Category: Software

  • JFFNMS at RC2, ncurses at 5.8

    After some reports back about [JFFNMS](http://www.jffnms.org/) 0.9.0rc1 I have now updated it to rc2. Thanks for all who gave me information about how it worked in YOUR setup.  I cannot be sure but I’d say the second RC will be the last until the release itself. Sven has also given me the nod and ncurses…

  • Apache and incomplete redirection messages

    How to use Redirect statements correctly so apache doesn’t complain about incomplete redirections

  • JFFNMS 0.9.0 release candidate 1 out

    JFFNMS v0.9.0 RC1 is out with lots of code cleanups and new set of engines.

  • Syntax Highlighting with Mid-Century themes

    As a site that discusses a variety of programming languages, I thought it would be good to have syntax highlighting for the code snippets. This blog previously ran [Movable Type][] so it had to fit in with the setup I have already. So I found the [Syntax Highlighter][] module ok and the initial installation went…

  • JFFNMS and IPv6

    One of the many Free Software projects I work on is JFFNMS, which is a network management system written in PHP. In light that the last IPv4 address blocks have now been allocated to APNIC it’s probably timely to look at how to manage network devices in a new IPv6 world. First you need to…

  • Playing text adventures with mudlet

    Mudlet I’ve been playing text based multi-user games on and off for years, or perhaps that’s decades.  When I first started playing them, all you had was telnet. Then this program called TinyFugue appeared which is still shipped by Debian. The generic term for these sorts of games are MUDs, or Multi User Dungeons. Anyhow,…

  • dh-make and cdbs

    If you use dh-make with CDBS then you need to know that CDBS is no longer a package type, but is a rules format. This is where it should of been in the first place and for a few versions of dh-make there was this half-hearted attempt to change it over. Version 0.57 has the…

  • A few minor updates

    No real terribly exciting updates lately but all important in their own way. ncurses A new version of ncurses got uploaded into sid. It should hopefully fix the backspace versus delete problem some of the FreeBSD people have been having with some of the terminal emulators. Oh, and if you are pining for the good…

  • ncurses into experimental

    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…

  • psmisc 22.13, gjay 0.3.1-2 and son 2.0

    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…