Welcome to this 4th issue of the DeFuBu contest, the monthly championship of the funniest bug reported to the Debian BTS. The challengers

• Pierre Habouzit with #316531 (apt-listchanges: closes regex too strict), #390794 (apache2-mpm-prefork: /usr/sbin/apache2 not executable) and #393149 (uae: cannot open display)
• kolter with #390263 (uswsusp: "Linux" not capitalized in package description)
• Julien Louis with #31581 (project: Time between releases is too long) and #393083 (Hijacked website)''
• David Pashley with #393511 (irssi should notice when you are typing something in the wrong channel)

How the vote has been done Four Debian related people voted for these bugs, Philipp Kern, Florent Bayle, Cyril Brulebois and Gregory Colpart.
Mohammed Adn ne Trojette should vote quicker next time. Full ranking Bugs

• #393511 (irssi should notice when you are typing something in the wrong channel) (21 points)
• #393083 (Hijacked website)'' (19 points)
• #31581 (project: Time between releases is too long) (13 points)
• #390794 (apache2-mpm-prefork: /usr/sbin/apache2 not executable) (13 points)
• #316531 (apt-listchanges: closes regex too strict) (9 points)
• #390263 (uswsusp: "Linux" not capitalized in package description) (5 points)
• #393149 (uae: cannot open display) (4 points)

Challengers

• Julien Louis (32 points with 2 bugs)
• Pierre Habouzit (26 points with 3 bugs)
• David Pashley (21 points with 1 bug)
• kolter (5 points with 1 bug)

The winners

• Bug: #393511 (irssi should notice when you are typing something in the wrong channel) (21 points)
• Challenger: Julien Louis
• Bug reporter: Jason Spiro
• Voter: Florent Bayle with the nearest non-ordered quart : #393083, #393511, #390794, #31581

Notes To participate, simply drop me an email with a bug number. About DeFuBu

Last week’s AUTOSTART festival of digital literature was awesome—really interesting people, a fascinating discussion, a great reading, and, of course, Princess Fufu. If you missed it (which I imagine most of you did) then you can find out more by checking out the festival webpage, Mary’s write-up, and Jason’s photos.

... from the debian-user-list: From: Jason Martens <xxx@xxx.xx>
To: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Debian Love
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:08:23 -0500

It seems that morale is a bit low among the developers right now, so I thought it might be nice for all of us users to remind them why Debian is such an awesome project. I love Debian. I love how the system works. I love the quality of the packages. I love that it lets me do what I want to do, and does not try to dictate how to do things.

To all of you Debian developers, thank you. I really appreciate the work you do. Keep it up! The other mails in the thread are nice to read, too :)

I'd like to thank Jason Martens and all the posters to this thread on debian-user. Hit the spot for me.

Thanks to the help of Jason of Vermont, my blog has a new look. Not sure who actually goes to original blog pages anymore, given RSS, but at least it saves me some pain and angst when I visit my own site.

Well, two days ago Jason Norwood-Young published in Tectonic the worst article about Ubuntu, Debian and the Ubuntu latest release Dapper Drake until now. I would like to point out where he's wrong here, just to clarify for Debian users my view on the subject.<br /><br />Source: http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1026<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;" class="viewbody">"I can only guess where Ubuntu went wrong. The first mistake, I think, was its desire to be a bleeding edge distribution, rather than a leading edge distro. Basing itself on Etch, Debian's unstable release, could be a problem. When the early versions of Ubuntu used the then-unstable Sarge as their foundations, it wasn't a risk -- Sarge was on the cusp of being released. Etch, on the other hand, is brand-new, and far from getting a thumbs-up as a stable distribution."</span><br /><br />The truth is that Ubuntu Dapper Drake was never based on Debian testing that we will be our next release, that we already call Etch. Ubuntu spend some time importing packages from Debian Unstable (that we always call sid too) and merging them with the changes they had and applying new changes, adding more packages software and all that. For more information about Debian release cycle, check our <a href="http://www.us.debian.org/releases/">Debian release page</a>.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;" class="viewbody">"I also wonder who is doing the up-stream support. Shuttleworth poached the best-of-the-best Debian developers for Ubuntu. So who's working on Debian? The hald bug has been identified as an up-stream problem -- a Debian problem in other words. Perhaps Debian doesn't have the man-power to run around fixing Ubuntu bugs. "<br /><br /></span>Mr. Jason failed miserably here. Considering that he's right and Mark hired the best-of-the-best Debian developers for Ubuntu, the hald bug that is a software <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fhal">from freedesktop</a> and not Debian, should be solved by the best-of-the-best, no? Perhaps Ubuntu doesn't have the man-power to run around fixing every freedesktop bug.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;" class="viewbody">"Finally, there's the problem of prioritising. Ubuntu, at its heart, is a community project. Many of the developers are not Canonical employees and don't get paid to work on Ubuntu -- they do it because the want to."<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span><span class="viewbody">Great, Ubuntu at its heart, is a community project and what Debian is?<br /><br />I think the guy isn't a troll, but he should be more polite with both projects, after all he likes the previous Ubuntu release without considering that we (Debian) had some input there. In other words if it works it's Ubuntu, if it breaks is it upstream's fault? He can't recognize that Ubuntu upstream isn't always Debian.<br /><br />Meanwhile:<br /></span> <span class="body"><b>"Comment added</b></span><br /><span class="body">Thank you for your contribution <b>Gustavo Franco</b>. <br />Your comments will be posted on the site as soon as they have been moderated by the editors."<br /><br />We will see which kind of moderation i'll receive there.<br /></span>

I'm at the Wikimania hacking days today. We drove down from wt:Montreal through wt:Vermont and wt:New Hampshire on Monday, stopping overnight in the beautiful town of wt:Lincoln (New Hampshire) in the White Mountains. Amita June had a crappy ride on Monday -- she was unhappy and uncomfortable and let us know it at every possible opportunity. We stopped in wt:Saint Johnsbury, VT for dinner, and she got some time to walk around and play, but beside that she was crabby. Tuesday morning was much better -- she had a big bagel from the Comfort Inn's breakfast buffet, and her Sleepy Bear teddy bear, and she was happy. Sleepy Bear is winning the war for hearts and minds in our house -- it's the bear that she's starting to sleep with more and more, and she makes a happy squeal when she sees it. This could be good or bad news. Anyways, we made it down to wt:Cambridge (Massachusetts) aaaalmost in time for the beginning of Hacking Days. HD is the technical pre-conference for the more sociological and content-oriented Wikimania. I thought it was going to be mostly MW committers and Wikimedia sysadmins, but it's turned out to be huge. I think there are about 40-50 people here -- a just gigantic group. Anyways, I was sitting in the One Laptop Per Child office meeting room with about 30 hackers yesterday morning. I was about 20 minutes late, but I managed to find a seat anyways. Everyone was giving introductions, and up stand David Recordon, Jonathan Daugherty, and David Strauss, all of whom say they're there to help me with the OpenID MediaWiki extension. As everyone's talking, I realize wp:Ward Cunningham is sitting right in front of me. The guy sitting next to me stands up to introduce himself, and says, "I'm Dan Bricklin, who many of you may know as the inventor of the spreadsheet..." Jeez. Anyways, the talk has been fast and furious. Yesterday was a long discussion about the state of Wikimedia servers, the upshot of which, for me, was: Holy Shit, Wikimedia is a big project. I managed to talk to a ton of people, including Travis Derouin of wikiHow, Jason from Wikia, all the OpenID folks, etc. etc. Jonathan Daugherty and I actually got some hacking done, which was great. tags: wikimedia wikimania wiki ward cunningham dan bricklin wikipedia hacking days

The future of MediaWiki This morning Brion Vibber and Tim Starling gave a discussion about the future of MediaWiki. The story? More cool features, I think. The OpenID will be part of it; incorporating a WYSIWYG editor like WikiWyg or FCKEditor into the software. Also, more [[wp:AJAX]-y features, which are coming up through the codebase right now. I think in a large way MW's future is going to be outside of Wikipedia proper. Some of the cooler developments using the MW as a platform include WiktionaryZ and Semantic MediaWiki, both of which provide a structured data substrate to wiki pages. They're not compatible, which I think is something that needs to happen at some point in the future, but they're very promising for future projects. Another big class of projects is bots -- like PyWikipediabot or some of the "vandal fighting" bots and interfaces, e.g. Tawkerbot. I think that MediaWiki is drifting from being a monolithic browser app more into a Web-based service, which will be really productive from a content-production and -maintenance point of view, but which is extremely challenging from the social point of view. Finally, I think the great explosion in the world of customized MW extensions and skins is meaning a real marketplace for expanding the software is happening. I think this is pretty fabu, also. Some people have been discussing formalizing this ecology into a CPAN or JabberStudio-style site for hosting and organizing MW extensions. We'll see what happens with that, but if it comes around, I hope that it's named $wgForge. Maj and Amita June are running around Boston today... very slowly and carefully. They've got a brutal heat wave on here, and people are fainting and collapsing like wilting flowers. I think they're going to go places that have air conditioning, like museums and so forth. tags: mediawiki future $wgForge boston heat wave bots wysiwyg

I only sent a [VAC] message on Sunday asking people whether they'd be interested to meet in Melbourne this week. To my great surprise and delight, this resulted in a nice Japanese dinner at Ginza with Russell Coker, Hamish Moffat, Anibal Monsalve Salazar and Jason (sorry, no full name) followed by a drink in a pub in the city. (The drink was actually free as in beer due to Russell organising some vouchers - very good! ;-) )
We had interesting conversations about various topics including Debconf6 which Anibal had attended and it was really good to meet some other Debian developers. Hamish stayed a bit longer and we had a good conversation about packaging, Ubuntu and the general direction of Debian.
In summary a very nice evening - thanks guys! ;-)

I'm just starting a GTK+ build, I may be some time...

Build #2006-05-11-0002 - gtk+ log
checkout - 2006-05-11 08:37:58
...
Succeeded - 2006-05-11 11:00:22

NP: Goodbyte, Ben & Jason

Heute stattete ich der Sneak-Preview der Schauburg einen Besuch ab. Gezeigt wurde der Film “Terkel i Knibe” aus D nemark, in deutscher Synchronisation. Da wohl die wenigsten von dem Film geh rt haben (und das wohl auch so bleiben wird), dazu etwas ausf hrlicher.Terkel i Knibe ist ein Animationsfilm, der in etwa wie eine 3D-gerenderte Version von Southpark anmutet. Erz hlt wird die Geschichte des 9-j hrigen Terkel und seinen Problemen in der Schule, vor allem mit Mobbing. Um dem Mobbing zu entkommen, beginnt er selbst zu Mobben, was eine in ihn verliebte Mitsch lerin in einen u erst spritzigen Selbstmord treibt und seine Freundschaft zu Jason gef hrdet. Das Ganze spitzt sich dann auf dem Zeltlager, von einem furchtbar beliebten ko-Lehrer organisiert, dramatisch zu...Einiges hat mich gest rt. So waren mir die animierten Gesichter zu steif und die M uler zu breit, so dass viel Mimik verloren ging, und die Muskeinlagen h tte man sich sparen k nnen - obwohl sie immerhin eher im Stile von “Charlie und die Schokoladenfabrik” als dem grausamen der Disney-Kinderfilme gehalten sind. Ich mag halt kein Rap, und das war es meist.Die meisten Meinungen im Foyer des Kinos schienen in Richtung “Rausgeschmissenes Geld” zu gehen. Ich selbst fand den Film eigentlich recht gelungen: Er stellt die Wirkung von Mobbing auf Kinder zwar bertriebern, aber doch glaubw rdig da. Auch die d nische Skrupellosigkeit, wie man sie aus “In China essen sie Hunde” kennet, was Gewalt und Sprache angeht, passte gut ins Bild. Da lernt man sogar nach 13 Jahren deutschem Schulalltag noch neue Beleidungen, und bisweilen machte die graphische Darstellung den “Happy Tree Friends” konkurrenz. berhaupt war der Film bisweilen so bizzar, dass kein l stiger moralischer Unterton aufkommt, ohne jedoch die Aussage zu verraten.Fazit: Wer die Gelegenheit einmal haben sollte: Warum nicht, macht euch ein Bild. Zum Lachen werdet ihr kommen! Nur allen wird es sicherlich nicht gefallen.

And thus the entrapment's completed,
With the motion so newly anointed.
Wichert, Jason, and Guy? 
   They're deleted!
Steve, Andy and I? 
   We're appointed!

Inspired by Mr Srivastava:

<Manoj> congrats vorlon, aba, aj (*snigger suckers *snigger)

And thus the entrapment's completed,
With the motion so newly anointed.
Wichert, Jason, and Guy? 
   They're deleted!
Steve, Andy and I? 
   We're appointed!

Inspired by Mr Srivastava:

<Manoj> congrats vorlon, aba, aj (*snigger suckers *snigger)

Sometime over the years, I've managed to forget, or block out, most of my memories of the time in high school when I used BBSes, before the internet. Even though I still have friends from back then, and even, come to think, host a rack of computers at the house of a guy who was once a sysop. Those couple of years (how many?) are mostly a blank, and not something I think about much. I can't remember the first time I used a BBS. I can remember clearly and crisply the first time I used a unix system. A bit of it came back when I didn't pirate the BBS Documentary, an epic 8 part series of interviews with the people who brought us the likes of XMODEM, fidonet, pcboard, and ansi art. Highly recommended. Amazing how just looking at so many of the people immediatly reminds me of the BBSers I knew at the time. Its producer, Jason Scott, also runs textfiles.com, a huge collection of all sorts of text files from the 60's through 90's, which mostly originate from old BBSes. His historical bent in preserving and documenting this stuff really appeals. I poked around the net today, managed to find some docs about one BBS I remembered using, and nothing about a couple of others. Logged into a telnet BBS or two and remembered just how angry fruit salad and silly to use those systems really were, and also how much they probably contributed to my enduring enjoyment of unix, muds, and email. I thought it would be nice to not forget about this stuff, and so I coded up a reminder, merging the ancient plain text files with what's currently new and spiffy (weblogs natch), and creating this webblog which has a random text file posted to it each day. Of course, the subjects range from anarchy, to programming, to phone phreaking, to porn, so view at your own risk, just as if it were 1992, and you were were dialing a number your war dialer had found while you were away at school. Would you like to play a game?

All-Around Awesome You have: 77% SCIENTIFIC INTUITION and 77% EMOTIONAL INTUITION

The graph on the right represents your place in Intuition 2-Space. As you can see, you scored well above average on emotional intuition and well above average on scientific intuition. (Weirdly, your emotional and scientific intuitions are equally strong.) Your Emotional Intuition score is a measure of how well you understand people, especially their unspoken needs and sympathies. A high score score usually indicates social grace and persuasiveness. A low score usually means you're good at Quake. Your Scientific Intuition score tells you how in tune you are with the world around you; how well you understand your physical and intellectual environment. People with high scores here are apt to succeed in business and, of course, the sciences. Try my other test! The 3 Variable Funny Test It rules.

My test tracked 2 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 80% on Scientific You scored higher than 82% on Interpersonal

Link: The 2-Variable Intuition Test written by jason_bateman on Ok Cupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

Nice one, Mike! I would have liked to end up being more humane, though ;-)



  
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
  

Much More Scientific        You have: 77% SCIENTIFIC INTUITION and 47% EMOTIONAL INTUITION

The graph on the right represents your place in Intuition 2-Space. As you can see, you scored about average on emotional intuition and well above average on scientific intuition.Keep in mind that very few people score high on both! In effect, you can compare your two intuition scores with each other to learn what kind of intuition you're best at. Your scientific intuition is stronger than your emotional intuition. Your Emotional Intuition score is a measure of how well you understand people, especially their unspoken needs and sympathies. A high score score usually indicates social grace and persuasiveness. A low score usually means you're good at Quake. Your Scientific Intuition score tells you how in tune you are with the world around you; how well you understand your physical and intellectual environment. People with high scores here are apt to succeed in business and, of course, the sciences. Try my other test! The 3 Variable  Funny Test It rules.

  

My test tracked 2 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 80% on Scientific You scored higher than 7% on Interpersonal

Link: The 2-Variable Intuition Test written by jason_bateman on Ok Cupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

Very Well-Rounded You have: 62% SCIENTIFIC INTUITION and 62% EMOTIONAL INTUITION

The graph on the right represents your place in Intuition 2-Space. As you can see, you scored above average on emotional intuition and above average on scientific intuition. (Weirdly, your emotional and scientific intuitions are equally strong.) Your Emotional Intuition score is a measure of how well you understand people, especially their unspoken needs and sympathies. A high score score usually indicates social grace and persuasiveness. A low score usually means you’re good at Quake. Your Scientific Intuition score tells you how in tune you are with the world around you; how well you understand your physical and intellectual environment. People with high scores here are apt to succeed in business and, of course, the sciences. Try my other test! The 3 Variable Funny Test It rules.

My test tracked 2 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 30% on Scientific You scored higher than 36% on Interpersonal

Link: The 2-Variable Intuition Test written by jason_bateman on Ok Cupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test