lundi 29 avril 2013

• Michael Prokop: The #newinwheezy game: new forensic packages in Debian/wheezy
  Debian/wheezy includes a bunch of packages for people interested in digital forensics. The packages maintained within the Debian Forensics team which are shipped with the upcoming Debian/wheezy stable release for the first time in a Debian release are: dc3dd: patched version of GNU dd with (...)
  
  
• Martín Ferrari: Setting up my server: netfilter
  I was going to start this series with explaining how I did the remote set-up, but instead I will share something that happened today. One of the first things you want to do when putting a server directly connected to the Internet is some filtering. You don't want to have an application (...)
  
  
• Martín Ferrari: Moving my stuff away from home
  TL;DR version: I want to get rid of the small server running at home, I tell you here about the service I've chosen, and why I like it. In following posts, I'll explain how did I set it up remotely. Disclaimer: I am in now way affiliated with the companies I mention here (except for (...)
  
  

dimanche 28 avril 2013

• Steinar H. Gunderson: Precise cache miss monitoring with perf
  This should have been obvious, but seemingly it's not (perf is amazingly undocumented, and has this huge lex/yacc grammar for its command-line parsing), so here goes: If you want precise cache miss data from perf (where “precise” means using PEBS, so that it gets attributed to (...)
  
  
• Revue - 79111 Constitution Train Chase
  Revue du train de la nouvelle gamme sous licence Disney, The Lone Ranger. - Western - The Lone Ranger / Article
  
  
• Christian Perrier: [life] Running update: January-April...and more.
  
• Vasudev Kamath: Tribute to Beloved Teacher
  Today I'm writing this blog with saddened heart. My mentor and a best friend Dr.Ashokkumar is no more. He died yesterday after fighing with Lymph Node cancer. Ashokkumar or Ashok sir that is how we all students used to address him, was a Professor in Information Science Engineering in NMAM (...)
  
  
• Vagrant Cascadian: intro
  For many years, I've been meaning to write about various things in some sort of online journal. I'd like to tie together various parts of my life, such as my technical work in Debian, LTSP and other Free Software, Software Libre, and Open Source Software projects, but also my passion (...)
  
  
• Paul Tagliamonte: Recent Hy developments
  

samedi 27 avril 2013

• Mike Gabriel: Unity Greeter with X2Go Remote Login Support
  For the Danish company Fleten.net [1] (with my X2Go [2] developer hat on) I have recently developed X2Go integration into the Unity Greeter [3] theme of LightDM [4] in Ubuntu. Fleten.net--as a Canonical Partner--is providing FOSS based IT-services to schools and municipalities in Denmark and (...)
  
  
• Keith Packard: Shared Memory Fences
  Shared Memory Fences In our last adventure, dri3k first steps, one of the ‘future work' items was to deal with synchronization between the direct rendering application and the X server. DRI2 “handles” this by performing a round trip each time the application starts using a (...)
  
  
• Russ Allbery: WebAuth 4.5.0
  Time to finally release three months of work! This is a very large feature release for the multifactor support in WebAuth and for the integration with the user information service, which is the way that WebAuth interacts with local site policy. (Currently, you still have to write your own to a (...)
  
  
• Thorsten Glaser: mksh R45 released
  The MirBSD Korn Shell R45 has been released today, and R44 has been named the new stable/bugfix-only series. (That's version 45.1, not 0.45, dear Homebrew/MacOSX packagers.) Packagers rejoice: the -DMKSH_GCC55009 dance is no longer needed, and even the run-time check for integer division is (...)
  
  

vendredi 26 avril 2013

• Richard Hartmann: Release Critical Bug report for Week 17
  The UDD bugs interface currently knows about the following release critical bugs: In Total: 728 Affecting wheezy: 24 That's the number we need to get down to zero before the release. They can be split in two big categories: Affecting wheezy and unstable: 19 Those need someone to find a fix, (...)
  
  
• Vincent Sanders: When you make something, cleaning it out of structural debris is one of the most vital things you do.
  
• Ian Campbell: Generating Random MAC Addresses
  Working with virtualisation I find myself occasionally needing to generate a random MAC address for use with a virtual machine. I have a stupid little local script which spits one out, which is all fine and dandy for my purposes. However this week one of my colleagues was writing a wiki page (...)
  
  
• Steve Kemp: Modern console mail clients?
  I've recently started staging upgrades from Squeeze to Wheezy. One unpleasant surprise was that the mutt-patched package available to Debian doesn't contain the "sidebar-new-only" patch. This means I need to maintain it myself again, which I'd rather avoid. Over time I've been (...)
  
  
• Francesca Ciceri: And the winner is...
  
• Bits from Debian: Last days for the DebConf13 matching fund!
  As part of the DebConf13 fundraising efforts, Brandorr Group is funding a matching initiative for DebConf13, which will be in place for 4 more days (through April 30th). You can donate here! Please consider donating $100, or even $5 or any amount in between, as we can use all the help we can (...)
  
  
• Daniel Pocock: An RTC infrastructure for debian.org
  A number of potential Summer of Code students are now looking at the question of how to improve RTC in Debian. Making RTC available as a service to the Debian community may be part of the solution, as this would give the community a foundation to test things against and a useful tool for (...)
  
  
• Lior Kaplan: The commit police: learning for recent reference mistakes
  Continuing the previous post about commits and bugs, I'd like to review some mistakes I saw recently. Mistakes do happen, but mentioning them here is meant to teach others and hopefully to reduce similar ones in the future. This post isn't about shaming the authors/commiters. Also, the points I (...)
  
  
• Jon Dowland: Debian Day #13
  
• Petter Reinholdtsen: First alpha release of Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy
  

jeudi 25 avril 2013

• Julien Danjou: OpenStack Design Summit Havana, from a Ceilometer point of view
  
• Wouter Verhelst: Dear supplier,
  I don't usually blog about work, but this time around, you maxed it. When I specifically ask you to not ship goods, I have good reasons for that. Specifically: I'm not at my office all the time. Yes, I'm often there, but I'm also often at a customer's place (you know, so I (...)
  
  
• Jeff Licquia: Linux Is Hard, Except When It Isn't
  

mercredi 24 avril 2013

• Bits from Debian: Release date for Wheezy announced
  Neil McGovern, on behalf of the Debian Release Team, announced the target date of the weekend of 4th/5th May for the release of Debian 7.0 "Wheezy". Now it's time to organize some Wheezy release parties to celebrate the event and show all your Debian (...)