Search Results: "Romain Beauxis"

12 January 2011

Romain Beauxis: Le roi est nu !

I am deeply thankful for the good work done by translators all over the world.. Sometimes, however, I also have a good laugh. This one, in particular:
ATTENTION ! Votre mot de passe pour de royaume d'authentification : <https://savonet.svn.sourceforge.net:443> SourceForge Subversion area ne peut tre sauvegard qu'en clair !

23 November 2010

Romain Beauxis: Smarter Bots..

So, it's not yet a successful Turing Test but here is what I received today through the chat of a famous social network:
Alice: hey bob, got a second??
Bob: yes!
Alice: alright cool, I want you to try something real quick
Bob : ok
Bob : :)
At this point, I had zero suspicion about who was really talking to me..
Alice: alright bob, try this test and show me what you get.. i can't get over like a 105, its pathetic http://stupid-iq-test.com
Yes, looking at the stupid IQ test and knowing some facts about the person asking me to do it, I became suspicious, so I tried a first question:
Bob : what do I get from that ? :)
Alice: lemme know what ya get plz, so far everyone beat me, except for Clarence LOL be carfeful some of the questions are hard ;-)
Not too bad of an answer! Also, Clarence is one of our common friends and knowing Clarence, he could indeed have challenged Alice. But I was still suspicious so I tried a last question:
Bob: how much did you get ?
Alice disconnected
Talking in real life, it appears that it was indeed a bot... I'm quite impressed, though. I wonder now the extend of work they have put in it to make it sound real to me...

5 October 2010

Romain Beauxis: Spam..

I totally understand that sf.net's economical stability may require ads in their services. However, I do not really like to see this added to my emails:
Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today.

28 September 2010

Romain Beauxis: Liquidsoap at ON2: Test signals, October, 22-23 2010 in Berlin

It is my pleasure to announce that the Savonet Team [1] will be presenting Liquidsoap [2] at the ON2: Test signals festival [3], taking place on Friday, Oct. 22 and Saturday, Oct. 23 in Berlin, Germany. We will be holding a workshop session on Friday, during which we will explain how to use Liquidsoap in many details, and a more general talk about Liquidsoap the next Saturday. We are also expecting to prepare and release a second beta for the occasion, which we are planning to use during the event. Any interested user or contributor to Liquidoap that is available is warmly invited to join and meet with us! The festival is free but requires to signup (see above link).

11 September 2010

Romain Beauxis: Liquidsoap 1.0 beta1 and 0.9.3 released!

We have finally released two new versions of Liquidsoap [1]! This is a very good news for the project because the 1.0 branch contains huge and exciting improvements in particular video support, dynamic source creation/destruction and support for different clocks/time flow. 1.0 beta is also the first release that runs natively on windows, when compiled using the ocaml cross-compiler [2]. 1.0 is still some time away but the beta is now considered solid enough to be considered for production. That's also where bugfixing will happen now. 0.9.3 is a bugfix release for 0.9.2 and will be the last 0.9.x release. The release also includes a bunch of new binding releases, namely:
  • ocaml-alsa: added resume and recover function, reworked exception handling
  • ocaml-cry: removed an extra crlf sent when using icecast source protocol
  • ocaml-dtools: added support for syslog
  • ocaml-duppy: minor win32 fixes..
  • ocaml-gavl: fixed Gc issue.
  • ocaml-mad: win32-related fixes.
  • ocaml-ogg: stricter parsing of ogg streams
  • ocaml-theora: support for theora 1.1 API
The custom debian packages have been updated for 0.9.3. For the beta, you can try the SVN daily package [3] Official Debian packages should come, but through experimental while squeeze is frozen.. The release notes and changelog can be read in the announcement mail [4]. Yeah!

[1] http://savonet.sf.net/ [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Feat... [3] the automatic build needs to be fixed, the cron script does not work now for some reasons although it is perfectly fine manually.. [4] https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive...

11 August 2010

Romain Beauxis: Mingw32-ocaml 3.12.0

An updated version of the ocaml cross-compiler package, based on ocaml 3.12.0, has just been uploaded to Debian experimental ! Any report and test on the package would be very welcome ! I have personally tested it with Liquidsoap and built a win32 version of the software. Since this build implies many external modules as well as C objects, I am pretty confident in the cross-compiler uploaded to experimental.. About the cross-compiler: the ocaml cross-compiler is the result of the hard work done by Richard Jones for Fedora. The Debian package is merely a backport (and adaptation to ocaml 3.12.0) of his patches. If you care about the future of the cross-compiler, the best you can do is work with upstream to find how to push the needed changes there in order to have a plain support for it. I have personally no time for starting this process but I could try to describe the patches to an intereste contributor. Warning: some are REALLY hacky :-)

4 August 2010

Romain Beauxis: Pkg-mediawiki..

..recently got two new contributors, Jonathan Wiltshire and Thorsten Glaser. I forgot to blog about this but I am very happy to see the mediawiki packages getting more love, considering that I have much less time for them these days... Good work guys!

Romain Beauxis: Gotcha!

Thanks Daniel, I just got the world's most powerful wireless network card. It works and connects great including with aircrack-ng and co.. !

Romain Beauxis: SPIP 2.1.1

...was just released and uploaded to Debian unstable!

16 July 2010

Romain Beauxis: What's this thing with CDBS ?

What's this thing with CDBS that makes people so angry at it ? I can understand that one may not like that it is a bunch of makefiles, but, hell, the whole makefile system is obscured all the way, so I guess those people NEVER write (complex) makefile.. :-) More seriously, I have used CDBS for years, I've always been very happy with it. I understand that some people prefer other solutions, but it does not mean that there should be a war between this or that. Those are simply personal options/opinions et c'est tout !

21 June 2010

Romain Beauxis: I have a dream...

I have a dream that one day, serious programming language theoriticians, which would gather and realize that LaTeX has done a great job but is basically just a pile of rewriting rules built on top of postscript. I have a dream that one day, one would get the fundings and rewrite from scratch a new language. A language with a clear syntax for describing the beautification constraints. A language which would also be flexible enough to be able to override those constraints. A language that would allow to write mathematic formula, macros and other tools without arcane tricks and hacks to obtain the required rending.... And much more...

10 May 2010

Romain Beauxis: Ubuntu, the firm and its employees

This post is not meant to be offensive in any way. I would just like to write down things that came to my mind recently. It all started when I was considering applying for the right to upload the package I maintain into Ubuntu. Looking at the procedure, I realized that this needs to be present during an IRC meeting at a given date online. This stopped me immediately. I am working most of my day-time and, given the time zone I am living now, this was not an option. But, since I had registered to the corresponding mailing list, I started receiving mails of other applicants that where trying to arrange things with their work and private life to be able to participate. Now, today, I stumbled upon these notes of Mark's presentation in Bruxelles, relayed by a friend that is not either working for Ubuntu. Reading it gave me a strong taste of management-oriented presentation, with all this sort of "yeah we want our product in every box next year" propaganda. Not like Steve Ballmer, fortunately, but not far perhaps. So, yeah, there is something that makes me uncomfortable with Ubuntu. I am really happy by its success and I will continue to recommend it to friends around me. However, I wonder if, in a way, Ubuntu is not a model of commercial company where a minimal core of developers are actually payed, while a second layer of developers are fan-boys that are willing to participate as if there were employees but without being actually payed, and a third layer being the open-source developers whose work is actually what makes 90% of the core of the OS. A very good illustration is at the end of the note from Mark's presentation. It reads:
Somebody asks about advertising Ubuntu, looks like there are no plans for the moment to actually advertise Ubuntu across traditional media. Mark uses the Ubuntu Manual as an example of how Ubuntu gets advertised and will reach the mainstream, Mark points out myself and the room applauds the Ubuntu Manual Project! Woohoo!
Now, guess what:
About Us We are a group of individuals trying to promote the use of Ubuntu and its variants. This is a private web site that is not connected in any official or financial way with Ubuntu, Canonical PL or Ubuntu.com. Official Ubuntu guides and downloads are freely available at www.ubuntu.com. Ubuntu is a registered trademark of Canonical PL
Source: http://ubuntumanual.org/about-us

2 May 2010

Romain Beauxis: SPIP is cool

I have been playing around with SPIP for some time today. I am really happy with the software and its current packaging ! I have packaged this application because I believed it was missing among the possible powerful CMS for Debian. I hope this will be a good package for squeeze !

7 April 2010

Romain Beauxis: [Security] Mediawiki 1.15.3

The Wikimedia fundation has just released a new security update for mediawiki. Unfortunately, I will have no time to prepare updated packages before next week. Hence, any interested contributor is welcome to propose/upload a fixed package. Additionally, there is a patch available. You may use it to update your installation while the package is being prepared..

3 April 2010

Romain Beauxis: On mail servers and google spam filter..

The worst April's fool ever, on which I will not comment here, has forced me to quickly move the services on my previous machine. Among them was the email services, which I fear the most. Configuring again a postfix server, I realize again how arcane its configuration is. Email is probably, with nttp and unix, one of the oldest paradigm in modern computing, and you feel it. I understand that email used to be intrinsicly linked with unix account. But, come on, those were the days where you would login to a mainframe, way before personal computers. So, why do you need to know about all sort of server-wide files, like /etc/aliasee and /etc/mailname ? Why do you need to have to tweak the server-wide accounts and login system to create new mailboxes ? In 99% of the situations now, email accounts do not corresponds to anything on the server, so why keeping all sort of arcane stuff that make the configuration of a mail server so delicate ? On a side note, I would like to share 3 questions. First is this idea of using gmail as a spam filter service. You register your address, say joe@doe.com with your joe.doe@gmail.com and you tell your mail server to redirect all the mail to joe@doe.com to joe.doe@gmail.com. Then in gmail's interface, you ask gmail to redirect all mails to joe@mail.doe.com. Eventually, the mail at mail.joe.com is delivered to the local inbox. This allows to use gmail as a spam filter loop. However, I have no idea if this is something already known and if gmail administrators will like it. Lazy web, what do you think ? Second is the following parameters for postfix: reject_non_fqdn_recipient and reject_unknown_reverse_client_hostname. I wonder if I may loose some mail using them.. Any idea ? Third is that I wanted to configure the old server to relay anything on the new, and filter there. But, as much fuzz there is about open relay, I was not able to configure my postfix as an open relay.. Any idea on how to do it ?

16 March 2010

Romain Beauxis: Wlan repeater

Just a quick note about something I have been looking for long... Say you have an access to a wireless network but the signal is bad so you'd like to relay it through another wifi network.. In this case, you may be interested into getting this cheap piece of hardware [1] (a used one on craigslist for instance) and look at this page.. Straight and clear :-)

[1] I got version 4.0, not all are enabled for this purpose..

15 March 2010

Romain Beauxis: Security update: Mediawiki 1.15.2-1

I have just uploaded a new vesion of the mediawiki package, namely 1.15.2-1. This version fixes two security issues. One of which is present in all versions of mediawiki and the other one since 1.5.
A CSS validation issue was discovered which allows editors to display external images in wiki pages. This is a privacy concern on public wikis, since a malicious user may link to an image on a server they control, which would allow that attacker to gather IP addresses and other information from users of the public wiki. All sites running publicly-editable MediaWiki installations are advised to upgrade. All versions of MediaWiki (prior to this one) are affected. A data leakage vulnerability was discovered in thumb.php which affects wikis which restrict access to private files using img_auth.php, or some similar scheme. All versions of MediaWiki since 1.5 are affected.
This package should make it to testing quite soon (priority is high). I have also uploaded a similar package in backports.org I have also prepared a security update for the stable package, based on the diff from the 1.15.2 release. Before it is uploaded, you can find it there. Please, report any issue with this package. Of course, I recommend that any user of mediawiki upgrade to one of these package as soon as possible... :-)

8 March 2010

Romain Beauxis: Liquidsoap-full 0.9.2-2 and ocaml-cry 0.1.2

An issue with the new ocaml-cry module that replaces the shout library has been recently discovered. This issue was related to the data sent to the icecast server and could result in a higher load and loss of data when sending data to the server. We have released a new version of ocaml-cry that fixes this issue, numbered 0.1.2. We have also released a new liquidsoap-full tarball, numbered 0.9.2-2 and now available in the download section on sourceforge.net. Additionally, our custom stable packages have been rebuild against this new version, both for the i386 and the amd64 architecture. The package available in Debian sid/unstable is now built against the fixed ocaml-cry as well. We recommend that any user that uses liquidsoap 0.9.2 updates its liquidsoap to make sure it uses ocaml-cry 0.1.2. Please note that ocaml modules are not dynamically loaded, so you need to rebuild liquidsoap against the new ocaml-cry if you are building from source.

5 March 2010

Romain Beauxis: Peercast in Debian ?

Peercast is a streaming server developed in order to share the bandwidth for streaming, using a peer-to-peer paradigm. It was one of my first package and I have always been very enthusiastic about it. Later on, I also packaged geekast, an interface for peercast made by Fr d ric Logier. However, the upstream developer of peercast has always been very busy with his other projects and the last version, 0.1218 was released in december 2007, which is quite a long time. I am not sure about the future of peercast in Debian and in particular the next stable release. I do not use the software anymore, but it seems to have some users at least. Also, I do not know any available alternative... As for now, I am about to drop this package and possibly ask for its removal from testing, as well as geekast. However, I would like to know if there might be some user/maintainer interested by it before I do this move.. So if you care about peercast or geekast and would like to take it over, please let me know !!

11 February 2010

Romain Beauxis: OCaml cross compiler for win32 in Debian !

Thanks to the great work from Richard Jones on building a OCaml cross-compiler for windows, we now have a similar package in Debian ! The package is called mingw32-ocaml and has just been accepted yesterday. We have already used it to build a win32 version of liquidsoap. I hope that this cross-compiler will be useful to OCaml developers, in particular in porting their application to the world of windows and fences, in order to spread the word about how great OCaml is :-)

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