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WindowMaker is undead

Andreas Metzler — 2010-09-05T16:46:34+00:00

I have recently switched to the wmaker-crm fork of WindowMaker. There are some new features but no huge changes. I am happily using git next branch plus these patches.

exim4 cvs/git snapshot in experimental.

Andreas Metzler — 2010-05-30T12:46:45+00:00

I have uploaded a new cvs/git snapshot of exim4 to experimental. This is 4.72 RC1 plus some DKIM related fixes that were commited afterwards. For a complete list of changes take a look at the upstream changelog.

Lenny packages are here.

balance sheet snowboarding season 2009/10

Andreas Metzler — 2010-04-24T14:06:16+00:00

Since we had little snow this year shows a negative trend. Less days spent snowboarding, less meters of altitude. In December and around christmas I basically went snowboarding instead of talking a walk, stopping after an hour or two. The first reasonable day was January 23rd. My season ended April 17th with a perfect day at Warth.

Here is the balance sheet:

	2005/06	2006/07	2007/08	2008/09	2009/10
number of (partial) days	25	17	29	37	30
Damüls	10	10	5	10	16
Diedamskopf	15	4	24	23	13
Warth/Schröcken	0	3	0	4	1
total meters of altitude	124634	74096	219936	226774	202089
highscore	10247m	8321m	12108m	11272m	11888m
# of runs	309	189	503	551	462

On good days I had problems stopping ;-), ending up with three 11000m+ days. Not included above is one day in Brand (with the company I work for, I also did this last year) and my very first time at Lech am Arlberg. The road from Bregenzerwald to Lech is usually closed in winter due to danger of avalanches which is what stopped me before. This year it was open for some time due to little snow. I had great day there, although the snow cannons did not manage to cover all rocks.

gnutls26 lenny update

Andreas Metzler — 2010-01-17T11:48:02+00:00

I have prepared an update of gnutls26 for lenny, incorporating these changes:

Finally add an entry to the NEWS.Debian file concerning the deprecation of RSA-MD2 and RSA-MD5 for signature verification. Closes: #514578
CVE-2009-2730 fix breaks openpgp auth. 27_fix_openpgp.diff
28_GNUTLS-SA-2009-3.diff: Make gnutls check expiration times of X.509 certificates. Expired certificates are not marked as trusted anymore even if they are signed by a trusted CA. CVE-2009-1417. Closes: #528281

I would appreciate testing. Source and binaries for i386 and amd64 are available here.

exim 4.70 rc4 Debian packages

Andreas Metzler — 2009-11-11T18:43:48+00:00

I have just uploaded Exim 4.70 rc4 to experimental. Please test. etch backport continues to be available here.

new tv

Andreas Metzler — 2009-10-31T09:59:47+00:00

I am still not used to find a printed copy of the (L)GPL in home-appliances. My new Philips 32PFL8404H/12 did, thanks to the usage of e.g. libgphoto2.

exim 4.70 pre-release

Andreas Metzler — 2009-10-17T14:26:43+00:00

Following up on the call for testers I have uploaded a cvs snapshot of exim4 to experimental. A backport for lenny is available here.

nice while it lasted

Andreas Metzler — 2009-10-04T17:54:15+00:00

Just a small memorial for my latest holiday in Italy at Lake Garda.

Not only was hiking to Croz dell'Altissimo

from Molvino really very nice but the view from the summit is awesome. In front of you there is sheer almost vertical drop of about 800 m to Val delle Seghe and on the other side of the valley looms Cima Brenta.

hugin 2009.2.0 prerelease

Andreas Metzler — 2009-09-12T17:18:16+00:00

I have packaged the latest SVN of the pending 2009.2.0 release (i.e post beta3) of hugin. Source and binary packages are here, the Debian pieces live in pkg-phototools GIT repository.

Another nice new feature besides the ones listed in the announcement is the possibility to display (bad) controlpoints in the OpenGL preview window.

hugin 0.8.0 in experimental

Andreas Metzler — 2009-09-08T17:54:36+00:00

We have finally managed to upload hugin 0.8.0 to experimental. It will probably end up in sid soonish. Upstream is already busy preparing 2009.2 (swiftly sidestepping any possibility for a 1.0 ever ;-)

lenny backport available on this site.