Submitted by Daniel.Pocock on Mon, 10/10/2016 - 21:25
Submitted by Daniel.Pocock on Fri, 02/09/2016 - 10:46
Submitted by Daniel.Pocock on Wed, 20/07/2016 - 19:48
Submitted by Daniel.Pocock on Mon, 11/07/2016 - 15:34
Many people have now heard of the EFF-backed free certificate authority Let's Encrypt. Not only is it free of charge, it has also introduced a fully automated mechanism for certificate renewals, eliminating a tedious chore that has imposed upon busy sysadmins everywhere for many years.
These two benefits - elimination of cost and elimination of annual maintenance effort - imply that server operators can now deploy certificates for far more services than they would have previously.
Submitted by Daniel.Pocock on Thu, 07/07/2016 - 11:14
Debian (and consequently Ubuntu) contains a range of extraordinarily useful monitoring packages.
I've been maintaining several of them at a basic level but as more of my time is taken up by free Real-Time Communications software, I haven't been able to follow the latest upstream releases for all of the other packages I maintain. The versions we are distributing now still serve their purpose well, but as some people would like newer versions, I don't want to stand in the way.
Submitted by Daniel.Pocock on Wed, 06/07/2016 - 11:43
There is increasing demand for SMS notifications about monitoring alerts, trading notifications, flight delays and other events. Various companies are offering SMS transmission services to meet this demand and many of them aggressively pushing their own proprietary interfaces to the SMS world rather than using the more open and widely supported SMPP.
Submitted by Daniel.Pocock on Mon, 20/06/2016 - 17:02
Submitted by Daniel.Pocock on Wed, 08/06/2016 - 19:11
GSoC students have officially been coding since 23 May (about 2.5 weeks) and are almost half-way to the mid-summer evaluation (20 - 27 June). Students who haven't completed some meaningful work before that deadline don't receive payment and in such a large program, there is no possibility to give students extensions or let them try and catch up later.
Every project and every student are different, some are still getting to know their environment while others have already done enough to pass the mid-summer evaluation.
Submitted by Daniel.Pocock on Mon, 23/05/2016 - 19:35
PostBooks 4.9.5 was recently released and the packages for Debian (including jessie-backports), Ubuntu and Fedora have been updated.
Postbooks at pgDay.ch in Rapperswil, Switzerland
pgDay.ch is coming on Friday, 24 June. It is at the HSR Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil, at the eastern end of Lake Zurich.
Submitted by Daniel.Pocock on Sun, 24/04/2016 - 08:23
Over the coming week, there are a vast number of free software events taking place around the world.
I'll be at the LinuxWochen Vienna and MiniDebConf Vienna, the events run over four days from Thursday, 28 April to Sunday, 1 May.
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