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Regarding creating users and permissions our beloved Debian Policy [chap. 10.9] tells us:...you must arrange for your package to create the user or group if necessary using adduser in the preinst or postinst script (again, the latter is to be preferred if it is possible). I wanted to stick to the postinst since it's preferrable so I couldn't change the permissions in the rules file.Now the thing
After I read the post of Urho about Wiimote+DrNokSnes+TVout I couldn't help trying it out right away (except the Wiimote thing that I don't have). That was a funny jump back in time to when I was young and passed the evenings at a friend's apartment trying to finish the (amazing at that time) Super Mario bros on the NES (I didn't have a NES myself).Besides that I tried out for the first time in
Oh finally we announced this thing. Still can't talk about it that much :(The video looks great though :)
Time to recycle the first maemo server, phased out a long time ago and now waiting for its final death. (it's not just a server with a yellow maemo sticker on top, even if you can argue that :D )[Kudos to Jesus that spotted it in the corridor]
Having to convert some SVN repositories to GIT, Misha pointed me to this recipe that was quite what I needed to convert svn tags to real tags.There was some more typing involved and I hate typing, plus I had to deal with a non standard SVN layout that by experience I think it's like a second standard. So I included all the hints found there and somewhere else in a "one click" script that tries to
Image by teoruiz via FlickrI will try to tell the story as my friend mooch told me quite some time ago.It was the beginning of the internet tablets, it was so beginning that the tablets were just called "devices" and that the 770 was only a prototype. I wasn't there yet but mooch told me he was and he just received his brand new shiny desktop to start doing something.In the search for a new name
So finally I get few minutes to write about Maemo Summit 08. Hopefully (if the crawler hits my blog) this should be my first post aggregated with planet.maemo.org. So hello maemons. At the beginning I wasn't so sure that I would have benefited by going to the summit and I was a bit sceptical about it. Well after that (and after one week passed to recover from it) I have to say: it was great!First
Just read on handful's blog that Canola 2.0 is coming in 10 days. Can't wait for it :DHere's a teaser
The new NSeries Internet Tablet N810 saw the light today at around 8 pm (EEST). I'm really proud and happy of this product, we spent a lot of work on it to make it happen and... hey we made it! :DIt sports a lot of features but I won't list them here since you can find them in the official press release.What I want to emphasize here is the incredible human capital that is behind the creation and