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Most users of Debian/Ubuntu have at some time seen these annoying messages: <br /> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.<br /> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:<br /> LANGUAGE = (unset),<br /> LC_ALL = (unset),<br /> LC_CTYPE = "UTF-8",<br /> LANG = "en_GB.UTF-8"<br /> are supported and installed on your system.<br /> perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").<br /> There are a variety of causes – usually locales not being generated properly or incorrect environment variables. ...

I’ve been using the beta of MacOS X Lion for a few weeks now, and after a few days of initial annoyance I’ve grown to really like the inverted sense of the scroll wheel. I recall when I first got one, in fact, and found the direction downright confusing. This seems to have been an easy behaviour to unlearn. My desktop box at work runs Debian, and I wanted the same behaviour there to stop me getting split-brain and dribbling a lot. There was a time when a quick change in xorg.conf to ZAxisMapping "5 4" would do this, but it’s not so the modern age of HIDs and evdevs. After a bit of messing about I figured out how to flip the scroll wheel. This will probably work for Ubuntu too. ...

I would appear to have accidentally stirred up the norsktwitterredet. I’d better write something here in case they look.

I felt the need for a place to put the occasional rant that’s longer than 140 characters. This may not happen very often, but it’ll happen here if you’re interested in that sort of thing.