Postings tagged with Lazy Web
12" widescreen notebook for Linux?
Hello Lazyweb,
I am looking for a robust 12" widescreen notebook with proper Linux support (working suspend mode, robust USB support, and so on). Most of the time I'd use it within some docking-station as desktop replacement, so it should have some proper CPU. Still I'd like to use it for traveling, so heavy 14" notebooks are out of choice.
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Launchpad's Personal Package Archives
Probably inspired by openSUSE's Build Service Launchpad provides this excellent Personal Package Archive (PPA) service.
It's quite exciting service: You just request your PPA, upload your source packages via dput command, and get them built within freshly setup Ubuntu environments. When building succeeds your packages are placed within some apt-get repository. No further maintenance steps required.
Unfortunately the service is not perfect yet: It seems to be ...
How to participate, when your ISP is blacklisted?
Dear Lazy Web, how can I send messages to gtk-devel-list, when my public IP address (better the public IP address of a NAT router in Vodafone's network) is black listed? Using a smart host doesn't help, as that blocked IP address shows up in the "Received:" mail headers. Using web mail also doesn't help for the same reason.
Is it time to give up mail, and move all activities to web forums? I'd hate that. ...
iconv transliterations
This is a lazy web request.
In GNOME world we use the g_convert, which conveniently wraps the iconv library, to convert between character sets. A feature I considered quite useful was the builtin transliteration support: When adding the "//TRANSLIT" suffix to the target character set's name, iconv shall try to convert characters not present in the target charset to their most reasonable equivialent. For example "Schlüssel" should become "Schluessel" when converting from UTF-8 to ASCII and "доброй вечер" could become ...
