Category Archives: Open Source

Open Source, Free Software, and similar

Rockbox

Sansa View Info

So we know a bit more about the Sansa View’s internals now!Sansa View

It is based on a PP-derivate, possibly called PP61x0 something.

It has a “disk” (NAND flash) layout quite similar to the Sansa E200 in that it has a “hidden” second partition in which the bootloader, firmware image and more are stored – in just about the same format as the Sansa E200 has its images. See my separate Sansa View page for more details.

And announced on CES going on right now, and also now mentioned on their official site, it is also available in a 32GB version.

cURL and libcurl, Linux

libcurl and libwww today

There’s talk in the Debian camp about dropping libwww as it is over 5 years since its last release and over a year since the last CVS commit in that project. It is also abandoned by the W3C these days. It seems there are just about two remaining packages depending on it, Amaya and wmweather+.libcurl

Amaya seems to at least discuss moving over to libcurl. I don’t know about wmweather+, but looking at their code, I actually think switching to libcurl will improve their code… not really related, but still about curl, one post on the Amaya list mentioned this weird list of user-agents you should block from your site, as it claims they are “spam bots” and it explicitly mentions curl in there…

Darcs is however currently adding support for libwww since it apparently does pipelining better, where as libcurl still has some flaws in its support for that.

Mail, Open Source

Shootout cancelled for now

Yeah, I wasn’t thinking clearly when I started this test at this time, as I then had mail servers taken down and replaced and what not, and all that extra bouncing-around of mails no doubt will affect what ends up or not in my (spamassassin) end so I’ll just stop the test right now and once everything is settled again I may restart it. If the mood and energy for it returns!

Mail, Open Source

The spamassassin gmail shootout

I’ve seen and heard so many people saying good things about gmail’s spam filter, and yet the few times I’ve redirected some of my (fairly large) mail feed through gmail I’ve not been that impressed. So, Igmail logo decided I’d fire off a test. I forward a good deal of my mail through both my local spamassassin-protected mailbox and to my gmail account and I do some detailed notes about what happens. It’ll be fun.

cURL and libcurl, Technology

Recent and Current Hardware Problems

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During the last week or so, we’ve experienced major problems on some of the main servers at work, and I happen to host a bunch of services on them. Thus, I not only get problems to access my regular mail, but also the primary curl web site gets shaky!

Unfortunately, this is holiday season so most people that can fix these issues aren’t around so waiting for a reboot of the boxes can take a long time. Fortunately, we already have work in progress that is meant to replace the two main servers with two new ones on January second 2008, so things should at least settle after that operation.

cURLSo, remember that you can always find a suitable curl web mirror at curlm.haxx.se that has most of the contents you’ll need. Some stuff is only provided on the main site, but all downloads, docs and more are distributed on mirrors.

cURL and libcurl

Aiming for 7.18.0 in January 2008

cURLThis info was also posted to the curl-library list today.

I previously thought of releasing 7.18.0 in December but since there are still outstanding topics in the list and since there’s no pressure due to any serious bug fixes or anything, I decided we can just as wait until January. I want January 13th to be the feature freeze day after which no new features will be committed until the release, which hopefully then could be done by January 28th or so.

The live updated TODO-RELEASE document will change over time, but it currently contains these items:

Is there anything we’ve forgotten we should include in the next release? To get a feel for how the next release will look like, check out the RELEASE-NOTES in progress, or try out a daily snapshot!

Open Source

10K Commits

ohloh.net counts my commits done in 11 different open projects over roughly the last 8 years. (I am a member of 17 projects on sourceforge, but the remainders are old and/or dead projects.)

I’ve now truly surpassed 10,000 public commits, making roughly 3.5 commits per day over the years! Clearly that number and the number of people giving me “kudos” on the site makes me rated #55 out of 83,000. At least currently, my rating is slowly falling…

ohloh profile for Daniel Stenberg

Anyway, since I’m a fan of stats and numbers, I encourage you to register your own projects and contributions there!

Maybe we should form a 10K commit club? 😉

cURL and libcurl

library for proxy detection

Only days after I wrote about the pacparser, another and in many ways more complete approach to detecting what proxy to use for accessing various internet resources emerge: libproxy.

One of the main authors of it, Alex Panit, already submitted a feature-request for libcurl to support this. but I’m not at all convinced that is a good idea. It seems the authors submit “please include support for this”-requests all over in similar and related projects – similar in style to how metalink did.

As usual, I value your input and feedback so please raise your voice and speak up!

So far this young project lacks docs on API and install process, so I haven’t yet even been able to build it for a test drive…