January 2008
7 posts
FWN#117 Fedora Development Precis
== Developments ==
In this section, we cover the problems/solutions, people/personalities, and
ups/downs of the endless discussions on Fedora Developments.
http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
Contributing Writer: Oisin Feeley
=== YUM Proxy Cache Safety, Storage Backend ===
This week’s Intensely Detailed Thread Prize has been awarded to the exchange started[1]...
Useful SIP utilities videocast at tipandring.org
Lars Lehtonen demonstrates the use of sip-dig and other utilites from Nokia’s “sofia” SIP stack at a handy videocast from tipandring.org: http://tipandring.blip.tv/file/621538/
POSIX File Capabilities documentation →
FWN#116 Development News
== Developments ==
In this section, we cover the problems/solutions, people/personalities, and
ups/downs of the endless discussions on Fedora Developments.
http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
Contributing Writer: OisinFeeley
=== OpenVPN And NetworkManager ===
A need to control individual VPN connections led JosVos to post[1]
that Fedora’s OpenVPN package...
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FWN#115 Development news
Developments In this section, we cover the problems/solutions, people/personalities, and ups/downs of the endless discussions on Fedora Developments. http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list Contributing Writer: OisinFeeley The X-orcist: Driver Slasher! A call for objections to the removal of specific Xorg drivers was posted[1] by AdamJackson as part of the clean-up work he was...
Apress Django Book available online with comments
In line with Apress’s great history of publishing useful books a Dec 2007 addition to their stable is The Django Book. It covers django-0.96 and higher and is available for free browsing online. The authors actively solicited comments during the writing process and are still looking for such feedback. You can also buy a nice handy print edition both for convenience and also to support the...
Ioannidis: Why Most Published Research Is Wrong
J.P.A. Ioannidis has a very important paper at the Public Library of Science which suggests the multiple factors which can lead to good, peer-reviewed research merely providing accurate measures of the prevailing bias in a field of study. Ioannidis is mostly concerned with medical clinical trials, but also addresses the “Proteus effect” common in moleclular biology where positive...