Home, James

Since I didn’t actually come home from Debconf, but instead took a further week’s holiday and lazed around by the beach, I haven’t sat down to write anything about it yet. Most importantly, I should say thank you to Joey Hess, Steve McIntyre and Stefano Zacchiroli for arranging the Debconf Newbies programme, without which I…

At last, my body clock will be correct again

Note to self: because daylight saving time just ended and all the dak machines work in GMT, everything will happen at the advertised time again – not an hour later. Most significantly, the important dinstall run of the day is back at 00:52, and britney runs at 16:40 again. No more remembering to add an…

ftpmasters are rocking lately

My upload to NEW of pyquery the other day went through in an amazing time: Thu 13:36 RFP from Paul Wise Thu 19:08 I checked out the upstream source and started packaging Fri 10:59 Taniguchi Takaki sponsored it to NEW Fri 16:44 Barry deFreeze accepted it into unstable (all times GMT, because they cross zones…

No, bash, I don’t have any mail

Since some time earlier in the Summer, I’ve noticed this appearing a lot in a shells: You have mail in /var/mail/… You have mail in /home/…/Mail/… You have mail in /home/…/Mail/…/… and so on, yet when there really is new mail, the message is correct. I’ve filed it as bug #551487, but I can’t help…