Twin blog

I'll be at debconf9

2009-06-17T18:28:54Z

I'll be there and I'll be with video team.

My .dupload.conf file

2009-03-03T20:08:48Z

I've prepared a private autobuilder. As I've setup the incoming using scp, I don't need to gpg sign each package. But dupload complained saying that the package is not gpg signed. Lurking in dupload code, I found It's possible overriding the default preupload for my default host:

     package config;

     $default_host = "eragon";
     $cfg{'eragon'} = {
             fqdn => "eragon",
             method => "scp",
             incoming => "/data/autobuilder/incoming/unstable",
             # files pass on to dinstall on ftp-master which sends emails itself
             dinstall_runs => 1,
       };

       $cfg{'eragon'}{preupload}{'changes'} = '/bin/true';
       1;

Apertium

2008-03-30T22:12:22Z

Last years, Francis Tyers has been working as Debian maintainer for Apertium packages and upstream (Apertium is an open-source machine translation platform), and I've been sponsoring it all this time.

Today, I've uploaded a new version for Apertium (3.0.7) that solves a few errors that has been blocking a new lang pair. This new pair is en-es. It's still in beta status, but the quality is quite good.

Now, we can see in Debian a lot of pairs:

English-Spanish

English-Catalan

French-Spanish

French-Catalan

Spanish-Romanian

Spanish-Portuguese

Spanish-Galician

Spanish-Catalan

Esperanto-Spanish

Esperanto-Catalan

There are too a graphical user interface for Apertium (apertium-tolk) that is a useful test program for apertium-dbus.

The present for apertium: support txt, html, rtf, odt, docx, wxml and xlsx documents.

The future... more lang pairs (spanish-basque, catalan-romanian, spanish-occitan and catalan-occitan)... integration with OpenOffice and Iceweasel

I'll be there.

2008-03-29T09:08:30Z

Vim (2)

2007-12-05T21:53:27Z

I've been using vim for long time. Last weeks I've been improving my configuration, and now I have:

* Integration with quilt
* Navigate into deb files
* It shows C functions prototypes
* auto-completion of C structures
* auto-completion of known strings
* Project management
* syntax correction
* translate documents with apertium
* doxygen function auto-comment
* extended shell scripts support (snippets insertion, syntax correction, parameters control...)
* highlight current line
* show unified diff for local file changes

And now: I must to program in java. I don't like it, and the worst is that the better I found to program in java is Eclipse. It's powerful but it needs a lot of processor, memory...

Recently I've discovered eclim, a vim plugin that integrates Eclipse on it!!! The only "problem" I found on it is that it need eclipse 3.3 and in Debian we only have 3.2. I've downloaded and old eclim version (1.2.3) and it seems to work nice in Debian.

Vim

2007-11-04T18:14:06Z

[19:10] thanks to emacs you learned to play piano
....
You are welcome, vim.

xerakko @ 2007-10-14T23:02:00

2007-10-14T21:00:30Z

A few days ago, I was sponsoring some packages. My laptop has something broken and it sometimes shows irreproducible errors, so I used another computer to make the package builds... I did an error. I didn't do it with pbuilder... so the result was a few ftbfs.

To avoid this to happen again, I've prepared my own autobuilder with a incoming system with a few scripts writen by Matt Brown.

I suppose it will do my sponsors have his/her packages uploaded faster and I don't forget again to built them in a jail!

OOXML

2007-06-24T22:11:22Z

New synfig and synfigstudio packages.

2007-06-21T16:07:40Z

Synfig is a powerful, industrial-strength vector-based 2D animation software package, designed from the ground-up for producing feature-film quality animation with fewer people and resources.

Yesterday, upstream released a new version that solves a lot of known problems. Paul Wise has worked hard and has prepared the new package. (Thanks for your work!!!)

Now, we need your help testing this new version. You can install the new packages (version 0.61.06-1), test them and report bugs.

At this moment, we have two bugs (#370461 and #370459) blocking it and we are waiting your bug reports to know if we can close them.

You could find a lot of samples on Synfig samples page, but maybe you want to test it with a Debian related animation!

Open Graphics Driver for ATI

2007-05-14T17:23:19Z

AMD has announced that is going to deliver open graphics driver for ATI graphics card. Good news.

180 bass in concert.

2007-05-06T11:27:37Z

Incredible and Fantastic for music lovers!

Catalan.

2007-04-30T17:50:59Z

In my sources.list you can find:

deb http://ftp.debian.cat/debian/ sid main contrib

Good news to Catalan Debian users.

whining developers.

2006-12-27T11:50:50Z

Some Developers can't see their own back.

bulmages package.

2006-11-13T19:53:43Z

Bulmages is a big invoice program that has developed as a project in Iglues organization.
René Merou and I have been working in bulmages package more than one year. And now, at 15 days to release etch, It's ready!

I've been thinking to wait to Etch is out, but I've decided to upload it. It's not an a package for experimental, so I've uploaded to unstable, but when it is in unstable, I'll report a RC bug to avoid problems with Etch release. Only if Etch is delayed enought (and I don't think so) and if it has enought installations I'll let it enter.

If the Dunc-Tank project doesn't exist, I'd let it enter Etch, but I don't want anybody say me I've uploaded it to delay Etch.

Debian is difficult?

2006-11-05T14:44:26Z

Yesterday, a friend say me it need help installing its Windows network. I couldn't help him so we stop talking.
This morning, he talked me again and said me he has solved the problem. He took a Debian I've gave him and it detect all and worked perfectly!.

Congratulations to d-i team for the good work!, It has achieved to do Debian installation easiest than Windows XP!!!

Experiment Failed.

2006-10-15T11:07:01Z

Orphaned packages, and maintainers resigning. The dunk tank, as a improved project has FAILED.

Debian art & synfigstudio

2006-09-10T22:59:41Z

Few weeks ago, I began working with Paul Wise (pabs) with Synfig Studio packages, an excellent software to make animations.
I have tested it just one and a half hour with no previous experience and reading the tutorial I ended this animation. (UPDATE: you could get the .sif file too)

There is a complete gallery with a lot of examples.

At the moment we are only four developers working on it, and extra developers working on it should be welcome!

pbuilder / cowbuilder

2006-07-26T21:46:27Z

Build package with pdebuild can be a slow pain... but cowbuilder package could be your aspirin:

With a simple package:

with cowbuilder:

pdebuild --pbuilder cowbuilder ----------> 54 sec.

without cowbuilder:
pdebuild                       ----------> 3 min. 8 sec.

xerakko @ 2006-04-19T22:57:00

2006-04-19T21:02:43Z

A pretty option to Thunderbird:

mail.identity.id1.FQDN

It let to set the prefered FQDN in Thunderbird, so the Message-Id is correctly shown in headers instead using the domain in your mail when you use a smtp to relay mails.

DD

2006-04-08T16:10:10Z

I've been DAMnified.

Thunderbird upgrade.

2006-04-02T09:22:48Z

Yesterday I upgraded my Thunderbird from 1.0.7 to 1.5. My surprise was that Calendar plugin stop working! It was lucky because I found a new Calendar plugin Lighting, that let me to import the old Calendars. with better integration with Thunderbird.

Eye in the sky.

2006-03-22T10:58:47Z

In my institute there are installed a server with Windows 2000 with its firewall... Yesteday, we received a port scan:

Tipo de suceso: Advertencia
Origen del suceso:      Control de Microsoft ISA Server
Categoría del suceso:   Filtro de paquetes
Id. del suceso: 15105
Fecha:          22/03/2006
Hora:           9:58:26
Usuario:                No disponible
Equipo: MAIA
Descripción:
El servidor ISA detectó un ataque de todos los puertos de la dirección IP (protocolo Internet) 65.54.239.20.  
Para obtener más información acerca de este evento, vea la Ayuda del servidor ISA.
Datos:
0000: 1f 00 00 00               ....

If you search the name this IP 65.54.239.20 to know who is the owner, you obtain:

TARGET: 65.54.239.20 NAME: MICROSOFT-1BLK NUMBER: 65.52.0.0 - 65.55.255.255 CITY: REDMOND STATE: WASHINGTON COUNTRY: US LAT: 47.67 LONG: -122.12 LAT_LONG_GRAN: City LAST_UPDATED: 20-Jun-2001 NIC: ARIN LOOKUP_TYPE: Block Allocation RATING: =20 DOMAIN_GUESS: microsoft.com STATUS: OK

What's doing Microsoft? Why they scan us? What are they looking for?

Catalan Translation Party I

2005-12-07T08:51:43Z

Last year SoftCatala organize a party to get OpenOffice.org translated to Catalan and it seems works nice.
Then why not to use the same idea to translate the Debian Installer Manual?. Now we have our first Catalan Translation Party.

Experiences with oracle in Debian

2005-12-04T10:17:22Z

I few months ago I decided to add support to Oracle database to dbconfig-common frontend. At that moment, I began learning how to install it and how to manage it.

My work:
1.- Download Software. My first surprise: Oracle -> 685M, Postgres -> 15,8M
2.- Read Manuals: A lot of them, with a high quality but... I can't find how to install in Debian. Google solves it: Desktop Survival Guide. Tricky but works!
3.- Manual database create/remove/test/dump...:
* create/dump: dbca is a graphical frontend than help to it; the --silent parameter let it works without graphical frontend.
* dump: exp works nice. The first test: to dump a complete void database (1 user, 1 table), takes 9 minutes and 12Mb!!!; Postgres -> 9 sec. and 200k for 100 tables/triggers.

I always hear than Oracle is the best database, but now I'm not to sure.

- The installation is too tricky.
- Create databases is slow (minutes)
- 9 minutes and 12mb to dump a complete void database? Slow!!!!!
- To work correctly you need to manually define 7 environment variables. No comments.
- It needs a big server. 500Mb Ram, 1Gb Swap, minimum.
- It's not possible to create a database remotely because it's necessary to create manually directories locally.

I was thinking about create debian packages for the new Oracle Database 10g Express Edition Beta Release , but It will be a lot of work. Maybe an alioth project?

About dbconfig-common... It will be probably finished this week, but it will need a lot of test/verify before release it.

openoffice.org in Sid

2005-10-23T17:19:47Z

Usually Debian seems to be a "slow" distribution, new software takes long time to be in Debian.
Two days ago, openoffice.org 2.0 was released from upstream. Today, OpenOffice 2.0 has entered Sid. No other distribution has openoffice released, only Debian.
Congratulations Debian OpenOffice Team!!!!