Planet Ubuntu
By apachelogger (noreply@blogger.com) - 9/7/2008 4:31 PM
... definitely not today.
I can't do anything in the Ubuntu wiki (
bug report) ... yeah Konqueror is only default browser on Kubuntu, why would we do QA for it
I just learned that when you install the java plugin it will pull in firefox, which will pull in ubufox, which will pull in synaptic, which will pull in half the main archive.
And why do you think is that?
Depends: libasound2, libx11-6, libxext6, libxi6, libxp6, libxtst6, sun-java6-bin (= 6-07-4ubuntu2), firefox | firefox-2 | iceweasel | mozilla-firefox | iceape-browser | mozilla-browser | epiphany-gecko | epiphany-webkit | epiphany-browser | galeon | midbrowser | xulrunner
Notice anything?
Now I am feeling rather stupid because I actually started work on ubuntu-kde-default-settings making KDE 4 apps look like native Ubuntu/GNOME ones, too bad I don't feel like continuing it :-(
:-)
By Jorge Bernal - 9/7/2008 12:51 PM
I had a sad time this year when I missed the MySQL conference, since I had much fun last year in Santa Clara. I can’t miss it next year.
As a MySQL partner, and after almost 2 years doing MySQL training, I sure have interesting things to tell in the conference, but I’m not sure about what.
I will be thinking about this in the next weeks, but I’d appreciate some help. What topics are you interested in?
By dennda - 9/7/2008 9:32 AM
As I already mentioned in my last posting I participated in this years Google Summer of Code. I sent an application for the MoinMoin Wiki Project and got elected as one of the students who were allowed to work on MoinMoin over the summer.
My task was to Extend and refactor the MoinMoin Storage Engine.
Historically, MoinMoin has always stored everything as text files on the disk. There are several disadvantages to this old approach:
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Due to the way the files were stored, the storage didn’t scale well.
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It is almost impossible to have separate dedicated “database” servers.
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Pages, users and attachments weren’t stored uniformly, thus making the system more complex.
The idea of my task (not the first of its kind) was to inject an abstracted storage layer. MoinMoin now talks to some object it knows is a storage backend and does not care how the backend handles storage technically. The things you store inside backends are called items which have revisions. Pages, users and attachments are now uniformly stored as or inside such items. MoinMoin just says “store this item” and the backend does, depending on what kind of backend it is.
The administrator defines what backends to use for user and data storage. You can choose between several backends, e.g. a Mercurial backend (which was another GSoC task) or a filesystem backend (still useful if you don’t have a database). It is not difficult to write a new backend since all you need to do is implement a single class (The new API was designed for that).
There are some other (still unfinished) backends that can be used as middleware, e.g. a backend that wraps other backends and stores items in the correct backend depending on the name of the item.
There is also a converter script that takes a source and a target backend and transfers all the data from the source to the target backend. This is especially useful in combination with the read-only FS17 backend. As the name indicates, this backend supports reading data from your “old” MoinMoin 1.7 installations. This allows you to migrate to the new storage system and swap backends easily afterwards in case your requirements change.
The sheer amount of backends I just mentioned should be proof enough that it is not hard to write a new backend, especially since there are even more backends in existence.
As a side note: These changes make it possible to come up with a SQL or even a SQLAlchemy backend. (The benefit of the latter is to be database-agnostic.)
Note, however, that this will not make it into MoinMoin 1.8. There is still work that needs to be done. If you want to help or even contribute a backend, join #moin-dev on Freenode and we will help you get started.
It was fun to participate. The other developers were friendly and welcoming, which is essential in an Open Source environment. So thanks Thomas, Alexander, Reimar, Radomir and Armin!
I especially need to thank Johannes for being a fantastic mentor (no objections)! I learned a lot from all of you. So thanks a bunch for allowing me to work on your project and thanks Google for driving the Summer of Code!
By noreply@blogger.com (~pete) - 9/7/2008 7:55 AM
The wl wireless driver is from Broadcom, it contains a binary blob that makes the driver conform to the FCC regulations in the US. Sometime between 2.6.26 & 2.6.7 they changed a setting inside the blob called set_vlanmode. The end result is that when using the driver in its default state you can't ssh or telnet into another box.
Ben Collins first noticed this behavior and filed
LP Bug #259816. Broadcom has since fixed the blob turning the set_vlanmode off. That kernel should hit the repositiories this week. In the mean time if you want to workaround it you can do the following.
# sudo iwpriv eth1 set_vlanmode 0
Make sure you change eth1 in the example above to whatever you wireless interface is on your box.
That will disable the vlan setting and ssh will work again.
~pete
By Jad - 9/7/2008 6:25 AM
To all Free/Libre/Open Source Software lovers and enthusiastic in the Kingdom, we are planning for a FLOSS Ramadan Iftar day gathering for Jolug, Ubuntu Jordan and Jordan PHP.
We didn’t decide the day yet but it should take place sometime between 15-25 Ramadan/September and should cost around 20 JOD per fasting human in one of 3+ stars hotels.
If you are one of them, if you want to get to know them, if you want a prove that we eat with a GUI not CLI or if you just feel hungry and want to join bunch of geeks on Iftar, send me an email to blog (at) Syntux {dot} net including your mobile number to arrange money collection for reservation.
Ramadan Karim :-)
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