At EuroPython, I happily took advantage of the prepaid SIM card that you could order together with your ticket. However tethering with Wind (Italy) was not to work that simply. On Debian Wheezy I ended up with the following error:

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--> Modem initialized.
wvdial: utils/wvtask.cc:409: static void WvTaskMan …

I've been playing with the Finch, however today I was unhappy to discover that the robot stopped working again for non-root users. The Finch documentation helpfully links to this blog post on how to write a udev rule, which is the script I was using in the first place.

SUBSYSTEM …

A couple of weeks ago I started getting in trouble when trying to update my system (Debian Wheezy) via aptitude. A dozen or so packages were failing to configure, and while these failures occurred other packages couldn't install.

Output would contain things like this:

Setting up install-info (4.13a.dfsg …

Here's how I got Hibernate working on my Thinkpad X201, currently running Debian Squeeze.

First, make sure you have a swap partition at least as large as your RAM. Following that little incident last year, my swap had a different UUID and I never realised it was never mounted. Manually …

Another fantastic edition of FOSDEM is now finished. Many thanks to the organisers for another great job!

Amazingly, the Welcome talk managed to top off last year's FOSDEM dance, this time by making the audience contribute the music. I hope they do it again next year, it was kind of …