Several weeks ago, the people in charge of maintaining the Windows machines in my institute were desperate because of a series of virus outbreaks - Specially, as expected, in the public lab - but the whole network smell virulent. After seeing their desperation, I asked Rolman to help me come up with a solution. He suggested me to try replacing the Windows workstations by substituting local installations by a server having several virtual machines, all regenerated from a clean image every day, and exporting rdesktop sessions.

go fix your ancient Homepage pseudo-fields, you lazy
maintainer!

... or I'll kill a kitten for each homepage URL I found in long
package descriptions.

Homepage pseudo-fields are gone since long, the proper way to
document upstream homepage is now to use a
real Homepage field in the source stanza of
debian/control.

Today anibal(thanks!) uploaded xscreensaver 5.05-3, this release fixes the XRandR issue that a lot of people reported since the introduce of sanity code in 5.05 for XRandR (that are some quite RCs and important bugs).

5.06 is out now but we couldn't wait more to get this RCs closed, in a week or two this new release will be ready and in the archive.

I recently had to setup netconsole in order to diagnose some grsecurity-related suspend/resume problems. The idea is to have the broken machine send its kernel messages to a remote machine via the network.

As a prerequisite, the local machine (the one sending the console messages) must have the following kernel options turned on:

• CONFIGFS_FS
• NETCONSOLE
• NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC

(The first and last ones are required in order to be able to configure netconsole after boot, through the configfs interface.)

Imbattutomi nell’arduo problema di trovare un modo per configurare un autorisponditore sul server di posta di un cliente che usa account virtuali e non di sistema, ho finalmente risolto l’arcano ricordandomi della mitica funzione “pipe” di Postfix, ecco come fare:

Se avete Postfix configurato su mysql dovrete inanzitutto aggiungere un “transport” nella tabella appropriata del tipo:

Dominio: “autoreply.domain.tld” -> Transport: “autoreply:”

La stessa cosa puo’ essere fatta se usate i file invece del db:

/etc/postfix/transport:
autoreply.domain.tld autoreply:

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Mancoosi paper for DebConf8 now available

As previously
announced, I'll be attending DebConf this year, as I did for
the past 3 years.

Beside the usual projects and ideas one carries with himself on
his way to a DebConf, this time I will also be there to present
part of my everyday work in the Mancoosi project. Very briefly
(and a bit too simplistic) Mancoosi is working on pushing forward
the research and technology needed to deliver better package
managers to the users of open source software
distributions.

Gibraltar is a Debian GNU/Linux-based router/firewall distribution, fully workable from a bootable, live CD-ROM. Log files can be stored on a hard disk, and configuration data is stored on a USB mass storage media or a floppy disk and kept on a RAM disk during run-time. Due to its Debian base, a vast manifold of firewalling, routing, and proxy packages is available. It comes with an intuitive, easy to use Web administration interface and support, and is free to use for home users.

License: Free To Use But Restricted

Changes:

revamping w3-recs: new specs, misc improvements

After quite a lot from my
initial adoption, I've spent some time to update
w3-recs.


# apt-get install hello

-t, –traditional use traditional greeting format
-n, –next-generation use next-generation greeting format
-g, –greeting=TEXT use TEXT as the greeting message


Now gkrellm works with kernels >=2.6.24, since where /proc/acpi has been deprecated in favor of /sys.

The binaries packages for most of the archs debian supports most be available already in the debian archive since anibal upload it the saturday.

Enjoy!

It is to laugh.

In reading about the OpenSSH issues with Debian, one of the trails of pointers led me to a comic online, xkcd. A few comics later was this:

One coffe powered spit take later...

(and fair warning Microsoft Ninjas, Eric has guns!)

rsnapshot is easy, reliable and disaster recovery backup solution. It is a remote backup program that uses rsync to take backup snapshots of filesystems. It uses hard links to save space on disk.

You can easily build remote / local backup server to keep snapshots in in hourly, daily and monthly format. Debian Linux specific insurrections are here.

You can easily configure IPv6 Tunnel under Debian or Ubuntu Linux to browse IPv6 ready websites and use IPv6 utilities. If your ISP is not ready with IPv6 native transport, you can easily set IPv6 tunnel under Debian or Ubuntu Linux using tspc (tunnel setup protocol client). tspc provides a mean to configure a tunnel obtained from a tunnel server which is compliant to the tunnel setup protocol (TSP).

tspc: Debian / Ubuntu Linux Configure IPv6 Tunnel

Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning, or WebDAV, is a set of extensions to the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) which allows users to collaboratively edit and manage files on remote World Wide Web servers.This tutorial will explain howto install webdav Configuration With Apache2 On Debian Etch.

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Yey! libtorrent 0.12.2-1 is now uploaded to experimental (thanks bureado for the sponsoring! :D), soon I'll get rtorrent 0.8.2-1 uploaded as well.

I've been using it since a while and has been working great!

In a few hours the buildd network should get them built for all arches, BTW, in this version is included the support for ARM-based machines :) Prepare your NSLU2!