Want a definition of a paper cut bug? Here it is. And here and here are two more side effects of the same bug. The original bug report will be 6 years old in a month. Can we do something to prevent this bug surviving that long?
Thursday, December 27, 2007
My girlfriend is annoyed with USA timekeeping. More particularly with the way Sunday is the first day of the week in the Gnome calendar applet that shows up when you click on the time applet. After some searching I am unable to find how to change that short of changing the source code. Help me, [...]
Get it while it’s hot! It has been uploaded to Debian and will get to the mirrors in a day or two, but if you really want it now, then grab 0.10 release from Sourceforge. The last version of SBackup was released in last November so this has been long overdue, that is why I [...]
Reasons: * more testing for the new restore backend and of the purge function are needed to ensure that they work as expected in all expected situations; * I need more time to review a last minute patch to add autotools support to SBackup and decide if I want that or not; * My primary [...]
$ mv .ssh/ .ssh.old/ $ python >>>import gnomevfs >>> gnomevfs.get_file_info( “ssh://aigarius:password@aigarius.com/home/aigarius” ) Traceback (most recent call last): File “<stdin>”, line 1, in ? gnomevfs.AccessDeniedError: Access denied >>> $ ssh aigarius.com The authenticity of host ‘aigarius.com (85.254.216.40)’ can’t be established. RSA key fingerprint is 6d:29:c0:f3:d0:84:c9:a9:d9:4c:7e:e3:1a:18:a2:e2. Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes Warning: [...]
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 [...]
Another bug has pissed me enough to start debugging. This time it is Totem-xine crashing on startup in Ubuntu dapper. The first thing is that you cann’t rebuild totem from sources multiple time after ubuntu patches – ubuntu uses dpatch to patch something in automake files and after the build has been run, the unpatch [...]
Monday, November 21, 2005
Another tiny note – why is it so that all the Python wrappers for Gnome and Freedesktop related things (GnomeVFS and DBus in my experience) have absolutely no API documentation !!! PyGTK has a nice set of documentation for GTK work, but it doesn’t extend beyond that, sadly. When I was writing SBackup, I had [...]
Wednesday, August 17, 2005
Remote restore fixed. Full planned functionality reached.All that I planned to do for Simple Backup is done as of version 0.7.Now I only need to wait for the evaluation from my mentors at Ubuntu and to fix all bugs they and all other users find I also did a bit of refactoring in this release [...]
Wednesday, August 3, 2005
Still writing a restore tool Last two hours were spent debugging an interesting problem with TreeView in PyGTK. It was too slow to parse and add all files from a backup snapshot to the tree view at once (not to mention that it took 35 Mb of RAM ), so I decided to load the [...]
