To continue with the meme that's going on Planet Ubuntu, here is my computers name:
- Dakara
- Vagonbrei
- Castiana
- P4X-123 (Will be used for DHCP client 123) (Milky way galaxy)
- P3R-123 (Will be used for VPN client 123) (Pegasus galaxy)

You may have recognized those names, they are all taken from Stargate SG1 and Atlantis, series that I watch for several years now. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planets_in_Stargate

For ISO testing, I'm usually using: - so ubuntu-i386 for example.
For my development Xen VMs, I use the boring but efficient naming: xenXX (xen04 is the test VM for Ubuntu Brainstorm and the QA team websites)

My LAN routers are usually called with router- so I currently have:
- router-roubaix (Roubaix, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, FR) (VPN gateway)
- router-bevaix (Bevaix, NE, CH) (Family house)
- router-neuchatel (Neuchâtel, NE, CH) (Grandma's house)
- router-sherbrooke (Sherbrooke, QC, CA) (Home)

And other LAN computers are usually named after their owner and their type, using -. (Standard boring naming)

Intrepid's release is approaching pretty fast now.
I have (indirectly :), thanks Oliver) uploaded iTalc 1.0.9 to Intrepid's main repository in late July and got so far no new bugs on Launchpad.
I know some of you are using it and while I consider the current upstream code and packaging to be quite good, I really doubt we have a bugfree release there :)

Can you, user of italc, please give me some feedback on the problems you currently are observing with the latest version ?
To report your bugs, https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/italc/+filebug is the place.

To learn more about iTalc and the various ways of installing it, you can read: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/iTalc (work in progress)

And if you want to help testing iTalc but don't want to upgrade to Intrepid, you can try the packages from our PPA: https://launchpad.net/~edubuntu-italc-devel/+archive

The main difference from what's currently in Hardy and what we have in Intrepid is avahi support meaning your computers should now automatically appear in iTalc as long as the keys in /etc/italc/ are the same.

iTalc (intelligent teaching and learning with computers) is a multi-platform (Linux and Windows) classroom management software used by many schools in the world.

It replaced the thin-client-manager (tcm) in Ubuntu Hardy and has been improved since then until the first upload to Intrepid last night.
The uploaded version is 1.0.9-rc3, so it's still a release candidate and should only be used for testing purpose but it's pretty stable and just lacks some final changes to become 1.0.9.

Thanks to Rolf Leggewie, Pastebinit 0.10 is now in Debian (unstable and testing) and has been synced in Intrepid.
I can now use the time I previously spent on packaging Pastebinit (not that much ...) to actually work on it and add new pastebins.

For those of you who don't know what Pastebinit is, here is the description taken from the Debian package :

pastebinit is a command-line tool to send data to a "pastebin": a web site which allows its users to upload snippets of text for public viewing.

First, sorry for not posting about gbtsco and Ubuntu Hardy or answering your comments.

As some of you may know I wrote a software called gbtsco a while ago (feisty or gutsy) that was acting as a frontend to a binary (btsco) which connected to alsa's snd-bt-sco to connect to a Bluetooth headset.

With Hardy, btsco is now officially deprecated upstream and alsa's own implementation of it is to be preferred. To have my Logitech headset to work with Ubuntu, all I had to do was to create a .asoundrc file in my home directory with the following content :


pcm.bluetooth {
type bluetooth
device XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
profile "headset"
}


Then put my headset into pairing mode and start a software (twinkle in my case) and select the Bluetooth soundcard in the settings. I hope that we'll soon have a way to do that graphically (ideally through the gnome-bluetooth applet).

I won't continue working on gbtsco as it doesn't have much work to do now and I don't myself have the time to make it work with .asoundrc. I do really hope to see an upstream effort in implementing that in gnome-bluetooth or any other easy to use configuration tool.

Hey,

It has now been a long time Wordpress was my only website still running on MySQL. As my server only has 256MB of RAM and serves a whole lot of other services I thought it would help to move my website to Drupal and get rid of MySQL.

So, this is the first post on the new website running Drupal 6. I'm still trying to find a way to import the old posts other than doing it by hand. So if any of you has a good script to import Wordpress 2.5's posts into a Drupal 6.x DB please send me a mail or just post a comment :)

I also want to use this post to say a huge thank you to everyone involved in Hardy Heron's testing for the great job you did. All testcases were done in less than two days, upgrade testing and Windows testing included.

Until we have our first set of images to test for Intrepid's Alpha1 I'm working on improving iTalc's packaging.
In case you don't know it, iTalc is the new teacher/student classroom interface used by Edubuntu.
The version I'm working on can be found in our team's PPA. It includes Avahi support to auto-generate classrooms, LTSP in-chroot installation and is based on the latest iTalc from upstream (1.0.8).

By the way, I'll be at FOSSCamp in Prague on the 16th and 17th (of May) discussing various subjects from QA testing, Ubuntu's brainstorm website and of course Edubuntu, LTSP and iTalc.