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15 January 2006

Edd Dumbill: Emacs font joy

Seems I despaired too soon about not being able to get good-looking fonts in Emacs. Thanks to Duncan Mak I've been able to compile and install an Emacs with anti-aliased fonts on Ubuntu. Here's the recipe: Screenshot of anti-aliased Xft enable Emacs Then I had to edit out the build instructions for the -nox variant of Emacs, as it didn't build properly, and to be sure, added this to the Emacs-gtk confflags section of debian/rules : 
  emacs_gtk_confflags += --with-xft=yes
After that, fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage -b in the source directory, and some time later, Emacs packages with anti-aliased fonts. There are some limitations: you need to set the font in your ~/.Xresources file like this: 
  Emacs*font: Monospace-8
You may also want to fiddle with the Xft.dpi and Xft.hinting X properties to get the fonts to match your desktop environment. OK, so it's a bit of effort, but worth it. Hopefully this patch will mature and make its way into future Linux distributions.

Edd Dumbill: Opinions and free software

Since interviewing the creator of Ruby on Rails, David Heinemeier Hansson, I've been thinking a little more about what he calls "opinionated software." That handy little phrase seems to sum up what attracts me to a lot of technology, at all levels. What I like Free software--it's not really economics that drew me to free software, but the principles and aims. When you release or use free software, you're exercising your right to free speech and adding your voice to an argument. Desktop environments--GNOME 2.0: The move from GNOME 1.0 to version 2.0 was highly opinionated (Mac users, think OS 9 to OS X). Complexity of user interface was thrown out in favour of sensible defaults. Web standards--CSS, RDF, XHTML: not only is there a right way to do things, but it turns out to be better too! I don't automatically fall in love with everything that emerges from the W3C, but some things are so obviously the right way it's impossible not to love them--warts and all. Muine music player--this player throws out the paraphernalia of iTunes clones and gets you close to the music. Queue, play. What I want to do. Epiphany web browser--a simple text bar does for bookmark lookup, search and URLs. The bookmarks work like del.icio.us tags. Despite the lure of Firefox extensions, simplicity and efficiency keeps me with Epiphany. Make friends and enemies The thing about opinions is that people are inclined to disagree with them. Opinions won't please everybody and, being opinionated, you will never carry everybody with you. But opinions give you something with which to scythe through indifference. In both my writing and software development work taking a particular stance enables me to create interest, and gives direction to my projects. I tend to get bored easily, and if I'm bored, then my readers and users will never make it. Being opinionated in software development is easier when there's a strong leader, or it's a one-person project. It's more of a dilemma if you're running a free software project with multiple contributors. Such projects need such contributions, but run a risk of losing focus and style. I think that there we need to be brave again. If being opinionated means losing potential users, it also means losing potential contributors. Opinions help in dealing with users, too. It's obvious that the mere act of listening to users isn't good enough. They often won't say what they mean, or their requests mask a deeper issue. How often have you given your boss exactly what he asked for, to find it wasn't what he wanted? A combination of reading-between-the-lines and having opinions helps cut a way through the noise of user feedback. Stirring the pot Here are a few wishes for some free software projects that I want to see succeed further, but which really need to get opinionated to be effective. These projects aren't failing, but they're not reaching the potential I know is there. Each of them are infrastructural in some way, and that's probably where the temptation to avoid being opinionated is strongest. But here's the genius: the rewards of being opinionated here are high. Ruby on Rails is the existence proof.
  • Beagle, live search technology for GNOME. Needs to decide where its primary use will be, and get on and hit the 1.0 point for that use only. Choose one or two neat applications for integration, and be so utterly cool that every other app author flocks to integrate too.
  • Synchronization. First MultiSync, then OpenSync, have rumbled on for ages, without ever being truly effective for any particular device. My take: choose a few "must-have" target devices--say, iPods and Nokia phones--and make them work completely. Nearly-but-not-quite pleases nobody.
  • Mono. Mono's great, but where's the story? There's loads of potential in the people and the ideas behind the project, but playing catchup with Microsoft isn't very inspiring. Early projects like Muine helped Mono's cachet here, but we need more. My personal favourite option would have been a completely free alternative to ASP.NET for web applications. (I've seen a project called MonoRail, but don't know if it's the one...)
What's better? A handful of users with the "right" idea about how fundamentally important you are to everything, or loads of users who only see a portion of the capabilities of a project? Copy the experts It may seem like cheating to copy Apple's lead, but a lot of what they've done in OS X is to take a stand on what's useful and not. On many occasions this has inconvenienced people, but it's not eroded that special lure that Apple products hold. There's not harm in asking "What have Apple done?" with some of our projects. Another poster-child for being opinionated is Ubuntu Linux. Technically, it's only marginally better than other Linux distributions. Strategically, it's miles ahead. Its founder, Mark Shuttleworth, had very solid opinions about where Ubuntu should go, and pursued them. Over time, these have pervaded the product itself, but at the start it was the message and the style that made the difference. Opinions not expressed are rarely effective.

11 January 2006

MJ Ray: Hallenfu ball and the FA Cup

England's football fans had the pleasure of random football scores last weekend: the FA Cup. Why is there so much expectation of upsets? I think it's partly because the match is at an ideal time to help level things out, especially if it's at a non-league ground:
League clubs
  • usually full-time
  • 4 or 5 games over the holidays
  • mostly still negotiating new players
  • some of their players seem to expect it to be easy
  • usually play on expensive, well-kept pitches
Non-league clubs
  • often part-time
  • 3 games over the holidays
  • often introduce new players in the cup match
  • many of their players relish playing a top club
  • probably have a pitch more damaged by winter
Meanwhile, the German Bundesliga closed before Christmas for a winter break until the end of January. During the break, Bundesliga teams take part in indoor football tournaments, some of which can be seen on DSF. It developed independently on demand and so the rules are a bit different to 5-a-side, powerleague or futsal. I still don't understand them all, but it plays like a cross between ice hockey and football. I found a bit about its history in a discontinued Bundesliga FAQ. Once the Bundesliga restarts, I expect it'll be back on Sgorio. Finally, watch English league cup (which isn't FA Cup) semi-finals free-to-air on German DSF...

10 January 2006

Martin F. Krafft: Scared of telephones?

Since I shouldn't be typing too much, I have resorted to the telephone on numerous occasions in the last four months, calling Debian folks to discuss issues -- after all, I don't want to let go of this project, especially since it's now the topic of my doctorate thesis [*]. Strangely though (or not), I have found that more than two thirds of the developers I tried to reach seem to be scared of the phone. I always explain my situation and request number and a convenient time to call, but most of the time I get no answer back. If I do get an answer back, it's usually along the lines of "I prefer IRC" or the like. Only rarely did people actually agree to confer on the phone with me. What is it about telephones? I am paying the bill, and it's surely a good medium to discuss specific issues. Are Debian developers scared of this communication medium? Or do people simply not want to speak to me?
[*]to set things straight with Wouter's post: I thought it kind of sounded like I was going to present my doctoral thesis at FOSDEM 2006. Unfortunately, that is not (yet) the case. My proposal was accepted, but I haven't been able to start yet, so what I was planning to do for the conference was to pick two ideas I had for Debian workflow improvement and present them alongside a short overview of the current workflow. This fulfills two goals for me. One, I am forced to write down these ideas, and two, I get them out into the open for people to discuss, develop, and/or slam them.

9 January 2006

Gergely Nagy: Social dysfunction

Your Social Dysfunction:
Schizotypal

You display social deficits and oddities of thinking. Your perception and communication are similar to those of a schizophrenic.
Take this quiz at QuizGalaxy.com

Please note that we aren't, nor do we claim to be, psychologists. This quiz is for fun and entertainment only. Try not to freak out about your results.
Seems fitting... *grins*

8 January 2006

Andrew Pollock: [life/mtb] Second stack

I had another cleat-related incident on the way home tonight. I thought I'd unclicked my left foot when I came to cross the road, but apparently hadn't, and I'd already rocked towards the left and was well and truly leaning that way before it became evident that my leg was still anchored to the pedal. I fell pretty heavily on my left wrist, and it made a nasty crunching sound. Doesn't appear to be broken though, just sprained I guess. On inspection of my left shoe when I made it home, it would seem that one of the bolts that holds the cleat to the shoe has come loose and disappeared. So when I turned my foot sideways, the cleat rotated on the other bolt, and didn't release properly, whereas I thought it had released by virtue of the fact that my foot moved sideways. Just as well it's forecast to rain tomorrow. Don't feel much like riding at the moment.

Andrew Pollock: [life] On mobility

Andrew Reid is now truly mobile. I achieved something approaching mobility Zen, where I could use my Sony Ericsson T630's GPRS connection via Bluetooth from my PowerBook and my iPaq. And then I left the country. Bit of a bugger that.

Andrew Pollock: [life/americania] Four weeks

I've still been extremely busy. Unlike my last fairly incoherent brain dump, this time I've been keeping notes on the things I wanted to write about, so hopefully I won't forget things. Here we go...
Squirrels
Squirrels are absolutely everywhere. They're very fast and very cute. They're kind of like possums, except diurnal. They run up trees with ease, and leap from tree to tree. It's quite cool to watch them. The damn things don't stand still long enough to be photographed (properly), and they don't let you get too close without scampering up a tree or running off. I'm told they're the number one carrier of rabies, so I shouldn't be trying to get too close anyway.
Sales tax
Definitely one of the more annoying aspects of consumer life is the fact that prices quoted are not inclusive of sales tax. This means you always need to part with more cash than you expect. Furthermore, there are some places (some fast-food outlets) that do quote the prices inclusive of tax, so it's really hard to know what you're in for.
Speed limits
I find speed limit signs to be either infrequent or harder to notice, or a combination of both. They're just a black text on white background sign. I'm used to them having the red circle. That said, no one seems to drive at the speed limit anyway.
Ethnicity
Canberra's a very white town compared to say Sydney, but I reckon at least the San Jose area of California blows the socks off what I've seen of Sydney for multiculturalism. You really notice it over here. I've been at the mall in Milpitas, and you can play "spot the white European" (a variation of "spot the Caucasian").
Different responses to thankyou
I think the fairly standard response to saying thanks that I'm used to is "You're welcome". Over here, you get "mm hmm" a lot, which is just strange.
Fractions vs decimal
They love their fractions. Petrol gets quoted at 2219/10, which took me a while to realise was 221.9 cents per gallon
Alcoholic beverage labelling
Australia has the concept of a "standard drink". I remember as a kid the advertising campaign "rethink your third drink" (or for women, "rethink your second drink"). The idea being that men could drink two standard drinks in the first hour, and then one standard drink every hour after that, and be at 0.05% blood alcohol, which is the legal limit for Australia. And every bottled alcoholic drink is labelled with how many standard drinks it is. An average beer is about 1.2 standard drinks for example. No such labelling over here. You get the percentage of alcohol per volume, and that is it, which makes self-regulating very difficult. The limit is apparently 0.08%, but I don't think I want to be driving around on the wrong side of the road at that level (or any level really).
Christmas vs "Holidays"
Everyone and every piece of advertising goes on about the "Holidays". Retail people are always wishing us "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas". I think this is because there's a large chunk of people who don't necessarily celebrate Christmas.
Tipping
I haven't really come across tipping in everyday life as much as I'd expected, but when I think about it a bit, I'm at work most of the time, so that's probably why. The general rule seems to be to tip "double the tax", so for a bill at a restaurant, or where you get personal service, such as a haircut, you tip. But you don't tip at McDonald's, nor Subway (where I would have expected you would).
That's about all my current observations on living over here. Tomorrow we get our townhouse in Central Park. Our air-freight was finally delivered today. (What was supposed to take about 8 days took 4 weeks). Not sure when we can expect our sea freight at this stage. We bought a couple of mountain bikes last weekend, and if the weather is okay tomorrow, we'll pick them up and ride them home. We've found a really nice off road (as in not shared with cars) bike path, which runs close to home all the way to work. I'm really keen to roller blade to work if it's feasible, and also to cycle in. I'm a bit disappointed to discover after we've been accepted for the place that we're right on top of a toxic waste dump (or something like that). If I grow a second head, you'll know why. The other piece of exciting news is that the bank sent me a debit card, when they'd previously told me they wouldn't until I had a Social Security number (still no sign if that yet). This thing (the debit card) is freaking weird. It's Mastercard branded, and in some places you use it like you'd use a debit card for EFTPOS back home. You swipe, enter your PIN and that's it. In other cases, you swipe and sign a bit of paper like a credit card transaction. In either case, money is sucked out of our checking account. The scary thing is that no one seems to check signatures in this country, and a lot of places will accept credit card payments electronically (like petrol stations where you just swipe the card at the bowser and enter the ZIP code of your billing address and that's it). Oh, and I can use this thing like a credit card for Internet purchases. What bothers me is that the level of authentication is so low, but it's sucking actual money out of our checking account, so with all the credit card fraud around, it's relatively trivial to draw actual money out of a bank account, as opposed to using someone's credit. That said, I just got the card today, and since then, it's made shopping so much easier. It's amazing how many places won't accept a foreign credit card, and I was a big user of EFTPOS back home, and this ability to use a debit card like a credit card means I can essentially continue in that habit. I wasn't looking forward to carrying lots of cash or having to use cheques.

7 January 2006

Brett Parker: And back to normality...

Fred Dibnah truly was a god.

Simon Richter: Packaging kernel modules

Last night I attempted to get a few more of my packages up to date, specifically, misdn-kernel was my target. This package builds, as good kernel module packages should do, a -patch and a -source package, the former being useful for patching a tree if you absolutely want to have the drivers inside a monolithic kernel, and the second for out-of-tree building. What is puzzling to me is the amount of magic and Makefile hackery required to get a -source package to build correctly. The biggest problem I have is that the Debian standard kernels all have ABI versions and "flavours" (mostly subarchitectures) that get passed along as an EXTRAVERSION (first thing I'm not really sure of) by make-kpkg (or rather indirectly, by defining a variable that contains a variable definition for EXTRAVERSION). Problem is, people are not using make-kpkg to build modules, but rather use m-a or even invoke debian/rules binary-modules manually.

6 January 2006

Mark Brown: Fix for smart card startup races

The rules mentioned in my last post to avoid race conditions by handling the entire setup of USB smart card readers within udev and /dev:
SUBSYSTEM==”usb_device”, SYSFS idVendor ==”04e6″, SYSFS idProduct ==”e003″, GROUP=”scard”, MODE=”0664″
SUBSYSTEM==”usb_device”, SYSFS bDeviceClass ==”0×0B”, GROUP=”scard”, MODE=”0664″
SUBSYSTEM==”usb_device”, SYSFS idVendor ==”04e6″, SYSFS idProduct ==”5115″, GROUP=”scard”, MODE=”0664″
 This requires 2.6.14 and a recent udev.

Daniel Burrows: Gainful employment rules

In December or so, I finally got offered a job with a small software company based in Seattle, starting on January 3rd (Tuesday). This means that I have income again (yay) and I have health insurance for the first time since September (more yay), but it does also mean that my time to work on free software, and Debian, and my blog, will be pretty limited, especially for the next few months.

Speaking of which, I am still looking for someone else to work with me on aptitude, particularly as I'd like to spend my no-longer-copious free time working on other stuff in a language that doesn't suck (probably Haskell). Any vic^H^H^Hvolunteers?

5 January 2006

Gunnar Wolf: This side of the ocean

Well, after three non-posting weeks, this is my third blog post today! :)
Martin: Please remember that not everything is lost on this side of the ocean - Probably, yes, this side of the ocean, this side of the Great Lakes, and that side of the R o Bravo.
One of the few things I often cite that still make me very proud of my country is the complete (although slowly, slowly declining, but still quite complete) separation between church and state. In ~130 years, no  president or important public figure has publicly stated they even had a religion - Of course, the current ruling party, PAN, is very catholic-oriented, and our current president _has_ attended mass, got and worn crucifixes and similar stuff... But at least, every time he (or a senior figure of the government) does that, there is loud criticism.
And I do hope that PAN's stay in power does not last more than 6 years. We deserve better. And we have elections in a couple of months, whee.

Wouter Verhelst: Replacing a mainboard

About a week or two ago, my sister called me that her computer didn't boot anymore. After looking at it for a short while and asking her how it had stopped working, there was only one conclusion that I could come to: the processor fan had broken down, which meant that she'd had a processor meltdown (she had a Pentium I-class system; back then, builtin thermometers weren't as common as they are now). She needed a replacement. Now I do have a bunch of spare hardware, but I didn't have anything that could compare to her 200-something Mhz system, and she was already complaining that the thing was rather slow; so I helped her find a 233Mhz Pentium mainboard (with processor) on eBay. That arrived on monday at her place, and she brought it to me to install it. That's done now, but not before I had to tell the thing it was the worst mainboard design that I have ever seen. No, really. And I've seen quite some mainboards already, since I used to work for a place where they sold hardware, a while back. The power connector, IDE connectors, serial ports, parallel port, and floppy drive connector are all positioned in the top left corner of the mainboard, above the PCI slots and right below where the power block is supposed to be. As a result, it's nearly impossible to reach them. When you do reach them, they're all placed so fucking close to eachother that it's nearly impossible to fit them all and to do so correctly. The one exception to that rule is the parallel port, which is fairly close to the rest, but still in the same area. It gets in fairly easily—unfortunately, it also gets out fairly easily if you touch them cables, which you have to do to put the topmost PCI card in its slot. Grmbl. Can't they put those cables in the center right, where they belong?!? After fighting with them cables, it was time for the RAM. That mainboard contains two DIMM slots and four 72-pin SIMM thingies. I have one RAM module for the DIMM slots, but unfortunately it didn't work with that module; I'm not sure whether it's the RAM that's broken, or whether the mainboard simply doesn't want to accept it. Fortunately, I have some 72pin RAM modules left. Unfortunately, I found that the 72pin slots were placed so close to the top of the mainboard that I had to get it out again in its entirety to be able to fit the topmost module. Grmbl. One centimeter of space is too much to ask? After that, it turned out that the machine still didn't boot. At first I thought this was one of those braindead BIOSes that doesn't boot unless you hook up a keyboard, but in the end that didn't seem to be the case. After one by one disconnecting everything, it turned out that the system would boot when I didn't connect the CD writer, but it would not boot at all when I did connect it. And when I say "not boot", I really mean it that way; it didn't even start the POST. Replacing the IDE data cable didn't help. I even tried using the one of the hard disk (which worked, because I had already done a boot from disk), or to connect the writer to as slave to the primary connector, but no luck; it simply wouldn't boot with that writer connected. Well, I'm tired of it now. Maybe I'll go to the shop with that writer again (it was a christmas present, so should still be under warranty) and ask them to have a look at it, but otherwise sis won't have a writer.

3 January 2006

Lars Wirzenius: Random thought: LotR

A few years ago, the New Zealand government agencies for tourism and immigration created a series of three advertising movies, known by the acronyms FotR, TT, and RotK. As proof of truth being stranger than fiction, they were generally mistaken for real movies, perhaps because they're excessively longer than normal ads. For whatever reason, they were shown in movie theaters in many countries, and a bunch of people saw them. I watched only the first one in a movie theater, though, and skipped the two others. To further promote truth's strangeness, the movies are not only available on DVD, but they're available on DVD in so called extended versions, with even more footage. For a lark, I borrowed all three from a friend, as extended versions, and have now watched the first one. I must say that these are the best ads I've ever seen. I've also been heavily influenced: I spent half an hour browsing NZ immigration rules and job ads. Alas, there doesn't seem to be much interest in a Linux programmer there. Pity, it seems to be a very photogenic country, and I have tens of thousands of shots left in my camera's shutter.

1 January 2006

Gergely Nagy: 2006

2006, what a lovely year! Not. I heard its a custom, that at the start of the new year, one looks back at the past one. So I did, and wasn't impressed at all. Mind you, the same happens each and every year, so it is no suprise, really. For the past year, I have been rather inactive, I should have gone on an extensive vacation from Debian a long time ago, around May, when I quit my last job. I intend to rectify that as soon as I manage to dig up my GPG key. Most of my packages will get officially orphaned too, as I lack the time and motivation to work on them - no news here, either, as this is the case since early last year. Lets see what I did on the free software front in the past year or two... One of my most succesfull projects was CCZE, a log colouriser. Needles to say, the idea is not mine. The crap implementation, the most messy and bad code I've ever written, is mine, though. It hasn't seen an update since I don't know when. Nor will it in the foreseeable future. The only thing that could help the codebase, is a rewrite, which I had been planning since 2003, and not a bit of code was committed ever. In the meantime, new programs appear, whose logs could be colourised, new demands arrive, but the project has been dead for good. Once, Thy was the software I was most proud of. I really loved it, and spent most of my time hacking on it. Those times are past, new, similar software appeared, that surpassed my beloved HTTP daemon in nearly every respect. I don't believe thy has any place among todays similar projects. This, I truly regret, I had great fun developing Thy. But as everything, even good things must come to an end. Back when I worked for a company that was into this media streaming business, I contributed a few bits and pieces to GStreamer, but all the "grand ideas" I had, and wished to make reality, never happened. Looking further back, I can't notice any significant contribution I made.. except maybe one, a very small one.. Even nowadays, I can't stop feeling a little proud, when it crosses my mind. Some may know, most probably don't, I acted as an application manager for Debian, and for a little while, I like to think I wasn't that bad at that job. For a little while... Anyway, during this, I had the pleasure to work with Daniel Stone. Heh, those were good times! I hope, that what we've done there, was of at least a bit useful. Meh, enough of this. My projects failed, I didn't have the neccessary resources to make some of my dreams come true. All I need now, is a break, a break so I will not feel bad about things I do not have time for. I'll let them go, as I should have done ages ago, that's best both for them, and me. Until a time I feel I can contribute back something, for all I received from the free software community, I'll take a vacation. From time to time, I'll be hanging around on IRC, but my activity will be as low as it was during the past year. Good bye, and thanks for all the fish! P.S.: Yamm, my over-sized tamagotchi expressed interest in maintaining me in Debian. If, by any chance, he'd take over my computer, and expressed his wish to run for DPL-ship, please, by all means, stop him. Thank you.

31 December 2005

Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho: Phishing Amazon user data

I’ve seen from several sources messages of the following kind: 
Subject: Please verify and update your Amazon account !
Dear Amazon    member , 
    It has come to our attention that your Amazon account information records are
out of date. That requires you to update your account information . If you could
please take 5-10 minutes out of your online  experience , and update
your account , you will not run into any future problems with Amazon
online service.                                       
   However, failure to update your records will result in account termination.
Please update your records in maximum 48 hours.  
   Once you have updated records, your Amazon session will not be
interrupted and will continue as normal.
      To update your Amazon account information click on the following link: 
        (link suppressed)
 Best Regards ,
Amazon Security Departament
Disregarding the very sound general rule of thumb telling us to distrust any mails that ask us to “reconfirm” our account details at whatever company, this mail is fairly convincing. The greatest clues that this is a forgery are such that Grandma Pihtipudas will unlikely notice them: the mail has been sent to several addresses I know are not registered with Amazon, and the link uses a well known URI spoofing technique. Beware!

Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho: Unbounded Tic-Tac-Toe

Here is the result of a few nights’ worth of hacking. This project was originally my solution to an exercise I had posed to my functional programming students. Since then, I’ve rewritten it once and redesigned the user interface completely. It’s an idealized implementation of a game we used to play during breaks at school. We would take a sheet of cross-ruled paper and play tic-tac-toe, with the following two changes: the whole sheet was allowed as the board, and we required a sequence of five, not three, marks for a win. The ideal was that the “board” was infinite, or unbounded, though in practice we did take the paper’s edges as the board’s bounds. (We also usually played more than one game on the same sheet of paper; previous games were simply declared “no-man’s land”, effectively creating weirdly shaped “holes” in the game board; I haven’t duplicated that here.) Version 1.1 implements a single-player mode (the other player is simulated) and a demo mode (the program simulates both players). It’s written in Haskell, and requires gtk2hs 0.9.10 (or later) with Cairo enabled, and GTK+ 2.8 (or later). The source is available as release tarballs and as a darcs repository. (Yes, I know that the arrow in the lower-left corner is wrong. That’s not my bug, though.)

Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho: Upgraded Wordpress

Just upgraded this blog to Wordpress 2.0. It looks everything went quite nicely, I see no major problems and considering how coolly the Finnish blog list service Blogilista took the upgrade, it is likely that Planet Debian will no throw a fit either. First impressions: the admin interface looks cool. The new editor is usable. Update: In the upgrade, I followed the instructions with a twist: I made the following changes to my server config prior to the upgrade so that any transitional problems would not be visible: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond % REMOTE_ADDR !^130\.234\.192\.228$ RewriteCond % REQUEST_URI !^/503.cgi$ RewriteRule ^/newblog /503.cgi The effect of this was that I (having the IP address 130.234.192.228) would see the blog as it is, but others would see the 503 ‘Service unavailable’ error message that my 503.cgi created. Update(2): Argh! The new editor handles pre tags badly. Had to hack around it in the ugly way seen above. Update (3): Fixed the WP2 link above. Update (4): It seems I was wrong about Planet’s sensibilities. However, now I’m blaming Planet, not the upgrade, since Blogilista handled the upgrade without thinking I had made any new posts!

30 December 2005

Lars Wirzenius: Debian: Low threshold NMU page

I set up the Low Threshold NMU wiki page. The goal is to test whether enough people participate and whether this then has enough of an impact on the quality that changes to the default NMU rules should be made.

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