A view from the hill - Comments

Philipp P.: Staatstrojaner-Vortrag von Constanze Kurz/CCC

nospam@example.com (Philipp P.) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:01:33 +0100

Hier ist die Videoufzeichnung des Vortrages "Staatstrojaner - Spionage-Software von Staats wegen" von Constanze Kurz in Freiburg vom 10. Januar 2012:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BM5bBNrjSY

Vincent: It's oh so quiet

nospam@example.com (Vincent) — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:21:02 +0200

Thx again - I actually went ahead with this procedure yesterday and am now using the intel driver. The new hotplugging is ok, but I have to get used to it.
BTW: your captcha is very hard to read, even for humans

Holger Schauer: It's oh so quiet

nospam@example.com (Holger Schauer) — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:30:05 +0200

That's the way I went, yes. Step 2 isn't too difficult : just temporarily add the unstable repositories to your apt configuration. Don't do a dist-upgrade, though, otherwise you'll update your entire system. You then need to manually select the packages you need (xserver-xorg and its dependencies) and force using the version from unstable. After that is done, I would recommend disabling the unstable repository again.
Step 3 was automatic for me, i.e., the driver was automatically selected -- I use the new minimal X configuration.

As a last word of warning: going that route means that you will have to watch out for security fixes in the unstable packages on your own.

Vincent: It's oh so quiet

nospam@example.com (Vincent) — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:58:59 +0200

I'm in the same boat as you are with my G45-chipset in lenny, but you seem to have much more experience in administering a debian-system. Is it correct to say that I have to:
1. Compile a more recent kernel (like the 2.6.30-5 in backports)
2. Install xserver-xorg from unstable
3. Specify the intel driver instead of the vesa-driver?

Hurdle 1 is already taken, the second one is more difficult to revert I guess...

THX anyway - it is good to know I'm not alone

Holger Schauer: Interpol vs. Editors vs. the rest

nospam@example.com (Holger Schauer) — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 12:51:28 +0200

Brainfart on my part. Thanks for the correction, I changed the entry accordingly.

Mark: Interpol vs. Editors vs. the rest

nospam@example.com (Mark) — Sat, 23 May 2009 23:37:04 +0200

What the hell is "towards the bright light". If you're gona write a blog claiming to be in a position to review albums then at least get their names right.

Andraz Tori: The semantic web hype strikes again

nospam@example.com (Andraz Tori) — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:57:08 +0100

Hi,

Andraz from Zemanta here. Just want to point out that while Zemanta does have an end-user version of its service for bloggers, it also has an API that can be used to create new kinds of services and integrations.

I hope you try out Zemanta soon

I've met Nepomuk guys at European Semantic Web Conference and they really are very energetic. I hope their vision works !

bye
Andraz Tori, Zemanta

skillet-thief: Settle for nothing

nospam@example.com (skillet-thief) — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 15:57:44 +0100

For git, there is magit, which isn't quite a dired interface, but it does allow you to commit multiple files at the same time, or even pick and choose patches from within files to group together into commits.

Ramarren: Unit tests with mockups in Lisp

nospam@example.com (Ramarren) — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:35:45 +0100

Testing with mock objects appears to be an ideal use case for http://common-lisp.net/project/closer/contextl.html ... Of course it would require writing application with layered functions/methods/classes from the start.

Melissa: Interpol vs. Editors vs. the rest

nospam@example.com (Melissa) — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 21:45:07 +0200

Nice review. My curiosity has been piqued with some of these other bands. Thanks.

Matt: Fun with loop

nospam@example.com (Matt) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:12:02 +0200

OK. It's a very old post, but for the record let me
give a version that's closer to the core of CL:
(let ((list '(a b c d e f g h i j k l m))
(limit 5))
(do ((rest list (rest rest))
(acc nil (push (first rest) acc))
(count 0 (1+ count)))
((or (>= count limit)
(null rest))
(values (reverse acc)
rest))))

For keeping track of first, rest, and index during iteration, do works just fine.

The main benefit of your version (probably only important for very large values of "limit") is that collect in loop or
iterate might avoid the final reverse operation.

Friedrich: UCW leadership change

nospam@example.com (Friedrich) — Thu, 01 May 2008 07:35:54 +0200

Ok, well I have a harsh dispute from Drew because of his lisp-on-lines. which I judged as unusable.
Well it is based on UCW for which I wrote at least some tutorial which has worked at least up to 2007 somewhat. I did not received any feedback on it neither be it by email or in the Wiki where I wrot e it. I for my part can just give very sceptical juddgment for UCW. It's complex, hard to understand and it's unclear on how generated code, templated etc are working together. I spend months on getting somewhere with it with not that much success.

And we now do have alternatives which are IMHO
1) easier to understand
2) easier to setup
3) easier to get somewhere with it

As there are
1) AllegoServe + Webactions (very "traditional" and so what you learned elswhere can be applied directly")
2) the Edi-ware based web development stuff (it's also more traditional)

I put that much time into UCW because I thought it was the right thing. I'm not that convinced of that any longer....

Regards
Friedrich

attila lendvai: Escaping from sql-reader-syntax in CL-SQL

nospam@example.com (attila lendvai) — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 04:28:39 +0100

i've annotated Marijn's paste with some syntax examples from the cl-rdbms testsuite.

Marijn Haverbeke: Escaping from sql-reader-syntax in CL-SQL

nospam@example.com (Marijn Haverbeke) — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 10:52:59 +0100

Just to show off, see http://paste.lisp.org/display/56365 for the Postmodern variant. Also not that Postmodern will actually let you nest queries if you need to

Sasha Kovar: Twentieth century boys

nospam@example.com (Sasha Kovar) — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:03:39 +0100

A quick data point: I've got a production UCW app running that's been getting 10-20k pageviews/day without breaking a sweat on a pretty modest virtual server (linode). Hopefully soon it'll be seeing much more traffic

I like cl-migrations and writing my db code in sql. Much simpler than translating/abstracting, as Sohail points out. I recommend pg-introspect as well, as it keeps all db definitions in the one place it should be. I've never seen an ORM layer handle the subtleties of db constraints well. Something is always lost in the abstraction. Why bother? That code belongs in the db.

Sorry, no SSL or shopping cart, but managing sessions and doing input validation under UCW are simple. I love the components and continuations model, although it took me a little while to get acclimated. I'm only using the continuation style with about half of the toplevel window components. UCW is nice in that you can choose to use the hunchentoot/traditional/RESTy style when that makes more sense.

Haven't needed to split to multiple servers yet. Should be easy though: second db machine, and if we need to run multiple UCWs just sticky-session load balance behind a proxy. I'm not a fan of keeping session state in the db, but then losing some session data on crash isn't a huge deal for me.

I'm interested in watching how weblocks develops. It's got a lot of potential.