Tag: advogato
Rebooting my blog
January 2nd, 2010, No Comments
I’m bringing in the new year at home, sleeping off a bad cold. Really, it’s a 2009 cold and with it will go the last remnants of that year and the last decade. It’s 2010 and time for some major changes around here. I’ve been compiling a lengthy list of New Year’s resolutions, life goals, [...]
Advogato and Syndicated Blogs
March 4th, 2009, No Comments
Over on Advogato, cdfrey asked whether syndicated blogs were good or bad for the recentlog. He asked whether the authors who allow their blogs to be syndicated into Advogato’s recentlog stream actually stop by to read the recentlog anymore. I’m sure some of them don’t but I’m equally sure some of them do. In any [...]
Random software and robot news
May 24th, 2007, No Comments
I’ve been doing a little more C programming lately. On the embedded level, I’m porting some odometery and waypoint navigation code written by David P. Anderson for use on my own robot. This is part of a larger project to put together a GPL’d library of mobile robot code. Don’t expect to see it anytime [...]
Advogato blog topics
January 25th, 2007, No Comments
Zaitcev brings up the issue of blog posts that aren’t directly related to free software development in Advogato’s recentlog. I seem to remember this issue coming up sometime in the past. Zaitcev occasionally posts about topics other than free software such as Anime. This annoys ekashp, who would prefer that free software developers limit their [...]
mod_virgule and Advogato
September 28th, 2006, No Comments
I’ve spent the last week making a lot of mod_virgule tweaks to get my version of the codebase to the point it can run both Advogato and robots.net. My goal is to make the upcoming change-over to the new server and codebase as unnoticeable as possible to Advogato users. Keep you fingers crossed. Next up [...]
Websites come and websites go
September 7th, 2006, No Comments
O’Reilly shut down the wonderful Meerkat aggregator website a while back and now I see that Raph may be shutting down Advogato.
Yet another website I frequent, on the subject of Free/Open hardware, almost shut down in June. FreeIO.org has been run by Diehl Martin for years, providing GPL’d hardware designs. Unfortunately, Marty has pancreatic cancer [...]
mod_virgule Attack Resistance
June 21st, 2006, No Comments
lkcl and redi have commented on the ongoing trust metric attack on mod_virgule sites, noting the effects on Advogato. The same thing is happening to other mod_virgule sites including robots.net and ghostscript. I emailed Raph a warning about this activity in May when I first noticed the use of automated programs creating large numbers of [...]
Mod_Virgule Update
July 27th, 2005, No Comments
I’ve posted another release of my mod_virgule fork this week. Grab the source or take a look at the changelog. This one includes the new and improved configuration handling code. Instead of loading and parsing the entire website configuration on each and every hit, it’s now loaded once per Apache process and stored in thread-private [...]
