Monthly Archives: November 2005

W32.Sober.. spamassassin?

Posted on November 30, 2005 by flameeyes

Okay seems like new variants of Sober are really hitting the mail servers badly. The problem is that, while they don’t really do anything to non-Windows users as a virus, they are a great bore for everyone. I receive daily … Continue reading →

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sandbox porting.. again

Posted on November 30, 2005 by flameeyes

Okay, seems like sandbox-1.2.14 was released without applying FreeBSD fixes, so I’ve tried completing the port using gnulib. After a *lot* of work and a 50K patch, it does not work yet. The problem is that the replacement getcwd() provided … Continue reading →

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Dream Theater

Posted on November 29, 2005 by flameeyes

I’m currently listening to Dream Theater’s Live at Budokan DVD, that my sister gave me for the birthday… I have to say it was quite a bit of time since last time I heard something from Dream Theater, and… I … Continue reading →

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Oh how useful is syslog!

Posted on November 28, 2005 by flameeyes

Okay today I was trying to do the less job possible for Gentoo as it was my birthday. I had anyway to employ some time in looking for mail logs as I tried to limit the quantity of spam received … Continue reading →

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VLC updates

Posted on November 28, 2005 by flameeyes

I wanted to blog about this yesterday, but I wasn’t able to find time to do so. Well if somebody hasn’t seen it yet, yesterday VideoLan project released VLC 0.8.4 final. So I started working on putting it in portage. … Continue reading →

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Driving’s bad.. little break

Posted on November 27, 2005 by flameeyes

Okay, yesterday I had a sort-of-driving exam… sort of because the examiner let me wait for 40 minutes in the car, and it was *very* cold, so when she asked me to move, I was half-assed because of the cold … Continue reading →

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Cleaning up misc patches

Posted on November 25, 2005 by flameeyes

After adding a few more patches for xine-lib, today I thought it was case of cleaning up other misc patches that I had lying around. I started with flac as it’s a package patched *a lot* to get it working … Continue reading →

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xine-lib lifting

Posted on November 23, 2005 by flameeyes

Okay, the original 1.1.1 release had only three patches in Gentoo’s patchset. Unfortunately this was not doomed to continue. The current patchset is a bit bigger, but the patches are actually quite simple, and are all sent on xine-devel (waiting … Continue reading →

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Patches and documentation

Posted on November 22, 2005 by flameeyes

Okay, if someone is monitoring my CIA stats, lately I started committing more on project pages and gentoo/src repository. I’m trying to provide documentation for what I do, and how I do it, allowing someone else to take care of … Continue reading →

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Playing with Modular Xorg

Posted on November 21, 2005 by flameeyes

Okay, after a few problems with modular Xorg and FreeBSD, I wanted to start playing with it on a Linux system. I first installed it on the iBook, making it a bit experimental, while stable. I have to say it … Continue reading →

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