Planet DebianPlanet Debian - http://planet.debian.org/Andrea De Iacovo: WordPress 2.6 wont be in Lenny- July 15, 2008 As I said you I&8217;m not going to upgrade WordPress in sid before the official Lenny release. I don&8217;t want wordpress 2.6 to be in Lenny &8217;cause it&8217;s not been tested enough. At the moment wordpress 2.5 (in Lenny) is in a really good shape so I think it should be inserted in the next Debian stable release. However I&8217;ll put wordpress 2.6 in experimental so just fetch the package from there within the next days.http://debsanity.wordpress.com/2008/07/15/wordpress-26-wont-be-in-lenny/ Christian Perrier: There is a cabal...- July 15, 2008 ...I have proofs. So, libwiki-toolkit-perl is now the leader of the contest for "those annoying packages which introduce new debconf templates without calling for translations"...and therefore prevent the poor german and french teams to at least have one day in the 100% heaven. fr was just missing fourteen strings, de was missing 39. And now, there are 6 more of these....and to make things slightly more complicated and give the maintainer a chance to mess up, he introduced a typo in his...http://www.perrier.eu.org/weblog/2008/07/15#anti-l10n-cabal MJ Ray: Good News on the Koha 3.0.0-final Approach- July 15, 2008 Koha 3.0.0-final is very close, delayed mainly by a few serials bugs and translation updates as far as I know, but the big news recently has been Venezuelas National Library evaluated, decided to deploy the Koha Integrated Library System ecorrado which was very good to see. Myself, I&8217;m in a world of RFID-tag-related pain, which I&8217;ll describe and publish code for as soon as it stops hurting, including perl modules like RFID::Reader::TRF7960::Serial and RFID::Reader::TRF7960::SSL. ...http://www.news.software.coop/good-news-on-the-koha-300-final-approach/3/ Joey Hess: awesome- July 15, 2008 After many years with ion, I've switched to using the Awesome window manager. This took three tries; the latest try seems to have stuck. I wish I had a good analogy to explain to my nontechnical readers what changing to a new window manager is about. One way to think about it is that it's like driving a car down the road, and suddenly swapping the steering wheel and brakes out for a tiller and gear shifter. And having to downshift for braking until you learn that the brakes moved to the turn..http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/awesome/ Matthew Garrett- July 15, 2008 Plans for the month:18th-20th: Wolverhampton for Lugradio Live where I'll be doing some sort of presentation on some sort of power management stuff.22nd-27th: Portland for OSCON and the Oregon Brewers Festival (which I guess settles any arguments about how to spell plumbers)28th-30th: San Francisco for a meeting that's been moved to the week before I'm there31st-4th: Boston in order to meet some of the people that I actually work withThings not planned for the month:GenocidePuritanismupskirt...http://mjg59.livejournal.com/94084.html Tollef Fog Heen: eweouz (bbdb-a-like) working- July 14, 2008 Some years ago, when I hacked on a TDB backend for Evolution Data Server (EDS), I also wrote something about writing some command line tools for accessing my contacts and so on. I've finally gotten my act together and wrote the necessary glue to have addres completion between Gnus and EDS. It's nowhere as feature-complete as BBDB is, but it allows you to complete addresses, at least. Get it from git (gitweb). I'll hopefully expand it a little bit and cut a release fairly soon.http://err.no/personal/blog/tech/2008-07-14-22-46_eweouz_works.html Jaldhar Vyas: Q. Why Does a Seagull Fly Over the Sea- July 14, 2008 A. Because if it flew over the bay it would be a bagel. I Spent a few days in Atlantic City with the family. Although we stayed at one of the casinos very little gambling was done due to the accompaniment of small children and my innate Gujarati aversion to throwing money away for no reason. So instead we made a semi-permanent camp on the beach and built a large and I must say pretty awesome sandcastle. Shailu insisted it should have a fire exit. I have taught her well.http://www.braincells.com/debian/index.cgi/search/item=195 Ingo Juergensmann: Google StreetView in Berlin- July 14, 2008 Within the last few days, Spiegel Online (German) reported that Google is taking pictures in Berlin for their StreetView service. Today I spotted from my balcony this one: Google StreetView car Google StreetView car (zoomed) So, if you these cars driving around it might be a good idea to hide yourself from being photographed and put onto Google StreetView. Yes, I'm no big fan of Google and its giant data collection. I would rather see Google stopping StreetView in Germany to protect peoples.http://blog.windfluechter.net/index.php?/archives/141-Google-StreetView-in-Berlin.html Benjamin Mako Hill: Autonomo.us and the Franklin Street Statement- July 14, 2008 Recently, I've been doing a lot of thinking -- and a bit of talking -- about what software freedom means in the context of network services. I gave a talk on this subject at the most recent FSF members meeting and at Sun's Community One. In a few days, I'll be giving another at Wikimania in Alexandria, Egypt. A few months ago, I worked with the FSF to organize a meeting of free software hackers and scholars to talk about the issues. Today, that group is announcing the first two concrete...http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/20080714-00 Steve Kemp: It's no use pretending it hasn't happened cause it has- July 14, 2008 Yesterday I was forced to test my backup system in anger, on a large scale, for the first time in months. A broken package upgrade meant that my anti-spam system lost the contents of all its MySQL databases. That was a little traumatic, to say the least. But happily I have a good scheme of backups in place, and only a single MX machine was affected. So, whilst there was approximately an hour of downtime on the primary MX the service as a whole continued to run, and the secondary (+ trial...http://blog.steve.org.uk/it_s_no_use_pretending_it_hasn_t_happened_cause_it_has.html |