struct  
	char str[4];
	char sc1;
	char str2[3];
	char sc2;
  foo __attribute__((packed));
snprintf(foo.str, 5, "%04X", data);
foo.sc1 = ';';
snprintf(foo.str2, 4, "%03X", otherdata);
foo.sc2 = ';';

char buf[5];
snprintf(buf, 5, "%04X", data);
memcpy(foo.str, buf, 4);

• If you like numerical calculations (finite elements, differences, volumes, ...) and solving partial differential equations and other problems and also programming in Python, together with C/C++ or Fortran, you will have a chance to meet some of the top people in the field. SciPy conference usually has people who solve PDEs (e.g. SciPy 09 had about 6), but ESCO 2010 will have about 60. So ESCO wins.


• Robert Cimrman, who you probably know from the scipy and numpy mailinglists, also the author of the sfepy FEM package in Python, lives in Pilsen, so he'll gladly show you some good Pilsen pubs. SciPy 2010 is going to be in Austin and while Austin has cool pubs too, I must be fair and I liked that (I was there at the Sage 08 days), but it's just not comparable, the beer is better in Pilsen, it's a historic city and there are more pubs.


• Pilsen is close to Prague, so you will have the chance to visit it. You should walk in the old town, have couple beers etc. Here you can see some photos that Ga l took when we met in Prauge. Again, this is incomparable with Austin.


• It is held in the Pilsner Urquell Brewery. When Pavel ol n announced that at the SciPy 09 conference, Jarrod asked "Ah, in a beer pub?". So let me be clear. The word pilsner (type of the beer) is coming from the Czech city Pilsen (Plze in Czech). Pilsner Urquell is not some beer pub (e.g. even Reno where I live now has a beer pub), it's The Brewery. Austin is a cool place (and Texas steaks are really good), but as you can see now, it absolutely cannot compete with Pilsen.
  

• [1] http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/dan_gilbert_researches_happiness.html
• [2] http://zgp.org/~dmarti/freedom/property-rights/
• [3] http://www.ted.com/talks/rachel_pike_the_science_behind_a_climate_headline.html
• [4] http://www.good.is/post/a-happy-writer-is-a-lousy-writer/
• [5] http://www.cerias.purdue.edu/site/blog/post/firefox_vulnerabilities_souvenirs_of_windows_95/
• [6] http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/nov/26/digital-economy-file-sharing-mandelson
• [7] http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/11/the_myth_of_the_starship.html
• [8] http://blogs.wsj.com/developments/2009/10/30/its-ok-to-walk-away-a-law-professor-argues/
• [9] http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/20091201-00
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• [11] http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6709919.html
• [12] http://www.ted.com/talks/thulasiraj_ravilla_how_low_cost_eye_care_can_be_world_class.html
• [13] http://www.ted.com/talks/scott_kim_takes_apart_the_art_of_puzzles.html
• [14] http://www.ted.com/talks/gordon_brown_on_global_ethic_vs_national_interest.html
• [15] http://blogs.broughturner.com/2009/10/is-att-wireless-data-congestion-selfinflicted.html
• [16] http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/

• December 18-28: Seattle
• December 28-January 2: Tokyo
• January 2-14: Traveling in Japan
• January 15-17: Boston to compete in the MIT Mystery Hunt
• January 19-24: Wellington, New Zealand to give a talk at LCA

The IANA port allocated for ManageSieve is 4190/tcp, and the old port used by timsieved and other managesieve software in many distros (2000/tcp) is allocated for Cisco SCCP usage, according to the IANA registry.

Starting with the version 4.38 of the Debian netbase package, the sieve service will be moved from port 2000 to port 4190 in the /etc/services file. This affects to those using Debian Squeeze, and Debian Sid. Debian Etch and Debian Lenny users are NOT affected.

Any installs which used the sieve service name instead of a numeric port number will switch to the new port number as soon as the services are restarted/reloaded, and in some cases, immediately after /etc/services is updated.

This will affect Cyrus IMAP. This may also affect other sieve-enabled software such as DoveCot.

In order to avoid downtime problems, mail cluster administrators using Debian are urged to verify their Cyrus (and probably also DoveCot) installs, and take measures to avoid services moving from port 2000/tcp to port 4190/tcp by surprise in either servers or clients.

It is worth noting that:

1. /etc/services will only be automatically updated if you never made any modifications to it. Otherwise, you will be presented with a prompt by ucf or dpkg asking you about the changes.
2. You can edit /etc/services and change the sieve port back to 2000 if you want (this is not recommended, though).
3. You can edit /etc/cyrus.conf and any other relevant config files for your mail/webmail cluster (e.g. on the sieve web frontends) ahead of time to force them all to a static port number.
4. You can configure cyrus master to listen on *both* ports (2000 and 4190) at the same time, and thus avoid the problem entirely. This also allows for a much more smooth migration from port 2000 to port 4190.

Contributed by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh

mknod /dev/newrandom c 1 9
chmod --reference=/dev/random /dev/newrandom
mv -f /dev/newrandom /dev/random

mknod /var/cache/pbuilder/base.cow/dev/newrandom c 1 9
chmod --reference=/var/cache/pbuilder/base.cow/dev/random /var/cache/pbuilder/base.cow/dev/newrandom
mv -f /var/cache/pbuilder/base.cow/dev/newrandom /var/cache/pbuilder/base.cow/dev/random

• [1] http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/011966.html