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Announcing This Week's Kubuntu Bug Day Target - Kdepim - Thursday, May 27, 2010

This week's Bug Day target is kdepim!

* 131 New bugs need a hug

* 5 Incompletes bugs

* 24 Confirmed bugs need a review

Bookmark it, add it to your calendars, turn over those egg-timers!

* Thursday, 27 May 2010

http://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugDay/20100527/KDE

Drupal and a lot of community modules do not work yet 100% with PHP 5.3. Therefore, in order to make it easier for any drupal administrators who wish to run the ubuntu lucid server, I have created a ppa that allows easy use of php5.2 packages that have been compiled under lucid: https://edge.launchpad.net/~txwikinger/+archive/php5.2

Rules for pinning this version are provided in the description of the ppa.

I have recently found a couple of really neat configurations that make my life using ssh a lot easier.

I often use ssh on non-standard ports. This is advantageous because of two different reasons. It allows to run multiple virtual machines being directly accessible via one IP address. This can be important because the IPv4 address space is very limited and somehow the jump to IPv6 is very slow.

After some precursory testing and analysis, the problem seems to be gnome-keyring if lernid will not start and crashed with an gnomekeyring IO error (also stating it cannot find the right information for the secrets file).

It seems the most simple workaround to resolve this problem is to just once start gnome-keyring-daemon. It seems to create the necessary files that the error in lernid does not occur.

In some browsers, like firefox, the document type XHTML 1.0 Transitional will not activate the Standard mode as used by XHTML 1.0 Strict, but instead an "Almost Standard" mode.

One of the important differences is the handling of images inside tables. If an img-element is used inside a td-element, in the strict mode, the bottom of the image is align with the baseline for text, and hence the rendering adds some space for the part of the letters that would be underneath that baseline (i.e. g or y). This means the rendered box has additional space underneath the image.

The world is in the middle of the worst financial crisis. One would think, it would be time to reflect and change direction. We are standing in front of crossroads which will decide if things will become better or will be even worse. However, the people in power do not seem to understand. In fact, they are still driven by greed. Let's recap what has happened, and how it could happened.

Copyright violations are in general always civil matters, i.e. the damaged parties must fight for their remedy themselves, the only penalty can be damages (even in some legislation these damages can be increased for intentional violations).

Thomas David (nemphis) has expressed this in an amazing and cool picture at his blog

It had to come this way. The Labour government has pushed the anti-terrorism laws further and further and asked everybody to trust them. The Minister should make the decision if someone would be put under house arrest without even consulting a judge. Now they want to be able to detain someone for 3 month without a judge.

I finally decided to join the community of bloggers, despite my resistance to it. In a world, where more people speak than listen, in which more opinions about any topic exist than political parties, it seems rather pretentious to think that a lonely voice could have a place.

Why did I join the multitudes of bloggers under these circumstances? I asked myself, what I would have to say. When I look around, I find that I might have a lot to say, maybe even some things that others would enjoy listening to.