Dropbear

Year: 2013

  • procps-ng 3.3.7 Released

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    procps-ng version 3.3.7 was released today.  It has some new and interesting features in the top program that Jim has been busy working on.  There is a new filter feature which can exclude fields that match a value for example. The remainder of the changes are small bug fixes and getting the compile warnings count…

  • python and rrdtool

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    RRDTool is a neat utility for collecting and graphing statistics such as server loads or network traffic. There are two main modules for interfacing with RRDTool files within python; rrdpython and pyrrd. rrdpython is the basic bindings of the rrdtool library within python. The API is very familiar for people who program in C or…

  • What I learnt from LCA 2013

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    Well I’m back from LCA 2013 and what a great week it was. I learnt plenty of things over the week, including: Cloud computing into the government will be coming but will be hard to do in a significant way It wasn’t just me that found the GTK 2 to 3 API change hard going…

  • Off to LCA2013

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    While I’ve been involve in Linux and Debian for many (15 or more) years, I’ve only ever been to one “major Linux thing” in all that time and that was manning some stall for Debian about 10 years ago. Well, let’s call it two because next week I’m off to the Linux.conf.au 2013 conference. I…

  • Bootstrap – The hidden gem in Turbogears

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    I’ve been trying to tidy up my Mako templates within my Turbogears 2 project.  As part of that I was looking at some of them that are quickstarted including one which is the About page. What was curious was there was all this CSS work all done already for you, including icons.  Digging further I…

  • Pre-selecting ToscaWidgets jqgrid values in TurboGears

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    My Turbogears project has recently reached an important milestone; one of the back-end processes now runs pretty much continuously and the plugins it use (or at least the ones I can see) are also working.  That means I can turn to the front-end which displays the data the back-end collected. For some of the data…

  • procps 3.3.6 and Mudlet 2.0

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    Yesterday was a busy Debian day for me with the release of not one but two packages. procps procps version 3.3.6 was released both as an upstream and a Debian package.  While there were many bug fixes in this release, the main new feature for it was the top inspect feature. The top inspect feature…