On the Web, articles syndiques n jours
Tuesday 14 May 2013
-
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 (...)
-
DSA-2668 linux-2.6
privilege escalation/denial of service/information leak
Monday 13 May 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 (...)
Sunday 12 May 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 (...)
-
DSA-2667 mysql-5.5
several vulnerabilities
-
DSA-2666 xen
several vulnerabilities
Saturday 11 May 2013
Friday 10 May 2013
Tuesday 14 May 2013
Monday 13 May 2013
Sunday 12 May 2013
Saturday 11 May 2013
Friday 10 May 2013