Planet DebianPlanet Debian - http://planet.debian.org/Wouter Verhelst: No more 'government'- July 16, 2008 So apparently the Belgian 'government' has failed to meet its deadline; and as a result, the prime minister has handed in the 'government's resignation to the King. I say 'government', because these people have been doing quite a lot of things—all except governing... I must say I can't be surprised. I never liked Leterme; not before the elections, and not after. Now that more than a year has passed since his winning the elections, they have managed to accomplish exactly nothing. Well,...http://www.grep.be/blog/en/life/politics/government John Goerzen: Bicycling to Work Update- July 16, 2008 Back in May, I wrote about starting to bicycle to work. My plan was to do that 3 days a week. My ride is 10 miles each way, with the first 2.3 miles on dirt, gravel, and sand roads. It's been going well. Yesterday was the first day that the ride really felt easy. It's been getting more and more fun, too. And I've been getting faster. My worst time lately was 49 minutes, also yesterday morning. I really was riding slower than I felt normal, just taking it easy. But I had a headwind, and.http://changelog.complete.org/posts/731-Bicycling-to-Work-Update.html MJ Ray: Standing for Election to SPI Board Again- July 16, 2008 Software in the Public Interest is a US tax-exempt not-for-profit organisation that supports a number of free software projects that I like - including debian, GNUstep and drupal - and it&8217;s one of the most open and democratic free software organisations in the world. SPI&8217;s next board meeting is today (Wednesday) at 1900 UTC on irc.oftc.net spi and logs should appear here and on spi-general less than a day after. I&8217;ve not seen a formal announcement yet, but I expect the agenda...http://www.news.software.coop/standing-for-election-to-spi-board-again/5/ Sandro Tosi: Having fun fixing a bug (with ParallelPython)- July 15, 2008 Lenny general freeze is approaching, so I'm walking thru my packages bugs and I found this one reported against fdupes.I got 4Gb of memory, so how to reproduce an OoM Let's start with a rather large file base, but I need a script to generate it. With 4 cores and a fast Raptor hd, I want something to stess them while learning something: Python + ParallelPython was the answer!I wrote a small script that takes 3 parameters: the destination directory, the number of dirs to create and the number of..http://sandrotosi.blogspot.com/2008/07/having-fun-fixing-bug-with.html Mark Brown: Release day churn- July 15, 2008 The 2.6.27 pull request for ALSA was something of a surprise to read - a large proportion of the changes in there are for ASoC. Not what I was expecting given how many ASoC changes there are still to be merged, but it&8217;s nice to see, especially given the general problems with embedded users contributing code back. In other kernel release news, I&8217;m glad to see some of my other work is making people happy.http://www.sirena.org.uk/log/?p=84 Biella Coleman: For the love of data- July 15, 2008 I love Zotero and now with this new news, my love, I think, will just grow.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Interprete/~3/336341082/ David Welton: Misquoted- July 15, 2008 Well, to be charitable, it was a bit late and so perhaps what I said came out wrong, but in this article: http:www.theregister.co.uk20080714android_developer_unrest I'm quoted as saying the problem is with "upper management", which I don't really believe to be the case, going by snippets of conversations and things I've read. Frankly, at this point in time, I have no idea why Google can't talk about Android. Also, I had several other positive things to say to the reporter, but I guess the...http://journal.dedasys.com/articles/2008/07/15/misquoted Ingo Juergensmann: No wanna-build access since DSA-1571 for m68k- July 15, 2008 Most people will know that it's hard for the m68k port to keep up with unstable. Mostly because the hardware is not the fastest anymore, but usually we could work around this problem by throwing more hardware onto it. But there are sometimes non-m68k problems that prevent the port from keeping up like, let's say, no wanna-build access anymore, because all ssh pubkeys have been revoked due to DSA-1571 (OpenSSL). The problem was mentioned on debian-68k mailing list, starting a discussion about...http://blog.windfluechter.net/index.php?/archives/142-No-wanna-build-access-since-DSA-1571... Romain Beauxis: Soon come: OSS4 !- July 15, 2008 Thanks to the great work from, Sebastien Noel, the OSS4 package has made a great improvement ! An initial package has been commited to the SVN repository. It is not yet complete, but should work, provided you remove yourself the alsa modules (alsa force-unload, as root). I won't argue here about the sorry state of sound under linux, but you can read the links I already provided in the ITP for more details on this topic. Next to come: latest polishing, and then upload: yipee (...)http://blog.rastageeks.org/spip.php?article7 |