Anmerkungen über das Leben, das Universum und den ganzen Rest
Fedora 22 is just around the corner and while upgrading my machine, I decided to completely ditch Gnome’s Evolution in favor of Mozilla Thunderbird. I had already switched a while back, but still had tons of mail in an old local Evolution account I wanted to migrate. Unfortunately all HowTos I found on the web …
„How to quickly migrate mail from Evolution to Thunderbird with Dovecot“ weiterlesen
Last weekend I attended Linuxwochen Wien for the first time. I heard a lot about the event, so I totally wanted to go there. Now that I’m back from Vienna, I am a little disappointed – but nevertheless happy I went there. The Austrian Linuxwochen (Linux Weeks) is a series of events all over the …
Dear developers, please don’t use a programming language for configuration files. Seriously. Don’t. Just don’t. You are only making live hard for people. Here is what my polkit custom desktop policy looked like in Fedora <= 17: Identity=unix-group:wheel Action=org.freedesktop.packagekit.package-install;org.freedesktop.packagekit.package-remove;org.freedesktop.packagekit.system-rollback;org.freedesktop.packagekit.system-sources*;org.opensuse.cupspkhelper.mechanism.*;org.libvirt.unix.*;dk.yumex.backend.pkexec.run ResultAny=no ResultInactive=no ResultActive=yes I think this is pretty straight forward, but some people found it confusing …
„Don’t use a programming language for configuration“ weiterlesen
If you experience the problem that KMail / Kontact 4.9.x are not doing address autocompletion in the composer window, you can edit ~/.kde/share/config/kpimcompletionorder (or ~/.kde4/share/config/kpimcompletionorder on some systems) and add [General] UseNepomuk=true Beware: This is only a workaround and can cause lock-ups of the composer window. Instead of using nepomuk, kontact should be using akonadi …
„A workaround for broken address autocompletion in KMail“ weiterlesen
It turns out we have to leave early. Some people need to travel home and others have family duties – or both. Fortunately we worked hard and managed to complete our agenda. For now, I just put all the results, todo items and open questions into the wiki. It’s still a rough draft, I will …
So we are sitting at Beuggen Castle and having some drinks after an awesome social event: A dinner in complete darkness at a restaurant called „Blinde Kuh“ („Blind cow“). If you have not yet had it, give it a try, it’s very interesting experience. The first day of FAD EMEA turned out to be very …
Fedora Elections are ongoing. Deadline is December 9th at 23:59:59 UTC – vote now!
This is the final reminder that the Fedora 19 naming collection ends today at 23:59 UTC. This means you have 5 hours left to propose a name. Before proposing a name, please make sure to read the guidelines.
As you might know we had a tie of two candidates (Nick and Robert) in the Fedora Board election. The runoff election between the two of them has now started, please vote now! Voting is open for one week, that is until 2012-06-20 00:00:00 UTC.
In case you did not yet cast your vote in the current Fedora elections, please do so now! The voting period closes promptly at 23:59:59 UTC on the 7th. Yes, that is today! As a special bonus, you most Fedora contributors this time should be allowed to vote for FAmSCo, too – even if they are …