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2 September 2006

Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho: Haskell responses for Eric Warmenhoven

Eric Warmenhoven asked a couple of Haskell questions. Here are my answers. BTW, do you want to be added to Planet Haskell? If so, drop me an email. Also, be sure to subscribe to the Haskell mailing lists. Where did all the shared libraries go? Turning a Haskell module into a static library looks like it s fairly straightforward, but it looks like it s impossible to create a shared library that s usable by other Haskell programs. See the GHC FAQ. Why do header files have a bizzare suffix? If module A uses something from module B and module B uses something from module A, there s a circular dependency that GHC can t resolve on its own. The solution to this is to create a boot copy of module A that defines the things that B depends on without depending on B. In C this is called a header file. In GHC this is called a boot file and is given the extension .hs-boot . There are no header files with Haskell. Or rather, there are (the .hi files), but they are generated by the compiler when compiling the module. The .hs-boot files are not header files but a workaround for GHC’s inability to compile circularly dependent modules (which the language spec requires). Why does everyone ignore all the practical stuff? I read through five tutorials before I finally found one (on Monads, of all things) that actually had a usable getArgs example. Perhaps many people consider the practicals easy and want to discuss the hard things instead. Where s the Debian-specific documentation? For example, there s a GTK module. Where is that? How do I get it? Is there a package for it? If not, how do I make one? (I saw the debian haskell mailing list but didn t feel like wading through the archives hoping that one of my questions might be answered.) There is no Debian-specific documentation apart from a draft “policy”. Googling, I found this repository that contains Gtk2HS debs. Haven’t tried them, though.

1 September 2006

Roland Mas: Gforge in Debian, July 2006

Following about a month of irregular activity, I just uploaded three source packages (along with related binary packages, of course) to Debian unstable: gforge (4.5.14-9), gforge-plugin-scmcvs (4.5.14-3), and gforge-plugin-scmsvn (4.5.14-2). I hope unstable will give them more exposure than experimental did. Plans for the future: I ll focus on getting these packages into testing, without too many changes if possible. I haven t managed to get dbconfig-common to work reliably (or at all) with PostgreSQL so far, so I ll consider the migration to its infrastructure as a nice option, but not a blocker. The problem is that it would make the install scripts simpler and (hopefully) more reliable if it worked. Again, help would be very much appreciated. (And yes, I will be submitting bug reports when I get some time to do some more thorough testing of dbconfig-common.)

Clint Adams: Carouselambra

Steve's hot dog has ridden the following metros : [cta] [mta] [jfk airtrain] Steve's hot dog has flown on the following airlines : [united] [comair] Would you put Steve's hot dog in your mouth?

Biella Coleman: In the middle of nowhere but on the net

Micah and I have made it to Canada! Wow. We keep driving and well, we are not there yet because Edmonton, like the map shows, is far in that Western and Northen sense. We first went to Vermont last week to visit some friends and family but then decided not to cross in Montreal and drive that way, for a number of reasons. One was that we would not have cell access, the second was the higher gas prices, and the third is that it would be slower because the highways here are not like the MASSIVE American ones but more like one to two lane unlit roads where the speed limit is 60 miles per hour. Now that we are in Canada and on the Trans Canadian Highway to Saskatoon, I am glad we made that decision. It is super nice here and there are cool road attractions like the Happy Rock in Gladstone, Manitoba, but we are just unfit to drive on these roads, at least late a night. But one of the wildest things is that I am online, typing on a computer, via the phone/blue tooth and a Cingular Data Connection Plan. We decided against the North American Phone Plan because it was PRICEY (what good is NAFTA if you can’t just your same phone??) but the Data Plan was not too expensive and since Micah has to be connected 16 hrs of the day, we decided to go for it. We have been using the Internet all trip but it was only recently that we can now use it through the computer, which makes it a lot nicer. But what is even better is that the connection is like double the speed in Canada (prolly because it is a UMTS network and because Canadians rock) so while we may go slower on the highway, we do go faster on the information highway. Not a bad trade off.

Jesus Climent: Officially 100000 years old

Under EEST timezone (GMT+3) I am officially 100000 years old. And Lars is +101, so Lars, have a nice birthday. For a long time i have avoided celebrating it, but this year i have one more reason to follow the trend. So here it goes the long overdue personal post about my life. She is gone. Or so I feel. Today it will be the first time in 6 years and almost 9 months that she is not preparing a surprise for me. I always told her i did not want anything, but she always managed to prepare something: 26 roses and a cheese party (Jesus loves cheeses), a night at an Irish pub with most of my friends, a visit to Tampere’s amussement park, a dinner at a nice Italian restaurant or a concert with Kemopetrol and Giant Robot. So today, 1st of September 2006, my birthday, she, my best friend and my girlfriend during the last almost-seven years, is moving her stuff out. The apartment will be full of emptiness and empty of her. Dato is crying of happiness. I cry of sadness. One goes up, another goes down.

31 August 2006

Martin F. Krafft: News from the NetBSD cabal

I thought this mail about the current state and future of NetBSD (via /.) was an interesting read, and one relevant to Debian not only because of our Debian NetBSD port. In particular, it felt good to be able to say "yeah, we've got that" to some of the points Charles raised. However, I also had to concede that we're short in some of the other points. I won't put numbers to these claims because it's not as black and white as this. What would be really great is if one of the Debian long-timers would sit down and reply to Charles with his/her experience! Having worked a bunch with the NetBSD crowd in the past, I really would hate to see this project go down. The NetBSD kernel, while not up to the task to provide the desktop experience, still makes for rock-solid servers, and some parts of it sparkle with technical excellence (like the virtual memory management, for instance). Maybe, just maybe a possible future for NetBSD would be to produce Debian NetBSD in a joint venture? NP: Shpongle / Tales of the Inexpressible

Lucas Nussbaum: Automatically watching for updates on web pages ?

Once in a while, I come upon a web page that :
  1. Doesn’t offer an RSS/Atom feed.
  2. Doesn’t change very often.
  3. I would like to be warned when it’s updated.
I would like to be automatically warned when such pages change. websec does this :
Description: Web Secretary - Web page monitoring software
A visual Web page monitoring software. However, it goes
beyond the normal functionalities offered by such software. Not only
does it detect changes based on content analysis (instead of date/time
stamp or simple textual comparison), it will email the changed page to
you with the new content highlighted.
But :
  1. It sends emails. Generating an RSS feed would be much better.
  2. It sends HTML emails. OK, you can use AsciiMarker to view the changes with a text MUA, but still…
Anybody knows of another piece of software I could use ?

Clint Adams: Scaramouche, scaramouche, will you do the moviefone

A couple of arrogant fucks once boasted to me of the coed naked T-shirts which they had commissioned for their special hobby (which is far too embarrassing for me to mention even though I do not participate in it). The gist of it was that they were mocking the stupidity of the people who wear coed naked shirts by... wearing them ironically. I tried to explain to the intelligent one of the pair that she wasn't actually mocking the people who wear coed naked shirts because it just so happened that, by virtue of the fact that she had purchased and donned a coed naked shirt of her own design, she had become one of the people who wears coed naked shirts. She didn't seem to comprehend my point. So when I sally forth into the following paragraph, in mockery of bloggers who refer to people by initial, you may wonder whether I am mocking the people who use initials or if I have just become one of those people. For example, both K. and K. are getting married this year, and they're both getting married to men named J. Is that creepy? In contrast, K., who only dates men named J. (which is definitely creepy), is not getting married this year, but you don't need to get married when you're in Europe. Get it? Okay, here we go. Y. calls me up and says, Clint, do you want to go to the opera tonight? Two questions later, I say, Sure. Is there any pre-opera dinner action? I have dinner plans, she replies haughtily, T. was interested in dinner though. Call C . about it. Don't invite C .! I had no intention of inviting either C . or C ., but I called C . C . didn't answer, so I constructed a voodoo doll and stabbed it. After some time, circumstances changed a bit, and in order to accommodate reality a bit, Y. cancelled her dinner plans, and we arranged a meeting place with T. and C . and E. Since none of us were going to end up having time for dinner, Y. said that she'd bring finger sandwiches . There was some discussion of buying wine to go with the finger sandwiches , which I thought was a little silly, and the conclusion was a bunch of vague non-committal grunts. I was surprised when three bottles of wine showed up. I was surprised by the enormity of the finger sandwiches . I was surprised to see M. at our meeting spot. Then M. got a phone call and proceeded to announce that A. was en route. There was some quibbling over whether we should all wait for A. or whether M. should wait while the rest of us got our seats. We concluded that the latter was the sanest option. I opted to wolf down one of the foot-long finger sandwiches and a healthy amount of whichever wine got opened first. A. shows up with a large bag of food. She explains that she had gone shopping at Whole Foods, and as she is still drunk from the margaritas she had started drinking at lunchtime, she had bought a bit too much food. At this point, there is no indication of her drunkenness, though she has bought numerous cheeses, loaves of bread, candies, a giant low-fat or fat-free cake-like abomination, cookies, a several-pound chunk of chocolate, and a sizeable bottle of Orangina. She drinks the Orangina as not to get any drunker, and I cringe in terror as a boor gets on stage and screams about how the fatcats in Washington are trying to purge the Earth of the performing arts and how we've all got to take action to fight that. I consider writing to my elected representatives in the Federal government, but only because the guy on stage is one of them. A. switches from Orangina to wine at M.'s coaxing. Some asshat in front of us starts waving the flag of another country for no reason we can discern. Y. starts hissing about how she needs someone to fetch her a shotgun. It takes far too long for anyone to forcibly stop the flag waver, but it happens eventually. No shotguns were involved. Now, among those not in the know, there are often rumors that A. and I have a thing going. This is because I call her fat and threaten to do possibly-unpleasant things to her breasts, and in return she calls me things I won't mention and threatens to do non-breast-related things to me, and makes obscure Lloyd Alexander references that only I understand. Those in the know, on the other hand, are aware that she cheated on her husband with M., and are somewhat irritated by this because apparently her husband is a really nice guy. I've never been allowed to meet him, so I've no idea. Anyway, we start misbehaving. E. managed to maintain decorum the entire time, but M. and A. started fondling each other and kissing and giggling, and C . started SMSing comments about how these people can't behave themselves, and T. is on IRC complaining about how people are misbehaving. A. grabbed at my cell phone in protest of our rude electronic communication, so I slapped the hell out of her. Do you want me to beat him up? M. inquired from A.'s lap. Being possessive and protective of girls with whom you wish to copulate is apparently a rather popular pastime in the white trash community, because C . had threatened to beat me up on A.'s behalf not two days before. Anyway, to her credit, she said, No, I deserved it. To show my admiration, I beaned her with a wine cork. C . had some hand sanitizer, which we entertained ourselves with while arguing about which opera La donna mobile is from. I wish the consensus had been West Side Story, but the majority opinion was for La boh me. I'll assume that the had something to do with the confusion. Against all odds, they managed to finish the opera despite us and the other miscreants, and we proceeded to leave. On the way out, M. and A. had an utterly inane discussion which would have been utterly forgettable had they not ended each sentence by calling each other baby . Thenceforth, I have addressed them both as baby , which makes them very embarrassed and quiet. Clint, A. whined, Give me your job. You're drunk, I countered. But I'm cute! A. insisted. Oh, I see. You're REALLY drunk, I observed. Meh, she mumbled, no longer on her sluttiness high. Men are dumb. M. declared that I must absolutely go see some museum exhibit I'm sure I don't care about, and A. said, No! We're going to see that! Yes, we are, M. agreed. Okay, baby, I said patronizingly, then went home with T.

30 August 2006

Martin F. Krafft: Using LVM snapshots for filesystem recovery

This morning, I found myself in Gunnar's position and was looking at an empty /home directory because of the following mount failure: 
piper:~# mount /dev/mapper/vg0-home
mount: Unknown error 990
Starting XFS recovery on filesystem: dm-0 (logdev: internal)
Filesystem "dm-0": xfs_inode_recover: Bad inode magic number, dino ptr =
  0xffff810028a6bd00, dino bp = 0xffff81002851d140, ino = 33629
Filesystem "dm-0": XFS internal error xlog_recover_do_inode_trans(1) at
  line 2352 of file fs/xfs/xfs_log_recover.c.  Caller 0xffffffff88307729
I am used to XFS giving me hard times, but this time at least I didn't have much to worry as it happened at home, I have plenty other machines I can use instead, and all data was backed up. Since this is on a Debian unstable machine, I had the latest xfs_repair available, and told it to do its thing, but it refused: 
piper:~# xfs_repair /dev/mapper/vg0-home
Phase 1 - find and verify superblock...
Phase 2 - using internal log
        - zero log...
ERROR: The filesystem has valuable metadata changes in a log which needs to
be replayed.  Mount the filesystem to replay the log, and unmount it before
re-running xfs_repair.  If you are unable to mount the filesystem, then use
the -L option to destroy the log and attempt a repair.
Note that destroying the log may cause corruption -- please attempt a mount
of the filesystem before doing this.
Great. Catch-22. I decided to have a go at fixing it, but as much as I pretended to grok xfs_db, I did not manage to get the filesystem into a consistent state. I thus fired off an email to the mailing list (which has not arrived there 4 hours later) and started pv to dump the raw data to another machine for later use or debugging. Watching the progress meter of pv from time to time, it occured to me that my /home is in fact on LVM. I put it on LVM way back when LVM was new and cool and I wanted to gather experience with it. I've never actually done anything with it, but today it saved my little bits of remaining sanity. Why? Because LVM can take snapshots of volumes. It took me a while to put the pieces together, but in the end, a snapshot would enable me at least to run a test-round of xfs_repair -L and assess the damage, and if it wasn't all that bad, I could just run the repair process on the actual volume again. With the encouragement and knowledge of Christian Aichinger and Daniel J. Priem on IRC, I hence proceeded to give it a try. First I had to extend the volume group to make room for the snapshot data, and since I had no disks handy, I just used a loop device based on a sparse file: 
dd if=/dev/zero of=/srv/loop bs=1 count=1 seek=5368709120
losetup -f /srv/loop
pvcreate /dev/loop0
vgextend vg0 /dev/loop0
lvcreate -s -n home-snapshot /dev/vg0/home -L 5G
(Thanks to Ian Nicholls for spotting the error: I was using pvcreate instead of that last lvcreate previously). Now /dev/vg0/home-snapshot was a copy-on-write snapshot of the original volume, and I could do whatever I wanted with it, as long as I did not exceed the 5G size allotted for the copied data blocks that I modified. Using mount and xfs_repair, I could verify that the problem also shows up with the snapshot. Thus, I ran xfs_repair -L on the snapshot and finally was able to mount the snapshot to inspect the /lost+found directory. Fortunately, it wasn't all that full, nor was there anything important in there, so I sighed, removed the snapshot (lvremove) and unleashed xfs_repair -L on the original volume, which is now again mounted under /home. Finally, remove the loop device from the volume group (vgreduce). If you are like me and forgot to do so before rebooting and now find your LVM volumes not starting anymore, look into the --removemissing option. I like this method. I knew the filesystem was corrupted, but I did not know to what extend. Had corruption been worse, I could have waited for the XFS guys to help me out. But seeing the low damage, I was able to decide to just purge the journal and accept the damage. If this had happened on a more important machine (i.e. without recent backups), I would have proceeded a bit differently: once the snapshot was mounted, I'd have run xfs_dump on it to save the data. I would also have used more space for the snapshot and not removed it until the parent volume was repaired and mounted. It's unlikely that xfs_repair will produce different results when run on a volume and its snapshot, but better be safe than sorry. All this said, I just want to point out that the above method is filesystem independent and hence would work for any filesystem out there. I've never been a big fan of LVM, especially without RAID to build on (striping across physical media multiplies your chance of data loss), but this method is a good reason for using LVM regardless: use a volume group instead of your physical disk, and logical volumes instead of partitions, but don't span disks (unless you have to). Then, if stuff goes bad, you can hook in another disk, extend the volume group with it, and work on snapshots.

Lars Wirzenius: Debian Inquirer: A Royal Mess: Debian Fights Queen

Queen Elizabeth II and the Debian project threaten religious warfare! D-Inq has today uncovered a conflict between the Debian Project and the queen of England and other places. The row is over the King James Version of the Bible. "It's all mine! Mine! Mine!" the monarch told D-Inq in an exclusive interview. "Keep yer dirty fingers off it or I'll sick the SAS on you." In the UK, the monarch owns the copyright for the KJV Bible, but the Debian project wishes to distribute it freely. The SAS, UK's elite fighting force and the Queen's personal mob, is already gearing up. Instead of their usual arsenal of guns and bombs, they're opting to use a new kind of weapon, the DD Attitude Readjustment Tool, or DART. The Debian Project is undaunted. "We've seen worse, this is a pedestrian transport in a big grassy place in comparison" says a Debian flame war veteran, Steve, 22, from Portland, Oregon. "The SAS is nothing compared to a vigorous discussion about firmware freeness. It's not even as bad as someone spoiling the next episode of B5." Things might get more difficult, though. There are rumors that MI5 has already infiltrated Debian's discussion forums. Worried analysts imply that some of the recent, divisive developments within the project are the result of agent provocateurs. "The new Python policy is one", says Lars W, an analyst who wishes to remain nameless. "No sensible person would have done things like that", he continues. While both sides ramp up their fighting forces, local constabulary in many English towns has already started to confiscate and deport machines running Debian to Libya. Time will tell when they will return.

Uwe Hermann: LinuxBIOS Symposium 2006 Europe

For everybody who might be interested in this kind of stuff: the LinuxBIOS project's annual LinuxBIOS Symposium will take place October 1st-3rd, 2006 in the nice German city Hamburg. In the light of the recent discussions about "sourceless firmware" and similar issues in Debian, some people might be interesting in helping with (or at least getting informed about) a practical project related to this - a free (GPL'd) BIOS replacement. It's quite likely that some OLPC people will be there, too, as the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) project employs LinuxBIOS on their hardware... Deadline for workshop and talk proposals is September 10th (if you should plan to give a talk), and a preliminary agenda is already available online. The registration process has also recently started (deadline is September 11th). See this post for the full announcement. Now, if I manage to somehow gather a reasonably large amount of Euros, I'll probably be there.

Joey Hess: id fraud

I found out today that someone found the small amount of information about me they needed to nearly successfully buy stuff in my name. They call this "identity theft", but since my identity still seems to be intect (pats his rampant ego) and since as an ardent SF fan, I'd like to reserve the term identity theft for the possibility of someone stealing a copy of me, I prefer not to use that term for this form of fraud. Luckily I already had a fraud alert placed on my accounts before this happened; I started placing these alerts a while ago, on the basis that the banking system's verification methods are so broken that it makes sense to just do it pre-emptively, before you have any reason to think someone is trying to defraud you. Who knows if that does any good though. Oddly, I almost ranted about this id theft nonsense last week, before I knew this happened. The thing is, while I'm calling to report credit cards as compromised and learning that someone managed to put together my name, address, phone number, and a not very well secured credit card number; at the same time I have something here with these properties:
  1. Anyone can use it to verify if a given statement (such as "transaction #128: please pay this person $500") was actually made by me and actually applies to the person I meant it to.
  2. Using it doesn't automatically give it to a supposedly trusted third party, such as the low-paid phone support guy who has my credit card number and all the rest up on his screen right now as I ask him to cancel the purchase.
  3. According to the experts is not breakable by any means except for a brute-force attack that would use the resources of a medium-sized country.
  4. Can be used to identify me with a fair degree of certainty, even if you've not met me.
  5. Is suitable for use on the internet.
  6. Even if physically stolen from me is not trivially easy to break and use.
  7. If I lose it or know that someone has stolen it from me, I can revoke its use in a way that is just as hard to forge or break.
  8. Can, incidentially, be used to make private conversations just as hard to snoop on. But that's probably a different rant.
That magic thing is a public and private key pair for GPG, and it seems really weird to me that I can use this for unimportant things like signing email, and for crucial things like authenticating changes to the software deployed on millions of coumputers, but I cannot use it to pay a bill. I wonder if the world at large will ever catch on to the uses of public key cryptography? Anyone want to start a First Bank of GPG?

29 August 2006

Erich Schubert: Bashisms are everywhere.

/etc/init.d/cryptmount: 16: source: not found
/etc/init.d/cryptmount: 19: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
Another bashism. Policy violation in section 10.4. Severity "serious", but trival to fix. I thought we had managed to get rid of all unnecessary bashisms. Any Debian Developer should use e.g. dash as /bin/sh to avoid these bugs. It's faster, and bugs triggered by that are rare. Speaking of cryptmount: Dear Lazyweb, how do I get pmount/gnome ask for the luks passphrase using a graphical prompt? Right now, if Gnome tries to automount the encrypted drive, the password will be asked on some /dev/null device and pmount will hang.

Ross Burton: Weekend

Yay for Bank Holiday weekends. It's been a busy one, in no particular order we: NP: [THN014] Zu Hause2 LP, Digitalverein

Matthew Palmer: Public vs Private Enterprise

I just read the best explanation of the whole privatisation issue (currently a hot topic, what with the Australian government trying to sell off the rest of the currently Government-owned telco):
Private enterprise is more efficient than the public service, by definition. [...] Of course, private enterprise [...] works by ignoring unprofitable tasks, while the public service exists to serve everyone.
From a comment on Random Acts of Reality. It's a good blog all round, I highly recommend it.

Rodrigo Gallardo: Start at the beginning

So, how does one go about becoming a DD? Well, one reads the new maintainer section of the debian website, of course. And then? The path I’m going to travel is that of being a maintainer for some packages. It’s supposed to be possible to enter Debian by being a translator or a documentation writer, but my skills are not there, and so that’s not what I’ll try. I had previously started packaging pubtal, a website builder that I use for my company’s site. But I hadn’t tried to get it into Debian. When talking about this at DebConf Santiago Ruano offered to be my sponsor for that package. Quite frankly, my fist packaging attempt was horrible. debhelper is a wonderful thing, but some brain is needed behind it, anyways. And then I managed to start all this right in the middle of the python transition. Eventually, with my sponsor’s guidance and some lintian and linda and piuparts runs later, I got the package into proper shape and thus the journey started.

28 August 2006

Clint Adams: I can no longer contain my correction

My profound apologies to Barbie for having omitted the Slafferty.

Lars Wirzenius: Random thoughts: Thoughts, random

These thoughts are somewhat more random than usual. I have an urge to start a business. This is going to require reduction in my Debian commitments. To begin with, I'll unsubscribe from -devel and -project, and probably -vote. I hope I won't need to drop any packages. Who knows, not reading the might even re-motivate me on doing Debian stuff. I might even start taking the new Python policy seriously and disregard that it seems to make everyone stupid. Tallinn, Estonia, is pretty. Or at least the Old Town is, I haven't visited anything else. The two Italian cats I met in Tallinn were very pretty, too. Coming up with names for programs and companies is quite difficult at times. I want something that Google can easily find; I don't want to repeat the SeX mistake again. My photography hobby is rather dormant. It's so dormant, I can't even justify buying a new camera. This doesn't motivate me to work on Lodju, my photo organizer, unfortunately. It'd be cool to find someone who would really like to work on it. There's a few basic decisions I've made that prevent me from jumping on the F-Spot bandwagon. It's raining. It's finally raining. This summer is finally complete. Just in time for autumn. "Getting Things Done" might actually work for me. It feels weird, though, to seriously read self-help books where the author keeps reminding the reader on every second page about his twenty years of management consulting experience. If it had been a web page, I'd have closed the tab. I need to seriously think about having more fun. All work and no play makes liw a raving, raging, violent lunatic.

Martin-Éric Racine: GNOME Network Manager annoyances

Having recently gotten around buying a WIFI card for the old ThinkPad 240x that my friend Marcus gave me and installed Dapper on it, I began to look for a simple method for selecting wireless Access Points. Someone on #ubuntu recommended network-manager, which I promptly installed. Well... The NM version in Dapper wouldn't even cooperate with a common 8139too Ethernet card! First, it would correctly fetch the IP from the router, but then the network-manager-gnome applet would keep on spinning and only stop after resetting the IP to some 169.254.0.0 private network meant for Bluetooth and other similar networked consumer devices. I then cautiously upgraded to Edgy, just enough packages to get a newer network-manager daemon and a 2.6.17 kernel, then tried again. Ah! It at least finally retained the dynamic IP whenever using the 8139too Ethernet card, but it still refused to connect to a wireless network whenever I switch to the DWL-G650 card. Hmm... Just to check that the Atheros driver (AR5212 chipset appearing as ath0) was correctly loaded, I did a test by opening a terminal and manually setting the ESSID to the nearest Internet caf 's AP, using iwconfig, then launching dhclient3. Look, ma! It works! Inspecting the logs revealed that connecting to a non-encrypted network with network-manager systematically fails, because NM bombards the Access Point with wpasupplicant, then sits there wondering why the AP doesn't request authentication, thus eventually reporting a failure to associate with the AP. How do we fix this? Any Network Manager developer who is reading this that would care to comment?

Axel Beckert: Goodbye Woody, Welcome Sarge (Penultimate Part)

Since security support for Woody ceased recently, and with Kazehakase I’ve found a reasonable successor in Sarge for Galeon 1.2.x, I’ve dist-upgraded my 10 years old Pentium I ThinkPad bijou to Sarge this weekend. Even the XFree86 4, which made so much hassles in Woody by not regcognising nor configuring the graphics card correctly, worked fine from scratch. Well, at least after installing xfonts-base and xfonts-75dpi — the -transcoded versions somehow gave only the error message “default font ‘fixed’ not found”. So goodbye Galeon, goodbye GNU Emacs 20, goodbye XFree86 3.3. I hope, I won’t miss you. Only my desktop gsa at home still runs Woody, but will be dist-upgraded soon, too. What though still stayed on my laptop from Woody is Siag Office, since there is no adequate replacement for such a nice office suite with such a low resource footprint. But it has also an impact on the talks I hold. I held all talks with a patched version of lynx (e.g. with LSS support) as presentation tool on that laptop because initially I didn’t get X running on that box. What started as a makeshift became my hallmark… But I didn’t manage to get Sarge’s lynx patched so that it gives me the same output as my old version did. So either I would have to reoptimise the layout of my talks for a new lynx version or just start with something new. Madduck recently showed me python-docutils, which he uses for presentations. Maybe I’ll use that although I have a severe aversion against Python. So it may also be that I’ll stick with WML, but get some new ideas from python-docutils how to use HTML for presentations. Update: Found out that the interesting part of his presentation technic wasn’t python-docutils but S5: A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System which in entirely written in XHTML, CSS and JavaScript. S5 is really cool stuff, one of the first cases of useful use of JavaScript, and will surely be used for my next presentation — with Debian Sarge and Kazehakase on a Pentium I ThinkPad. ;-)

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