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kill kill kill |
2007-06-08
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Every two times you open the box, Schrödinger kills a kitten.
Congratulations to Dave and Christian to getting a bitstream-stable release out !
marketeering |
2007-06-04
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Spotted on the way back from the airport: Mandarine Duck, the new fragrance for men.
God, do I *wish* I were a fly on the wall in that brainstorming meeting.
What kind of guy would want to smell like something named after a dish in a Chinese Restaurant ? Which woman would ever go "God, you smell of ducks and it turns me on" ? (Hint: ducks typically smell like duck poo or pond scum).
Passwords on the web are stupid |
2007-05-24
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Case in point.
Today I could not remember my password on Digg. I asked to change it, and tried to changed it to "my standard passwords for sites I barely trust". Doing that made it clear why I wasn't able to log in with that password to begin with.
Digg requires passwords to be at least 6 characters long but *only*
contain letters or numbers. So my standard password for this kind of sites was not compatible.
Yesterday I had to create a CERN account to be able to do something on the Europython site. So I tried to use the same password.
CERN wants you to use symbols from at least three groups of the following: small letters, capitals, numbers, and other symbols. So again, my standard password for this kind of site doesn't work.
This happens all the time. How hard would it be for a site to let you see what the password policy is so you can mentally browse through your passwords and pick the one that fits their policy ?
Is it just me being cranky, or do other people suffer web pass rage ?
First new trunk feature in moap |
2007-05-21
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[moap-trunk] [thomas@otto trunk]$ moap bug -U http://bugzilla.gnome.org/ query "product=GStreamer&component=gst-plugins-base&target_milestone=0.10.2" 324216: [cdparanoia] missing patches from 0.8 324696: [videotestsrc] does not start counting the time from zero when restarted324900: Problem compiling gst-plugins-base with Forte 325984: [playbin] cannot handle sources that produce raw audio/video 325990: patch videotestsrc for using glib types 326601: GstRingBuffer crashes with alaw/mulaw caps 327114: [theoradec] should post tags on the bus 327216: vorbisdec segfaults on certain queries 328423: [gnomevfs] doesn't handle case when gnomevfs can't init 326881: [playbin] stream selector connects to 'state-changed'
Compared to this screenscraping horror, a lot less code and a lot more robust.
I decided to use queries with CSV since both Redhat's and GNOME's bugzilla seem to support it.
AFAICT, GNOME's supports ATOM but not RSS, and Redhat's supports RSS but not ATOM. Yay for the magic that is Bugzilla !
moap 0.2.4 |
2007-05-20
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I put out a new moap release. Here's a short list of changes:
- moap doap freshmeat -b allows forcing a branch name (e.g. 'Default')
- distro checking code to give hints on how to install dependencies
- RSS2 feed generation from .doap release entries using Genshi or Cheetah templates
- ability to operate on multiple .doap files
- make moap changelog prepare also check the CHANGE_LOG_EMAIL_ADDRESS variable
- implement searching for your project's home page using Yahoo or Google
- parse wiki attribute of a DOAP Project
Jan wants to do some GStreamer releases, so I think I'll be working to add some features for that to moap this week.
As you may have noticed, moap now has a logo, and I like it a lot. I asked Christophe, Fluendo's visual wizard, to create me a logo based on the hammer and sickle, in orange, Tango-style, and with Russian-looking letters. He gave me three choices, I picked one, he gave me another three refining my choice, I picked one, and then he gave me another three, and I picked one. I can't believe how easy this process was compared to me trying to come up with something on my own. I should make T-shirts with this logo.
Happy hacking !