Planet DebianPlanet Debian - http://planet.debian.org/Neil Williams: State of play in Emdebian ARM- July 14, 2008 Autobuilder Summary: 138 packages built successfully. 19 packages failed to cross build. 2 packages are tagged for a manual upload. (Dependency issues - rather than break the archive, these packages will not be uploaded until relevant dependencies have been fixed and uploaded.) Stats 87% built OK 12% failed Notes: All these packages built previously and fail at the latest versions in Debian Sid. Many could be upstream errors. All exist in Emdebian at previous versions (only 1 failure is known...http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/serendipity/index.php?/archives/126-State-of-play-in-Emdeb... Jose Luis Rivas Contreras: New gkrellm 2.3.1-6 with sysfs support for battery- July 14, 2008 Now gkrellm works with kernels >=2.6.24, since where procacpi has been deprecated in favor of sys. The binaries packages for most of the archs debian supports most be available already in the debian archive since anibal upload it the saturday. Enjoy!http://ghostbar.ath.cx/node/25 Julien Blache: pommed v1.21: composited gpomme- July 14, 2008 It&8217;s been on the TODO list for ages now, and Soeren finally tackled it: compositing support for gpomme. This is the only change in this release. Please report any issue with gpomme and compositing, as this code has only been tested on a limited number of configurations. For people not running a compositing manager (like myself), don&8217;t worry, gpomme works just as before.http://blog.technologeek.org/2008/07/14/118 Evan Prodromou: 26 Messidor CCXVI- July 14, 2008 Since the launch of Identi.ca a few weeks ago, I've had a very busy time. Not much sleep, but lots of fulfilling and exciting work. It's invigorating to work on something that is popular and that you believe in. And I'm glad that the Franklin Street Statement so succinctly encapsulates those beliefs. As some people may have read in my previous blog post about the motivations behind creating Identi.ca (see Journal14 Messidor CCXVI), I was part of a group convened at the FSF to discuss the impact.http://evan.prodromou.name/Journal/26_Messidor_CCXVI Junichi Uekawa: Looking through mail logs.- July 14, 2008 Looking through mail logs. After 7 days or so of spamassassin churning, I've managed to process about 20 days of e-mail and caught up to email since 5 days ago. Looking at some bugs to see if something is urgent.http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/diary/daily/2008-Jul-14.html.en#2008-Jul-14-22:23:59 Cyril Brulebois: Package updates- July 14, 2008 This (extended) weekend features: pkg-phototools Update libgphoto2 which is used (surprise!) by gphoto2 and others to access digital cameras. Some hours after 2.4.1-1 got uploaded, 2.4.2 got released. Got to get back to it soon Prepare an SVN snapshot of hugin, which is a panorama sticher, using libpano13 from panotools. People are so active with their GSOC students that the long-awaited 0.7.0 version isnt released yet, hence the snapshot. Testing is very welcome: binaries for i386 and...http://ikibiki.org//blog/2008/07/14/Package_updates/ Simon Richter: It's all in my head now- July 14, 2008 I've spent four hours listening to muzak yesterday. Apparently, antitrust legislation prohibits T-Online from getting better access to T-Com's ticket system than their competitors. Of course that means "none at all". I do however, disagree with their corollary that it is the customer's duty to call T-Com and tell them what is wrong. On a Sunday evening. After a lightning strike. With a Windows update breaking PPPoE for ZoneAlarm users. Seriously, get your processes straight.http://www.hogyros.de/?q=node/402 Christian Perrier: Churro as production server- July 14, 2008 'churro' is the name of the Debian i18n server (i18n.debian.net), hosted by the Extremadura region in Merida (IIRC). That server was setup back in september 2006, during the first Extremadura i18n meeting. Since then, a lot of hidden work happened on it, mostly moving all scripts that build statistics pages from Debian localization data, for instance the Central Debian translation statistics. Thomas Huriaux, then Nicolas Franois, have been the people building all this, with the help of Felipe.http://www.perrier.eu.org/weblog/2008/07/14#pootle William Pitcock: Thoughts about Dan Kaminskys DNS vulnerability and its effects for DNSBLs- July 14, 2008 Rumour has it that Kaminsky&8217;s vulnerability is that it is possible to hijack the NS records for a TLD registry&8217;s root servers, by spoofing the response from a hostile machine and guessing the transaction id. Obviously transaction spoofing is nothing new. Anyway, here&8217;s a way how it works: Query a public nameserver for domain.tld where you own domain.tld. The nameserver will connect to your nameserver. Reply with additional records about how to find the authoritative servers for..http://nenoblog.net/?p=12 Russell Coker: Logic and Pants- July 14, 2008 I just read an interesting post about proposed new laws in the US prohibiting exposing underpants 1. This is not a new thing and is part of a debate that has been taking place in many countries since the trend of &8220;hip hop&8221; saggy pants. The first thing that occurs to me is to wonder what the difference really is between underpants and bathers. It seems to me that bathers are simply underpants that don&8217;t turn transparent when they get wet (and which are made of materials that...http://etbe.coker.com.au/2008/07/14/logic-and-pants/ |