I must confess I don't remember who I got this invitation from. Anyway, if you are in the right geographic area, you might be interested. I will try to participate: This is a year-long seminar that will be held the second Thursday every month at Fonoteca Nacional (a place I have wanted to visit for a long time!), in Barrio de Santa Catarina, Coyoac n. Among the organizers they have Creative Commons Mexico. Free entrance (but limited space - so they ask interested people to confirm their presence by mail to bvallarta@conaculta.gob.mx). [update] I went with Pooka to the first session. We arrived almost 1hr late (due to me mistaking the schedule :-/ ) but it was interesting. Of course, quite biased towards the Google viewpoints, but interesting. We got the program for the next sessions So, mostly for myself to keep handy, here it goes:

Date	Title	Speakers
2010-03-11	Google and copyright	Manuel Tamez, Hugo Contreras, Mar a Fernanda Mendoza
2010-04-08	Generalities about rights on intelectual property	Jes s Parets, Guillermo Sol rzano, Jorge Mier y Concha
2010-05-13	Copyright's nature and competent authorites	Carmen Arteaga, Luis Schmidt, C sar Callejas
2010-06-10	Moral and patrimonial rights	Guillermo Pous, Eduardo de la Parra, Ram n Ob n
2010-07-08	Reproduction rights for audible material	lvaro Hegewisch, scar Javier Solorio, Marco Antonio Morales, Jos Ram n C rdeno
2010-08-12	Licenses and patrimonial right transmission. Works for hire, works done under laboral relationship, or carried out in official service	Dolores Franco, Jes s Mej a, Ra l Pastor
2010-09-09	Limits to explotation rights and literary plagiarism	Carmen Arteaga, Juan Ram n Ob n, Jorge Mier y Concha, C sar Callejas
2010-10-14	Copyright in a digital setting	Jes s Parets, Gast n Esquivel
2010-11-11	Law-regulated intelectual property rights	Rosalba Elizalde, Salvador Ortega, Gast n Esquivel, Manrique Moheno
2010-12-09	International protection and collective gestive societies	Horacio Rangel, Luis Schmidt, Jes s Mej a

The following developers got their Debian accounts in the last month:

• Ludovico Cavedon (cavedon)
• Gilles Filippini (pini)
• Christopher Taylor (ctaylor)
• Oliver Korff (okoli)
• Franck Joncourt (franck)
• Antonio Radici (antonio)
• Emmanuel Bouthenot (kolter)
• Tim Retout (diocles)
• Dario Minnucci (midget)
• Hector Oron (zumbi)
• Albin Tonnerre (lutin)
• Modestas Vainius (modax)
• Christoph Egger (christoph)
• Andrea Veri (and)

Congratulations!

On a recent trip up the Oregon coast, a friendly doorman at our hotel in Portland was inquiring about our trip. When we mentioned we passed through Bandon, OR, he quipped that Bandon was the place furthest from a city of one million people in the USA. I guess a normal person would just think "oh, that's interesting" and move on, but it has been plaguing me ever since. Firstly, I had to find what cities in the USA had more than 1 million people. Luckily Wolfram Alpha gives the answer:

• Chicago,Illinois
• Dallas,Texas
• Houston,Texas
• Los Angeles,California
• New York, New York
• Philadelphia,Pennsylvania
• Phoenix,Arizona
• San Antonio,Texas
• San Diego,California

(I certainly wouldn't have guessed that list!) From there my plan was to find the bounding box of the continental USA; luckily Wikipedia has the raw data for that. Combined with the latitude and longitude of the cities above, I had the raw data. I couldn't figure out any way better than a simple brute-force of testing every degree and minute of latitude and longitude within the bounding box and calculating the distance to the closest large city; the theory being that from one particular point you would have to travel further than any other to reach a city of 1 million people. Luckily, that is short work for a modern processor, and hopefully the result would be a point somewhere around Bandon. I'd already become acquainted with the great circle and measuring distances when I did Tinymap, so a quick python program evolved. However, it turns out that the program picks the far south-east corner of the bounding box. Thanks to the shape of the USA, that is way out over the ocean somewhere. I can't figure out a way to get an outline of the USA to test if a given point is inside the border or not, but all is not lost. I modified the program to output the the distance to the closest large city along with the location to a log file, and then imported it into gnuplot to make a heat-map. The hardest part was finding an equirectangular outline of the USA to place the heat-map over, rather than a much more common Mercator projection; Wikimedia to the rescue! I actually surprised myself at how well the two lined up when, after a little work with Gimp, I overlayed them (big) From this, I can see that Bandon, about a third of the way up the Oregon coast, is a pretty good candidate. However, probably not the best; I get the feeling the real point that is the furthest from any city of 1 million people is actually somewhere in the central-middle of Montana. However, we can also fiddle the program slightly to disprove the point about Bandon. The numbers show the closest large city to Bandon is LA, at ~1141km. Taking another point we suspect to be more remote; the closest large city to Portland (where we met the doorman) is also LA at ~1329km. So to reach the closest large city you have to travel further from Portland than Bandon, so Bandon is not the furthest place in the USA from a city of one million people. Myth busted!

RCBW - week #12 Here is this week squashes, by yours truly:

• 23/11/2009 bug #553122 - libtcl-chiark-1 - add missing ldconfig invocation, for *.so in linker locations
• 24/11/2009 bug #528152 - tulip - replace ttf-bistream-vera w/ dejavusans (patch from James Westby)
• 25/11/2009 bug #533993 - solfege - remove net need for xmllint (patch from Ubuntu by Alessio Treglia)
• 26/11/2009 bug #531220 - nut - fix ntp.conf postinst processing to avoid overwriting user settings
• 27/11/2009 bug #523912 - mit-scheme - add missing build-dep + tricky build due to bootstrap
• 28/11/2009 bug #521964 - libapache2-mod-lisp - fix APR version detection, patch by Antonio Radici
• 29/11/2009 bug #553257 - pidgin-hotkeys - remove unappropriate e-Xclusion in dh_shlibdebs

The funniest part of this RCBW issue is probably that Luk has started handing over RC bugs to me: from time to time I just get a /query from him with bug numbers In fact, this is more useful than one can imagine, because a considerable amount of time in periodic RC squashing is taken by triaging the RC bug list to choose your targets. Of course there is no guarantee that I'll be willing/able to fix handed-over bugs but, as a RM, Luk has evidently well-trained feelings about how hard would be to fix a given bug. All in all, for this week it worked well: 4 of the above 7 came from SchindlerLuk's list. ... and of course, let's welcome Simon on board! He is definitely doing a better job at spotting packages that should be removed from the archive rather than resurrected (potential negative effect that a NMU can indeed have on a package, de facto "saving" it from testing/release exclusion). In fact, the dilemma of "NMU vs Request Removal" raises various tricky questions. For instance, while we currently have pretty clear guidelines on how and, more importantly, when doing NMUs, we are more stringent on "Non-Maintainer Removals". Quoting from the Package Removal Requests wiki page:

    In all cases, if there is a maintainer and it's not you, mention the
    maintainer's opinion or, if you don't know it, mention how and when you
    tried to contact him.

It is of course reasonable to be more stringent on a measure that is way more invasive than a "simple" NMU. But if we start to rely on NMU-time as an important trigger for removal requests, then we could probably use a more aggressive and more distributed process for removals.

I can't believe this happened. It seems the important presidential candidates have agreed for a face to face debate. I am leaning to thinking that the questions are prepared in advance, but that's better than no debate.

The debate will take place today, 14th of November at 15:00, but I am unsure if this will be broadcasted live since is not clear from the article.

Mircea Geoan challenged Traian B sescu to the debate, the later accepted but considered normal the liberal candidate should be there. Crin Antonescu accepted the challenge, too. Remus Cernea confirmed his presence, too. The funny thing is that Mircea Geoan will not participate.


So, I hope some television will broadcast this live at 15:00.

Nice coreboot news the Free Software x86 firmware ("BIOS") is featured on the cover of issue 186 of the Linux Journal. Anton Borisov's article Coreboot at Your Service! explains the basic ideas behind coreboot, how to build an image for your board, which payloads are available and how they are used, e.g. GRUB2, SeaBIOS if you need legacy BIOS callbacks (e.g. for booting Windows), Etherboot/GPXE, or more fun stuff such as space invaders or tint (a tetris clone) in your flash ROM chip... If you read the article and think the build process is a bit complicated and ugly, do not despair! We're currently in the process of converting the whole coreboot code base to use kconfig (the widely-known configuration tool used by the Linux kernel, busybox, and other projects), so in the very near future the whole process for building a coreboot image will work like this:

  $ make menuconfig
  $ make

Flashing the image can then be done using an EEPROM programmer and/or via the user-space utility flashrom (available for Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, etc.)... It's nice to see that coreboot is getting more and more coverage in "mainstream" media and is growing both in number of deployments and in number of supported chipsets and boards. We are desperately in need of more developers though, there are just way too many chipsets, boards, and datasheets out there; we're happy about every patch and every new tester or developer who likes to mess with code that runs in the very first few (micro)seconds after power-on. If you think kernel hacking and related low-level development is nice, you might also be interested in writing code where there's no RAM yet (as coreboot has to initialize it), there's no serial port for debugging (coreboot has to initialize it), no PCI devices have been set up, most of your auxiliary hardware is not yet up (ethernet NIC, parallel port, audio, IDE, SATA, USB, you name it). It's a fun environment to work in and you'll learn a lot about PC hardware, even if you (so far) thought you knew everything there is to know. Feel free to join us on the mailing list or on IRC in #coreboot on Freenode.

Switzerland voted today for the introduction of biometric passports, with 50.1% for and 49.9% against, one of the closest votes since 1848 (according to NZZ). While the news don t fill me with glee there are too many unanswered questions around the digital passports one aspect of the decision surprised and even shocked me. I do not like biometric passports, because I like to know when my data are consumed, and by whom. The German government assures that only authorised parties can access those data, and published information about the security features of the German biometric passports, but I am unconvinced that those are adequate to protection for the 10 years of validity of the passport. Furthermore, I could find absolutely no information on who the authorised parties are, or which regulations cover who will become authorised in the near future. If that was properly addressed, e.g. by leaving it up to me and only me to decide who gets access, then the digital passport could actually be a good step forward, streamlining border control and making travel easier. But there is a completely different avenue of concern, no matter who gives permission to whom to consume whose data: how are they used, and where, and how long are they stored, and for what? Again, I cannot find any regulations. Instead, my question to the German Department of the Interior was answered (!) along the lines of it being up to each country to decide themselves over the use and storage of the data. In this light, it makes little difference that the German procedure for the digital passport does not permit the issuing bureau to store the data, while Switzerland s strategy is to build a central database of all these personal details (this is what shocked me). It might make you wonder what use the Swiss government is hoping for, and you might feel uncomfortable with your government building up an even tighter database of its people. But I d much rather have my data stored in Switzerland than consumed and stored every time I enter another country, because when I compare the style of governance of Switzerland to pretty much anything else out there, I am glad I get to live here (even though I am not Swiss and cannot vote). Yet, it s a worrying step in a direction of the glass human , of a society in which personal privacy is unknown and everything is part of the system. These are totalitarian visions, and it s doubtful whether we ll ever actually get there (so far, I don t think any state has come up with the information management strategies required to properly store, make use, and read sense out of the massive amounts of information), but the trend is clearly visible. In the end, however, what worries me the most is how relaxed people treat their personal information these days. Look at the infamous social networking sites, or other Web 2.0 gimmicks and you really start to wonder how headless people can be these days. I cannot immediately paint a scenario where it might be dangerous to push all kinds of information about yourself to the masses, but the mere idea of that is scary in and of itself. I d prefer to have the choice with whom to share what data. The biometric passports, despite the advantages they might bring, are one step away from that, because they empower the government to make that choice for you. I don t consider that progress at all. Update: NZZ reports that the issue is not closed. In the cantons of Grishuna and Lucerne, people are challenging the vote and a recount or even re-vote seems possible. I will post an update as soon as I know more. Then, I would also like to address some replies I ve received over the real problems behind the digital passports, because it cannot be just the central data storage it s not like your government doesn t already have all that, and I can t imagine how your fingerprint could be used against you.

Bruce Schneier has written about the foolish actions of Justice Antonin Scalia [1]. Antonin made some comments opposing the need for greater privacy protection, most people could get away with doing that, but when a Supreme Court Justice does so it gets some attention. In response to this Fordham University law professor Joel Reidenberg assigned his class a project to discover private information on Antonin using public sources. The class produced a dossier of such information which was then offered to Antonin [2], but which was not published. Now anyone who knows anything about how the world works would just accept this. Among other things Antonin now knows what is publicly available and can take steps to remove some public data according to his own desires. But being apparently unaware of the Streisand effect [3] Antonin went on to say the following: It is not a rare phenomenon that what is legal may also be quite irresponsible. That appears in the First Amendment context all the time. What can be said often should not be said. Prof. Reidenberg s exercise is an example of perfectly legal, abominably poor judgment. Since he was not teaching a course in judgment, I presume he felt no responsibility to display any. This is of course essentially issuing a challenge to the entire Internet to discover the information that the Fordham students discovered. Of course doing so would not be fun unless it was published. The meme of 2009 has yet to be defined, it might be discovering and widely publishing personal information about Antonin. Already one of the comments in Bruce Schneier s blog suggests that activists should do such research on all senior figures in the US government to encourage them to take privacy more seriously. I expect that the first reaction of the legislative branch to such practices would be to enact special laws to protect their own privacy while still allowing large corporations (the organisations that pay for the election campaigns) to do whatever they want to ordinary people. It s an interesting situation, I predict that Antonin will regard this as one of the biggest mistakes he s ever made. I m sure that there are many more LULZ to come from this.

• [1] http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/05/googling_justic.html


• [2] http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2009/04/justice_scalias_2.html

<:LI>[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

Instead of doing something productive today, I spent the day in San Antonio at an OpenStreetMap mapping party. I got to meet some interesting folks and play OpenStreetMap teacher some, and it s nice to be reminded that at least one of my dopey childhood hobbies has some practical application in the real world. And of course I got to put some more miles on the new car, which was fun too. Thanks to the folks at CloudMade, and particularly their community ambassador, for putting the meeting together as well as for the swag. I can t quite figure out how they think they re going to make money off of OSM, at least until the OSM data gets in a lot better shape, but I suppose that s their problem and not mine.

Today in Anton Hughes talk at LCA 2009 I saw my photo of Eben Moglen up on the big screen. Woohoo! :-) As with most of the photos I have put on Wikimedia Commons it is released under PD-Self, so it will be interesting whether he chooses to credit me or not. He seems to have a pretty good argument, and I hope that this gets visibility and acceptance in the legal community over time. The free software audience is pretty sympathetic, of course.

Today, Terah and I set out for some geocaching. Jacob s daycare was back in session (he goes twice a week), but we both had the day off. Jacob enjoys geocaching, but he does make it a lot slower. So we dropped him off at day care today, and headed off. We were also scouting out good places for future tent camping along the way. We didn t know exactly where we d manage to go, so I had downloaded over 100 geocaches to my new GPS, prepared for many options! Not long after we found our second cache (in Canton, KS), Terah asked, Did you hear that hissing from the tire? No . We were about 5 miles from town. I happened to have an air tank with me (because of a different tire with a slow leak). I shot some air in it, and we made it to Canton Service just fine. They fixed both tires, and my uncle who was there getting tire work done himself was quite surprised to see us pull in bright and early at about 9:00! After our tire was fixed, we headed northeast. We found some more caches, and drove around the two lakes near Herington, KS. We saw hundreds of geese perched on the icy lake and hiked a bit in the area to find a cache. Then it was on to Council Grove for lunch. I do believe this is the first time we have ever walked into a place that looks like a restaurant and only after we are seated realize that we re in a museum. Council Grove has an amazing historic downtown the most history per capita of any town in the west! the travel information AM station proudly proclaims, with 25 historic sites and a population of 2500. Got a chuckle at that one. We drove by the oldest continuously operating restaurant west of the Mississippi (it was closed), so we turned around and stopped at the Trail Days Bakery and Cafe that we had passed a few blocks back. We walked in the side door, into what looked like a meticulously-restored old house. We were seated at a table, given menus, and the waiter explained, By the way, you re eating in a cafe that s also a museum. Please feel free to look around, and don t miss the basement and upstairs, too! So it turned out that the Trail Days Bakery and Cafe is in the historic Terwilliger House. The house was about to be razed, when Shirley and Ken McClintock heard about it and tried to get some people interested in saving it. When nobody else stepped up, they did they formed a non-profit, and with a lot of hard work from themselves and others, managed to restore it from its state as a run-down gas station to its former beauty. They operate the cafe as a way to raise funds for the preservation of the house and the other historic buildings they have moved to the site to restore. Oh, and Shirley and Ken were our cooks and waiters today! We showed up there at about 1PM, right at the tail end of the lunch rush. Another couple happened to be there at about the same time. They were traveling across Kansas from west to east, specifically avoiding the interstates so they could see the small towns along the way. We got to talking about geocaching and their home town near Colorado. Then we got to talking to Shirley about the music CDs that they had for sale and the history of the place, and the Ken told us all about the Native American pictograph that they had discovered carved into the wood in the house. By the time we left, we had probably been there almost two hours. Oh, by the way, Terah had ham and beans ( just like mom used to make , she said), and I had what can be best described as a sloppy joe made out of bison meat. Both were good, but eating in this beautiful old house was even nicer. Then we drove down the road a bit to the old apothecary. Yes, it s still a drugstore in every sense of the word: you can get your prescriptions filled there, and they also still have the original soda fountain (dating back to 1920 if memory serves), serving up all the stuff you used to find in a drugstore. We chose somewhat boring items, I guess: Terah had a chocolate shake (the made-in-front-of-you-fresh kind), and I had a root beer float. So, what would have been a quick lunch in a different town turned into a few hours in Council Grove thanks to a very helpful leaky tire this morning that threw us off schedule! After that, a few more caches on the way back towards home. We picked up Jacob, and he and I found the last cache of the day which he, of course, loved. Then home. We only found 8 caches, but had a lot of fun.

Antonio Cangiano has an interesting set of Ruby benchmarks here: http://antoniocangiano.com/2008/12/09/the-great-ruby-shootout-december-2008/ The two results that were interesting to me were that JRuby does so well, and that REE ("Ruby Enterprise Edition") was a significant improvement over "plain old Ruby" too. I knew that the JRuby guys have done a lot of work, and done a nice job with their implementation, but didn't realize just how good it was. REE is a clever idea, but not that much code, and aimed at memory usage, not CPU, so it's interesting to see how much faster it ends up according to these tests. A few things that would be interesting to see:

• Raw startup time. Yeah, that probably penalizes JRuby, but it is still a scripting language, and using it like one isn't possible if it takes forever to start up. How much slower is it?
• A more detailed look at REE's times. How is it that it's that much faster because of some memory tweaks?

In any case, it's a nice bit of work by Antonio - grazie! Update - old, slow davidw missed the fact that there was a startup time benchmark included. Oops.

Thanks to Anton Zinoviev, http://planet.debian.org/ is subscribed to my feed for months already, but I ve never gotten around to actually post something. So let s start in accordance with tradition! My name is Michael Schutte and I m yet another Debianist from Innsbruck, Austria. I have been around since about February, and I currently maintain kbd, python-odtwriter, and libgit-ruby. Then, I participate in the Debian/Ruby Extras team. I also contribute some QA work when time allows I even managed to fix an ugly security bug in an orphaned package once. I ll try to write down things here every once in a while (without breaking Planet too often).

Marc, from my experience, there is no 'secret' in the console-tools/kbd migration work. Just low involvment of all parties. I have watched the work on console handling stuff in Debian for a few years now, and my conclusion is just that nearly nobody cares about it now. I do maintain console-data that provides console fonts and keymaps. I took it over slowly from Alastair McKinstry (the console-tools maintainer mentioned in Marc's blog entry) because that involved maintaining localization of keymap names....that are used and visible in the installer. Ideas to switch the installer to console-setup and related tools are floating around. Just not achieved...because of lack of motivated manpower. Progress was made because of Anton Zinoviev and Colin Watson's work, but the project is currently hosed on a quite critical choice:

• either ask about keymap layout during install, but that requires internationalization of the model/layout names...that are in an XML file. Nobody worked on this and this is therefore a blocker.
• or use the Ubuntu way to set the keymap (by asking users to type keys and guess the right keymap from that). Colin already said to the D-I team that this is basically a big hack...but, well, it works.

About console-tools being installed by default: this is the consequence of it being Important while kbd is Extra. I think it should be up to kbd maintainers to push the change up. But this brings us back to the initial remark: indeed, now nobody cares about console handling, particularly when it comes at handling non-English environments. Those who still use the console in Linux environments apparently all do it with US keyboards and an English locale. For sure, kbd is more maintained than console-tools so, at least, we should switch to it. Funnily, our installer (even the graphical version) *still* relies on console keymaps during the installation process and, therefore, we rely on mostly unmaintained stuff here (people who think that I maintain console-data are plain wrong: I just keep it surviving...:-))

Been rather busy, so I haven't had a chance to continue recording the trip... We got into Zurich (albeit late), without incident. Immigration was the biggest joke ever. There was no paperwork at all, and we just handed our passports to the guy, who just looked at them casually, and waved us through. No stamp, no scan, no nothing. It was a bit disappointing really. We got our rental car, and drove around aimlessly for a bit, until the GPS got lock, and then headed for Prague. We went through Austria, where the guy at the border did give our passports a more thorough inspection, more because we were confused and were waving them at him. He also gave us a stamp. The woman from Hertz told us we needed to buy some sort of highway sticker for the car to drive in Austria (wow it's hard to type "Austria", "Australia" just keeps coming out from muscle memory), so we bought one of them and stuck it on the windscreen, and then promptly entered Germany. The autobahns in Germany are wicked! Everyone's screaming along at a ridiculous pace. The fastest I got up to was 180 km/h. The roads themselves were surprisingly quiet, and only two lanes. We stopped off for dinner somewhere in Germany, and finally arrived at the hotel in Prague at about 1am on Sunday morning, so it took about 7 hours instead of the 6 that we'd estimated. We got to bed by about 2am. I woke up at about 10am, then went back to sleep until about 2pm. We finally ventured out for a bit of exploration at about 3pm on Sunday. One observation about Czechs: they seem like a pretty dour bunch. Here we were wandering around, being all wide-eyed and touristy, smiling at everyone, and they'd just scowl back at you, no matter how hard we tried to get a smile out of them. After that initial wander, we discovered that there was a Metro station right across the road from the hotel in another direction, so we caught that to go and check out Prague Castle. The Metro system is another one of those great subway systems that I love. It ran regularly, so you didn't need to concern yourself with a timetable. The ticketing was a bit bizarre. It seemed totally honor-system based. There were no barriers to stop you getting in or out. It was fairly late by the time we got to Prague Castle, so we just wandered around the grounds, took a look inside Saint Vitus's Cathedral, and caught an orchestral performance in Saint George's Basilica, then headed back to the hotel. Everything at Prague Castle was pretty mind-blowing. The size of grounds. The view. Saint Vitus's Cathedral. The Cathedral was huge. When you stepped inside and looked up... words can't describe it. It was amazing. Unfortunately, we didn't bring a camera with us, so we don't have any photos from the Sunday excursion, but Sarah went back this afternoon, and her photos are here. I think the thing that struck me the most was that here were some seriously old buildings - older than my home country, and they were in amazingly good condition. They really built things to last back in the day. The weather so far has been pretty miserable, and if the forecast is anything to go by, will remain miserable until we drive out on Saturday. We've survived, language-wise. The default language of the hotel staff seems to be English, and most random people we've had to interact with seem to speak English. I feel really arrogant and rude just speaking in English to people without first asking if they speak English, but I'm also getting really sick of starting every conversation with "Do you speak English?" The printed language is by and large indecipherable. The currency, which in English is called a "crown" is crazy. One US dollar buys about 16 Czech Koruny, and the prices are ridiculous. A glass of wine at the hotel is maybe 250 CZK. Granted, the hotel prices are obscene, but seeing triple-digit prices for a glass of wine seems totally bizarre. The prices in general seem pretty steep. Sarah said she got a 2 koruny coin in change today. We've got no idea what you'd actually use that for. Last night, after the conference had finished for the day, we wandered off in a different direction again, and wandered through the grounds of Vy ehrad Castle. The Cathedral of Saint Paul and Peter has an amazing graveyard in it, including the grave of the composer Dvorak. We grabbed some dinner at a nearby restaurant, which was substantially cheaper than the hotel restaurants. Again, we forgot to take a camera with us.

Sound Juicer "Esoteric Quotes, Most Frightening" 2.21.1 is available now. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com, or from the GNOME FTP servers. Special thanks to the wonderful people who worked on a few bugs I tagged as gnome-love, and Carl-Anton for working on the SJ GHOP task!

• Save custom genres (#382667, thanks Jonh Wendell)
• Make the progress bar smaller (#460650, thanks Stefan Oderbolz)
• Detect VFAT and NTFS filesystems and strip characters they can't handle (#321436, thanks Carl-Anton Ingmarsson and GHOP)
• Inhibit power management suspension when ripping (#344947, thanks Carl-Anton and GHOP)
• Don't crash when finished extracting (#498500)
• Remove the Rip Completed dialog (#504639)
• Set pipeline state to NULL when disposing (#495410)
• Escape the album and artist in the cluebar (#504862, thanks Luca Cavalli)