subj. don’t mix – just upgraded a simple Ubuntu 9.10 to Ubuntu 10.04 and it failed to boot. After careful examination, it looks that something replaced the munt line of my NTFS partition in the /etc/fstab and claimed that it is a VFAT partition and ‘mountall’ that is run during boot gets very, very confused [...]
Want a definition of a paper cut bug? Here it is. And here and here are two more side effects of the same bug. The original bug report will be 6 years old in a month. Can we do something to prevent this bug surviving that long?
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Some time ago I wrote a test post with a Google Wave embedded into the post. Only a couple days ago I discovered that to make a Wave public one needs to add public@a.gwave.com as a participant to the wave. I did that and the Wave became visible also to people without Wave accounts. But [...]
Daniel says that we should move away from SHA1 by switching hash algorithms for signatures and generating keys that use at least SHA256 from SHA-2 family. I have been bitten by non-default GPG options before. So I propose that we do a security release of GPG that changes the defaults of key generation and key [...]
Thursday, December 27, 2007
My girlfriend is annoyed with USA timekeeping. More particularly with the way Sunday is the first day of the week in the Gnome calendar applet that shows up when you click on the time applet. After some searching I am unable to find how to change that short of changing the source code. Help me, [...]
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Hmm, I wonder if in the bug squashing parties one can eliminate bugs by hard random hugging?
$ mv .ssh/ .ssh.old/ $ python >>>import gnomevfs >>> gnomevfs.get_file_info( “ssh://aigarius:password@aigarius.com/home/aigarius” ) Traceback (most recent call last): File “<stdin>”, line 1, in ? gnomevfs.AccessDeniedError: Access denied >>> $ ssh aigarius.com The authenticity of host ‘aigarius.com (85.254.216.40)’ can’t be established. RSA key fingerprint is 6d:29:c0:f3:d0:84:c9:a9:d9:4c:7e:e3:1a:18:a2:e2. Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes Warning: [...]
If one of your crontab entries is not running lately without any errors, check if you have a newline at the end of the crontab, because if you do not, then the last job will never be executed and no error will be reported anywhere: 79037 (and possibly cause of 260789) Oh and it will [...]
