I am lazy. There's no denying it, it's simple fact. That means, for example, when I am working with pygtk and I look at the API for pynotify, I am sad, because it's a polling API and I hate polling. What I like is GTK's event model. I like telling …
If you're playing with the excellent new ChrootDirectory and internal-sftp options in recent OpenSSH releases (such as 5.1 which is in Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid), you may have hit an error like:
fatal: bad ownership or modes for chroot directory
You may also have searched on Google for what …
I have a laptop with some USB stuff built in. Some devices (such as Bluetooth) can be made to entirely disappear from the USB bus, however, the fingerprint reader and webcam can't, but they sit on the USB bus and draw power. Fortunately the USB specs allow devices to be …
In one word: wow. Out of sheer curiosity last night I fired up the excellent powertop and decided to see how my system was doing. It was producing a couple of hundred fewer interrupts per second than it did in 8.04 (Hardy), and was using 1-2Watts less power. Previously …
Head over to the Terminator Homepage to get the goodness that is version 0.11. Mostly just bugfixes this time, for things which hurt 0.10 users. Also present is support for X Session Management, although until we have proper profiling support, this is of limited use. The source tarball …
The only new feature this time is X Session Management support, but there are also a few important bug fixes for things that crept into 0.10, and some updated/new translations.
I just uploaded a script that I've been using and refining for some while, with help from a variety of people too numerous to mention. Basically the deal is that when you ssh somewhere from inside a GNU Screen session, the screen's title is set to the hostname you ssh'd …
It's been a week or so shy of two months since we pushed 0.9 out of the door and originally we planned on following up with a 0.9.1 release shortly after to clear up some bugs, but for a variety of not particularly good reasons this never …
Another release rolls in and this time it's not very exciting for you, but we have a bunch of bug fixes and the groundwork of the config/layout editing/saving work we want to do for 1.0. Please let us know if you find any bugs in this.
Update: It has been suggested that it is not productive or collaborative to talk negatively about some developers releasing software for unixy operating systems without really trying to integrate it with the versions of widely deployed software available in those operating systems. It is a fair point. It's not productive …