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nikon d300 • nikkor 50mm f/1.4 • © 2008 Joost Yervante Damad
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Friday, October 31, 2008
Thursday, October 30, 2008
RC-Bugs / Debian Bug Sprint
The Debian Lenny release has still quite a big list of Release Critical bugs, and as Debian developer I feel that I should do my share, and at least look at the list of bugs and see if there's any I could do something for.
Almost always though, I find that I won't touch the remaining bugs in the list.because of one or more of these reasons:
As part of the effort to get Lenny released, Joss Mouette started the Debian Bug Sprint.
This is really a cool concept, and it is a shame not more people participated.
The reason for me it is cool is that it forced me to break the rules I mentioned above, because I got a bug which fitted 1 and 4 of my list above!
Turned out this bug is really a border case in interpretation of Debian policy.
The package is perfectly usable without any extern dependencies, hence it is currently in the main section of Debian. However it doesn't end there. The package also has a download script that can fetch firmware images for certain printers. It appears for people with these printers the package is NOT usable without external files.
Aparantly though, the current, as one person involved in the bug calls it, "spirit" of Debian is to tolerate this, as it is good enough that it is usable without external dependencies for SOME persons.
However the bug submitter doesn't agree, and thinks this is a case that needs addressing withing the Debian project.
I suggested splitting up the package and moving the download script to contrib, but this was mostly dismissed as idea.
The end result is that the maintainer decided to escalate the problem to the Debian CTTE.
This means it probable won't be solved by today, soo I will have to bake cookies for someone :)
Almost always though, I find that I won't touch the remaining bugs in the list.because of one or more of these reasons:
- a package I really don't care about
- hugely complex package or might also use something obscure like cddb
- it seems like people are already looking into it
- it requires a political solution, not a technical one
As part of the effort to get Lenny released, Joss Mouette started the Debian Bug Sprint.
This is really a cool concept, and it is a shame not more people participated.
The reason for me it is cool is that it forced me to break the rules I mentioned above, because I got a bug which fitted 1 and 4 of my list above!
Turned out this bug is really a border case in interpretation of Debian policy.
The package is perfectly usable without any extern dependencies, hence it is currently in the main section of Debian. However it doesn't end there. The package also has a download script that can fetch firmware images for certain printers. It appears for people with these printers the package is NOT usable without external files.
Aparantly though, the current, as one person involved in the bug calls it, "spirit" of Debian is to tolerate this, as it is good enough that it is usable without external dependencies for SOME persons.
However the bug submitter doesn't agree, and thinks this is a case that needs addressing withing the Debian project.
I suggested splitting up the package and moving the download script to contrib, but this was mostly dismissed as idea.
The end result is that the maintainer decided to escalate the problem to the Debian CTTE.
This means it probable won't be solved by today, soo I will have to bake cookies for someone :)
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
getaddrinfo V4MAPPED
When writing an IPv6 enabled server, using the AI_V4MAPPED flag to get IPv4 addresses as IPv6 mapped addresses also somehow requires the AI_ALL flag or it doesn't work.
This conflicts the manual page and also the opengroup docs.
Update: the above is on Debian GNU/Linux sid with glibc 2.7-15.
Just tested it on opensolaris and they DO provide the correct behaviour. Time for a bugreport
This conflicts the manual page and also the opengroup docs.
Update: the above is on Debian GNU/Linux sid with glibc 2.7-15.
Just tested it on opensolaris and they DO provide the correct behaviour. Time for a bugreport
Thursday, October 23, 2008
adobe flash 10 in debian unstable
Because I see a lot of very complex tutorials, I'd like to point out that it can be done much easier:
- add deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian experimental main contrib to your /etc/apt/sources.list (replace nl by your favorite mirror)
- aptitude update
- aptitude -t experimental install flashplugin-nonfree
- done :)
Sunday, October 19, 2008
linus, cleaning
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Friday, October 17, 2008
spagetti pompoen
Een van mijn favoriete groenten is de pompoen. Niet in het minste omdat het een plant is die met mijn zeer extensieve teeltwijze toch meestal een deftige opbrengst geeft.
Dit jaar was een bijzonder goed pompoen jaar bij mij. Eindelijk ben ik er ook in geslaagd van spagetti pompoenen te kweken. Ik zou zelfs durven stellen dat de spagetti pompoenen mijn tuin veroverd hebben. Ze lagen overal tussen de rest van de groenten (onkruid?), en het leken wel drakeneieren :)
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nikon d300 • tamron 17-50 f/2.8 • © 2008 Joost Yervante Damad
Het bereiden is simpel: gewoon een uurtje in de oven op 175 graden celcius. Wel wat gaatjes in de schil maken zodat de druk er af kan. Na ongeveer een uurtje testen of je makkelijk door de schil gaat met een vork en dan is ie gaar.
Gewoon in tweeen snijden, pitten eruit (achteraf roosteren!) en dan het vruchtvlees uitscheppen met een lepel. Het lijkt eerst nog op gewoon pompoen vruchtvlees, maar als je er dan wat op duwt valt het uiteen in spagetti-achtige slierten.
Smaak is redelijk neutraal en zeer lekker te combineren met bijvoorbeeld een tomatensaus op basis van overrijpe tomaatjes bij de buren uit de kas.
Samen met de courgettes was dit de revelatie in mijn groententuin van dit jaar! Die gaan zeker volgend jaar terugkomen, als het weer een beetje meezit.
Dit jaar was een bijzonder goed pompoen jaar bij mij. Eindelijk ben ik er ook in geslaagd van spagetti pompoenen te kweken. Ik zou zelfs durven stellen dat de spagetti pompoenen mijn tuin veroverd hebben. Ze lagen overal tussen de rest van de groenten (onkruid?), en het leken wel drakeneieren :)
(click on the image to enlarge)
nikon d300 • tamron 17-50 f/2.8 • © 2008 Joost Yervante Damad
Het bereiden is simpel: gewoon een uurtje in de oven op 175 graden celcius. Wel wat gaatjes in de schil maken zodat de druk er af kan. Na ongeveer een uurtje testen of je makkelijk door de schil gaat met een vork en dan is ie gaar.
Gewoon in tweeen snijden, pitten eruit (achteraf roosteren!) en dan het vruchtvlees uitscheppen met een lepel. Het lijkt eerst nog op gewoon pompoen vruchtvlees, maar als je er dan wat op duwt valt het uiteen in spagetti-achtige slierten.
Smaak is redelijk neutraal en zeer lekker te combineren met bijvoorbeeld een tomatensaus op basis van overrijpe tomaatjes bij de buren uit de kas.
Samen met de courgettes was dit de revelatie in mijn groententuin van dit jaar! Die gaan zeker volgend jaar terugkomen, als het weer een beetje meezit.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Monday, October 6, 2008
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Friday, October 3, 2008
Guardamar Del Segura - bench
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
ebay / channeladvisor / big sellers
I sometimes buy things on ebay, always went fine. Find item on ebay, pay with paypal, done.
Lately though there is this new trend where large sellers use a sort of third party to manage their sales, like e.g. channeladvisor.com. Not only does this add an extra step to buying it also adds an extra step that can go wrong.
On one auction I get mails from channeladvisor to pay for an item I already payed via paypal, yet didn't receive.
On another auction I was sent along to a totally confusing german only third party site, causing me to accidentally pick the wrong payment method, which turns out I can't use, and I can't change it, thus I can't pay.
Don't bother to send a message to the seller, because for them you're just collateral damage. One negative feedback on thousands of sales.
I won't be buying from indirect sellers on ebay anymore...
Lately though there is this new trend where large sellers use a sort of third party to manage their sales, like e.g. channeladvisor.com. Not only does this add an extra step to buying it also adds an extra step that can go wrong.
On one auction I get mails from channeladvisor to pay for an item I already payed via paypal, yet didn't receive.
On another auction I was sent along to a totally confusing german only third party site, causing me to accidentally pick the wrong payment method, which turns out I can't use, and I can't change it, thus I can't pay.
Don't bother to send a message to the seller, because for them you're just collateral damage. One negative feedback on thousands of sales.
I won't be buying from indirect sellers on ebay anymore...
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