Off you go… into the purple yonder!

I upgraded my laptop to Jaunty Jackalope. Here’s the list of issues (and solutions) I’ve run into:
1. Tor is not packaged anymore, apparently there is no Ubuntu maintainer. Upstream provides Ubuntu packages, but they have no jaunty package yet. So, we need to build from the intrepid source package. Add

deb-src http://mirror.noreply.org/pub/tor intrepid main

to [...]

I have a legacy php application that had to be integrated into a Drupal site, so I wrapped it in a simple drupal module. The code needs to run for anonymous users.
The wrapping worked fine, but the Drupal cache really gets in the way sometimes. For instance, my legacy code does not use the drupal_set_message [...]

We’ve been getting telephone spam from Affiliated Mortgage Protection

Affiliated Mortgage Protection
292 Terminal Ave W,
Clark, NJ- 7066.
(732)-499-0700

We answered five of their calls the past three weeks, and each time asked them to stop calling. Apparently, they happily ignore these requests.
They called again this evening and the lady on the phone had the nerve to say [...]