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Sometimes I'm not the most punctual person in paying bills, I have moved somewhat to sorting that out by moving a lot of things to direct debit and handing over responsibility for keeping an eye on the accounts to the wife. Still there are the odd bills I need to deal with. Og Maciel has come up with a great solution:
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I have created rpms and with the great Pascal's help, it should be pretty clean 1Click is coming, I'm just having a few issues at the moment. So until then you can grab it from my repo.

Further to my previous post on the matter of talking, the brilliant people at FOSDEM and NamurLUG, the videos are out You can get my Introduction to Bongo from HEAnet, the video is in ogg/Theora format (of course) and weighs in at a healthy 183MB.

Please be patient if you are downloading them as there is a fairly high demand for all the videos (not just Bongo ), I am trying to get it on a streaming service to lighten the load and have it easily accessible but it is taking some time. Until then enjoy the show

Since I'm part of this loving community that is openSUSE, I have been creating a few packages here and there -some of them fun, some useful and others pointless (well I can't think of any that fit the latter but someone else may do). As such any user who wished to use my packages had to add my repository in addition to any others they may wish, all good and well until you end up with a huge list of repos to use, speed then becomes an issue as 10.3 and lower have a bit of an issue. Don't worry this has been fixed for the upcoming 11.0 release, and boy what a speed improvement!!

To try and help those not using the razor sharp 11.0 / Factory I have managed to get BillReminder moved to the GNOME:Community repository. Joining it is a great text editor/simple IDE called Geany. They are no longer in my repo. Hopefully this will help out in minimising the number of repositories you need to add. Don't forget that there are also Community repos for
:- Mono
:- KDE3
:- KDE4

Many thanks to the Curate of G:C for the move.

Yes the word about Bongo is getting spread wider than hot butter and margarine on a blue whale's arse

Many thanks to Dave Walker (Daviey) for interviewing me, yes /me was interviewed for a new podcast - Ubuntu UK Podcast. You can grab the the interview in high quality .ogg or .mp3. In case you don't fancy listening to the whole show and just want the Bongo goodness forward to 16m:46s and it finishes at 22m:54s; but please do give the whole thing a listen too, it is actually pretty good (even if it is Ubuntu related )

Once again many thanks to the chaps over at Ubuntu UK Podcast for the opportunity to get the message out.

Alex continues to try and imrpove the r5u870 webcam driver. He has set up a BugTracker as well as setting up MailingLists for the dirver. There is also the Wiki, should you wish to read up on or add to it. Don't forget that SUSE users can grab the driver from the drivers:webcam repo and of course via


I am planning on creating packages for other distros shortly, I just need to finish off the million and one other things I have on the go first!

I just posted this to the Factory MailingList after a gentle nudge from JP, and thought that the greater good should know about it too just incase you aren't subscribed to the list.

With 11.0 Alpha 3 and also upgrading to latest Factory, initrd get's lost in the process - an issue that is being sorted out I believe, for reference there is Bug 372688.

The workaround that Vincent came up with and I have verified it on two machines is as follows:

1. Boot your system from CD/DVD into "Rescue"
2. mount /dev/sdaX /mnt && mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc && mount --bind /sys /mnt/sys && mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev && chroot /mnt
3. mkinitrd -k /boot/vmlinuz-[kernel_version] -i /boot/initrd-[kernel_version] (Please replace [kernel_version] with your actual version, as of 1730Z 20Mar2008 mine was 2.6.25-rc5-git3-6-pae)
4. Reboot

Hope this helps and enjoy the lovelyness that is Factory:)

UPDATE:
If you get Error 23 you might try editing the grub entry so that root is something like root(hd0,0) rather than something like:
root (/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_SAMSUNG_HM160HCS12TJD0PB99656-part2,1) Thanks JP.