It is available for download here (64 bit platform).
Updated instructions for Ubuntu installation are as always here.
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Interesting links:
((enjoy)) The IEEE 802.21 working group (see www.ieee802.org/21) recently finalized the first standard for dealing with handovers in heterogeneous networks, also called Media-Independent Handovers (MIH). The standard is expected to allow mobile users (and operators) to take full advantage of overlapping and diverse access networks. It provides a framework for efficiently discovering networks in range and executing intelligent heterogeneous handovers, based on their respective capabilities and current link conditions. An interesting primer about this can be found on the last issue of “The Internet Protocol Journal”. ((enjoy)) Brad Spengler, the developer behind the Grsecurity project, has published an exploit for a vulnerability in the Tun interface in Linux kernel 2.6.30 and 2.6.18, which can be exploited by attackers to obtain root privileges. The fix is available for kernel 2.6.30.2, see the patch here. Now the real question is: is it a GCC issue (the fno-delete-null-pointer-checks optimization) or a programming error? I vote for the second ((enjoy)) All the issues described in my previous post about Ubuntu Jaunty (64 bit) upgrade have been solved! Yeppa!
So now I can enjoy all the Jaunty wonders! ((enjoy)) Here is a report of my upgrade from Ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04 on my HP EliteBook 8530p (model number FU617AW). The upgrade process went smooth in almost 1 hour of time. There were about 1200 packages to upgrade for about 900MB of download. Here is a quick report about problems encountered after reboot:
So, if you are in doubt about upgrading or not, be warned of these problems. I will try to update this post whenever I’ll get the solutions. ((enjoy)) I finally convinced my friend Toccio to release JABS in the public. JABS, Jast Another Backup Script, is a very handy backup script for VMware ESX and VI3 (I’ve not yet tested on 3i, dunno if it will work). I’ve worked for severals years with VMBK from Max Daneri, but Max is not developing his script any more, and it has been written before the VCB era (in the old ESX 1.x and 2.x funny days I’ve also tried another good script, VISBU, from Alex Mittell, but setting up different backup sessions was not so simple as with JABS. JABS is a Bash script to schedule backups of Virtual Machines, mainly to be exported to NAS folder. The nice feature of Jabs is that you can define different”sessions” in the configuration files, using for example some pattern of the “display name” of the VM, and JABS will prepare all the necessary vcb* commands for you, sending a nice email report. You can find more on Jabs here on Toixland. ((enjoy)) Thanks to this link I’ve successfully implemented the LDAP Authentication against a Microsoft Active Directory LDAP for Subversion Access via Apache2. Thanks to the power and flexibility of Apache the configuration is really straightforward. Install and configure Apache to serve the URL of the repository you want, for example https://svn.mydomain.com/ (SSL is preferable to clear text http). Enable the DAV modules and the authnz_ldap extension. Create an account in your AD to get access to the Directory (in this example ldap.svn). Create a Group in your AD (in this example SVNAllowed) where place the SVN-enabled users. Add to the configuration of the Virtual Host this block:
And you are done! Now every access to https://svn.mycompany.com/ will be authenticated against the AD backend. Access to https://svn.mycompany.com/svn/YourProject will be accessible only by the users in the group SVNAllowed. You can also define fine-grained access to some repository (not included in this example). Beware that Apache’ mod_ldap will cache the user credentials for a default value of 600 seconds. See the manual page of the module for more options. ((enjoy)) Back to posting some useful stuff with my new PC, an HP EliteBook 8530p (model number FU617AW). Ubuntu 8.10 64 bit is working like a charm on it. My configuration is the following:
The only small quirks are the following: - in the BIOS you *MUST* switch off “Fan Always on while on AC Power”, otherwise the kernel will not boot. Upgrade to the latest firmware version F.06. - to make work Skype I followed this excellent guide. The configuration of the Sound Device is: Sound in=HDA Intel, Sound Out=pulse,Ringing=pulse - VMware Workstation 6.5 64 bit works very fine, be sure to invoke “vmware-modconfig –console –install-all” if you upgrade the kernel. Besides, put this line “xkeymap.nokeycodeMap = true” in your ~/.vmware/config file to make work the keyboard inside the VM in Windows XP. - if you experience annoying Video flickering while playing videos with Totem or VLC, run “gstreamer-properties” from a shell, and in the Video Tab select ‘X Window System (No Xv)’ for the Default Output Plugin, click Test and all should be well. I’ll update this post for any relevant news. ((enjoy)) |
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