‘Planet Freitagsrunde’ Archive

(German) Egon Bahrs “Rat an jeden Einzelnen” 2013-05-23 No Comments

Das aktuelle Interview mit Egon Bahr im ZEITmagazin hat mir gut gefallen. Besonders diese Stelle kurz vor Ende: ZEITmagazin: Wir wollen nicht mit Willy Brandt enden, sondern mit Ihnen. Haben Sie eine Botschaft an die nachfolgenden Generationen? Bahr: Generation ist mir ein zu großer Begriff. Vielleicht habe ich einen Rat an jeden Einzelnen, und das [...]

Fixing invisible bloat from comments in a WordPress database 2013-05-12 No Comments

When upgrading my installation of WordPress today, I noticed that the related MySQL tables had grown to a few hundred megabytes. It turned out to be (invisible but kept) spam comments (in table wp_comments) and Akismet analysis results (all of table wp_commentmeta). This is what got my database down to 6 MB again (make backups [...]

svneverever 1.2.2 released + UTF-8 bug in svn2git 1.0.8 2013-05-11 No Comments

When working on (the still on-going) migration of the Gentoo java project repositories from SVN to Git I ran into bugs with svn2git 1.0.8 and my own svneverever 1.2.1. The bug with svn2git 1.0.8 was a regression that broke support for (non-ASCII) UTF-8 author names in identity maps. That’s fixed in dev-vcs/svn2git-1.0.8-r1 in Gentoo. I [...]

May 3rd = Day Against DRM 2013-05-03 No Comments

Learn more at dayagainstdrm.org (and drm.info).

LightZone in Gentoo betagarden 2013-02-17 1 Comment

If you are running Gentoo, heard about the release of the LightZone source code and got curious to see it for yourself: sudo layman -a betagarden sudo emerge -av media-gfx/LightZone What you get is LightZone 100% built from sources, no more shipped .jar files included. One word of warning: the software has not seen much [...]

Fwd: Python trademark at risk in Europe: We need your help! 2013-02-15 No Comments

http://pyfound.blogspot.de/2013/02/python-trademark-at-risk-in-europe-we.html

Building LightZone from Git for Linux 2013-02-10 No Comments

Intro Hello! Since I read on LWN.net that the LightZone source code has been released as free software, I was curious to see if that software was compile- and runnable on my very machine. A friend of mine actually uses digital darkroom software and was still looking for something that worked on Linux. So I [...]

Fwd: iO Tillett Wright: Fifty shades of gay 2013-01-31 Comments Off

Since the TED player seems to skip the last few seconds, I’m linking to the TED talk page but embedding a version from YouTube:

Fwd: Leslie Morgan Steiner: Why domestic violence victims don’t leave 2013-01-29 Comments Off

Fwd: Jacob Appelbaum 29C3 Keynote: Not My Department 2013-01-13 No Comments

I’m late with this, but… If you have not seen this talk yet, you might want to. As usual with Jacob, very interesting and inspiring.