Linkblogg
Wed 07.January 2009
Debian has updated xterm (arbitrary
code execution).
Slackware has updated samba
(privilege escalation).
Ubuntu has updated samba (privilege
escalation), xterm (several
vulnerabilities).
[...]
Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, thinks 2009
will be a good year for Linux. ""Even though 2008 was in
recession, the Linux platform did well, and it is growing faster than other
platforms," Zemlin told us during an [...]
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols looks
at Splashtop. "Splashtop is a mini-desktop Linux distribution
that's based on the 2.6.20 Linux kernel. Currently, Splashtop comes
pre-installed on pretty much all ASUS motherboards and on netbooks and
laptops from ASUS, HP's high-end VoodooPC division and Lenovo. [...]
Pylons: For when Ruby is just Too Powerful
I should get T-shirts printed or something.
[...]
I've been running KDE4 desktop since May and I've constantly suffered from poor desktop performance and various graphics card related problems. Now I've solved those problems: I've bought an ATI card. Despite NVidia releasing the new Linux driver and suggesting to tweak several performance-related configuration [...]
I'm working on designing a microformat that can be used to
indicate the location of VCS (git, svn, etc) repositories
related to a web page.
I'd appreciate some web standards-savvy eyes on my
rel-vcs microformat rfc.
If it looks good, next steps will be making [...]
... to the Python "Egg" package format. It reminds me that Ruby gems
aren't the dumbest way to package something up.
[...]
Broken mail server.
netfort.gr.jp isn't accepting mail for me this morning.
It's currently broken somewhat.
[...]
Some months ago, I got a phone call from Rafael Fernández Flores. He wanted to interview me for a book he was working on regarding the history of computers in Mexico. The first computer in Latin America was installed in 1958 [...]
Tue 06.January 2009
MapReduce with Parallel Make
Ted Gould’s post about transcoding
music files using Make got me thinking about combining
Make and RecordStream into
a barebones MapReduce framework. As a demonstration, I wrote
a partial solution to Tim Bray’s Wide
Finder challenge, to calculate hit counts from web
server logs.
More
details [...]
Tomorrow most people will be back from the holiday season, time to start again with the biweekly IRC meetings of the openSUSE KDE Team. This time we will look back to last year or rather to the openSUSE 11.1 release shortly before Christmas and the [...]
I was until recently using xmms2 as a music daemon. I was finding it neat, providing a good command-line (thus scriptable) control over how the music was playing, and I was using xmms2 info to automatically write signature files for my mails. However, [...]
I was happy to receive Dov Zamir’s email announcing the creation of a fork of the DSPAM anti-spam filter, called dspam-community.
I have been using DSPAM for a while now, and am very happy with it, but was quite anxious that the project is [...]
Do you think that you have significant amount of experience to work as a mentor at KDE forums? Then you should consider joining the team! Read on…
What do mentors do?
Mentors are responsible for conducting Klassroom sessions. For those who aren’t familiar with the KDE Forum [...]
I work with bugs.kde.org nearly every single day.Most people who report bugs on it hardly ever visit it, and that's not a bad thing.Some people who do end up there are frustrated due to some problem they ran into and so show up a little [...]
Earlier today Dirk sent a message to the release team and KDE core devel mailing lists noting that KDE 4.2 is now branched off of mainline and that the the first RC is being tagged. That means trunk is now what 4.3 will be.As I've [...]
Bara att gratulera Rick Falkvinge som tycks ha fått god utdelning av sin vädjan om donationer för att försörja sig. Hur bra står dock skrivet i stjärnorna.
En massa människor som uppskattar vad han gör (och att han inte behöver lönearbeta heltid för sitt uppehälle) skänkte [...]
Everyone's been talking about how great and wonderful git is, and I've tried using it for a few projects of my own, on a local basis, sort of like an advanced form of 'rcs'. So I thought I'd try it out in [...]
Let us start with a screenshot:
The graph itself is not something new, since I just recreated SquirrelFish Extreme comparison (against its predecessors). The focus is actually the tool which was used to generate that bar chart.
For the code and a little explanation, check out what [...]
I've been owning a Nintendo Wii for quite a while now, but so far only played an occasional game of tennis or the like. Over the holidays I got The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, which is a really nice game in itself. [...]
Making a simple PerlResponseHandler that does something like this:
sub handler {
my($r) = shift;
$r->content_type("text/plain");
$r->print("You suck.\n");
return Apache2::Const::HTTP_BAD_REQUEST;
}
…doesn’t make what you’d be expecting. This is because mod_perl assumes, [...]
Apart from being excited about that I still have to fetch a place to sleep on saturday. Having read this promising offer I was wondering if someone wants to join booking a group room?
Posted in KDE, OpenSource Tagged: FOSDEM, KDE, Room booking [...]
One change and one addition to my current European tour.
First, it looks like we'll be skipping Amsterdam this time and heading
straight to London from Zagreb on the evening of January 10th. We'll
still plan to arrive in Cambridge before the 13th.
Second, I'll [...]
I was thrilled to be part of a successful Debian bug squashing party
organized by MIT's Student Information Processing Board on December
13th. Greg Price, who helped organize the event, did a wonderful
write up which he sent to the debian-devel email list.
I [...]
The Copyrighting the Future: Keeping ahead of the game consultation finishes in a month’s time (6 February). They actually called it that - “copyrighting the future” - can you believe it?
In case you haven’t seen it yet, this is the [...]
Over on planet.gnome.org, Ted Gould blogs about how the current system tray protocol sucks. I've written about the systray recently, but I started writing about how much it sucks 5 years ago. I wrote about it in a number of places, and sent mails to [...]
Hi KDE people that are coming to FOSDEM,Here are some small adaptations to the hotel reservation.In the meanwhile I managed to get an option untill 19 januari for Hotel Albert.For those still in search of a nice hotel, I managed to get a reduction on [...]
After 2008's Tokamak in Italy, I blogged about scripting and my cracktastic thoughts on it. I mumbled on about ninjas and myspacers and apparently the drugs are still in my system because I still think it's a solid approach to the problem.Thankfully I was able [...]
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