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I've noticed some days ago that the DOS game I've written in 1999 can get played still using DOSBox.

The sound is apparently a bit crappy - but fortunately this is not on Linux only..

You can view the old software home at thequod.de/.../tqworms, but this is apparently very old already and I should get it some new home probably. Anyway, https://www.thequod.de/de/comp/mysoft/tqworms should be fine.

Screenshots are up on Flickr finally and it's known to cause maximum pleasure with 5+ users on the same keyboard only.

Would love to play this again - maybe even more when sound stutter (via DOSBox) is being fixed.

Link: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download

Ubuntu Lucid is the next Long Term Support release after Ubuntu Hardy (which had been released in April 2008).

For my share, I've put more effort into the development and bug triaging process again.

A very annoying bug has been fixed in Miro in time for Ubuntu Lucid.

After having contacted the upstream developers they have provided a patch for an annoying bug in xulrunner, which makes web gtk widgets ("inline websites" / IIRC) misbehave in Miro.

In the end it is just a shameless plug to make you get Miro - or update yours.

Available for a lot of operating systems, thanks to being built upon xulrunner.

Ubuntu 9.10 AKA "Karmic Koala" wurde heute freigegeben.
Mal wieder ein Release, an dem ich nicht soo sehr aktiv mitgewirkt habe, aber immerhin eines, dessen Bugs mich am Ende sehr geplagt haben.

Eine Übersicht der neuen Features gibt es auf ubuntu.com.

Auch Planet Ubuntu ist voller Screenshots und Release-Posts, u.a. deswegen von mir jetzt auch nicht viel mehr..

Zum Download geht es hier - und wer lieber Kubuntu (basierend auf KDE 4.3) möchte, geht hier entlang.

Das Bild ist von Quartl / Wikipedia.

Having the possibility to report bugs against tools and applications you are using to report bugs in other applications can lead to a whole stack of browser windows, things and stuff being open.

Especially if there are bugs in the application to report the oh-no-it's-starting-to-recurse bug report (Yes, I'm looking at you, Launchpad).

Link: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2009-April/000122.html

Ubuntu Jaunty wurde heute freigegeben.

Nach dem nicht-so-sehr-gelungenen Intrepid (jedenfalls hört man das immer wieder) gibt es nun ein viel-mehr-gelungenes-und-neues Release, welches ich auch seit Monaten schon nutze (und seitdem täglich aktualisiert habe (Leider blieben die Updates aufgrund des Release-Freeze in den letzten Tagen aus bzw. waren sehr spärlich)).

Dies kennzeichnet auch eine Ära, in der ich wieder etwas aktiver an der Entwicklung mitgewirkt habe (im Sinne von Paket-Uploads und Bug-Triaging).

Auch (gerade) im Bereich KDE/Kubuntu hat sich durch KDE 4.2.2 sehr viel gutes getan. KDE ist endlich wieder eine rundum feine Sache. Auch für die ganzen Nörgler^WUser..

Endlich mal wieder ein Grund, sich mit ruhigem Gewissen zu betrinken..

Link: http://vimperator.org/trac/wiki/Vimperator

Vimperator is a great Firefox addon, which adds Vim-Power to Firefox.

It's a Firefox plugin only, but makes it behave a lot differently - adding vim commands to it. This is not meant for the casual user, but somebody who enjoys Vim, will probably enjoy Firefox a lot more when using this plugin.

Favorite commands include ":hardcopy" for the print dialog or the navigation in general.

If you test want to test it, please start with using the 2.0 betas, which are stable already and provide a lot of improvements since 1.2 (current stable).

I've even written my own command already, which allows me to easily switch between development and live server.

After all, it's really powerful and lets you avoid using the mouse even during surfing.. ^^

The help/tutorial is always available with ":help" - and you can still use the mouse (and normal shortkeys, if you use bypass mode (Ctrl-Z / Ctrl-Y), so there's no real excuse after all..

Update: Vimperator is available in Debian/Ubuntu as "iceweasel-vimperator", although currently only as 1.2-1 - while a few days ago 2.0 has been released and provides a lot of improvements and fixes.
As great as the Debian/Ubuntu package archive is, for plugins like the ones used with Firefox, I prefer the official repositories to (automatically) get any updates.