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<title>Filed under: Debian | Nijel's Weblog</title>
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<dc:creator>Michal Čihař</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2010-09-08T15:49:45+02:00</dc:date>
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<title>Let's try flattr too</title>
<dc:date>2010-09-08T15:49:09+02:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Michal Čihař</dc:creator>
<dc:subject>Life, Debian</dc:subject>
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<![CDATA[<p>It looks like quite popular thing on <a href="http://planet.debian.org/">Planet Debian</a> to start using
<a href="https://flattr.com/">flattr</a>. I registered most of software on which I'm involved already week
ago, but I did not have much time publicizing it. Surprisingly people have found
things just on flattr without any external links. You can see all of them
listed on my <a href="https://flattr.com/profile/nijel">flattr profile</a>.</p>
<p>Today I decided to add my blog as a thing and integrated it to my blog, so you
can now see flattr button under each post. I decided not to spread this into
RSS, at least for now :-).</p>
<p>If you have not yet heard about flattr it is social micropayment site (lot of
buzzwords included, so it has to be cool, right?), where you need to register,
put there little amount of money and it will be spread each month among
projects you "flattr". Sounds like a nice idea for appreciating free software.</p>]]>
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<link>http://blog.cihar.com/archives/2010/02/04/travel_agenda_before_fosdem/</link>
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<title>Travel agenda before FOSDEM</title>
<dc:date>2010-02-04T14:40:18+02:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Michal Čihař</dc:creator>
<dc:subject>Real life, Travelling, Debian</dc:subject>
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<![CDATA[<p>In last few days I spent some time with travel agenda. Tomorrow morning I am
leaving for <a href="http://fosdem.org/2010/">FOSDEM</a>, so I'm arranging last minutes things like online
checking. Whoever wants to meet me just drop me an email or just check
<a href="http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=Y2loYXIuY29tXzMxaGwyYW1ta2FudjU1Nmo3Y2RtajcyaW8wQGdyb3VwLmNhbGVuZGFyLmdvb2dsZS5jb20&amp;mode=AGENDA">things I want to visit</a> and find me there.</p>
<p>Meanwhile got open registration for <a href="http://debconf10.debconf.org/">Debconf 10</a>, so when I was in
travelling mood, I also filled in that one. Right now it looks like it will be
quite tough for me to pay this trip, but there is still some time to sort it
out :-).</p>]]>
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<link>http://blog.cihar.com/archives/2009/12/08/prague_airport_prices/</link>
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<title>Prague airport prices</title>
<dc:date>2009-12-08T11:57:40+02:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Michal Čihař</dc:creator>
<dc:subject>Travelling, Debian</dc:subject>
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<![CDATA[<p><a href="http://madduck.net/blog/2009.12.06:pilsner-urquell/">Martin</a>, Prague airport used to be (one of) most expensive airport for
food and drinks prices. They recently reduced prices quite a lot, but I still
think they fully qualify to be in the group of most expensive airports.</p>
<p>But it has great advantage that every other airport looks cheap for us.
This is almost same as prices for taxi, which is also usually cheaper than in
Prague :-).</p>]]>
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<title>Going to FOSDEM 2010</title>
<dc:date>2009-12-04T12:49:41+02:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Michal Čihař</dc:creator>
<dc:subject>Life, phpMyAdmin, Debian</dc:subject>
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<![CDATA[<p>Some time ago we decided in phpMyAdmin team to create yet another team meeting
(after five years) at FOSDEM 2010. It took some time, but now I should have
all travel things arranged (thanks to my employer who sends me there).</p>
<p>So if anybody wants to meet there, just drop me an email and I will try to put
you on my schedule.</p>]]>
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<link>http://blog.cihar.com/archives/2009/11/26/ubuntu_bugs_for_second_time/</link>
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<title>Ubuntu bugs for second time</title>
<dc:date>2009-11-26T15:16:00+02:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Michal Čihař</dc:creator>
<dc:subject>Debian</dc:subject>
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<![CDATA[<p>It looks like my <a href="http://blog.cihar.com/archives/2009/11/25/ubuntu_bugs/">post about bugs in Ubuntu</a> has received a bit more
attention than I expected for few lines of ranting :-). Most interesting
reactions came to <a href="http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=412">Lucas Nussbaum's blog</a>.</p>
<p>There were nice explanations how it is supposed to work, but the problem is
that people out there can not manage that amount of bugs. It is possible, that
for some core packages, they manage to do the job. However most bug reports
will probably go to some leaf packages, which are not that important, but lot
of people use them.</p>
<p>I started to interest in bugs in Ubuntu when I noticed that there is some huge
number of bugs linked on <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/phpmyadmin.html">phpMyAdmin's PTS page</a>. There was something like
50 too much bugs. After quick look I could see that most of them are
duplicates. After little fight with ajaxy interface, I even managed to mark
most of them as duplicates and fix it in Debian package. But as somebody with
no knowledge of Ubuntu (and not willing to learn internals of yet another
distribution, I think Debian and OpenSUSE is enough), I really have no idea
what could be done to push some bug fix to existing release. So once some
Ubuntu release (The Lucid Lynx in this case) got new version, I marked the bug
as fixed. This is probably not that nice to users, but somebody from Ubuntu
community should take care of them.</p>
<p>Off-topic PS: If anybody is interested in Google Wave invitations, just write
me an email, I currently have 15 without any use.</p>]]>
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<title>Ubuntu bugs</title>
<dc:date>2009-11-25T09:48:13+02:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Michal Čihař</dc:creator>
<dc:subject>Debian</dc:subject>
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<![CDATA[<p>For quite a long time I wonder, if there is anybody looking at bugs reported
in Ubuntu. Whenever I look at bugs reported in Ubuntu on some of packages I
maintain in Debian, there is huge amount of them. Most of them are simple
duplicates, but still it indicates that nobody have looked at them. Some are
simply something what should be forwarded upstream, while some are clearly
packaging bugs, which I usually fix. However I think there should be somebody
at Ubuntu side looking at them and forwarding them to right place...</p>]]>
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<title>Back home from Spain</title>
<dc:date>2009-08-05T13:21:56+02:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Michal Čihař</dc:creator>
<dc:subject>Real life, Debian</dc:subject>
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<![CDATA[<p>Yesterday I arrived back from Spain and DebConf, so I should be finally back
on track to process mails, bug reports and other similar things. If you're
waiting for my reply more than month, you should be soon handled ;-).</p>
<p>I really enjoyed DebConf and meeting all the people there. And as well I did
enjoy rest of travel through Spain. Except the day when they stole my backpack
in Barcelona. But I can hardly do anything about that, it just made my
vacation quite expensive because loosing my DSLR camera with lenses.</p>]]>
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<title>Good bye Cáceres</title>
<dc:date>2009-07-30T23:30:23+02:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Michal Čihař</dc:creator>
<dc:subject>Debian</dc:subject>
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<![CDATA[<p>It has been really nice week in here, but it's time to leave. Last night,
wake up in the morning and leave by train (in my case to explore Barcelona).</p>
<p>Thanks to all people who organised DebConf 9, from my POV everything went
really smoothly and I enjoyed time here. I finally met people I meet daily on
the mailing lists and now I can finally imagine people behind those email
addresses.</p>
<p>Now it's time to pack my things and finally have some sleep, otherwise I will
not be able to wake up tomorrow and I will miss my hardly booked train.</p>]]>
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<title>Time of changes in Debian?</title>
<dc:date>2009-07-29T12:28:00+02:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Michal Čihař</dc:creator>
<dc:subject>Debian</dc:subject>
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<![CDATA[<p>It looks like some things will be changing in Debian in next months. The most
known thing which is already widespread know is switching to time based freeze
cycles, what should make us synchronised with Ubuntu LTS release cycles. This
gives advantage of sharing work done on security support, because both
distribution will be quite similar code base.</p>
<p>The other thing which we saw today is new website proposal. From what I could
see in the audience, it has been accepted quite positively, so maybe Debian
will finally have nice looking website in (near?) future. The discussion
showed up that also somebody else is working on that, so we will have even two
competing proposals. I just hope it will not end up in some huge flamewar :-).</p>]]>
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<title>I love Spanish Railways</title>
<dc:date>2009-07-13T16:11:49+02:00</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Michal Čihař</dc:creator>
<dc:subject>Debian</dc:subject>
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<![CDATA[<p>I never thought I will have such big trouble to buy train tickets online. Some
hints for anybody who has not managed it so far:</p>
<ul>
<li>Do not even try to register in English, it will fail for some obscure
  reason.</li>
<li>Once the thing has failed, it has so broken javascript that you have to
  reload it.</li>
<li>Relax your spam filters, otherwise you will not get any mail from them.</li>
<li>If you have only one credit card, you might be lost. Mine did not work and I
  had to use another one.</li>
<li>Be patient, when your third payment attempt ended nowhere.</li>
<li>If you are not sure whether you booked or not, you can find existing
  bookings under Mis viajes / Impresión.</li>
</ul>
<p>But finally I have the tickets from Caceres to Barcelona. I'm going to manage
rest on the way.</p>]]>
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