In the process of moving a couple of times in recent years, I've lost a couple of cd's. If anyone could provide me with these cd's I'd be very thankful. I'm looking for original (shipit) cd's of:

Ubuntu 4.10
Ubuntu 5.04
Ubuntu 7.10
Ubuntu 8.10

If you have a spare copy, send me a message, and we'll arrange for pickup/delivery.

I've generated 2 new GPG keys. You can find them at:

http://martijn.sudo-s.net/misc/mcielen.gmail.txt
http://martijn.sudo-s.net/misc/martijn.sudo-s.txt

Please don't use my old keys anymore.

Obviously the title of this post is highly ironic.
Just seen 2 items in the news:

1. a. Prime minister's salary is 11000 euro/month NET
b. Belgacom CEO's salary is 40000 euro/month NET

2. More and more people in Belgium have problems paying their bills.

But nothing is wrong with capitalism (sic)

... for Hush Puppies.

I bought a pair of Hush Puppies on April 3. As they fitted well I obviously didn't keep the ticket. Last week however, I saw that the soles of both shoes were coming loose, so I called the store to ask if it was still possible to do something about it. Their answer was very polite and very satisfying.
Today I went back to the store and got a new pair of (different) Hush Puppies.

Good job Hush Puppies!

Today I released the initial version of a Drupal Module called "Simplest Gallery".
This module will allow you to create a (almost) zero-config image gallery. More information at http://drupal.org/project/simplestgallery and live demo at http://martijn.sudo-s.net/gallery

I've just finished my first Drupal module. It's called identica, and provides integration with... yes Identica. It's basically a modified version of the Twitter module, but as you can see on my Identica-account, it works perfect.
I filed a cvs account request at Drupal, and am hoping to be approved within the next few hours/days. Once my account is approved, I'll release the module.

As from today I'll be trying to Twitter a bit. Funny thing is, this post is also announced on Twitter, thanks to Drupal's Twitter module.
If you want to follow me on Twitter, go to http://twitter.com/mcielen.

I'm also on identi.ca (http://identi.ca/mcielen)

This is a spam message I received today:

Dear Sudo

I am Barrister Ken Ahia a solicitor at law. I am the
personal attorney to Late .Mr. Ali Sudo, who
bears the same last name with you a national of your
country, who used to work with Amizi Oli

See My Attach Message

Best regards,

Barrister Ken Ahia.

For the record: my last name is not Sudo :-p

Apple today announced iPhone OS 3.0

Most important new features:

- peer to peer connectivity
- turn by turn navigation
- cut, copy and paste
- landscape mode in all key applications, including email, this also features a bigger on-screen keyboard
- MMS
- voice memos, which you can trim on the iPhone and send by mail or mms
- CalDAV support
- Search: you will now be able to search in all key applications, including mail, calendar, iTunes and notes

As of today it will be available as a Developer Beta and "this summer" it'll be released as a free update for iPhone 3G owners.

Just like Dustin Kirkland, I too read planet.ubuntu.com every day. Well, almost every day. And just like Dustin, I too read Aaron Toponce's blog posts regularly.

I was flabbergasted by today's post Server Migration From Ubuntu 8.04 To Debian 5.0

Aaron writes:

For example, when I wanted to host my web site on it, I needed to know how to make that happen. I found a HOWTO on howtoforge for installing Apache, as well as ISPConfig, and a number of other packages that I realise now were not necessary. In fact, I ended up removing ISPConnfig a couple years later, as it was causing problems with logs, consuming a large amount of RAM, and just getting in the way.

Well, I have run this setup for a while professionally, and never got a problem with it's stability, nor it's logs, nor it's RAM consumption.

Then I wanted to run my own email server. Not knowing how to set an email server up, I fiddled with Exim, Sendmail, Postfix and others, failing at every pass, and further causing havoc on the filesystem and DPKG database. Eventually, I found the help I needed from a friend, and was able to get a Postfix server up and running as an external MTA. There were many other services I messed with from time to time, testing this out or the other, slowly filling the filesystem with pointless stuff. In a nutshell, what I’m trying to say, is the Ubuntu 8.04 install, while functional, was no longer pretty. It was hackish at best.

What do you mean not knowing how to set up a mail server? I, for one, am certainly not an expert in this matter, but I've managed to set up postfix in about one hour, following an excellent howto, which I think was provided by howtforge.

Now, with that said, I personally have never had any problems with my LTS server, either Dapper 6.06 or Hardy 8.04. But do I want to risk it? Should I chance it? While nothing may ever happen that causes critical concern for me with an LTS release, I feel more comfortable putting my trust in Debian stable than I do Ubuntu LTS.

Ehr? Excuse me? Let me rephrase that: "Now, with that said, I personally never had any problems with my knowledge. But do I want to risk it? Should I chance with it? While nothing may ever happen that causes concern for me with my knowledge, I feel more comfortable putting my trust in faith than I do in knowledge". Sounds insane? Well, maybe it does, but then again, if you never had problems with Ubuntu LTS, how can you feel more comfortable in running Debian stable, which is just upgraded, and thus hasn't proven it's stability yet?

The entire post sounds like an attempt to spread FUD to me, and imho doesn't belong on planet.ubuntu.com.