SourceForge Tracker backup script.
13 Feb 2003Worried that someone will mess up your sf.net Tracker? Here’s a script to backup your tracker every night. It makes use of the xml export page. sftracker-backup.py
Worried that someone will mess up your sf.net Tracker? Here’s a script to backup your tracker every night. It makes use of the xml export page. sftracker-backup.py
Mike Harris a developer at RedHat is trying to get the XFree86 team to open up. Poor Mike has a bunch of patches for the Radeon that depend on other patchs the XFree86 team has been sitting on for months.
XFree86 is a critical part of the linux infrastructure, and right now the XFree86 team is not acting in the “Nobody owns it, Everybody can use it, and Everybody can improve it” manner it which you need for good software infrastructure. What led to this problem is that in the past an offical XFree86 developer had access to NDA’ed docs that had been released to the XFree86 team. This isn’t happening anymore, as card makers are only doing NDA’s with single developers more (if at all). So there are diminishing reason for a closed policy.
XFree86 needs a public bugtracker, and to open up their CVS access. I’ve noticed they’ve moved to their mailing list to Mailman which should work a little better than how they used to do it (one time I asked to be remove from the xfree86-devel mailing list and an email back asking why. I explained I was moving to a new email address and they still didn’t take me off).
It will be intresting to see how this plays out.
The Baby Bells have been making promises to get all of the US on higher bandwidth connections. They made these promises to the FCC. FCC said great, raise your prices for basic services so that you can build these new fiber networks and put a T3 in every house. So prices raised, telecos earn $48 Billion, with $8 Billion more coming in every year, customers get nothing. Something wrong with this picture? Read all about what I know so far in “How The Bells Stole America’s Digital Future”. Still trying to figure out the best way to fight this problem. One thing is to get the word out. Fan the flames of outrage. We need this to get to the level of making congress people afraid to ignore the issue. I know enought to see that it is a long trip between here and there, but I’m encouraged to see what happend in S. Korea and Kenya. Several big name blogs like BoingBoing have covered this already. It registered a little on DayPop, but not much. I don’t really understand why, seems like a great call to arms for bloggers. Big companies stealing our most precious, bandwidth (one SONET ring to rule them all?). And what we do? So far not much. This story is old by internet standards. The html page is dated Wed, 14 Mar 2001 23:35:35 GMT. The guy behind this as been calling attention to this for quite a while (5 years or more, here’s a post about that papers author from back in 1998 ), but I think it’s time for a new round of intrests. So what can this lone blogger do to get you the outside world to care? I’m going to attempt to research who this guy, Bruce Kushnick and the content matter of this paper and post it back here. The idea being news generates more intrest, more intrest generates more news. Other thoughts:
Someone on IRC was asking about where I work. I realized we have a perfectly good website that does a good job of explaining who or what we are. Shellbook Publishing Systems
Shellbook Publishing Systems’ core business purpose is the dissemination of life-crucial information to the indigenous people of the world, readable by those people in terms of their own language and culture.
The reason you may want to look at the site is that I’m close to getting them to making a CreativeCommons wizard in the program to allow the content developers pick a CC license to put stuff under. A lot of what we are dealing with is permission to make derivative works, and publishing permissions.
