Tag Archives: debian

For Debian Developers who watch discussions about possible GRs

2009-01-07 by mjr

I believe that most debian developers ignore discussions of possible general resolutions like the current one, until/unless they look like reaching the required number of seconds to trigger a vote. It’s hard to prove that a group is ignoring something, … Continue reading →

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New Years Resolution: Avoid These Bad Ideas?

2009-01-02 by mjr

I’m not a big new year resolution maker (new year is just a side-effect of a calendaring system), but if you are, I suggest the following resolutions to avoid three bad ideas: Change your passwords and do not set it … Continue reading →

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Debian, Lenny GR and the Secretary

2008-12-19 by mjr

Two policy issues have been brewing in debian and I’ve been mostly quiet about them because I’ve been busy with TTLLP work. One is the Lenny release GR which I’m still trying to make sense of. I mean: yikes! I’ve … Continue reading →

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Firmware and the Shape of Debian Lenny

2008-10-23 by mjr

Lenny is the codename for the next release of debian, which will be debian 5.0 formally. For the first time that I can remember, debian will fit on one disk. OK, so it’s a blu-ray disk (BD), but I’m sure … Continue reading →

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Web Foundation and While I Was Out

2008-09-16 by mjr

I concentrated on work after my return to the keyboard last week and then spent much of the weekend reroofing a shed, so today was my first day catching up with the news. Here’s what I noticed:- One of my … Continue reading →

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Friday Opinion Request 2: Are Your Free Software T-Shirts Ethical?

2008-09-05 by mjr

News reports have described the use of forced child labour for cotton harvesting in Uzbekistan, which is then used in t-shirts and so on, including those sold by some major shops in England like Asda/Wal-Mart, as I mentioned on the … Continue reading →

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Oddments from Planet Debian

2008-09-01 by mjr

Three replies to things I saw today on Planet Debian on blogs of people that don’t have fully-working web comment systems:- Professional Slide Installer (usual buggy blogger.com CAPTCHA) – yes, they exist. My village’s council sometimes hires them. I think … Continue reading →

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Would Debian Lists Send Scunthorpe to Coventry?

2008-08-21 by mjr

I had a small chuckle at the delay to Debian Project news because the listserver filter treated it as if an event was on Free Ando Penis Land. Parties in Scunthorpe and Penistone may have a similar problem. At least … Continue reading →

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Using at to Record DebConf Streams

2008-08-19 by mjr

While I enjoyed watching some of the DebConf 8 Video Team’s Excellent Service, not all of it was at convenient times for me, being several timezones away, so I used the following script to record some of the streams:- #!/bin/sh … Continue reading →

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DebConf 8 Video Team Gives Excellent Service

2008-08-12 by mjr

DebConf, the annual Debian Conference, is held this year in Mar del Plata, Argentina. One sometimes-overlooked part of this is the brilliant video streaming service, with each stream supported by an IRC feedback channel including announcement of talks and events … Continue reading →

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