Planet Debian

I have just received an email with a question about SE Linux that was re-sent due to the first attempt being blocked by my anti-spam measures. I use the rfc-ignorant.org DNSBL services to stop some...

Just a quick update for those not following the microblog stream (identi.ca, facebook and jaiku). We've arrived in Montreal, cleared immigration, got our place, have Internet and phone, a bed is sh...

ICH8 docs, section 5.13.5.1:To eliminate the audible noise caused by aggressive voltage ramps when exiting C4 states at a regular, periodic frequency, the ICH8 supports a method to slow down thevol...

“HIV/AIDS has been a global epidemic for more than 27 years. Most of today’s youth have never known a world without it. … The time is now. Together, we can prevent the spread of this pandemic – th...

Definr - incredibly fast dictionary. And there’s also a Definr search extension that you can add to Firefox.

I just received this email:
From: Greg Lindstrom
To: Tutorial List
Hello,
On behalf of the PyCon Tutorial Selection Committee, I'd like to inform you
that you have been selected to present at lea...

Shutting up hal on my CD-ROM drive.
Apparently, it's pretty simple to disable HAL polling.
I just had to know how.
There is a command called hal-disable-pollin, which
allows creating the r...

Hacking the PTS using SOAP
I've finally found some time, thanks to the Extremadura QA +
ftpmaster + i18n meeting, to release the first draft of the
SOAP interface to the PTS.
You probably already g...

So in my first year Human Culture and Communication class we will soon be having a class on disability and communication. I wanted to show a video on eugenics to provide some historical context but...

Alex Gaynor writes about "timeline views" in Django. The abstract problem is to merge already-sorted lazily evaluated lists by some specified attribute.
My solution is similar to Malcolm's suggesti...