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Jonathan Carter: Debian 6.0 (squeeze) is here!
Debian 6.0 is now released! Freshly baked iso images are on the Debian cdimage server and there are torrents available as well. The whole effort is super-impressive. 693 ISO images that span 11...
View ArticleKees Cook: fun with game memory
So, I was testing a (closed source) single-player offline game recently and thought this exercise might be fun to document. I didn’t want to spend any time actually earning in-game money since I’d...
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Daniel Holbach: Congratulations, Debian!
Debian just released Debian 6.0. Good work everyone!
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Raphaël Hertzog: Debian 6.0 is out, Wheezy kicks off
As you probably already know, Debian released Squeeze aka Debian 6.0 this week-end. It was a really great week-end. I saw quite a few release already, but none with so much online social activity....
View ArticleLucas Nussbaum: mutt + notmuch = perfect mail setup?
Following Our Leader, I’ve just switched to using notmuch with mutt for searching (instead of maildir-utils, previously). I strongly recommend this setup to all mutt users. As a bonus, accented...
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Benjamin Mako Hill: Editor-to-Reader Ratios on Wikipedia
It's been reported for some time now that the number of active editors on Wikipedia (usually defined as people who have edited at least 5 times in a given month) peaked in 2007 and has been mostly...
View ArticleJames Westby: pkgme: handles packaging for you
If you are an application developer and you want to distribute your new application for a linux distribution, then you currently have several hurdles in your path. Beyond picking which one to start...
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Paul Tagliamonte: What's wrong with America ( part II )
Puppy Bowl. That’s all I need to say.
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Dustin Kirkland: Introducing: run-one and run-this-one
I love cronjobs! They wake me up in the morning, fetch my mail, backup my data, sync my mirrors, update my systems, check the health of my hardware and RAIDs, transcode my MythTV recordings, and so...
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Launchpad News: do you think bug search should match target names?
We have a small quandry on the Launchpad development team at the moment. As bug 268508 discusses, when one searches for a bug on Launchpad we do a substring search on the names of bug targets. For...
View ArticleAndres Rodriguez: Dual External Monitors with Laptop
Currently, I connect my laptop to a 22-inch TV. I do this using HDMI. But, I’m now planning to get two 22-inch LCD monitors. However, I was wondering how can I connect the two external monitors to my...
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Collin Pruitt: Why I dislike social media
So, a little bit of information: I moved my blog, and deleted all but a few of my social media accounts. The rest of this post is me disliking social media. If you don’t care to see me explain why...
View ArticleLaunchpad News: New ‘web_link’ property on API objects
Launchpad has a REST API that exposes almost every object within Launchpad. Most of them have API URLs that closely match the human-readable URL: for instance, https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/316694...
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Costales: Future!
This last weekend, Softastur did an awesome Ubuntu install party in Asturian language. But, something was different… two guys (Dani and Rodrigo) revolutionized (by themselves and independently) the...
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Dustin Kirkland: Update on errno, ssh-import-id, and bikeshed
If you read my post from earlier today about run-one, you might notice that I used a new source and binary package to publish the run-one utility. This is a new practice that I'm going to use for...
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Seif Lotfy: Zeitgeist Hackfest 2011 Day 0
After a successful experience at the Zeitgeist Hackfest 2009 at Bolzano, we decided on short notice that another hackfest is needed. The hackfest this year will focus alot on remaining blueprints of...
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Lionel Dricot: The Official European Joke
Traduction française de ce billet disponible ici European paradise: You are invited to an official lunch. You are welcomed by an Englishman. Food is prepared by a Frenchman and an Italian puts you in...
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