• Unfortunately, Lars fell ill, and couldn't make it. Shame; I was actually looking forward to meeting him again. Fortunately, Frans Pop offered to hold a replacement talk, and that talk went well, given the low amount of time he had to prepare it.
• The Debian developer's room is now really too small. Last year, we were having issues with the room being too full to accomodate new attendees, but this was very much dependent on the actual talk going on; the room couldn't accomodate the audience for all the most popular talks, but in general there were no issues. In contrast, this year around I haven't yet seen the room not being too small.
• The security staff sucks. Again, they kicked us out of the DevRoom before the agreed-upon time of 19:00. I'll need to remember that for next year, and not try to assign talks until the very last moment; perhaps stop by 18:45 or so...
• The idea to let my hair grow to prove to Nattie that it's ugly that way seems to have failed to meet its purpose. Darn. This is the last time I'll come up with such a lousy excuse for allowing my hair to grow.
• I've been slacking with things, and not following up on stuff people sent me mails about. As a result, I needed to fix some things at the last minute while the event was already underway. Silly me. Most things worked out nicely, however; and the booth—I think I shouldn't bother to make up a schedule anymore next year.

• Switching editors is just as hard as switching languages
  Thoughtful. But Emacs gives you much more than an editor; with it you can customize your mail client, web browser, IRC client, file organizer, calendar etc until they fit you like a glove, or rather, like as many gloves as you need for all your daily tasks.
• TEDTalks: Raspyni Brothers (2002)
  100% pure awesome.

... So if Ted's right, and a year from now git is easier to use, better documented, more featureful, and runs well on Windows, it won't be that hard to switch over and preserve history. Ted's the sort of person that usually is right, so maybe I should starting looking at hg2git right now.

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 pango-view --font="DejaVu Sans Mono" -t "Hello World" -w 180 -q -o a.png
 pango-view --font="DejaVu Sans Mono" -t "Hello world" -w 180 -q -o b.png
 compare a.png b.png hello_diff.png

# Let's suppose you have already created PDF files inside the following dirs
a=dejavu-2.22
b=dejavu-2.23

vsdir="$ a _vs_$ b "
mkdir $vsdir

for f in $(find $a -name '*.pdf') ; do
 f=$(basename $f)
 apng=$ a /$ f/.pdf/ 
 bpng=$ b /$ f/.pdf/ 
 mkdir $ apng  $ bpng 

echo "*** $ f  ***"

 # pdf -> pngs
 convert $ a /$ f  $ apng /$ f/.pdf/ .png
 convert $ b /$ f  $ bpng /$ f/.pdf/ .png

 # compare pngs and, if different, show whre they differ in a png
 for p in $(find $ apng  -name '*.png') ; do
   p=$(basename $p)
   meas=$(compare -metric AE $ apng /$ p  $ bpng /$ p  $ vsdir /$ p  2>&1)
   if [ $ meas  -eq 0 ] ; then
       rm  $ vsdir /$ p  $ apng /$ p  $ bpng /$ p 
   else
       echo  " - $ p "
   fi
 done
done

• Usability: combines the two greatest user interfaces: CLI commands and $EDITOR
• Simplicity: everything is optional but the start time of an event.
• Scriptability: it is just a couple of simple perl modules
• Readability: events is formatted with YAML

New York Talk Exchange illustrates the global exchange of information in real time by visualizing volumes of long distance telephone and IP (Internet Protocol) data flowing between New York and cities around the world.

• Flash Gordon vol 3: Crisis on Citiadel II
• Flash Gordon vol 5: Citadels under attack
• Flash Gordon vol 6: Citadels on Earth

Backstory: I read the first when I was 10-12, then mostly forgot about it. A while back I remembered enjoying it and bought volumes 1, 2, 3, & 4 from an online store. I got screwed and volume 3 hasn't arrived, but possibly that will be rectified soon. Here in the UK the last two volumes are either extremely rare or extremely in demand. Typically they seem to sell for £15-30 - I'm frustrated to not have the conclusion, but not desperate to spend so much money upon them, (been there, done that).

Mass Video Uploading

Is there any tool, or service, which will allow me to upload a random movie to multiple video-download sites? Specifically I'm curious to learn whether there is a facility to transcode as necessary a given input file and then upload to youtube, google video, and other sites as a one-step operation.

Mass Video Searching

Relating to that is there a service which will allow me to search for vidoes with given titles/tags/keywords across multiple video-hosting networks?

1. emrecent - possible candidate for a rename to emdput, this script started off just as a review tool for recent builds (hence the current name). Finds recent .changes files in the Emdebian working directory, collates them, provides a viewer for the debc -a $ARCHcontents using whiptail or zenity along with error logging. If the default zenity frontend is installed, you can still select to use whiptail (e.g. when over an SSH connection) using the -w option to emrecent. Further checks are run using the second script:


2. emdebcheck - a local Emdebian version of the debcheck that runs on the Debian archive using edos-debcheck to highlight non-installable packages before an upload breaks the archive. This isn't such a problem in Debian but Emdebian needs to build installer images and similar tools from packages in unstable so an installability check is very useful. Certain packages are expected to be non-installable due to dependencies that are removed in Emdebian so emrecent supports a --skip option to omit the emdebcheck run for such builds.


3. emsource --status now reports errors logged by emrecent or emdebcheck.


4. Unpacking support in emsandbox - EXPERIMENTAL!. debootstrap --foreign puts a higher-than-necessary burden on the host device when running the default --second-stage - not just in CPU workload but in the amount of free space required to copy and unpack all the .deb files. The original debootstrap tarball contains the downloaded .deb archives and only a few packages are actually unpacked manually. Unpacking support in emsandbox adds a handler using dpkg to unpack ALL .deb files in .$BUILDPLACE/var/cache/apt/archives/ using dpkg -e and dpkg -x, creates a suitable status file for dpkg and removes the .deb packages for a smaller tarball. The result is (almost) a foreign filesystem image that can be copied directly onto the host device. The remaining tasks are only:
   • /sbin/ldconfig
   • /usr/bin/dpkg --configure -a
   . Depending on how well this works in real situations, unwrap could become the default handler for debootstrap --second-stage --foreign in emdebian-tools. Unpack support is enabled via the debootstrap suite scripts which define the package set, the first_stage_install and the (much reduced) second_stage, replacing the sequence of install commands with a single function provided by emdebian-tools. See /usr/lib/emdebian-tools/emdebian.gpe for an example.

• Most access cards for underground containers can be trivially cloned; they are EM4x05 type cards with factory UNIQUE.
• In one municipality, we could open the underground containers with any card of the EM4x05 type, regardless of origin. With one notable exception: 0x0 doesn't work.
• One type of tag has preventive measures against readout (and hence cloning), but these features are not used.
• Virtually no encryption is used in any of the communications, e.g. plain HTTP was used for worldwide access to the adminsitrative backend interface. Again one exception: a new version of a system used WEP to "secure" wireless transfer of data...
• There's no security awareness among municipalities. Defined requirements concern the physical robustness of systems or collection costs, but no demands are placed on information integrity or confidentiality.

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We always conduct an investigation before taking action against a domain. We will give you a chance to respond to the complaints. 

The cases you described above would never happen with us. Complaining about Microsoft or making fun of George Bush are protected free speech. The service agreement is designed to give us some flexibility in dealing with customers that break the law. 

He was posting a step by step guide to hacking our website, which is illegal. The hack did not work, but we noticed an upsurge in strange activity in our logs, so we requested the hacking guide be taken down. 

Once again we need to build some flexibility into our service agreement to deal with people who use their domains for criminal activity. Otherwise we could be liable for the damages that they cause to others. So far, we have never dropped anyones privacy except in the few cases we were forced to by a FBI subpoena.

No offence taken. I will email our counsel to see if we can tighten up the agreement a bit.