As you may know, Apache’s mod_authzn_ldap allows to authenticate users in
Apache HTTP server using an LDAP server. Unfortunately, it has a little
implementation flaw.
I spend too much time writing Emacs Lisp code these days. Unfortunately, the
more I do the more I find new useful tools to improve my work-flow and save
time for doing more Lisp. D’oh.
Last week, I spent some time implementing various color manipulation
routines. The ultimate goal was to find a way to determine if a text in
a certain color was readable on a background with a different color.
Org-mode has a nice option which allows you to show
week-end days in a different color in your agenda. That means that Saturday
and Sunday (when I do not work) are fontified with org-agenda-date-weekend.
Last week, I worked on my
Google Maps for Emacs
extension. I’ve introduced a new format handling for locations which include
the longitude and latitude. The initial format was just a string describing
the location, which was obviously too limited.
We all know the good old Emacs mode-line you got under every window. Since
the beginning (a long time ago), it starts and ends with dashes. I’ve
proposed a patch
to remove them.
Recent Emacs versions have a wonderful capacity to hide the mouse pointer as
soon as you type and insert characters in a buffer. This is controlled by
the `make-pointer-invisible’ variable, which is set to t by default.
I recently decided to use
OfflineIMAP to synchronize
my mails on my laptop. It’s a great piece of software, and allows me to read
my mail while I’m offline.
Since I have started to use Org-mode, I though it was missing something to
have appointment locations on a map. Of course, it’s easy to get a LOCATION
property from an entry, and then browse-url on Google Maps.
Two years ago, while working on awesome, I joined the Freedesktop initiative
to work on XCB. I had to learn the arcane of the X11 protocol and all the
mysterious and old world that goes with it.
I’m trying to work on XCB this week. And today I’ve started to accomplish
the second step of a long term goal: making an X11 only library using XCB as
its primary interface instead of Xlib.
It’s not that often that I start something from scratch. It’s an amazing
feeling to start a new project, to start writing something new. I like
that. It’s creation, it’s an artistic part of our computing stuff. I feel
like a code artist.
Last year, I told you I wanted to use
Sieve to
filter my mail. I did not switch, because of the lacking implementation of
some Sieve features inside Dovecot, my preferred
IMAP server.
I’ve started to develop awesome more than 18
months ago, and somehow I feel it’s time to stop a bit and think where we
come from and where we are going to.
Since several month, awesome users have
reported a bug with OpenOffice.org. When using
OOo and clicking on a menu, or using the mouse wheel to read a document, the
currently selected tag (desktop) will change automagically to another one.
I’ve started using Lua some months ago, while looking
for a more powerful way to configure awesome.
At this time, around March 2008, Lua seemed to be the best language to
integrate inside the core system of awesome.
I still don’t know why but many GTK+ applications use something called
eggtrayicon. As far as I know, eggtrayicon.c is a file written in 2002 by
Anders Carlsson which implements the Freedesktop.org system
tray procotol for
GTK+ applications.
Ben Armstrong opened an ITP for the ATL1ENIC
driver, which is found on some Asus EeePC
laptops. So, as suggested by Maximilian Attems, I provided a clean patch
for this
driver, made
from a cherry-pick from the linux-netdev 2.6.27 tree. It has been committed
into the 2.6.26-1 Debian kernel, which will be furnished with Lenny.
