One of my favourite plugins for pidgin is pidgin-blinklight, which blinks my ThinkPad’s ThinkLight upon the arrival of new messages. Pretty useful as it is not as annoying (especially for others around you) as playing weird sounds. Unfortunately such a plugin is not available for other messengers like psi - but you’re able to specify your own sound player. So I came up with the following script, which is my default sound player in psi now. »
Since a few days a new revision of gpsd is available in Debian/experimental. If you’re a gpsd user, please give it a try as it contains various changes to the debconf templates and the config script. Although I don’t expect any problems, it is better to test it well. Also there’re several updates of the template translations missing and I want to give the translators some more time before uploading the package to unstable. »
Today was the first day I needed a tool to rip an audio CD after the removal of grip from testing/unstable. Unfortunately I did not find an appropriate replacement yet. At the moment I’m using asunder, which is nice, but missing a lot of the features grip had. Dear lazyweb, is there a proper replacement for grip out there, or is anybody willing to take over the upstream maintenance for grip? »
As we needed it for one of our customers, I’ve started to add support for Debian to the Ubuntu VMBuilder. My changes are not merged into trunk yet, but you can get them by running bzr branch lp:~bzed/vmbuilder/debian. At the moment there is only support for Etch, I’ll add Lenny and Squeeze as soon as I find the time for it, probably next week - patches are welcome. »
As there’re several, more or less well working howtos about creating udev rules to allow access to the USB debug devices of Android phones out there in the wild, I decided to write my own one. The udev rules file I provide here works at least for the HTC Dream models (aka T-Mobile G1 and Google Devphone) and the ZTE Blade (aka Orange San Francisco), probably for other phones, too. »