A year ago, i wrote about how New York City's Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) requires the use of Internet Explorer to apply online (and it even appears to require IE just to download the PDF of the application!)
Sadly, the situation has not changed, a year later. Today, I'm …
I'm helping out on the talks committee for debconf 10 this summer in NYC (so yes, i'm going to be here for it, even though i don't have that little badge thingy). This is a call for interested folks to let us know what you want to see at debconf …
i'm aware that people don't always take proper measures during mass OpenPGP keysignings. Apparently, some keys even get signed with no one at the keysigning present speaking for that key (for example, if the key was submitted to the keysigning via online mechanisms beforehand, but the keyholder failed to show …
This is the story of a weirdly unfriendly/non-compliant IMAP server, and some nice interactions that arose from a debugging session around it.
Over the holidays, i got to do some computer/network debugging for friends and family. One old friend (I'll call him “Fred”) had a series of problems …
We're going to have a Bug-Squashing Party at the end of January 2010 in New York City. If you live in or around the tri-state area (or want to visit), are interested in learning about the process, meeting other debian folk, or just squashing some bugs in good company, you …
I was trying to dump a large Logical Volume (LV) over ethernet from one machine to another. I found some behavior which surprised me.
netcat-traditional)I've been using virtual machines (KVM, these days) as isolated
environments to do things like build packages as root. Unfortunately,
some of these activities require decent-sized chunks of random data
(pulled from /dev/random). But /dev/random pulls from the kernel's
entropy pool, which in turn is replenished from "hardware …
I've just revoked my signature over the Ubuntu Code of Conduct 1.0.1. I did this because Ubuntu's CoC (perhaps jokingly?) singles out Mark Shuttleworth as someone who should be held to a super-human standard (as pointed out recently by Rhonda, as well as earlier in ubuntu bug 53848 …
So not even 3 months out from RMS's sexist Gran Canaria “virgins” remarks, we have another powerful leader in the Free Software Community making sexist remarks in a talk to developers (this time, it's Mark Shuttleworth). It's a shame that these two people have said stupid things that hurt their …
Modern daemon implementations can be run in a variety of ways, in a range of contexts. The daemon software itself can be a useful tool in environments where the associated traditional system service is neither needed nor desired. Unfortunately, common debian packaging practice has a tendency to conflate the two …