• Broken power supply unit

    Having spent the morning trying to find a replacement PSU for my computer, I’m now left with the old broken one giving off a ‘slightly burnt’ smell in the corner of the room. So, how do you get rid of a broken power supply unit these days? I phoned up the local council to find…

  • Beaten to it

    Found: The Cube! Can it really have been two years since it started?

  • One page of scrap paper left

    For some time now I’ve been collecting single-sided paper (pages that are blank on one side, not some sort of Möbius stationery). I don’t mean I put them in albums. I collect them to re-use. There are kindly people in my neighbourhood that deliver one-sided paper straight to our door — usually estate agents trying…

  • First bug-fix since getting back!

    After being on holiday in North Devon for a week, I came back to work to find mountains of email and nearly a hundred messages from Bugzilla. Today I reached an important milestone of the week. The email is all read (or… let’s say, disposed of); the Fedora Core/Extras merge review changes requested to date…

  • Mike Sweet’s replacement for “(recommended)”

    Last week Mike added some code to CUPS to remove “(recommended)” from PPD NickName attributes, quite rightly saying that static recommendations without the benefit of the full context are not much use. Now he’s proposing a better system. See the full text of it, but here is a summary: new PPD attributes are proposed, to…