mardi 14 mai 2013

• Ben Hutchings: That perf root exploit (CVE-2013-2094)
  There's some exploit code going around that will let you get root on a range of Linux kernel versions by using a bug in the perf_event_open() syscall. The fix for this is in 3.2.45 and various other stable updates. As a workaround, until it's in Debian stable, you can set sysctl (...)
  
  
• Iustin Pop: no-reply@…
  I had the surprise of seeing this at the bottom of the confirmation email when I ordered something online: Bei Fragen zu deiner Bestellung antworte bitte auf diese E-Mail. In translation: “If you have questions about your order, please reply to this e-mail”. Wow. Someone out there (...)
  
  
• James Morrison: Google IO Predictions: Appengine
  
• Martín Ferrari: A new life
  A week ago, I made the big step and presented my resignation letter at Google. It was not an easy decision, to leave a good job to pursue a blurry plan that sounds a bit infeasible, but I feel this what I want to do: it's a dream becoming reality. After the 31st of May, I will become (...)
  
  
• Hideki Yamane: net-snmp 5.7.2 is in unstable
  
• Ian Wienand: Debugging puppetmaster with Foreman
  This is a little note for anyone trying to get some debugging out of the puppetmaster when deploying with Foreman. The trick, much as it is, is that Foreman is running puppet via Apache; so if you're trying to start a puppet master daemon outside that it won't be able to bind to port (...)
  
  
• M?nica Ram?rez Arceda: Outreach Program for Women talk
  Last Saturday (2013-05-11), I gave a talk about Outreach Program for Women (OPW) at the Ubuntu Party Festa Raring Ringtail. I was invited to give this talk because I'm one of the coordinators of this program in Debian side. This was a small talk and was split in three parts. During the (...)
  
  
• Matthew Palmer: A Modest Vocabulary Proposal
  I would like to suggest that the word “unprofessional” be struck from the dictionary – and anyone who uses it struck with a dictionary. It is a word which conveys no useful information or proposal for action, and is thus nothing but meaningless noise. The purpose of (...)
  
  
• Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppArmadillo 0.3.820
  Conrad rolled up a new Armadillo release 3.820 (following two minor fix release in the 0.3.810 series of which we packaged the one that was relevant for us). This new version is now out in a release 0.3.820 of RcppArmadillo which is already on CRAN and in Debian. The summary of the main (...)
  
  

lundi 13 mai 2013

• Daniel Pocock: Get WebRTC going fast
  A question that comes up more and more these days: what's the quickest way to try WebRTC and see it working? How can a web developer start experimenting with WebRTC in their blog or demo site? Good news: it's no longer necessary to compile anything from source - and many of the (...)
  
  
• Jan Wagner: 500 OOPS: vsftpd: refusing to run with writable root inside chroot ()
  If you updated recently your system to Debian wheezy and you are using vsftpd with enabled chrooted local users ... [~] # grep -i ^chroot_local_user=yes /etc/vsftpd.conf | tail -1 chroot_local_user=YES ... you maybe faced with the following problem: 500 OOPS: vsftpd: refusing to run with (...)
  
  
• Hideki Yamane: 100th Tokyo Debian meeting & "Wheezy" release party
  We are please to report that we held "100th, Tokyo Area Debian Meeting"... yes, 100th!!! (since 2005), 11th May in Shibuya, Tokyo Discussed about "stable" releasing, lectured "cdn.debian.net" by Yasuhiro Arakiand "modern packaging" by Osamu Aoki. Also, Ubuntu folks showed "Ubuntu phone" and it (...)
  
  
• Steinar H. Gunderson: Framework performance
  This was fascinating. They've basically done some very simple things in (what they perceive to be) the idiomatic way in a bunch of different web frameworks and platforms, and compared performance. Unfortunately, the one I consider the most realistic (the “fortunes” test, since (...)
  
  
• Dirk Eddelbuettel: Recent Rcpp talks at U of C and MCW
  A couple of days ago, I had an opportunity to give a guest lecture on our Rcpp package for R and C++ integration. This was in CMSC 12300 Computer Science with Applications-3 in the Department of Computer Science at University of Chicago. The course is the final part of a three term sequence (...)
  
  

dimanche 12 mai 2013

• Gregor Herrmann: RC bugs 2013/19
  after the release is before the release. this week I started to pick up my RC bug squshing activities again. first results: #675231 – psad: "psad: prompting due to modified conffiles which were not modified by the user" add a comment to the bug report #700527 – libjs-jquery: (...)
  
  
• Ian Campbell: qcontrol 0.5.1
  I've just released qcontrol 0.5.1. Changes since the last release: Add build targets to enable static linking (Original patch by Frans Pop). Wake-on-Lan and EUP control (by Michael Stapelberg, Debian bug #703888). Updated example configurations (based on Debian package). Support loading (...)
  
  
• Matthias Klumpp: PackageKit, AppStream and Listaller – A status report
  
• Steve Kemp: The rain in Scotland mainly makes me code
  Lumail http://lumail.org> received two patches today, one to build on Debian Unstable, and one to build on OpenBSD. The documentation of the lua primitives is almost 100% complete, and the repository has now got a public list of issues which I'm slowly working on. Even though I can't (...)
  
  

samedi 11 mai 2013

• Petter Reinholdtsen: Debian, the Linux distribution of choice for LEGO designers?
  In January, I announced a new IRC channel #debian-lego, for those of us in the Debian and Linux community interested in LEGO, the marvellous construction system from Denmark. We also created a wiki page to have a place to take notes and write down our plans and hopes. And several people showed (...)
  
  
• Russell Coker: Geographic Sorting – Lessons to Learn from Ingress
  I've recently been spending a bit of my spare time playing Ingress (see the Wikipedia page if you haven't heard of it). A quick summary is that Ingress is an Android phone game that involves geo-location of “portals” that you aim to control and most operations on a portal can only (...)
  
  
• Joachim Breitner: How to play Rock-Paper-Scissors online?
  There was an interesting question by ‘Fool' recently on the StackExchange site for Boardgames: How do you play a game like Rock-Paper-Scissors with friends online? Or any other game where players have to simultaneously submit their moves (e.g. Diplomacy, or (...)
  
  
• Bastian Venthur: Wee! Wheezy is out (better late than never)
  Last week we released Wheezy, roughly two years after our last release Squeeze. I'd like to thank all the contributors in- and outside of Debian for your fine work! Every single contribution — no matter how big or small — summed up to the wonderful release we finished last week. (...)
  
  
• James Morrison: Google IO predictions
  

vendredi 10 mai 2013

• Richard Hartmann: Release Critical Bug report for Week 19
  Still not sure what to do with this whole thing, but preserving the sharp increase in RC bug count for posterity can't hurt either way. Not sure if it's sad that so many issues may have been overlooked, if this means that Debian is very much alive, either. The UDD bugs interface (...)
  
  
• Andreas Barth: Cleaning up wanna-build
  After adding the new triggers to auto-build wheezy-backports and jessie yesterday, today I cleaned up the remaining bits in wanna-build from lenny: wanna-build=> delete from packages where distribution ~ 'lenny' ; DELETE 8250 wanna-build=> delete from distribution_architectures where (...)
  
  
• Julien Danjou: Rant about Github pull-request workflow implementation
  One of my recent innocent tweet about Gerrit vs Github triggered much more reponses and debate that I expected it to. I realize that it might be worth explaining a bit what I meant, in a text longer than 140 characters. I'm having a hard time now contributing to projects not using Gerrit. (...)
  
  
• Michael Prokop: How to get grub-reboot working™
  So while testing Proxmox VE 3.0 RC1 I had the need to reboot the system into a kernel version different than the one being the default in the bootloader GRUB. “lilo -R …” worked fine in the past, but with GRUB it's not as trivial on the first sight to get its equivalent. I (...)
  
  
• Benjamin Mako Hill: The Remixing Dilemma: The Trade-off Between Generativity and Originality
  

jeudi 9 mai 2013

• Gunnar Wolf: Still more e-voting related rants
  
• Niels Thykier: Wheezy was brought to you by …
  
• Bernhard R. Link: gnutls and valgrind
  Memo to myself (as I tend to forget it): If you develop gnutls using applications, recompile gnutls with --disable-hardware-acceleration to be able to test them without getting flooded with false-positives.
  
  
• Hideki Yamane: 48GB mem machine for $600
  
• Christine Spang: Debian on an X1 Carbon
  Installing fresh hot Debian 7.0 on a shiny new ThinkPad X1 Carbon laptop turns out to be easy as cake. You just need to make sure to grab the wifi firmware from unstable instead of the all-in-one firmware tarballs, which contain a version that is missing a couple required files. wget (...)
  
  
• Paul Tagliamonte: Hylang updates
  

mercredi 8 mai 2013

• Lior Kaplan: Debian in space
  
• Ingo Juergensmann: Is GSOC a whitewashing project?
  
• Joey Hess: faster dh
  With wheezy released, the floodgates are opened on a lot of debhelper changes that have been piling up. Most of these should be pretty minor, but I released one yesterday that will affect all users of dh. Hopefully in a good way. I made dh smarter about selecting which debhelper commands it (...)
  
  
• Ben Hutchings: Warning: Debian 7.0 'wheezy' on VIA C3 and Cyrix III systems
  The 'longhaul' module may cause instability or even hardware damage on some systems. Unfortunately, it is now being auto-loaded on all systems with a compatible CPU (VIA C3 or Cyrix III). See bug #707047. Before upgrading one of these systems to Debian 7.0 'wheezy', if you do (...)
  
  
• Raphael Geissert: Almost one million requests per day
  In the first 48 hours after its log files were rotated last Sunday, http.debian.net handled almost 2 million requests, for an average of 11 requests per second. In the last weeks before the release of Debian wheezy the number of requests had dropped slightly below 2 million per week. Debian is (...)
  
  
• Steve Langasek: Plymouth is not a bootsplash
  Congrats to the Debian release team on the new release of Debian 7.0 (wheezy)! Leading up to the release, a meme making the rounds on Planet Debian has been to play a #newinwheezy game, calling out some of the many new packages in 7.0 that may be interesting to users. While upstart as a (...)
  
  
• Antoine Beaupr?: Debian Wheezy et Debian Qu?bec ce samedi!
  

mardi 7 mai 2013

• Evgeni Golov: Wheezy, ejabberd, Pidgin and SRV records
  TL;DR: fqdn, "jabber.die-welt.net". So, how many servers do you have, that are still running Squeeze? I count one, mostly because I did not figure out a proper upgrade path from OpenVZ to something else yet, but this is a different story. This post is about the upgrade of my (...)
  
  
• Steve Kemp: So progress is going well on lumail
  A massive marathon has resulted in my lumail mail client working well. Functionally the application looks little different to the previous C-client, but it is a lot cleaner, neater, and nicer internally. The configuration file luamail.lua gives a good flavour of the code, and the github (...)
  
  
• Matthew Garrett: A short introduction to TPMs
  I've been working on TPMs lately. It turns out that they're moderately awful, but what's significantly more awful is basically all the existing documentation. So here's some of what I've learned, presented in the hope that it saves someone else some amount of misery. What is (...)
  
  
• Gunnar Wolf: Talking about Debian while Debian was getting released
  Last Saturday, I was invited to talk about Debian to Hackerspace DF, a group that is starting to work at a very nice place together with other collectives, in a quite centric place (Colonia Obrera). I know several of the people in the group (visited them a couple of times in the space's (...)
  
  
• Jo Shields: Windows 8: Blood from a Stone
  
• Hideki Yamane: meet to openSUSE folks (OBS dojo)
  
• Timo Jyrinki: Qt 5 in Debian and Ubuntu, patches upstreaming
  PackagesI quite like the current status of Qt 5 in Debian and Ubuntu (the links are to the qtbase packages, there are ca. 15 other modules as well). Despite Qt 5 being bleeding edge and Ubuntu having had the need to use it before even the first stable release came out in December, the (...)
  
  
• Junichi Uekawa: Got a new 27 inch monitor.
  Got a new 27 inch monitor. Thanks to my friend. Connecting with displayPort cable was a breeze. xrandr tells me it is capable of 2560x1440, which is a lot of space compared to 1366x768 on MacBook Air.
  
  

lundi 6 mai 2013

• Michal Čihař: phpMyAdmin in GSoC 2013
  As student application period of Google Summer of Code 2013 is over, it's time to look at proposals we got for phpMyAdmin. First of all we got slightly less proposals than in past years. This is probably related to the fact that we still heavily focus on code cleanup this year and this is (...)