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Renewing my GnuPG keys
May 8th
Following to the recent announce of a serious possible attack against the SHA-1 digest algorithm, I have just generated new GPG keys.
My personal key 9F71D449 will hence be progressively replaced by my new key: 290D20C5
Its fingerprint is:
092F 4CB5 5F19 E006 1CFD B489 D32B 8D66 290D 20C5
The old key will continue to be valid for some time (at least until the new one get signed by a Debian Developer, in order to be included in the DM keyring), but I prefer all future correspondence to come to the new one.
Transition statement signed by both keys is available at: http://www.kirya.net/~julien/GPG-key-transition_20090508.txt
They key used for my personal package repository (FBABB737) has already been revoked and replaced by E435C74B, with the following fingerprint:
D17A A78F 7992 A07D 9D85 517C C3E1 8B20 E435 C74B
You have to make apt-key aware of this change:
wget -O - http://packages.kirya.net/Kirya.netDebianpackagesVerificationKey.asc | apt-key add -
Transition statement signed by both keys is available at: http://packages.kirya.net/GPG-key-transition_20090508.txt
Also note I have generated the key with ID 90A9E71B and got it sent to public servers by mistake. I do not own the private key hence I cannot revoke it: make sure you do not use it!
HADOPI – meeting with my local representative
Apr 20th
Following to the email sent regarding the French law known as “HADOPI” (I blogged about it a few weeks ago), I had a meeting this afternoon with my local representative.
This half an hour meeting allowed me to explain my fears regarding this “firewall” which could be set up on French citizens’ computers to enable them to prove their non-culpability (provided their computer runs a popular proprietary OS).
Xorg input hotplug
Apr 19th
I had written a few weeks ago about my new (almost) empty xorg.conf file and explained how I had to edit an HAL .fdi file to change my keyboard layout and define my compose key.
The Debian Xstrike Force have written a complete guide on the Debian wiki explaining this input hotplug system.
I have found that there is no need to edit .fdi files, just set the following options at the end of /etc/default/console-setup:
XKBMODEL="pc105" XKBLAYOUT="fr" XKBVARIANT="latin9" XKBOPTIONS="compose:lwin"
Even better, they should now be automatically grabbed from your existing xorg.conf when upgrading!
Switched to Pulseaudio
Mar 22nd
Following to an issue with esound not playing GNOME system sounds, I have decided to give Pulseaudio a try.
Installing the pulseaudio package pulled all necessary dependencies, including the esound compatibility plugin. I have added local users to the pulse-rt group, as recommended. After this, all worked perfectly except the main channel was muted and its volume set to 0% after rebooting.
I have found that not loading the module-device-restore does fix this issue, strangely. If you encounter the same problem, try and comment out the line load-module module-device-restore in /etc/pulse/default.pa.
On the essential role of translations in free software – GCompris in Portugal
Mar 10th
The recent problem of the Portuguese translation of GCompris shows how important a good translation is, especially as far as free software are concerned.
I have not been able to find any news in English relating this story, and think it is essential to spread it so that people better appreciate the role translators play in the free software development process.
The Portuguese Magalhães Project lead to provide 300,000 netbooks to Portuguese children aged of 6 to 10, for a fee varying from 0€ to 50€, depending on the earnings of the family. These netbooks have a dual boot, with Windows and Linux (a distribution based on Mandriva called “Caixa Mágica” – Magic Box in English).
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Controversial “Internet and creation” French law
Mar 10th
I wasn’t sure to really understand this project of law until I read a lot about it during the past days. As some of you might already know, this law, called “Internet et Création”, but mainly referred as “HADOPI” law 1, is a “Three Strikes” scheme to fight against illegal downloads proposed before the last summer by the French government, and then voted in the Autumn by the Sénat (the first of the two French houses of Parliament).
Not that I am in favor of illegal downloads of movies and music, but the way this law plans to fight against them is a real threat for French free software developers and users.
- HADOPI is the name of the possible future new institution created after the law enters in action ↩
GNOME leaves a lot of useless files
Feb 20th
I have been cleaning my ~/ and noticed a lot of files in ~/.metacity/sessions/ and ~/.config/metacity/sessions/ (800+) and in ~/.nautilus/ (600+).
Nautilus and Metacity are to blame for these behaviours. Bugs have already been reported in the Debian BTS and in the upstream bugzilla.
I hope this will be fixed shortly.
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