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Important WordPress update
WordPress 3.8.2 was released yesterday which contains some important security fixes. This is an important security release and the Debian packages were uploaded to the ftp-master a few minutes ago. Besides fixing Debian Bug #744018, the release fixes the following two vulnerabilities (as mentioned in the bug report): CVE-2014-0165 WordPress privilege escalation: prevent contributors from…
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Resetting USB devices
I’m not sure if it is just a bad motherboard, cable, USB device or just bad luck, but when I reboot the computer the UPS doesn’t appear. It’s not even seen in lsusb and of course that makes nut-server fail which makes nut-client complain that it cannot work out the UPS status.The solution was to…
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First Look at RoseNMS screens
More work has gone into the various GUI screens for RoseNMS. While still early days, these screenshots give an idea of the final program. The maps have been updated and now just use CSS for layout, rather than hard calculating the coordinates using javascript. This gives a cleaner and more fluid look to the maps.…
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What I learnt from LCA 2013
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…