This Saturday we had an installfest in LAKA with a topic of free games. It came to me to make my own top 10 of free Linux time wasting games that are packaged for Debian. Here we have the list for future reference: Honorable mention – Battle for Wesnoth: a turn based strategy game with [...]
Sunday, December 11, 2005
It looks like the Linux centre of the Latvian university in partnership with Latvian Open Source Association is going to throw a Free Code Christmas on 19th of December. Current idea is to make a mix of a social and technical event. The plan calls for two rooms – in one room a series of [...]
Thursday, December 8, 2005
A couple shots from Tokyo girls concert from the closing ceremony of the Animefest3. This ends my photostream from the event, now I’ll have to shoot something new to show you. BTW: there are also some photos that I did upload to Flickr, but didn’t link to the blog – you can go to my [...]
Monday, September 26, 2005
Surveying web projects to remake the Latvian Open Source Associations web page. At this point we are hosting it on TikiWiki, but people are increasingly unhappy about it and so am I. I like very much that Tiki is very integrated and has all we need and all we might ever need (wiki, blogs, forums, [...]
This is an English summary of my Latvian rant about the activities (or lack thereof) of the Latvian Open Source Association (LAKA) in my other blog. Before someone misunderstands, I am the chairman of the LAKA’s board, so this is not a plain ranting, but more of a plan pondering for future action.For two years [...]
I spoke too soon – Exim gave up on me failing to start with an obscure message:Exim configuration error in line 301 of /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated: group mail was not found The group ‘mail’ was still there and id and getent commands confirmed it. With help from #debian@irc.debian.org I was able to figure out that /etc/groups had [...]
Just now I did some hacking of TikiWiki on the LAKA site. First I added a feature – now RSS feeds from news articles can be selected by topic. Then I put two rss aggregators on the main Wiki page of the site – one with all articles on ‘LAKA’ topic and the other one [...]
Today I ventured into the most annoying adventures a system administrator can face – reinstall. Fortunately this was a planned one, so I had just made all backups.Problems started even before I did – all air circulation devices were broken in the company that collocates our server, so it was very hot there. I am [...]
