Monthly Archives: May 2008

The server behind svn.gnome.org still runs the previous Ubuntu LTS (Dapper / 6.06). I want to upgrade this to the latest Ubuntu LTS, this being Hardy / 8.04. The upgrade itself should not take more than 30min, but the downtime … Continue reading →

An answer regarding page loading problems: Gave up on hoping that Gnome would serve my blog sanely – apparently asking for it is a denial of service attack. Duplicated it at http://www.go-oo.org/~michael/blog/index.atom. This is not what I said or meant … Continue reading →

Canonical invited various people to attend FOSS Camp, others just for the Ubuntu Developer Summit. Some even had an invitation for both. I received an invite to attend the Ubuntu Developer Summit, which was held 19-23 May in Prague, Czech … Continue reading →

vuntz is fixing panel bugs! ok, seb128 is forcing him..

John Carr has setup a Bzr mirror of all GNOME repositories. Details are available on the wiki. Most GNOME modules are available via Launchpad, but that one doesn’t allow you to commit to SVN (IIRC). The mirror by John Carr … Continue reading →

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Read this if you have a GNOME (ssh) account and it isn’t working and you want to know why. Due to Debian security issue we’ve locked down the machines for public key authentication. See the announcement by Guilherme de S. … Continue reading →

Because not everyone will follow the security announcements of Debian very closely and as I love copy/pasting. Debian has discovered a serious issue with openssl, that means your ssh key can be less secure than you expect. Details at: http://wiki.debian.org/SSLkeys … Continue reading →