Maybe you’ve read about the wonderful work in progress of Behad on gnome-session and have seen .Xressources will be not read anymore during GNOME startup (bug #557807). Don’t cry Emacs addict, you’ve two solutions, see a therapist to heal from the Stockholm Syndrom and use gedit or install Emacs GTK+ and add these settings to your .emacs (and so delete your .Xressources file):

(setq default-frame-alist
(append default-frame-alist
'((background-color . "rgb:3a/38/35")
(foreground-color . "rgb:d3/d7/cf")
(cursor-color . "yellow")
(font . "fixed"))))


PS: I find these colors pretty with the nice Dust Theme
PS2: this solution works fine with frames (Ctrl+x 5 2)

• roundup (in bug tracker for now)
• FormEncode
• Drupal 5
• TurboGears (in JS)

Claude and me are working to improve the new Damned-Lies, it’s really fun to develop this application with Django.

If you’re boring to configure manually your virtual hosts and you’re looking for a Web server able to serve static and dynamic content faster than the old indian, try Cherokee and forget about the mod_wsgi verruca. If like me you’re a bit puzzled about SCGI, WSGI, FastCGI and other flup, see the Cherokee mailing list for a clear explanation.

Oh and Python 3.0 final is released! Good job, guys. I’m now looking for CPU and memory benchmarks…

To upgrade from previous version, run the following scripts:

1. sql/upgrade-sql-vtm-1.0.1-to-1.0.2.sql
2. sql/upgrade-sql-vtm-1.0.1-to-1.0.2.php

* MAJOR FIX to get the last user who has locked the module
* New $url_hosted_link and $url_hosted_name variables to set in
localconfig.inc.php
* FIX Sending of emails to the committers on ‘Ready to commit’
* New Brazilian Portuguese translation by Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle
* New Czech translation by Lucas Lommer (#237486)
* FIX #237472 reported by Lucas Lommer
VARCHAR > 255 needs MySQL 5.0.3 or later

Services

The first step is to remove some useless services or rarely used, I chosen the following ones :

apt-get remove bluz-utils hplip* scim* tracker*

update-rc.d -f pcmcia remove, for mysql, apache2, postgresql-8.3 (it’s easy to launch when necessary)

You can really check the impact of your changes with bootchart and view the result with eog /var/log/bootchart/*.png (my laptop starts in 27 seconds).

In gnome-session-properties, I also unchecked Applet Tracker, Evolution Alarm Notifier, Bluetooth Manager (don’t forget to save in the third tab).

Settings

You can measure the number of wakeups per second with the wonderful PowerTop ($ sudo powertop), on my computer the main guilty was the proprietary nvidia driver (around 60 fps like the refresh rate of my screen), I added the following line in my xorg.conf to resolve that issue (~ 2 wps after) :

Option         “OnDemandVBlankInterrupts” “true”

I also blacklisted some modules in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

blacklist pcmcia
blacklist yenta_socket
blacklist rsrc_nonstatic

With no Wifi and no USB mouse connected, with my GNOME Desktop, a gnome-terminal and Emacs, I have only 20 wakeups per second (not bad :).

I wrote a little script to test some more aggressive settings if they works fine I will add them to sysctl.conf:

# By setting this to ‘1′, under light load scenarios, the process
# load is distributed such that all the cores in a processor package
# are busy before distributing the process load to other processor
# packages.
echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/sched_mc_power_saving

# From 500 by default
echo 1500 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs

# SATA
echo min_power > /sys/class/scsi_host/host0/link_power_management_policy

# Sound
echo 1 > /sys/module/snd_hda_intel/parameters/power_save

I don’t use the laptop_mode or hdparm because I don’t want to stress my hard drive with too many spin up and down. It’s not necessary to insert the ‘noatime’ option in fstab with Ubuntu Hardy Heron because the new ‘relatime’ option is already activated.

https://launchpad.net/vertimus

===================================
Overview of changes in Vertimus 1.0
===================================
tab: vertimus-1-0 (2008-03-21)

* XHTML and CSS pass the W3C validator
* New tool to download all PO files of a release
* Show informations about other modules with the same name in the
module page (Javascript)
* Move old files in a backup directory
* Add some maintenance scripts
* Display the authorized extensions in module page
* Add a search tool
* Reduce require_once calls
* Add informations about APC installation
* FIX Backup of files
* FIX No error message when the extension file isn’t valid
* FIX Web site title translation
* FIX call to date_default_timezone_set
* Fix #189903 - RSS feed error

New and last release wrote in PHP! Take it while it’s hot! The next version will be in Python to integrate features from Damned-lies and Transifex.

I wrote some patches to reduce the CPU consumption and now, Cairo-Clock doesn’t appear in ‘top’ list, woooh! The solution was simple, it useless to refresh the clock at 30 Hz if the second hand is not drawn. I also use common code to manage timeout and g_timeadd_seconds reduce the number of interrupts when many applications use this function.

I prefer bzr to git but I published my patches on github so MacSlow can take my patches here: http://github.com/stephane/cairo-clock/tree/master

PS: I couldn’t resist to translate in French (and fix Cairo-Clock for translation).

This is the first release with support for localization, two languages are included in this release English (thanks to Phil Frary) and… French of course :).

Now, I think Vertimus is ready for world domination, so I urge you to translate Vertimus into your language and deploy it on a web server near to you (see the INSTALL file to follow the easy steps).


===================================
Overview of changes in Vertimus 0.4
===================================
tag: vertimus-0-4 (2008-01-15)
* based on the Zend Framework:
- Zend_Mail
- Zend_Translate
- Zend_Locale
- Zend_Db (PDO_MySQL)
- Zend_Auth
* new look & feel (CSS)
* separate specific settings in localconfig.php (URL, menu entries)
* translated in English and French
* mail encoded in UTF-8
* show a information message (editable by the administrator)
* use a sort order for the releases
* simpler session management
* the user can reset his password via an activation key
* licence is now GPL only
* cleanups
* FIX #158764 - Mail sent about status being changed to "Translated"
when cancel ing an action
* FIX #174698 - Angle brackets should be converted in comments


To checkout the latest version: bzr co lp:vertimus

The Launchpad branch is https://code.launchpad.net/gtk-frame-hig. libsexy is maybe the right container for that code.

PS: libmodbus 1.2.3 is out!