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Today I installed unburden-home-dir and I'm very please with it. It's a simple script that takes care of your temporary files to move them outside your home directory. The main reason why I installed it is to minimize the number of read/writes of iceweasel. My favorite browser is apparently the culprit of 80% of read / write operations on disk even when it is idle... Moving the cache to tmpfs, I hope to reduce the IO on disk and to extend my battery life.

Finally the dose3 libraries and tools landed in testing this weekend. We solved a couple of bugs already and it seems nobody complained too loudly. If you used the edos tools in the past you might be interested to check out our new tools in the package dose-extra.

Actually @mancoosi we will be delighted to ear about you experience with our tools and how to make them better and more useful.

Recently I've discovered a subtle consequence of how the order in which dependencies are specified in debian actually matters. While re-factoring the code of dose3, I changed the order in which dependencies are considered by our sat solver (of edos-fame) . I witnessed a twofold performance loss just by randomizing how variables were presented to our sat solver.

I'm going to deliver this talk at fosdem 2012, room H.1301 (CrossDistribution Devroom) at 16:30 on Sat. If you are interested, please come by. In particular I'd like to talk with all the developers out there that are using our work (of edos fame) and to discuss with them future plans to migrate their programs to the new generation of mancoosi - powered QA tools.

This summer my beloved thinkpad x301 died in a cloud of smoke. It was exactly 3 years and 20 days old while my warranty was valid only for 3 years. Now, don't tell me this is a coincidence. Anyway. After about 5 months, I finally managed to convince my employer to get me a new thinkpad, the x220. My specs includes a 128G SSD , 4G of RAM, 2.4Gz processor, camera and fingerprint reader.

It's a pity that the x300 series is not in production anymore. They were light, with a solid battery and a large screen. The X1 just don't cut it.

Got my tickets, now looking for a place to sleep... My first debconf. It's going to be gooood :)

Recently, all relevant packages needed to run mpm (the mancoosi package manager) landed in debian (thanks ralf and zack !). Now it should be a tad easier to run mpm and to play with it. The code of mpm is available on the mancoosi svn repository (user/pass : mancoosi/mancoosi) . To run it, you also need to install python-apt.

These are all cudf solvers you can use as mpm backends.

Thanks to Ralf's work, dose3 has been just accepted in debian experimental !!!