Ross Burton: Sound Juicer "I Got Nobody On My Side And Surely That Ain't Right" 2.28.1
Sound Juicer "I Got Nobody On My Side And Surely That Ain't Right" 2.28.1 has been released. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com, or from the GNOME FTP servers. Props to Bastien for doing most of the work here. Many translations Use gnome-session instead of gnome-power-manager to avoid the machine going to sleep (Richard Hughes) Fix a few crashers when extracting an unknown CD (Bastien Nocera) Fix CD-Text metadata gathering (BN) Don't truncate subm

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Biella Coleman: Ninja Mind Tactics
Over the years—far too many years—I have occasionally chronicled the slow death of my mother, a death of mind, personality, really person that comes with Alzheimers. She has officially had the illness for 7 years now but had symptoms prior to this time, in the form of perceptual disturbances that are the defining feature of the rare type of Alzheimers she has, Benson’s syndrome. As her illness progressed and we saw her doctors they would always ask: “what other illnesses or health problems does Vera have?” And I would answer “none.” Without fai

Russell Coker: Computer Security and Political Censorship
I’ve just been disappointed to read about the DNI (Defence in the National Interest) web site closing down [1]. The final blog post says “In the meantime, I’ll leave everything up unless we start having more security problems“, but unfortunately they have had a number of security problems in the past. I doubt the ability of a Wordpress installation to remain unscathed on the Internet if it’s not upgraded regularly. So I think it’s only a matter of time before a new bad Wordpress bug is discovered and DNI goes offline for good. In the past I did idly consider volunteering to help them run t

Michal Čihař: Ubuntu bugs
For quite a long time I wonder, if there is anybody looking at bugs reported in Ubuntu. Whenever I look at bugs reported in Ubuntu on some of packages I maintain in Debian, there is huge amount of them. Most of them are simple duplicates, but still it indicates that nobody have looked at them. Some are simply something what should be forwarded upstream, while some are clearly packaging bugs, which I usually fix. However I think there should be somebody at Ubuntu side looking at them and forwarding them to right place...