On my way to work I got a crazy thought. IIRC at least 3 questions about how to set time and date has been asked on the danish Debian help forum. This should be addressed with writing a section about how to set date and time on a Debian box. The section should contain a little info about date, rdate with cron and a third command to set the date (which I can’t remember the name).
NOTE TO MYSELF: GET IT DONE!
Today after the regualy update of my Debian unstable desktop a had some serious problems with my keyboard in gnome 
When holding down a key the stroke wasn’t repeated. Very annoying when using arrow keys (in console mode).
After a little research I found out that even though the new packages introduced this crappy thing the problem wasn’t within the new packages but instead in my configuration i my home-dir.
I used more that a hour to locate the exact configration file:
~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard
Most of the time was used googleing for an answer but after a while I decided to try figure out the problem myself and I eventually found the file above.
Another bad thing about my update was that the gdesklet package introduced a broken starterbar. After some research I found out that I now needed the python-xdg package to run… I have made a bug report in this.
Update: – It seems that it wasn’t a bug after all… just my reading skills 
Here you can see the GNOME 2.6 package status page. The packages will fist hit experimental and later unstable.
A new beta of the Sarge Debian-Installer has been released and I must say that I’m impressed 
Soon I will be able to make all my friends try it!
USB CD-ROM drives, USB keys, SATA disks nothing is stopping this new installer! Try it!
The developers are moving closer to the next stable release of Debian (Sarge): Wed Mar 17 08:00:00 UTC 2004
Release-critical bugs in unstable: 502 Release-critical bugs in testing: 201 (and still counting down)
An other great thing is that the 2.6 version of Gnome will be released on 25. march… I can’t wait!
For I while now I have been having problems with my keyboard (danish layout). The button with an apostrophe (‘) and a star (*) was totally dead. Nothing at all happend when pressing it, neither in X or console… WTF?!?
Last night I found out by coincidence that it was my 2.6.1 kernel (look at link above). A guy i the Danish Debian forum had the exact same problem. So now I have compiled myself a new kernel (2.6.4). As always I had to compile a few times before I got it all working
First I forgot UDMA support and after that I forgot to compile USB support. Now I think I’m all set but we’ll see 
It is kind a annoying that you have to recompile the NVIDIA driver every time you recompile your kernel. I have to look into packaging the driver into a deb.
Now I only need to find out why video playback have strange colors… I think it happend after updating XFree86 from 4.2 -> 4.3.
Last night I played around with gDesklet, emblems and a new desktop font. You can see the result on the screenshot. More screenshots are available on my webserver.
I like a good looking GUI. GNOME is the desktop for me and I’m looking forward to the 2.6 release (try read this GNOME 2.6 preview). Even though KDE overall looks better than GNOME, I hate the clutter in the context menues in KDE. GNOME HIG ROCKS!!!
Let’s hope the 2.6 release includes a fix for a bug I reported (#122618 ).
Well I better go to bed now… just had to see 24 Hours with Jack Bauer
But before I give my computer a rest I’ll post my latest work on my Debian DVD cover.
PNG format for preview.
SVG format
I’m beginning to learn how this SVG shit works… sadly the tools for Linux are limited (as far as I know). Half the time I have to use a text editor to edit the SVG image. Both because some things aren’t supported and because the the output from the tools are far from optimized.
