https://blog.deadcafe.org/tags/debian/ Recent content in Debian on Blog Hugo -- 0.131.0 en Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:28:04 +0000 https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2013/04/17/bragging_rights/ Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:28:04 +0000 https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2013/04/17/bragging_rights/ I just upgraded a Cobalt RaQ 2 (1U MIPS machine, circa 1999(?)) from Debian Etch (released 2007) to Lenny (2009), and then from Lenny to Squeeze (2011). While it was in use. Remotely. Blindfolded, and with one arm behind my back. https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2011/05/25/going_to_debconf11/ Wed, 25 May 2011 16:10:40 +0000 https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2011/05/25/going_to_debconf11/ See you in Banja Luka! https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2010/04/09/upcoming_travel/ Fri, 09 Apr 2010 11:09:01 +0000 https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2010/04/09/upcoming_travel/ April is shaping up to be a busy month; I have several trips lined up. Texas Linux Fest on Saturday April 10th (tomorrow!) in Austin. POSSCON on April 15 and 16 in Columbia South Carolina. The Cassandra Hackathon at Digg HQ in San Francisco. I’ll be giving talks on Cassandra at Texas Linux Fest and POSSCON, and I’ve organized a Debian booth for Texas Linux Fest (a first for me). https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2009/08/11/git_repo_for_cassandra_packaging/ Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:22:00 +0000 https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2009/08/11/git_repo_for_cassandra_packaging/ I put the repository for my Cassandra package up on Github. The repo browser can be found here, and the wiki has a brief writeup of the build process for those unfamiliar with git-buildpackage. Patches welcome! NP: Take It Out On Me, Bullet For My Valentine https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2009/07/31/on_the_road_again/ Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:56:02 +0000 https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2009/07/31/on_the_road_again/ Debconf is over. Boo. :( Like those I’ve attended in the past, Debconf9 was well organized with plenty of interesting talks, in a great venue. I had loads of fun, learned a ton, and even managed to get a bit done. Many thanks to the organization team, the local team, the speakers, and the sponsors. This year I managed to sneak an extra couple of days post-conference which will be spent in the general vicinity of Madrid. https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2009/07/28/cassandra_030_for_debian/ Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:14:05 +0000 https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2009/07/28/cassandra_030_for_debian/ As announced here, I put a Debian package together for Cassandra 0.3.0. I don’t have any (immediate )plans to upload a Cassandra package to the Debian archive, (this package isn’t even policy compliant), so consider this unofficial and report any packaging bugs directly to me. Enjoy. https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2009/07/28/debconf9_day_trip/ Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:24:23 +0000 https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2009/07/28/debconf9_day_trip/ Yesterday was the Day Trip at Debconf, an opportunity for folks to step away from their computers (usually), and leave the venue (always) for some sort of group activity or tourism. When the organizers first started talking about this years Day Trip there were two candidates, Valle del Jerte and Teatro romano de Merida, or “Roman theater of Merida”. I’m kind of a history junkie and generally get pretty excited at the idea of touring ruins so I was heartbroken when Merida lost out. https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2009/07/15/debconf9/ Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:17:41 +0000 https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2009/07/15/debconf9/ A week from today and I’ll be headed to Spain for Debconf9. Can’t wait! NP: Worlds Collide, Apocalyptica https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2009/07/12/transitioning_my_gpg_key/ Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:53:07 +0000 https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2009/07/12/transitioning_my_gpg_key/ A few months ago a group of researchers announced a fairly serious attack that shattered everyone’s faith in SHA-1. It has frightening implications for anyone who relies on cryptographic signatures, and while consensus is that there is little danger in the near-term, most people agree that now is the time to start a move to something stronger. So, I’ve begun my transition, (document here), and submitted my new key for the Debconf9 signing party later this month. https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2009/05/11/howto_epison_perfection_3940_on_debian_squeeze/ Mon, 11 May 2009 13:50:17 +0000 https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2009/05/11/howto_epison_perfection_3940_on_debian_squeeze/ Getting the Epson Perfection 3940 scanner setup on Linux requires jumping through just enough hoops that even if you have managed it before, it’s easy to forget when it comes time to do it again. I put this here in the hopes that it will make things easier for someone, (and it’s entirely likely that someone will be me one day :). Make sure your user is a member of the scanner group, (adduser youruser scanner). https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2009/05/10/thrift_packaging/ Sun, 10 May 2009 23:34:11 +0000 https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2009/05/10/thrift_packaging/ My latest project at work is Cassandra, a distributed, eventually consistent, column oriented data store. It’s somewhere between Dynamo (Cassandra’s original author worked on Dynamo), and Google’s BigTable. It was developed as an internal application at Facebook, later open sourced, and is now an Apache incubator project. The external interface to Cassandra is thrift-based. Thrift is a framework for creating network services, services that communicate using a compact binary data format. https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2009/02/15/lenny_released_on_time/ Sun, 15 Feb 2009 14:07:04 +0000 https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2009/02/15/lenny_released_on_time/ Lenny released yesterday. This is great news, and congratulations all around to everyone that worked their asses off making it happen. By my calculations this comes 677 days after the initial release of Etch, (or 22 months and change). I’ve said before, Debian releases When Ready and that (to the best of my observations), consensus seems to be that somewhere between 18 and 24 months is the sweet spot. Not only does this make for the second “on-time” release in a row, but there was an Etch-And-A-Half sporting new kernels and video drivers in the mean time. https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2008/08/19/back_home/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:47:06 +0000 https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2008/08/19/back_home/ After 5+ hours on a bus, several hours at Ezeiza airport, and 12 hours on two different planes, I’m back home from Debconf8, (technically speaking I’ve been back since 8am yesterday, but was in no condition to post). Debconf8 was definately the best organized of the 4 Debconfs I’ve attended, and Argentina was an awesome setting, but it is good to be home. Pictures are here or here. Update: I’ve updated the Debconf8 set on Flickr with a panorama of the beach and skyline in front of the conference venue. https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2008/08/16/happy_birthday_debian/ Sat, 16 Aug 2008 17:42:26 +0000 https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2008/08/16/happy_birthday_debian/ 15 years ago today, Debian was born. https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2008/08/15/publishing_divergence_from_upstream/ Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:24:23 +0000 https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2008/08/15/publishing_divergence_from_upstream/ On Monday I attended Martin Krafft’s talk, Packaging with version control systems. Martin has started a project, coordinated via http://vcs-pkg.org, to explore work patterns for packaging and cross-distro collaboration using distributed version control systems. This is a topic that I’ve spent a fair amount of time on so it was interesting to see Martin’s packaging work flow, and hear him discuss its evolution. Today I attended a Bof organized by Luciano Bello. https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2008/08/08/debconf8/ Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:01:53 +0000 https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2008/08/08/debconf8/ It’s that time of year again! I’m at the airport soaking up a little free bandwidth (yes, it would seem that San Antonio International finally has free wifi), before boarding a flight to Houston, and then on to Buenos Aires. With the layover in Houston, the four wait before catching the bus to Mar del Plata, and the six hour bus ride itself, I’m looking at a full 24 hours of travel. https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2007/10/31/do_you_know_what_your_drive_is_doing/ Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:06:53 +0000 https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2007/10/31/do_you_know_what_your_drive_is_doing/ There’s been a lot of “Ubuntu kills laptop hard drives” buzz going around lately. The implication is that over aggressive power management is causing excessive load/unload cycles, exceeding a reasonable duty cycle, and drastically shortening the life of your drive. I run Debian unstable on my laptop but I looked into it anyway and sure enough it’s something which is effecting me as well. As Matthew Garrett points out, it doesn’t have anything to do with Ubuntu, Debian, or Linux in general, the culprit is aggressive power management settings in the drive firmware, or settings applied by the BIOS. https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2007/10/16/duplicity_backport_for_etch/ Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:30:20 +0000 https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2007/10/16/duplicity_backport_for_etch/ I’ve been backing up all of my important machines to Amazon S3 using Duplicity for sometime now. It’s worked out really well but required just enough hackery to prevent me from providing straight forward instructions for others. I’m all about sharing the love so I submitted a new S3 backend to upstream using the excellent [boto] (http://code.google.com/p/boto/) library from Mitch Garnaat, and I packaged boto for Debian. The new backend made it into the 0. https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2007/04/09/etch_released_early/ Mon, 09 Apr 2007 12:09:09 +0000 https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2007/04/09/etch_released_early/ https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2006/05/22/debconf6_pictures/ Mon, 22 May 2006 12:41:29 +0000 https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2006/05/22/debconf6_pictures/ https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2006/05/21/debconf_may21/ Sun, 21 May 2006 00:48:44 +0000 https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2006/05/21/debconf_may21/ https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2006/05/19/debconf_may19_1/ Fri, 19 May 2006 11:20:07 +0000 https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2006/05/19/debconf_may19_1/ https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2006/05/18/debconf_may18_1/ Thu, 18 May 2006 12:52:53 +0000 https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2006/05/18/debconf_may18_1/ https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2006/05/15/debconf_may15_1/ Mon, 15 May 2006 14:00:02 +0000 https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2006/05/15/debconf_may15_1/ https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2006/05/14/debconf6_0.5/ Sun, 14 May 2006 13:16:31 +0000 https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2006/05/14/debconf6_0.5/ https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2006/04/09/ucarp_1.2-1/ Sun, 09 Apr 2006 18:04:15 +0000 https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2006/04/09/ucarp_1.2-1/ https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2006/04/09/dpl_elect_ajt/ Sun, 09 Apr 2006 17:32:45 +0000 https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2006/04/09/dpl_elect_ajt/ https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2006/03/07/my_repositories/ Tue, 07 Mar 2006 12:11:38 +0000 https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2006/03/07/my_repositories/ https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2006/03/05/gr_gfdl_2006/ Sun, 05 Mar 2006 17:05:39 +0000 https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2006/03/05/gr_gfdl_2006/ https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2006/02/26/opennms-1.2.7-1sarge/ Sun, 26 Feb 2006 20:00:26 +0000 https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2006/02/26/opennms-1.2.7-1sarge/ https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2005/07/12/xsuppository/ Tue, 12 Jul 2005 11:08:43 +0000 https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2005/07/12/xsuppository/ https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2005/07/10/debconf5_july10/ Sun, 10 Jul 2005 15:35:36 +0000 https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2005/07/10/debconf5_july10/ https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2005/06/12/logcheck_rule_maint/ Sun, 12 Jun 2005 11:53:43 +0000 https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2005/06/12/logcheck_rule_maint/ https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2005/06/06/sarge-release/ Mon, 06 Jun 2005 19:02:32 +0000 https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2005/06/06/sarge-release/ https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2005/05/29/opennms-1.2.3-1/ Sun, 29 May 2005 17:21:00 +0000 https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2005/05/29/opennms-1.2.3-1/ https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2005/05/21/official_dd/ Sat, 21 May 2005 21:08:02 +0000 https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2005/05/21/official_dd/ https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2005/04/02/opennms-1.2.2-1/ Sat, 02 Apr 2005 16:10:30 +0000 https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2005/04/02/opennms-1.2.2-1/ https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2005/03/21/opennms-1.2.1-1/ Mon, 21 Mar 2005 16:35:42 +0000 https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2005/03/21/opennms-1.2.1-1/ https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2005/03/19/opennms-1.2.1-1woody/ Sat, 19 Mar 2005 17:39:35 +0000 https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2005/03/19/opennms-1.2.1-1woody/ https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2005/02/14/opennms-1.2.0-1/ Mon, 14 Feb 2005 21:26:10 +0000 https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2005/02/14/opennms-1.2.0-1/ https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2005/01/31/opennms-1.1.5-1/ Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:07:53 +0000 https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2005/01/31/opennms-1.1.5-1/ https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2004/12/24/ucarp-1.1-2_asmon-0.70-1/ Fri, 24 Dec 2004 14:49:14 +0000 https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2004/12/24/ucarp-1.1-2_asmon-0.70-1/ https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2004/11/12/opennms-1.1.4-1woody/ Fri, 12 Nov 2004 13:34:27 +0000 https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2004/11/12/opennms-1.1.4-1woody/ https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2004/11/11/opennms-1.1.4-1/ Thu, 11 Nov 2004 10:59:00 +0000 https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2004/11/11/opennms-1.1.4-1/ https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2004/10/26/xsupplicant_1.0.1-1/ Tue, 26 Oct 2004 16:24:08 +0000 https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2004/10/26/xsupplicant_1.0.1-1/ https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2004/10/11/asmon-0.60-5/ Mon, 11 Oct 2004 21:05:03 +0000 https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2004/10/11/asmon-0.60-5/ https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2004/09/13/ita-asmon/ Mon, 13 Sep 2004 13:18:43 +0000 https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2004/09/13/ita-asmon/ https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2004/09/07/ucarp-1.1-1-test/ Tue, 07 Sep 2004 18:00:00 +0000 https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2004/09/07/ucarp-1.1-1-test/ https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2004/09/07/ucarp-1.1-1-test.bak/ Tue, 07 Sep 2004 16:10:40 +0000 https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2004/09/07/ucarp-1.1-1-test.bak/ https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2004/09/03/xsupplicant_1.0-1sarge/ Fri, 03 Sep 2004 12:44:09 +0000 https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2004/09/03/xsupplicant_1.0-1sarge/ https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2004/08/22/xsupplicant_1.0-1/ Sun, 22 Aug 2004 22:17:39 +0000 https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2004/08/22/xsupplicant_1.0-1/ https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2004/08/18/opennms-1.1.3-3woody/ Wed, 18 Aug 2004 21:56:07 +0000 https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2004/08/18/opennms-1.1.3-3woody/ https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2004/08/17/opennms-1.1.3-3/ Tue, 17 Aug 2004 23:05:53 +0000 https://blog.deadcafe.org/posts/2004/08/17/opennms-1.1.3-3/