Tag archive 'Ubuntu and Debian Watch'

Donations to free software

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2008-06-06

In the end of May I made a $ 100 USD donation to Software in the Public Interest, Inc. (SPI). As usual I encourage other users to make a small donation as well.

Donations to SPI
Project	Amount
Total USD	$ 100
Debian Project	$ 50
FreeDesktop.org	$ 25
PostgreSQL	$ 10
OpenOffice.org	$ 10
SPI General Fund	$ 5

This is a doubling of my contribution to SIP from last year with the introduction of the FreeDesktop.org and OpenOffice.org projects.

I have not made any contributions to KDE, ev. yet. Though I will most probably donate funds later this year too.

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Fixing KNetworkManager in Debian

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2008-04-24

KNetworkManager, KDE’s front‐end to network-manager, requires to be run as root to operate the network interfaces. Sounds like a familiar problem? The solution is to add the user running KNetworkManager to the netdev group using a tool such as KUser.

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Starting over

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2008-04-10

I want to apply all I have learned about GNU/Linux and Debian over the last six months. So I am prepering to reinstall my entire system from scratch. Thus avoiding all the configuration errors I have had the last six months.

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