Johnny A. Solbu

Terms of Service for the Year 2026

Posted December 30, 2025 by Solbu in New-Year (New Year, Jokes)

§1. Grant of Yearly License
By grace and providence of the Good Lord, a non-exclusive, non-transferable, time-bound License (“the Year”) is hereby granted unto all who yet draw breath at the passing of the final second of Anno Domini 2025, permitting lawful entry into the Year Two Thousand and Twenty-Six (2026). Acceptance of this License shall be automatic and irrevocable, requiring neither signature nor sacrifice, for Time waiteth for no man.

§2. Terms, Conditions, and Divine Discretion
The License is provided as is, without warranty of ease, comfort, or understanding. The Year may contain blessings, trials, delays, reversals, miracles, Mondays, and lessons repeated until learned. The Lord reserveth full and sovereign right to alter plans, close doors, open others, and answer prayers with “Yes,” “No,” or “Wait.” No explanation shall be owed, though wisdom may be granted upon request.

§3. Limitations, Mercy, and Continuance
The Licensee shall remain responsible for words spoken, deeds done, and naps skipped, and may not attribute all errors to the Year itself. Nevertheless, mercy shall be available in abundance, forgiveness shall be renewable without limit, and grace shall cover all breaches confessed in good faith. Upon completion of the Year, this License shall expire naturally, subject to renewal should the Lord so will.

Merry Christmas, in legalese

Posted December 27, 2020 by Solbu in Christmas (Christmas, Jokes)

Positively effective tidings, to you and those you legally claim as dependents. We wish you, but in no way guarantee, a reasonably satisfactory Christmas, and/or festive period and/or a non-denominational capitalist wintertime gift-giving season, and a reasonably satisfactory new twelve (12) month period. Your mileage may vary, please …

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New Oidentd development

Posted April 22, 2017 by Solbu in Gnu-Linux (GNU/Linux, software)

This year seems to be the year that I started maintaning packages as the Upstream maintainer, and not just package them for distributions. Today I forked oidentd from the ojnk project into a new oidentd project.

The most serious bug that remains to be fixed, as I see it, is …

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Forking Grip. Help wanted

Posted December 30, 2016 by Solbu in Gnu-Linux (GNU/Linux, software, Grip)

I have been thinking for some months now about forking Grip, the GTK cd ripper. Mainly in order to ensure it's still usable and included in the various distributions, as it is my prefered cd ripper. The last release was in june 25, 2005, and it show all the signs …

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Welcome to Johnny Solbus web page

Posted December 29, 2016 by Solbu in News

And now I've changed my web page yet again. The old site wasn't wery mobile friendly. So here is a new attempt.
I've been trying out static site generators for some time, and have landed on Pelican, at least for the time being.

I am a "normal" man who were …

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