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This release adds Text Widgets support to Hover. Thanks to John Terry for the patch.

NetworkManager in Lenny writes it’s PID to /etc/resolv.conf:

### BEGIN INFO
#
# Modified_by:  NetworkManager
# Process:      /usr/bin/NetworkManager
# Process_id:   2869
#
### END INFO

This leads to etckeeper displaying a change every reboot:

This patch to the debian package stops NetworkManager from writing the INFO block to /etc/resolv.conf.

Alternatively, there is a backports package for lenny with an updated version of NetworkManager.

A couple of days ago Blizzard decided to ban my Diablo 2 key from Battle.net, effectively cutting me off from online play.

After contacting their Online Support I was told, that my key was banned, because I had violated their Terms of Services, namely using “Third Party Software”.

Now the interesting part is, that I haven’t.

My first reaction was simple, “Well guys, I haven’t. Looks like a mistake, please fix”.

Their response however was that it was clear to them. I had been using some Software I was not allowed. Case closed.

I tried to get more details, e.g. what software I allegedly have been using and what I supposedly did wrong.

They replied by closing the support ticket and sending me a link to a feedback from where I was told “Please note, you will not receive a response regarding any information provided in this webform”.

I went back to my support contact and asked them (again) to provide a comprehensible explanation on what I did wrong exactly.

Guess what, they closed the ticket again.

In the end Blizzard banned my key for some reason which they refuse to tell me.

This leads to an interesting problem: Suppose I would buy another copy of Diablo 2 (which I won’t) to be able to play again. How can I be sure that I won’t get banned again? I have no idea what I allegedly did wrong. How am I supposed to not do it again?

For me, this leaves only one conclusion: No more Blizzard games.

Dear Blizzard, if you treat me like this, I don’t want to be your customer anymore.

A new version of Hover is available. This release fixes an https related problem with the internal checks, problems with popups containg the character ‘ and introduces support in domTT for IE8.

Also the regex used for finding hovers has been changed, which leads to a minor incomatibility with the current scheme used by conditional replacement.

Please read the UPGRADE file contained in the archive.

Here I found something to change the default label width for the whole document (note that I changed ‘lyxlist’ to ‘labeling’):

%adjust the labelwidth in the LyXlist environment
\newlength\extrawidth
\setlength\extrawidth{1eM} % default value

\renewenvironment{labeling}[1]
{\begin{list}{}
{\settowidth{\labelwidth}{#1}
\addtolength{\labelwidth}{\extrawidth}
\setlength{\leftmargin}{\labelwidth}
\addtolength{\leftmargin}{\labelsep}
\renewcommand{\makelabel}[1]{##1\hfil}}}
{\end{list}}

To change the folder Thunderbird uses for deleted items:

• go to Tools > Options > Advanced > Config Editor
• filter for mail.server
• look for the server config you want to change, e.g. mail.server.server3
• add a string to that server, e.g.: mail.server.server3.trash_folder_name
• enter the name of the folder to use
• restart thunderbird

If you do not like the behaviour of Firfox’s new url bar you might want to take a look at the oldbar addon and set browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped to true.

I was getting root file system not found errors when booting etch from a USB disk. As it turns out that the boot ramdisk did scan all devices for LVM partitions before USB drive detection was finished.

By adding rootdelay=10 to the kernel boot options the system will wait for ten seconds before activating LVM partitions giving the USB subsystem enough time to activate all devices.

Since the E61i has no escape key using vim is a rather interesting ordeal. I could send an escape key by pressing ctrl-chr, releasing ctrl, pressing chr again and select the opening braket.

Update The green key is also mapped to ESC .

debian’s exim4 uses gnutls which has a feature that will not allow my E61i to use STARTTLS (see #438137) . Perhaps stunnel can help here …

Update: To advertise PLAIN authentication with exim4 for connections origination from localhost I used the following statement in my plaintext authentication configuration (broken into several lines for better readability):

server_advertise_condition =
 ${if or
  {
   {!eq{$tls_cipher}{}
  }
  {
   eq{$interface_address}{127.0.0.1}}
  }
  {yes}{no}
 }

That way plaintext auhentication is allowed for TLS sessions or unencrypted sessions originating from localhost.

Using stunnel and a default ssmtp configuration I can now send mails from my mobile phone.