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Ubuntu 8.10 as a guest in VirtualBox
Oct 27th
Though I only use Debian on all my machines, I like playing with new Ubuntu releases, just in case I have to set it up on someone else’s machine. I use VirtualBox for testing.
When trying the upcoming new Ubuntu 8.10 release, and after installing the VirtualBox clients on the guest, I had the following issues: More >
USB card reader and USB power management
Jun 1st
I have received a brand new USB card reader.
At first sight, everything was working well “out of the box”, but when I have checked the log files, I could see the following lines repeated very frequently:
Jun 1 08:22:08 athyr kernel: [ 1412.134045] usb 6-2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
I repeat everything seems to work OK, but I can’t stand this kind of messages, especially when it deals with storage (by experience, everything works well during the tests, you simply ignore error messages, and you loose your data the first time you really use your hardware!).
Hosting problems and side effects of the OpenSSL vulnerability
May 19th
I am in the process of moving all my services (including this website and my mail server) to a new host (actually a virtual server). Until now, almost all of them were (hum, are… see below) hosted on my home server on a DSL line.
The aim is to ease maintenance, reduce power usage, and avoid any risk of fire when not at home.
Most of the websites and the mail server were moved to the new virtual server at the beginning of the week.
I had to postpone my backup configuration to deal with the OpenSSL vulnerability.
Unfortunately, one of the filer of my new hosting company crashed on Thursday and all the data of my virtual host have been lost.
The server is still unreachable, I had to move back to my home server on Friday.
This lead to some outages on all my websites in the meantime. Sorry for any inconvenience.
I have also lost a few e-mail (which I have received on the new host, but not yet read, ie. not yet in my MUA cache). If you sent something I haven’t yet answered to, please send it again.
I hope I will be able to work on the virtual server again next week-end.
New packages in my experimental repository
May 3rd
As some of you might have noticed, I have uploaded a bunch of new packages to my experimental repository, all of them related to digital photographic workflow. Most of them are based on existing packages, but built from a VCS snapshot to benefit from newly supported hardware and new features.
- ufraw was updated to support my Sony DSLR-A700 camera – packaged based on the latest release available in sid.
- hugin package in unstable is outdated – I have based my package on Debian PhotoTools member Cyril Brulebois’s work. It seems that some legal questions have been raised, preventing the package to be updated in the official archive.
- autopano-sift fixes FTBS and other bugs in Christian Marillat‘s package and proves working well with hugin. I will e-mail him a patch with the amendments I have worked on.
- enblend needs to be built from VCS to work with current hugin snapshots. The package is fully based on the package available in sid.
Though I use these packages on a regular basis, they haven’t been thoroughly tested as official packages would be, and might still contain bugs or errors. Please report any problem you might have.
I will try and update these packages when time allows it. VCS snapshots might be unstable, or even non-usable. As usual, use these non-official packages on your own risk.
Also note that these packages are currently only available for amd64. I will eventually build i386 packages if requested.
What t-mobile phones began as an experiment, is called the home of cell phone today. Yes nokia phones. Standing close to it is the motorola phones.
ndiswrapper and WPA
Oct 13th
I had been using ndiswrapper with a Netgear WG511 PCMCIA card:”(the free prism54 unfortunately does not support WPA)”: without any problems for a while, then have begun to get kernel crashes, which were more and more frequent.
I have thus backported to Etch the 1.47 version available in Sid, which *does* fix my kernel crashes.
However, this newer version has brought new problems: with a “high” network load, the module just crashes silently, and has to be reloaded so that the network connection can be enabled again.
I have packaged ndiswrapper 1.48 as the release notes let me think my issues were fixed (“Disassocation with wpa_supplicant is fixed”), but the problem is still there with this latest release!
I have finally managed to get things work correctly thanks to this post: I use Debian linux-image, ie. without preemption enabled, and I can now confirm the still-to-be-released 1.49 version fixes this issue.
I have uploaded 1.49-rc3 packages to my unofficial repository just in case someone has the same issue.
Switched to Dovecot LDA and Sieve
Oct 13th
I have worked almost all the day to update my mail server configuration to use Dovecot LDA and the Sieve mail filtering language instead of maildrop.
This was very easy thanks to Christoph’s ISP-style Email Server with Debian-Etch and Postfix 2.3 how-to.
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First x86-64 system
Jul 30th
Despite my previous choice to stick with an i386 system, I couldn’t resist any longer when I have seen that both openoffice.org and the proprietary Flash player were easily available in the amd64 port (not a fresh piece of news).
I have thus just re-installed my main desktop machine which is now running a complete amd64 system.
I have added this architecture to my unofficial packages repository, and all the arch-dependent packages in the unstable branch were re-built. Note that I do not plan to re-build packages available for the current stable distribution (namely etch). This might however change in the future if people show interest for
this.
I have been able to build i386 packages in a chroot using pbuilder and cowdancer, which I will explain later in an article.
New mobile phone: Sony Ericsson K750i
Jul 12th
I have just received my new mobile phone: a Sony Ericsson K750i which I have chosen mainly for its price and multimedia features, but also because it has an internal modem, accessible via both bluetooth™ and irda.
So far, I was already able to connect to the internet in GSM, will try GPRS tomorrow as I need to change my SIM card.
libbtctl and gnome-bluetooth 0.9.0 were also released today. Updated packages have been uploaded to my unofficial repository (please read carefully the release announcement which explains these packages have been deprecated).
I have also tried wammu for the first time, it will help me update my address book.
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