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Last time i messed around in Inkscape I started doing a wallpaper celebrating the (upcoming) release of Debian Etch. (It could be used as a logo or for some promotional material too).

I don’t think I will get around to finishing it, so I will simply post the SVG file here and now if someone want [...]

I was recently given the privilege to work with pkg-gnome, the Debian GNOME maintainers and was even given commit rights to the SVN archive. With a little help, I closed my first RC bug. Great success. :)

November has been an interesting month in many ways. I’ve gotten not one, but two patches commited to free software projects. One for the Debian package of Einstein Puzzle.
einstein (2.0.dfsg.2-3) unstable; urgency=low

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* main.cpp, res/resources.descr, debian/icon.bmp.uue, debian/rules: Window
icon. Closes: #396113. Thanks to Sven Arvidsson .

– Bart Martens Sun, 5 Nov 2006 [...]

I finally set up my laptop to use an encrypted home directory. This was easy enough using dm-crypt and LUKS for loopback mounting a file to use as my home dir. I simply followed Rene Mayrhofer’s short HOWTO.
This solution is a little bit hackish. When I log in and out from X, it does not [...]