Archive for January, 2006

2.0 reached

Monday, January 30th, 2006

Wow, it’s done! Paul put the 2.0 release on sourceforge today, and did the whole “release ritual” including cvs tagging, tarballs, release notes, release mail, sourceforge, freshmeat, and I’m sure I forgot some… Leaving to me a single responsability, clicking on Send on the linuxfr.org news item I had prepared on Sunday, and the Ubuntu [...]

How to print images?

Saturday, January 28th, 2006

In Sylpheed Main’s mailing list, it has been asked how to print images attached to a mail. The only answer provided was:
“A workaround is to save the message somewhere with the .eml extension,
so you can open it as Outlook Express message and print from there.”
I guess anyone can see the irony of this. Well, I [...]

Duh, cats…

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

Broadcast message from root@jack (Wed Jan 25 19:42:33 2006):
Power button pressed
The system is going down for system halt NOW!
Connection to jack.colino.net closed by remote host.
Connection to jack.colino.net closed.

BASE jumping: Monkey!

Saturday, January 21st, 2006

So, there’s a monkey I know of… Not that it’s mine or anything, mind you… Anyway, that monkey tried parachuting about fifteen years ago. At this time the technology wasn’t anything near perfect, and Monkey gave up after trying to jump with plastic groceries bags.
Now Singi-Singea (it’s his name. He’s from France.) wanted to try [...]

Slowly reaching 2.0.0…

Friday, January 20th, 2006

Our last release was on November 8th, much more time than usual before two releases! I think we’re finally seeing the end of the tunnel, since this release we’ve only been fixing stuff, updating the manual to something less shameless, and mostly doing grunt work…
Now, there’s only one page of the manual left to write, [...]

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