def monitor_session (*args):
    pass

try:
    bus = dbus.SessionBus()
    bus.add_signal_receiver (monitor_session)
except:
    print >> sys.stderr, "%s: failed to connect to session D-Bus" % \
          PROGRAM_NAME
    sys.exit (1)

If you don't know D-Bus or Python: It listens to all signals on session bus and does nothing with them. All this code causes is eating up memory and CPU cycles when there is some higher load on session bus.

PS: Maybe I miss some nice idea behind this code, please enlighten me.

While talking about this improving phpMyAdmin, phpMyAdmin team would also like to take part in Hackontest, so vote and suggest there features for us! If you have no idea for phpMyAdmin, Debian is also taking part there ;-).

So if you wrote me something, just try to be patient, sending another emails to urge your issue won't help anybody. I will just have more unread mail to process until I get to real work.

News in this release:

• Added support for iTesco.cz.

And what I'm still talking about? It's a module for adding measuring code for various web auditing systems used in Czechia. I didn't wanted to hack this somehow into templates and module which will provide block with those looks as best solution to me. You can get it on Drupal pages.

Let's take one of older ones - Wammu. It was started long time ago, it really does not get any major code changes for several years and I still don't want to make 1.0 release there. The reason is that I think that many things could be done better there. However there are quite lot of users which use it and they probably consider it stable enough :-). But they will have to live with 0.x versions as I do not plan 1.0 at all for now even if it maybe deserves it :-).

Different case is Ukolovnik. It does not have tons of features, but it's enough for me and it will be 1.0 soon. I have features to add, but I don't thing that RPC interface has to be in 1.0, it can be just thing added later.

However I really didn't like patching acpid on every update and there didn't seem to be chance to merge it upstream, so I started to look for better solution. After another amount of googling, I found that HAL already has some support for Toshiba hotkeys. Unfortunately it is now disabled in Debian because most key did not emit anything using HAL.

Okay, let's fix the HAL, maybe it will get later enabled. Converting FnFX keymap to C code was quite easy and I made a patch for HAL to add support for all keys. Hopefully it get merged soon and I can then file bug on Debian package to reenable Toshiba support in HAL.

Meanwhile I'd like to find some generic way of configuring what happens on these events. For now I hacked simple Python script which listens to DBUS events and invokes appropriate commands for keys, but I hope that some such tool already exists and I just missed it. If you know something, please let me know at michal@cihar.com.

• Fixed double SQL escaping in some cases.
• New Swedish translation.

Let's hope that this activity will also help to improve Debian package which is not really in good state, but I promised not to hijack it till the end of year ;-) (so for now I temporarily hack it in my repository).

PS: I know ICQ is evil, but I don't have enough power to force all my contacts to start using Jabber.