The Problem (or how I broke it)

So here I am in this cool conference waiting for the sessions to start while doing some work and I decide play a bit with my kubuntu laptop... Maybe it was bootchart, maybe it was insserv, I don't know... what I do know is that after a reboot I got a kernel panic... you know, when the "scroll lock" and "caps lock" lights keep flashing at you in mockery?

The Problem

So, a while ago I saw in the blog of helios that there was a campaign going to raise awareness about the penumbra game trilogy - a series of games that had native linux versions - and you could get all 3 games for $5. Sounds like a good deal, right? On top of it you are also supporting a good cause, so I said "why not?" and bought the trilogy.

The Problem

Moodle's Face-to-Face module sends you an iCal invite that is not properly interpreted by MS Outlook client. The iCal invite comes through as a blank attachment. Apparently the iCal worked just fine on OWA and on Evolution running on Linux.

When I upgraded from Hardy to Intrepid I noticed that the root actions were gone from the context menu in dolphin (used to be in konqui).

Finally I found out that someone else made a fix for this using perl. Here it is:

A couple of sites that I support have been hosted by VPSLink for a while now and it was time I got the OpenVPN client in the virtual machine to talk to my server. Setting up OpenVPN was easy enough, as I got the config files and the certs all prepped before hand, getting it to work was a different deal... After the initial failed service openvpn start and a bit more sifting through log files, it turned out that the node for the /dev/net/tun adapter was incorrect! Fixing this was easy after a bit of googling around:

Mandatory first post! :)