• Walter Haut’s sealed Roswell affidavit

    I’ve found the full text of the affidavit (from Witness to Roswell), with some discussion of it. Everyone is agreed that something was covered up at Roswell in 1947. This affidavit is a brilliant twist in the story so far! Wonder what the soon-to-be-declassified British Intelligence files will be able to add.

  • HPLIP 2.7.6 packaged

    Last week I packaged a new major version of HPLIP for Fedora. One of the biggest changes is that it no longer requires daemons running in the background (i.e. the “hplip” service, being hpiod and hpssd) for its functionality. At long last!

  • Unsettled weather

    The weather has been quite unsettled and difficult to predict in the last few weeks. But I will say this: it makes for interesting clouds to look at.

  • Eating outdoors

    I love the idea of eating outside, but when it comes to it I don’t particularly enjoy having insects I don’t know what are buzzing round me. Next time I find myself in that situation I’ll have to remember to look at the Tree of Life Project (found via things magazine) to see if I…

  • “New Printer” bubbles: working (almost)

    I just built hal-cups-utils-0.6.11-2.fc8 which finishes off the “new printer” notifications. It’s all working, except for bugs in other packages: libnotify isn’t telling me when the user has clicked the “Configure” button (this bug is driving me mad trying to chase it down) SELinux is now preventing HPLIP from probing for attached printers, so we…