I'm just wondering: Why do all my packages start getting RC bugs which are
easy to fix right now, when ftp-master is down and uploads are not possible?
It must have some coincidence...
Top posters in a few Debian-related Planets:
Sometimes I think this should be renamed Planet Buxy.$ planet-scores.sh Planet Debian-FR : 19 Rapha l Hertzog 4 Roland Mas 3 Jean-Christophe Dubacq 2 Gr gory Colpart 2 Alexis Sukrieh
Newly added contributors to that planet have all their recent articles aggregated, not only the ones they wrote since they were added.Planet Debian-FR (utilisateurs) : 10 Julien Candelier 8 Emilien Macchi 4 Guilhem Bonnefille 3 Shams Fantar 1 Rapha l Hertzog 1 Olivier Berger (perso) 1 Jean-Christophe Dubacq 1 Jean-Baptiste H tier (djib) 1 Eric Veiras Galisson
Planet "Christian loves rugby".Planet Debian : 40 Christian Perrier 2 Russell Coker 2 Raphael Geissert 1 Wouter Verhelst 1 Steve Kemp 1 Romain Francoise 1 NOKUBI Takatsugu 1 Michal iha 1 John Goerzen 1 Joey Schulze 1 Gerfried Fuchs 1 Fathi Boudra 1 Enrico Zini 1 Emanuele Rocca 1 Dirk Eddelbuettel 1 David Welton 1 Christine Spang 1 Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho 1 Adam Rosi-Kessel
I know I have an encoding problem on some planets, but that script is a very basic curl+shell+sed+grep+recode+sort+uniq pipeline, and I only use it for the amusement value. Maybe I'll recode it with a proper RSS parser some day if I feel utterly bored.debian-community.org : 4 Holger Levsen 3 Andrew Donnellan 2 Evgeni Golov 1 Wolfgang Lonien 1 Rapha l Hertzog 1 Martin Albisetti 1 Marcos Marado 1 Jean-Christophe Dubacq 1 Cord Beermann 1 Benjamin A'Lee 1 Andreas Putzo $
I was in New York last weekend to run the 37th
New York Marathon which
reportedly currently stands as the largest marathon ever run in
terms of starters and finishers.
And it couldn't have happened on a nicer day: sunny at the start with
temperatures in the 50s, no wind, and some clouds in the second half prevented it
from getting too hot.
Large crowds at most parts of the course, a decent number of
bands, and a generally very excited atmosphere. And of course a nice course
across the five buroughs finishing in Central Park.
For once, I managed to run the race steadily and yet fairly fast, ending up
with a time of 3:18:47 (and thus a 7:35 pace). This is about a minute slower
than my PR from Sunburst
2006, and just two seconds faster than my best Chicago
Marathon result from 2006, yet much better than this year's times from Boston
2007 where it was too cold, and Chicago
2007 where it was way too hot. Given that the NY course is somewhat
hillier, and that was definitely busier and more crowded than the other races, I'm quite happy with the
time, and the way I ran, getting through without any walking breaks. Not quite negative
splits at around 1:38 and 1:40 for the two halfes. With enough energy left
at the end, I finished the remaining 2+ km after the 40 km with a sub-7:00
min/mile pace which felt great. And it is a nice feeling to have completed
the
Boston,
Chicago
and now New York marathons in the same year.
Last but not least, the weekend was a general blast as I was staying with a friend I hadn't seen
in a decade which made for lots of stories, and even more beers...
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About five minutes ago I started a script I wrote which is sending over 780 bug reports :)....
Sending report for galrey (2p3-9)...done
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xen-tools has just got a new command:
xen-resize-guest --hostname=foo.my.flat --increase=5GbThat will take the existing guest foo.my.flat and magically resize the main disk image to be 5Gb larger. This works for LVM & loopback images, but not yet for users of EVMS. Whilst doing this job manually isn't terribly difficult it can be troublesome to perform all the steps in order without screwing up. Hence the new command. In other news I've managed to fix my broken greylisting implementation - so all the mails which were previously being queued upon klecker.debian.org should now be delivered/bounced. I believe the blame here was 50/50 me and exim's back-off behaviour, but I'll know better in the future. Remember me when you come to choose your next anti-spam service. It copes beautifully with a sustained delivery rate of 300-700 messages a minute when queues suddenly restart delivery ;) TODO: Catchup on mail. Implement message tagging for mutt to better keep track of items which are pending/claimed by me. Until we get RT.
def mainloop(self):
while True:
c = self.win.getch()
self.line += chr(c)
self.results.update(self.line)
update function.
First we split the line in words and convert the words into a query:
# Split the line in words
args = self.splitline.split(line)
# Convert the words into terms for the query
terms = termsForSimpleQuery(args)
# Since the last word can be partially typed, we add all words that
# begin with the last one.
terms.extend([x.term for x in db.allterms(args[-1])])
# Build the query
query = xapian.Query(xapian.Query.OP_OR, terms)
# Retrieve as many results as we can show
mset = enquire.get_mset(0, self.size - 1)
# Redraw the window
self.win.clear()
# Header
self.win.addstr(0, 0, "%i results found." % mset.get_matches_estimated(), curses.A_BOLD)
# Results
for y, m in enumerate(mset):
# /var/lib/apt-xapian-index/README tells us that the Xapian document data
# is the package name.
name = m[xapian.MSET_DOCUMENT].get_data()
# Get the package record out of the Apt cache, so we can retrieve the short
# description
pkg = cache[name]
# Print the match, together with the short description
self.win.addstr(y+1, 0, "%i%% %s - %s" % (m[xapian.MSET_PERCENT], name, pkg.summary))
self.win.refresh()
If you hadn't the occasion to see RSA-TON, just look around for it, find if
it is broadcasted at a later time and watch it.
The Tonga team just had 10 minutes of weakness, with South-Africa scoring
three tries. But they never gave up, scored two tries and finally ended up
25-30, winning the defensive bonus point and really worrying South-Africa.
For sure, the repeated failures of RSA on penalties also helped for this
scenario, but Tonga became the stars of this pool and Finau Maka is the star
of Tonga..:-)
The Bollaert stadium in Lens is more used to the fights of the local soccer
team than high level rugby but they supported the Tonga team the very same
way they support the "Sang et Or". I think that the Tonga players will
remember that one.
England can *really* worry.
...at least, in my opinion (which is obviously biased, let's admit that). There are several reasons for this loss:
Two successive days with only one match.
We watched Scotland-Romania (42-0) yesterday. Very serious match by the Scots who
played better than their first match. They scored 6 tries against a quite
weak Romanian team, with no soul. Nothing really important to say as I
nearly felt asleep watching the match.
Italia-Portugal today feature a good hot attendance in Parc des Princes with
the numerous Portuguese or Portuguese-origin people who live in the Paris
area pushing "their" team. Most of them certainly never got interested in
rugby before (futebol!) but that gave a noisy stadium, particularly when
portugal scored their try (and only points in the game). Italia won 31-5
after a good start, but quite weak field play later even if the Portuguese
has big defensive holes. I don't really see Italia beat Scotland now and I
think we'll see Scotland in 1/4th finals.
Small day to come tomorrow (Wales-Japan, with a probable easy win by Wales),
before a peak day on Fridady with a very much expected France-Ireland.
After one day off, we watched Argentina-Georgia yesterday evening.
Interesting game because it directly affect France's chances to qualify
after Argentina's win on Friday.
Argentina had a big disadvantage by playing only 4 days after their historic
battle against France. As a logical consequence, they appeared quite tired
and very imprecise. On the other hand, Georgia fought very courageously with
a strong pack of forwards, encouraged by most of the crowd in Lyon. Finally,
Argentina won *and* scored the bonus point by scoring a try in the very last
minute (which might become very important to qualify in this pool. Good game
even if Argentina was not that impressive, but I still think this is mostly
because of the 4-days delay.
Today, 3 games were scheduled. We didn't watch USA-Tonga (15-25). USA was
slightly favourite for that one but they also were quite tired by playing 4
days only after their battle against England on Saturday. This was the first
match for Tonga and obviously the island players were less tired and played
a good rugby to win that one. Japan-Fidji (31-35) seems to have been the
most uncertain match as of now. I somewhat regret not watching it as these
two are among the teams I like watching and 7 tries in the match probably
made it very interesting.
Tonight, we watched Italy-Romania (24-18). The italians compete with
Scotland for the remaining qualifying spot in that pool, if one assumes that
New Zealand will obviously win all its matches. So, Italy *had* to win that
match. The quality of romanian rugby has decreased in the last 10 years,
but they still have a good set of great players, most of them playing...in
France (just like one third of the italian team, indeed). The match was
quite indecise with italy keeping the ball all first half long, but only
leading 8-0 on half time....and being surprised by two romanian tries at the
beginning of second half (8-12). After a strong domination of Italy, Romania
was logically sanctioned by one expulsion and a penalty try (for successive
voluntary faults), but, until the end, Italy was still in danger. They
finally made it, which was the most important for them, 4 days after they
were sweeped out by the All Blacks.
We're now eagerly waiting for *THE* game of this week, England-South Africa
in the Stade de France on Friday. Elizabeth found out that a few tickets are still
available, but for 253 euros each, we decided to watch it on TV. So, between
21:00 and 23:00UTC that day, don't even think about pinging me on IRC. I
still haven't decided who I'll support the most as I'm not a huge fan of
either team....but they're still among the best in the world, of course.
| Number of people killed on Sept. 11, 2001: | 2,974 |
| Number of suicides in 2004: | 32,439 |
| Number of people killed on American highways in 2006: | 38,588 |
| Annual deaths from obesity: | 300,000 |
| Total deaths from cancer in 2007: | 559,650 |
| Total deaths from heart disease in 2004: | 871,500 |
| Total military spending in FY2008: | $1228 billion |
| Funding for health research & improvement (NIH): | $29 billion |
| Total support of Amtrak (safer, cleaner than highways): | $1.6 billion |
| National Highway Traffic Safety Admin. spending in FY2008: | $0.8 billion |
Kumar, a dedicated Debian dude has written following and I’m sponsoring the first ever Sponsored Post to my blog:
Thanks to Kartik Mistry for sponsoring’ this blog post. I wanted him to do this because I don’t blog, and his blog has wide reception on Planet India FLOSS and Planet Debian. So, here goes!
Jigdo is a wonderful way of constructing CD/DVD ISOs by dowloading smaller units (like deb packages) to construct an image on your machine, rather than download a 4.3 GB monster over internet only to realize that the connection stops half way or some such thing.
I would also take this opportunity to publicize IIT Madras’ mirror, which mirrors quite a bit of free software. It has a (somewhat) offical Debian (x86, amd64) mirror at
http://ftp.iitm.ac.in/debianIt's quite some time since I daily live with a partly broken KDE. I know
that some transitions are on their way, so this might be related in some
way. As of now:
I found some program today. It had a file, buttons.h which was autogenerated by:uic -o buttons.h -embed buttons pics/attach.png pics/detach.png#include "buttons.h"
#include "qimage.h"
int main()g++ -I /usr/include/qt3/ test.cpp -lqt-mt
and now there is images that can be uic’ed.
Over one year ago, still at DebConf 6, the Latin American Debian people (and by people I mean just interested people, regardless of whether they were/are official DDs or not) held a BoF session. One of the ideas we discussed there was that, in order to increase Debian presence in our region (which is by no means small - Let alone the geographical aspects, I'm guessing we are about 350 million people, roughly split in half between [officially] Spanish- and Portuguese- speaking countries). Yet, this is an area with very little involvement in Debian in particular, and with Free Software in general.One of our first issues seems to be language - Just by its scale and economic importance, we cannot even put in the same scale Brazil and the Spanish-speaking countries... So I'll focus on Spanish-speaking Latin America, as (I recall) we did in that session.So, we agree: We need more local involvement in each of our communities. And, so far, we have seen quite relevant results. The number of people directly involved in Debian in Argentina, Chile, Per , Colombia, Venezuela, El Salvador and Mexico (excuse me if I forget you in another country!) has notably risen since I brought this topic up, together with Christian Perrier, back in DebConf5, Helsinki. An undeniable fact is that distances in our continent, however, are huge. In the 2006 BoF, we agreed we should promote regional meetings, that would serve both for working focused on Debian topics (i.e. hack sessions, as we do in DebConf) and for spreading our work to the local population, to help them see that it is not needed to be super-skilled or anything like that to contribute to a real, important and large Free Software project such as ours. Of course, taking into account the distances in the continent, we thought it would be sensible to split it in two - and to try and hold regional mini-debconfs - One for the Northern half (i.e. Per , Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Central America, Cuba and Mexico), and one for the Southern half (Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay). And, for logistical reasons mainly, I strongly advocated having our first Northern meeting in Panam . Why Panam ? Because it is a place cheap and easy to get to. They have a very important international airport, connecting to most if not all countries in the region, and -as they have risen as a business center- have good connectivity. Visa is required for many of the interested countries, but trivial to get (as opposed to what happened here in Mexico :-( ). Of course, other countries also looked interesting (there was some argument pushing Venezuela, but in the end, we all conceded it would be in Panam .I have to strongly thank Guillermo Garc a - He is not (yet? :) I hope he still wants to get involved with this bunch of people) in Debian in any way, but after I contacted him, he agreed to start looking for a way to get us the right facilities in Panam . He coordinated with a team which did most of the organization - A very nice web site is still available so you can look at their work - Quite a good job, I must add.They contacted Universidad Tecnol gica de Panam , started talking with several potential sponsors, got information regarding hotels for us... But in the end, it flopped. Why? Because, although many of us were originally interested, in the end very few people (only three, none of them officially a Debian Developer, according to their last press release) confirmed their intention to attend.Which brings me again to the question: Why?First and foremost, I think it was lack of involvement. For one reason or another, all of the people that in the beginning pushed for this miniDebConf ended up busy doing other stuff, and didn't get at all involved in organization. It would have been a great present from our Panaman friends, yes, but quite unfair. And, of course, with no Debian people involved in organizing it, we got an chicken-and-eggesque situation... Where it didn't grab the attention of other Debian people.Second, what they offered us was quite different to what we intended in the first place - At least, to what I imagined. On my first messages both to debian-devel-spanish and to Guillermo, I tried to get something close to what we had in mind: Something as informal and as intimate as it could be. My original request to Guillermo was just to get us a room where we could hack and talk, and probably sleep with sleeping bags.Of course, I can perfectly imagine that when he requested the space to the university, on one hand, they didn't feel at ease having International Guests (with capital I and G - Very important for most Latin American universities!) sleeping on the floor. And, on the other hand, they would love to be able to show us around! Having an international project focus on a university in a non-technologically-well-known little country is quite something to show off!Anyway... What happened? I was among the instigators, but Real Life called me away (I've been mostly inactive in Debian since September! :-( ). The miniconf was scheduled for November 14-17. I also insisted originally on having the miniconf on a long weekend (say, Friday through Sunday), as -being a miniconf and not the Real Deal- it'd be much easier for most of us to rob one day off work than a full week. In the end, this was the most important point for my decision not to join: I cannot afford more time off my work, not at this time of year. About the other involved people? I do not want to speak for any other people.In the end, sadly, Guillermo had to inform us they cancelled - No, not postponed, but definitively cancelled. Why? Because -and I have to agree- next year we will have DebConf in Argentina... And many people in the region will focus our time and money on getting there. Ok, making this whole story short: I'm very, very ashamed and sorry, with you personally, Guillermo, and with your whole team. And I hope we can resurrect this idea - be it in Venezuela (as it was suggested once) or elsewhere.
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