When I bought notebook I had to find out some use for previous box. It was great opportunity to test etch installer (and my Polish translation at the same time) so I did it several times using miscellaneous settings. Eventually it was time to find out some real use for this box. I decided to try out some non-Linux port of Debian. The most stable and actively developed seemed to be kFreeBSD.
I installed it about month ago. I must admit it works great despite some initial stability problems related to buggy mount, quickly workarounded with help from people from #gnu-kbsd channel. (thanks!)
I use it mainly as a backup machine and small www server, but since it handles it without a hitch I'm probably going to make it also print and Samba server.
I was sceptical to GNU userland used with non-Linux kernels, but admittedly we're getting closer and closer to the day when switching between kernels would be piece of cake ;)

(fenio@kfbsd)~#uptime
 15:36:57 up 21 days,  6:23,  1 user,  load average: 0.23, 0.08, 0.04
(fenio@kfbsd)~#

As you can see it works. It lays in one of my wardrobe, without the case and unplugged from any external devices. I couldn't remove graphic card due to some weird BIOS limits, so it has some PCI card worth less than the beer I'm drinking now ;)
Here's its photo. Sorry for quality, but I don't have any camera around, so it's made with my cellphone.

If someone wondered if non-Linux Debian ports are worth try, then I have to say YES, THEY ARE!
Using this opportunity I would like to thank everyone involved in their development. Keep up the good work!
Now it's time to give a try to Debian GNU/Hurd... have to start gathering the hardware for that ;)

Did anybody try to use ipw2200 driver included in recent kernels?
I found out that most recent version of kernel includes this driver so I decided to switch from self-compiled 2.6.14.4 and ipw2200-source package for module to new version of kernel and driver compiled in it.
Unfortunatelly such compiled kernel can't find firmware either in /usr/local/lib/firmware nor /lib/firmware, although according to /lib/udev/hotplug.functions these directories are checked and firmware seems to be ok cause works fine with 2.6.14.4.
Is it at all possible to use this driver compiled in kernel (not as a module)?

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.

I'm going to orphan all my games related packages. We've got now Debian Games team so I think that would be better to leave maintaining these packages to them. That's list of packages:

• asc
• asc-music
• csmash
• csmash-demosong
• libparagui1.0
• libphysfs
• moagg
• moagg-data
• moaggedit
• netpanzer
• netpanzer-data
• scorched3d
• starfighter

update I'm not sure wether I should simply upload all packages with Debian QA Team as owner or maybe someone from Debian Games team could "hijack" these packages to save some power on our autobuilders?

First alpha version of Firefox 2.0 has just been released. I'm going to give it a try soon, but looking at system requirenments I found out that minimal free hard disk space is 52MB on Windows and Linux, while 4GB on Mac OS X. Either this is simple typo or compilators under OS X needs many improvements in size of files produced by them ;)

I was in Warsaw today for some interviews (yeah I'm looking for a job) and I had some spare time before transport to home (small city near Cracow). I went to internet caffe to check mail and read some news. Of course there was only Internet Explorer as a browser and owner didn't allow me to run Knoppix on that box. Anyway... I tried to view my own webpage. It looks terribly in IE. I was aware that it doesn't look perfect, but I didn't know it looks so terribly. Blog part is the worst one, commenting entry is almost impossible. I don' t remember which version of IE was installed there, but I suppose that all versions have such problems with valid xhtml. No, I'm not going to fix that ;P Update: Seems that blog part of my webpage is not valid xhtml anymore. Some templates were changed and they're not xhtml compliant. Yes, that's something I'm gonna fix ;)

Before I start searching or writing some script to convert Wiki to text file, maybe someone could recommend something? I'm thinking about the way to convert sshfs FAQ to something more usable in text mode. Any hints? I'm not an expert in html/xml/xhtml stuff, so quick hint could save me some time for reinventing wheel.

What about something like that?

$dpkg-query -W --showformat='$ Installed-Size  $ Package \n'   sort -n

I switched to modularized X last night and it went quite well. Thanks to whole X team for their tremendous work on it. I had only two problems. First one was not-working my beloved font for xterm (xfonts-terminus), but that's effect of some changes in paths. Second one is still not-solved... xev stopped printing symbol names for multimedia keys of my keyboard and installing xkb-data as I was told on #debian-devel didn't help to fix that. I suppose because of that my fvwm behaves strange and I'm not sure whether fvwm have to be fixed or the problem is new X. Update: As usual fix was trivial. I chose wrong keyboard layout.

We've got a spring in Poland at last! 20 centigrades is temperature I'm able to bear with. I really hate winter and cold in general. There's only one thing I don't like in spring... insects. Flies started to fly everywhere. Now it's time to bees for waking up. Anyway spring is great even with them. Can't say that about summer especially when there's 35 centigrades in shade and I'm far from a lake or swimming pool. In addition it's my nameday today! 

Christian you must be kidding if you think that our current government has something to do with true right-wing. In fact everyone name them like that cause they call themself this way. In fact we've got here now the most socialist and populist government after changes in 1989. Now it will be even worse cause recently nominated ministers are as you said very anti-european and nationalist. Most young and educated people from cities think about emigration. So rest of the Europe: prepare for many people escaping from free, democratic Poland. I don't know who will pay taxes in Poland if the only people that are gonna left here will be pious old ladies. I always thought that democration sucks... stupid people shouldn't have right to vote. Ok... enough politics on planet today ;)

I've just upgraded my unstable box with new apt which downloads only differences between Packages.gz files. You guys simply rocks! About 100kB instead of 4MB. Congratulations to everyone involved in creation of this new apt feature. 

I've got a new second hand hardware for my server, so I'm step closer to upgrade it eventually. Right now server is running on an old Celeron 300MHz, 256MB of RAM and 80GB hard disk.

(fenio@serwer)~$uptime

14:19:07 up 59 days, 21:57,  1 user,  load average: 10.70, 10.75, 10.61

(fenio@serwer)~$

As you can see it's very loaded. Mainly because of Apache which eats almost whole CPU power serving about 40 domains. In addition almost each domain have virtual mails, ftp and sql base. So it's about time to upgrade it. New hardware is 2xPentium III 733MHz, 1GB of RAM and 2x250GB disks. I hope that'll be enough for some time. I didn't decided yet how to use disks... LVM comes to my mind, but maybe RAID since I've got hardware controller for that? RAID0 seems to be interesting solution and should increase overall performance. Changing hardware seems to be great opportunity to finally switch from Woody to something newer. Am I last person still using Woody these days? :) I'm going to finally use some software that'll allow me to put some duties on users instead of me. I mean some software helping administration of virtual hosts. I found three interesting projects for that purpose:

• web-cp
• ISPConfig
• VHCS

Any experience with some of them? Any recommendations? Or maybe something else I missed during search? My personal wishlist is:

• DFSG compliant
• co-op with bind (I can use other DNS daemon eventually)
• co-op with postfix
• co-op with proftpd (pure-ftpd eventually)
• co-op with some webmail solution... openwebmail? squirrelmail?
• co-op with mysql (postgresql eventually)
• co-op with some pop3/imap servers... anything that's able to work with virtual boxes
• handling of different limits (number of subdomains, mails, aliases, accounts, etc.)
• complex statistics of everything
• easy installation on Debian

Any hints? ;)

At the beginning of the year I blogged that I lost my dog. Yesterday we took new one from our neighbour. Title of this message should be Press Enter to continue probably, but it's not polite to press animals. Yes, I called him Enter ;)
I borrowed camera today to make him some photos and here's one of them:

Isn't he sweet? :)
He's three months old. I don't have manual to this camera and I don't know how to fix that strange effect on Enter's eyes, so forgive me :P

Bartosz, it's interesting to see that "right wing" seems to have different definitions for both of us, and probably in both our countries...:-) So far, the definition of M. Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz party "Law and Justice" (I think this is the right translation of PiS...in French, we use "Droit et Justice") would classify it as "conservative" for me...and thus eligible for being called "right wing". Anyway, we both agree that political orientations in Poland really suck. I really would have hated seeing someone like Roman Giertych, head of the "Polish Families League", ultra-catholic party, be in some change in my country (we have a very similar political man named "Philippe de Villiers", here). Worse is the nomination of Andrzej Lepper who probably represents the most hideous aspects of populism. I think that such step is more or less impossible to avoid, unfortunately. And I stay confident that your country, as well as all recent EU members from Central Europe, will soon overcome this. Don't emigrate: you have to change your country from the inside...:)

Your Inner European is Irish!

Sprited and boisterous! You drink everyone under the table.

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.