307624, 307627, 306281.
I'm quite confused what to do now. Both solutions have some advantages and disadvantages. First one at least could lead to less bugs in the future. Hints welcome.

Can't believe I have to write script to be able to mute/unmute with aumix. It's strange cause there is MUTE option in interactive mode, so I don't know why there is no such option in command line.

Speaking about text-mode mp3 player. I'm using moc (available in archive) and its main advantage over orpheus is that it is NOT a frontend, so it can easily rewind/forward songs. Try it ;)

Wheeee!
I hope ftp-master is going to accept these packages soon. Thanks to everyone involved in preparing new version of Eclipse for Debian!

I've finally bought notebook. It's Compaq Presario V2000, Pentium 1,66GHz Centrino, 512MB of RAM and 80GB disk. The most funny thing is that I couldn't install sarge on it. Running installation with 2.4 kernel caused oops of kernel, while running it with 2.6 worked quite well but ethernet card didn't work, although it was detected nicely.
Anyway I started from woody, then sarge and now I've got sid on it. Everything seems to work nice (I didn't try suspend-to-something yet, but it's not so important for me). I had to use hotplug for my Intel 2200BG wireless card. The only thing which makes me scared is:

(root@lapik)~#lsmod   wc -l
109
(root@lapik)~#

I've never had so many modules and it's mainly because hotplug tries to detect everything on startup. Do we have some hotplug replacement? Something which could be used only for loading firmware to wireless card.
Sound card works with i810_audio modules, so I suppose that's not alsa, but oss. Couldn't figure out yet what's wrong with alsa modules.
Anyway I'm quite happy the way Linux works on my new toy ;)

I didn't want to migrate to 2.6.x kernels, since I really don't like its current development approach, but unfortunately I had to, because my usb cable for mobile phone works only with this branch.
So from now I'm not-so-happy 2.6 user ;)
At least now I can exchange data with phone, so Debian logo is now on the screen.

I've just uploaded Warzone 2100 packages to my people.debian.org account.
If you liked Starcraft or Total Annihilation games, give Warzone a try.
Beware that these are preliminary packages and they aren't policy compliant yet, there are some problems described in ITP, but they work fine for me.
Any feedback is welcome.

This time it's free of ads for everyone (no need to register).
It's still free as in beer, but on some slow machines launching Firefox could take ages, so it's pretty good alternative.

I've just uploaded new htop release. Alongside some fixes it adds support for home-etc library.
Basically it's simple library that allows you to put configuration files wherever you want instead of making mess in home directory. I would really like to see patched programs in Debian.

(fenio@domek)~$ls -a   grep '^.'   wc -l
129
(fenio@domek)~$

Would be great to see this number less than 10-20. Home-etc makes it easy to support $HOME-ETC environment variable or ~/.home-etc file to point out where do you want to put all dot-files.
What's your opinion about that?

I bought brand new Siemens C75 phone few days ago. This is how it looks like:

It's really great and of course I wanted to put Debian logo on screen. I had some old serial cable from my previous phone, so that was first I tried. Unfortunately trying to connect to phone causes its power down. Probably some firmware problems.
So I bought USB cable today. This time at least it doesn't want to switch off my phone, but I still can't get it work. Tried siefs, scmxx and both seem to have problems handling this phone.
I forced usbserial module to use explicit vendor and product id. Only then dmesg shows:

usbserial.c: USB Serial support registered for Generic
usbserial.c: Generic converter detected
usbserial.c: Generic converter now attached to ttyUSB0 (or usb/tts/0 for devfs)
usbserial.c: USB Serial Driver core v1.4

This seems to be ok at least according to many howtos I found on net. So why does it still not work?

Could we please include 'sex' entry in our developers database?
That would make some translators life easier. Don't get me wrong, I do not want to be sexist, but please consider that English isn't an only language on the world. Translating DWNs to Polish is sometimes difficult due to fact that we don't know if someone is a girl or a boy and that makes difference in past tenses of our language.

Opera Software released 8.02 version of their browser and for one day registration is for free. So I have finally opportunity to test it without advertisements ;)
It's not free software but it's still nice to have some replacement for not-so-light Firefox.

Yes... they're watching us! ;)

That'll be about World Cup 2006 in Germany.
Poland has Germany, Equador and Costa Rica in its group. It's always hard to play with an organizer of cup, but maybe we can at least draw with them. Rest of teams seem to be within our range, but at previous cup we disregarded potentially weak teams and didn't promote to second round ;)
Good luck to every competitor!

I've just uploaded sponsored package libpam-encfs. With it it's possible to have encrypted home directory, which will be mounted during login.

I'm working on new fuse (filesystem in userspace) packages and I really wonder if I should simplify their postinstallation procedure as it was mentioned in #337572. That would make my life much easier, cause there's quite many bugreports against undefined behaviour of post-debconf tasks, which are pretty hard to track for me. In fact I suppose that most users simply accept default answers so asking them about anything seems to be overhead.
Let's assume I will remove these superflous questions... now the problem is that if someone answered for them in some previous installation then I could leave unneded group and some config files on their systems. On the other head removing this group could even lead to nonworking system because of one of these bugs: #307624, 307627, 306281.
I'm quite confused what to do now. Both solutions have some advantages and disadvantages. First one at least could lead to less bugs in the future. Hints welcome.

Can't believe I have to write script to be able to mute/unmute with aumix. It's strange cause there is MUTE option in interactive mode, so I don't know why there is no such option in command line.