Quite a small interest group here, but hey!
UPDATE #3: okay, enough! I’ve now been sent more ways to do CRC32 checksums than you could possibly ever need =)
UPDATE #2: Pascal Terjan points out that the perl-Archive-Zip package contains /usr/bin/crc32, which is a perl script that does exactly what you’d expect. I don’t know how I […]
Some more cool stuff happening at Mandriva lately: Vincent Danen has been working on Bugzilla. Our current bugzilla is occasionally nicknamed ‘warlyzilla’, as it’s a _heavily_ customised Bugzilla 2.x that was built (or, more accurately, grown…) by Warly over several years. No-one else really understands the patches and it’s more or less impossible to maintain […]
Cool news: we’re sponsoring aKademy 2007 (the KDE developers’ / users’ conference) at the Silver level, and as if that wasn’t enough, we’re also handing out free Mandriva Flashes to the developers attending the conference. Helio will be giving a presentation, too. I know a lot of you guys have mentioned in the past that […]
I am, in a weird way, quite proud of this hideous abomination:
pushd doc
# italian is already unicode, leave it out.
for i in es hu pl ru sr; do pushd $i; \
# this is ugly, but assume same encoding as .po file for each language.
iconv --from-code=`grep charset= ../../po/$i.po | cut -c36- | head -c-4 | tr […]
Top edit: on re-reading this post it occurs to me that my intent is not entirely clear. I’m not attempting to show that the Distrowatch numbers are ‘wrong’ and the other numbers I post are ‘right’. Of course, I don’t believe that Mandriva is actually ten times as popular as Ubuntu, as the Softpedia numbers […]
Mark sent me a very prompt reply to the mail I copied in my previous post. Good to hear it’s something he’s already considering.
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Hi Adam
Very good to get this message while I’m at Debconf! I’ve been working to build consensus for this sort of idea in Debian for some time, because as you can imagine, […]
There’s an interesting write-up of a speech given by Mark Shuttleworth at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit here. Basically, he urges cross-distro collaboration on bug tracking and patching, which is certainly a laudable goal.
Here’s the response I mailed to his secretary (you know you’re too important for your own good when you need a secretary […]
Biggest work-related news: I’ve been adjusted to full-time status. Which basically means I get paid more but I also get yelled at more.
Hey, I’ll take the cashola!
Various stuff I’ve been doing - last week I spent a couple of days bussing around Vancouver handing out One CDs (and Mandriva pens) to members of the local […]