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Re-implement ikiwiki, or something like it, in
go. See how much the language's features and philosophy
colour the design. In particular I'm wondering how much the first-class
treatment of concurrency might change how you structure things: one thread per
page, or hot pages... you'd want to approach it with lots of micro-locks
rather than one big lock to rule them all. I can see some future ikiwiki
refactoring work being a bit like the Linux Kernel's efforts to get rid of
their big kernel
lock.
See also: Joey's proposed Haskell ikiwiki
rewrite. I may be
remembering wrong, but I thought he had some beginning code up somewhere.
Perhaps I'm conflating it with John Goerzen's one-time OfflineIMAP rewrite,
which might also be lost to the sands of time...
Having obtained a respectable set of headphones last year, I started
pondering about high definition music. Could I hear the difference between a
track mixed at CD quality, 16 bit samples / 44.1kHz sample rate, and the same
track mixed at a higher bit or sample rate? A number of artists have made HD
audio releases available in a variety of formats, most of which are now
obsolete (see: SACD, DVD-Audio) and/or hard to demux to something more modern.
However some artists have made digital HD audio releases. The last two Nine
Inch Nails records were released in HD and are more readily available.
These releases also had nice per-track embedded art
GNOME 3.4 for Debian wheezy is shaping up quite well. A handful of bugs remain to be fixed, but we are now in a polishing phase, as expected given the freeze status.
With upstream introducing heavy changes in new versions, it is time to think of what will happen with GNOME when we introduce version 3.8 in unstable. Namely, there are two categories of changes that have a heavy impact on Debian:
With release of first alpha for phpMyAdmin 4.0, it's time to resurrect my regular translation status posts.
So let's look at which translations are at 100% right now:
There are also several languages which need just few strings to be complete:
As you can see, there is still lot of languages missing, this might be your opportunity to contribute to phpMyAdmin. Also you are welcome to translate phpMyAdmin 4.0 using translation server.
If your language is already fully translated and you want to help as well, you can translate our documentation as well.
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In a pipeline, a black cat can become a white cat with the help of
some middleware.
is that you cannot use funny desktop programs such as [pipeline:main]
pipeline = catch_errors healthcheck cache ratelimit tempauth proxy-logging proxy-server
>>> import pyclamd
>>> pyclamd.init_unix_socket('/var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl')
>>> print pyclamd.scan_stream(pyclamd.EICAR)
'stream': 'Eicar-Test-Signature(44d88612fea8a8f36de82e1278abb02f:68)'
>>> print pyclamd.scan_stream("safe!")
None
class SwiftClamavMiddleware(object):
"""Middleware doing virus scan for Swift."""
def __init__(self, app, conf):
# app is the final application
self.app = app
def __call__(self, env, start_response):
return self.app(env, start_response)
def filter_factory(global_conf, **local_conf):
conf = global_conf.copy()
conf.update(local_conf)
def clamav_filter(app):
return SwiftClamavMiddleware(app, conf)
return clamav_filter
import unittest
from webob import Request
class FakeApp(object):
def __call__(self, env, start_response):
return Response(body="FAKE APP")(env, start_response)
class TestSwiftClamavMiddleware(unittest.TestCase):
def setUp(self):
self.app = SwiftClamavMiddleware(FakeApp(), )
def test_simple_request(self):
resp = Request.blank('/',
environ=
'REQUEST_METHOD': 'GET',
).get_response(self.app)
self.assertEqual(resp.body, "FAKE APP")
import pyclamd
from webob import Response
class SwiftClamavMiddleware(object):
"""Middleware doing virus scan for Swift."""
def __init__(self, app, conf):
pyclamd.init_unix_socket('/var/run/clamav/clamd.ctl')
# app is the final application
self.app = app
def __call__(self, env, start_response):
if env['REQUEST_METHOD'] == "PUT":
# We have to read the whole content in memory because pyclamd
# forces us to, but this is a bad idea if the file is huge.
scan = pyclamd.scan_stream(env['wsgi.input'].read())
if scan:
return Response(status=403,
body="Virus %s detected" % scan['stream'],
content_type="text/plain")(env, start_response)
return self.app(env, start_response)
def filter_factory(global_conf, **local_conf):
conf = global_conf.copy()
conf.update(local_conf)
def clamav_filter(app):
return SwiftClamavMiddleware(app, conf)
return clamav_filter
import unittest
from cStringIO import StringIO
from webob import Request, Response
class FakeApp(object):
def __call__(self, env, start_response):
return Response(body="FAKE APP")(env, start_response)
class TestSwiftClamavMiddleware(unittest.TestCase):
def setUp(self):
self.app = SwiftClamavMiddleware(FakeApp(), )
def test_put_empty(self):
resp = Request.blank('/v1/account/container/object',
environ=
'REQUEST_METHOD': 'PUT',
).get_response(self.app)
self.assertEqual(resp.body, "FAKE APP")
def test_put_no_virus(self):
resp = Request.blank('/v1/account/container/object',
environ=
'REQUEST_METHOD': 'PUT',
'wsgi.input': StringIO('foobar')
).get_response(self.app)
self.assertEqual(resp.body, "FAKE APP")
def test_put_virus(self):
resp = Request.blank('/v1/account/container/object',
environ=
'REQUEST_METHOD': 'PUT',
'wsgi.input': StringIO(pyclamd.EICAR)
).get_response(self.app)
self.assertEqual(resp.status_code, 403)
[filter:clamav]
paste.filter_factory = swiftclamav:clamav_filter
[pipeline:main]
pipeline = catch_errors healthcheck cache ratelimit tempauth clamav proxy-logging proxy-server
If tablet computers with hardware keyboards replace traditional Netbooks that's not really killing Netbooks but introducing a new version of the same thing.Tablets with hardware keyboards may, perhaps, be the next generation of the less than 10" netbooks, but to date I've yet to see something with a display smaller than 13" that is an upgrade over the 1000h Eee I own.
The boys jabbered excitedly that there was some green peeking out. While we waited for it to cool, we went out to the creek. The creek is dry this year, so we got to walk in it. Jacob used his stick to make a line behind him. I asked him, Is that a line so we can find our way back? Oh! Uhm. Yes! And then he added arrows so we d know which way to go.
Jacob stopped every 20 or so feet to collect pretend train tickets from Oliver and me. Oliver eventually grew tired of this, so Jacob started collecting Oliver s ticket from me. They climbed on some trees, managed to find some mud, drew outlines of train cars in the dirt, and then followed Jacob s line back down the creek bed. They pointed out any green things they saw.
Then we went back to the house, took off our warm coats, and cut into the bread.
Can you imagine the excitement?
I hadn t realized green is a flavor, but it must have been somehow, because those boys absolutely loved this green bread. When we got out the jam, Jacob realized that it was red on the green bread, and that now his bread was Christmas-colored.
All sorts of green bread discoveries were made, but the best among them was that if you hold a slice of green bread up to the bright sun, the sun makes it glow green and it looks like a stained-glass window.
Sometimes a few drops of food coloring can add a ton of excitement to a day.
when it s a prediction .
In the 4th January edition of the Guardian Weekly , the front page story,
entitled Meet the world s new boomers 1 contained this little gem:
Back in 2006, [PricewaterhouseCoopers] made some forecasts about what the global economy might look like in 2050, and it has now updated the predictions in the light of the financial crisis and its aftermath.Delightful. They made some forecasts about what the global economy might look like. Given that they clearly didn t include any impact of the GFC in their forecasts, it clearly wasn t a particularly accurate forecast. Y know what an inaccurate prediction is called? Guesswork. Let s call a spade a spade here. I see this all the time, and it s starting to shit me. People making predictions and forecasts and projections hither and yon, and they re almost always complete bollocks, and they never get called on it. I read the Greater Fool blog now and then, and that blog is chock full of examples of people making predictions which have very little chance of being in any way accurate. While Dr Ben Goldacre and others are making inroads into requiring full disclosure in clinical trials, I m not aware of anyone taking a similar stand against charlatans making dodgy-as-hell predictions over and over again, with the sole purpose of getting attention, without any responsibility for the accuracy of those predictions. Is anyone aware of anyone doing work in this area, or do I need to register
badpredictions.net and start calling out dodginess?
| Editor: | Gordon van Gelder |
| Issue: | Volume 120, No. 3 & 4 |
| ISSN: | 1095-8258 |
| Pages: | 258 |
In my previous post I was asking for suggestions for backup solutions that would be open/free software, do backups over the network to a local HDD, be cross platform to allow Windows and Linux clients and not be too CPU/memory hungry (on the server).Normally EncFS provides a plaintext view of data on demand. Normally it stores enciphered data and displays plaintext data. With --reverse it takes as source plaintext data and produces enciphered data on-demand. This can be useful for creating remote encrypted backups, where you do not wish to keep the local files unencrypted.Great!
digest version
0.6.1 is now on CRAN, and I will push the
corresponding version into Debian shortly.
Duncan Murdoch added AES support, and helped me fix two issues which
(annoyingly) made the Rout.save output differ on another platform.
CRANberries
provides the usual summary of changes to version
0.6.0.
As usual, our package is available via
the R-Forge page
leading to svn and tarball access, my digest page and the
local directory here.
The prototype still need to be improved with longer timeouts, but
is already useful. The database of hardware to package mappings also
need more work. It is currently compatible with the Ubuntu way of
storing such information in the package control file, but could be
changed to use other formats instead or in addition to the current
method. I've dropped the use of discover for this mapping, as the
modalias approach is more flexible and easier to use on Linux as long
as the Linux kernel expose its modalias strings directly.
Update 2013-01-21 16:50: Due to popular demand,
here is the command required to check out and build the source: Use
'svn checkout
svn://svn.debian.org/debian-edu/trunk/src/hw-support-handler/; cd
hw-support-handler; debuild'. If you lack debuild, install the
devscripts package.
Update 2013-01-23 12:00: The project is now
renamed to Isenkram and the source moved from the Debian Edu
subversion repository to a Debian collab-maint git repository. See
build
instructions for details.
This also serves as a test for whether the scripts I use to post
photographs have been properly converted to Git. (And a test to see if
the occasional amateur photograph eating up screen real estate will
provoke annoyed mutters from the direction of Planet Debian, although so
far no complaints over my even-longer book reviews.)
I'm still taking photographs occasionally, although not as much as I was
at one point. Too many hobbies and not enough time. Part of why I've
been slow in posting them is that I was bad about keeping notes about
where I took them and bad about keeping up with sorting through them. So
I have large collections of photographs from some days where I don't
remember exactly where I was, and where I've not already singled out the
ones that are worth sharing.
One of the things my hobbies always seem to generate is yet another pile
of stuff that's not organized quite to my liking. Maybe some evening I'll
feel inspired to do a bit more sorting.
This is a long weekend in the US for some of us, myself included, so I get
another day in this weekend. Which is good, since I've only gotten to a
fraction of what I wanted to get to, although at least I found several
hours to play video games today.
I have finally converted PGP::Sign to Git, so I have no more personal
Subversion repositories, but I forgot how much code I'd written to handle
its build-time configuration. All of that desperately needs to be
reworked, so it's going to take a bit longer than I expected before I can
push out another release.
& again, I was not very active in my RCBW work this week.
at least one bug fixed, & another one will be taken care of by the
package maintainers.
| Publisher: | Subterranean |
| Copyright: | 2007 |
| ISBN: | 1-59606-480-3 |
| Format: | Kindle |
| Pages: | 25 |
Unfortunately I'm not going to make it to LCA this year, but there's still plenty of UEFI coverage - Dong Wei, Vice President of the UEFI forum, will be giving an introduction to UEFI, and James Bottomley, who's been working on the Linux Foundation's UEFI bootloader solution, will be talking about Secure Boot.Next.