I would like to have a simple way of mirroring a webpage, including any referenced .css, .js, and images. owever to complicated matters I wish to mandate that the file will be saved as index.html regardless of what it was originally called. This appears to rule wget out, as the -output=index.html option trumps the -page-requisites flag (which is used to download images, etc which are referenced.) Is there a simple tool which will download a single webpage, save it to a user-defined local filename and also download referenced images/css files/javascript files? (Rewriting the file to make them work too) Using Perl I could pull down the page, and I guess I could parse the HTML manually but that seems non-trivial but I d imagine there is a tool out there to do the job. So far I ve looked at curl, httrack, and wget. If I m missing the obvious solution please point me at it .. (Yes, this is so that I can take snapshots of links added to my bookmark server.)

Last week has been mostly dedicated to samba, again. After last week's hurry dealing with 3 security announcements, the announcements were published by the security team. This was a not-so-simple process as even sarge was affected by the security issues and, to make things less simple, only two of them. I also slightly messed up in uploads to the security upload queues which added more work to Noah Meyerhans to deal with them. Anyway, we still were pretty happy of the result. However, immediately after the packages hit unstable and etch, a few problem arised:

• Bug #424629 is probably the worse as it affected all etch-based samba servers that use "force group". It clearly turned out to be RC and a regression introduced by the security fix. A fixed package for etch is ready and awaits for the security team ACK.
• Bug #424637 also hit hard all Samba servers that are members of Active Directory domains. For a still unclear reason, samba was compiled without Kerberos support on my machine (even if I built with pbuilder) which I can't reproduce anymore. The bug was fixed after Steve scheduled a binNMU for i386.
• Bug #424046 is a regression introduced in unstable only and will be fixed in the next upstream point release (3.0.25a).

Dealing with all these bugs was time consuming but finally convinced me to re-subscribe to a few upstream mailing lists...which is slowly taking samba out of the "maintenance mode" we adopted last years. I hope we'll be able to sustain the load. Anyway, we already succeeded during that week in helping upstream to investigate some issues in their recent release. More samba uploads will soon come, so if you use samba, please update your systems regularly.

I've been wondering if it is worth packages.d.o indicating if the DD is also (one of) the
upstream developer(s) of their maintained (non-native?) packages. I'd expect that it may help bug reporters to know this, with regard to where to file certain bug reports or just be useful information generally. It could help by indicating whether a quick release is possible and whether patches will migrate upstream automatically.

debian/copyright isn't sufficient for this because there isn't necessarily a match between the upstream and Debian email addresses, but maybe it's yet another field for debian/control.

Just idle musings really.

3 1/2 years after mika registered grml.org it's done. Congratulations! HURRAY!!!11!1!!

grml provides more than 2500 software packages! Excluding library stuff, more than 1700 packages remain. We don't ship KDE and OpenOffice, but more than 800 packages which Knoppix does not provide. You'll get sysadmins favourite tools, security- and network-related software, data recovery- and forensic-tools, LaTeX, many editors, shells, and of course many texttools.

grml provides several scripts and utils which make life easier. zsh is configured with the completion mechanism. grml-x is a wrapper for configuring and using the X window system. grml-crypt is a program that provides an easy wrapper arround cryptsetup, mkfs, losetup and mount. grml-vpn is a program to establish encrypted communication channels in a network, and so on...

Grml 1.0 release name Meilenschwein was just released.

I am tired of sitting in front of my PC for today, that's why I just link to the:
release announcement.

A while ago I decided I wanted to make a couple of nice little apps for my Nokia 6600.

• Bluetooth AutoOff - disable Bluetooth and/or hide it after a configurable period of time
• PicGodfather - automatically change the template by which photos are named in the camera app, based on date (I can't think of another reasonable schema)

After my successful adventure with pys60 I decided/realized that the Python API does not contain appropriate functions for what I need in my apps, so I decided to setup the development environment for C++ with Carbide C/C++ (the recommended IDE for S60 development for Nokia).

Of course, the IDE is a Windows application and the reason for which Nokia doesn't provide an IDE for Linux (is expected since they are developing maemo and are so into OS) eludes me.
On top of that, I have an Debian Etch amd64 installation[1], so that's more fun.

Fortunately, thanks to Robert Millan and Ove Kaaven, wine is installable from unstable on amd64 and a chroot is not needed[2] anymore.


Now let's see the dependency tree:

• Carbide
  
• ActivePerl
• ScriptHost
• mfc42.dll
• correct mix of native and built-in dlls in wine configuration
  

Yes, that is all ... summarized. And you can imagine I went though leaps and bounds and wasted a night with this to find out the hard way.

If you don't care about the reasons/story, you can skip to the paragraph where I ran into license issues.

So, first Carbide needs Active Perl. Not any version, but ActivePerl-5.6.1.635. You will find out after you install Carbide c++.

Active Perl, by default, will refuse to install in wine. It relies on some Script Host support.
Good news: it is available on Microsoft's support pages. Bad news: the file is not provided until you go through some crazy scheme[3] to certify you have a genuine Windows installation.

Of course, the genuine stuff failed to work in wine, duh, but having a windows XP OS in qemu was really useful... to try to go further.

Now that I mentioned the Windows XP machine in qemu you might be wondering 'why didn't you installed Carbide c++ in there and start hacking in qemu?' . Well, I wish it was that simple! Believe it or not, the installation in the Windows virtual machine failed in a muuuuch earlier stage it initially did in Wine! It failed in the unpacking phase of the installation, while in Wine that part worked without problems (default config is for Windows XP emulation). Talk about irony!

After a while of trying, I took the risky path (maybe I should install an antivirus, as suggested by wine) and downloaded the kit for the script host stuff from some site on the net (shhh!). Good. I don't remember if I used cabextract or if it worked quite straight forward, but the special configuration entry in Wine Configurator suggests otherwise.

Back to Active-Perl. Now we can try again to install it.

wine msiexec ActivePerl-5.6.1.635-MSWin32-x86.msi

Guess what? The installation failed now, too. After some time of poking, I realised the bastard was looking for mfc42.dll in the installation. There was no word about that in the error message, only in the wine logs there were some hints. No wonder Windows users learn very early to ignore error messages (the error message was plain uninformative).

Where to get mfc42.dll from? The virtual machine! I tried to send them via email, but the link was too slow. Now I realised I could have used winscp, but I didn't thought of that at the time.

The rescue did come this time from M$, but with some effort. It appears that mfc42.dll is by default present on XP, so you only find it for download in some kit (vc6redistsetup_enu.exe) for Windows 9x. That works (lost some time to figure that out, too) since the kit contains a mix of 9x, NT and independent dlls. I think this installation didn't work and I had to cabextract the files by hand and copy them in system32. I registered the mfc42.dll module, after copying it in windows/system32.

wine msiexec /y mfc42.dll

Well, now I have everything installed Carbide should start... Well, no! License issues! I got a message about not having a license for the installation. Ain't that great? I just installed the thing and is the free/handicapped version. What gives? Well, in Carbide C++ 1.2, the Express part of the kit is broken and doesn't install the license file.

So, I installed the professional version since it had a longer trial period, hoping that now I'll be able to see the IDE and start working.

After this, I tried several times to start Carbide itself, but it failed at different points in time. I "just"[4] configured wine for this app to set the order to 'native,builtin' for msvcrt, ole32, oleacc and shdocw and got further.

Hopeless attempts follow....

At this point I got stuck. There was still some error from ole32.dll (apparently), but I couldn't go further.

I tried to install the 1.1 trial version. Got stuck. In any way I couldn't start Carbide c++ :-(( .

GRAND FINALE!

In the end, I also tried the deprecated CodeWarior. Guess what? It installed and ran immediately. Although I am not sure if any of the previous poking had anything to do with it.



[1] I have some packages from unstable
[2] although I had one, I wanted to get rid of it, since gnash started to perform better in the latest versions - still not satisfactory, but OK
[3] some browser plugin WPGInstall.exe, iirc and some app which should send your privat^W^W^Wanalise your system to generate some code that should identify your system as genuine
[4] this also took me some time... start, identify the dll, change the order, restart...

Well, today started out really anxious and is ending pretty reasonably. (Or so I think -- maybe tomorrow is going to be really nuts). First, RoCoCoCamp buzz is just nuts! Lots of people are blogging about it, planning to attend, and having fun talking about it. I count at least Patrick Tanguay, Sekhmet Design, Montreal Tech Watch, Montreal Tech League (no relation), Michel LeBlanc, Fred Ngo, Sylvain Carle, Rhymin' Simon Law, NathanR, Creative Commons Canada (thanks for the shout-out, gang!), Adrien O'Leary, Andreas Gohr (coming all the way from Berlin!). We're flirting with almost 100 people on the participants list, which I think is going to mean about 120-150 people. So I'm no longer worried that not enough people are going to come. Last night I got a quote for someone to provide coffee in the morning and at afternoon break for all three days... for $1800! So this morning I rented three coffee percolators (one for regular, one for decaf, and one for tea) and a bunch of cups and plates from Celebrations up on Jean-Talon. Maj and I shopped for coffee this afternoon. Total cost? $250. That means more money left over for pizza Saturday night! It means some more hassle for me and for the attendees, but I think we can handle it. Tomorrow morning early I have to stop in at St. Viateur and get 10 dozen bagels for the whole gang. I think many people who are attending don't know Montreal bagels, so they'll be in for a treat. Of course, some of the Montrealers will be mad I didn't get rival Fairmount Bagels instead. Tough for them. I know tomorrow is going to be crazy, but tonight I'm feeling pretty mellow. My good friend Zach Copley is on his way into town right now; we're working together on the kei.ki project and it will be great to have him here. Tomorrow Mark and Allegra arrive. So many good folks are going to be at RoCoCo: I think it's going to be a lot of fun. tags: rocococamp recentchangescamp stviateur coffee keiki wiki barcamp

Today, MJRay asks how to make MakeMaker (no redundancy!) do what he wants. Incidentally, I faced this issue just yesterday, preparing an application for internal use in my job. As sysadmin, I want all the homebrew software to be Debian-packaged, even if they're not the most policy abiding packages. I was installing some modules for mod_perl2, some utility modules and a couple of scripts. Of course, it also needed accesory files, like images for the web or templates for HTML, and configuration too. After reading the reply to this post, written by Randal Shwartz himself, I got convinced that there wasn't any frigging way to make the thing do it. So my solution was far from ideal, as I wanted to put everything in the Makefile, but it wasn't so ugly, considering that it was only meant for use in a Debian package:

• mod_perl and regular modules, using the standard method: put them under lib/ and MakeMaker takes care of them. As I didn't wanted site-wide modules, I changed INSTALLVENDORLIB in the debian/rules to point to /usr/share/pkgname/lib
• for scripts, perl or not: you list them in EXE_FILES, and then point INSTALLVENDORSCRIPT to where you want them. In my case it was /usr/share/pkgname/bin, but if you need to install CGIs, it would be valid to point to /usr/lib/cgi-bin.
• For support files, at first I put them under PMLIBDIRS control (as the rest of the modules), but I didn't like the resulting directory layout. So I processed them, along with configuration files, and stuff with debhelper tools.

In a nutshell, if you only want to process modules and CGIs, you can do it with MakeMaker

Apparently they are planning a reality TV show that might be named “Kids Nation” where 40 children are allowed to develop their own society for 40 days. The claims are that there is “no parental supervision”, but of course with many TV cameras watching I’m sure that even the most stupid children can work out that there are reasons to behave relatively well. Also I’m sure that they will remove children from the show if it becomes necessary to avoid injury. It will be interesting to see how well this develops. Maybe it could evolve into a new form of schooling, just leave children alone in a school with lots of security cameras watching them and let them study or not as they wish. It would be cheaper than running a regular high-school, and as there is little scope for providing a worse education than many (most?) high-schools currently provide it should be worth a try. For a long time I have thought that the premise behind The Lord of the Flies was bogus. I believe that a major contributing factor towards much of the violence that is present in schools is the pointlessness of the entire system. There are very few students who are so stupid that they can’t realise that the education system is failing them. Whenever you put a large number of people in a confined space with nothing useful to do the results will be bad. If a group of students from a violent school were placed on an island without any supplies then I’m sure that they would soon realise that they need to cooperate to stay alive.

Apparently they are planning a reality TV show that might be named “Kids Nation” where 40 children are allowed to develop their own society for 40 days. The claims are that there is “no parental supervision”, but of course with many TV cameras watching I’m sure that even the most stupid children can work out that there are reasons to behave relatively well. Also I’m sure that they will remove children from the show if it becomes necessary to avoid injury. It will be interesting to see how well this develops. Maybe it could evolve into a new form of schooling, just leave children alone in a school with lots of security cameras watching them and let them study or not as they wish. It would be cheaper than running a regular high-school, and as there is little scope for providing a worse education than many (most?) high-schools currently provide it should be worth a try. For a long time I have thought that the premise behind The Lord of the Flies was bogus. I believe that a major contributing factor towards much of the violence that is present in schools is the pointlessness of the entire system. There are very few students who are so stupid that they can’t realise that the education system is failing them. Whenever you put a large number of people in a confined space with nothing useful to do the results will be bad. If a group of students from a violent school were placed on an island without any supplies then I’m sure that they would soon realise that they need to cooperate to stay alive. Update:
It seems that the Sudbury Valley school implements some ideas similar to mine. They also have a page of links to some other schools that do similar things.

First, a tip of the day. Thanks to Matthew Garrett for pointing out that GLib 2.14 will have API for creating timers with second granularity (instead of millisecond): g_timeout_add_seconds(). This means that multiple timers scheduled to go off at roughly the same time will be fired at once, resulting in power savings. I'm pleased to see this land in GLib, and can't wait for GLib 2.14 now as it is looking really good: GRegex and GSequence in particular are interesting new additions. In Sound Juicer news, Luca Cavalli has ported the gedit/Epiphany plugin code to SJ. It's definitely work in progress at the moment, but it is coming together nicely. Follow #311688 if you want to keep up with the changes. The first two plugins I'd like to see from both feature and proof of concept angles are more complete CD playback controls (repeat and random), and downloading of album cover art. NP: Delay, Dub Tractor

Once upon a time I wrote a collection of shell scripts for managing virtual hosting. Combined these allow me to easily.

• Add/Remove/List Apache2 virtual hosts.
• Add/Remove/List virtual domains for use by Exim4.

These work well, but every now and again I think I want a web-based control panel . After mulling this over for a while and remembering how many of the existing control panels are tricky I m actually going to do it. There are two hard parts:

• The user-interface is key.
• The format I m using for domains isn t appropriate.

The last point is the part I m worrying about right now. So far I have a list of mail domains, and a list of web domains and the two are unrelated. This becomes obvious when they are listed:

Domain	Facilities
steve.org.uk	MAIL
bar.steve.org.uk	WEB
foo.steve.org.uk	WEB

See? No link I d expect to see the domains listed as just steve.org.uk with links to Mail showing the mail setup, and web showing the subdomains. Or maybe they really should be listed seperately I can t decide. (For reference here is my live listing of domains where the problem becomes obvious. Note that you ll not have permissions to see my server stats ) So I need to decide how to handle this I also need to be "inspired" by OSWD. I think the plan right now is to store all data in a database, then regenerate the plain text configuration files on demand. That should give me the best approach if I restrict myself to running HTTPS on a custom port and avoid the ability to modify the files by hand Feel free to tell me this is misguided, or inspired. Although I remember the last time I talked about control panels and I m still not seeing a good solution. I want to be able to:

• Add/Remove/Enable/Disable apache2 virtual hosting setups.
• Add/Remove/Enable/Disable exim4 virtual domains with optional mailing lists (ecartis)
• Have only server admin vs. nobody no resellors etc.
• Avoid PHP like the plague.
• Have it be utterly secure. (Ha!)

For long time I use few Python scripts to manage mails on IMAP account. On Tuesday I decided to put them under version control and improve them a bit, because I didn't want to have login information hardcoded in every script. I made several improvements, added support for distutils and then I decided that I could also release this to public. I've named them IMAP utils, I made announcement to freshmeat.net and Python Cheese Shop (thanks to ./setup.py register) and now I wonder that these simple scripts have over hundred downloads and eight subscribers. Maybe it is not that useless as I thought :-).

Steve talks about a tool some of us have needed for a long time, but never actually bothered to implement because applying the necessary changes in vim is still faster than writing a script to do it. The biggest issue for me is that the UI would have to represent grouping of items efficiently. If I have a number of domains registered to my company, I want my employees to be able to receive email at "firstname.lastname" in each of them, without ever duplicating the grouping information. For HTTP, the grouping works slightly different: a set of domains could be variants of the same name with different misspellings, abbreviations or top level domains. To keep things tidy, I redirect everyone who is not using the "canonical" name, using mod_redirtoservname. Thus, the group needs a "leader". Subdomains are usually independent setups, since there is not much point in having multiple names in the same domain for the same service. It may also be a good idea to somehow be able to configure delegations using SRV records.

It's been a busy week here and I've been lax in updating my blog. It's probably a good thing to put on the chopping block -- of all the possible things going on in my life -- but I'm regretting not keeping up with it. We had a good weekend last weekend. Maj's Mother's Day present request was to clean out all our closets in the house and take extra clothes to the Petits Fr res up the street. It took most of the day Saturday, and we finished with twelve garbage bags full of clothes for the Fr res. Check out Maj's photo of the pile of clothes. Sunday morning Amita June and I made Mama a nice breakfast of waffles and (tofu) sausage. Amita's job was to stir the batter (which she did a good job at) and not to touch anything hot (not so good). That afternoon, Maj went to get a haircut at the salon down the street, and I took the opportunity to give Amita June her first haircut. I think she looks like Twiggy. This week has been a maelstrom of activity. We have RoCoCoCamp coming up on Friday, and we're still tying all the loose ends together. I had most of my tasks done yesterday, so at the organizational meeting last night I saddled myself with more. D'oh! I think my main work this week is going to be encouraging local Montreal tech scenesters to come. I especially want to make sure that important women in the local Internet scene are present, so I'm going to copy Hugh McGuire's invite for BarCampMontreal2 and do some link-baiting:

• Martine Page, filmmaker and journalist who's an anchor of the local blogging community
• V ro B., vodcaster and blogger and general communicator
• m-c turgeon, podcaster and blogger and founder of Stars of the Web
• Marie-Joe, who provides a crucial link between the local blogging and game communities and is obsessed with Wikipedia

tags: mothersday amitajune rocococamp barcampmontreal montreal women

Interview There's a really good interview with me and Maj on the Internet Brands Developer Blog. It's gotten into the short list of interviews I point press to when they want background about Wikitravel -- along with the Creative Commons interview. I'm really glad that IB has started this blog to give the outside world a peek at what's happening out there in El Segundo. And it's also a great way for IB to highlight some of the Open Source work they're doing, like the neat-o new AJAX tool kit IBDOM. tags: interview ib ibdom ibbydev

A few years ago we needed to introduce employement contracts for all staff at Catalyst. When we got the example contract back from our HR consultant, she had quite naturally biased it strongly in the employers favour, and as a consequence it had a very anal and lawyerly clause in it regarding the ownership of intellectual property. This clearly wasn't going to work well in our environment so I decided to take the opportunity to try and write a clause which was fair and reasonable, which considered the likely desires of both parties, and which expressed an understanding of the sort of environment which often happens with free open-source software. It seems that many people who are interested in working on open source software are also people who will work on (i.e. fiddle with :-) things in their spare time, but they will not necessarily consider the possible consequences of using conmpany resources to do so. I have heard of situations where employment contracts (or perhaps even government enacted legislation) will give ownership of an individual's work to their employer in such situations, so I also wanted the contract to make it clear where and how this might happen. I would like to hear people's comments on the contract clauses which we use here. Is this fair to both parties? Have I missed something? Is the meaning clear? Also, I need to make it clear that it is OK for people to use this text, so I hereby place the text of the following Intellectual Property clause in the public domain. Intellectual Property

1. All intellectual property, including source code, objects and documentation, relating to work carried out while in the employment of $ COMPANY , remains the property of $ COMPANY , subject to the exceptions outlined below.
2. All intellectual property, including source code, objects and documentation, owned prior to joining $ COMPANY remains your property. If you choose to use such intellectual property, including source and objects during your time at $ COMPANY , $ COMPANY will have the rights to their continued use in perpetuity, including access to the source code of all versions of such software in use at $ COMPANY .
3. If $ COMPANY asks you to do something, then we expect that while you work on that something, you will be being paid by us and we (or our clients) will own the IP. In some cases we may elect to open-source that, and may decide to jointly own the IP or make some other arrangement, but it would be at $ COMPANY s option.
4. If you work on something by your own choice, and on your own time, then you are welcome to own the IP, but if you use the premises or computers of $ COMPANY to do that work then you must license it under a free, open-source license agreed with $ COMPANY .
5. $ COMPANY may choose to fund some part of your time to work on OSS projects in a non-directed way. $ COMPANY will expect to own the IP for such work, and to participate in the choice of license for such code.
6. All of the above is subject to confidentiality of client information, and constraints which clients may specifically request in relation to specific project work from time to time.

Over To You I wrote that because I couldn't find examples around the place of similar things. I guess I still see people looking for that sort of thing so I'm publising it here with the idea of providing a seed which can perhaps grow into something else. A few specific questions I would like you to think about:

• Are there any loopholes in this?
• Does this seem like a fair agreement?
• Is there anything missing?
• Is there any part you would like to see changed?

Then, perhaps, if we can see some general agreement on what would, or would not, be a useful standard we can encourage people to use it in their future contracts. I am hoping that through your collective wisdom I will be changing this clause in Catalyst's standard employment contract.

From reading my web stats yesterday it seems that one Planet has polled by blog feed 1693 times over the first 14.25 days of this month. This is about 5 polls per hour. Another Planet has polled my blog 994 times for an average of about 3 hits per hour. How frequently does it make sense to poll blogs? Speaking for myself I think that waiting an extra 10 minutes to see my latest blog post isn’t going to hurt anyone, and encouraging Planet readers to reload the page so frequently probably isn’t doing them a favour either. For my own personal Planet installation (which mainly aggregates other Linux Planets for my own personal use) I have it poll the feeds every four hours. For a Planet installation designed for general readership it would make sense to have it poll more frequently. Maybe once every hour or once every half-hour. When I initially set up my own planet installation I aggregated the entire feed list of Planet Debian and Planet Linux Australia and it generally took between 10 and 30 minutes to poll all the feeds with 20 minutes being common (Planet does not support parallel downloads). So for a moderate sized Planet with frequent polling you might have one poll end after the next cron job for a poll has begun. It’s a pity that Planet doesn’t support pings. Will the next version do so? I would rather have my blog ping the Planets that I know of that aggregate my content and save thousands of needless polls while also giving a faster update. Finally if you need a fast response for a dialogue then probably blogs and Planets are not the communication mechanism to use, a mailing list would probably be more appropriate.

Currently I am considering the priority scheme to use for some highly available services running on Linux with Heartbeat. The Heartbeat system has a number of factors that can be used to determine the weight for running a particular service on a given node. One is the connectivity to other systems determined by ping (every system that is pingable can add a value to the score), one is the number of failures (every failure deducts a value from the total score), one is the weight for staying on the same node (IE if the situation changes and the current node is not the ideal node you might not want to immediately move the service to a different node as that gives some seconds of no service), and one is the preference for each node that may run the service. For a given node to run a particular service then the score has to be greater than all other nodes and also greater than zero. If all nodes have a score that is zero or less then the service will not run. Now in the case of a service that repeatedly fails (EG a filesystem mount that relies on a hardware RAID which is not connected) then what should we do? One option is to have the score for running on a particular node be for example 100 times the value that is subtracted on failure. In this case after 100 failures on that node (and an appropriate number of failures on other nodes which are permitted to run the service) it will be disabled. Then the service has to be explicitly re-enabled (or a node rebooted) before it will run again. The other option would be to have the value that is subtracted on failure be less than a billionth of the score for running on a particular node, so that the service will keep trying to start for the next few hundred years. The up-side of this is that there is less fiddling required, the down-side is that some CPU and disk resources will be kept active in repeatedly starting the service. Now I have to decide which option to take in this regard, any comments would be appreciated.

Sam commented:

"Some excellent questions, I might say. The 10% profit target that you mention is probably the target for Return on Capital Employed (ROCE), which was set at 10% by the Co-op Commission. This number is not displayed on page 13 of the annual review, but I think it is calcuable from the information there."

I also noticed that Sam's excellent site has a report on the Central and Eastern AGM.

Kevin Mark commented:

"Hear hear! I was waiting to read about the Eurovision results! But I'm sure AJ and Martin want a let's take the fun out of Debian planet debian tech and I'm sure someone can make them a custom feed for the cost of a reasonable bounty!

Nice to know I'm not alone. (Why mention AJ?) Joachim Breitner wrote:

"I once tried to start a German planet Debian because the official only allows English postings. Maybe it would be nice to have some kind of tagging standard that works across aggregators. This way, we could allow any kind of posts on p.d.o, and allow various sets to chose from, based on tags. I, for example, would choose (german OR english), others might chose (english AND tech), or ((french OR english) AND debian). Some (NOT politics). And some just (jokes) :-)"

Why didn't German planet debian work? I think there's a sort-of standard in dc:subject and xml:lang, but we'd need to agree a tag dictionary. And I think planetplanet generates files, so we'd need some cached or database solution. Update: Joachim Breitner replied:

"To be correct, I tried setting up an international planet debian on gluck with no language restrictions, but interest was rather low and planet (the software) is not really maintenance-free, so I stopped after a while. A German planet was tried by someone around Christmas, I think, but AFAIR he lost interest while trying to make it look pretty. I guess I should follow up on that. :-) (PS: Can you make the comment form store the information in a cookie? Would save some typing.)"

Sorry, these pages are static html at the moment. You could try using Saved Forms in Iceweasel/Firefox, which may be configured at Edit: Preferences: Privacy: Saved Forms or similar.

Past weekend Warp had its first WARPtivity (which, as you may suspect, stands for WARP activity, you know, team building and that stuff). We (including all partners and almost all workers) spent a night and a day in the breathtaking Ordesa valley. I’m quite biased as I love the valley since I was a child and have enjoyed lots of weeks there, but it’s indeed one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever seen. Unfortunately our regional government (PSOE and PAR, kick them out on the 27th May election) are spoiling most of the Pyrenees, I hope there is something left for the next generations. We arrived at Torla (a little village near Ordesa) on Friday evening, had a great dinner and some drinks and played table football. Next morning we woke up quite early and hiked through a nice forest path to the Horse Tail waterfall. After having lunch by the waterfall some of us decided to return by the Faja de Pelay, a higher path above the forest, with awesome sights. As it was still early May, there was some snow remaining in the path, making it a bit dangerous, as there is a 300 hundred meter cliff. Luckily enough we managed to survive and blog it