Monthly Archives: January 2009
My rdiff-backup PPA
Posted by on January 31, 2009
For my personal backups I usually prefer to use rdiff-backup. Since current Ubuntu versions doesn’t provide any packages from the recent stable branch of rdiff-backup I nowdays like to create my own debs. Also, rdiff-backup tends to work best if you have the same version on both ends of the backup. At first I maintained [...]
APT::Install-Recommends
Posted by on January 24, 2009
Apparently Ubuntu now has APT::Install-Recommends set to True by default. This happened in version 8.10 (Intrepid) and it results in that packages marked as Recommended are now automatically installed kinda like dependencies. I guess that change can make sense on a desktop system, where it might be nice to by default provide the user with [...]
My Magnatune Membership
Posted by on January 12, 2009
A couple of month ago I bought a Magnatune Download Membership. That was probably my most well spent money that year. Nowdays this is where I get almost all of my music. Magnatune is hardly your average run of the mill record company. Instead they seem to do pretty much everything the right way. Feel [...]
