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Firstly, please excuse the ugly formatting of this ultra-wide image on my blog, and I?m sure the respective planets that I?m on.po?to is my first ?real? node project, and I?m planning to get it to a point where it makes email less painful then it...

As we all know, Qt5 is approaching. The “big new thing” with Qt5 is the introduction of QtQuick/QML for writing dynamic user interfaces. If you are (somehow ) unfamiliar with QtQuick and QML, you can read up about it here. The rest of th...

Ah, love the smell of multiplicative groups in the morning. While digging into what makes the SMP tick I created a copy that is nowhere near as subscript heavy. Both wikipedia and the OTR page use the same subscripty maths. It is all the same of cour...

So the first day of the Akademy-es 2012 is already gone.My day started early in the morning in Barcelona getting train to go to Zaragoza. Got there in less than 2 hours. Nice :-)After getting to the hotel we headed to the nice Seminario building wher...

There is one feature whose implementation got dragged out for quite a while now, and gets requested with each new release of the KDE Workspace – being able to tell an application always to be shown on all activities, or on a specific one.The re...

I'm blogging about this small configuration issue as it took me some time to figure out how to configure cupt and smart to solve this problem. The reason I'm playing with cupt and smartpm is that I'm working to compare again a number of...

The bug webinterface of theUltimate Debian Databasecurrently knows about the following release critical bugs: In Total:1515 Affecting Wheezy:1078 Wheezy only:235 Remaining to be fixed in Wheezy:843Of these 843 bugs, the following tags are set...

Just a quick note, I’m about to take the plane from Seville to Zaragoza together with my collegues at Wadobo to attend to Akademy-es 2012Yay! See you there folks.PD: We’ll miss you this time Antonio Larrosa!

One of the best Bugzilla feature is its search interface. You can look for almost anything, a comment, an author, a modification date, a bug flag and so on…Those who sometimes make some noise and suggest to throw away bugs.kde.org and replace i...

Just a quick post so I can say I’m going to both events: Akademy 2012 and the Qt Contributors Summit 2012. I hope to see many of you there, and we have a lot to discuss and work on.

In january, Idiscoveredthe ColorHug, a USB dongle fromHughski to calibratethe color on a computer screen. The software required isincludedin Debian, and I decided back then to preorder from the nextbatch. Yesterday I finally heard back from them,...

Tales from the Flight LogSpring flight season is over, since it’s now over 9000 degrees farenheit inthe great deserts of Arizona. We’re making a plan to head out to BALLS thisyear, but that’s not until September, and I won’t b...

This post is part of an ongoing series about developments and discussions in Qt.Some parts of this report are still under discussion, and don’t necessarily reflect the final state of Qt 5. The target audience is people involved in Qt developmen...

See you in Zaragoza tomorrow :-)And of course, thanks to the sponsors! BlueSystems, Wadobo and Qt/Nokia, you rock!

About two weeks ago I went to Re:Publica, a hipster event (can I say that?) in Berlin. It was an interesting event - related to the stuff I usually visit, yet different. I'll go over the differences, then present what I see as the challenge for Free ...

Dear Lazyweb,is there a simple way to block some users who login with SSH to read /proc/<pid>/cmdline of processes they don't own? Or better yet: don't see these pids at all?I know that there are PID namespaces, but they seem to req...

As distributions are slowly adopting our instant messaging suite, we get more and more questions from people everyday. And to give a proper support, we need a proper place to do so. So we decided to meet our users half-way and we created a special KD...

The government is currently consulting on open standards, and I have responded on behalf of Collabora. We believe that efforts to avoid vendor lock in, and to open up government from the extra expense this occurs is to be applauded. I have previo...

Just read another "forget desktop Linux" piece by a writer trying to cover Free software on a sight ostensibly doing the same. This is exactly the sort of thing I wrote about in a recent blog entry, and it's sad to see it continue.First off, "world ...

Having experienced the MakerBot at work, I bought a EMaker Huxley last year. Once you get into the habit of being able to print any mechanical piece that you need (almost), you are forever hooked. Now, I’m looking to build a larger machine and ...

Laptop Mode Tools, version 1.61, has been released and will land up soon for Debian. This is the version that would be targetting Wheezy.This release includes many bug fixes and should make power savings much better on your machines.This is mainl...

If you tend to want to keep your music running when you log out, or control your music playing on a desktop machine from a laptop, for example, you may well use the Music Player Daemon (MPD). If you use Ubuntu’s Unity desktop or KDE’...

At the recent Ubuntu Developer Summit, I managed to convince a few people (after assurances that there would be no permanent damage) to plug a USB stick into their machines so we could watch Xorg crash and wedge their console. What was this evil ...

Wir freuen uns, den neuen open-slx Wochenrückblick 18 in den beiden beliebten Formaten PDF und EPUB zu veröffentlichen. Unter anderem in dieser Woche: open-slx Screencast: Plasma Active updaten Vivaldi Tablet mit 8GB Tizen fährt...

A number of years back, I read yet another complaint about someone having trouble finding a computer with Linux preinstalled. So I did something about it: I created LinuxSi.com, where it is possible to register computer stores in Italy (this was a...

We are pleased to announce the new open-slx Weekly News 18 in the Formats PDF and EPUB. You can find in this week (abstract): open-slx Screencast: Updating Plasma Active Vivaldi Tablet with 8GB Tizen runs Android Apps too Installing Ja...

I spent some free time today getting caught up on the large backlog of phonon-gstreamer bugs. Towards the end, I started to have delusions of grandeur: Imagine a phonon-gstreamer codebase that doesn’t require supporting a zillion different audi...

Sirko brought up the idea to organise a hackfest together with developers of applications for Linux desktops and experts interested in colour management. The idea behind that event was to bring interested developers together, support them in implemen...

Hey, thanks,Peter for the hint!Never heard of that option until you blogged about it. So, now I'malso ready to "tar taf", "tar xaf", "tar caf"..:-). Harder for me thanyou because I was used to "tar tfz"...

Continuing with my previous post about the Zeitgeist team’s improvements with regards to speed, there’s a nifty tool in the sources I wrote yesterday that uses a genetic algorithm to find the slowest queries you can throw at the engine.If...

A new release 0.2.4 of RProtoBufis now on CRAN.RProtoBufprovides GNU Rbindings for theGoogle Protobuf data encodinglibrary used and released by Google.This release once again contains a number of patches kindly contributed byMurray Stokely, as w...

Way before Debian, Launchpad bug tracking system just reached 1 millionbugs reported with one "bug" reported against Edubuntu basicallymentioning it should invade schools.What to say about this?Hard without being harsh towards my friend...

I?ve been noticing a number of odd things happening surrounding my blog lately, and I thought it?s about time to figure out what?s going on and how to stop it.The first problem is that people are illegally copying my posts, probably using RSS scrap...

It's not too obvious how to test email receive handlers in Appengine. The important observation is that the handlers take HTTP POSTs with multipart/form-data encoded data. In python you can build an email to be handled with the following code...

This year, the annual Debian conference will be held in Managua, Nicaragua. And I'llbe lucky enough to spend two weeks visiting the country after Debconf,along with Elisabeth.Yes, I'll arrive in Nicarague on July 2nd, spend nearly the ent...

CRAN now tests packages againstg++-4.7 (as this version has become the default onDebian's testing variant. This compilerswitch once again triggered a set of build failures, mostly frominclude files now deemed missing. For RcppSMC, it camed...

The first Beta of the upcoming PostgreSQL 9.2 was released yesterday (see announcement). Your humble maintainer has now created packages for you to test. Please give them a whirl, and report any problems/regressions that you may see to the Postgr...

You can get inspired from the most unlikely of places, and this time it was a twitter background image. I came across the twitter profile of @Nitish today, a fellow GSoC student from India. One thing that held my attention, apart from the fact that...

For years, no decades, I've typed tar tzf something, tar xzf something. Except when someone annoying sent an uncompressed tar file and I had to then go and take out the z in the middle. Then came bzip2, and we learned tar tjf, tar xjf. OK, ...

Our Provo data center will take down a few server starting today at 6pm local time (MDT) which is 10th of May, 0:00 UTC. The downtime is expected to last for three hours.The following openSUSE services might be effected:all openSUSE wiki instances, e...

Open Build Service is a generic system to build and distribute packages from sources in an automatic, consistent and reproducible way. OBS 2.3 brings the functionality to maintain a released software product in an efficient and transparent way. This ...

Update: download.opensuse.org is back up, OBS and mirrors are resyncingAfter receiving a new disk array, and restoring backups onto it, download.opensuse.org is back up. The openSUSE Build Service is currently syncing all its repos to it, and then a...

Google published the list of 12 students proposals that have been accepted for Google Summer of Code 2012 for openSUSE. It means that 12 students will be able to work full-time on changing the world this summer!51 proposals, 12 students acceptedBig t...

The openSUSE Summit team has been working hard over the last weeks to add Spanish translations to the website. As the openSUSE Summit is meant to be an ‘Americas’ event, we aim to create a dual-language conference, accommodating both the...

SUSE, our founder, partner and sponsor, has put out a couple of job openings for the openSUSE Boosters Team! Are you a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) enthusiast? Are you quick on your feet, a talented technologist? Are you hungry to learn new t...

The openSUSE community is proud to welcome Heinlein Support as new sponsor to the project! Heinlein is a Linux specialist offering training, consulting and hosting focused on the German market and will help us with our mail infrastructure.Introducing...

CVE-2008-5519: Apache Tomcat mod_jk information disclosure vulnerabilitySeverity: importantVendor: The Apache Software FoundationVersions Affected:mod_jk 1.2.0 to 1.2.26Description:Situations where faulty clients set Content-Length without providingd...

openSUSE 12.1 was one of the first major Linux distributions to include the new programming language Go. Recently, go 1.0 was released and shortly before milestone 3 openSUSE Factory received packages for this new Go. Graham Anderson notified the fac...

We had some network problems in our Nürnberg data center this afternoon and now the site software.opensuse.org is not reachable.To download the openSUSE 12.2 Milestone 3, go directly to the download directory.To download openSUSE 12.1, go directly to...