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Danger Alliance: Battles, a new 3D turn-based strategy title from TOME Studios, is now available from the app store. Formerly Lost Company, this polished and newly-monikered offering provides a great cerebral challenge and enough variety to keep you strategizing for some time to come.
Danger Alliance: Battles Pros:
- Clean 3D graphics with multiple battlegrounds, player types, and weapons
- Ambient sounds in lieu of in-game soundtrack
- Intuitive touch controls
- Strategic squad-based gameplay
- Hotseat multiplayer and AI opponents for Skirmish mode with two gameplay styles
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- AI takes several seconds to decide where to move
- Single-player campaign and asynch multiplayer not available at launch
- Easy to mistap when using isometric view
Danger Alliance launches with only a Skirmish mode, though a single-player campaign, expanded multiplayer options, and additional content are in the works for a future update. There are 6 battlegrounds to use, though all but the first are locked until you successfully win a match on the previous site. You can choose from 3 levels of difficulty, with Hotseat Multiplayer included as an option. Game type is limited to Elimination, where you must wipe out the opposing forces to win, though successful completion of all 6 battlegrounds will unlock Strategic Victory mode. Skirmishes take a 5 vs. 5 approach, with 6 unique character types at your disposal (Captain, Commando, Grenadier, Incinerator, Launcher, Sniper). While the Captain is required, you can mix-and-match the other 4 squad members as your first strategic order of business. This decision is critical, as each unit has specific strengths, weaknesses, attack styles, health ratings, etc.
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Graphically, the game has a bit of a cartoonish look, but nothing overly cutesy. The animations are smooth and there is plenty of info at your disposal to make critical decisions without the need for guesswork. The character models are easy to differentiate, too. Blue circles indicate the squares that a squad member can move to, and orange circles show squares that can be attacked. While the game is presented in a 3D isometric viewpoint by default, there is also a button to switch to a 2D top-down view. The game can be played in either portrait or landscape with a simple turn of the device. There are ambient sounds to fill the dead time, and plenty of sound effects for moving, attacking, and the like. Touch controls are easy to use, though the isometric viewpoint often leads to tapping the wrong square. While it's easily remedied by tapping elsewhere on the screen or hitting the undo button, it can be a bit annoying. Swiping your finger allows you to pan, pinching allows you to zoom, and twisting to fingers in a circular motion rotates the battlefield.
Replay value is very good, and it only stands to get better with future updates. While we really enjoyed the game in its current form, there is room for improvement. The time it takes the AI to move is significantly longer than in most other turn-based games we've played. Also, panning, rotating, and zooming don't seem to work well during the AI's turn. There is no social gaming network integration, but it's not sorely missed. A universal app on launch sale for $1.99, Danger Alliance: Battles is a solid 4.5-Dimple addition to the turn-based genre.
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|Steve's blog
Sunday, 29 November 2015
Supporting the Software Freedom Conservancy too!
I'm happy to chip in and help the awesome folks at the Software Freedom Conservancy with funding for their work, standing up for copyleft. It's clear that there are a lot of people who will ignore the terms of Free Software licensing, whether by oversight or deliberately, so the SFC are doing an important job working to defend the Freedoms that lots of us are using every day as developers and users.
It seems that some of SFC's corporate supporters have stopped sponsorship since the beginning of their lawsuit in Germany against VMware for GPL violations. Maybe some folks are happy to support SFC, but not when they really push things like this. Let's hope that we can find many more individual supporters to cover SFC's funding needs instead. This week, there's an anonymous pledge to match donations from new supporters so right now is an even better time to sign up!
Thanks to Paul Wise for posting about this and indirectly prodding me to sign up too.
21:19 :: # :: /debian/sfc :: 0 commentsFriday, 25 September 2015
VLANd is a python program intended to make it easy to manage port-based VLAN setups across multiple switches in a network. It is designed to be vendor-agnostic, with a clean pluggable driver API to allow for a wide range of different switches to be controlled together.
There's more information in the README file. I've just released v0.4, with a lot of changes included since the last release:
VLANd is Free Software, released under the GPL version 2 (or any later version). For now, grab it from git; tarballs will be coming shortly.
01:44 :: # :: /linaro :: 0 commentsSunday, 02 August 2015
We've just started a new team in Debian for maintaining our UEFI packages together, with git repositories in a shared project on alioth etc. We're just working out the exact details of how we're going to manage things, but for now we've moved the following packages under the team's umbrella:
and in the future we'll clearly end up adding more. We've also started a new IRC channel (#debian-efi) on irc.debian.org aka irc.oftc.net. New members always welcome to help with the work here!
00:40 :: # :: /debian/efi :: 1 comment
Tracking broken UEFI implementations
There can be issues with shipping installer images including UEFI. But they're mainly due to crappy UEFI implementations that vendors have shipped. It's fairly well-known that Apple have shipped some really shoddy firmware over the years, and to allow people to install Debian on older Apple x86 machines we've now added the workaround of a non-UEFI 32-bit installer image too. But Apple aren't the only folks shipping systems with horrendously buggy UEFI, and a lot of Linux folks have had to deal with this over the last few years.
I've been talking to a number of other UEFI developers lately, and we've agreed to start a cross-distro resource to help here - a list of known-broken UEFI implementations so that we can share our experiences. The place for this in in the OSDev wiki at http://wiki.osdev.org/Broken_UEFI_implementations. We're going to be adding new information here as we find it. If you've got a particular UEFI horror story on your own broken system, then please either add details there or let me know and I'll try to do it for you.
00:40 :: # :: /debian/efi :: 3 comments
Justifying 32-bit UEFI on 64-bit Intel hardware, and tracking broken UEFI implementations
You might have seen some of the posts I've written in the last few months about adding support in Debian for so-called Mixed-EFI systems like the Intel Bay Trail: a 64-bit processor shipped with a 32-bit EFI implementation.
I've finally seen a public justification from Intel evangelist Brian Richardson as to why these systems are crippled^Wconfigured this way, and it's nice to see our guesses confirmed. The reason is simply cost - like most consumer PCs shipped today, they come with Windows. In terms of system design, it's cheaper to just include the limited memory and storage needed for 32-bit Windows. 64-bit Windows takes a lot more storage in particular. And on modern systems 32-bit Windows can only boot using 32-bit UEFI. Fair enough...
However, Brian goes on to state some more things that are simply out of date, saying that "Linux support for UEFI IA32 is still an unanswered question". Ummm, Brian: we've got working 32-bit x86 UEFI support in our standard Jessie (and newer) installation images already, and they work just fine on CD/DVD or USB stick. We've even gone one stage further than anybody else (thus far!) in adding easy support for running a full 64-bit Linux system on top of those 32-bit UEFI implementations.
I say "thus far" here because all the work here here is Free Software. Other folks added the support in Linux for making a 64-bit kernel work with a 32-bit UEFI; I added code in Linux to expose some of the details to userspace, and code in Grub to work with it. My changes have gone upstream already, so I'd expect to see other distros like Fedora or Ubuntu also using them soon.
00:40 :: # :: /debian/efi :: 1 commentFriday, 31 July 2015
VLANd is a python program intended to make it easy to manage port-based VLAN setups across multiple switches in a network. It is designed to be vendor-agnostic, with a clean pluggable driver API to allow for a wide range of different switches to be controlled together.
There's more information in the README file. I've just released v0.3, with a lot of changes included since the last release:
VLANd is Free Software, released under the GPL version 2 (or any later version). For now, grab it from git; tarballs will be coming shortly.
17:04 :: # :: /linaro :: 0 commentsWednesday, 01 July 2015
Jo and I spent a few days in Sweden and had an awesome time! The main reason for being there was Leif and Maria's wedding way up north in Skellefteå. They cunningly organised their ceremony for the Midsummer weekend, which was an excellent plan - we had a full weekend of partying while we were there. :-)
We had some time to ourselves while we were there, so we wandered about a little and got to see some of the beautiful coastal countryside.
Then on the way home we stopped off in Umeå to visit Mattias Wadenstein (maswan) and his wife Melanie, and he showed me around some of the machines that he's been admining on behalf of Debian. Maybe I'm a sad geek, but I feel quite a bond with one of the machines there, pettersson.debian.org. It's the official CD build machine for Debian, and I've been responsible for thrashing it really hard for the last 5 years or so... :-)
Massive thanks to the University of Umeå and their Academic Computer Club for hosting Debian machines and serving all the CD images for us!
The only downsides from the trip were the massive tiredness (midnight sun is pretty, but notconducive to sleep!) the mosquito bites and the nasty plague^Wcold that we picked up while we were there... Ah well. :-)
01:06 :: # :: /travel :: 0 commentsThursday, 11 June 2015
I've had some 8GB USB keys made, with the Debian swirl and text. By buying a reasonable number, I've got what I think is a good price for nice high-quality keys (metal body with a solid loop for attaching to a keyring). I'm now selling these for 7 pounds each, and I'm planning on bringing some to DebConf 15 too, where they'll be 10 EUR.
They're selling faster than I expected - if you're interested in buying one (or several!), please let me know. If there's enough demand, I may order more.
12:32 :: # :: /debian/misc :: 1 commentTuesday, 19 May 2015
Easier installation of Jessie on the Applied Micro X-Gene
As shipped, Debian Jessie (8.0) did not include kernel support for the USB controller on APM X-Gene based machines like the Mustang. In fact, at the time of writing this that support has not yet gone upstream into the mainline Linux kernel either but patches have been posted by Mark Langsdorf from Red Hat.
This means that installing Debian is more awkward than it could be on these machines. They don't have optical drives fitted normally, so the neat isohybrid CD images that we have made in Debian so far won't work very well at all. Booting via UEFI from a USB stick will work, but then the installer won't be able to read from the USB stick at all and you're stuck. :-( The best way so far for installing Debian is to do a network installation using tftp etc.
Well, until now... :-)
I've patched the Debian Jessie kernel, then re-built the installer and a netinst image to use them. I've put a copy of that image up at http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/arm64-mustang/ with more instructions on how to use it. I'm just submitting the patch for inclusion into the Jessie stable kernel, hopefully ready to go into the 8.1 point release.
12:18 :: # :: /debian/arm :: 0 commentsThursday, 23 April 2015
Ready for Jessie! (aka bits from the debian-cd team)
I'm happy with the progress we've made for debian-installer and related packages for the Jessie release. We're going to end up with a release that's better in a number of ways than what we've had before.
1. Big EFI enhancements
I've already blogged a lot about the stuff I've worked on here, so I'll just summarise for now some of the improvements we've got over Wheezy.
2. Openstack images
In collaboration with Thomas Goirand, we now have amd64 Openstack Jessie image builds being produced every week, and there will be an official image made to go with the Jessie release too. See http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/openstack/testing/ for the current image.
3. Debian-live images
As of a few weeks ago, we've also added started doing weekly builds of live Debian images for amd64 and i386, using software and configuration from the Live Systems Project. See http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-live-builds/ for the current weekly images. These will be produced in sync with the Jessie release too.
4. New architectures
We've added installation media for the two new architectures added
in Jessie:
I'm particularly proud of the arm64 images. With help from Ian
Campbell, Leif Lindholm and Thomas Schmitt I've managed to make
EFI-compatible CD images in an
Hopefully post-Jessie we'll even be able to start providing live images and openstack images for more architectures too.
More help needed yet!
First of all, we're planning to release Jessie as Debian 8 this coming Saturday (25th April). Help with testing the installation and live images as they're produced would be lovely - please join us on the #debian-cd channel on irc.debian.org and we'll co-ordinate there.
Secondly, there's an almost endless variety of machines out there. I've updated information about how Debian installation works on some of the more awkward Mac Mini machines, but we don't yet cover all the bases even there. It would be great to update the information about other machines such as the Macbook range as well - currently a lot of these pages are well out of date and won't be helpful for new users. Please test on machines if you have them, and help improve Debian's documentation here.
01:10 :: # :: /debian/CDs :: 6 commentsWednesday, 08 April 2015
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.
17:09 :: # :: /debian/arm :: 0 commentsMonday, 30 March 2015
UEFI Debian installer work for Jessie, part 6
One final update on my work for UEFI improvements in Jessie!
All of my improvements have been committed into the various Debian packages involved, and the latest release candidate for Jessie's debian-installer build (RC2) works just as well as my test builds on the Bay Trail system I've been using (Asus X205TA). Job done! :-)
I'm still hoping to maybe get more hardware support for this particular hardware included in Jessie, but I can't promise. The mixed EFI work has also improved things for a lot of Mac users, and I'm planning to write up a more comprehensive list of supported machines in the Debian wiki (for now).
There's now no need to use any of the older test installer images - please switch to RC2 for now. See http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/jessie_di_rc2/ for the images. If you want to install a 64-bit system with the 32-bit UEFI support, make sure you use the multi-arch amd64/i386 netinst or DVD. Otherwise, any of the standard i386 images should work for a 32-bit only system.
My kernel patch to add the new /sys file was accepted upstream a while back, and has been in Linus' master branch for some time. It'll be in 4.0 unless something goes horribly wrong, and as it's such a tiny piece of code it's trivial to backport to anything remotely recent too.
I've also just seen that my patch for grub2 to use this new /sys file has been accepted upstream this week. Again, the change is small and self-contained so should be easy to copy across into other trees too.
Mixed EFI systems should now have better support across all distros in the near future, I hope.
02:44 :: # :: /debian/CDs :: 11 commentsFriday, 20 March 2015
Jo and I just got back from our massive holiday in Australia. We had an awesome time overall, fitting in lots of stuff in 4 weeks. Time for a quick write-up and some photos!
We flew into Sydney, then straight onto Uluru for the obligatory sunset and sunrise viewings. We didn't climb the Rock, both for sensitivity reasons and (to be more honest!) it looked way too much like hard work in 40-plus degree heat.
Coach over to Alice Springs, where we had a very quick look around before taking the Ghan train down to Adelaide. The train was fun for a day, and we got to see a lot of desert. In Adelaide, we had a look around the city (lovely colonial feel!) and got a couple of evenings in fun comedy shows at the Fringe. Great fun!
On to Tasmania, where we did a quick (3 days) run around the island by car: into Hobart, up the east coast. Stopped in Swansea (a nice version!) for some heavenly Devonshire teas, then on up to Grindelwald near Launceston. Visited Trowunna Wildlife Park to see (and cuddle!) lots of local animals, which was amazing - Jo's favourite day of the holiday. Then on to Queenstown and drive back down to Hobart past some impossibly beautiful views around Cradle Mountain. Tassie's gorgeous - like the best bits of Scotland, Wales and Cornwall but with even fewer people and better weather.
Next, on to Sydney for Harry and Cath's wedding. We stayed up in Chatswood. Not knowing anything about the area beforehand, we were a little surprised to basically find ourselves back in Hong Kong! We spent most of the weekend catching up with friends from the wedding group, and the wedding itself was at Quarantine Station, overlooking the harbour. It couldn't have been a more perfect location / weather / view for our friends' big day! We squeezed in a couple of the open-top bus tours of Sydney on the Sunday, but got caught in the horrendous storm that hit and ended up sheltering downstairs under cover on the bus. I'm told Bondi is lovely, but it all looked grey from the bus. :-P
Down to Melbourne on the train (bit of a wasted day, in hindsight), where we wandered around the city quite a bit. Caught up with an old friend who lives there for a day, and we did a wine tour up the Yarra Valley which was fun too.
Up to Port Douglas, where we headed out to the Reef for my highlight of the holiday: a snorkelling tour with some local marine experts who showed us the local flora and fauna. We also visited a local Aboriginal cultural centre, skyrail and scenic railway around Kuranda village.
Down to Hervey Bay and a 1-day tour of Fraser Island - an amazing place in combination with quite a thrill-ride experience just being driven around on the sand tracks. Finally, down to Brisbane where we wandered around and visited both the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary (more cuddles!) and the Gold Coast. Then the long flights home. Whew!
We're knackered now. We knew we could't fit everything in, but we're glad we travelled all over and got tastes of almost everything. Now we can work out where we want to spend more time on our future visit(s). We'll definitely want to head over and see Perth and some of WA next time, and definitely more time in Tasmania, Sydney and Adelaide.
15:24 :: # :: /travel :: 0 commentsFriday, 13 February 2015
I've been working on this for too long without really talking about it, so let's fix that now!
VLANd is a simple (hah!) python program intended to make it easy to manage port-based VLAN setups across multiple switches in a network. It is designed to be vendor-agnostic, with a clean pluggable driver API to allow for a wide range of different switches to be controlled together.
There's more information in the README file. I've just released v0.2, with a lot of changes included since the last release:
I've demonstrated this code today in Hong Kong at the Linaro Connect event, and now I'm going on vacation for 4 weeks. Australia here I come! :-)
07:53 :: # :: /linaro :: 2 commentsSunday, 08 February 2015
Yet another reason to not use Windows on your embedded devices...
Seen on an ATM in Hong Kong airport.
16:23 :: # :: /linaro :: 0 commentsSunday, 11 January 2015
UEFI Debian installer work for Jessie, part 5
Time for another update on my work for UEFI improvements in Jessie!
I've spent more time on the integration of 32-bit grub-efi with a 64-bit Debian system, and just published a new test image on pettersson. I've added:
These remove the manual steps that were necessary for a 64-bit installation with the previous build. I've just used this exact image (and a network mirror) to install a fully-functional 64-bit Gnome system on the X205TA, simply by selecting "64-bit install" from the GRUB menu and following prompts. Yay! Visit http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/efi-development/jessie-upload3/ to download and test the image.
Now, there's no guarantee that the kernel patch I've submitted to the linux-efi folks will be accepted in its current form, and even if it is I'll have to get it and the other code I've written accepted into the various packages and then into Jessie! But for now this image should work just fine for Bay Trail folks I hope!
WARNING: this CD is provided for testing only. Use at your own risk! If you have appropriate (U)EFI hardware, please try this image and let me know how you get on, via the debian-cd and debian-boot mailing lists.
For now, I'm going to pause development here. The core code I'm using to make these images is all in the debian-cd and d-i repos, and I'll push the other patches once I know they'll work with the kernel. But I've got a slew of other things that I need to work on in the next few weeks, in no particular order:
I'm currently not planning to make all of Debian's amd64 images bootable using 32-bit UEFI like this image - I'm happy to leave this as just an option for our multi-arch i386/amd64 images (netinst or DVD only). I think that's a reasonable compromise here, and it's also the easiest thing for me to do with the current debian-cd build system.
Finally, apologies if you've asked me questions about the earlier images in this series and I've not responded yet. Fixing that ASAP!
02:49 :: # :: /debian/CDs :: 22 commentsTuesday, 06 January 2015
I promised to write about this a long time, ooops... :-)
Another ARM port in Debian - yay!
arm64 is officially a release architecture for Jessie, aka Debian version 8. That's taken a lot of manual porting and development effort over the last couple of years, and it's also taken a lot of CPU time - there are ~21,000 source packages in Debian Jessie! As is often the case for a brand new architecture like arm64 (or AArch64, to use ARM's own terminology), hardware can be really difficult to get hold of. In time this will cease to be an issue as hardware becomes more commoditised, but in Debian we really struggled to get hold of equipment for a very long time during the early part of the port.
First bring-up in Debian Ports
To start with, we could use ARM's own AArch64 software models to build the first few packages. This worked, but only very slowly. Then Chen Baozi and the folks running the Tianhe-2 supercomputer project in Guangzhou, China contacted us to offer access to some arm64 hardware, and this is what Wookey used for bootstrapping the new port in the unofficial Debian Ports archive. This has now become the normal way for new architectures to get into Debian. We got most of the archive built in debian-ports this way, and we could then use those results to seed the initial core set of packages in the main Debian archive.
Second bring-up - moving into the main Debian archive
By the time that first Debian bring-up was done, ARM was starting to produce its own "Juno" development boards, and with the help of my boss^4 James McNiven we managed to acquire a couple of those machines for use as official Debian build machines. The existing machines in China were faster, but for various reasons quite difficult to maintain as official Debian machines. So I set up the Junos as buildds just before going to DebConf in August 2014. They ran very well, and (for dev boards!) were very fast and stable. They built a large chunk of the Debian archive, but as the release freeze for Jessie grew close we weren't quite there. There was a small but persistent backlog of un-built packages that were causing us issues, plus the Juno machines are/were not quite suitable as porter boxes for Debian developers all over the world to use for debugging their packages on the new architecture.
More horsepower - Linaro machines
This is where Linaro came to our aid. Linaro's goal is to help improve Free and Open Source Software on ARM, and one of the more recent projects in Linaro is a cluster of servers that are made available for software developers to use to get early access to ARMv8 (arm64) hardware. It's a great way for people who are interested in this new architecture to try things out, port their software or indeed just help with the general porting effort.
As Debian is seen as such an important part of the FLOSS ecosystem, we managed to negotiate dedicated access to three of the machines in that cluster for Debian's use and we set those up in October, shortly before the freeze for Jessie. Andy Doan spent a lot of his time getting these machines going for us, and then I set up two of them as build machines and one as the porter box we were still needing.
With these extra machines available, we quickly caught up with the ever-busy "Needs-Build" queue and we've got sufficient build power now to keep things going for the Jessie release. We were officially added to the list of release architectures at the Cambridge mini-Debconf in November, and all is looking good now!
And in the future?
I've organised the loan of another arm64 machine from AMD for Debian to use for further porting and/or building. We're also expecting that more and more machines will be coming out soon as vendors move on from prototyping to producing real customer equipment. Once that's happened, more kit will be available and everybody will be able to have arm64-powered computers in the server room, on their desk and even inside their laptop! Mine will be running Debian Jessie... :-)
There's been a lot of people involved in the Debian arm64 bootstrapping at various stages, so many that I couldn't possibly credit them all! I'll highlight some, though. :-)
First of all, Wookey's life has revolved around this port for the last few years, tirelessly porting, fixing and hacking out package builds to get us going. We've had loads of help from other teams in Debian, particularly the massive patience of the DSA folks with getting early machines up and running and the prodding of the ftpmaster, buildd and release teams when we've been grinding our way through ever more package builds and dependency loops. We've also had really good support from toolchain folks in Debian and ARM, fixing bugs as we've found them by stressing new code and new machines. We've had a number of other people helping by filing bugs and posting patches to help us get things built and working. And (last but not least!) thanks to all the folks who've helped us beg and borrow the hardware to make the Debian arm64 port a reality.
Rumours of even more ARM ports coming soon are entirely scurrilous... *grin*
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UEFI Debian installer work for Jessie, part 4
Time for another update on my work for UEFI improvements in Jessie!
I now have a mixed 32- and 64-bit UEFI netinst up and running right now, which will boot and install on the Asus X205TA machine I have. Since the last build, I've added 64-bit (amd64) support and added CONFIG_EFI_MIXED in the kernel so that the 64-bit kernel will also work with a 32-bit UEFI firmware. Visit http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/efi-development/jessie-upload2/ to download and test the image. There are a few other missing pieces yet for a complete solution, but I'm getting there...!
WARNING: this CD is provided for testing only. Use at your own risk! If you have appropriate (U)EFI hardware, please try this image and let me know how you get on, via the debian-cd and debian-boot mailing lists.
12:18 :: # :: /debian/CDs :: 3 commentsFriday, 02 January 2015
UEFI Debian installer work for Jessie, part 3
Time for another update on my work for UEFI improvements in Jessie!
I've got an i386-only UEFI netinst up and running right now, which will boot and install on the Asus X205TA machine I have. I've got the required i2c modules included in this build so that the installer can use the keyboard and trackpad on the machine - useful...! See #772578 for more details about that. Visit http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/efi-development/jessie-upload1/ to download and test the image. There are a few other missing pieces of hardware support for this machine yet, but the basics are there. See the wiki for more information.
My initial i386 test CD is not yet going to do an amd64 installation for you, but it should let you get going with Debian on these machines! I'm going to continue working on that 32-64 support next.
WARNING: this CD is provided for testing only. Use at your own risk! If you try this on an early Intel-based Mac, it will not work. Otherwise, this should likely work for most folks using 32-bit x86 hardware just like any other Debian Jessie daily netinst build.
If you have appropriate (U)EFI hardware, please try this image and let me know how you get on, via the debian-cd and debian-boot mailing lists.
04:40 :: # :: /debian/CDs :: 2 commentsSunday, 21 December 2014
UEFI Debian installer work for Jessie, part 2
A month ago , I wrote about my plans for improved (U)EFI support in Jessie. It's about time I gave an update on progress!
I spoke about adding support for installing grub-efi into the removable media path (#746662). That went into Debian's grub packages already, but there were a couple of bugs. First of all, the code could end up prompting people about EFI questions even when they didn't have any grub-efi packages installed. Doh! (#773004). Then there was an unexpected bug with case-insensitive file name handling on FAT/VFAT filesystems (#773092). I've posted (and tested!) patches to fix both, hopefully in an upload any day now.
Next, I mentioned getting i386 UEFI support going again. This is a major feature that a lot of people have been asking for. It's also going to involve quite a bit of effort...
Our existing (amd64) UEFI-capable images in Debian use the standard x86 El Torito CD boot method, with two boot images provided. One of these images gives us the traditional isolinux BIOS-boot support. The second option is an alternate El Torito image, including at a 64-bit version of grub-efi. For most machines, this works just fine - the BIOS or UEFI firmware will automatically pick the correct image and everybody's happy. This even works on our multi-arch i386/amd64 CDs and DVDs - isolinux will boot either kernel from the first El Torito image, or the alternate UEFI image is amd64 only.
However, I can now see that there's been a long-standing issue with those multi-arch images, and it's to do with Macs. On the advice of Matthew Garrett, I've borrowed an old 32-bit Intel Mac to help testing, and it's quite instructive in terms of buggy firmware! The firmware on older 32-bit Intel Macs crashes hard when it detects more than one El Torito boot image, and I've now seen this happen myself. I've not had any bug reports about this, so I can only assume that we haven't had many users try that image. As far as I can tell, they've been using the normal i386 images in BIOS boot mode, and then struggling to get bootloaders working afterwards. There are a number of different posts on the net explaining how to do that. That's OK, but...
If I now start adding 32-bit UEFI support to our standard set of i386 images, this will prevent users of old Macs from installing Debian. I could just say "screw it" and decide to not support those users at all, but that's not a very nice thing to do. If we want to continue to support them and add 32-bit UEFI support, I'll have to add another flavour of i386 image, either a "Mac special" or a "32-bit UEFI special". I'm not keen on doing that if I could avoid it, but the two options are mutually exclusive. Given the Mac problem is only on older hardware which (hopefully!) will be dying out, I'll probably pick that one as the special-case CD, and I'll make an extra netinst flavour only for those users to boot off.
So, I've started playing with i386 UEFI stuff in the last couple of weeks too. I almost immediately found some showstopper behaviour bugs in the i386 versions of efivar and efibootmgr (#773412 and #773007), but I've debugged these with our Debian maintainer (Jared Dominguez) and the upstream developer (Peter Jones) and fixes should be in Jessie very soon.
As I mentioned last month, the machines that most people have been requesting support for are the latest Bay Trail-based laptops and tablets. There are using 64-bit Intel Atom CPUs, but crippled with 32-bit UEFI firmware with no BIOS compatibility mode. This makes for some interesting issues. It's probably impossible to get a true answer why these machines are so broken by design, but there are several rumours. As far as I can see, most of these machines seem to ship with a limited version of 32-bit Windows 8.1. 32-bit Windows is smaller than 64-bit Windows, so fits much better in limited on-board storage space. But 32-bit Windows won't boot from 64-bit UEFI, so the firmware needed buggering to match. Ugh!
To support these Bay Trail machines properly, we'll want to add a 32-bit UEFI installation option to our 64-bit images. I can tweak our CDs so that both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of grub-efi are included, and the on-board UEFI will load the right one needed. Then I'll need to make sure that all the 64-bit images also include grub-efi-ia32-bin from now on. With some extra logic, we'll need to remember that these new machines need that package installing instead of grub-efi-amd64-bin. It shouldn't be too hard, but let's see! :-)
So, I've been out and bought one of these machines, an Asus X205TA. Lucas agreed that Debian will reimburse me (thanks!), so I'm not stuck with spending my own money on an otherwise unwanted machine! I can see via Google that none of the mainstream Linux distros support the Bay Trail machines fully yet, so there's not a lot of documentation yet. Initial boot on the new machine was easy using a quick-hack i386 UEFI image on USB, but from there everything went downhill quickly. I'll need to investigate some more, but the laptop's own keyboard and trackpad are not detected by the installer system. Neither is its built-in WiFi. Yay! I had to go and dig out a USB hub to connect the installer image USB key, a keyboard, mouse and a USB hard drive to the machine, as it only has 2 USB ports. I've taken a complete backup of the on-board 32GB flash before I start experimenting, so I can restore the machine back to its virgin state for future testing.
I guess I now have a project to keep me busy over Christmas...!
In other news, we've been continuing work on UEFI support for and within the new arm64 port. My ARM/Linaro colleague Leif Lindholm has been back-porting upstream kernel features and bug fixes to make d-i work, and filing Debian bugs when silly things break on arm64 because people don't think about other architectures (e.g #773311, doh!). As there are more and more people interested in (U)EFI support these days, I've also proposed that we create a new debian-efi mailing list to help focus discussion. See #773327 and follow up there if you think you'd use the list too!
You can help! Same as 2 years ago, I'll need help testing some of these images. For the 32-bit UEFI support, I now have some relevant hardware myself, but testing on other machines too will be very important! I'll start pushing unofficial Jessie EFI test images shortly - watch this space.
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Reading about the man in the office 10 feet away is a bit surreal. (((Redacted))) interviewed Flycell CEO, my boss, Alberto Montesi. It is nice to see that we have share the same sentiments when it comes to the carriers and content licensors.
"Mobile content providers are having a pretty tough time at the moment as bigger players take large slices of the mobile content pie, and companies keen to sell mobile music have a particularly tough time. Labels and publishers are not helping the growth of the market, said Alberto Montesi. They're asking for too high a revenue share, and a minimum guarantee for each download which is really high. He reported that the labels typically ask for around 50% of the end-user price, which is about 100% of the money received by third-party sellers after the mobile carriers take their share. The labels also require a minimum of $1 per download, which already puts the price at double that which customers are used to paying on the internet."
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No visit to Chicago is complete without visiting the city's most recognizable landmark, the Willis Tower, which is the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere.
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This area of the attraction is an exhibit that compares the height of the Willis Tower to other buildings from around the globe. Kids will love the chance to see how many people it takes to reach the height of the tower!
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Play an interactive Chicago trivia game, get your photo taken with the famed "103" sculpture (signifying, of course, the number of stories), and just plain enjoy being up this high.
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- The Willis Tower, formerly known as the Sears Tower, was originally built to be a new corporate headquarters for Sears Roebuck and Company (which was the largest retailer in the world at the time) who commissioned architects Skidmore, Owings and Merrill to design the building.
- Building started in 1970 and took 3 years to complete with a staff of 2,000 workers.
- The Willis Tower is the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere at 1,450 feet tall with 110 stories.
- Skydeck Chicago attracts around 1.5 million tourists each year.
- The glass ledge, located on the 103rd floor, extends 4.3 feet from the edge of the building and was added to the building in 2009.
- On a clear day, visitors can see up to 50 miles out and three surrounding states.
- The tower contains 25 miles of plumbing, 1500 miles of electric wiring, 80 miles of elevator cable, 796 restroom faucets, and more than 145,000 light fixtures.
- As a finishing touch during the building's completion, the last beam that was put in place was signed by 12,000 construction workers, Sears employees, and Chicagoans.
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Because of the Willis Tower's central location, there are several attractions within walking distance or a short bus ride from Skydeck Chicago. Here are a few of our favorites.
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- Millennium Park is just a few blocks away, home to various art installations, the beautiful Pritzker Pavilion, the Lurie Garden, and more!
- Art lovers should visit the number one museum in the country – the iconic Art Institute of Chicago.
- The Chicago Theatre District is also nearby, providing great views of their colorful marquees and some of the best performances in the country.
- The beautiful historic Opera House is just up the Chicago River and it's more than worth the short walk for the photos.
- The Museum of Contemporary Photography is right by Grant Park, both of which are fun additions to a larger itinerary.
- Work some time for a musical performance into your schedule and pay a visit to the House of Blues.
Places to Eat Nearby
If you're hungry after your ascent to the top, never fear – there are plenty of dining options both within the attraction and in the surrounding few blocks. Check out these restaurants on your trip:
- French Accent is a great lunch destination in the Willis Tower, popular among locals for its convenience and tastiness.
- Market Café is the perfect lunch destination for the health conscious, offering a delicious fresh salad bar and a global buffet.
- In the mood for Mexican? Salseria Grill & Cantina is your best bet.
- If you're just looking for a caffeine boost, then Argo Tea, Starbucks, and Dunkin Donuts are all nearby.
- If you're looking for some solid sandwiches, Panera Bread is mere steps away on the waterfront.
- Hot Woks Cool Sushi is a trendy place for Asian cuisine, great for lunch.
Need to Know
April–September, 9:00 am–10:00 pm, last arrival 30 minutes prior to closing
October–March, 10:00 am–8:00 pm, last arrival 30 minutes prior to closing
Address & Directions
233 S. Wacker Drive
Chicago, IL 60606
Public Transportation:
Take CTA: From the brown, purple, and orange lines exit at Quincy stop and you're right at Willis Tower.
By Bus: Buses 1, 7, Express 28, 37,126, 129, 134, 135, 136, 151, and 156 all stop within one block of Willis Tower.
Take Metra: Union Station's Metra and Amtrak trains are 1 1/2 blocks from Willis Tower.
For more information, visit the Skydeck website.
Save on Tickets with a Go Chicago Card
Remember, the Go Chicago® Card is the best choice for maximum savings and flexibility, which includes Skydeck Chicago tickets at Willis Tower, plus admission to your choice of other top attractions.
Save up to 55% on top museums, tours, and activities vs. paying at the gate. Visit multiple Chicago attractions for one low price.


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Superman, one of DC Comics' flagship fictional heroes, begins his journey next month in Philadelphia. He'll embark on a 12-issue, cross-country walk through Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon and Washington.
Dan DiDio, DC's co-publisher, says the Krypton-born, Kansas-bred hero had lost touch "with the people he grew up with, his adopted home on earth" and he'll "take a walk across America to reconnect."
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July 18, 2013
(Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland) - USD junior golfer Grant Forrest (North Berwick, Scotland) turned in a solid opening round of 73 (+2) in today's British Open being played at historic Muirfield. Playing with 56-year-old Mark O'Meara, and Marcus Fraser, Forrest was 1-over par on each of his nines (37-36). He posted the second best score for amateurs, bested only by Jimmy Mullen (71). With a field of 156 golfers, only 46 golfers posted scores better than Forrest, while eleven others matched his opening round 73.
Forrest carded four birdies, four bogeys and one double-bogey (6th hole). His birdies came on the par-3 4th hole (229 yards), par-5 9th hole (558 yards), par-4 15th hole (447 yards) and par-3 16th hole (188 yards).
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Forrest, who grew up just minutes from Muirfield, will be in the same three-some tomorrow with O'Meara and Fraser with a 7:05 a.m. start time.
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USD Men's Basketball - The Origins (1955-1973)
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Campbell Preview
Coach Lindsey and Jeff Starr preview Campbell
Stetson Preview
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:blowingdustpink: Happy 4th Birthday, Ava!!!! :happybday:
Looking forward to hearing all about your princess party you had this weekend!
:blowingdustpink: Happy 4th Birthday, Ava!!!! :happybday:
Looking forward to hearing all about your princess party you had this weekend!
Happy Birthday, Ava!!!!!!!!!!!
Can't wait to hear about your party!!!!
Happy birthday!!
Thanks! Ava had a great birthday! Her princess party went off well. I got a lot of compliements on it, but was too busy to take a lot of pictures and forgot to take them of most things. Oh well. I have some pictures on FB, and Julie, I'll text some to you since I'm far too lazy to get them up here.
Yesterday for her actual Birthday all Ava wanted to do was stay home and play with all her new stuff. It worked out well. On the 6th, Ava fell on the hard arm of one of our chairs and bit clean through her bottom lip! :shock: We spend the evening in Urgent care. She did not get stitches, they said they don't stitch lips unless the cut falls along the lip line. But we had to keep he laying low for a few days. She was suppose to have a horseback riding lesson on her birthday and I had to cancel it. I'm glad she was too busy playing to be upset about that.
She has already informed me her next Birthday is going to be pony themed, so I better get to work. lol. Poor kid is gonna be disappointed when she find out I'm not going all out again next year.
Happy Birthday Ava! Sorry its belated...my tablet is being a pain and while I saw your great pics on Facebook, I couldn't comment this weekend.
Pony themed eh? I think you can handle that!
So glad she had a great day... so sorry about the lip! That sounds so painful!! Will you be doing a horseback riding lesson in the near future for her? Has she been before? Sounds fun!! I did see your pics, too.... everything was sooo cute!!
That's great she kept busy and didn't seem to notice missing her lesson! Love that she's already got the next one planned out, LOL! Maybe she can start planning Drew's, too, so you don't have to!
How is Ava healing, Amber? Thanks for sending the pictures!
So glad you don't have to think about next years theme!
She's healing well. I was worried about food getting trapped in the hole and having to scrub it out myself. But it's healing beautifully. Lips really do heal quickly.
I'm going easy on Andrew's party this year. We're gonna do a super hero party at a local jump place. They don't allow in any fod besides cake and ice cream, so I'll hold it between 2pm-4pm and pass out super hero caps and masks as favors. Easy peasy and fun! It was hard this year for Andrew to understand Ava's birthday meant she got the gifts and attention. Poor guy was sad and there were a lot of confused tears. I hope next year is easier on him.
I was so sad to hear poor Ava got hurt! Her party pictures were wonderful though. I am sorry I haven't said it but happy birthday to little Miss Ava! You really do throw great parties! I don't know how you get it all put together with two kids running around.
Happy Birthday Ava! Sorry I am late! I am glad her party was a success. I am sorry to hear about her lip. Poor thing.