[ANNOUNCE] xcalc 1.0.4

2010-11-24 Thread Alan Coopersmith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 xcalc is a Xaw-toolkit based scientific calculator X11 client that can emulate a TI-30 or an HP-10C. This minor maintenance release provides the usual recent collection of improvements to the calculation of the build configuration and other

[ANNOUNCE] xeyes 1.1.1

2010-11-24 Thread Alan Coopersmith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You spend enough time staring at your monitor, let it stare back, with shaped windows and core pointer tracking. Looking closely at this release would reveal an unsurprising set of build configuration improvements and removal of various eyesores in

Re: Respository vandalism by r...@...fd.o

2010-11-24 Thread Eirik Byrkjeflot Anonsen
Luc Verhaegen l...@skynet.be writes: On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 04:36:17PM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Luc Verhaegen l...@skynet.be wrote: See, this was exactly the problem here. It _was_ a freedesktop admin. And it was pretty clear that it was that from the

Re: Respository vandalism by r...@...fd.o

2010-11-24 Thread Dave Airlie
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Luc Verhaegen l...@skynet.be wrote: On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 04:36:17PM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Luc Verhaegen l...@skynet.be wrote: See, this was exactly the problem here. It _was_ a freedesktop admin. And it was pretty

Re: Respository vandalism by r...@...fd.o

2010-11-24 Thread Luc Verhaegen
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 06:01:19PM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Luc Verhaegen l...@skynet.be wrote: On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 04:36:17PM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Luc Verhaegen l...@skynet.be wrote: See, this was exactly the

Re: Respository vandalism by r...@...fd.o

2010-11-24 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
Hi, Dave, thanks for the Cc. I've Cc-ed this to freedesktop@, since it's really a bit more of a project-wide discussion than just xorg, but feel free to keep both in Cc. ]] Frans de Boer | Also, if it turns out to be a validated claim Adam made, accept it as | is and continue. Hopefully Adam

Re: Respository vandalism by r...@...fd.o

2010-11-24 Thread Peter Hutterer
On 24/11/10 18:00 , Eirik Byrkjeflot Anonsen wrote: 1. What systems do we have in place that enables us to detect when a trusted admin acts in bad judgement or with evil intent? What is the probability that such actions will be noticed? Can we do anything to increase this

Re: Respository vandalism by r...@...fd.o

2010-11-24 Thread Dave Airlie
As far as I can see, all you've managed to do is to create a lot of noise about what is, in itself, a fairly minor incident.  Yes, it is serious that a trusted admin abuses his powers.  However, that happens and will continue to happen.  Humans are like that.  We often show a remarkable lack

Re: Respository vandalism by r...@...fd.o

2010-11-24 Thread Luc Verhaegen
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 06:33:19PM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote: On 24/11/10 18:00 , Eirik Byrkjeflot Anonsen wrote: 1. What systems do we have in place that enables us to detect when a trusted admin acts in bad judgement or with evil intent? What is the probability that such actions

Re: Respository vandalism by r...@...fd.o

2010-11-24 Thread Tim Beaulen
Luc, I completely agree with you. ___ xorg@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com

Re: Respository vandalism by r...@...fd.o

2010-11-24 Thread Maarten Maathuis
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Tim Beaulen tbsc...@gmail.com wrote: Luc, I completely agree with you. ___ xorg@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info:

Re: Respository vandalism by r...@...fd.o

2010-11-24 Thread Peter Hutterer
On 24/11/10 19:38 , Luc Verhaegen wrote: On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 06:33:19PM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote: On 24/11/10 18:00 , Eirik Byrkjeflot Anonsen wrote: 1. What systems do we have in place that enables us to detect when a trusted admin acts in bad judgement or with evil intent? What

Re: Respository vandalism by r...@...fd.o

2010-11-24 Thread Alan Cox
See, this was exactly the problem here. It _was_ a freedesktop admin. And it was pretty clear that it was that from the onset too. Mailing fd.o admins, even if i could've dug up an email address in the split second that i wrote the email (heck, i even mistyped repository), was not the

Re: Respository vandalism by r...@...fd.o

2010-11-24 Thread Daniel Stone
Hi, I've been mostly offline whilst moving, so have only read this through web archives. As mentioned on IRC earlier, it was my account used. My apologies: as ajax said, it's indefensible, and am not really sure what else to say. I've suspended my root accounts as well. That being said: On

Re: Respository vandalism by r...@...fd.o

2010-11-24 Thread Luc Verhaegen
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 11:18:20AM +, Alan Cox wrote: He ensured the problem was noticed, and that it got out to people who depend upon the repository being secure and properly managed. In this case that turns out to have ensured the offender admitted to something silly but if it had

Re: Respository vandalism by r...@...fd.o

2010-11-24 Thread Luc Verhaegen
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 08:27:12PM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote: On 24/11/10 19:38 , Luc Verhaegen wrote: Conspiracy theories? I did not imply that you were the one starting with the conspiracy theories, and I think strictly speaking there was no name-calling in that thread either so I

Dual (virtual) screen support under Xephyr (or Xnest)?

2010-11-24 Thread m h
Hey Folks- I'm trying to debug some multiscreen issues with a wm [0] I'm contributing to. This wm is scriptable so it makes development pretty cool, you write a test and it runs the tests in Xephyr. There are some issues with dual monitor support which I'd like to get ironed out. Sadly I can't

Re: Respository vandalism by r...@...fd.o

2010-11-24 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Eirik Byrkjeflot Anonsen wrote: 2. What systems do we have in place that enables us to detect evil commits once they actually make their way into the repository? What is the probability that they will be noticed? Can we do anything to increase this probability? Distributed version

Re: Respository vandalism by r...@...fd.o

2010-11-24 Thread Matt Turner
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 6:58 AM, Luc Verhaegen l...@skynet.be wrote: On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 08:27:12PM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote: On 24/11/10 19:38 , Luc Verhaegen wrote: Conspiracy theories? I did not imply that you were the one starting with the conspiracy theories, and I think

Re: Respository vandalism by r...@...fd.o

2010-11-24 Thread Luc Verhaegen
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 11:08:18AM -0500, Matt Turner wrote: From the Phoronix forums, you say Yeah, this was most definitely not a simple prank, as some people like to claim. What are you suggesting it was? Do you really find this a simple prank? Or do you find this a flagrant abuse

Re: Xorg 7.5 freezes after Linux kernel upgrade

2010-11-24 Thread Alex Deucher
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Jeremy Henty onepo...@starurchin.org wrote: I am currently happily running Xorg 7.5 on Linux kernel 2.6.35.8 .  If I upgrade  the kernel to 2.6.36  the screen goes black  (even with the -retro  argument)   and  the  system  locks   up.   Ctrl-Alt-Fn  and

Re: Respository vandalism by r...@...fd.o

2010-11-24 Thread drago01
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Luc Verhaegen l...@skynet.be wrote: On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 11:08:18AM -0500, Matt Turner wrote: From the Phoronix forums, you say Yeah, this was most definitely not a simple prank, as some people like to claim. What are you suggesting it was? Do you

Re: Respository vandalism by r...@...fd.o

2010-11-24 Thread Michal Svoboda
drago01 wrote: You pointed out the issue, we found out who did it, they apologized for doing so and revoked their root access. So what other actions do you want to be taken now? If I may step in I suggest investing some time and developing some sort of (formal) security concept. It's not

RE: libX11 build error

2010-11-24 Thread Gaetan Nadon
On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 10:05 +0200, Deniz Fer wrote: My previous mail had the output of the compiling script which also includes the output of configure command. There appears to be no error but a lot of warnings which I couldn’t understand. I have added the config.log and config.status files

Re: Respository vandalism by r...@...fd.o

2010-11-24 Thread Matthias Hopf
On Nov 23, 10 22:56:52 +, Alan Cox wrote: It's on a separate branch, not master. (Doesn't mean it's right, just that it's not actually going to cripple anything or waste time for anyone who doesn't ask for it.) And how many other un-noticed commits did this person make ? Until you

Re: No mouse acceleration in latest Git X.org

2010-11-24 Thread Simon Thum
On 11/23/2010 06:33 AM, Joel Feiner wrote: Mouse acceleration seems to have gone away as of a week or so ago. I'm not sure which component did it and I don't recall when it actually changed since I use Linux now irregularly and only update once in a while. Yes, It's a known problem originating

Re: Respository vandalism by r...@...fd.o

2010-11-24 Thread Alan Coopersmith
So, wearing my X11R7.6 Release Manager hat, I am willing to accept that the git repositories are not known to be compromised by an outside actor, and that we can go forward with development releases as normal. I had been quietly holding off on doing any more releases until the issue was

companies contributing to X [was: Re: Respository vandalism by r...@...fd.o]

2010-11-24 Thread Matt Dew
But you also might want to consider that i was at a hardware vendor two weeks ago, and i had to listen to their main engineer calling contributing directly to X a waste of time, and that they rather fix the versions their customers ship, and hand the patches to their customers directly, never

[ANNOUNCE] xcalc 1.0.4

2010-11-24 Thread Alan Coopersmith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 xcalc is a Xaw-toolkit based scientific calculator X11 client that can emulate a TI-30 or an HP-10C. This minor maintenance release provides the usual recent collection of improvements to the calculation of the build configuration and other

Re: companies contributing to X [was: Re: Respository vandalism by r...@...fd.o]

2010-11-24 Thread Pat Kane
Matt, I think what you are asking is: is the Microsoft FUD working? The answer is: yes. Should we roll over and play dead? No, not me. Freedom, as in free range, Pat --- On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Matt Dew m...@osource.org wrote: This I'm curious about.   Are there more companies

Re: No mouse acceleration in latest Git X.org

2010-11-24 Thread Joel Feiner
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Simon Thum simon.t...@gmx.de wrote: On 11/23/2010 06:33 AM, Joel Feiner wrote: Mouse acceleration seems to have gone away as of a week or so ago. I'm not sure which component did it and I don't recall when it actually changed since I use Linux now

[ANNOUNCE] xeyes 1.1.1

2010-11-24 Thread Alan Coopersmith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You spend enough time staring at your monitor, let it stare back, with shaped windows and core pointer tracking. Looking closely at this release would reveal an unsurprising set of build configuration improvements and removal of various eyesores in