Free as in speech

Because a lolcat is worth a thousand jokes, here are 3 of them.

Thanks to rominet for coming up with those :-)

Dear Daniel,

It looks like you are referring to my post, though you got my name wrong so that wasn’t immediately obvious.

Of course this is far worse than the 2003 compromise in terms of the direct, known and quantifiable impact it has on our users. I don’t think I stated otherwise, so I hardly see why your post starts with “I disagree”.

NOT.

Also see #363516.

Genius.

Now regenerating every single SSH key, SSL certificate and whatever else I can identify that’s been produced by one of the Valgrind-clean openssl. Also expiring and changing every single password I’ve ever typed in a vulnerable SSH session (be it at login or in the session).

Updating the packages on the machines was fun already.

Worst Debian day ever since the 2003 compromise. And that was a BAD one.

I guess we need a new openssl maintainer, we obviously cannot trust the current one(s).

The SANE project is working on improving SANE, extending the API and ABI in a backward-compatible manner and bumping the version from 1.0.x to 1.1.x to celebrate that.

The timetable has been posted, and calls for a release of SANE 1.1.0 on July, 30th.

This will be too late for the Lenny freeze by a few weeks, which means Lenny is set to be released with SANE 1.0.19.

SANE 1.0.19 is a good, solid release, which is good news. I’m not sure 1.1.0 will be as solid as 1.0.19 is, so I won’t try to rush 1.1.0 into Lenny at the last minute.

Until the Lenny freeze, I’m going to augment the current SANE 1.0.19 with code from the SANE CVS, concentrating mostly on bugfixes and self-contained new hardware support and features.

Hence, if there is something in the SANE CVS that you would like to see in Lenny: test it, then tell me about it. You have until the end of June to do so.

Currently on my TODO list:

• pixma backend update

Currently in experimental, sane-backends 1.0.19-7:

• saned & net backend with mDNS/DNS-SD support
• debconf support for enabling saned

Comments and feedback welcome.

Trying to upgrade a craptastic server that’s proving problematic under 2.6.18 to the Etch 1/2 kernel, not only is the machine extremely sloooooow to boot, but it turns out that it’s partly due to bnx2 now requesting a firmware file, whereas the firmware is built-in in the 2.6.18 Etch kernel.

Of course, the machine has no working network access due to this, and, to make things even worse, the firmware file is nowhere to be found. No firmware-nonfree in etch-proposed-updates and it’s not in the firmware-nonfree package in unstable.

You’d better hide your kittens, for Etch 1/2 makes me want to kill a large number of kittens.

Put down the crack pipe. Really. Wow.

Dear Jaldhar,

I wrote the post you’re referring to knowing that only one person had been stupid enough to title his post “Is Debian dying?”, so before you go on writing I’m insulting a group of people (at least I’m reading your post this way), please do your research.

Lucas’ post is about the worst PR we can imagine. There’s nothing more stupid to do than what he did. That’s the PR equivalent of committing suicide, mostly. It’s seriously hindering the work some of us are doing, publicizing Debian, going to trade shows, etc. It’s not only stupid, it’s hurting people who do this work.

What’s worse, the post comes with comments from random nobodies, who have nothing to do with Debian, don’t have the first clue about how the Project works internally, yet they can tell that Debian is dying and grinding to a halt. Not to mention it’s been publicized yet again by some “journalist”.

I’ve known Lucas for a long time now. I know where I stand. And I maintain my previous post in full, like it or not.

Kthxbye.

NagVis is a visualization add-on for Nagios, offering a somewhat better summary view compared to Nagios.

As we are faced with abysmal performance on a “large” setup here, I conducted a quick analysis.

Given what I found pretty early on during this analysis, I’ve given up trying to salvage NagVis. We’re looking at alternatives and considering writing our own tool to cover our needs.

New developer accounts have been created moments ago, “finally”.

Congratulations to all new DDs, with a special note for Aurélien GÉRÔME (ag) and Cyril BRULEBOIS (KiBi).

All of this made possible by Sam, our best DPL to date.

Also, don’t listen to the fucktards going around telling “OMG DEBIAN IS DYING!!11!1!”. They’re just that, fucktards.

I’ve just released pommed v1.17, which is a pure maintenance release to accomodate changes in Linux 2.6.25.

The path for the led interface exposed by applesmc for the keyboard backlight has changed, so if you lost the keyboard backlight when switching to 2.6.25 or a pre-release, now you know why ;)

No new features this time around :-)