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Advanced Google Sitemap for b2evolution moved to a new homepage.

Currently there is presented version 0.6 of this b2evolution addon.

Development release 0.3 of C++ Virtual Filesystems.

This package contains also an advanced (however in early stage of development C++ FTP client library used by the (not working in this release) FTP filesystem.

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Below is my response on a message (from a public mailing list) of Robson Braga Araujo which has created an other FTP filesystem for FUSE.

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I suggest the following feature for Linux kernel: We could allow chroot() not only for root (uid==0) processes, but also for any process which has LD_PRELOAD environment variable set to a non-empty string.

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Virtual filesystems 0.2.1 released. It is a bug fix release.

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virtualfs-c++ contains several virtual filesystems and C++ bindings for FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace = for GNU/Linux and other Unix-like systems).

virtualfs-c++ 0.2 is the first public release.

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I have made trackbacks in this weblog moderated.

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I have released Google Sitemap 0.5 for b2evolution (tested with b2evolution 0.9.1).

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Without help of human hands the mouse cursor was slowly traversing through the screen leftwards.

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I have reported the following bug to the bug-commoncpp mailing list. But probably it was a bug not in CommonC++ but in Linux 2.6.7.

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I repeatedly note that I continue to use terminal (text mode) applications rather than GUI (graphical) applications.

For example, I often use Midnight Commander (mc) instead of graphical file managers, man command instead of graphical replacements (coolman, gman), etc.

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b2evolution 0.9.1 has some bug with sending XML RPC requests which are used to ping the RSS aggregation sites.

I suspect that the bug is specific for the cases when the posted messages contain international (e.g. Russian) characters. But not every such a message causes the bug.

I will probably make some attempts to locate this bug.

This patch adds to b2evolution displaying post info (such as ID, title, URL/permalink, date, locale, trackback URL) after posting.

It is handy e.g. to get the post URL and the trackback URL after posting, to check that there was specified correct locale, etc.

There are different bug reporting sites, associated with different programs and different Linux distributions, e.g. Mozilla's bugzilla, Debian's bug tracking system, etc., etc.

I deem however that having one centralized bug reporting site would be convenient.

Maybe somebody would allocate funds to grow e.g. Debian bug reporting system to an universal cross-distribution reporting system for all Linux distributions and many programs?

Just an idea, either a good idea, or a bad idea.

I suggest to use Mozilla Firefox under Unix/Linux (and probably other systems) this way:

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A minute ago I had this (probabaly stupid) idea: What if to split the kernel of an OS into two parts?

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Programmers often have a problem with globally unique values, but there are a solution:

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