X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/46323a81746f8a0a124506087d3592fd258bbaf6..711d21292d342d49493881d9984a26ad61ca1e55:/blog/archive/2014/04/04.rss diff --git a/blog/archive/2014/04/04.rss b/blog/archive/2014/04/04.rss index e8d57d55dc..b057077996 100644 --- a/blog/archive/2014/04/04.rss +++ b/blog/archive/2014/04/04.rss @@ -3,13 +3,62 @@ Petter Reinholdtsen - Entries from April 2014 Entries from April 2014 - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/ + http://www.hungry.com/~pere/blog/ + + Half the Coverity issues in Gnash fixed in the next release + http://www.hungry.com/~pere/blog/Half_the_Coverity_issues_in_Gnash_fixed_in_the_next_release.html + http://www.hungry.com/~pere/blog/Half_the_Coverity_issues_in_Gnash_fixed_in_the_next_release.html + Tue, 29 Apr 2014 14:20:00 +0200 + <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> + + + Install hardware dependent packages using tasksel (Isenkram 0.7) - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Install_hardware_dependent_packages_using_tasksel__Isenkram_0_7_.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Install_hardware_dependent_packages_using_tasksel__Isenkram_0_7_.html + http://www.hungry.com/~pere/blog/Install_hardware_dependent_packages_using_tasksel__Isenkram_0_7_.html + http://www.hungry.com/~pere/blog/Install_hardware_dependent_packages_using_tasksel__Isenkram_0_7_.html Wed, 23 Apr 2014 14:50:00 +0200 <p>It would be nice if it was easier in Debian to get all the hardware related packages relevant for the computer installed automatically. @@ -88,7 +137,7 @@ add a "Xb-Modaliases" header to your control file like I did in <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/pymissile">the pymissile package</a> or submit a bug report with the details to the isenkram package. See also -<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/isenkram/">all my +<a href="https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/isenkram/">all my blog posts tagged isenkram</a> for details on the notation. I expect the information will be migrated to AppStream eventually, but for the moment I got no better place to store it.</p> @@ -97,8 +146,8 @@ moment I got no better place to store it.</p> FreedomBox milestone - all packages now in Debian Sid - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/FreedomBox_milestone___all_packages_now_in_Debian_Sid.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/FreedomBox_milestone___all_packages_now_in_Debian_Sid.html + http://www.hungry.com/~pere/blog/FreedomBox_milestone___all_packages_now_in_Debian_Sid.html + http://www.hungry.com/~pere/blog/FreedomBox_milestone___all_packages_now_in_Debian_Sid.html Tue, 15 Apr 2014 22:10:00 +0200 <p>The <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox">Freedombox project</a> is working on providing the software and hardware to make @@ -180,8 +229,8 @@ mailing list</a> if you want to help make this vision come true.</p> Språkkoder for POSIX locale i Norge - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Spr_kkoder_for_POSIX_locale_i_Norge.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Spr_kkoder_for_POSIX_locale_i_Norge.html + http://www.hungry.com/~pere/blog/Spr_kkoder_for_POSIX_locale_i_Norge.html + http://www.hungry.com/~pere/blog/Spr_kkoder_for_POSIX_locale_i_Norge.html Fri, 11 Apr 2014 21:30:00 +0200 <p>For 12 år siden, skrev jeg et lite notat om <a href="http://i18n.skolelinux.no/localekoder.txt">bruk av språkkoder @@ -263,8 +312,8 @@ jobb.</p> S3QL, a locally mounted cloud file system - nice free software - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/S3QL__a_locally_mounted_cloud_file_system___nice_free_software.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/S3QL__a_locally_mounted_cloud_file_system___nice_free_software.html + http://www.hungry.com/~pere/blog/S3QL__a_locally_mounted_cloud_file_system___nice_free_software.html + http://www.hungry.com/~pere/blog/S3QL__a_locally_mounted_cloud_file_system___nice_free_software.html Wed, 9 Apr 2014 11:30:00 +0200 <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 @@ -524,7 +573,7 @@ and Pamela Smith. Please have a look.</p> check out the mounted S3QL file system to see if it would be usable as a home directory (in other word, that it provided POSIX semantics when it come to locking and umask handling etc). Running -<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Testing_if_a_file_system_can_be_used_for_home_directories___.html">my +<a href="https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Testing_if_a_file_system_can_be_used_for_home_directories___.html">my test code to check file system semantics</a>, I was happy to discover that no error was found. So the file system can be used for home directories, if one chooses to do so.</p> @@ -539,14 +588,14 @@ only read from it.</p> <p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address -<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&label=PetterReinholdtsenBlog">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p> +<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p> EU-domstolen bekreftet i dag at datalagringsdirektivet er ulovlig - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/EU_domstolen_bekreftet_i_dag_at_datalagringsdirektivet_er_ulovlig.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/EU_domstolen_bekreftet_i_dag_at_datalagringsdirektivet_er_ulovlig.html + http://www.hungry.com/~pere/blog/EU_domstolen_bekreftet_i_dag_at_datalagringsdirektivet_er_ulovlig.html + http://www.hungry.com/~pere/blog/EU_domstolen_bekreftet_i_dag_at_datalagringsdirektivet_er_ulovlig.html Tue, 8 Apr 2014 11:30:00 +0200 <p>I dag kom endelig avgjørelsen fra EU-domstolen om datalagringsdirektivet, som ikke overraskende ble dømt ulovlig og i @@ -554,7 +603,7 @@ strid med borgernes grunnleggende rettigheter. Hvis du lurer på hva datalagringsdirektivet er for noe, så er det <a href="http://tv.nrk.no/program/koid75005313/tema-dine-digitale-spor-datalagringsdirektivet">en flott dokumentar tilgjengelig hos NRK</a> som jeg tidligere -<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Dokumentaren_om_Datalagringsdirektivet_sendes_endelig_p__NRK.html">har +<a href="https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Dokumentaren_om_Datalagringsdirektivet_sendes_endelig_p__NRK.html">har anbefalt</a> alle å se.</p> <p>Her er et liten knippe nyhetsoppslag om saken, og jeg regner med at @@ -626,8 +675,8 @@ de ord</a>.</p> ReactOS Windows clone - nice free software - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/ReactOS_Windows_clone___nice_free_software.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/ReactOS_Windows_clone___nice_free_software.html + http://www.hungry.com/~pere/blog/ReactOS_Windows_clone___nice_free_software.html + http://www.hungry.com/~pere/blog/ReactOS_Windows_clone___nice_free_software.html Tue, 1 Apr 2014 12:10:00 +0200 <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