IT Business podcasting idea

Taking in all my thoughts I think the missing podcast my be linking where business and IT meet so that business planners can see where IT is coming from. More thoughts on this later.

eye-fi

A new leap in memory and wifi cards. I can't wait until mine arrives.

$18 per month.

Just imagine how much you can do if 1.4 million users gave you $18 per month. Must be good to be apple.

new iPods

Apple will introduce new flash based 30GB iPods, a new wide screen based Mac OS X iPod, maybe flash based.

I am betting the leaked images were not the final version of the product but they will be close to the final product.

Lets see if I am right I guess we will all find out tomorrow.

Ubuntu SMB update

3 updates were released for ubuntu to fix the security flaw in SMB. If you use the SMB for file sharing it would be a good idea to install them asap.

500GB Hard Drive

I never thought I would see the day that you could pickup a 500GB hard drive for under $200. So I bought one to make a backup of my system which really needed it.

I joined Second Life today also, I guess I will figure out what all of the big deal is with this new way to communicate with people. Friends will be receiving invites once I figure it all out.

Ubuntu updates

Backports updates

hal-device-manager

libhal-storage1

libhal1

hal

Version 0.5.9-1ubuntu2~feisty1:

* Automated backport upload; no source changes.

Version 0.5.9-1ubuntu2:

* debian/rules: Only enable MacBooc on i386 and amd64, since only

works and builds there. Fixes FTBFS on sparc and powerpc.

Version 0.5.9-1ubuntu1:

* Merge with Debian experimental. Remaining Ubuntu changes:

** Ubuntu specific **

- debian/control:

+ Drop linux-kernel-headers dependency (called linux-libc-dev in Ubuntu

which is build-essential).

+ Add XS-Vcs-Bzr, remove Debian's XS-Vcs-Svn.

+ Ubuntu maintainer.

- Launchpad integration:

+ Add p-l-i dependency to hal-device-manager.

+ Add debian/patches/ubuntu-lpi.patch: h-d-m code bits.

- hwdb integration:

+ Add hwdb-client-gnome dependency to hal-device-manager and sharutils

build dependency.

+ Add icons: debian/{hal-cpu,hal-memory,hwdb}.png.uuencode.

+ debian/patches/34-add_hwdb_button.patch: Glade modifications and Python

code hook.

+ debian/rules: uudecode icons during build.

- Langpack support for .desktop file:

+ debian/hal-device-manager.desktop: Add gettext domain, improve comment.

+ Add debian/hal-device-manager.desktop.in: .desktop stub for intltool

POT creation.

+ debian/patches/ubuntu-desktop-POTFILES.patch: Add this desktop.in to

po/POTFILES.in.

+ debian/rules: Include gnome.mk to do the automagic POT building.

- Ubuntu udev world order:

+ Remove debian/hal.links.

+ debian/rules: Install udev rules into /etc/udev/rules.d/.

+ debian/hal.{preinst,postinst,postrm}: Transition code for changing the

udev rule priority (see 0.5.8.1-3ubuntu7, needs to be kept until next

LTS).

- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MountAllLocalFilesystems spec:

+ debian/patches/56_probe_fstab.patch: Check whether a volume or storage

device is present in fstab, and if so, set linux.fstab.options and

linux.fstab.mountpoint.

+ debian/patches/24_ignored_volumes.patch: Ignore fixed partitions which

are supposed to be mounted automatically in fstab, but aren't.

- debian/patches/62_ignore_single_slash_label.patch: Ignore labels which

only consist of a slash, so that they do not end up as /media/-. An

earlier Ubuntu d-i/ubiquity created those labels by default.

(LP #83323)

** Packaging fixes which should go to Debian **

- Privilege reduction:

+ debian/hal.postinst: Add haldaemon to various groups for removable

device access (floppy, plugdev, etc.).

+ debian/patches/25_privileges-addons.patch: Run addon-storage as

non-root.

- debian/hal.init.dbus: Use actual init script path in usage help, not

hardcoded /etc/init.d/hal (since it is actually in /etc/dbus/event.d).

(LP #84642)

- debian/hal.postrm: Check mode ($1) properly.

- debian/patches/02_powerscripts.patch: Prefer alternative scripts over

pmi, since pmi is the default.

- debian/run-hald.sh: Put absolute paths in HALD_RUNNER_PATH so that

callouts are found, too.

- debian/patches/55_nonpolkit-mount-policy.patch: Implement a policy check

if PolicyKit is not available: Only allow mounting of removable devices

to non-root users.

- debian/patches/62_dbus-python-0.80.patch: Correctly show HAL properties

in hal-device-manager with dbus-python. (FD #9343; rejected upstream

because h-d-m is going away).

** Bug fixes which should go upstream **

- debian/patches/16_ntfs_allowed_mount_options.patch: Allow NTFS mount

option 'utf8' (LP #78142).

- debian/patches/24_ignored_volumes.patch: Ignore fixed partitions but

those mounted to /media.

- debian/patches/59_add_ssb_bus.patch: Add support for devices on the SSB

bus; patch by Matthew Garrett.

- debian/patches/63_fixup_macbookpro.patch: Extend 10-macbookpro-utils.fdi

fixes to more MacBooc models; patch by Matthew Garret.

** Bug fixes from upstream bugzilla **

- debian/patches/65-keyboard-addon-repeated.patch: Do not ignore key

repeat events in the keyboard addon. (FD #9767)

- debian/patches/66-NULL-fstype-crash.patch: Do not crash on NULL

volume.fstypes, and assing some fallback values to them. (FD #10429,

LP #87800)

- debian/patches/67-fix-probe-volume.patch: Fix scrambled labels.

(FD #10362, LP #69914)

Changes in this version:

* Remove debian/10-storage-policy.fdi to stop ejecting all USB/Firewire

devices. (LP: #63090)

* Remove debian/patches/57_allow_bus_virtual.patch: This does not apply at

all to 0.5.9, and must either be confirmed to be obsolete or redone.

* Disable debian/patches/34-add_hwdb_button.patch for now, it needs to be

reworked for 0.5.9.

Version 0.5.9-1:

* New upstream release.

* Patches removed as they were applied or fixed upstream:

- debian/patches/03_macbookpro_configure.patch

- debian/patches/04_cd_write.patch

- debian/patches/05_one_formfactor_fallback.patch

- debian/patches/06_smbios_return.patch

- debian/patches/07_ppc_suspend.patch

- debian/patches/08_openfirmware.patch

- debian/patches/09_check_hashtable_initialisation.patch

- debian/patches/10_callout_errors.patch

- debian/patches/11_no_useless_runner_errors.patch

- debian/patches/12_pegasus_pmu_crash_fix.patch

- debian/patches/13_hal_callout_bashism.patch

- debian/patches/15_partition_probing.patch

- debian/patches/24_dbus_connection_close.patch

- debian/patches/25_correctly_free_lists.patch

- debian/patches/26_fix_hald_not_running_coredump.patch

- debian/patches/27_hal_fix_dbus_error_is_set.patch

- debian/patches/29_handle_non_hal_mounts.patch

- debian/patches/30_cdrom_bogus_tocinfo.patch

* Revised patches:

- debian/patches/02_powerscripts.patch

* debian/patches/19_sonypi_support.patch

- Removed. Instead of relying on the external spicctrl tool, /dev/sonypi

is used directly now by the hal-system-sonypic addon.

* debian/patches/55_nonpolkit-mount-policy.patch

- Removed. We depend on PolicyKit now to check if a user is authorized to

mount local partitions.

* debian/control

- Add Depends: hal-info (>= 20070402) to hal package.

* debian/libhal(-storage)-dev.install

- Do not install libtool *.la files anymore.

* debian/rules

- Remove cdbs tarball.mk rules file.

- Cleanup obsolete rm commands from common-install-impl.

* debian/hal.dirs

- Create the directories /var/cache/hald (fdi files cache) and

/var/lib/hal (dev acl management list).

* debian/hald.8, debian/lshal.1

- Removed. Shipped upstream.

* debian/hal.manpages

- Install upstream manpages. (Closes: #277399)

Version 0.5.8.1-9:

* debian/no-cd-media-check.fdi

- Re-added "HL-DT-ST DVD-RW GCA-4080N" product string

Version 0.5.8.1-8:

[ Michael Biebl ]

* debian/control:

- Add an explicit build dependency on docbook-xml so we don't fail on

buildds without network access.

[ Sjoerd Simons ]

* debian/hal-unmount.sh: Always run pumount/umount if a block device is

removed, not only when it's mounted. This ensure that dm devices can be

properly deconfigured by pumount.

* debian/debian-storage-policy-ignore-fixed-crypto-drives.fdi

- Added. Ignore non-removable devices with crypto volumes again

(Closes: #414417)

Version 0.5.8.1-7:

[ Sjoerd Simons ]

* Acknowledge Steve Langasek's NMU. (Closes: #370186)

* debian/patches/29_handle_non_hal_mounts.patch

- Added. Handle volume removal for mounted volumed that weren't mounted by

hal correctly.

* debian/patches/30_cdrom_bogus_tocinfo.patch

- Added. Some cdrom drives/discs report a wrong start of the session in the

TOC, causing hal to not detect the filesystem. Work around this by

rescanning at offset 0 for discs when filesystem detection fails.

[ Michael Biebl ]

* Add XS-Vcs-* fields to debian/control.

* Drop debian-storage-policy-fixed-drives.fdi in favor of

debian/patches/55_nonpolkit-mount-policy.patch.

This fixes the problem that local devices are not shown in nautilus.

(Closes: #394155, #395169, #409879)

* debian/patches/02_powerscripts.patch

- Add support for pm-utils and prefer it over other solutions. This is in

anticipation of hal-0.5.9, where pm-utils will be the preferred backend.

* Install HAL specification document. (Closes: #413813)

- debian/control: Build-Depend on docbook-utils and libxml2-utils.

- debian/rules: Pass --enable-docbook-docs to ./configure.

* debian/watch

- Fix regexp to not match non-hal releases, like hal-info.

Version 0.5.8.1-6.1:

* Non-maintainer upload.

* High-urgency upload for RC bugfix.

* Provide /usr/share/doc/hal/examples/no-cd-media-check.fdi as an example

for disabling CD ROM media checks, and document this in README.Debian, as

a workaround for CD drives with broken firmware. Closes: #370186.

Version 0.5.8.1-6:

* debian/patches/19_sonypi_support.patch

- Added. Fixes the sonypi brightness setting method

(Patch from Mike Hommey) (Closes: #391528)

Version 0.5.8.1-5:

[ Michael Biebl ]

* debian/hal-doc.install, debian/hal-doc.links

- Install API documentation into /usr/share/doc/hal-doc/html and create a

link back to /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/hal so devhelp can find it.

(Closes: #398803)

* debian/control

- Add a Suggests on devhelp for the hal-doc package which allows to

access the API documentation more easily.

[ Sebastian Dröge ]

* debian/control:

+ Updated to use my debian.org mail address

[ Sjoerd Simons ]

* debian/patches/28_runner_64bit_values.patch

- Added. Ensure 64 bit values are correctly aligned before passing them to

dbus (Closes: #404937)

* Urgency high, fixes an RC bug

Demo's

XBox 360 demo downloads, Forenza Motor Sport 2 and C&C3 I think I picked another one I guess I will see them in the morning when I wake up. Reviews to come. I played C&C 3 and love it very much for the little bit of time I played it.

Leo is going to get me in trouble with all of the new Tech stuff I can play with. http://terryjr386.tumblr.com and http://terryjr386.jaiku.com are some of the things I am playing with now. Soon I won't have to surf the internet I will have everything I need at my fingertips. This blog post will appear in tumblr via a rss feed what a cool way to keep track of everything.

Mandriva Spring 2007

A new day a new Linux distro to download. Started the Bit Torrent for this download maybe tomorrow I will get to play with the new version and see what they have added and changed to make it better.

Tumblr

Tumblelogs, since blogs aren't quick enough someone comes up with a faster way to get information you look at faster. I am now also on http://terryjr386.tumblr.com Anything I put here will also get put there automatically. Also you can now add your rss feeds to this service and all your new can be at one place. The Internet is always changing and getting better.

Patch Tuesday Vista hit again

Well so much for a more secure version of Windows. Microsoft released about 18 new security updates today and sure enough Vista was also hit. If you were running MS Office 2007 you are also hit with security updates. Time to update your Windows systems and reboot again, and again, and again. Even my little test system which does nothing but boot windows needed 5 updates, and a reboot.

Microsoft wasn't the only OS hit with updates this week, my Fedora Core 6 also had 11 updates 5 that I could count were security updates. You have got to love Linux, I did the updates on this system and there was no reboot required this time. The only time my system needs a reboot is if I update a kernel module, dsub, and hal module.

I added more changes to my website making it easy to download my random desktop wallpaper script for my Linux computers. If I ever met the person I found this script from I would kiss them. A little bit of sad news is that I saw that there is a program for windows that does this now. I will update everyone more on this as I get time to test how it works compared to the script I use.

Fedora Core 7 T4 update.

Something new I missed on the new version of Fedore Core 7 is Fedora now has a graphical trouble shooter for SELinux issues. A little Star appears in the applet panel. This allows you to see what was run and what the error was. This will help users figure out why their program was stopped from running. Added security is always a good thing.

A few more updates came in since the last update but since they are still in a Test version I won't be listing them for you. Pigin 2.0.0-0.36 beta7 is the latest version running on the new Fedora giving the final good bye to the old pictures and icons on GAIM. It looks like they could keep all of the old features of this wonderful IM client. I haven't found anything missing yet.

Main Site updated.

The more time I get to look at my websites the more I find that needs editing. New Laptop running Linux has been added to the Linux info section of our site. Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora updates added to the systems running those versions. Links to this blog have been added to the website where I think they should be added in the Linux and Community sections for support. Current projects under way are customized support area for clients, updates and additions to the Community area, better contact us form, and more tutoring links.

Ubuntu updates for Ubuntu 7.04

capplets-data now updated to 1:2.18.1-0ubuntu2.1 from 1:2.18.1-0ubuntu2

gnome-control-center 1:2.18.1-0ubuntu2.1 from 1:2.18.1-0ubuntu2

libgnome-window-settings1 1:2.18.1-0ubuntu2.1 from 1:2.18.1-0ubuntu2

libslab0 1:2.18.1-0ubuntu2.1 from 1:2.18.1-0ubuntu2

All of the updates listed above are to fix/update music player keycode (Ubuntu: #107484)

Fedora Core 7 Test 4

A smooth install, and I see they finally fixed the X server to adjust the screen resolution right after the resolution is changed. This is more like Windows has been, and Ubuntu 6.10 and 7.04 was when I had them installed.

I have not found many new features to talk about on this one. I did find, other than the X server resolution change, that the System Menu, Preferences and Administrator menu are now broken down into more sub menus. Way to go for better organization. In Fedora Core 7 they upgraded the OpenOffice to 2.2 skipping the 2.1 release, and are now running Firefox 2.0.3, which was not available in the Core 6 version unless you installed it manually. I am currently running FC7 in a virtual machine. This version is also sporting the new 2.6.21 kernel. Ubuntu 7.04 is running the 2.6.20 kernel. The default log on screen now look more like Windows does with the press on the username, and type in that user's password. You can still type in the user's name and password if you really want to (I do). Once logged in you will see your Name on the panel which allows for user switching between users on your computer.

Gaim's name is changed to Pidgin, since AOL didn't like it being so close to the AIM trademark. If you are looking for the Terminal it got moved to System Tools.

You will also notice that there are also Documents, Download, Music, Pictures, Public, Templates, and Videos folders the are now default in your Home directory. I think this will help the basic user be able to use Fedora as a Linux alternative to Windows.

Ubuntu seems to have a very user friendly interface and install. I will have to test the Live CD for Fedora next. So far for a Test version I think it is ready to go live from what I have seen so far. Test 4 is a far better improvement than Test 1 and 2 were when they were released. Keep up the good work Fedora Developers.

Stand up and fight the stupid

This kind of article makes you kind of wonder where the personal life of a person stands and where their professional career begins. MySpace Photo Costs a Student a Teaching Certificate I have heard many teachers in my day talk about worse things than this picture, and to their class as well.

Folding @ Home

Folding @ Home

Some computer projects that I have taken part in have had no way to help the world. This is the one time a project I am taking part in is helping the world. This little project takes all of the unused processing power of your computer and puts it to the use of folding proteins. In doing so your computer may help find a cure for the Alzheimer's, Cancer, Huntington's, pr Parkinson's Disease. Go to Folding@Home and download a simple program. Join the DL.TV team 57391 with the download and help find a cure.

Ununtu 7.04 and Debian 4.0

RedHat and Fedora Core have been my linux distro of choice for a long time, and I figured I would take some time to check out the other versions.

I love the install of Ubuntu over Debian. The basic computer user will be able to use Ubuntu with ease. I like the encrypted partition of Debian, which is missing from Ubuntu, maybe it will be added later. I also noticed that Ubuntu is using the 2.6.20 kernel, and Debian is still using 2.6.18.

More information will be rolling in again now that my life is slowing down with all of the other projects I have been working with.

Maybe a weekly blog from here on out.