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Federici leaves the field in tears after FA Cup howler
Mike Collett 8:11 AM Reading manager Steve Clarke sympathised with Reading's Australian goalkeeper Adam Federici whose horrendous mistake in extra time gifted Alexis Sanchez the winning goal in the FA Cup.
Top stories
Chelsea draw closer to Premier League title
Julian Guyer 8:48 AM Chelsea went 10 points clear at the top of the Premier League table after a 1-0 win over Manchester United on Saturday as Leicester moved off the bottom of the table.
Wanderers move away from wooden spoon
Dominic Bossi 11:40 PM Western Sydney Wanderers made a giant stride to avoiding the wooden spoon after clinching a laboured fightback against Adelaide United.
Melbourne Victory given win on a plate
Vince Rugari 11:49 PM The champagne is on ice for Melbourne Victory after their 1-0 win over a second-string Brisbane Roar as good as sealed the A-League premiership.
Football's problematic gambling association
Craig Foster 8:56 PM The Perth Glory situation just made the unwelcome transition from "saga" to bona fide "debacle", not to mention setting an extremely dangerous precedent for the future.
Glory fans call for owner to quit club
9:02 PM Glory fans are considering a boycott of Sunday's game against Melbourne City. Photo: Getty Images
Popovic coy on Bulut's future
Dominic Bossi 9:35 PM Wanderers coach hits out at media reports of fan favourite Kerem Bulut leaving the club, but won't confirm if he wants to keep the player.
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Stronger Brisbane Roar squad ready for Beijing
Beth Newman 12:00 AM Frans Thijssen rang in the changes on Saturday night but it will be a far stronger outfit that heads to Beijing tomorrow.
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Big decisions for Victory, Thompson
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Perth Glory situation highlights unhappy marriage between sport and gambling
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Ryan clean sheet keeps Brugge in Europa
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Michael Lynch It's an ill wind that blows nobody any good.
Socceroos' draw backpacker's dream, promoter's nightmare
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Two senior Glory players headed for exit door
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Phoenix storm home with last-gasp winner over Mariners
Wellington ended their three-game goal-scoring drought in spectacular fashion on Friday with a 3-2 A-League win over Central Coast at Westpac Stadium.
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Bulut may leave Wanderers
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Perth Glory coach Kenny Lowe hopes players won't walk out on the club in the wake of the salary cap scandal.
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The young Spanish rider has secured a ride with the prestigious 125cc team for the 2011 World Championship.
The Bancaja Aspar 125cc team has confirmed that Spanish rider Adrián Martín will ride with them in 2011, joining 2010 World Championship runner-up Nico Terol and Héctor Faubel in a strong three-rider structure.
Martín, who rode five races with the team in 2008, completed his first full season in the 125cc class last year riding with the Aeroport de Castelló-Ajo team and finished 15th overall.
"I believe Adrián has enough to play a main role in the 125cc class this season," said Team Manager Jorge Martínez 'Aspar' of the 19 year-old. "It's his second full year and although he's young and still learning he has potential. With Terol and Faubel as team-mates he can learn a lot and gain experience."
He continued: "We return to a three-rider structure in 125cc that has given us great results in previous years. We'll have a lot of work as we'll have six riders across all three classes, but the team is very excited at this new project."
Martín added: "It makes me very proud to ride with the Aspar Team, a winning team and one highly respected in this class. I'll have an official (Aprilia) bike and will be alongside two fantastic riders, from whom I'm sure I can learn a lot."
"It's early to make predictions, but to finish every race amongst the top ten positions would be very positive. It's my second full season, I'm learning all the time, and I hope I can take a massive step forward," he concluded.


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Team NvUS SJ x Vanitea Car Meet
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Catching out attention on the web is this awesome build from Jon Olsson. Recently Jon unveiled his all-weather ready Audi RS6 DTM for the upcoming Gumball 3000. Utilizing the aerodynamic elements from DTM racing cars, Olsson's latest project makes extensive use of carbon-fibre for the front splitter, side skirts, rooftop spoiler and even the roof box. Under the hood a STM Stage 3+ tuning package has increased the car's power from 560 horsepower to over 900 horsepower, with additional upgrades to the race exhaust, suspension and brake kit.
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Over the wet and rainy weekend we made a quick-stop to the Super Street x Wheels N Meals meet in Milpitas. We didn't stay to long due to the crappy weather, but we did manage to get a few snaps in. Here is a quick little recap from this event taken by staff photographer Jerry Rodrigo. Huge shout out to Super Street & Wheels N Meals for organizing this awesome event!
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This just in from our fellow friends over at Hella Grounded. Catching the web by store today is their latest collaboration with Auto Image Customs & San Jose's Cukui, featuring the infamous gold benz! This is definitely a unique build!
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Last week we headed out to the San Jose Convention Center for the Silicon Valley International Auto Show and DUB Show! The event was fairly smaller than past years we've went, but overall had a great amount of cars that were shown. Here is a quick recap of the event and some of the cars that caught our eye!
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Kicking off our Monday morning is the latest installment from Ken Block x Hoonigan! Here is the premiere of Gymkhana 7 which released a few hours ago. This time Ken Block and the team takes the streets of Los Angeles! This is definitely another awesome installment of Gymkhana!
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Last weekend our intern photographer/contributor Kevin headed out to an In N Out Meet hosted by WoodlandWhipz. The event was pretty chill, and had a great turnout. Here is a quick recap of the event shot by out intern Kevin. Shout out to WoodlandWhipz for the invite!
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A few weeks back we headed out to Newpark Mall in Newark for the 8th Annual Breast Cancer Carshow hosted by our fellow friends over at District 10! We arrived pretty early during staging and got to cover a few cars that attended. Be sure to catch our booth next year for 2015! For now enjoy this quick recap shot by staff photographer Jerry Rodrigo. Huge shout out to District 10 for another awesome turnout and year!
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Earlier this month our new intern photographer Kevin headed out to the Low Life Sunday event out in Sacramento. The event looked pretty chill with lots of great builds. Here is a quick recap from Low Life Sundays shot by intern photographer Kevin, enjoy!
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Last weekend we our staff photographer/contributor Rolo Tanedo Jr headed out to San Jose, California for the Wekfest. The event was held at the San Jose Convention Center. Pretty decent turnout with some great quality builds. Here is a quick re-cap of Wekfest shot by Rolo. Huge shout out to Wekfest for putting together another very successful event.
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Former England star Kenny Sansom admits he's 'homeless, a drunk and sleeping on a park bench'
Shocking admission by former Arsenal player is down to his on-going issues with alcohol and gambling causing his family to fear for his life
Thursday 01 August 2013
Former England star Kenny Sansom has made an astonishing admission that he is homeless, admitting that problems with alcohol and gambling are to blame.
Sansom, who in his days at Arsenal earned £1,200-a-week and lived in a £1m mansion, has confirmed that he is now living rough on a park bench, causing his family to fear for his life on a regular basis.
Speaking to The Sun during a brief stay at his sister's home, Sansom admitted: "I've been living homeless for 10 days.
"That's because I've got no money, I'm a drunk, I'm feeling not very well and I'm a gambler. I've been living on the street. It's not good living on the bench.
Sansom earned 86 caps for England – the second-most achieved by a defender behind Ashley Cole – but he has sold most of those to fund his descent into alcoholism.
The newspaper claims that he has been drinking seven bottles of rose wine each day, and that his only possessions left are a pay-as-you-go phone, a travel card and a £20 note, as well as the T-shirt and shorts on his back.
The ex-footballer expressed in his 2008 biography 'To Cap It All…My Story' that even during his playing days he was struggling with the twin demons of both alcohol and gambling, claiming to be in a betting shop nearly every day, while spending most afternoons in the pub playing snooker that earned him the nickname "Mr Chablis".
He spoke publicly for the first time about his troubles in 2011, but he was found earlier this year collapsed close to Arsenal's Emirates Stadium, and was admitted to hospital which triggered his rapid fall from grace.
His elder sister, Mary, has confessed her heart-break over his downfall, and he went missing shortly after the interview.
"He is breaking my heart. I wish he would just tell us where he is," she said.
"On Fathers' Day we found him crying in the kitchen because none of his kids had sent him anything. Underneath all this he is such a nice person. But he can't get his act together."
Sansom's former manager at Arsenal George Graham admitted his surprise at the news, and claimed that he should get in touch with the Professional Footballers' Association, who he said could help him with what he is going through.
"He was a fantastic player under me when I was manager of Arsenal and he has over 80 caps for England," said Graham.
"He was a model professional and it is very, very sad to hear that news. I am really surprised. I haven't heard from Kenny for quite a while. I think the last time I saw him was on Sky television, working away. So it comes as big surprise.
"I think he should get in touch with the PFA because they are usually very supportive when players get into problems like Kenny obviously has. I am sure that Gordon Taylor, like he has with many players in the past, will be very willing to help Kenny.
"It seems some people can handle success and some people can't. Tony Adams is connected with the Sporting Chance clinic that helps ex-professionals. If I was Kenny I would get in touch with these people who I am sure will help him get out of the difficulties he finds himself in at present.
"I am sure there will be a lot of people, myself included, who would be willing to help him. But I think he has got to contact these bodies first, the PFA and the other bodies that run football who I am sure would be only too pleased to help him."
His sister summed up the feeling of his family after his latest disappearance, saying: "We're worried we're going to find him dead in the street somewhere."
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Monday, 20 April 2015
Life of a big foot: Shoe Shopping tips for ladies with large feet
On the weekend I posted a pic of my new kicks.
My Converse had lived a long and dedicated life, but they're so flat and don't give support - and you know, it was time for something new. Well Matt told me to buy something new, and so who was I to argue.
I kept selecting all these cool women's kicks (we were at Hype DC) only to be told that I had to in fact look at the men's shoes. Because my feet are so darn big.
This is going to sound crazy, but I wanted to walk out. I could feel the heat climbing from my chest, trying to reach my face. I felt really sad about my huge feet. And the fact that not many shoe makers make shoes big enough for big-footed babes.
But Peter, who was helping me in Hype DC was so super helpful, I stuck around.
Since forever, shoe shopping has been a real pain the watoozie. During school years I usually wore Doc Martens, men's sneakers, and then graduated to Converse. I remember my Year 10 graduation, I was so stoked to have this new pair of black suede Converse and one of the mum's had a go at me and asked why I would wear *those* shoes with my dress.
Well - put simply, because I had no other choice. It was Converse (which made me feel cool and kick-ass) or Doc Martens. Needless to say, I didn't feel very grateful for her comments on my footwear, and have remembered what she said to this day.
So this made me think - I know I am not the only woman with big feet. And over the years shoes HAVE started to be upsized (hoorah!), but sometimes navigating your way to those shoe shops is not easy. So here is a list of shoe retailers/makers who accommodate ladies with a lovely long foot.
Habbot: I have a few pairs of these, and it can be hit and miss to what fits me (I have REALLY long toes) - but their returns/exchange policy is excellent, their staff super knowledgeable, and me being in Sydney, and them in Melbourne? Well I've got four pairs of Habbot shoes and that alone can vouch for their awesome-ness. But have a look at the range - aye carumba. Annie Abott is super clever, creative, and they're made in Italy, so you know you're getting some high-quality shoes.
Goes up to: size 42
Bermuda Black (formerly Marcue): These guys seem to have gone a bit quiet, but keep an eye out for them. Hand-made in Sydney, beautiful shoes and custom made, and with personality to boot (pun intended). Yes please!
Goes up to: custom
Hobes: the quintessentially cool shoe, Hobes go up to a size 42 in women's shoes. They're more a casual kinda gig, but the cool palette and look can work back with jeans or dresses.
Goes up to: size 42
Trenery and Country Road: I used to always be able to shop here for shoes, but then they switched who made their shoes a few years ago, and that all went out the window. I can occasionally find heeled shoes that fit. The enclosed flats never fit me, but if it's got a bit of a heel, I can usually make it work. Sandals are usually also good (with a little overlap, but I can live with that).
Goes up to: size 42
Boden Clothing: Super cool, cute and quirky, on-trend and excellent, Boden has a great range of shoes that make my heart boompity-boompity boom!
Goes up to: size 42
Radical Yes: In case you haven't been on Instagram in the last forever, Radical Yes are the latest cool kid on the shoe block - with a range of ace, quirky and cool flats to take you 'round the world and back.
Goes up to: size 43
Bared: Cool and classic AND designed by a podiatrist (schawing!), these shoes not only look good, but they're ultra-comfy too.
Goes up to: 45 in limited styles (43 in lots)
Got a big foot? Where do you find kicks?
Sunday, 19 April 2015
Reading:: Me Talk Pretty One Day (David Sedaris)
I'll be honest - I've been pretty crummy at reading lately. I started the year with great gusto, tearing through three books in one month, and have dwindled to taking two months to read this book.
Which - let me clarify, is no reflection of this book. It's a reflection of me needing to unwind in front of bad tv, with tired eyes, instead of read a book, propped up in bed.
But today I finished it. Lying on the sofa, with the Doctor fast asleep right next to me, I laughed out loud - so funny is this book, it makes you laugh the whole way through.
I don't think that's an easy thing either, to make someone laugh out loud via a book. But David Sedaris never fails. First published in 2000, it's been out for a long time. A really long time, but it's still as relevant, entertaining and hilarious as ever.
I read David Sedaris' piece regarding his obsession with his FitBit a few months ago - and it spurred me on to read more of his writing.
If you want an easy read, that's funny, self-deprecating, and totally good value - read this. I am sure it won't disappoint. Particularly the chapters on living in France. Bloody funny.
Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris $16.95 from Booktopia
* Reading is all about what I'm reading. It's not sponsored. It's simply me, reading a book and sharing with you. A book club of sorts. In 2015 it's my goal to read at least one book per month - and share my lowdown on them with you. Maybe you'd like to read along? If so, let me know and we can virtually have a book club.
Monday, 6 April 2015
Three Movies for the school holidays: Home, The Book Of Life, Cinderella
A couple of weeks ago we had the happy fortune of taking the smalls to a preview of upcoming DreamWorks release 'Home'. And yet here's a picture of me with the lead character. Awkward.
With the voice skills of Rihanna, Steve Martin and J-Lo, I really had to check it out for myself.
It was funny. It made me laugh.
"It was great. My favourite bit? All of it." - The Doctor, 9.5 yo
"Yeah, I liked it." - Tiny, 7 yo.
My outtake? I think it's good for younger kids. Younger than my kids. It's a simple storyline. It's funny. But it's not something I think my kids or I want to see again.
I give it 2.5/5 stars.
"The Book of Life" was something I was not that excited to see. But we went anyway - and I am ever so glad we did.
It is freaking brilliant.
The graphics are enchanting - old-school meets new-school. The story is wonderful. The whole she-bang is ace. And hello people - Channing Tatum's voice is in it. HELLO!
It's complicated, dark, sad, happy, scary, bright, funny, belly-bouncing funny, I can't say enough good stuff about it. Plus you go for a tour through Mexican history. It's colourful and wacky, and I know you are going to love this as much as I do.
And it's got Ice Cube. And Biz Markie. And all the goods. Honestly. I am going to buy this movie when it comes out. SO SO GREAT!
How many stars? Give it ALL THE STARS!
So Matt and I got to go on a date to see 'Cinderella' at the State Theatre. It was pretty darn special.
Introduced by Cate Blanchett herself, the film was every inch eye candy, staying true to the traditional storyline, and with Blanchett playing a hideously wonderful wicked stepmother.
Directed by Kenneth Branagh, it's every inch theatrical as you'd expect - and Helena Bonham Carter is delightful as the Fairy Godmother.
I'd recommend this for older kids (6+) because the littlies in the cinema were restless people. And they were kicking the back of my chair. I know this because they were kicking my chair.
How many stars? 4.5 out of 5.
Have you seen any of these films? Did you love them or loathe them?
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Thursday, 12 March 2015
The case of the disappearing Lexi
Time flies when you're... super busy.
It's been a while, yes it's been a while. But I've been lurking. Thinking. Dreaming.
One of the highlights of being on hiatus was hanging out with Em from Little Tienda, at Little Nicki's house while being photographed by Luisa Brimble.
Honestly, it was a brilliant, bright, wonderful day and I had so much fun!
Spending time with three excellent strong, talented women was a real coup for me, and filled up my buckets. You know what I mean? When you hang out with people like that you can't help but feel buoyed and inspired. It was really good for my soul.
Other than that I'm madly trying to get my reading on (I was aiming for two books per month, but hit Feb and FAILED!), working my way through Orange is the New Black (like a true TV binger) and last night I had a little too much champagne. Oops!
Clearly the shoot was the most exciting thing that's happened to me in a looong time.
What's been cooking in your 'hood?
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Monday, 23 February 2015
Oscars 2015: Lupita Nyong'o, Solange, Patricia Arquette, and a whole bunch of other people including Oprah
Lupita is someone whose style never wavers - and she never fails to try something risky. And 99.99 repeater sign % times. It pays off. I love this pearl encrusted dress. She looks amazing although I am guessing it would have translated better in person (i.e. photography doesn't deliver on the lustre-factor).
Solange looks like she's become a Scientologist in a 'beam me up Scottie' kind of way. It took a lot for me to say that. Because I love Solange.
Nicky looks like my Crystal Barbie. Except Crystal didn't have that red ribbon off the Lindt bunny. And neither should Nicole.
Love the colour. Meh about the dress.
Really, really beautiful Oprah.
Don't know who this is, but as an avid fan of frocks with pockets, I can relate. However I am not a fan of your Nana's valance re-styled into this dress with pockets. Little Bo Peep can loan you her crook and you can BYO sheep.
Solange looks like she's become a Scientologist in a 'beam me up Scottie' kind of way. It took a lot for me to say that. Because I love Solange.
Seriously - Patricia classic in black and white and I am still glowing after her speech. Nailed it.
Nicky looks like my Crystal Barbie. Except Crystal didn't have that red ribbon off the Lindt bunny. And neither should Nicole.
Love the colour. Meh about the dress.
Really, really beautiful Oprah.
Don't know who this is, but as an avid fan of frocks with pockets, I can relate. However I am not a fan of your Nana's valance re-styled into this dress with pockets. Little Bo Peep can loan you her crook and you can BYO sheep.
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Oscars 2015: Cate Blanchett, Marion Cotillard, Sienna Miller, Julianne Moore's teeth, Rosamund Pike,
As everyone knows Cate Blanchett and I are BFFs and I pretty well hang out with Cate and Andrew like ALL THE TIME. So I know this is really simple, but Cate looks incredible in this column dress. That turquoise is just BOOM! Perfect. I really dig on this. High fives Cate.
I called it very early (over on Facebook), but I do love Marion Cotillard's dress. Personality, style, and it just looks so banging good on her. And the flip side is cool too, unpredictable and just the way I like it.
I didn't even recognise Sienna Miller tonight. I was just clicking through and then reversed to find out who it was. And just in case you missed it: It's SIENNA MILLER.
Julianne Moore - one of my all-time favourites, and here practicing her cheesiest smile for the whole world. If I was her dentist I'd give her a gold star. Actually I'd give her an Allen's Snake, but let's not even go there because that's how I came to have so many fillings.
The Ice Princess in roaring hot red with the sexiest split. Super beautiful, but I feel like she ran out the door and forgot:
a) a pedicure
b) her handbag
c) jewellery
d) her smile
e) all of the above
Yeah. Nah. Looks like the designer had to lay a lot of bricks to make this dress.
Margot Robbie, really simple, really beautiful, and I love that she's gone back to blonde. Game over.
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Oscars 2015: Alexis Carrington Colby AKA Gwyneth Paltrow, Lady Gaga, Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Chastain, Rita Ora, Eddie Redmayne
Gwynnie raided the 'Dynasty' wardrobe. I am totally in on the gag.
I love everything about this Gaga. I love everything. Except the red gloves that remind me of when I worked at McDonald's and had to don huge, oversized gloves for emptying the fry vat. Besides that. I love everything.
This might be better suited to someone attending the Tamworth Country Music Awards. And I can say that because I grew up in Tamworth. And I don't mean it as a compliment.
Apparently Jessica Chastain's bust is ready to party, while the rest of her body just wants to get back to business.
I'm pretty sure Rita Ora stole the red carpet. And no one's going to be able to get it back.
And then there was Eddie. I love Eddie. And I do love his inky blue tux. I know I said tuxedos bore me, but this one has piqued my interest. I'm into it Eddie!
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The latest round of tests by federal scientists, published in February, has documented high percentages of supermarket meat containing antibiotic-resistant bacteria. An Environmental Working Group analysis of data in the federal government's National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System found that store-bought meat tested in 2011 contained antibiotic-resistant bacteria in 81 percent of raw ground turkey, 69 […]
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Boston tragedy reminds us to be ready for emergencies
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Bartosz Feński: lack of SRS on @debian.org mail servers
Any good reason that we're not using SRS to make SPF aware servers happy?
That's kinda strange given that @debian.org is doing only forwarding.
Josselin Mouette: GNOME for system administrators - Jessie edition
For those who couldn't be here, as well as those who were here and disappointed to see me cut through the last third for timing reasons, here are the slides:
Wouter Verhelst: LOADays 2015 talk done
I just uploaded my LOADays 2015 slides to slideshare. The talk seems to have been well received; I got a number of positive comments from some attendees, which is always nice.
As an aside, during the talk I did a short demo of how to sign something from within Libreoffice using my eID card. Since the slides were made in Libreoffice Impress, the easiest thing to do was just to sign the slides themselves, which worked perfectly well. So, having uploaded, downloaded, and verified these slides, I can now say with 100% certainty that slideshare does not tamper with files you upload. They may reformat them so it's easier to view on a website, but if you click on the download link, you get the original, untampered version.
At least that's the case if you sign documents, of course; it's always possible that they check for that and special-case such things. Would surprise me, though.
Steve Kemp: Some things get moved, some things get doubled in size.
We're about three months away from relocating from Edinburgh to Newcastle and some of the immediate panic has worn off.
We've sold our sofa, our spare sofa, etc, etc. We've bought a used dining-table, chairs, and a small sofa, etc. We need to populate the second-bedroom as an actual bedroom, do some painting, & etc, but things are slowly getting done.
I've registered myself as a landlord with the city council, so that I can rent the flat out without getting into trouble, and I'm in the process of discussing the income possabilities with a couple of agencies.
We're still unsure of precisely which hospital, from the many choices, in Newcastle my wife will be stationed at. That's frustrating because she could be in the city proper, or outside it. So we need to know before we can find a place to rent there.
Anyway moving? It'll be annoying, but we're making progress. Plus, how hard can it be?
VLAN Expansion
I previously had a /28 assigned for my own use, now I've doubled that to a /27 which gives me the ability to create more virtual machines and run some SSL on some websites.
Using SNI I've actually got the ability to run SSL almost all sites. So I configured myself as a CA and generated a bunch of certificates for myself. (Annoyingly few tutorials on running a CA mentioned SNI so it took a few attempts to get the SAN working. But once I got the hang of it it was simple enough.)
So if you have my certificate authority file installed you can browse many, many of my interesting websites over SSL.
I run a number of servers behind a reverse-proxy. At the moment the back-end is lighttpd. Now that I have SSL setup the incoming requests hit the proxy, get routed to lighttpd and all is well. Mostly.
However redirections break. A request for:
- https://lumail.org/docs
Gets rewritten to:
- http://lumail.org/docs/
That is because lighttpd generates the redirection and it only sees the HTTP connection. It seems there is mod_extforward which should allow the server to be aware of the SSL - but it doesn't do so in a useful fashion.
So right now most of my sites are SSL-enabled, but sometimes they'll flip to naked and unprotected. Annoying.
I don't yet have a solution..
Andrew Shadura: Kallithea 0.2 released
This post is almost a carbon copy of the Kallithea 0.2 release notes.
Kallithea project have just released Kallithea 0.2. Kallithea is a Python-based GPLv3 source code management software for web-based hosting of Mercurial and Git repositories.
This release brings many changes since 0.1. Notably, pull requests system have been improved, making contributing changes more robust. The visual appearance has also been refined: modern font-based symbolic icons from FontAwesome and GitHub Octicons have replaced the previously used bitmap icons, and revision graphs are now drawn with HiDPI display support. Kallithea now supports Mercurial 3.3 and Dulwich 0.9.9. Several fixes in the database code boosted performance significantly.
We have also updated our Javascript libraries: jQuery, CodeMirror and Mergely. Javascript and CSS code have been cleaned up, with less and less code depending on Yahoo UI library.
Since 0.1 we have discovered two security issues, so all users are strongly recommended to upgrade. For more details on these issues, please see our Security Notices page
For more information, see https://kallithea-scm.org/ or http://docs.kallithea-scm.org/.
The summary of the changes since 0.1 release is below.
Bug fixes:
- forms: add CSRF protection to all forms — CVE-2015-0276
- api: don't send internal data unless asked for it — CVE-2015-0260
- middleware: fix force_tls typo in force_https backward compatibility code (Issue #44)
- rebranddb: update user extern_type and _name to 'internal' instead of 'kallithea' (Issue #38)
- git: do not fail if git is not installed and has been removed from __init__.py backends
- git: fix 'name' must be bytestring, not unicode error on browsing changesets
- git: close SubprocessIOChunker inputstream used for git (Issue #32)
- git: introduce hack for handling git failure on --depth cloning (Issue #33)
- git: fix version detection with unexpected version string (Issue #71)
- git: preserve line endings when calling out to git
- hg: fix clone from svn+http urls using hg-svn (Issue #72)
- migrate: add missing import (Issue #29)
- pullrequests: handle pull requests to empty repos (Issue #27)
- pullrequests: when creating PRs, fix handling of new ajax requests while other ajax requests are pending
- pullrequests: fix updates for PRs between different repositories
- pullrequests: preserve query parameters in pull request overview paging links
- compare: workaround unexpected Mercurial behaviour when finding ancestor of null rev
- javascript: remove trailing comma to please IE8 (Issue #39)
- download: fix for zip file downloads not being valid zips (Issue #35)
- helpers: fix crash on new users without email (Issue #28)
- middleware: change middleware ordering so we don't buffer hgweb output in redirect
- bin: give kallithea_config.py #!/usr/bin/env python so it can be executed directly
- bin: reintroduce cleanup-repos paster command
- bin: fix update_repoinfo command
- urlify: don't include trailing punctuation in markup
- urlify: markup of hashes in ()
- styling: don't loop on trying to load kallithea-logo.png after kallithea-logo.svg failed
- error: don't crash on /error/document urls
- error: don't crash on response without status
- admin: prevent deletion of users that are owners of a repository/user group (Issue #64)
- admin: make settings hook name field smaller so it is less likely to overlap with the value field
- admin: when scanning for repos to add, ignore removed groups
- auth_crowd: fix Admin Group Membership when using the Atlassian Crowd plugin
- auth: enable selecting PAM authentication module
- auth_ldap: fix user automatically activated with LDAP authentication (Issue #78)
- db: fix beaker cache key for user groups — don't collide with users
- db: fix handling of (invalid) unicode email addresses
- db: don't use sql 'in' on empty sets in compare — avoid warning of bad performance
- db: to the extent it makes sense to have a one byte size limit, make it 255 instead of 256 to please MySQL (Issue #96)
- files: use current revision as default for 'show at' (Issue #31)
- files: fix HTML injection via file names
- files: use forward slash as path separator for consistency
- files: don't use HTML encoding where not needed (Issue #74).
- feed: urlify and escape the commit description
- diff: fix diff of renamed files with whitespace in their names
- diff: don't split lines on bare CR as python splitlines do
- mergely: update Mergely to v3.3.9 (Issue #83)
- jquery: upgrade to 1.11.1
- codemirror: cleanup of integration and update to version 4.7
- setup: constrain dulwich to version 0.9.9, fixes CVE-2015-0838
- gists: add missing formencode.htmlfill import
- ini: Make celeryd.log.level default values uppercase — lowercase might not be recognized and cause failure
- notification: handle unicode translations (Issue #95)
- repos: fix redirect after repo creation (and user/group add focus) (Issue #98)
- changeset: don't crash on malformed whitespace parameter — return 400 Bad Request
- stats: fix display when no data ready yet
- stats: fix "show more" link
Features and improvements:
- ui: use font based icons — FontAwesome and Git Hub Octicons from fontello
- ui: HiDPI / Retina support in graphs and other places
- paster: add install-iis command to automate IIS handler generation and update documentation
- email templates: send text/plain part as well
- docs: lots of improvements of structure and content and language
- translations: updated using WebLate
- admin: show links to added repos after repo scan
- admin: show links to created users and groups
- admin: when scanning for repos without 'remove', report the repos that could/would be removed
- setup: support Mercurial 3.3
- db: drop most lazy joins — significant performance improvement
- db: add missing indices — significant performance improvement
- db: don't commit session if cache invalidation didn't change anything — improves performance
- comment: show full username in emails for PR/changeset comments
- changelog: added Settings to repo context menu
- utils: better display of ages >1 year when in short form
- remotes: add support to clone from Mercurial repositories over ssh
- hg: reimplement branch head listings more efficiently
- pullrequests: use same code and table ui for Repo Pull Requests and My Pull Requests
- pullrequests: add delete button to My Pull Requests overview
- pullrequests: on 'my pullrequests' show the user's own vote as second column next to 'latest vote'
- pullrequests: add option for adding repo owner as reviewer if none assigned
- pullrequests: make top pane one big form with meta data and one save button and preview changes in pane below — more like when creating the PR
- pullrequests: make 'update' functionality a separate submit button in the big form, automatically enabled when an update changeset is chosen
- pullrequests: show graph next to the list of changesets that are available for update
- pullrequests: for available changesets, also show changesets that not are descendants and thus not directly available but will be merged in
- pullrequests: show unrelated branch heads in the graph too — show the problem instead of trying to explain it
- pullrequests: show pending reviewer changes with "(not saved)"
- pullrequests: show comment count in top of summary box
- diff: improved parsing, be more strict and fail with good error messages
- diff: handle GIT delta binary patches
- diff: show renamed files as that
- diff: make trailing spaces more visible — make vertical line less transparent
- diff: show CR (\r) in diffs
- comment: warn before leaving page with open comments
- comment: clarify shown comment count (inline vs general)
- comment: extend next/previous links to global comments (Issue #91)
Changes (might influence workflows):
- i18n: en translation has been removed — make sure to update your .ini files to have 'lang =' (nothing)
- ini: turn show_revision_number off by default
- pullrequests: don't give changeset 'unreviewed' status just because it is added to a PR
- pullrequests: tweak readable titles — just append /_/ and branch name
- pullrequests: only author and admin can close
- pullrequests: don't add repo owner as reviewer in all PRs
- pullrequests: PRs between different repos should default to same destination/source branch
- pullrequests: use -- as separator in the automatic text when "updating" pull requests and is it to put latest updates first
- diff: don't group diffs based on the kind of change
- admin: set current user as owner when running repo scan
- changelog: change default view to 100 changesets, max to 2000
- date representation: use ISO8601 rather than a specific locale
- user groups: drop add/remove all buttons for member selection — they are too dangerous and multi-select can do the same
- hg: drop support for hg web.hidden
- template: link the last revision in the file browser to the changeset
- code: Fix typos and language in comments and code
- ui: Correct capitalization and improved English text in the UI
- javascript: use strict mode
- tags: rename old non-Kallithea tags and prefix them with 0.0 to show that Kallithea is superior
- javascript: more jQuery, less YUI, less clutter
- templates: better structure, less cut'n'paste coding
- html: various improvements
- css: various improvements
- exceptions: avoid silently catching exceptions — especially avoid catch all
- tests: stability fixes
- tests: remove large unused test fixture
- whitespacecleanup.sh: run it regularly to ensure consistent whitespace and avoid spurious changes
- controllers: consistently use formfill.render with force_defaults=False
- gists: use allow_extra_fields and filter_extra_fields in gist forms like in most other forms
- json: always use kallithea.lib.compat for json — and nothing else
- json: drop simplejson fallback and just use stdlib
- db: check for None instead of boolean false if that is what we mean
Richard Hartmann: Release Critical Bug report for Week 15
Still on the road with shittynet; sorry for missing last week.
The UDD bugs interface currently knows about the following release critical bugs:
- In Total:
1041 (Including
159 bugs affecting
key packages)
- Affecting Jessie:
82 (key packages:
54) That's the number we need to get down to zero
before the release. They can be split in two big categories:
- Affecting Jessie and unstable:
65 (key packages:
49) Those need someone to find a fix, or to finish the
work to upload a fix to unstable:
- 19 bugs are tagged 'patch'. (key packages: 13) Please help by reviewing the patches, and (if you are a DD) by uploading them.
- 6 bugs are marked as done, but still affect unstable. (key packages: 1) This can happen due to missing builds on some architectures, for example. Help investigate!
- 40 bugs are neither tagged patch, nor marked done. (key packages: 35) Help make a first step towards resolution!
- Affecting Jessie only: 17 (key packages: 5) Those are already fixed in unstable, but the fix still needs to migrate to Jessie. You can help by submitting unblock requests for fixed packages, by investigating why packages do not migrate, or by reviewing submitted unblock requests.
- Affecting Jessie and unstable:
65 (key packages:
49) Those need someone to find a fix, or to finish the
work to upload a fix to unstable:
- Affecting Jessie:
82 (key packages:
54) That's the number we need to get down to zero
before the release. They can be split in two big categories:
How do we compare to the Squeeze and Wheezy release cycles?
Week Squeeze Wheezy Jessie 43 284 (213+71) 468 (332+136) 319 (240+79) 44 261 (201+60) 408 (265+143) 274 (224+50) 45 261 (205+56) 425 (291+134) 295 (229+66) 46 271 (200+71) 401 (258+143) 427 (313+114) 47 283 (209+74) 366 (221+145) 342 (260+82) 48 256 (177+79) 378 (230+148) 274 (189+85) 49 256 (180+76) 360 (216+155) 226 (147+79) 50 204 (148+56) 339 (195+144) ??? 51 178 (124+54) 323 (190+133) 189 (134+55) 52 115 (78+37) 289 (190+99) 147 (112+35) 1 93 (60+33) 287 (171+116) 140 (104+36) 2 82 (46+36) 271 (162+109) 157 (124+33) 3 25 (15+10) 249 (165+84) 172 (128+44) 4 14 (8+6) 244 (176+68) 187 (132+55) 5 2 (0+2) 224 (132+92) 175 (124+51) 6 release! 212 (129+83) 161 (109+52) 7 release+1 194 (128+66) 147 (106+41) 8 release+2 206 (144+62) 147 (96+51) 9 release+3 174 (105+69) 152 (101+51) 10 release+4 120 (72+48) 112 (82+30) 11 release+5 115 (74+41) 97 (68+29) 12 release+6 93 (47+46) 13 release+7 50 (24+26) 14 release+8 51 (32+19) 15 release+9 39 (32+7) 16 release+10 20 (12+8) 17 release+11 24 (19+5) 18 release+12 2 (2+0)Dirk Eddelbuettel: drat 0.0.3: More features, more fixes, more documentation
Several weeks ago we introduced the drat package. Its name stands for drat R Archive Template, and it helps with easy-to-create and easy-to-use repositories for R packages. Two early blog posts describe drat: First Steps Towards Lightweight Repositories, and Publishing a Package, and since the previous release, a a guest post on drat was also added to the blog.
Several people have started to use drat to publish their packages, and this is a very encouraging sign. I also created a new repository and may have more to say about this in another post once I get time to write something up.
Today version 0.0.3 arrived on CRAN. It rounds out functionality, adds some fixes and brings more documentation:
- git support via git2r is improved; it is still optional (ie commit=TRUE is needed when adding packages) but plan to expand it
- several small bugs got fixed, including issues #9 and #7,
- four new vignettes got added, including two guests posts by Steven and Colin as well as two focusing, respectively, on drat for authors and and drat for users.
The work on the vignettes is clearly in progress as Colin's guest post isn't really finished yet, and I am not too impressed with how the markdown is rendered at CRAN so some may still become pdf files instead.
Courtesy of CRANberries, there is a comparison to the previous release. More detailed information is on the drat page.
This post by Dirk Eddelbuettel originated on his Thinking inside the box blog. Please report excessive re-aggregation in third-party for-profit settings.
Mario Lang: A C++ sample collection
I am one of those people that best learns from looking at examples. No matter if I am trying to learn a programming pattern/idiom, or a completely new library or framework. Documentation is good (if it is good!) for diving into the details, but to get me started, I always want to look at a self contained example so that I can get a picture of the thing in my head.
So I was very excited when a few days ago, CppSamples was announced on the ISO C++ Blog.
While it is a very young site, it already contains some very useful gems. It is maintained over at GitHub, so it is also rather easy to suggest new additions, or improve the existing examples by submitting a pull request.
Give it a try, it is really quite nice. In my book, the best resource I have found so far in 2015.
BTW, Debian has a standard location for finding examples provided by a package. It is /usr/share/doc/<package>/examples/. I consider that very useful.
Lars Wirzenius: DPL elections for 2015 are going on
The Debian Project Leader electsions are going on. This is the yearly election for the leader, where members of the project vote for a new leader for a year. The debate this year seemed to me to be quite quiet, and voting activity seems to not be very high, either. Pity. Many years ago, the election period used to be quite energetic, bringing up some quite good viewpoints.
There seems to also not have been the usual repeat of the voting announcement, not sure what's going there. There's time until next Tuesday midnight (in the UTC time zone) to vote. Below are links to the vote page (with instructions for voting) and the (corrected) initial announcment.
- https://www.debian.org/vote/2015/vote_001
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/04/msg00000.html
I voted for Neil as my top candidate. I think he's got the best background and personality for being the leader of this project of ours.
Daniel Pocock: Never fly Etihad again?
This is the first time we've flown out to Australia with Etihad and it may also be the last.
We were due to fly back into Europe at CDG and head down to Lyon for the mini-DebConf this weekend.
Lets look at how our Etihad experience has worked out:
21:00 UTC Tuesday - waking up on Wednesday morning in Melbourne (UTC+10)
13:00 UTC Wednesday - leaving Melbourne about 11pm Wednesday night, a 12-13 hour flight to Abu Dhabi. We had heard about the air traffic control strikes in France (where we are going) and asked the airline if we should fly and they told us everything would be OK.
02:30 UTC Thursday - touchdown in Abu Dhabi, 6:30 am local time. Go to the transfer counter to ask for our boarding passes to CDG. At this stage, we were told that the connecting flight to CDG had been delayed 20 hours due to French strikes. As we are trying to reach Lyon for the mini-DebConf this weekend, we asked if we could leave Abu Dhabi on a 09:00 flight to Geneva. The Etihad staff told us to contact our travel agent (the flight was booked through Expedia) and for the next hour everybody's time was wasted making calls to Expedia who kept telling us to speak to Etihad. Whenever the Etihad customer service staff tried to speak to Expedia, the Expedia call center would hang up.
Eventually, the Etihad staff told us that the deadline for putting us on the Geneva flight had passed and we would be stuck in Abu Dhabi for at least 20 hours.
For flights to and from Europe, airlines have a responsibility to arrange hotels for passengers if there is a lengthy delay. If the airline is at fault, they must also pay some extra cash compensation but for a strike situation that is not applicable.
Etihad has repeatedly fobbed us off. Initially we were given vouchers for Burger King or a pizza slice and told to hang around the transfer counter.
By about 12:00 UTC (4pm local time, nine hours of waiting around the transfer counter) there was still no solution. One passenger was so upset that the airport security were called to speak to him and he was taken away. The airline staff kept giving excuses. Some passengers had been sent to a hotel but others left behind. I asked them again about our hotel and they kept trying to fob me off.
Faced with the possibility that I would miss two nights of sleep and eight hours time difference coming into Europe, I continued asking the Etihad staff to own up to their responsibilities and they eventually offered us access to their airport lounge. We discovered some other passengers in the lounge too, including the passenger who had earlier been escorted away by security.
This is unlike anything we've experienced with any other airline.
At every opportunity (the check-in at Melbourne, or when the Geneva flight was boarding), the airline has failed to make arrangements that would have avoided cost and inconvenience.
Assuming the flight goes ahead with a 20 hour delay, we will arrive in CDG some time Friday morning and not really sleep in a proper bed again until Friday night, about 70 hours after getting up in Melbourne on Wednesday morning. Thanks Etihad, you are a waking nightmare.
The airline has been evasive about how they will deal with our onward travel from CDG to Lyon. We had booked a TGV train ticket already but it is not valid after such a long delay and it seems quite possible that trains will be busier than usual thanks to the air traffic control strike. So we don't even know if we will be loitering around a Paris airport or railway station for hours on Friday and nobody from the airline or Expedia really seems to care.
ConclusionThe only conclusion I can reach from this experience is that Etihad can't be trusted, certainly not for long journies such as Australia to Europe. Having flown through Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong, I know that air passengers have plenty of options available and there are many airlines that do go the extra mile to look after passengers especially on such long journeys. The airline missed opportunities to re-route us at every opportunity. It looks like they help some passengers (like those who did get to hotels) but leave many others high and dry just to stay within their budget.
Gunnar Wolf: Guests in the classroom: César Yáñez (@caesarcomptus) talks about memory assignation algorithms
Once again, on March 11 I had a great guest to save me some work and give a talk at my class! This time it was César Yáñez, and he talked about memory management algorithms, emphasizing on ARC.
The video is available, both at this server and in archive.org.
Thanks a lot!
Steve McIntyre: More arm64 hardware for Debian - Applied Micro X-Gene
As a follow-up to my post about bootstrapping arm64 in Debian, we've had more hardware given to Debian for us to use in porting and building packages for arm64. Applied Micro sent me an X-Gene development machine to set up and use. Unfortunately, the timing was unlucky and the machine sat on my desk unopened for a few weeks while I was on long holiday in Australia. Once I was back, I connected it up and got it working. Out of the box, a standard Jessie arm64 installation worked using network boot (dhcp and tftp). I ran through d-i as normal and installed a working system, then handed it over to the DSA and buildd folks to get the machine integrated into our systems. Easy! The machine is now up and running as arm-arm-03.debian.org and has been building packages for a few weeks now. You can see the stats here on the buildd.debian.org site.
In terms of installation, I also got the machine to boot using one of our netinst images on a USB stick, but that path didn't get very far. The USB drivers for this hardware have only quite recently gone into the mainline kernel, and haven't been backported to the Debian Jessie kernel yet. I'm hoping to get those included shortly. There's also an option to replace the U-Boot firmware that came with the X-Gene with UEFI instead, which would be much more helpful for a server platform like this. I'll look into doing that upgrade soon too, but probably after the Jessie release is done. I don't want to jinx things just now. *grin*
Thanks to APM for their generous donation here, and particularly to Richard Zenkert for his help in getting this machine shipped to us.
Ben Hutchings: Call for testing: linux 3.16.7-ckt9-1
As it is nearly time to release Debian 8 (codename jessie), I've uploaded a new version of the Linux kernel to unstable which I hope will be the version to go into the initial release (8.0). The changes from the current version in testing are mostly bug fixes:
- Many fixes from stable releases 3.16.7-ckt8 and 3.16.7-ckt9
- New hardware support: early console support on various systems, Xen MCE log, power control on some Allwinner (sunxi) systems, FocalTech PS/2 touchpads
- Security fixes: CVE-2014-8159, CVE-2014-9710, CVE-2015-0275, CVE-2015-2666, CVE-2015-2922
- Fix for data corruption on some Marvell Armada SoCs
- Require upgraded flash-kernel on Kirkwood systems to avoid boot failure
- Use the right fan control drivers on G5 PowerMac
- Fix two instances of boot console noise on x86 (#781953, #781418)
- Fix WARNING when attaching some display devices to i915 GPU
- Fix race condition in thingm driver
- Hide eMMC RPMB partitions which userland doesn't need to see and which often cause hangs
- On 32-bit PowerPC, package the radeonfb module (formerly built-in) for inclusion in the installer
Please test this new version (which should be on mirrors within the next 24 hours) and report any regressions you spot.
It's now too late to add new hardware support for Debian 8.0, but we'll probably be able to improve it in subsequent point releases. So, please also report driver changes that should be backported from later kernel versions to improve hardware support, with severity of 'important'. If you can provide precise information about which upstream commits are needed, that makes things easier for us, and you should add the 'patch' tag.
Junichi Uekawa: New Month.
Wouter Verhelst: C11 function overloading
About four years ago, the ISO 9899:2011 "C11" standard was announced. At the time, I had a short look at (a draft version of) the standards document, and found a few interesting bits in there. Of course, however, due to it only very recently having been released, I did not have much hope of it being implemented to any reasonable amount anywhere yet. Which turned out to be the case. Even if that wasn't true, writing code that uses C11 features and expecting it to work just about anywhere else would have been a bad idea back then.
We're several years down the line now, however, and now the standard has been implemented to a reasonable extent in most compilers. GCC claims its "support [for C11] is at a similar level of completeness to (...) C99 support" since GCC 4.9.
Since my laptop has GCC 4.9, I looked at one feature in C11 that I have been wanting to use for a while: Generic selection.
#include <stdint.h> #include <inttypes.h> #include <stdio.h> void say32(uint32_t i) { printf("32-bit variable: %" PRId32 "\n", i); } void say64(uint64_t i) { printf("64-bit variable: %" PRId64 "\n", i); } void sayother(int i) { printf("This is something else.\n"); } #define say(X) _Generic((X), uint32_t: say32, uint64_t: say64, default: sayother)(X) int main(void) { uint32_t v32 = 32; uint64_t v64 = 64; uint8_t v8 = 8; say(v32); say(v64); say(v8); }
Output of the above:
32-bit variable: 32 64-bit variable: 64 This is something else.
or, "precompiler-assisted function overloading for C". Should be useful for things like:
#define ntoh(X) _Generic((X), int16_t: ntohs, uint16_t: ntohs, int32_t: ntohl, uint32_t: ntohl)(X) #define hton(X) _Generic((X), int16_t: ntohs, uint16_t: htons, int32_t: ntohl, uint32_t: htonl)(X)
... and if one adds the ntohll found here, it can do 64 bit as well.
Thorsten Glaser: exciting news, or so
I implemented <? support (including <?php…) script embedding support for *.inc in MirWebseite today; the specific syntax was explicitely requested by Natureshadow. Ugh.
My own hacking activities are progressing, even if slowly. I do some other interesting, funny, social, beneficial, etc. stuff in between, though. I'll even have to get some of my DD buddies to sponsor me some QA uploads of packages I formerly maintained, whereever changes are queued up… such as better old-format repo compatibility in cvs(GNU) ☺ Though some of the stuff I do at work is currently done only there… sorry.
Also: prepare to be fully enlightened about just what evil (nice picture) Docker is. I especially liked the comparison of containers to a herd of cattle, mere numbers, replaceable, whereas VMs are cats, each with their individual name, lovely petted each day, etc.
ObHint: Some may have noticed I do have a Twitter account now. I do not
really use it much. I got it because I wanted to rant at someone who only
gave Twitter as means to contact them (a European company running a lottery
for USA citizens only). But I found one nice thing: @HourlyCats (though
@FacesPics and @BahnAnsagen are funny too, and the Postillon anyway).
The internet is there for cat content, anyway.
Ahem. Do not contact
me there, use IRC, more specifically, the
Freenode network, and possibly memoserv to mirabilos
instead, I can't fit things into 140 chars, that's just ridiculous. Also,
don't follow me. It may contain rants, it's NSFW, and I'm not censoring
there. As I said: I do not use it. So should you. (But kudos for having a
mostly functional "fallback" site (the "mobile" one), which even works in
PocketIE (Windows Mobile) and Opera 9, though not so much lynx(1)…)
odc (from #!/bin/mksh on IRC) is hacking support to use mksh instead of GNU bash for bootstrapping pkgsrc® (e.g. on Solaris). Nice! Good luck!
… à propos mksh(1), dear Debian armel and armhf buildd maintainer colleagues, pretty please with strawberries and chocolate ice on top (I just had that on waffles at my favourite ice salon, so I may be biased), do like s390x and update your chroots and wanna-build give-back mksh, as we requested, so the privacy fix makes it into jessie. Thanks in advance!
Oh, and Y_Plentyn and I both have been putting more and updated packages into my APT repository. XTaran held a talk at CLT 2015 mentioning it… maybe I should write up some docs about how to use it for which purposes (e.g. how to avoid systemd but not get the other packages from it, or how to use it with systemd (trivial but has to be stated, it's freedom of choice after all), etc.)?
Besides decent fanfiction (the stories in the Uzumaki Naruto universe seem, on average, to be much longer than those in the Harry Potter one), the weather is becoming good, so I've already been enjoying going out for some geocaching and will have the bike fixed at the shop RSN (it suffers a bit each winter, as it stands outside, since our basement is mouldy, which is worse than a bit of rust IMHO) to get more activity in. Also planning to head to the GPS Maze in Mainz and, besides what time FrOSCon (including preparation) allows, heading to DebConf for a while.
Wouter Verhelst: C11 operator overloading
C11 function overloading
About four years ago, the ISO 9899:2011 "C11" standard was announced. At the time, I had a short look at (a draft version of) the standards document, and found a few interesting bits in there. Of course, however, due to it only very recently having been released, I did not have much hope of it being implemented to any reasonable amount anywhere yet. Which turned out to be the case. Even if that wasn't true, writing code that uses C11 features and expecting it to work just about anywhere else would have been a bad idea back then.
We're several years down the line now, however, and now the standard has been implemented to a reasonable extent in most compilers. GCC claims its "support [for C11] is at a similar level of completeness to (...) C99 support" since GCC 4.9.
Since my laptop has GCC 4.9, I looked at one feature in C11 that I have been wanting to use for a while: Generic selection.
#include <stdint.h> #include <inttypes.h> #include <stdio.h> void say32(uint32_t i) { printf("32-bit variable: %" PRId32 "\n", i); } void say64(uint64_t i) { printf("64-bit variable: %" PRId64 "\n", i); } void sayother(int i) { printf("This is something else.\n"); } #define say(X) _Generic((X), uint32_t: say32, uint64_t: say64, default: sayother)(X) int main(void) { uint32_t v32 = 32; uint64_t v64 = 64; uint8_t v8 = 8; say(v32); say(v64); say(v8); }
Output of the above:
32-bit variable: 32 64-bit variable: 64 This is something else.
or, "precompiler-assisted function overloading for C". Should be useful for things like:
#define ntoh(X) _Generic((X), int16_t: ntohs, uint16_t: ntohs, int32_t: ntohl, uint32_t: ntohl)(X) #define hton(X) _Generic((X), int16_t: ntohs, uint16_t: htons, int32_t: ntohl, uint32_t: htonl)(X)
... and if one adds the ntohll found here, it can do 64 bit as well.
Mario Lang: I am sorry, but this looks insane
I am a console user. I really just started to use X11 again about two weeks ago, to sometimes test an a Qt application I am developing. I am not using Firefox or anything similar, all my daily work happens in shells and inside of emacs, in a console, not in X11. BRLTTY runs all the time, translating the screen content to something that my braille display can understand, sent out via USB. So the most important programs to me, are really emacs, and brltty.
This is my desktop, that is up since 179 days.
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 1227 message+ 20 0 7140 2860 672 S 0,0 0,1 153:33.10 dbus-daemon 21457 root 20 0 44456 1116 788 S 0,0 0,1 146:42.47 packagekitd 1 root 20 0 24348 2808 1328 S 0,0 0,1 109:16.99 systemd 7897 mlang 20 0 585776 121656 4188 S 0,0 6,0 105:22.40 emacs 13332 root 20 0 10744 432 220 S 0,0 0,0 91:55.96 ssh 19581 root 20 0 4924 1632 1076 S 0,0 0,1 53:33.56 systemd 19596 root 20 0 20312 9764 9660 S 0,0 0,5 48:10.76 systemd-journal 10172 root 20 0 85308 2472 1672 S 0,0 0,1 20:30.18 NetworkManager 29 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0,0 0,0 18:40.24 kswapd0 13334 root 20 0 120564 5748 304 S 0,0 0,3 16:20.89 sshfs 7 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0,0 0,0 15:21.15 rcu_sched 14245 root 20 0 7620 316 152 S 0,0 0,0 15:08.64 ssh 438 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0,0 0,0 12:14.80 jbd2/dm-1-8 11952 root 10 -10 42968 2028 1420 S 0,0 0,1 10:36.20 brltty
I am sorry, but this doesn't look right, not at all. I am not even beginning to talk about dbus-daemon and systemd. Why the HECK does packagekitd (which I definitely don't use actively) use up more then two hours of plain CPU time? What did it do, talk to NSA via an asymmetric cipher, or what?! I play music via sshfs, sometimes FLAC files. That barely consumed more CPU time then brltty, which is probably the most active daemon on my system, erm, it should be.
I don't want to chime into any flamewars. I have accepted that we have systemd. But this does not look right! I remember, back in the good old days, emacs and brltty were my top CPU users.
Carl Chenet: Backup Checker, the ServerSpec for your backups
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Sysadmins usually know ServerSpec, a tool allowing to check if your servers are correctly configured. The use of automated deployment tools makes deployments easier and easier, but lot of unexpected situations can come up using this tool, especially when more and more servers are implied. ServerSpec allows to verify that the result of your deployments are what you were expecting for and that no exception or unexpected event goes undetected.
Backup Checker (Github stars appreciated :)) offers the same kind of controls, but for your backups. Once you have backups, you don't know if they contain what you are expecting for. And this is especially important because having broken backups mean losing your data after a major outage! Moreover if you think you are well protected with backups but they are eventually broken (corrupted archives, archives being filled with empty files, saving useless files…), you will perform your server or database upgrades without being really protected, leading to terrible situations.
Backup Checker offers lots of controls over backups:
- check if an archive is corrupted
- control if some files or directories exist inside an archive exist
- check if a file size inside an archive is not null or has a specific size (operators smaller than, equals, greater than supported)
- owner, group, uid, gid of files/directories inside an archive
- and a lot more. Check the official documentation!
Starting from Backup Checker 1.7,if you use a backup tool like Backup-Manager or Rsnapshot, you'll be glad to know that Backup Checker perfectly works with them. The documentation is available on the Backup Checker Community page with the howtos to install and configure Backup Checker with Backup-Manager or with Rsnapshot.
What about you? Let us know in the comments what you think of Backup Checker and its features to connect with other backup tools. We would be happy to get your feedbacks about how you use Backup Checker or what you expect from a backup checking solution.
Zlatan Todorić: Atlassian honors 10 years of Git
and even mentions Debian.Here under info for Git installations skyrocket (January 2010) and Git installations surpass all other version control systems (January 2011). There is also part with git-annex written by our old pal Joey Hess. :)
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TORONTO, ONTARIO -- (Marketwire) -- 11/20/12 -- Besra (TSX:BEZ)(ASX:BEZ) is the new name for Olympus Pacific Minerals. After twenty years operating as Olympus Pacific Minerals Inc it is time for a change. Why a SE Asia based gold mining company should be named after a mountain in Greece is one of those strange "it just ended up that way" kind of anomalies. With a bold and bright expansion plan ahead of it, the company felt it was the right time to adopt a new name. An appropriate name, one that refers to the region in which the company operates and the traits to which it aspires. Besra is that name.
Continuing the explanation for the re-brand, Chief Executive Officer John Seton said, "A Besra is a bird of prey indigenous to the regions in SE Asia in which we operate. A tenacious, fast flying hawk with acute vision; traits to which we as a company aspire. We are embarking on a new key stage of our development plan. We've already successfully made the shift from exploration to producer which, for many companies, has proved difficult - but we've done it. Our two operating gold mines in Vietnam are continuing to deliver ounces, we're increasing throughput and achieving higher recovery rates. Which means cashflow."
"So now we're committed to bringing our big goldfield project in East Malaysia online and become a truly significant gold producer. Besra is the company that will do that. We've got a great team, we've got great projects and we're about to take flight. Bau in East Malaysia is going to be a game changer for us. We believe Besra is truly an exciting opportunity for investors looking for undervalued growth companies in the gold sector."
Besra Gold Inc John A G Seton Chief Executive Officer
Certain of the statements made and information contained herein is "Forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable securities laws, including statements concerning our plans at our producing mines and exploration projects, which involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Company, or industry results, to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking information. Forward-looking information is subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual events or results to differ from those reflected in the forward-looking information, including, without limitation, failure to establish estimated resources or to convert resources to mineable reserves; the grade and recovery of ore which is mined varying from estimates; capital and operating costs varying significantly from estimates; delays in obtaining or failure to obtain required governmental, environmental, or other project approvals; changes in national and local government legislation or regulations regarding environmental factors, royalties, taxation or foreign investment; political or economic instability; terrorism; inflation; changes in currency exchange rates; fluctuations in commodity prices; delays in the development of projects; shortage of personnel with the requisite knowledge and skills to design and execute exploration and development programs; difficulties in arranging contracts for drilling and other exploration and development services; dependency on equity market financings to fund programs and maintain and develop mineral properties; and risks associated with title to resource properties due to the difficulties of determining the validity of certain claims and other risks and uncertainties, including those described in each management's discussion and analysis released by the Company. In addition, forward-looking information is based on various assumptions including, without limitation, the expectations and beliefs of management; the assumed long-term price of gold; the availability of permits and surface rights; access to financing, equipment and labour and that the political environment in the jurisdictions within which the Company operates will continue to support the development of environmentally safe mining projects. Should one or more of these risks and uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those described in forward-looking statements. Accordingly, readers are advised not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date they are made. Except as required under applicable securities legislation, the Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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