Have built Coaster, the kick-ass CD burning app for GNOME by Bryan. Also (of course) it's dependencies Bakery and libxml++ as well the required update to nautilus-cd-burner.

apt-get install coaster will sort you out.

Updated netapplet package to 1.0.0, and patched it to use gnomesu rather than kdesu when launching YaST to configure the network settings, this speeds things up incredibly, even on my P4 3.4GHz, the delay in starting kdesu is considerable, it's hardly noticable when starting gnomesu. Might well update that patch to provide a message that's specific to netapplet then send Rob the patch. Have already sent him an en_GB translation.

Next ULB GNOME release will depend upon netapplet, and oh yes, have done a patch to patch the .desktop file to vanilla GNOME categories.

Amazing how having an essay to do really motivates me to get into some code

Was playing with Gnome Blog earlier. Thing is, my blog is hosted by my ISP, and I upload using SCP, so I can't use it for my "real" blog.

Wish I had the time to write a simple client, based upon Gnome Blog that would do the following (all toggleable):

• Save the blog entry in a Blosxom compatible format to a local directory, using either a user-specified filename, or UNIX date format filename, followed by user-specified extension.
• Upload to a remote server by FTP, with password either saved (ouch) or prompted for.
• Upload to a remote server by SCP, using gnome-ssh-askpass2 to provide the passphrase (have built updated openssh packages for SuSE 9.1 to add gnome-ssh-askpass2 to openssh-askpass - might split it out into a seperate openssh-gnome package.

I guess ideally, these would be included in Gnome Blog, might drop Seth a line to ask about it, another of those moments when I consider learning Python.

New openssh uploaded, along with updated gstreamer packages (0.8.8 - released today)

Just got a GMail invite this morning, have to say, it's very nice, why can't other webmail services be like this? It actually feels like a real application. Well done Google.

We're out for a Wetherspoon curry tonight with Liz & Jo from college. Planning to get some work done on my BS102 essay before walking down.