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(19:04:49) Vuen: Chewbacca is made with curly brackets
(19:04:50) Vuen: omfg
(19:04:53) Vuen: i'm loling my ass off
(19:07:04) topyli: this is too nerdy. watching ascii star wars over telnet, with another nerd on irc
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(19:07:21) Vuen: yep this is up there with the nerdiest things i've ever done
(19:07:56) sharperguy: i want some e-corn

You can watch the ASCII Star Wars by telnetting to towel.blinkenlights.nl

I’ve always liked keeping my stuff on Other People’s servers so I’ve taken my "Packages" page offsite. The package files themselves were never on this site but at Box.net, I simply wrote a local page to describe and point to them. Now I’ve moved the packages to eSnips which sucks a lot less than Box.net(*). eSnips also lets me add nice descriptions for each package, so a dedicated "Packages" page is no longer needed here. Subsequently, I moved the link to the packages from the sidebar’s Site Menu to the topyli on the Web section. Let’s see if you can find it! :-)

I also uploaded a few new packages:

• The new, Cairo-based, purrty Murrine GTK+ theme engine
• The latest (and last) svn snapshot of the Exaile! media player for Dapper (synic has upgraded to Edgy.) synic did provide a .deb but it already depended on too new a libatk1.0-0. So I built my own package
• A new F-Spot
• gaim-extprefs and gaim-guifications which work with gaim2 beta3.1
• Last-exit 2.0

I removed two obsolete packages:

• Exaile 0.1
• gnome-phone-manager 0.7 since it has been uploaded to Dapper as a backport and you can apt-get it

(*) Not that Box.net really sucks a whole lot. Their services were always available, and one shouldn’t be too picky when you get free storage. I just didn’t particularly like their user interface, and WebDAV didn’t work too well.

Stumbled upon this post by Pasquale on the p3nfs Google group and immediately had to try mounting my new Nokia E70’s filesystem. It works!

So far I’ve had to browse the files as root in order to be able to modify them. (That’s why you’re seeing the good ol’ mc file manager instead of Nautilus.) Also, unlike the nfsapp I used on the 9300, this one binds to channel 5, which almost got me tricked. (The python nfsapp is very fresh indeed, which means there’s no documentation at all.) Otherwise, life is good!

North Korea’s nuclear experiment has effects on the Internet too, of course. I think this GIF was inevitable. Leaders really should take more responsibility of their actions. Don’t they see that whenever they’re acting stupid, the Interweb will place sanctions immediately, and the sanctions have a devastating effect on netizens’ productivity!

Thanks to tigert for the discovery.

Being allergic to pretty much everything, I was glad to hear about Allerca, a company producing genetically engineered cats that won’t bother allergic people (or as they prefer to say, "lifestyle pets"). A minor drawback is the $4000 prize tag (close to $6000 since apparently i live "overseas"), but the preposterous EULA looks like it came from a proprietary software shop.

"Purchaser shall not sell or transfer any Cat purchased hereunder to anyone other than an immediate family member, and shall not offer to any person the purchase of a Cat or any genetic material from a Cat, the rights Purchaser may have under this Agreement, or any other right related hereto, without the Company’s express written authorization."

The cats are sold neutered of course, so that only Allega can provide them. No free kitties for the neighborood! Reminds me of Monsanto selling farmers new seed every year. Oh well. Maybe I’ll get myself a GEGL instead.

(via Wendy’s Blog and Boing Boing)