This is the entire complaint that was received:
We are an IT security company from Spain. We have detected sensitive information belonging to Banesco Banco Universal, C.A. clientes. As authorized representative in the resolution of IT security incidents affecting Banesco Banco Universal, C.A., we demand the deletion of the content related to Banesco Banco Universal, C.A, clients. This content violates the law about electronic crime in Venezuela (see Ley Especial sobre Delitos Inform ticos de Venezuela , Chapter III, Articles 20 y 23).Note the complete lack of any information regarding what URLs, or even which site(s), they consider to be problematic. Nope, just delete all our stuff! and a wave of the against the law somewhere! stick.
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Here are the details of my Free activities in July 2015.
Carl Chenet s projects:
The airplane may be the closest thing we have to a time machine. Brian J. Terwilliger
There is something about that moment. Hiking in the mountains near Durango, Colorado, with Laura and the boys, we found a beautiful spot with a view of the valley. We paused to admire, and then
The sound of a steam locomotive whistle from down below, sounding loud all the way up there, then echoing back and forth through the valley. Then the quieter, seemingly more distant sound of the steam engine heading across the valley, chugging and clacking as it goes. More whistles, the sight of smoke and then of the train full of people, looking like a beautiful model train from our vantage point.
I ve heard that sound on a few rare recordings, but never experienced it. I ve been on steam trains a few times, but never spent time in a town where they still run all day, every day. It is a different sort of feeling to spend a week in a place where Jacob and Oliver would jump up several times a day and rush to the nearest window in an attempt to catch sight of the train.
Airplanes really can be a time machine in a sense what a wondrous time to be alive, when things so ancient are within the reach of so many. I have been transported to L beck and felt the uneven 700-year-old stones of the Marienkirche underneath my feet, feeling a connection to the people that walked those floors for centuries. I felt the same in Prague, in St. George s Basilica, built in 1142, and at the Acropolis of Lindos, with its ancient Greek temple ruins. In Kansas, I feel that when in the middle of the Flint Hills rolling green hills underneath the pure blue sky with billowing white clouds, the sounds of crickets, frogs, and cicadas in my ears; the sights and sounds are pretty much as they ve been for tens of thousands of years. And, of course, in Durango, arriving on a plane but seeing the steam train a few minutes later.
It was fitting that we were in Durango with Laura s parents to celebrate their 50th anniversary. As we looked forward to riding the train, we heard their stories of visits to Durango years ago, of their memories of days when steam trains were common. We enjoyed thinking about what our lives would be like should we live long enough to celebrate 50 years of marriage. Perhaps we would still be in good enough health to be able to ride a steam train in Durango, telling about that time when we rode the train, which by then will have been pretty much the same for 183 years. Or perhaps we would take them to our creek, enjoying a meal at the campfire like I ve done since I was a child.
Each time has its unique character. I am grateful for the cameras and airplanes and air conditioning we have today. But I am also thankful for those things that connect us with each other trough time, those rocks that are the same every year, those places that remind us how close we really are to those that came before.
It s Seafair weekend in Seattle. As always, the centerpiece is the H1 Unlimited hydroplane races on Lake Washington.
In my social circle, I m nearly the only person I know who grew up in area. None of the newcomers I know had heard of hydroplane racing before moving to Seattle. Even after I explain it to them i.e., boats with 3,000+ horse power airplane engines that fly just above the water at more than 320kph (200mph) leaving 10m+ (30ft) wakes behind them! most people seem more puzzled than interested.
I grew up near the shore of Lake Washington and could see (and hear!) the races from my house. I don t follow hydroplane racing throughout the year but I do enjoy watching the races at Seafair. Here s my attempt to explain and make the case for the races to new Seattleites.
Before Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks, etc., there were basically three major Seattle industries: (1) logging and lumber based industries like paper manufacturing; (2) maritime industries like fishing, shipbuilding, shipping, and the navy; (3) aerospace (i.e., Boeing). Vintage hydroplane racing represented the Seattle trifecta: Wooden boats with airplane engines!
The wooden U-60 Miss Thriftway circa 1955 (Thriftway is a Washinton-based supermarket that nobody outside has heard of) below is a picture of old-Seattle awesomeness. Modern hydroplanes are now made of fiberglass but two out of three isn t bad.
Although the boats are racing this year in events in Indiana, San Diego, and Detroit in addition to the two races in Washington, hydroplane racing retains deep ties to the region. Most of the drivers are from the Seattle area. Many or most of the teams and boats are based in Washington throughout the year. Many of the sponsors are unknown outside of the state. This parochialness itself cultivates a certain kind of appeal among locals.
In addition to old-Seattle/new-Seattle cultural divide, there s a class divide that I think is also worth challenging. Although the demographics of hydro-racing fans is surprisingly broad, it can seem like Formula One or NASCAR on the water. It seems safe to suggest that many of the demographic groups moving to Seattle for jobs in the tech industry are not big into motorsports. Although I m no follower of motorsports in general, I ve written before cultivated disinterest in professional sports, and it remains something that I believe is worth taking on.
It s not all great. In particular, the close relationship between Seafair and the military makes me very uneasy. That said, even with the military-heavy airshow, I enjoy the way that Seafair weekend provides a little pocket of old-Seattle that remains effectively unchanged from when I was a kid. I d encourage others to enjoy it as well!
It s Seafair weekend in Seattle. As always, the centerpiece is the H1 Unlimited hydroplane races on Lake Washington.
In my social circle, I m nearly the only person I know who grew up in area. None of the newcomers I know had heard of hydroplane racing before moving to Seattle. Even after I explain it to them i.e., boats with 3,000+ horse power airplane engines that fly just above the water at more than 320kph (200mph) leaving 10m+ (30ft) wakes behind them! most people seem more puzzled than interested.
I grew up near the shore of Lake Washington and could see (and hear!) the races from my house. I don t follow hydroplane racing throughout the year but I do enjoy watching the races at Seafair. Here s my attempt to explain and make the case for the races to new Seattleites.
Before Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks, etc., there were basically three major Seattle industries: (1) logging and lumber based industries like paper manufacturing; (2) maritime industries like fishing, shipbuilding, shipping, and the navy; (3) aerospace (i.e., Boeing). Vintage hydroplane racing represented the Seattle trifecta: Wooden boats with airplane engines!
The wooden U-60 Miss Thriftway circa 1955 (Thriftway is a Washinton-based supermarket that nobody outside has heard of) below is a picture of old-Seattle awesomeness. Modern hydroplanes are now made of fiberglass but two out of three isn t bad.
Although the boats are racing this year in events in Indiana, San Diego, and Detroit in addition to the two races in Washington, hydroplane racing retains deep ties to the region. Most of the drivers are from the Seattle area. Many or most of the teams and boats are based in Washington throughout the year. Many of the sponsors are unknown outside of the state. This parochialness itself cultivates a certain kind of appeal among locals.
In addition to old-Seattle/new-Seattle cultural divide, there s a class divide that I think is also worth challenging. Although the demographics of hydro-racing fans is surprisingly broad, it can seem like Formula One or NASCAR on the water. It seems safe to suggest that many of the demographic groups moving to Seattle for jobs in the tech industry are not big into motorsports. Although I m no follower of motorsports in general, I ve written before cultivated disinterest in professional sports, and it remains something that I believe is worth taking on.
It s not all great. In particular, the close relationship between Seafair and the military makes me very uneasy. That said, even with the military-heavy airshow, I enjoy the way that Seafair weekend provides a little pocket of old-Seattle that remains effectively unchanged from when I was a kid. I d encourage others to enjoy it as well!
You might have seen some of
the posts
I've written in the last few months about adding support in Debian
for so-called Mixed-EFI systems like the Intel Bay Trail: a 64-bit
processor shipped with a 32-bit EFI implementation.
I've finally seen a public justification
from Intel
evangelist Brian Richardson as to why these systems are
crippled^Wconfigured this way, and it's nice to see our guesses
confirmed. The reason is simply cost - like most consumer PCs shipped
today, they come with Windows. In terms of system design, it's cheaper
to just include the limited memory and storage needed for 32-bit
Windows. 64-bit Windows takes a lot more storage in particular. And on
modern systems 32-bit Windows can only boot using 32-bit UEFI. Fair
enough...
However, Brian goes on to state some more things that are simply
out of date, saying that "Linux support for UEFI IA32 is
still an unanswered question". Ummm, Brian: we've got working 32-bit
x86 UEFI support in our standard Jessie (and newer) installation
images already, and they work just fine on CD/DVD or USB stick. We've
even gone one stage further than anybody else (thus far!) in adding
easy support for running a full 64-bit Linux system on top of those
32-bit UEFI implementations.
I say "thus far" here because all the work here here is Free
Software. Other folks added the support in Linux for making a 64-bit
kernel work with a 32-bit UEFI; I added code in Linux to expose some
of the details to userspace, and code in Grub to work with it. My
changes have gone upstream already, so I'd expect to see other distros
like Fedora or Ubuntu also using them soon.
There can be issues with shipping installer images
including UEFI. But they're mainly due to crappy UEFI implementations
that vendors have shipped. It's fairly well-known that Apple have
shipped some really shoddy firmware over the years, and to allow
people to install Debian on older Apple x86 machines we've now added
the workaround of a non-UEFI 32-bit installer image too. But Apple
aren't the only folks shipping systems with horrendously buggy UEFI,
and a lot of Linux folks have had to deal with this over the last few
years.
I've been talking to a number of other UEFI developers lately, and
we've agreed to start a cross-distro resource to help here - a list of
known-broken UEFI implementations so that we can share our
experiences. The place for this in in the OSDev wiki
at http://wiki.osdev.org/Broken_UEFI_implementations. We're
going to be adding new information here as we find it. If you've got a
particular UEFI horror story on your own broken system, then please
either add details there or let me know and I'll try to do it for
you.
We've just started a new team in Debian for maintaining our UEFI
packages together, with git repositories in a shared project on alioth
etc. We're just working out the exact details of how we're going to
manage things, but for now we've moved the following packages under
the team's umbrella:
I have just released version 1.13 of Obnam, my backup program. See the
website at http://obnam.org for details on what it does. The new
version is available from git (see http://git.liw.fi) and as Debian
packages from http://code.liw.fi/debian, and uploaded to Debian,
and soon in unstable.
The NEWS file extract below gives the highlights of what's new in this
version.
Version 1.13, released 2015-08-01
Bug fixes:
obnam forget was interrupted at the wrong moment, it might remove
a chunk, but not the reference to it. This would case a future run
of obnam forget to crash due to a missing chunk (error code
R43272X). obnam forget will now ignore such a missing chunk, since
it would've deleted it anyway.
Lars Wirzenius then changed things so that chunk files are only
removed once references to the chunks have been committed.obnam forget now commits changes after each generation it has
removed. This means that if the operation is committed, less work is
lost. Suggested by Luk Pol ek, re-implemented by Lars Wirzenius.| Series: | Katya and Starbride #1 |
| Publisher: | Bold Strokes |
| Copyright: | September 2012 |
| ISBN: | 1-60282-792-3 |
| Format: | Kindle |
| Pages: | 264 |
VLANd is a python program intended to make it easy to manage
port-based VLAN setups across multiple switches in a network. It is
designed to be vendor-agnostic, with a clean pluggable driver API to
allow for a wide range of different switches to be controlled
together.
There's more information in
the README
file. I've just released v0.3, with a lot of changes included since
the last release:
My monthly report covers a large part of what I have been doing in the free software world. I write it for my donators (thanks to them!) but also for the wider Debian community because it can give ideas to newcomers and it s one of the best ways to find volunteers to work with me on projects that matter to me.
Debian LTS
This month I have been paid to work 15 hours on Debian LTS. In that time I did the following:
Kali Linux wants to experiment something close to Debian Constantly Usable Testing: we have a kali-rolling release that is based on Debian Testing and we want to take a new snapshot every 4 months (in order to have 3 releases per year).
More specifically we have a kali-dev repository which is exactly Debian Stretch + our own Kali packages (the kali package take precedence) updated 4 times a day, just like testing is. And we have a britney2 setup that generates kali-rolling out of kali-dev (without any requirement in terms of delay/RC bugs, it just ensures that dependencies are not broken), also 4 times a day.
We have jenkins job that ensures that our metapackages are installable in kali-dev (and kali-rolling) and that we can build our ISO images. When things break, I have to fix them and I try to fix them on the Debian side first. So here are some examples of stuff I did in response to various failures:
how-can-i-help -s testing-autorm --old I just submitted #794238 as a wishlist against how-can-i-help.
At the same time, there are bugs that make it into testing and that I fix / work around on the Kali side. But those fixes / work around might be more useful if they were pushed to testing via testing-proposed-updates. I tried to see whether other derivatives had similar needs to see if derivatives could join their efforts at this level but it does not look like so for now.
Last but not least, bugs reported on the Kali side also resulted in Debian improvements:
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The DUCK challenge is making a quite stable progress: in the last 4 weeks there were approximately 12.25 packages fixed and uploaded per week.
In the current week the following packages were fixed and uploaded into unstable:
| Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # Packages | 10 | 15 | 10 | 14 | - | - | - |
| Total | 10 | 25 | 35 | 49 | - | - | - |
DebConf15 Schedule
The DebConf content team is pleased to announce the schedule of
DebConf15, the forthcoming Debian Developers Conference. From a total of
nearly 100 talk submissions, the team selected 75 talks. Due to the high
number of submissions, several talks had to be shortened to 20 minute
slots, of which a total of 30 talks have made it to the schedule.
In addition, around 50 meetings and discussions (BoFs) have been
submitted so far, as well as several other events like lightning talk
sessions, live demos, a movie screening, a poetry night or stand-up
comedy.
The Schedule is available
online at the DebConf15 conference site.
Further changes to the schedule can and will be made, but today s
announcement represents the first stable version.
Featured Speakers
In addition to the previously
announced invited speakers, the content team also announces the following
list of additional featured speakers:
So we're in Finland, and the differences start out immediately.
We're renting a flat, in building ten, on a street. You'd think "10
Streetname" was a single building, but no. It is a pair of buildings: 10A, and 10B.
Both of the buildings have 12 flats in them, with 10A having 1-12, and 10B having 13-24.
There's a keypad at the main entrance, which I assumed was to let you press a button and talk to the people inside "Hello I'm the postmaster", but no. There is no intercom system, instead you type in a magic number and the door opens.
The magic number? Sounds like you want to keep that secret, since it lets people into the common-area? No. Everybody has it. The postman, the cleaners, the DHL delivery man, and all the ex-tenants. We invited somebody over recently and gave it out in advance so that they could knock on our flat-door.
Talking of cleaners: In the UK I lived in a flat and once a fortnight somebody would come and sweep the stair-well, since we didn't ever agree to do it ourselves. Here somebody turns up every day, be it to cut the grass, polish the hand-rail, clean the glass on the front-door, or mop the floors of the common area. Sounds awesome. But they cut the grass, right outside our window, at 7:30AM. On the dot. (Or use a leaf-blower, or something equally noisy.)
All this communal-care is paid for by the building-association, of which all flat-owners own shares. Sounds like something we see in England, or even like Americas idea of a Home-Owners-Association. (In Scotland you own your own flat, you don't own shares of an entity which owns the complete building. I guess there are pros and cons to both approaches.)
Moving onwards other things are often the same, but the differences when you spot them are odd. I'm struggling to think of them right now, somebody woke me up by cutting our grass for the second time this week (!)
Anyway I'm registered now with the Finnish government, and have a citizen-number, which will be useful, I've got an appointment booked to register with the police - which is something I had to do as a foreigner within the first three months - and today I've got an appointment with a local bank so that I can have a euro-bank-account.
Happily I did find a gym to join, the owner came over one Sunday to
give me a tiny-tour, and then gave me a list of other gyms to try if
his wasn't good enough - which was a nice touch - I joined a couple of
days later, his gym is awesome.
(I'm getting paid in UK-pounds, to a UK-bank, so right now I'm getting local money by transferring to my wifes account here, but I want to do that to my own, and open a shared account for paying for rent, electricity, internet, water, & etc).
My flat back home is still not rented, because the nice property management company lost my keys. Yeah you can't make that up can you? With a bit of luck the second set of keys I mailed them will arrive soon and the damn thing can be occupied, while I'm not relying on that income I do wish to have it.
My previous blog posts about deterministic Doom proved very popular.
The reason I was messing around with Doom's RNG was I was studying how early
versions of Doom performed random pitch-shifting of sound effects, a feature
that was removed early on in Doom's
history. By fixing the
random number table and replacing the game's sound effects with a
sine wave, one second long and tuned to middle-c, I was able to determine
the upper and lower bounds of the pitch shift.
Once I knew that, I was able to write some patches to re-implement pitch
shifting in Chocolate Doom,
which I'm pleased to say have been accepted. The patches have also made their
way into the related projects Crispy Doom
and Doom Retro.
I'm pleased with the final result. It's the most significant bit of C code I've
ever released publically, as well as my biggest Doom hack and the first time
I've ever done any audio manipulation in code. There was a load of other notes
and bits of code that I produced in the process. I've put them together on a
page here: More than you ever wanted to know about
pitch-shifting.
Long long time ago I wanted to have Sigil, an epub editor, to appear in Debian. There was a packaging wishlist bug from back in 2010 with intermittent activities. But thanks to concerted effort, especially by Mattia Rizzolo and Don Armstrong, packaging progressed to a state that I could sponsor the upload to experimental about 4 months ago. And yesterday, after long waiting, finally Sigil passed the watchful eyes of the Debian ftp-masters and has entered Debian/experimental.
I have already updated the packaging for the latest version 0.8.7, which will be included in Debian/sid rather soon. Thanks again especially Mattia for his great work.
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