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Put up in a place
where it's easy to see
the cryptic admonishment
T.T.T.
When you feel how depressingly
slowly you climb,
it's well to remember that
Things Take Time.Piet Hein
This page lists all recent changes to my web site except for new
journal entries, along with a brief description. Some
of this information will be repeated in my journal, but more minor
changes will only be noted here. An RSS feed of this
information is also available.
Minor fix to the script to purge unreferenced articles to not attempt to open directories that don't exist.
New IETF USEPRO draft that fixes a variety of ABNF and IANA consideration nits and has a few other polishing tweaks to bring it closer to something that is ready to publish. There may be a few more releases like this, but not many.
Review of Fantasy & Science Fiction by July 2008.
Added the size command to embed the size of a local file, used for the USEFOR index page.
Pulled many additional USEFOR-related Internet-Drafts from the I-D archive and added one additional significant draft (Posted and Mailed) to the index on the main page.
New USEFOR Internet-Draft that was released some time back, but which I missed at the time.
New picture added to the beach gallery.
New USEPRO Internet-Draft with the resolution to the Injection-Date handling issue that's been holding up final publication. I expect this or a minor update to this to be the version that goes to IETF Last Call.
Review of An Age Like This (1920 - 1940) by George Orwell.
Added support for setting links to RSS feeds in the page header and for including a sitemap in a generated page. Fixed some documentation issues and one place where data from one page wasn't being sufficiently cleared when processing the next page.
Added a sitemap that lists all pages in my web site and also includes a searching hint for people who don't know how to use Google.
Bring my personal projects page up-to-date. Changes include additional Debian packaging teams, removing the QA team, updating INN and Usenet involvement status, removing gnu.*, adding chatservers again, updating the fiction archive list, and adding photography. Also link to my journal, the changes list, and to git.eyrie.org from here for people to track what I've been doing.
Reword the introduction to my software page somewhat. Advertise git.eyrie.org and mention that it provides RSS feeds per software package that track each change.
New picture added to the beach gallery.
Since moving the journal to my regular web pages, reviews were only in the RSS feeds and in their own area of my web site, not also echoed in the main HTML journal. This has now been fixed and reviews will appear inline and will age out like any other journal post.
New gallery of random found objects.
New texture photograph of beach sand.
New beach photograph of Lincoln City, Oregon.
New beach photograph of Lincoln City, Oregon.
Added a gallery of recently posted pictures, sorted by date.
New USEPRO Internet-Draft incorporating a section describing how the history database works in netnews servers.
Updated the INN CURRENT documentation to the latest version in Subversion, added news.daily documentation, and added the sample files for all the configuration files with documentation links.
Freeze AFS kaserver support and note that it may be removed in a later release. Fix exit status checking of kasetkey and improve handling of a missing REMOTE_USER variable. This package is also now maintained in Git.
Add detailed instructions on how to convert a repository with a combined debian and upstream branch into two separate branches using my branch scheme for combined Debian and upstream maintenance in the same repository.
Remind people to reactivate their filters after feeding all articles to a new server.
New beach picture from Lincoln City, Oregon.
Added a photography gallery.
Review of Asimov's Science Fiction, July 2008.
Review of Kushiel's Mercy by Jacqueline Carey.
New releases of faq2html, cl2xhtml, and cvs2xhtml that assume UTF-8 input and tag their output as being UTF-8.
Recommend disabling filters when feeding all articles to a new server.
Add -F and -P flags to k5start to force non-forwardable and non-proxiable tickets. kstart is also now maintained in Git.
Fix a bug with S<> handling in combination with UTF-8 mode by converting ISO 8859-1 non-breaking spaces from Pod::Simple into UTF-8 code points. Use .SS instead of .Sh in Pod::Man. Add a test for spelling and fix all the documentation spelling and markup errors revealed.
Update links and INN FAQ to reflect the INN 2.4.5 release.
Note the need for a gbp.conf when using a combined upstream/debian Git repository following my model so that git-buildpackage and git-import-orig find the correct branch.
Used PAM_IGNORE where appropriate, except for authentication. Cleaned up the symbol exports. Updated the Autoconf macros and build system generally. Migrated the pacakge into Git.
Added defer_pwchange option to do fully correct handling of expired passwords. Added force_pwchange option to force password changes at authentication time if expired. Used PAM_IGNORE where appropriate. Cleaned up the symbol exports. Removed a workaround that was causing problems for current MIT Kerberos with PKINIT. Updated the Autoconf macros and build system generally. Migrated the package into Git.
Added the first draft of Stanford University's wallet naming guidelines to the wallet distribution page.
Add my scheme for maintaining Debian packages and upstream development in the same Debian repository. Add a method for converting bzr repositories to Git.
Add the date of completion to finished subtasks. Use ISO timestamps for the file names of closed tasks instead of seconds since epoch.
Add documentation for CVS to Git migration. Document mirror mode for setting up a public repository and improve the documentation of remote names. Add more commentary on a separate debian branch from master. Document creating signed tags with the *.changes file as the tag message. Improve the documentation of Subversion imports and retroactive tagging with gitk.
Fixed the test suite to pass with the latest Pod::Simple. Suppress the accent definition from the preamble in Pod::Man if --utf8 was given. Improve the test suite for Pod::Man options.
Review of Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart.
Review of The People: No Different Flesh by Zenna Henderson.
Review of Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks.
Review of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 2008.
Review of The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell.
Review of Teckla by Steven Brust.
Review of Asimov's Science Fiction, June 2008.
Updated the HTML conversion of the INN documentation to the current source and added INN::Config.
Review of The Last Colony by John Scalzi.
Review of Rollback by Robert J. Sawyer.
Fixes for several issues turned up by Debian's switch to Perl 5.10 and the new Pod::Simple-based podlators. This version also includes a new --utf8 option to generate UTF-8 output rather than trying to convert to troff escapes and ASCII characters.
Review of Pilgrimage by Zenna Henderson.
Review of The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon.
Review of The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi.
Added ways of creating a repackaged upstream tarball based on an idea by Sam Hartman. Mentioned that I'm not sure the separate debian branch was a good idea.
Allow -o/-g/-m to be used with -K or a command and fix the permissions after ticket refreshes. Support AKLOG in addition to KINIT_PROG for determining the path to aklog. Portability fixes for Mac OS X and for Heimdal. As of this release, k4start is frozen.
Review of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 2008.
Review of Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
Review of Asimov's Science Fiction, April/May 2008.
Added to the Git with Debian notes page instructions on how to backport packages using a branch in a Git repository.
Finished the first draft of my notes on using Git with Debian and for Debian packaging, documenting as much as I could think of about my current workflow and repository layout.
Added the slides for my upcoming presentation at the 2008 AFS and Kerberos Best Practices Workshop on the wallet. This is an update of the current status, following my 2006 presentation on the initial design.
Lots of bug fixes, including some significant problems on 64-bit platforms, Perl 5.10 support, serious problems with nnrpd's native SSL implementation, support for newer Berkeley DB versions, and a huge variety of other fixes. Thanks to Julien ÉLIE for preparing the release.
Review of How to Lie with Maps by Mark Monmonier.
Add a quote to the HTML version of the web site recent changes page.
Add a web page and RSS feed for recent changes to the whole web site.
Review of Brasyl by Ian McDonald.
Add the new POD documentation for the distributions configuration file and update the other on-line documentation to the latest versions from Subversion.
Now uses kasetkey for enable, disable, and examine as well. Honor allowed principal regex for examine as well. Incorporate the build system fixes from other projects.
Support reading data from a file or stdin for wallet store. Add enable, disable, and examine to kasetkey. Various build system fixes and support for builddir != srcdir builds. Drop remaining Stanford-specific default configuration.
All posts imported from my old Movable Type installation and converted to spin except for reviews with no comments, which now redirect to the permanent review page. My old journal now redirects to spin-created pages and RSS feeds created via spin-rss (not yet released).
Fixes many build system problems uncovered on Solaris and command-line parsing problems. Adds etter krb5-config handling. krenew now copies the ticket cache when run with a command.
Add a new section at the bottom covering commercial issues such as advertising, tracking, review copies, and paid reviews.
Updated the list of Debian packages that I maintain, removed packages no longer in my personal repository (including most of the Stanford-specific packages), and added libpod-thread-perl to my personal repository.
Fixes bugs in misrecognizing section text as NAME entries and not handling POD formatting codes in headings when generating navigation bars or tables of contents.
Update the maintenance status of INN. I'm stepping down as release manager and main developer, and Julien ÉLIE has picked up much of the work.
Add new INN POD documentation, resynchronizing with what is in INN CURRENT.
Review of Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 2008.
Review of The Battle of Evernight by Cecilia Dart-Thornton.
Review of The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
Adds an option to write the child PID, a happy ticket option for krenew, options to set the ownership and permissions of the created ticket cache, better handling of AFS PAG creation, an updated build system and configure machinery, and other bug fixes.
Review of How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman, M.D.
Review of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March 2008.
Properly use host-based GSS-API service names by default, incorporate the Windows port, set file descriptors close-on-exec in the server, close the replay cache file descriptor before spawning processes in the server, and other bug fixes.
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