X-Git-Url: https://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/4f326b40b417733f65d1ca9e8c389940f4d3e8bd..6f6d23be6ebd4848682ddc55f8ce0ef9c62d4b59:/blog/index.rss diff --git a/blog/index.rss b/blog/index.rss index a6e8a6c351..6fdc45e205 100644 --- a/blog/index.rss +++ b/blog/index.rss @@ -6,6 +6,37 @@ http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/ + + Officeshots taking shape + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Officeshots_taking_shape.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Officeshots_taking_shape.html + Sun, 13 Jun 2010 11:40:00 +0200 + +<p>For those of us caring about document exchange and +interoperability, <a href="http://www.officeshots.org/">OfficeShots</a> +is a great service. It is to ODF documents what +<a href="http://browsershots.org/">BrowserShots</a> is for web +pages.</p> + +<p>A while back, I was contacted by Knut Yrvin at the part of Nokia +that used to be Trolltech, who wanted to help the OfficeShots project +and wondered if the University of Oslo where I work would be +interested in supporting the project. I helped him to navigate his +request to the right people at work, and his request was answered with +a spot in the machine room with power and network connected, and Knut +arranged funding for a machine to fill the spot. The machine is +administrated by the OfficeShots people, so I do not have daily +contact with its progress, and thus from time to time check back to +see how the project is doing.</p> + +<p>Today I had a look, and was happy to see that the Dell box in our +machine room now is the host for several virtual machines running as +OfficeShots factories, and the project is able to render ODF documents +in 17 different document processing implementation on Linux and +Windows. This is great.</p> + + + Lenny->Squeeze upgrades, removals by apt and aptitude http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lenny__Squeeze_upgrades__removals_by_apt_and_aptitude.html @@ -580,53 +611,5 @@ but I am pretty sure that waiting for each other is not it.</p> - - Parallellized boot seem to hold up well in Debian/testing - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Parallellized_boot_seem_to_hold_up_well_in_Debian_testing.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Parallellized_boot_seem_to_hold_up_well_in_Debian_testing.html - Thu, 27 May 2010 23:55:00 +0200 - -<p>A few days ago, parallel booting was enabled in Debian/testing. -The feature seem to hold up pretty well, but three fairly serious -issues are known and should be solved: - -<p><ul> - -<li>The wicd package seen to -<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/508289">break NFS mounting</a> and -<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/581586">network setup</a> when -parallel booting is enabled. No idea why, but the wicd maintainer -seem to be on the case.</li> - -<li>The nvidia X driver seem to -<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/583312">have a race condition</a> -triggered more easily when parallel booting is in effect. The -maintainer is on the case.</li> - -<li>The sysv-rc package fail to properly enable dependency based boot -sequencing (the shutdown is broken) when old file-rc users -<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/575080">try to switch back</a> to -sysv-rc. One way to solve it would be for file-rc to create -/etc/init.d/.legacy-bootordering, and another is to try to make -sysv-rc more robust. Will investigate some more and probably upload a -workaround in sysv-rc to help those trying to move from file-rc to -sysv-rc get a working shutdown.</li> - -</ul></p> - -<p>All in all not many surprising issues, and all of them seem -solvable before Squeeze is released. In addition to these there are -some packages with bugs in their dependencies and run level settings, -which I expect will be fixed in a reasonable time span.</p> - -<p>If you report any problems with dependencies in init.d scripts to -the BTS, please usertag the report to get it to show up at -<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=initscripts-ng-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org">the -list of usertagged bugs related to this</a>.</p> - -<p>Update: Correct bug number to file-rc issue.</p> - - -