Right now evolution offers support for usenet newsgroups via nntp, but not support for rss. As newsgroup usage is going down and rss is _the_ news source for most internet savvy now, it is a good thing to see rss-support for evolution coming up. I wasn’t yet able to get the plugin compiled, but the screenshots on the project page look quite promising.
(Source: gnomefiles.org)
Like every year Thinkgeek features a very special product on April the 1st: The WiiHelm
The Gentoo Wiki has a cool tutorial on how to create your own cool background images with gimp. Basically it is a guide to the flame renderer and some color mapping but the results are impressive. I think the title “fractal backgrounds” is misleading because I don’t think these are fractal image but with some experimenting they look quite good. My first try took me like 5 minutes and looks like this:
You can download the full-size image by clicking on the thumbnail. The article in the Gentoo wiki also has some great example pictures for download.
After moving to a new office a month ago I had to switch from wifi to an ethernet connnection. This lead to a very unfortunate effect: while the boot process was very fast in the office and with the ethernet cable attached, at home or when traveling part of the init process was delayed by 2 minutes waiting for the dhcp timeout on the disconnected ethernet port.
Today a friend pointed me to a (german) website about configuring wpa_supplicant on ubuntu and there I stumbled upon ifplugd.
Ifplugd is a small daemon that watches ethernet ports for indicators of a connected cable. If or when a cable is attached the interface is brought up.
On gentoo the installation is very straightforward: after emerging “ifplugd” it is automatically used for all ethernet setups. So when I now start net.eth0 it quickly forks ifplugd and continues with the boot process. In case the cable is connected the interface is brought up by ifplugd and all dependent services like cups and samba are started.
I just found this funny cartoon in Caydels blog:
