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No, I didn’t get Google Maps integrated into Utah Open Source Planet (been *way* to busy at work). But, while messing around with it, I noticed my neighborhood has been updated. Here you see (bottom right) the plot where my house was built.

Anyway, If you are on the Planet, please send me your longitude and latitude so I can place you on the map. Point us to your home, work or a park near by. The best site to find your longitude and latitude is GeoCoder.

UPDATE:

I should have been more clear. Can I get longitude and latitude like this?

lon = ##.######
lat = -###.######

Email them to gabe(a)gundy.org.

Today, I took the first few steps toward adding Google Maps to the Utah Open Source Planet. I’m going to have the pop-up box show the hackergochi of each person along with a direct link to their web site. Should be fun!

P.S. Keep your eye on the bottom of the page. I’ll leave the map there while I work on it.

If you do Asterisk on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (or CentOS) *and* need zaptel hardware, you should be aware of a bug that may cause you to have more downtime then you would like. The latest Zaptel will not build with some kernels “as is.” It seems that there is a minor spelling error in recent Red Hat kernels (I don’t have version numbers - you’ll know if you have it).

What’s crazy is that the bug report that aims to correct the spelling error contains a misspelling itself! I first found the bug on Digium’s list, which *also* misspells the fix!

This is the file that needs edited (line 407):

/usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-34.EL-i686/include/linux/spinlock.h

to read:

#define DEFINE_RWLOCK(x) rwlock_t x = RW_LOCK_UNLOCKED

Hopefully this will save some poor soul from enduring unnecessary pain.

Let’s hope that we can get a sweet Planet going on for Utah’s Open Source community! If you are reading this via the Planet and are an Open Source blogger, join us!

“Fedora Core 5 Final” torrents from the official site have been posted! It’ll be interesting to see if the ISOs are exactly the same as those posted by unofficial sites yesterday (not that I really care).

file: bordeaux-binary-i386
size: 3,296,658,079 (3.1 GB)
dest: /home/gabe/store/bordeaux-binary-i386
progress:______________________________________
status: finishing in 18:04:55 (0.4%)
speed: 41.9 KB/s down - 140.2 KB/s up
totals: 13.2 MB down - 33.1 MB up error(s):

Bill Gates looks pretty stupid saying stuff like this about the One Laptop per Child (OLPC).

A little taste of it…

“If you are going to go have people share the computer, get a broadband connection and have somebody there who can help support the user, geez, get a decent computer where you can actually read the text and you’re not sitting there cranking the thing while you’re trying to type,” Gates said.

I can’t help wondering what he would be saying if those systems were going to run Windows on Microsoft hardware.

Before his critique, Gates showed off a new “ultra-mobile computer” which runs Microsoft Windows on a seven-inch (17.78-centimeter) touch screen. Those machines are expected to sell for between $599 and $999, Microsoft said at the product launch last week.

Sour grapes.

I can’t quite put my finger on it, but something isn’t right about this email…

Everyone knows that the best Free/free desktop is GNOME :) But did you know that GNOME 2.14 just came out?

Get a high-level preview of all the goodness.

There is a new Planet hosted at OpenClue for Open Source hackers/users/zealots who are active in the Utah community. Why would OpenClue host this? From their web page:

We believe in Open Source. We believe in sharing information.”

Let’s hope that sharing these feeds will make Utah’s Open Source community a little bit stronger :)

D’oh! Bug #34606” says it all! This is bad, bad, bad. Wow, what an oversite!

I’m currently running Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.12-10-386 on my single user desktop. Let’s see how I do…

gabe@office:~$ sudo grep MyPassword /var/log/* -R
/var/log/debian-installer/cdebconf/questions.dat:Value: MyPassword
/var/log/installer/cdebconf/questions.dat:Value: MyPassword

Ouch, Ouch, Ouch! The admin’s password in PLAIN TEXT! Oh, this is embarrassing for Ubuntu! It gets worse still. Check out the permissions on the file:

gabe@office:~$ ll /var/log/debian-installer/cdebconf/questions.dat
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 62118 2006-02-17 08:33 /var/log/debian-installer/cdebconf/questions.dat

gabe@office:~$ ll /var/log/installer/cdebconf/questions.dat
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 62118 2006-02-17 08:33 /var/log/installer/cdebconf/questions.dat

That’s right, world readable. Doesn’t get much worse then that. Well, it’s only locally exploitable. Little consolation!

“Welcome to my server. Would you like to own it?”