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DebConf11 in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina

March 1, 2010 – 8:26 pm by AbsintheSyringe
This moment has finally arrived! Last Saturday (27-th) on #debconf-team decision was made, DebConf11 is coming to Bosnia and Herzegovina!  :victory: Our team and myself were working on this whole candidature for last ~9 months, and even though we put incredibly amounts on energy, hard work, enthusiasm and everything else that goes along with it, suspense and uncertainty were there until the very last minute!  One of our local team members (trip0d's) wife almost gave a birth to their child during the decision process that lasted full 4 hours :clap: As a remainder we were competing with Ecuador and Germany to win this bid, whole process was excruciating and very emotionally distressful in every possible aspect for every team member; at one point Germany took a slight lead ahead of Bosnian team, while in the end by "points" Bosnia was in slight lead by 0.25 points, and this is exactly what ...

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DebConf11; nü Banja Luka wiki

February 25, 2010 – 5:23 pm by AbsintheSyringe
Almost all of wiki contents got updated, so please take your time to review it all, once again :heh: "nü" was more of a symbolic meaning, since in meantime we solved our bids "weakest links" and pretty much got it "mature" and at the stage we were aiming it to be. We'll still make some minor changes to it until the final decision date (in 47 hours) but this is it really :party: So without further ado, let me introduce you to our nü wiki :announce: Since besides changing pretty much the whole wiki we have also added (important) new pages for: Banja Luka and Republika Srpska We have added a new pages to bring Banja Luka and Republika Srpska closer to every potential visitor. Full Government Support Today we have received the most important information when it comes to our bid. Today government council sitting was done, where one of the topics was ...

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Jahorina

February 23, 2010 – 2:52 am by AbsintheSyringe
Every winter ... I just get incredibly damp and ... depressed :wilt: Well this year, I've found an ultimate remedy + stress "reliever" since I'm all jumpy around DebConf11 decision coming around this Saturday :fingersxd: So to whoever has the same problem during winter ... take your board/skies (whatever your fix is) and hit the mountains! This weekend I went to Bosnian "Olympic" mountain Jahorina; couple of days later ... stress free, depression free and ready for new challenges, in the meantime I'll let pictures talk for themselves ;) My friend and I

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Life without evolution

January 31, 2010 – 7:15 pm by AbsintheSyringe
I'm using Gnome as my default DE after my KDE4 dissapointment, however what's bothering me for some time now is that I have to "live" with applications that I don't even use or like for that matter. So why "live" with those? Well if I try to remove some of those applications it'll want to "pull down" my whole DE along with them, however I couldn't believe solution was so simple. Applications I don't want to live with are: evolution, epiphany, empathy, ekiga, liferea, gnome-accessibility and couple of others. Step 1 might seem as it wants to remove "whole" DE, but it all it wants is gnome-desktop-environment which is meta/dummy package so don't worry. Step 1: sudo apt-get remove epiphany epiphany-browser-data epiphany-data empathy empathy-doc libempathy30 libempathy-common libempathy-gtk28 liferea liferea-data evolution ekiga gok dasher orca gnome-accessibility openoffice.org-evolution evolution-common evolution-data-server evolution-webcal Step 2: sudo aptitude keep-all Step 3: After you're done, you can use sudo apt-get autoremove or sudo aptitude ...

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Lone developer

January 7, 2010 – 6:05 pm by AbsintheSyringe
I've been around Debian for some time, however am not a "official" Debian Developer and I can't become "overnight" because country I live in (Bosnia) and I have no one to sign my key. I doubt I could easily do it in Croatia or Serbia my neighboring countries. This is definitely another reason why I'm pursuing to have DebConf11 in Balkans (read: Bosnia). I didn't get my key signed on DebConf9 since I hesitated whether to keep my old DSA 768 bit key or not. However by the end of this month I'm planning to visit some friends on TUWIEN and planing to meet up with some DD from Vienna and get my key signed. Btw I'd like to use this opportunity to call all DD residing in Vienna (Rhonda?) to contact me :) So what am talking about after all? Thunderbird 3.0 was released 29 ago, Icedove 3.0 is in experimental ...

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