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<title>Petter Reinholdtsen - Entries from April 2014</title>
<description>Entries from April 2014</description>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/</link>
+ <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/</link>
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+ <title>Half the Coverity issues in Gnash fixed in the next release</title>
+ <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Half_the_Coverity_issues_in_Gnash_fixed_in_the_next_release.html</link>
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+ <pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2014 14:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>I've been following <a href="http://www.getgnash.org/">the Gnash
+project</a> for quite a while now. It is a free software
+implementation of Adobe Flash, both a standalone player and a browser
+plugin. Gnash implement support for the AVM1 format (and not the
+newer AVM2 format - see
+<a href="http://lightspark.github.io/">Lightspark</a> for that one),
+allowing several flash based sites to work. Thanks to the friendly
+developers at Youtube, it also work with Youtube videos, because the
+Javascript code at Youtube detect Gnash and serve a AVM1 player to
+those users. :) Would be great if someone found time to implement AVM2
+support, but it has not happened yet. If you install both Lightspark
+and Gnash, Lightspark will invoke Gnash if it find a AVM1 flash file,
+so you can get both handled as free software. Unfortunately,
+Lightspark so far only implement a small subset of AVM2, and many
+sites do not work yet.</p>
+
+<p>A few months ago, I started looking at
+<a href="http://scan.coverity.com/">Coverity</a>, the static source
+checker used to find heaps and heaps of bugs in free software (thanks
+to the donation of a scanning service to free software projects by the
+company developing this non-free code checker), and Gnash was one of
+the projects I decided to check out. Coverity is able to find lock
+errors, memory errors, dead code and more. A few days ago they even
+extended it to also be able to find the heartbleed bug in OpenSSL.
+There are heaps of checks being done on the instrumented code, and the
+amount of bogus warnings is quite low compared to the other static
+code checkers I have tested over the years.</p>
+
+<p>Since a few weeks ago, I've been working with the other Gnash
+developers squashing bugs discovered by Coverity. I was quite happy
+today when I checked the current status and saw that of the 777 issues
+detected so far, 374 are marked as fixed. This make me confident that
+the next Gnash release will be more stable and more dependable than
+the previous one. Most of the reported issues were and are in the
+test suite, but it also found a few in the rest of the code.</p>
+
+<p>If you want to help out, you find us on
+<a href="https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnash-dev">the
+gnash-dev mailing list</a> and on
+<a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/#gnash">the #gnash channel on
+irc.freenode.net IRC server</a>.</p>
+</description>
+ </item>
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<title>Install hardware dependent packages using tasksel (Isenkram 0.7)</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Install_hardware_dependent_packages_using_tasksel__Isenkram_0_7_.html</link>
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+ <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Install_hardware_dependent_packages_using_tasksel__Isenkram_0_7_.html</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2014 14:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><p>It would be nice if it was easier in Debian to get all the hardware
related packages relevant for the computer installed automatically.
<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/745487">#745487</a>), but using a
workaround I was able to get rid of the file descriptor leak and
reduce the memory leak from ~30 MiB per hardware detection down to
-around 2 miB per hardware detection. It should make the desktop
+around 2 MiB per hardware detection. It should make the desktop
daemon a lot more useful. The fix is in version 0.7 uploaded to
unstable today.</p>
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<title>FreedomBox milestone - all packages now in Debian Sid</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/FreedomBox_milestone___all_packages_now_in_Debian_Sid.html</link>
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+ <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/FreedomBox_milestone___all_packages_now_in_Debian_Sid.html</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2014 22:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><p>The <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox">Freedombox
project</a> is working on providing the software and hardware to make
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<title>Språkkoder for POSIX locale i Norge</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Spr_kkoder_for_POSIX_locale_i_Norge.html</link>
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+ <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Spr_kkoder_for_POSIX_locale_i_Norge.html</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2014 21:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><p>For 12 år siden, skrev jeg et lite notat om
<a href="http://i18n.skolelinux.no/localekoder.txt">bruk av språkkoder
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<title>S3QL, a locally mounted cloud file system - nice free software</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/S3QL__a_locally_mounted_cloud_file_system___nice_free_software.html</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 9 Apr 2014 11:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><p>For a while now, I have been looking for a sensible offsite backup
solution for use at home. My requirements are simple, it must be
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<title>EU-domstolen bekreftet i dag at datalagringsdirektivet er ulovlig</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/EU_domstolen_bekreftet_i_dag_at_datalagringsdirektivet_er_ulovlig.html</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 8 Apr 2014 11:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><p>I dag kom endelig avgjørelsen fra EU-domstolen om
datalagringsdirektivet, som ikke overraskende ble dømt ulovlig og i
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<title>ReactOS Windows clone - nice free software</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/ReactOS_Windows_clone___nice_free_software.html</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 1 Apr 2014 12:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
<description><p>Microsoft have announced that Windows XP reaches its end of life
2014-04-08, in 7 days. But there are heaps of machines still running
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