en-us jgoss@blern.com (Blern Admin) jgoss@blern.com (Blern Admin) http://blern.com/ http://blern.com/5nzS2 A few months, I blogged about the pains I had with my nVidia FX 5200 graphics card, Debian and current kernels. I have solved the issue in the mean time and would like to document what I did. Currently, the package Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:03:14 -0500 http://blern.com/5nzT0 If you don’t know that leap years don’t always happen every 4 years, you really should read about the switch from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar . PostgreSQL’s documentation on the topic is also interesting, as well as the Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:02:53 -0500 http://blern.com/5nzR3 I believe that most debian developers ignore discussions of possible general resolutions like the current one, until/unless they look like reaching the required number of seconds to trigger a vote. It’s hard to prove that a group is Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:01:51 -0500 http://blern.com/5ntH7 It's always enlightning how some people see how Debian works. Or not. It seems to get more and more common that instead of filing a bugreport people seem to consider it appropriate to rather rant in their blogs about it. That will definitely get Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:44:29 -0500 http://blern.com/5ntG2 I'm going to re-do my blog sometime soon. The host my current blog is running on is going to retire "anytime soonish" (I happen to be responsible for that, so I will know when). So I will need to move my blog someplace else (I want to merge Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:44:11 -0500 http://blern.com/5nnh4 * After all things Raju did to make financial situation worst , I am dedicating this song to him.        Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:50:04 -0500 http://blern.com/5ntH0 Joey, I really like rel-vcs proposal. On the other side it misses few good things which were already found for Vcs-* fields (there is already no XS- prefix for quite a long time). First it misses information about branch. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:48:17 -0500 http://blern.com/5njb9 I received a SanDisk Sansa e260 (v2) for my birthday. It was one of those presents that acquired for myself on behalf of someone else because it worked out easier that way. I bought it for cheap from Woot! I thought I'd use it Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:36:58 -0500 http://blern.com/5njb7 I got this afternoon the logs from the only one Debian mirror on El Salvador(debian.ues.edu.sv), the mirror is hosted on «Universidad de El Salvador». so I decide to get some statistics from there. First, lets get the hits per month, I Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:36:52 -0500 http://blern.com/5ngH9 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:34:43 -0500 http://blern.com/5na29 I'm working on designing a microformat that can be used to indicate the location of VCS (git, svn, etc) repositories related to a web page. I'd appreciate some web standards-savvy eyes on my rel-vcs microformat rfc . If it Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:45:28 -0500 http://blern.com/5nTJ7 MapReduce with Parallel Make Ted Gould’s post about transcoding music files using Make got me thinking about combining Make and RecordStream into a barebones MapReduce framework. As a demonstration, I wrote a partial Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:56:06 -0500 http://blern.com/5nTJ1 Some months ago, I got a phone call from Rafael Fernández Flores . He wanted to interview me for a book he was working on regarding the history of computers in Mexico. The first computer in Latin America was installed in 1958 at my Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:55:56 -0500 http://blern.com/5nTI1 ... to the Python "Egg" package format. It reminds me that Ruby gems aren't the dumbest way to package something up. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:30:53 -0500 http://blern.com/5nTI6 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:03:02 -0500 http://blern.com/5nLG5 I was happy to receive Dov Zamir’s email announcing the creation of a fork of the DSPAM anti-spam filter, called dspam-community . I have been using DSPAM for a while now, and am very happy with it, but was quite anxious that the Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:26:16 -0500 http://blern.com/5nLG0 I was until recently using xmms2 as a music daemon. I was finding it neat, providing a good command-line (thus scriptable) control over how the music was playing, and I was using xmms2 info to automatically write signature files for my mails. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:53:25 -0500 http://blern.com/5nER3 Making a simple PerlResponseHandler that does something like this: sub handler { my($r) = shift; $r-> content_type("text/plain"); $r-> print("You suck.\n"); return Apache2::Const::HTTP_BAD_REQUEST; } Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:29:09 -0500 http://blern.com/5nER0 I've been owning a Nintendo Wii for quite a while now, but so far only played an occasional game of tennis or the like. Over the holidays I got The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess , which is a really nice game in itself. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:22:22 -0500 http://blern.com/5nEQ7 Everyone's been talking about how great and wonderful git is, and I've tried using it for a few projects of my own, on a local basis, sort of like an advanced form of 'rcs'. So I thought I'd try it out in a little bit more complicated setup, for a Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:18:38 -0500 http://blern.com/5nEQ7 Everyone's been talking about how great and wonderful git is, and I've tried using it for a few projects of my own, on a local basis, sort of like an advanced form of 'rcs'. So I thought I'd try it out in a little bit more complicated setup, for a Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:18:38 -0500 http://blern.com/5n0B6 I was thrilled to be part of a successful Debian bug squashing party organized by MIT's Student Information Processing Board on December 13th. Greg Price , who helped organize the event, did a wonderful write up which he sent to Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:11:49 -0500 http://blern.com/5n0B1 One change and one addition to my current European tour . First, it looks like we'll be skipping Amsterdam this time and heading straight to London from Zagreb on the evening of January 10th. We'll still plan to arrive in Cambridge Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:11:32 -0500 http://blern.com/5muV3 I am half back from the funeral of Thiemo Seufer who died in consequence of a tragic car accident during Christmas last year. I am still shocked about the accident and the loss of a good friend and hacker. Thiemo has always shown his Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:29:15 -0500 http://blern.com/5muV0 The Copyrighting the Future: Keeping ahead of the game consultation finishes in a month’s time (6 February). They actually called it that - “copyrighting the future” - can you believe it? In case you haven’t seen it yet, this Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:29:05 -0500