Usually there are 1-2 nasty bugs in each release - after all that's the only eason I push for having at least a pre-release every 2 months.

So today's one was a nasty double free bug in xconfig, so after the install there were no xorg.conf. The fix is now in git, so it should be over, but I was a bit disappointed, as so far Priyank's file descriptor / memory leak fixes were all carefully tested, however this one was obviously bogus, so probably it was not tested at all. OK, hopefully such stuff won't really happen again.

Snip. In VIM, I wanted to do a "Pj" 1000 times. 1000Pj will do "1000P and [one] j", so that's not the right way. qaPjq1000@a will do it: qafooq records foo to the "a" macro, then 1000@a calls it 1000 times. Good to know. ;-)

An old dream is now a reality, bitlbee-skype got a testsuite! :)

If I were at it, I also added a new skyped option to be able to log traffic when the deamon forks into background.

Finally python 3.0 (or python3k) arrived to -current. Of course the external modules are still for 2.6, but that's not something we want to change before 1.0

OTOH, they screwed up something at the uni, the dhcp servers were not functional on the wireless network, so I had time to read my current book, and did not read email till 22h. :-)

While I was away, I totally forgot about a patch they recently applied.

I also reworked my git ls-files parseopt patch today, based on Dscho's comments.

So today I wanted to try out how to do a mass-upload of pictures to Picasa.

This message links the script itself, and after installing the gdata.py package, it works almost fine. It assumes that your google account ends with @gmail.com, which is really false in my case, but the code itself is quite simple, so you can work around this bug.

It would be nice if it would be possible to upload the picture subtitles as well this way (from a notes.txt or so), but for now I just hand-added them, it's not that difficult.

$ date +%s 1234567890

and ideally it would be even a 13 and Friday combo, but here in Hungary in GMT+2 it was actually Saturday. ;-)

OTOH, I just discovered that the W3C HTML validator has a nice soap interface, so it won't be necessary to parse it's HTML output, yay! (The CSS validator has a console version, parsing that is not a problem.)

So here is the patch that allows you to do it.

Basically it is useful when the blog has no comment functionality, as in this case you can just specify an address in config.py, like:

OVERRIDE_FROM = {
                'http://landley.net/rss.xml': '''"Rob Landley's blog thing." <rob@landley.net>'''
                }

Without the patch you can just overwrite the name, not the address as well.

So first I had to patch our grub, then adding ext4 support to the installer was more or less trivial.

The default is still ext3, though.

Tthe i686 java plugin is at /usr/lib/java/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so. Guess where is the x86_64 one.. /usr/lib/java/jre/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so.

Logical - dear Sun -, eh?

So I went offline for skiing for about 11 days (Jan 30 06:24:13-Feb 10 00:48:09 to be exact), and I forgot that suspend to RAM works only for a few days. My normal notebook of course switched off. But interesting enough, the iBook still did not switch off, it said the battery even had 5%! :)

Yeah, I still love this HW.