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Warning for Liferea users upgrading to Ubuntu Intrepid (8.10)

nospam@example.com (Lynoure) — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:27:00 +0200

Ungrading to Ubuntu Intrepid or rather to a newer Liferea than 8.04 has will wipe out your news bin contents, permanently putting all those interesting blog posts you have been gathering out of your reach. You can either not do it at all, or prepare yourself to declaring a news bin bankruptcy. If you are at all like me, this will feel like having to run the marathon naked... bad, difficult and like something is missing, but take my word on it, those news bins will be pretty full in a very short time again.

If you have backups, move only the .db file from backups to your updated .liferea_1.4 directory and your news bins should be restored to their former glory. Enjoy! (and thanks for #liferea people on this)

5-A-Day Lite

nospam@example.com (Lynoure) — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:19:12 +0200

5-A-Day is an Ubuntu effort where everybody involved deals with 5 different bugs every day. 5 seems like a lot, if a person is also having work and life in addition of Ubuntu and from the project stats one can see in the last 7 days only 4 of the project participants reached 5 bugs a day. How much time it takes probably varies hugely depending on the action taken and the bug, but I'm really curious about the time spend and number of bugs dealt with by an average 5-A-Day volunteer.

Also, I'm hoping there would be "5-A-Day Lite", maybe 1-A-Day, to get people who are too busy for the time five bugs take to deal with a measly one bug a day, everyday. That too might make a difference. Currently, a solid 1-A-Day participant would make it to the 5-A-Day top contributors list easily.

Review: YX-RWc01-B card reader

nospam@example.com (Lynoure) — Wed, 09 May 2007 21:33:19 +0300

Because Kubuntu Feisty did not support the SD slot in my HP NC8230 (it did in Dapper, damned regression!) I got a tiny memory card reader, YX-RWc01-B, which Just Works. Of course the slot working would be better, but even then this reader can be much fun to carry with the camera.

Experimenting with caching

nospam@example.com (Lynoure) — Tue, 08 May 2007 18:47:45 +0300

I'm experimenting with Serendipity caching plugins. Let me know if you get annoying brokenness, please.

Konqueror and some Wordpress blogs

nospam@example.com (Lynoure) — Mon, 07 May 2007 08:16:37 +0300

Some Wordpress log stop at the fold in my Konqueror and I need to fire FireFox to see the whole page. Pages using this theme do it, at least. Annoying, that.

I'm a bot

nospam@example.com (Lynoure) — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 15:55:08 +0300

According to Hot or Not Captcha I'm human only three tries out of ten if I'm looking at pictures of women and only once out of 10 tries when looking at pictures of men.

This is probably the hardest captcha I have ever run into and I'm starting to think there must be a bot that is better at it than I am. After all, there are programs that are already quite good at judging beauty. I wonder if one might get better results be writing and running a cleavage detection program. For me Hot or Not Capthca works as a passtime but not as anything else. Maybe it works great for people staring at Hot or Not site all day and not having much taste of their own when it comes to people.

Konqueror stupidity

nospam@example.com (Lynoure) — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 01:32:00 +0200

Steps to reproduce in Kubuntu Dapper:

1. In Konqueror, create a file
2. Copy that file so that you now have a new file with a different name
3. Edit the new file with the editor of your choice
4. In Konqueror, choose Edit->Undo:Copy

Result: Without questions asked Konqueror removes the edited file, taking possibly hours of work
with it. No undo of this delete offered.

Note: Discovered with a misclick. Luckily the user already had backups.