Month: January 2012

  • Unlucky sometimes

    Sometimes life throws little curves at you to see if you are still awake, today has been one of those days. fglrx is (apparently) fixed I’ve had a long-running problem with fglrx on my laptop.  The problem stems from ATI closed-source drivers with one of those laptops that has an ATI and Intel driver. It…

  • MediaServer with Rygel

    Like a lot of  people, I have one of those set-top TV boxes that can record TV shows at set times.  I made sure that I could get at the files (using a FTP server in this case) and that the files were some sort of common standard (MPEG 4 TS).  I also have a…

  • procps 3.32 Debian packages

    Following up from the upstream release of a new procps, the Debian packages have also been updated. This upload has a significant change in that, I hope, procps is now multi-arch compliant. To make this happen, the libprocps library is now in it’s own package, separate from the binaries. It also means that if you…

  • rpath bites me again

    It’s funny, in  bad way, when certain sorts of bugs come back to bite you.  People may remember the fun Debian had with rpath issues around in the late 90s where some binaries wanted to set the path of where their libraries were located.  After much contraversy the consensus was at least in Debian (with…

  • procps-ng version 3.3.2 released

    procps-ng version 3.3.2 was released today.  This version fixes some bugs introduced in version 3.3.1 as well as a number of enhancements. Below is the most significant set of changes that 3.3.2 brings. NLS The most visible change is that procps-ng is now international.  The NLS changes took a long windy path but we got…