Older blog entries for Alphax (starting at number 5)

21 Oct 2006 (updated 26 Oct 2006 at 02:51 UTC) »

Advogato stripping URLs from my notes?

Well, that's odd. On my account page, the URLs in my "notes" section appear to have been stripped. They're still in the database, but they're not being rendered. Is it because I'm not certified, or what?

Edit: I'm now certified and links are working again. Hooray on both counts.

Wikimedia news

Wikibooks, Wiktionary and Wikiversity are all getting new logos; Wikiversity is a (relatively) new project which originated on Wikibooks and currently has a stylised mortarboard as its logo. You can read more at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Logo.

Meanwhile, I've been given another 3 jobs in various places: CheckUser on Wikimedia commons, CheckUser list admin, and English Wikipedia list admin. And I'm now a chanop on so many Wikimedia IRC channels that I can't remember them all. "The reward for a job well done is another three jobs" -- David Gerard.

Updating SUSE not recommended?

According to http://en.opensuse.org/Updating_SUSE_Linux, "Updating from one version to another is unsupported and may result in system inconsistencies. Performing distribution upgrades in the running system increases the risk of causing damage."

Does that mean that upgrading from 10.0 to 10.1 (a few packages at a time over dialup using YOU) is going to break my system?

Will I be able to resolve all of the dependency conflicts that YAST says will occur every time I think about updating a core package?

I just did some "translation" work over at lanchpad.net; translating English into Australian English. It would be nice if there was an option to copy the translations verbatim from another language...

In other news, I've decided that I'm not going to try to update to SUSE 10.1 until after exams, which is probably a good idea; finding the NVidia drivers and instructions on what to do with them was hard enough.

Well, Wikisource got a new logo; a stylized version of the old one. You can take a look at it here.

In other news, the SVN trunk of GPG now includes support for DSA2 keys. The good news: DSA is no longer limited to using SHA-1 or RIPEMD-160. The bad news: a DSA2 key still doesn't have a hash function firewall, and can only use a hash of length greater or equal to what it's designed for.

In other other news, I have exams. Damn.

The English Wikipedia hit 1,000,000 articles the other day. Hooray.

On a side note, I hit 1,000 article edits today. Also hooray.

26 Jan 2006 (updated 6 Feb 2006 at 13:37 UTC) »
New Wikisource logo

A new logo for Wikisource, a sister project of Wikipedia, is being decided. If you feel like designing one, go for it!

Edit: Updated page is here.

New Advogato Features

New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.

Keep up with the latest Advogato features by reading the Advogato status blog.

If you're a C programmer with some spare time, take a look at the mod_virgule project page and help us with one of the tasks on the ToDo list!