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Posted on January 31, 2013 (Last modified on March 27, 2013) | 1 minutes | 7 words |
RESEARCHUT
apt-offline - 1.3
It is still 2012 in this part of the world and the world is still intact.
Since nothing major happened, I thought of spending the new gifted time to add
a long pending item to apt-offline. As shown in the screen shots, apt-
offline’s GUI now has support to detect and display the downloaded offline bug
reports. 
This is part of the just released, version 1.3.
Debian Boot time
In case, the video doesn’t show on the page, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTK3aIZbe2A This blog post is to show-off the impressive performance I saw with my machine.
I recently switched to a ThinkPad W530 laptop. It is a fairly recent machine with the following hardware config:
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3720QM CPU @ 2.60GHz 8 GiB RAM nVIDIA Optimus Samsung SSD Drive On the software front, I decided to take my chances. Hence:
BTRFS File System SystemD Init The rest is in the video.
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Reporting bugs with Apport - III
Hello World. This is the follow-up to the last [2](http://blog/report-bugs- with-apport) updates on the state of apport in Debian.
A lot has changed since the last update on Apport. Currently, in Experimental, we have version 2.6.1-2. With this version, and going forward, there will be no hacks to make it work for Debian. Thanks to Martin Pitt, with his assistance, Apport now has a very basic crashdb in place for Debian.
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Reporting bugs with Apport - II
This is a follow up to the previous post regarding Reporting bugs with Apport
Apport, version 2.2.3-2, has been pushed to experimental. There were some nice feedback that led to some more changes that I will talk here.
**Opt out: **As a developer, if you see the volume of reports to be annoying, you have the option to opt out of apport reports. To do this, you should specify the XBS-Apport: No field in your package ’s control file.
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Reporting bugs with Apport
So yet another bug reporting tool. :-)
When I prepared Apport for Debian, I wasn’t sure how it will look going forward. If you look at the current one lying in experimental, it just detects your crashes and pops up in your systray. It doesn’t have the mechanism to interact with BTS.
So, like the title of this post says, this is the first worthy feature for Apport in the context of Debian.
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Laptop Mode Tools - 1.61
Laptop Mode Tools, version 1.61, has been released and will land up soon for Debian. This is the version that would be targetting Wheezy.
This release includes many bug fixes and should make power savings much better on your machines.
This is mainly a bug fix release. Some parallel module execution approach has been used which could show runtime improvements.
Changelog:
1.61 - Thu May 17 17:44:26 IST 2012
* Handle devices with persistent device naming.
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Cancer cure drugs now more affordable
Now these are the kind of moves that needs to happen more often. Whether this will cause a negative impact on the overall market, and the further invention of drugs (including patent control), but the affordability of the medicatoin to an average citizen is a great move.
The typical Chemotherapy can be on an average of 22 times. When summed up with the dosage (somewhere around 250 mg IIRC), the cost comes to approx: (22/4) * 15000 = 82k, which now, will be affordable at 27k.
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Kscope 1.6
In the 3.x days of KDE, there were some wonderful applications. One of them I still admire, is kscope. Recently, I stumbled upon this blog entry and thought of sharing my living with kscope.
The move from KDE 3 to KDE 4 was a big one. During that move, the kscope author decided to port kscope to a Qt only application. That is what we have as the latest kscope, 1.
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Debian SAN
Many of the SAN components in Debian have me involved. So I think out to give an update on what the state of SAN would be in Debian Wheezy.
Open-iSCSI : Just uploaded a newer version to experimental which eventually will crawl into testing. It should fix all release goals for Wheezy. Please give it a good test
iscsitarget : Same goes here. This one is already in testing. Please test.
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