Ohboyohboyohboy. After three long months, I'm finally receiving my DSL modem. Already got a bunch of microfilters, installed PPPoE and set up an account at DynDNS. I can't wait to have a semi-decent broadband link up and running.

Fixed a couple of bloopers in the transaction progress bar in rpm, packaged the new aptitude and a fresh CVS snapshot of the RPM-enabled APT. apt-get still spits out some weird percentages and reports bad installed package sizes, and I expect to squish these bugs tomorrow. Scheduled for a future release: a more sophisticated dependency checking algorithm (rpmlib's isn't exactly fast, and doesn't seem to be completely bug-free).

The strange hardware zoo is growing at Conectiva. Aris dumped his PC workstation and installed an old Sparc SLC (mono, of course). At my left is pcpa's Xinerama monster. USB ethernet and wireless stuff are gaining popularity. Also in the neighbourhood: aris' Philips Velo running Linux, an iMac DV with Debian, a rackmount Compaq server, Happy Hacking keyboards, Sony VAIOs, MP3 players, nerf guns, and an impressive pile of empty coke cans.

Let's see how usbmgr deals with mice hot-plugging in X. If it doesn't work out of the box, I have a cheat ready >:)