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  • procps-ng 3.3.3 released

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    This weekend procps-ng version 3.3.3 was tagged and released for distribution.  There have been many patches and fixes involved in this release as we move from an unchanging static sort of code into something that is easier to maintain and build on various architectures.  The good thing is I’m down to 1 or 2 patches…

  • PHP floats and locales

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    I recently had a bug report in JFFNMS that the SLA checks were failing with bizarre calculations.  Things like 300% disk drive utilization and the like.  Briefly, JFFNMS is written in PHP and checks values that come out of rrdtool and makes various comparisons like have you used more than 80% of your disk or…

  • JFFNMS 0.9.3 1st release candidate

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    I have been putting a lot of testing into JFFNMS lately.  I have been very lucky to have had someone with the time and patience to try out various sub versions and give me access to their results. The end-result of all this testing is a much, much less buggy JFFNMS.  There have been a…

  • JFFNMS 0.9.2 Released

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    JFFNMS version 0.9.2 was released today both as an upstream tar.gz file and a new Debian package.  This version fixes some bugs including making sure it works with PHP5.4. The biggest change in PHP 5.4 is that you can no longer call by reference.  Previously you could call a function like myfunc(&blah); which would send…

  • psmisc 22.16 Released

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    psmisc version 22.16 was released today.  It is a bugfix release that bascially fixes a problem around strings in C.  Process name lengths are only supposed to be 16 characters long, so a 17 bye buffer is ok; until you have processes with brackets which means the string is 18 characters. The next wrinkle is…

  • VMware Player on Debian

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    For various reasons, having vmware running on my desktop would be kind of useful.  VMware provide a Free (as in beer) version of their software called VMware Player. I downloaded the file VMware-Player-4.0.2-591240.x86_64.bundle off their website and tried to build it. It failed to build. Given my previous lack of success with VMware server, I…

  • Unlucky sometimes

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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…