"On 1st October, Unicode 5.2 was released! The data files, code charts, and Unicode Standard Annexes for this version are final and are posted on the Unicode site. For Unicode 5.2, the core specification is no longer just a delta document applied to the book; instead, the entire core specification,with all textual changes integrated, will be available on the Unicode site.
Read more »FreeBSD security update
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The FreeBSD developers have released new updates to their operating system to close three vulnerabilities. Users with restricted privileges can reportedly exploit all three holes to elevate their privileges. One of the vulnerabilities is caused by a design flaw recently also discovered and fixed in the kernel. It allows programming flaws to cause a NULL pointer dereference.
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Python: input, raw_input, and inadvertently treating integers as strings
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This is a "newbie" mistake, but these little details do tend to get in the way, which is why I'm posting my wee Python tutorial. If you know Python or programming, even reasonably well, this will probably seem way too simple to you. Just giving you a "heads up" so you don't waste your time. I encountered a lesson that teaches storing conditionals using booleans. The code was presented like this:..
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Plymouth Gets An X11 Renderer Plug-In
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Last week Plymouth had picked up a DRM renderer plug-in, but now this week it has picked up an X11 renderer plug-in. This plug-in makes it possible to run Plymouth and its graphical plug-ins from within an X Server...
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Bazaar 2.0.0 released
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"The Bazaar version control system development team is happy to announce availability of bzr 2.0.0 [...] Bazaar is free software (GNU GPL 2+), a part of the GNU project, and supported by Canonical Ltd."
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Vim: edit with vim
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For people who hate vi, vim does not offer much relief. They might end up hating vim as well and sing paeans for emacs.
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QSource-Highlight - a Qt interface for GNU Source-Highlight
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"I recently released a new software developed with Qt 4 (this summer I took a chance to use qt and really enjoyed this wonderful framework): QSource-Highlight - a Qt interface for GNU Source-Highlight. You can highlight your code on the fly, and have the highlighted output in all the formats supported by source-highlight (e.g., HTML, LaTeX, Texinfo, etc.).
Read more »The Kernel Newbie Corner: "initrd" and "initramfs"--What's Up With That?
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This week, I'm not going to write a formal column so much as just free associate a bit regarding an exchange we had recently on the Kernel Newbies mailing list regarding the ideas of initrd and initramfs, and what they're for and, most importantly, how they differ.
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Rudel: a collaborative editing environment for GNU Emacs
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"Rudel is a collaborative editing environment for GNU Emacs. It supports multiple backends to enable communication with other collaborative editors using different protocols (most notably Gobby)..."
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Build Postfix From Source on CentOS
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Building Postfix from source can be a rewarding experience with great results. This post will show you how to do a basic build and then how to build in additional features using tutorials.
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Log-structured file systems: There's one in every SSD
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When you say "log-structured file system," most storage developers will immediately think of Ousterhout and Rosenblum's classic paper, The Design and Implementation of a Log-structured File System - and the nearly two decades of subsequent work attempting to solve the nasty segment cleaner problem (see below) that came with it.
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New X.Org Release Process Has Been Reached
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Last week we talked about a new X.Org release process proposal for improving the consistency and quality of X Server releases through taking a number of relatively simple steps. Well, this week from XDS2009, a revised proposal has been agreed upon now making it policy for X Server 1.8 / X.Org 7.6 and later.
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EuroBSDCon 2009 - Cambridge, UK
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"The 8th EuroBSDCon was held at University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom on 18 - 20 September 2009.
Read more »Basic apt key management
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Ubuntu's keyserver, keyserver.ubuntu.com, has a lot of problems lately. I was trying to add the Pidgin repository to work around bug #389322 but kept getting timeout errors from the server. One of my systems did successfully get the key so all I had to do was transfer it to the others. These are the commands you can use to do the same.
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Active development on GNU Hurd
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Active development on GNU Hurd, a general-purpose kernel suitable for the GNU operating system...
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