I figured this new shiny OpenID thing was cool enough to start using it. There's just this one problem: I didn't want to have to go through the "register on a website and remember yet another password" dance once more; and since I have this marvellous Kerberos realm set up which works for authenticating against my webserver, too, why not use that? So I downloaded the JanRain PHP OpenID library, and went hacking. It's not all that hard, really:

diff -ruN ./lib/actions.php /svr/www/openid.grep.be/data/lib/actions.php
--- ./lib/actions.php	2006-12-08 23:56:22.000000000 +0100
+++ /svr/www/openid.grep.be/data/lib/actions.php	2007-03-08 14:18:32.000000000 +0100
@@ -88,17 +88,24 @@
     if (!isset($input['openid_url']))  
         $errors[] = 'Enter an OpenID URL to continue';
      
-    if (!isset($input['password']))  
-        $errors[] = 'Enter a password to continue';
+    if (!isset($input['password']) && !isset($_SERVER["REMOTE_USER"]))  
+        $errors[] = 'Enter a password to continue, or log in using an ' .
+			'apache logon method';
      
     if (count($errors) == 0)  
         $openid_url = $input['openid_url'];
         $openid_url = Auth_OpenID::normalizeUrl($openid_url);
-        $password = $input['password'];
-        if (!checkLogin($openid_url, $password))  
-            $errors[] = 'The entered password does not match the ' .
-                'entered identity URL.';
-         
+	if(isset($_SERVER["REMOTE_USER"]))  
+	    if(!checkUser($openid_url, $_SERVER["REMOTE_USER"]))  
+	       $errors[] = 'The apache user does not match the openid URL';
+	     
+	  else  
+           $password = $input['password'];
+           if (!checkLogin($openid_url, $password))  
+               $errors[] = 'The entered password does not match the ' .
+                   'entered identity URL.';
+            
+	 
      
     return array($errors, $openid_url);
  
@@ -166,4 +173,4 @@
     return sites_render($sites);
  
 
-?>
\ No newline at end of file
+?>
diff -ruN ./lib/render/login.php /svr/www/openid.grep.be/data/lib/render/login.php
--- ./lib/render/login.php	2006-12-08 23:56:22.000000000 +0100
+++ /svr/www/openid.grep.be/data/lib/render/login.php	2007-03-08 14:53:56.000000000 +0100
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 require_once "lib/session.php";
 require_once "lib/render.php";
 
+if(!isset($_SERVER["REMOTE_USER"]))  
 define('login_form_pat',
        '<div class="form">
   <p>
@@ -31,6 +32,33 @@
   </form>
 </div>
 ');
+  else  
+define('login_form_pat',
+       '<div class="form">
+  <p>
+    Enter your identity URL into this form to log in to this server. This
+    server must be configured to accept your identity URL. Since you already
+    logged on through an Apache method, entering a password is not required
+  </p>
+
+  <form method="post" action="%s">
+    <table>
+      <tr>
+        <th><label for="openid_url">OpenID URL:</label></th>
+        <td><input type="text" name="openid_url"
+                   value="%s" id="openid_url" /></td>
+      </tr>
+      <tr>
+        <td colspan="2">
+          <input type="submit" value="Log in" />
+          <input type="submit" name="cancel" value="Cancel" />
+        </td>
+      </tr>
+    </table>
+  </form>
+</div>
+');
+ 
 
 define('login_needed_pat',
        'You must be logged in as %s to approve this request.');
@@ -62,4 +90,4 @@
      
     return sprintf("<ul class=\"error\">\n%s</ul>\n", $text);
  
-?>
\ No newline at end of file
+?>
diff -ruN ./lib/session.php /svr/www/openid.grep.be/data/lib/session.php
--- ./lib/session.php	2006-12-08 23:56:22.000000000 +0100
+++ /svr/www/openid.grep.be/data/lib/session.php	2007-03-08 14:34:49.000000000 +0100
@@ -129,6 +129,16 @@
  
 
 /**
+ * Check whether the logged-on user matches the specified OpenID URL
+ */ 
+function checkUser($openid_url, $user)
+ 
+    global $openid_user_urls;
+    return isset($openid_user_urls[$openid_url])
+        && $user = $openid_user_urls[$openid_url];
+ 
+
+/**
  * Get the openid_url out of the cookie
  *
  * @return mixed $openid_url The URL that was stored in the cookie or
@@ -202,4 +212,4 @@
 
  
 
-?>
\ No newline at end of file
+?>

It expects an array in config.php like so:

openid_user_urls = array(
	"http://wo.uter.be/" => "wouter@GREP.BE"
);

(in the case of kerberos; if you use a different authentication method, the syntax of that array will most likely be different, too) It's still not perfect; all my changes really do is bypass the password check if it notices that apache has already authenticated the remote user; but I still need to "log on" at the PHP level, which also requires me to enter my OpenID URL. A somewhat cooler implementation would pre-enter the OpenID URL in the form. A really cool implementation would not even show me the logon form, but go straight to the "logged on" state, using the OpenID URL as given by the consumer, and the information apache provides us on the remote user. But it's a start. Adding OpenID capabilities to my blog comment entry script is proving slightly more challenging, however. More on that later.

I’m stuck of the requests linking php5 on backports.org against “MySQL5″.
You need support of MySQL5 or the mysqli extention for your php5 packages for sarge? So the packages on backports.org are not what you want. The packages are compiled against libmysqlclient12 (mysql 4.0) cause all apache modules (on backports.org) are compiled against this version. Linking php5 against an other version will lead you in trouble when using these apache modules and php5 together, cause sarge doesn’t support “versioned symbols”. For more information see the threads on php-maint or
backports-users! If you install packages from backports.org, you should read the latter one anyways. backports, Debian, opensource, Packaging, planet

The Linux kernel project has seen major changes to its development and release strategy in the last few years, in particular since the first stable release of the 2.6 series in December 2003. This series was opened almost three years after the 2.4 series in January 2001, which many felt was too long. A problem that resulted from the long interval between major releases was that vendors had to back- and forward-port a lot of patches. Nowadays, major development happens on the 2.6 series and new releases are published every three to four months. This new development model has faced much controversy. While some people, in particular developers of the kernel, claim that the new model is working very well, some users are worried about the number of significant changes and lack of stability in the kernel. Andrew Morton, a lead developer, has expressed several times that he believes the kernel is getting buggier.

Version	Date	Months
1.0	1994-03-14
1.2	1995-03-07	12
2.0	1996-06-09	15
2.2	1999-01-25	31
2.4	2001-01-04	23
2.6	2003-12-17	35

Past problems

• Because of the long release cycle, many changes accumulated. It was hard to get the development stable and there were few testers.
• Features got out very slowly because of the long release cycle.
• Hardware support and crucial features had to be backported to the latest stable kernel.
• Vendors backported many features to their own releases. The code base from different vendors diverged a lot from each other and from the official development version.

Solutions

• New versions are now released every two or three months. There is a two week merge window after each release during which new features are accepted; subsequently, the focus is on stabilization.
• There is now a steady flow of code into production and many people get to test the new code.
• Features get out more quickly.
• Vendors can directly work with current releases and get their changes into official versions easily.

Outstanding problems

• There is no long-term stable version based on the 2.6 kernel. This is being addressed with Adrian Bunk's 2.6.16 long-term maintenance tree but whether it will have a big impact remains to be seen.
• Regressions between versions are introduced more frequently. Better control and tracking of regressions are needed.
• The Bugzilla bug tracker needs to be integrated better into the development process and it would be helpful to have a QA person. In January 2007, Google announced that they're looking for a kernel QA person who'd work together with Andrew Morton.

Based on Bart Trojanowski’s blog article “etc snapshots with git” I removed one further item from my todo list: maintain /etc with mercurial on my Debian systems. First step is creating the repository and securing access to the repository. As mercurial stores all its files within one single directory named .hg you won’t have any further directories within /etc besides /etc/.hg, rocking - right?

cd /etc
hg init
chmod og-rwx .hg

Ignore a few files:

cat > .hgignore << EOF
syntax: regexp
(^)*.dpkg-new
(^)*.dpkg-old
(^)blkid.tab( .old)
(^)mtab
# add other files if necessary, depends on your setup...
EOF

Now commit the current state:

hg add
hg ci -m "initial checkin"

We want to commit the changes automatically when using apt-get/aptitude so let’s write and include a wrapper for it:

cat > /etc/apt/hg-snapshot-script << EOF
#!/bin/sh
set -e
caller=$(ps axww   mawk '/aptitude apt-get/  for (i=5; i<=NF ; i++) printf ("%s ",$i); printf ("n")  '   head -1)
hg add 1>/dev/null
STATUS="$(hg st)"
if [ -n "$STATUS" ] ; then
   echo "hg-snapshot-script: found changed files:"
   hg st
   hg ci -m "snapshot from $LOGNAME after: $caller"
else
   echo "hg-snapshot-script: nothing to be done"
fi
EOF
chmod +x /etc/apt/hg-snapshot-script
cat >> /etc/apt/apt.conf << EOF
DPkg  
  Post-Invoke  "cd /etc ; ./apt/hg-snapshot-script"; ;
 
EOF

Finally track the two files too:

hg add
hg commit -m "apt will track /etc automagically using hg"

That’s it. Oh BTW: users of subversion might want to point their browser to /etc under svk (by Enrico Zini).

• Fistognosticated - Ella Baila
• Ellen Allien - Crosstown Rebels
• 4twenty - Wenn der Beat rollt
• Don Choa - La verit blesse
• Ricardo Villabos - Fiezheuer Zieheuer
• J rgen Paape - Take this
• Oliver Hacke - Baked Bean Mix
• Henrik Schwarz - Leave my head alone brain rmxs
• Ellen Allien & Apparat - Bubbles
• Tiefschwarz - Issst (Nathan Fake remix)
• Lina - I'm not the enemy

Yeah i've danced all night in Florence on Ellen Allien sounds, explains why she shows up twice - great djane. :) Meike, thanks for this funny "meme". By the way out of lazy web how did you fix the blosxom timezone toppost trouble? (urggs got title year wrong) update: *doing* *doing* *doing* everywhere ;)

On Wednesday March 7th, I announced the end of the "blitz" l10n NMU campaign. This campaign started on January 21st after a first campaign during Autumn 2006. The main point was dealing with all pending l10n issues reported against packages, with etch as the main target and French reaching 100% as the secondary target..:-) This has been a great success, thanks to the collaboration of maintainers, translators and release managers. I have no statistics on the number of closed bugs and uploaded packages (shame on me), but at some moments I did up to 8 uploads in the same day. The pending l10n bugs page clearly shows that, except for a few packages for which maintainers have various, good and bad reasons to refuse a NMU and a maintainer upload, the situation is now quite clean. Release constraints now enforce more and more care with uploads, so it's time to suspend the action and move to another jihad (not officially announced yet, I'm preparing the material and announcement).

The Finnish parliamentary elections are very soon. I kinda like my candidate’s flyer (no, I did not take part in its design): The text reads: Geek to Parliament! Basic rights must be preserved on the Internet and elsewhere. Technology for nature and people. What is the fate of MP3?

# grep -i vroot /boot/config*-vserver*
/boot/config-2.6.16-2-vserver-686:CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VROOT=y
/boot/config-2.6.17-2-vserver-686:CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VROOT=y
/boot/config-2.6.18-3-vserver-686:# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VROOT is not set
/boot/config-2.6.18-4-vserver-686:# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VROOT is not set Does anybody know, why it’s not compiled in since 2.6.18 anymore? Debian, planet, vserver

Reduced the work queue after the nice weekend on CLT, I have some time to write a summary. After 2 years I was able to be there again, cause I blocked the weekend early in my timetable.
The event was organized quite well like it was all the time before. We stayed over night in a gym with round about 100 men and 5 women, really interesting, no more details! :)
The CLT was visited really good and there was many folks at debian booth. The range of questions did vary from rookie to advanced. Anyways … the question when etch will be released did hit us quite often.
The talks I visited was really good and very interesting. I did count 6 talks and one workshop held by debian folks.
The social event was a lot of fun and the buffet was nice. Debian scrounged, supported by team(ix) folks, at the game … the task was, to find linux commands in a text. We got place one, tree and the consolation prize. We found more commands than the organization committee, but we missed “ssh” .. what a blame … ;)
In summary I meet really interesting people, the event was quite well and I got too less spleep. Hopefully see you again there next year. Debian, opensource, planet

Yet another liberated game: Oolite, a clone of Elite.

I am the maintainer of the package; it was introduced as a non-free game in Debian, but a week ago upstream has announced that the game is now relicensed with a dual model licensing with GPL and cc-nc-sa 2.0 (the old license). Also, the change applies retroactively to the 1.65 release while further releases will be licensed GPL only and GPL/cc-nc-sa 3.0 for the code and data, respectively.

I have prepared the packages (oolite 1.65-5 and oolite-data 1.65-2) and Simon Richter agreed to make the honorary upload :-) tomorrow morning.

I hope he doesn't forget to build the packages by passing the '-sa' parameter to dpkg-buildpackage :-) and that these packages will reach Etch just in time for release.


As a bonus to this change, the game will be autobuilt on amd64, too.

(BTW, why isn't there any amd64 buildd in the non-free buildd network? Any technical reason?)

Update: the amd64 build seems that was behind in January when I installed the game on my new laptop. 1.65-4 seems that has been built a month ago, much later than the other arches.

Update: It seems that the package is on a positive trend on popularity: a constant rise in the number of oolite package installations is visible...

I’ve accepted a job with Google and we’re shifting to Dublin! Back in January, Kat and I decided that it was about time we put thoughts into action, and booked some one-way plane tickets to get ourselves to Europe. Our plan is to spend at least a couple of years (more if I have my way) exploring the other side of the world and generally broadening our horizons. We leave NZ on the 31st of March flying on Emirates to Singapore. We plan to spend a couple of weeks in Malaysia visiting some of Kat’s extended family (who I’ve never met), followed by 3 nights in Singapore, a night in Dubai, finally ending up in London at Heathrow Airport on the 17th of April. Soon after we booked the flights I started applying for Jobs in Europe, as the prospect of converting NZD to EUR or GBP to live on is not at all attractive. I was immediately rejected by the first place I applied to (Data Connection) because I didn’t have straight A-grades in high school! (The recruiter said they didn’t even bother to look at my University Degree!). Luckily that wasn’t the only job that I had applied for! A day or two after hearing back from Data Connection, I received a call from one of the Google recruiters in Dublin, following up on the CV that I’d sent through via their website a week or two earlier. The rest, as they say, is history. I had a couple of phone interviews, followed by a whistle stop trip to Dublin (photos here) for 4 hours of onsite interviews, a week or two of waiting and finally an offer. I’ve just accepted the offer, and sometime after the 17th of April, I’ll be starting as a Linux/Unix Systems Administrator for Google in Dublin, Ireland! Moving to Dublin to work for Google seems to be somewhat of a trend these days, and I’m looking forward to catching up with all the other Debian people who have recently posted similar news. The realities of shifting across the world in less than a month are starting to sink in now! We left our apartment this weekend just gone, and we’re staying with my parents for a few weeks while we get all our household stuff into storage and sort out what we’re taking to Dublin with us. It’s a big job packing up a house and it’s scary looking at the amount of stuff we’ve accumulated over just two short years! Luckily we have some exciting opportunities to look forward and keep us motivated!

There are days like this where you get inspiration. Since about January (strange that one cannot never remember the beginning of such annoyances), neither suspend-to-ram nor suspend-to-disk were working anymore on my Dell latitude X1. Suspend to RAM indeed stopped working back in August 2006 for an unknown reason. The laptop indeed goes into sleep mode but, when waking up, the video card is not restored properly. A quite common problem, unfortunately. Why it suddenly stopped working is hard to explainn but as my laptop runs unstable and, usually, the latest Debian kernel, there may be an explanation somewhere betwwen kernel stuff and Xorg stuff. Since then, I had suspend to disk working pretty well until it suddenly stopped working back in January. The system was printing "Snapshotting system" on the screen and that's all. So, since then, I keep my laptop ON all the time, which is pretty bad when travelling (and I travel a lot all day long as I use public transportation with 3 connections morning and evening). Moreover, I cannot even completely close it because some moron at Dell has decided to hardcode in the BIOS that the laptop should enter suspend to RAM when the LID is closed. So, closing the laptop means....no more screen when opening it up. As a consequence, during last weeks, I had my laptop hald-closed in my bag with some random device inserted between the screen and the keyboard to prevent it to be entirely closed. Absolutely stupid. However, this morning, the Holy Grace touched me. I finally remembered that, for last New Year's Eve week-end, I did setup the Conexant HSF modem drivers on the laptop because I was staying at my mom's place with nothing but a phone line to get my mail. And, definitely, this was the explanation. As soon as I unload the Conexant driver before going to suspend to disk mode, the suspend to disk magically works again. Dammit. Once again a proof that Thou Shalt Never Use Non-Free Drivers. I'm now again a happy suspend to disk user. If someone, some day, can bring me back a working suspend to RAM, I'll hug kiss her him to death.

Tasks 0.3 is out! The main new features are internationalisation and category filtering. A complete list of user-visible changes:

• Translatable (thanks Jordi Mallach)
• Add a category combo in the edit dialog to select categories, and a category filter in the main window
• When adding new tasks if the view if filtered, put the task in that category (Emmanuele Bassi)
• Don't embolden completed high priority tasks
• Show task count in the title bar
• Use the stock Add button
• Enable building on GTK+ 2.8

I also had a few translations:

• nl (Espen Stefansen)
• nl (Wouter Bolsterlee, Chrisph Brill)
• pl (Tomasz Dominikowski)
• id (Arief Utama)
• pt_BR (Bruno Boaventura)
• fr (Bruno Bord)
• gl (Alejandro Riveira Fern ndez)
• sk (ja@disorder)
• vi (Nguyen Thai Ngoc Doy)
• el (Stagros Giannouris)
• cs (Vitezslav Kotrla)
• et (Priit Laes)
• eu (Mikel Olasagasti)
• sv (Andreas Henriksson)
• it (Emmanuele Bassi)
• tr (Tuyan Ozipek)
• es (Adolfo Gonz lez Bl zquez)
• de (Christoph Brill)
• ca (Jordi Mallach)

Sources are available on the OpenedHand Projects site, and packages for Ubuntu Edgy, Ubuntu Feisty, and Debian Sid are in my repository. Adam Williamson has also packaged Tasks into Mandriva Contrib.

On Tuesday the 23rd of January I shaved off my beard after spending 107 days growing it, see above for the final beard pic. It was an interesting experiment and it's something that I recommend trying, but I couldn't keep it.

Having a beard is more effort than being clean-shaven. Eating is more difficult when you are trying to keep your beard out of your food. If you get the full beard (as I did) then the moustache at the sides of your mouth will get into your food (particularly bad for ice-cream). I guess that the benefit of having a waxed moustache would be that the wax would keep it out of the way of the food - the waxed moustache wasn't just an issue of style!

Madduck suggests that when you drink Guinness you "push your lips past the head and draw up only the dark stuff". Of course that won't work if you have a moustache as you don't want a moustache that's soaked in beer!

Immediately after cutting off my beard I didn't shave for almost a week and experienced much less discomfort than I had preveiously experienced when not shaving for that period. I think that having been used to having a beard an amount of hair that would previously annoy me is not noticable. Also it
seems that the hair was initially softer after I cut off the beard. Maybe shaving somehow makes the hair grow tougher.

When I had the beard I thought that I hadn't adjusted my body image to match, as every time I looked in the mirror I felt surprised to see it. Once it was gone my new look initially seemed more odd to me than my previous appearance, and it took me a number of weeks to get used to not having a beard.






When shaving off my beard I decided to do it in stages, firstly I did a "goatee" cut and then just a moustache. The moustache is a little lop-sided, but I was in a hurry and didn't plan to keep it for long.

The l10n NMU blitz campaign continues to give results and not only for French. I'm now reaching quite recent bug reports (about 30-40 days ago)....which were sent by some teams when I started this campaign, back in January. So the stats for these teams will improve strongly, namely the Czech team stats and a few others (Galician, Portuguese, Catalan...). On the ranking contest, Spanish is coming closer to Dutch for the 7th rank, mostly because many Spanish translations were pending in the BTS while much less Dutch ones were. Both these teams have strong QA processes so that slows them down when compared to 1-person "teams". Of course, the result is certainly definitely better. For the 9th rank, Portuguese should come before Brazilian as of today. Ditto for Galician/Catalan for the 14th rank. Another activity began yesterday: try to complete a few packages in testing. These packages have a complete translation for several languages in unstable but they don't qualify to enter testing. So, I will offer to upload l10n fixes through testing-proposed-updates as the release team seems to be OK with that. There's a chance that my own language reaches 100% for testing also, then. And, finally, I'm polishing a new project: proofreading ALL debconf templates, and bring more wording consistency, with the help of debian-l10n-english members. That will of course be a lenny project.

Lots of short, sharp items today that I want to get down.

LinuxQuestions.org supports OpenID First, I'm psyched to see that LinuxQuestions Wiki now supports OpenID. Jeremy gave the scoop in The LQ Wiki Now Supports OpenID. I was glad to see that LQ's on the OpenID path. It's a really strong community site, and I think it'll benefit greatly from opening up the authentication process. tags: linuxquestions jeremy garcia lqwiki openid

Wikia and OpenID Angela Beesley had some comments on my Journal/7 Vent se CCXV posting about wikiHow's support of OpenID. In that posting, I said that I thought companies with lots of wikis, like Wikia or wiki farms, might have a disincentive to participate in the OpenID network. Angela put me straight on the issue in a post on WikiAngela about OpenID. I'm glad to hear that Wikia is considering supporting the protocol. Then again, it's hard to believe that an Open Content, Open Source company is really going to go out of its way to avoid open standards and open login. tags: wikia openid angela

DemoCampMontreal1 I had a good time last night at DemoCampMontreal1. I gave the first demo -- on, of course, the MediaWiki OpenID extension -- and I had some technical difficulties that didn't let me show off all the functionality. Which was kind of a bummer, but there were lots of questions about it from the audience, so that kind of made up my time. The room was packed, by the way -- pretty much anyone who's anyone in Montreal tech was there. I'm looking forward to DemoCampMontreal2 on 29 March! tags: democampmontreal1 openid montreal demo

certifi.ca One of the best ways to establish credentials on the Web is to use a signed SSL certificate in your browser. It's fast, incredibly secure, and once you get it set up you can just forget it. They're also practically immune to phishing. Unfortunately, most people don't even know what browser certificates are, how they work, or what to do with them. Consequently, most Web sites don't support browser certificate authentication. Vicious cycle. But, one of the cool things about OpenID is that you can disconnect the authentication method from the Web site you're using. Most OpenID identity providers still use username/password combos for authentication, which is why critics have said that the standard is vulnerable to phishing attacks. I wanted to see if it were possible to set up an OpenID identity provider that used browser certificates as the only authentication system. So, in my copious free time, I've hacked up certifi.ca. It's based on the cool PHP OpenID Server that JanRain made, but I've ripped out all the password stuff, and now it runs on luscious certificatey goodness. I'm going to be enhancing the service in the near future, but I wanted to get feedback from folks interested in OpenID as soon as possible. I'm using it for my primary OpenID delegate, and it seems to be working great. Please give it a try and let me know what you think (admin@certifi.ca). tags: openid pkix ca browser certificates certifi.ca

DemoCampMontreal1 on Montreal Poutine There's an article on DemoCampMontreal1 on Midnight Poutine. That's me up on the stage, in the photo! tags: me democampmontreal1 midnight poutine

Nepean Hotspurs Selects win On Saturday, a Muslim girl named "Azzy" Mansour, from Ontario playing in a soccer tournament in Laval was ejected from the tournament (by a Muslim referee, notably) for wearing a hijab -- reportedly because it was a safety hazard. (Montreal Gazette story, registration required.) Admirably, her entire team forfeited the tournament in protest. I'm not excited about Quebec's reactionary activity around Muslim, Sikh, and other religious community's different clothing rules. However, I understand that Quebecois -- and French people -- have a different idea of personal freedom than Americans. I try to be understanding and put myself in the Quebec headspace for this kind of stuff. Mostly, though: I admire the soccer team, the Nepean Hotspurs Selects, for standing up for their teammate and their friend. A lot of teams might have gone ahead and played without her, and it took some courage to drop out of a tournament they'd had high hopes for. They're sixth-grade girls, but they've learned something about integrity that most adults never learn. Kudos to them. tags: quebec hijab soccer nepean hotspurs selects

In your config file of virtual machine you need the following:

# grep serial openwrt.vmx
serial0.present = "TRUE"
serial0.fileType = "pipe"
serial0.fileName = "./serial1"
serial0.pipe.endPoint = "server"
serial0.hardwareFlowControl = "TRUE" Redirect output to stdio or a port:

# socat <path_to_virtual_machine_dir>/serial1 <stdio tcp4-listen:<port>> hacking, Linux, planet

Last week I updated my WRTSL54GS to OpenWRT 0.9 with X-WRT 2.75. Since my box has an USB port, I was missing a way to umount mounted usb storage. Looking deeper into it, I noticed that partitions get mounted by ‘/etc/hotplug.d/usb/01-mount’ like this:

# mount
[…]
part1 on /mnt/disc0_1 type ext3 (rw)
part2 on /mnt/disc0_2 type vfat (rw) The correct devices are missing. A patch is available:

mount.patch Okay … So far, so good. Now some tweaking to webif^2 for umounting attached usb storage devices. Here comes the patch:

umount-button.patch hacking, linksys, opensource, openwrt, planet

Big bump for stats of german debconf translations This is somewhat expected: most of the NMUs I'm doing today include german translations. It seems that the german l10n team had a great activity between October 2006 and January 2007, which is the period of time I'm fixing remaining bugs for right now. Today's uploads: localization-config, xmcd (switch to po-debconf and a lot of translations). And I finally couldn't resist and I posted a call for new translations for my geneweb pet package. 23 translations and already one more came (Tamil). On The Road to 100%, we're now missing Florian Weimer's debsecan.