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Monthly Archives: June 2006

Middle-clicking files

Thursday, June 29, 2006

A though came to my mind just now – the method of copying text around by just selecting it to copy and using middle-click to paste it. So I wonder, why could one not apply the same for file operations in Nautilus? I would love to just select and middle click to copy files and [...]

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For those who care about flamewars!

Thursday, June 29, 2006

This MUST stop now! If every DD would express his opinion and anger and frustration on the thread, then it would be the mother of all flamewars and it will suck the life out of all other Debian lists and stop the development outright. Flames shall not pass! In case someone did not get the [...]

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Protocol violated

Sunday, June 25, 2006

I am offitially screwed. Last night I wanted to reinstall my laptop (which is also my only computer now), so I backuped the contents of my laptop’s hard drive to an external usb hard drive as a 13 Gb tar.gz file and happily went on with a format and reinstall. Of course, when I had [...]

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Another blog move

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Got access to a new, more powerful server, moved my blog from Mnemosyne to WordPress, hopefully did not flood p.d.o, did not move the comments over yet. And not to flood the planet.d.o with the move I did this little change to the WordPress feed – at the very end of the wp-atom.php file there [...]

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F-word on BBC and shot Muslims

Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Pre-story: In Forestgate in London police stormed inside a house, shot one man and arrested him and his brother. After 10 days it turned out that no evidence of any gilt to them was found in the raid and the raid is only based on some secret intelligence. During the day when I was watching [...]

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The curse of Montesuma – a British Internet manjana

Tuesday, June 6, 2006

A couple of days before going off to Debconf6 the wireless access to the Internet stopped working for me in the network of my university. I went to the network guys and they told me that I was using too much of it, so they blocked my IP address and now need to check my [...]

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