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Jose Luis Rivas Contreras: libtorrent 0.12.3 and rtorrent 0.8.3 released! (beta)

planet debian-us - il y a 54 minutes 28 secondes

So between yesterday and today I packaged the new upstream version of libtorrent/rtorrent 0.12.3 and 0.8.3 as beta. I still need to do some testing on the packages and maybe change libtorrent from OpenSSL to TLS.

Anyway, in the meantime you can grab the binaries (only 386) and sources from...

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Junichi Uekawa: Macbook dmesg.

planet debian-us - il y a 3 heures 34 minutes
Macbook dmesg. I've got a new macbook (MacBook 4,1). dmesg is noisy, something is wrong. It's telling me it's having something wrong with /dev/hda several times a second....
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Michal Čihař: Gammu test version 1.21.92

planet debian-us - il y a 4 heures 32 minutes

Good news everyone, new Gammu testing version is out. This time biggest fix is Bluetooth support for Mac OS X, accompanied with fixed locking on some architectures and improved debug configuration, to allow proper integration with python-gammu.

Full list of changes:

  • Reimplem...
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John Goerzen: Jacob Update

planet debian-us - il y a 5 heures 45 minutes

Let’s start with a photo:

That’s Jacob over at the pumpkin patch near us. He found ...

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Y Giridhar Appaji Nag: The Complete Bootleg Woodstock 69 - ID3 (ID3v2) tags

planet debian-us - il y a 6 heures 16 minutes
A few weeks ago, I was searching for ID3 (ID3v2) tags for The Complete Bootleg Woodstock 69 collection for a friend of mine. I was able to find...

MJ Ray: SPI Nov 2008 Meeting

planet debian-us - il y a 6 heures 38 minutes

The next Software in the Public Interest board meeting will take at 2000 UTC (noon PST / 15:00 EST / 20:00 GMT / 21:00 CET) on Wednesday 19 November 2008 on irc.oftc.net #Catégories: planet debian-us

Joey Hess: a year of haskell (not really)

planet debian-us - il y a 10 heures 37 minutes

Guess it's really been longer than a year that haskell has been on my mind, though not much lately. Things are aligning again. I'll shortly be visiting the Bay Area again -- last time I piled up haskell documentation for the plane trip....

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Kees Cook: md5 lookups for 4 chars and common words

planet debian-us - il y a 12 heures 37 minutes

Here’s a fun link. This site appears to have seeded their md5 hash list with all lower case character strings of 4 characters or fewer and many

John Goerzen: Real World Haskell Update

planet debian-us - il y a 17 heures 3 minutes

Times are exciting. Our book, Real World Haskell, is now available in a number of venues. But before I get to that, I’ve got to talk about what a thrill this project has been.

I created our internal Darcs repository in May, 2007. Since th...

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Uwe Hermann: Migrating bdb svn repositories from one version to another and to fsfs

planet debian-us - mer, 2008-11-19 00:07

Today I had to work with a really old svn repository again, which was still in the old bdb format (not in the newer and recommended fsfs one). This caused quite some problems, like, um... you cannot checkout, update, or commit anything.

$ svn co fi...

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Adrian von Bidder: SyncML (new toy)

planet debian-us - mar, 2008-11-18 23:32

Q: is a mobile phone (nice hardware, shitty firmware, btw) waterproof? A: I now got this new toy (Sony Ericsson S500i<...

Ingo Juergensmann: PPPoE, OpenVPN, DD-WRT and kernel 2.6.27.6

planet debian-us - mar, 2008-11-18 23:05
I'm somewhat known for triggering bugs nobody else hits. This was appreciated by several developers in good old days when I still used my Amiga as main machine (that's a decade ago in the meanwhile) where I was a betatester for some applications. But it seems I still got the talent to trigger strang...
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Ingo Juergensmann: Nikon D90 and Linux - a quick update

planet debian-us - mar, 2008-11-18 22:45
As I have reported lately I obtained a Nikon D90 DSLR some weeks ago. Gphoto2 (and other application depending on its functionality like digikam) didn't recognized the D90 in PTP mode a...
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Matthew Garrett: Aggressive graphics power management

planet debian-us - mar, 2008-11-18 22:20
My current desktop PC has an RS790-based Radeon on-board graphics controller. It also has a Radeon X1900 plugged in. Playing with my Watts Up, I found that the system was (at idle!) drawing around 35W more power with the X1900 than with the on-board graphic...
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MJ Ray: How to Check Web Shops for Basic Security

planet debian-us - mar, 2008-11-18 20:44

I just had a very nice chat on the phone with a man whose first attempt at online shopping seemed to have resulted in a fraudster using his card to buy mobile phone top-ups. I don’t understand why he called us (it wasn’t one of my web shops), but I hope I did the right thing by direc...

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John Goerzen: Frozen Bicycling

planet debian-us - mar, 2008-11-18 20:09

Some of you might recall that I’ve been bicycling to work, about 10 miles each way.

Over the last two weeks, I haven’t been able to ride much because it’s been too muddy. Today I rode to work.

It was about 25F-30F out there, so this was my first below-freezing bic...

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John Goerzen: Web Design Companies That Understand Technology

planet debian-us - mar, 2008-11-18 18:52

There are a lot of companies out there that do web design work that looks fabulous.

Unfortunately, a lot of these sites look fabulous only when viewed in IE6 build xxxx, with a 75dpi monitor, fonts set to the expected size, running on Windows XP SP2, with JavaScript enabled. Try looking a...

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Kartik Mistry: Kartik Mistry

planet debian-us - mar, 2008-11-18 14:10

* So, WordPress.com feed weirdness has come again…

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Alastair McKinstry: Hubble open for Business

planet debian-us - mar, 2008-11-18 13:30

Just as life was getting frantically busy, and as catdynamics predicted, Hubble is back open for business with a Supplemental Call for Observing Proposals.

So an idea I bounced off my super...

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Russell Coker: Keating College

planet debian-us - mar, 2008-11-18 13:24

Some time ago I spoke to Craig Keating about his plans for a new secondary school in the center of Melbourne. His plan was to focus on the core academic areas and cater to academically gifted students. He had some interesting ideas for his business, one of which was to pay teachers rates that a...

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