Network-manager still sucks !

I have been long complaining about the buggy network-manager included in GNOME. Today, I have (re)discovered I am still unable to use Network-Manager to connect to a WPA secured wirless...
Being too lazy to look up why on a clean install of Debian Mint Linux Edition, Network-Manager is still retarded, I opted to the following solution:

apt-get --purge remove network-manager && apt-get install wicd wicd-gtk

So long, Network-Manager!

oh, Yesterday I was a bad programmer ...

Forgetting my first lesson in programming, I looked for a solution to convert IP addresses to country. I found out tables, and SQL files, and went on and on trying to figure how to use them, and do SQL in python...
Until, I remembered that a good programmer should not re-invent what has been invented.
And then I looked around and found: pygeoip.
I honestly felt sorry for the time I wasted on that problem ...

Hey, I actually like the new Blogger

It used to really suck, but my two hours of playing with it made me change my feeling about it.
I have almost as much control as I have with my own WordrPress instance! This is AWESOME ! And I can even link it to my google adsense very easily.
Thanks Google for making a great job !

Wow, Long time ago ... My last post ages ago was a rant about Uhbuntu ...
Needless to say that since then, I have quit using Uhbunutu as my main Desktop, and moved to Debian and ArchLinux. I also play extensively with OpenBSD and FreeBSD, and at work my workstation is OpenSUSE from which I maintain mostly CentOS servers. But no Uhbuntu ...