machine-envy

I’ve no idea why it has taken so long to find it, but have a look at esp package manager. It’s simple and it works. An example configuration file to show you what I mean:
## Metadata
%product Foo
%copyright 2000-2007 by Foowhizzer.
%vendor Foocom
%license COPYING
%readme README
%description Foo server.
%version 2.2.2 1
## Filelist
$prefix=/usr/local
f 755 root sys ${prefix}/bin/foo […]

Just in case, as I did, you think of running a mixed windows/linux network using a samba PDC then here’s something to be aware of. When mounting the smbfs filesystem from linux, you will get CIFS extensions. Great - your uids will be the same on server and client. However, winbind will […]

Two reasons to drop in on openDemocracy this week. The first is a pilot podcast, 20 minutes of audio journalism that takes in Sidney Blumenthal’s view on the Democrats’ victory in the states, Alain de Botton’s view on architecture, and prospects for an independent South Ossetia, as well as vox pops from the oD team. […]

A few people commented on my previous post asking if I knew how to get the n80 working with bluetooth. File transfer works out of the box using gnome-obex-server, but the modem was a little more tricky. The chat scripts seemed to not get any response.
Turns out, nokia have changed the bluetooth channel […]

My new phone arrived from Orange yesterday. It’s a brand new nokia N80 with the kind of contract you can only get by threatening to dump your mobile provider. The N80 is a phone that you can turn on itside and use as a 3 megapixel camera. The good points of the phone […]