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Jamie McClelland | How do I warm up an IP Address?

workingdirectory.net

After years on the waiting list, May First was just given a /24 block of IP...
After years on the waiting list, May First was just given a /24 block of IP addresses. Excellent. Now we want to start using them for, among other things, sending email. I haven’t added a new IP address to our mail relays in a while and things seems to change regularly in the world of email so I’m curious: what’s th...
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Educational and Research Institutions With Own ASN in India

sahilister.in
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Thinking inside the box

eddelbuettel.com

Version 0.3.15 of the Rblpapi package arrived on CRAN today. Rblpapi provides a direct interface between...
Version 0.3.15 of the Rblpapi package arrived on CRAN today. Rblpapi provides a direct interface between R and the Bloomberg Terminal via the C++ API provided by Bloomberg (but note that a valid Bloomberg license and installation is required). This is the fifteenth release since the package first appeared on CRAN in...
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My Chair

mako.cc
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jmtd → log → ouch → ouch, part 3

jmtd.net
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Review: The Book That Broke the World by Mark Lawrence

eyrie.org

The Book That Broke the World is high fantasy and a direct sequel to The Book...
The Book That Broke the World is high fantasy and a direct sequel to The Book That Wouldn't Burn. You should not start here. In a delightful break from normal practice, the author provides a useful summary of the previous volume at the start of this book to jog your memory. At the end of The Book That Wouldn't Burn,...
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Thinking inside the box

eddelbuettel.com

A minor update 0.3.10 for our nanotime package is now on CRAN. nanotime relies on the...
A minor update 0.3.10 for our nanotime package is now on CRAN. nanotime relies on the RcppCCTZ package (as well as the RcppDate package for additional C++ operations) and offers efficient high(er) resolution time parsing and formatting up to nanosecond resolution, using the bit64 package for the actual integer64 ari...
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Review: The Wings Upon Her Back by Samantha Mills

eyrie.org

The Wings Upon Her Back is a political steampunk science fantasy novel. If the author's name...
The Wings Upon Her Back is a political steampunk science fantasy novel. If the author's name sounds familiar, it may be because Samantha Mills's short story "Rabbit Test" won Nebula, Locus, Hugo, and Sturgeon awards. This is her first novel. Winged Zemolai is a soldier of the mecha god and the protege of Mecha Voday...
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Thinking inside the box

eddelbuettel.com
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Setting a local test deployment of moinmoin wiki

raju.dev

~$ mkdir moin-test ~$ cd moin-test ~/d/moin-test►python3 -m venv . 00:04 ~/d/moin-test►ls 2.119s 00:04 bin/ include/...
~$ mkdir moin-test ~$ cd moin-test ~/d/moin-test►python3 -m venv . 00:04 ~/d/moin-test►ls 2.119s 00:04 bin/ include/ lib/ lib64@ pyvenv.cfg ~/d/moin-test►source bin/activate.fish 00:04 ~/d/moin-test►pip install --pre moin moin-test 00:04 Collecting moin Using cached moin-2.0.0b1-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (4.7 kB) Co...
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Kogan AX1800 Wifi6 Mesh

coker.com.au

I previously blogged about the difficulties in getting a good Wifi mesh network setup [1]. I...
I previously blogged about the difficulties in getting a good Wifi mesh network setup [1]. I bought the Kogan AX1800 Wifi6 Mesh with 3 nodes for $140, the price has now dropped to $130. It’s only Wifi 6 (not 6E which has the extra 6GHz frequency) because all the 6E ones were more expensive than I felt like paying. I...
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Fixing the volume control in an Alesis M1Active 330 USB Speaker System

die-welt.net

I've a set of Alesis M1Active 330 USB on my desk to listen to music. They...
I've a set of Alesis M1Active 330 USB on my desk to listen to music. They were relatively inexpensive (~100€), have USB and sound pretty good for their size/price. They were also sitting on my desk unused for a while, because the left speaker didn't produce any sound. Well, almost any. If you'd move the volume knob ...

english hardware planet-debian
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Thinking inside the box

eddelbuettel.com

Armadillo is a powerful and expressive C++ template library for linear algebra and scientific computing. It...
Armadillo is a powerful and expressive C++ template library for linear algebra and scientific computing. It aims towards a good balance between speed and ease of use, has a syntax deliberately close to Matlab, and is useful for algorithm development directly in C++, or quick conversion of research code into producti...
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Jamie McClelland | MariaDB mystery

workingdirectory.net

I keep getting an error in our backup logs: Sep 11 05:08:03 Warning: mysqldump: Error 2013:...
I keep getting an error in our backup logs: Sep 11 05:08:03 Warning: mysqldump: Error 2013: Lost connection to server during query when dumping table `1C4Uonkwhe_options` at row: 1402 Sep 11 05:08:03 Warning: Failed to dump mysql databases ic_wp It’s a WordPress database having trouble dumping the options table. The...
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Thinking inside the box

eddelbuettel.com
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Steinar H. Gunderson

sesse.net

While fiddling around, I found a (fairly serious) vulnerability in Zyxel's GS1900-10HP and related switches; today...
While fiddling around, I found a (fairly serious) vulnerability in Zyxel's GS1900-10HP and related switches; today Zyxel released an advisory with updated firmware, so I can publish my side of it as well. (Unfortunately there's no Zyxel bounty program, but Zyxel PSIRT has been forthcoming all along, which I guess is...
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FOSS activity in August 2024

decadent.org.uk
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Debian Contributions: Python 3 patches, OpenSSH GSS-API split, rebootstrap, salsa CI, etc.

freexian.com

Contributing to Debian is part of Freexian’s mission. This article covers the latest achievements of Freexian...
Contributing to Debian is part of Freexian’s mission. This article covers the latest achievements of Freexian and their collaborators. All of this is made possible by organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts and consulting services. Debian Python 3 patch review, by Stefano Rivera Last month, at D...
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FOSS activity in July 2024

decadent.org.uk
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NBD: Write Zeroes and Rotational

grep.be
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My Debian Activities in August 2024

alteholz.eu

This month I accepted 441 and rejected 15 packages. The overall number of packages that got...
This month I accepted 441 and rejected 15 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 442. I am ashamed of some occurrences that happened this month and I apologize for this. Unfortunately I have no idea how to prevent this in the future without becoming a solo entertainer. Debian LTS This was my ...
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GNU Make: details regarding intermediate files

secretsauce.net

Suppose I have this Makefile: a: b touch $@ b: touch $@ # A common chain...
Suppose I have this Makefile: a: b touch $@ b: touch $@ # A common chain of build steps %-GENERATED.c: %-generate touch $@ %.o: %.c touch $@ %.so: %-GENERATED.o touch $@ xxx-GENERATED.o: CFLAGS += adsf # Imitates .d files created with "gcc -MMD". Does not exist on the initial build ifneq ($(wildcard xxx.so),) xxx-GE...
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gotcha: using ccache in Debian package builds - Antonio Terceiro

terceiro.xyz
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Linux's Bedtime Routine

tookmund.com
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