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9 Sep 2011

Fri, 9 Sep 2011 04:16:17 GMT

nutella: Yep, I see that a bunch. I mark the problem diarists with a relevance below the threshold I read at and boom, problem converted into a new entirely different problem.

Edit: Of course, some of these people's person pages don't even render fully...

27 Jul 2009

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:10:43 GMT

lkcl: Check your account page and make sure syndication isn't enabled. It's at the very bottom of the page.

22 Jul 2009

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:26:18 GMT

lkcl: It looks like you've syndicated all of the KernelTrap blogs to your Advogato account.

6 May 2009

Wed, 6 May 2009 10:40:26 GMT

coywolf: ha ha Solaris

15 Nov 2008

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:51:42 GMT

tampe: Most modern GUI tookits include such facilities, often referred to as "layout managers" or "geometry managers".

25 Jun 2008

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:17:39 GMT

ncm: For what it's worth, I'm running 3.0~rc2-2 here (amd64). Current uptime is about 3 days. I have a few extensions, no plugins.

23 Jun 2008

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:05:05 GMT

pjf: Ohloh doesn't track merges between trees, even given the perfect knowledge git enables, so my minor Linux patch has turned into a huge game of whack a mole. Life is too short.

30 Apr 2008

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:24:05 GMT

robocoder: Are you sure? I found following the link to dkim.org to be very informative.

16 Nov 2007

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:57:23 GMT

gary: keep on rocking.

5 Sep 2007

Wed, 5 Sep 2007 02:48:45 GMT

csv: Assuming you're tracking testing or unstable, that usually means you should be using upgrade instead of dist-upgrade. Then examine what's left over and use apt-get install to upgrade whatever looks sensible, leaving gimp-data or whatever until the matching binary package is available.

I believe aptitude's dependency-resolution can work this sort of thing out by itself and present you with proposed solutions, but I'm too old and set in my ways to change now, so I use the above technique.