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Search suggestions in software-center
While the software-center team is currently focusing on ratings&reviews there are still some nice features landing in trunk. One I particularly like is the new search suggestions feature. It will...
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Ratings&reviews in software-center
Ratings&reviews support for software-center has landed last night in natty. A important step for us, thanks for all who were involved and a special thanks to our friends from the ISD team who made...
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Ratings&reviews “Was this review helpful?”
The software-center team is happy to announce that the “was this review useful” feature can now be used. Its in the code since a while, but it was not visible because the server had a bug in the data...
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apt-btrfs-snapshot
One of the new features in natty is the “apt-btrfs-snapshot” package. Its for people who use a btrfs install of natty. Once installed it will automatically create filesystem snapshot (of everything but...
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The apt mirror method
A pretty nice (but not much known) piece in apt is the “mirror” method that will automatically select a good mirror based on your location. Putting: deb mirror://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt natty...
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Software-center & weblive
There is another cool feature in software-center in natty that I would like to show today. If you have the package “qtnx” (in universe) installed you will be able to “test-drive” a lot of the available...
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update-manager & unity
I merged a branch from Bilal Akhtar for update-manager the other day to add unity quicklist support (thanks Bilal!). While at it I added the updates count to the launcher too. Small change, but I...
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apt-clone
In natty we got a new tool called “apt-clone”. Its a commandline application that can be used to clone the packages state of a system and restore it on another system. It will save the full state...
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New apt hits oneiric
I just uploaded a new apt to oneiric. Its a ABI break so there will be short time that the archive is in a state of churn while the packages are rebuild against the new ABI. But the good news is that...
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sqlite3-debversions
I created a small extension for sqlite3 today to allow order by debian version easily. This allows writing: .load "./debversions.so"; SELECT * FROM packages ORDER BY version COLLAT debversion_compare;...
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mvo at ubuntu.com mail not working currently (hopefully back soon)
If you tried to reach me via my ubuntu.com mail in the last couple of days you got a 550 error. There seems to be some misconfiguration on the ubuntu.com mailserver, I hope it gets fixed soon. You can...
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Using gdebi to install build-dependencies
I wrote gdebi a long time ago to make it really easy to install .deb package with proper dependency resolution from the commandline and via a gtk (and kde) UI. But another neat (but not very well...
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squid-deb-proxy for Debian
I uploaded squid-deb-proxy into Debian unstable today and its in the NEW queue. I created it back in the days of Ubuntu 10.04 and some people voiced interest in having it in Debian as well so I spend a...
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PassHash cmdline
I use the PassHash firefox extension to generate site-specific strong passwords. The idea behind the extension is that a master password and a siteTag (e.g. the domain name) is used to generate a sha1...
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Webkitgtk & SSL
For a project of mine I created a small app based on webkitgtk that talks to a SSL server. And I almost forgot about the libsoup default behavior for SSL certificates checking. By default libsoup and...
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Ansible and the facts from the “setup” module
I recently started using ansible to automate some server administration tasks. Its very cool and easy to learn/extend. One nice feature is the “facts” gathering. It will collect information about the...
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ansible ad-hoc data gathering
When using ansible and its “setup” module to gather ad-hoc facts-data about multiple hosts, remember that it runs the jobs in parallel which may result in out-of-order output. With “ansible -f1″ the...
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PassHash sha512 support
I added sha512 support to the PassHash firefox extension here (and added pull request to get it into the upstream branch). I felt its important to do this after reading this article.
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rapt (restricted apt wrapper)
One of the projects I created a while ago is called “rapt (restricted apt)“. As I was asked about it on irc about recently I thought I should mention it here as well It is a python-apt app that will...
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sha512crypt for node
I implemented sha512crypt in nodejs here. $ ./demo.js pass salt $6$salt$3aEJgflnzWuw1O3tr0IYSmhUY0cZ7iBQeBP392T7RXjLP3TKKu3ddIapQaCpbD4p9ioeGaVIjOHaym7HvCuUm0 $ python -c 'import crypt;...
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