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Subversion hooks

Spent some time working with Subversion hooks last night to test svnsync and discovered something. If you wanna run sudo in a hook (don’t ask), make sure you call bash with the login param or it will be unable to decide what your uid is.

FIPS validation yanked

Fresh on the heels of the OTD win comes news that some really big players in the encryption field have killed the Openssl FIPS-140 certification. Those players stand to loose a ton of money (millions? billions?) if there’s a viable Open Source alternative out there and I’m guessing there was more than a little [...]

Hosting followup

Just a note for those considering VPS hosting, I hit my one month anniversary with VPSLand and couldn’t be happier. I had an issue within the first week with a few random reboots, however their staff was on top of things and moved my host to a new box after the second time it [...]

Package updates

I’ve added a few more packages to my dapper repo and updated a few others. I added an updated nautilus-sendto deb (with Gajim goodness), plus a few other misc Gaim beta plugins. There’s also updated Mugshot packages, libXft and cairo with David Turner’s subpixel rendering patches, Vim 7 (from Meethune) and svn2cl.
Basically, this [...]

Updates, Ubuntu packages

Updated the python-shoutcast tarball to fix an issue with the DEBUG variable. Go grab it now… All the cool kids are doing it…
I’ve also put up some Gaim beta3 debs for Dapper. I compiled these with Bonjour support (via Avahi libs). There’s also a handful of plugins, which I’ll be [...]