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Actually clbuild seems to do the right thing almost all the time.
I've been trying it as a workaround to suggest to users after I remove most of the Common Lisp libraries from Debian. Honestly it is pretty good: you download it, you ask it to install libraries an it will download them from their git/cvs/darcs/whatever repositories. You can ask it to upgrade the libraries or to compile and start slime with the libraries 'known' to asdf.
All in all quite good, even if there is a conflict between the slime in clbuild and the slime from the Debian package.
I think I can suggest this to Debian users without reservations...
Now: why didn't I see more of this on planet.lisp ?Current Mood:  happy |
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After some consideration I must conclude that the state of the Common Lisp packages in Debian is becoming unreasonable. One of the goals of forming the pkg-common-lisp team was that I would not be a bottleneck, as RL is inflicting more and more damage to my 'Debian playtime'.
Now that Luca left I'm basically the only 'active' (for very small values of active) DD/DM left. (no hard feeling towards anybody, just loads of thanks for the work they did)
I see two alternatives:
- other people get involved, investigating bugs and sending git/darcs/whatever format patches.
- we go low impact and remove common-lisp-controller and all Common Lisp libraries, and I/we only package the lisp implementations (clisp, ecl, sbcl, cmucl and perhaps ccl) without any special changes
I don't expect the first alternative to be realistic, so unless proven wrong I'll RFA/RM all the libraries/clc on the 5th of September.Current Mood:  uncomfortable |
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In the last few weeks I needed to write a short utility at $WORK. I decided to use my trusted Common Lisp. Turned out that my old utility still would be ok, but 'upstream' had changed from CSV files to 'json' files.
A short google query, downloading the two libraries that exists to parse these files and within a few minutes I could read and parse the new fileformat.
Don't tell me CL doesn't have libraries...
ObDebian: yes I still need to update cl-irc and package said jason library... it's somewhere in my long todo list.
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This year I managed to go to fosdem every day, even at the beer event. Not that I attended many talks: I was quite busy getting the network to work. We got wireless in almost all locations in the end. Setting up and fixing the problems took most of Saturday. On Sunday we added the final 'experimental' room via a wireless bridge link across the square, with the beam over the heads of the people in the queue for Belgian fries.
In the end it all worked and we had only a few configuration and many cable problems. I must say it was more for to 'work' at fosdem then to just be there. May thanks to Jerome Paquay who actually arranged to lend the equipment from our employer (Cisco) and to configure it. Thanks for AY for ... well being AY.
Next year n-mode? serious uplinks?
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I installed the 4.2 KDE from experimental and ... wow. Nicer. Faster. Less display corruption. All in all good.
shame about the crash when I unplug my external display
I can't wait for the 'testing' release :-)
Congratualtions to the KDE and debian-KDE people!Current Mood: happy |
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http://kuix.de/sslhazard/sslhazard.php
Yes, I browse to billions of self-signed https sites every day so I needed this...
Oct. 28th, 2008 @ 04:56 pm
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For the last few months I've been running the latest git versions of xf86-video-ati and xf86-video-radeonhd on my $WORK laptop with a Mobility Radeon X1300.
And actually I like them more then fglrx: they crash less and I actually have xrandr support so giving presentations and using the second screen no longer involves reloads of X.
A remaining problem was that they would sig11 when I enable DRI. Yesterday I went investigating and found out that the ati driver was crashing in the line:
Bool RADEONDRIGetVersion(ScrnInfoPtr pScrn)
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/* Low level DRM open */
fd = drmOpen(RADEON_DRIVER_NAME, busId);
After giving some message that it cannot open /dev/dri/card0. Some research showed that this was because I forgot to load the kernel module. /me hits table.
modprobe radeon and DRI works. Obviously it doesn't do 3D because the mesa library is too old. Installing mesa 7.2 from experimental and I see:
$ glxinfo | grep direct
direct rendering: Yes
And all the whoos effects... well ... whoos.
Now off to Ana's blog to find out how I can get KDE 4.1 in unstable....
Oct. 19th, 2008 @ 06:57 pm
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My wife has a laptop running Vista because she wanted to try out the operating system before having to decide on using it at work.
I called her various names because of it, but that didn't help :-).
So we have this setup with an SMC wireless router/AP talking to a Cisco 837 router that does the internet part. Upstairs we have a 'server' that is connected via Powerline IP-over-power, downstairs we have the Dreambox that is connected via a normal Cat5 connection.
In the last few days my wife complained that it was very slow to download media from Frost. Working at TAC having a network problem at home is almost a personal offence :-) so I decide to take a look and I find using iperf the following speeds:
frost (debian) --cat5--> sharrow (debian): 35 Mbit/sec
frost (debian) ---WL-cat5-> sharrow (debian): 18 Mbit/sec
sharrow (debian) ---WL-cat5-> frost (debian): 18 Mbit/sec
sharrow (debian) --cat5---> frost (debian): 35 Mbit/sec
frost (debian) ---WL---> martha-jones (vista): 0.2 Mbit/sec
sharrow (debian) ---WL---> martha-jones (vista): 12 Mbit/sec
sharrow (debian) ---cat5-SMC-WL--> martha-jones (vista): 6 Mbit/sec
martha-jones (vista) --WL-cat5-> frost (debian): 18 Mbit/sec
martha-jones (vista) --WL--> sharrow (debian): 18 Mbit/sec
martha-jones (vista) --WL-cat5-> sharrow (debian): 18 Mbit/sec
This made no sense at all. The speed halved going from a WL->WL to a WL->cat5 connection but only in one direction!
So having isolated the problem to the Vista machine I started looking round and I found a note saying that running netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled in an 'Administrator' cmd window will fix the problem.
Now I'm very weary of changing the TCP/IP options of the operating system. In most cases the 'tips' you see flying round the internet have no meaning at all and sometimes make the situation worse rather then better.
However I did find this on a Microsoft Technet site.... Hmm
So in the end I try it and modify the setting, disconnect and reconnect to the wireless and:
frost (debian) ---WL---> martha-jones (vista): 18 Mbit/sec
sharrow (debian) ---WL---> martha-jones (vista): 18 Mbit/sec
sharrow (debian) ---cat5-SMC-WL--> martha-jones (vista): 18 Mbit/sec
Aah, finally I could tune Vista so that it has the same speed as an untuned Debian machine. I only took me 2 evenings worth of work...
Oct. 15th, 2008 @ 05:24 am
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The one problem I have with my server at home now seems to have a fix.
The server has a standard encrypted root, as configured by debian-installer. The issue with this is that after booting I need to go to the console and enter the LUKS password. As I do almost everything remotely this is a pain.
However C'T published a nice article a while ago on how to solve this. The short story is that you install a custom initrd plugin that starts dropbear and waits for the password on the console or via ssh.
Now to install and test this...
Aug. 11th, 2008 @ 07:33 am
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After upgrading to 2.6.26 I could not associate with my AP anymore. After searching I noticed that the amount of channels reported by iwlist wlan0 channel had changed. And the channel that my AP was using (13) just disappeared.
I openeded a bug with the iwl people and the end result is: in 2.6.25 the card selected the region for the wireless, in 2.6.26 the cfg80211 system is doing so and the default is 'US'.
So if you are in Europe you need to add a file /etc/modprobe.d/cfg80211-region with as contents:
options cfg80211 ieee80211_regdom=EU
Aug. 1st, 2008 @ 09:36 am
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