liw recently wrote about test-driven development:
This all sounds like a lot of bureaucratic nonsense, but what I get out of this is this: once all tests pass, I have a strong confidence that the software works. As soon as I've added all the features I want to have for …
I use USAA for some of my finances. They specialize in remote banking (i've never been in a physical branch). Sadly, they can still be pretty clueless about how to use the web properly. My latest frustration with them was trying to use their Deposit@Home service, where you scan …
Curious about these shiny new things i keep hearing about, i set up a test desktop system using using systemd as the init system (yes, that means using systemd-sysv in place of sysvinit -- so i had to remove an essential package for this to work).
A system-crippling bug was naturally …
I've got a Debian GNU/Linux lenny installation (2.6.26-2-vserver-amd64 kernel) running on a Dell Poweredge 2950 with BIOS 2.0.1 (2007-10-27).
It has two Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 5160 @ 3.00GHz processors (according
to /proc/cpuinfo, 8 1GiB 667MHz DDR2 ECC modules (part number
HYMP512F72CP8N3-Y5), according …
I recently set up debian on a Thecus N8800Pro. It seems to be a decent rackmount 2U chassis with 8 3.5" hot-swap SATA drives, dual gigabit NICs, a standard DB9 RS-232 serial port, one eSATA port, a bunch of USB 2.0 connectors, and dual power supplies. I'm happy …
jrollins and i recently did a bunch of cleanup work on
debirf, with the result
that debirf 0.30 can now build all the shipped example profiles without
error (well, as long as debootstrap --variant=fakechroot is working
properly -- apprently that's not the case for fakechroot 2.9 in squeeze …
I spent part of today looking at packaging Peter Gutmann's CryptLib for debian. My conclusion: it may not be worth my time.
One of the main reasons i wanted to package it for debian is because i would like to see more OpenPGP-compliant free software available to debian users …
Is there a way to access a MySQL database over the network from PHP and be confident that
As far as i can tell, when using the stock MySQL bindings, setting MYSQL_CLIENT_SSL is purely advisory …
I used to maintain a membership with IEEE. I no longer do.
The latest nonsense to come from them is a change for the worse in their copyright assignment policy, which i thought was already problematic.
Other engineering societies (IETF, USENIX, etc) continue to do socially relevant, useful work without …
Let's say you set up a machine using an encrypted disk with LUKS (debian-installer's partman makes this wonderfully easy!). You choose an initial passphrase, get the machine working, and it's working great. Then, you need to restart it, and realize that (for whatever reason) you've forgotten or lost the passphrase …