Older blog entries for jgg (starting at number 5)

Today it seems the world discovered my email on the DUL, I just got 3 emails on it all at once - I wonder if it got forwarded someplace? Weird. Of course they all praise the DUL as having virtually a 0% false positive rate. I wonder though how they measure that since the mails go into the bit bucket. I think I'll ask ..

Looking for info on JTAG interfaces and software for linux, mail me if you know anything..

meta I did talk with lilo today and an interesting thought occured to me, what if the project pages could show a 'Recent Diary Entries' only for people in that project (with a certain status or something)? Then you could see at a glance what is happening to the people in that community. It might provide some interesting perspecitve to look at things like that.

I find the recent diary list wraps rather quickly and going to each persons page each day is tedious.

It seems some people want to widen the scope of the Purges, they want an inquisition to purge those who lack the faith.

I think I'll have a nap..

Nothing interesting happened today. I did just notice that once again the l-k exploder I am sitting on has lost it and begun sending mail in spurts <sigh> I wonder how much volume vger does.

About the meta thread, I like colours, I think people would rank more consistently if they didn't have a preconcieved notion of what a master/journeyer/etc is. I also wonder if the invasion of the BSD's was as large as the invasion of the Debianer's . Hmm :>

The troll that visited Advogato today prompted some concern that things might go downhill. As much as I enjoy some of the good /. trolls, I'd rather not see them here! There was talk of having a All-Debian weblog/essay site (we do like our weblogs) that would focus on our particular community. I am of the opinion that having more presonal interaction (as opposed to technical) things might run smoother with reduced friction. Alot of us use IRC for that, but that is not reasonable for everyone. I wonder what lilo thinks..

In alot of ways this would be a logical extension of the idea Raphael floated, bring BTS, News, Status, Journal and activities together into one big developer site.

Has anyone asked Raph if he keeps backups? I'd hate to loose these diary entries!

Today we finished the EE55 project report. This is one of those courses where you write lots of reports about the project, but the project itself is not too hard. We implemented a simple neural processor on a FPGA using VHDL. Kinda nifty.

The report itself was actually done completely on Linux using tools like Sketch, Dia, Lyx and Latex. I don't think nearly enough people quite grasp how remarkable these things are - One neat thing is we could take a printout from MaxPlus II, use pstoedit to make it into a sketch file, load it in sketch, add lots of markup and then import into Lyx! The only thing that could not be done is make the final PDF - ghostscript doesn't have LZW support due to the unisys patent.

Debian is leaking people again, some people think it is fear caused by Echelon. Interesting.

Seen on irc (in jest):
<woot> Why the spate of resignations?
<bod> woot: they are afraid of Culus

Oh, the pile of junk known as smartlist has broken again in odd ways - digests are out. Probably take all night before that gets working again. Hatefull Software.

The crypto summary hit the list. I think we will probably implement at least parts of it in a few months, the 'trust evaluator' thingy I envision is not something I am personally going to write, I think.

Rant: Occasionally people email us with a frantic 'Help! Your machine is port scanning me! You bastards!'. Guess what it *always* is? FTP in port mode! Lame. Normally this isn't such a big deal, but sometimes these people harrass our mirrors, their upstreams, our upstreams, etc and it can create a very big mess!

Today I heard a loud grinding noise from the new-maintainer corner, it sounds like someone is oiling the gears.

Lully has been Rescued by Ben Collins - he telephoned API and the situation has been resolved. For those that do not know, lully is the Dual EV6 that was lent to Debian by API - it is quite possibly the most powerful machine we have.

Atipa, who is sponsoring the FTP server upgrades, has them nearly completed which means Saens should be travelling to New York soon. Hopefully going to .5G of ram and 5x9G RAID5 will make all the difference in performance.

It would seem we have hit upon the best solution to implementing crypto signatures in Debian during a late night IRC pow wow. Watch d-devel for details.

Today I was pointed at Advogato by aj. I had heard about it for months but never knew what it was.. I got confused and thought it was a lilo project (Levin, Levien, its 3am!). Oh well - that makes it *less cool* but not fatally so.

Anyhow, I just joined and already I have Journeyer status (in like 10 mins). That may indicate I have too many IRC friends! I certified a bunch of other Debian Wanks that I know from IRC as well. Add to that list later.

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