Planet DebianPlanet Debian - http://planet.debian.org/Neil Williams: Adapting autofs for GPG keys to an SD card- August 19, 2008 Steve's docs on keys on a USB stick needed a few tweaks for my own systems - first thing I noticed was that I had devloop0 instead of devloop0. As my configuration needs to use an SDcard instead of a USB stick or pen, I've changed the references from 'pen' to 'card'. SDcards on my systems come out on devmmcblk0 with partitions having a 'p0-9' suffix (p1, p2 etc.) so the DEVBASE setting needed a tweak. (This line needs to be modified for each user case anyway because the size of the partition...http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/serendipity/index.php?/archives/131-Adapting-autofs-for-GP... Randall Donald: Entering the module ball room- August 19, 2008 I just uploaded lenny modules for the current branch of NVIDIA drivers. Only 4 more source packages to go, plus patching 71.86.06 for xen and 2.6.25+.http://www.khensu.org/index.php?itemid=221 Lucas Nussbaum: tiling terminals manager- August 19, 2008 I tried terminator (thanks go to Nicolas Valcarcel for asking me to sponsor a Debian upload, thus forcing me to try it, and Asheesh Laroia for doing a lightning talk at debconf about it), but I&8217;m not convinced. - More keybindings are clearly missing. You can only switch terminals using PreviousNext keybindings. - More features would be great, like the ability to switch the position of two terminals (so you could reorganize them). - It has some small usability problems, like the fact that...http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=306 Jonathan McDowell: Back from DebConf8- August 19, 2008 I got back home from DebConf8 about 11pm last night, having left Mar del Plata at 11am on Sunday morning. 4 hours time difference makes for a 32 hour trip time covering minibus, 2 planes, a coach and a car, 3 time zones (I flew via Madrid) and 4 countries. Not fun, and I'm glad I booked today off to recover. However I'm also exceptionally glad I went to what's probably my best DebConf so far.Marga and Martn, along with the rest of the local team, did a fantastic job. The venue was great - I...http://www.earth.li/~noodles/blog/2008/08/back-from-debconf8.html Roland Mas: Netfilter-based port-knocking- August 19, 2008 When you have a server on the Internet, you get lots of "brute force" attacks on the SSH daemon, trying plausible logins with a variety of passwords. Even with good passwords, these attacks might eventually succeed (and they're annoying even when they don't), so you want to thwart them. One way is to use fail2ban, a script that monitors the failed connections, and sets up firewall rules (for instance) blocking further connections from the attacking IP addresses. It's good, but it fills your..http://roland.entierement.nu/blog/2008/08/19/netfilter-based-port-knocking.html Dirk Eddelbuettel: UseR! 2008 talk- August 19, 2008 Besides the slides from the tutorial at UseR! 2008 that were mentioned here previously, I also gave a short talk on scripting with R in high-performance computing using our littler frontend to R. The talk introduces and extends an example related to some of the material from the tutorial itself. The slides from the talk are a little rough as the talk was somewhat ad-hoc: As session chair, I was confronted with a fairly last-minute cancellation and a 15 minute hole, and thought this would..http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2008/08/19#useR2008_talk MJ Ray: Using at to Record DebConf Streams- August 19, 2008 While I enjoyed watching some of the DebConf 8 Video Team&8217;s Excellent Service, not all of it was at convenient times for me, being several timezones away, so I used the following script to record some of the streams:- !binsh Example: recordstream 09:00 09:55 -Otalk.ogv http:server:8000stream start=$1 end=$2 shift 2 ( echo wget -q "$" '&' echo 'echo $! > $HOMEwget.pid' ) at $start echo 'kill $(<$HOMEwget.pid)' at $end I think that&8217;s right, but I might have fluffed a $ for..http://www.news.software.coop/using-at-to-record-debconf-streams/75/ Vincent Fourmond: What ctioga is missing- August 19, 2008 I haven't posted for a long while about ctioga, but that does not mean that development has stopped. It goes on, and features get added basically every single time I need them. Recent additions make it possible to tune a little more the look of the legends and add pure text lines in them. I've however realized that now, what ctioga is missing the most is real flexibility over the coordinates. For now, all coordinate positions are either relative to the frame (such as for --inset) or to the...http://vince-debian.blogspot.com/2008/08/what-ctioga-is-missing.html Russell Coker: Ownership of the Local SE Linux Policy- August 19, 2008 A large part of the disagreement about the way to manage the policy seems to be based on who will be the primary &8220;owner&8221; of the policy on the machine. This isn&8217;t a problem that only applies to SE Linux, the same issue applies for various types of configuration files and scripts throughout the process of distribution development. Having a range of modules which can be considered configuration data that come from a single source seems to make SE Linux policy unique among other...http://etbe.coker.com.au/2008/08/19/ownership-local-se-linux-policy/ Sandro Tosi: Reportbug 3.40 in unstable- August 19, 2008 I'm happy that we were able to upload reportbug 3.40 in unstable this night!Now there is a team to work on reportbug (thanks to Chris to let it go), so more workpower, more thinking heads, more bugs closed ;)So, since this is the transition upload, please let us know asap if something went wrong; or if you want a new feature, something you feel needs to be change etc etc.There was even an article on FreeSoftwareMagazine some days ago, so let's spread the word! :Dhttp://sandrotosi.blogspot.com/2008/05/reportbug-340-in-unstable.html |