Dropbear

Year: 2010

  • ncurses into experimental

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    Sven has been very busy getting a new Debian ncurses packages into order.  With the multiple changes made and the fact that so many things depend on the shared libraries, we decided that it is best to put the first cut of these packages into experimental. We’re now using the Quilt 3.0 source format for…

  • Book: Surface Detail

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    Oh yes, another Iain M. Banks story is out and I had to read it right away.  I wasn’t disappointed either. It’s another one of his Sci Fi books in the world, or worlds of The Culture.  I wasn’t disappointed and it was interesting to see him flesh out more of his universe in this…

  • psmisc 22.13, gjay 0.3.1-2 and son 2.0

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    Two updates for Debian today. I’m the upstream for psmisc and 22.13 finally got released, which also meant 22.13-1 Debian package got released too. There was some delay to it (see below why) but it is now out.  Unless you run a mips or superH architecture, there is not really any exciting changes, but should…

  • Manually calculating process times

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    Most of the time you can trust the times you see in programs such as ps and top within Linux, but there are those other times where you just want to check what is going on. First up, if you’re using a FreeBSD system and the procps Linux tools, you’re out of luck because a…

  • Book: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

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    Actually they’re more interested in freedom, to be no longer slaves to humans. I don’t think it’s any spoiler to mention that an electric sheep does appear in the book. This is a classic science fiction story of a dark not-so-distant future.  In fact given that it’s over 40 years old it could be set…

  • Helping Free Software: Translations

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    Well the latest version of PSmisc is almost finished, so I pushed the tar archive up to the spot for the translators, waiting for the updates before it gets released. It reminded me that perhaps a lot of people don’t know how their programs get translated. Perhaps there are some that could even contribute.  The…

  • Australian Internet Censorship and Data Retention

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    Just going on how they treat matters regarding the internet, it seems that the current Australian government is trying to beat the previous government’s poor record.  Where the previous government seemed to think the internet a scary and unimportant thing that they didn’t really understand and therefore ignored it, the current government seems to be…

  • Does your program use gethostbyname() ?

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    There has been some discussion on the Debian IPv6 list about how the function gethostbyname() has changed.  The manual page says this function is obsolete and with good reason. A new feature of the function is that if a hostname has both IPv4 and IPv6 entries then the order of the return values is not…

  • JFFNMS 0.8.5 released

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    After my usual battle with PHP and database exports, jffnms 0.8.5 is now released. This program is a network management system written in PHP.  The worst part about the whole maintaining process for it would have to be is the release. Why is it so difficult to track changes within a database and PHP code?…

  • VMware at last

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    Well I suppose its a bit heretical running something such as VMware, but its an important piece of software at my workplace, it also allows me to run some important VMKs or modules.  But at first it just wouldn’t compile. And then I found this wonderful blog about Installing VMware on Ubuntu and it worked…