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26 January 2009

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Wikipedia's founder calls for monitoring to prevent false entries

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A Mac OS X attack that leaves no trace

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Re: FWN 160

On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:17:03 -0700, "Pascal Calarco" <pcalarco@nd.edu>
said:
> Hi folks --
>
> So far there are two beats marked as complete. I've checked these and
> added them to the start of FWN 160. I'll check back in about two hours
> and edit and add any others that come in by that time.

I'll add my own and then get an early night so that I can do my share
tomorrow morning.

Talk to you later,
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Re: FWN 160

On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:26:17 -0800 (PST), "Dale Bewley"
<dlbewley@lib.ucdavis.edu> said:
> I have a start on the Virtualization beat, but won't be able to finish
> till later tonight PST.

Looking forward to it.

> I'm going to be in internet-unfriendly waters all next week (rural
> Indiana, Pascal :) ). I may have to skip 161, but I'll try not to. Let ya
> know...

Thanks Dale. Pascal is a great name for a town though!
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Re: announcements beat complete

On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:20:04 -0500 (EST), "Max Spevack"
<mspevack@redhat.com> said:
> SSIA. Sorry for being a bit late this week.
>

Heh... beat me to it!

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announcements beat complete

SSIA. Sorry for being a bit late this week.

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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #126

The new issue of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is now available:
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Re: FWN 160

I have a start on the Virtualization beat, but won't be able to finish till later tonight PST.

I'm going to be in internet-unfriendly waters all next week (rural Indiana, Pascal :) ). I may have to skip 161, but I'll try not to. Let ya know...

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FWN 160

Hi folks --

So far there are two beats marked as complete. I've checked these and
added them to the start of FWN 160. I'll check back in about two hours
and edit and add any others that come in by that time.

I'm busy with meetings tonight and will be travelling tomorrow for much
of the day, so I'll need to pass the rest of FWN 160 work to Oisin and
Huzaifa, or I can get back to this probably around 5:00 pm Eastern time
on Monday.

Thanks to everyone who has confirmed for next Friday's IRC meeting.
I'll work on an agenda page next for that.

Cheers,

- pascal

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25 January 2009

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Vulnerability in Ralink Technology wireless driver

An incorrectly processed integer overflow in the driver software can allow attackers to crash targeted computers and run arbitrary code

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Re: Fedora News IRC meeting?

----- "Pascal Calarco" <pcalarco@nd.edu> wrote:
> Hi Fedora News team --
> So far we have the following confirmed for an IRC meeting on Friday,
> January 30 at 13:00-14:00 UTC:

> Dale, I think you are the sole beat writer from western North America.
>
> Obviously, this time is too early for you. I'd like to propose that
> Oisin and I have a separate chat with you so you have a chance to weigh
> in on the agenda issues. For future meetings, we could also see if the
> time could be moved forward, and we can see who is available then.

Oops. Didn't see this one. That's fine.

Perhaps for the agenda:

= Linking names to user pages =
Ian Weller, expressed[1] concern with FWN's use of
CamelCase linking to user pages in the wiki. Since users can have arbitrary
usernames completely unrelated to their full name, it is impractical for us to
manually link to User:foo.

Also, I can imagine a desire to link to info for
people who have no wiki account, but maybe that's just my imagination.

If there were an extension we could use to reference humans in a form such
as {{person|Dale Bewley}} and have it derive the
appropriate User:page where it exists that would be very helpful.

I haven't yet checked to see if this topic is being discussed on the docs or
wiki lists.

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User_talk:Dale

= Linking to archived postings =
I've lately been trying to consciously avoid referencing mailing list or wiki
pages using HTTPS. HTTPS links necessitate a heavier load on client, server,
and network. Encryption takes work on both ends and breaks proxy caches.

Once you've logged into the wiki, it unfortunately(?) directs all traffic over
Even the listinfo pages[1] use https to link to their archives.
SSL, so a copy/paste is going to require editing.

I know I've seen a reference arguing the same concept, but can't find it
right now.

[1] http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
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Re: LoCo teams in Northern Europe in cooperation

Lovely! I will check it out.

Best regards,
Daniel Holm, Sweden

2009/1/24 Martin Pihl <martin@martinpihl.dk>
Hi News Team

The European Nordic LoCo Teams has created a new extended cooperation,
where we hopefully can learn a lot from each other and inspire people
across the teams. The Nordic countries does not only share geography but
has the same cultural inheritance, making it obvious to cooperate across
the teams.

Perhaps this will inspire other LoCo teams around the world to something
similar, so we will see even more cooperation between Locos..

I have already written a blog article about it where you can find more
information about it: http://martinpihl.dk/words/the-birth-of-a-new-planet

See also the common planet that has come out of it already:
http://planet.ubuntu-nordic.org

Kind regards
Martin Pihl
Leader, Danish Team

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Re: Fedora News IRC meeting?

----- "Pascal Calarco" <pcalarco@nd.edu> wrote:
> Hi Fedora News team --
>
> So far we have the following confirmed for an IRC meeting on Friday,
> January 30 at 13:00-14:00 UTC:

That day is fine, but I'm in California which makes that 5am. I could get up early and make it by 14:30 UTC or maybe 1400, but I can also catch up on the chat logs too if I'm the only outlier.

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