Dropbear

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  • 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  The manual page says this function is obsolete and with good reason.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…

  • dh-make updated to 0.52 and its remaining bugs

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    I’ve made a quick release of dh-make, now up to 0.52.  Besides a minor dh_make.1 manual page fix this release will put the right value in the debian/source/format file.  0.51 will make it a native source package no matter what flags you use. If you get weird lintian errors about native source formats and version…

  • Gjay Updated

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    After a long time of testing and just plain other non-software writing stuff, I’m happy to announce Gjay 0.3.0 is released.  This is my first release of Chuck Groom’s code and hopefully it will work for you too. The Debian packages will be out shortly after some building and testing.  If you have a 64-bit…

  • procps: Third time lucky

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    OK, ok, i got a chroot and pbuilder now. So that should, I hope stop any more FTBFS bugs about missing depdendencies. procps got uploaded that fixes some important bugs, but mainly they were small fiddly things. About the most significant enhancement was pmap now has a real working -x flag.  It looks a lot…

  • The Great Australian Internet Firewall

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    Some what belatedly (hey I’m travelling!)  I’ve changed the layout of my main website http://www.enc.com.au/ so it now has black panels and a little pop-up.  It’s all in the name of T he Great Australian Internet Blackout which is a protest about the upcoming Australian Governments Internet Filtering. As per usual with this sort of…

  • Manilla, Git and Gjay

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    Work doesn’t often send to me places as great as Manilla in the Philippines, but here I am.  It’s a reasonably modern place and to me feels more like America than Asia in so many ways, posssibly because of its history.  One thing is for sure, noone follows road rules here.  Red lights are a…

  • Happy new RC

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    It’s the late afternoon of the first day of 2010 here, though I suppose its still 2009 for someone for a little while. After a lot of waiting, JFFNMS release candidate 1 for 0.8.5 got uploaded to sourceforge.  This release is mainly about fixing some database release bugs 0.8.4 had and they’re all caused by…