Zooko O'Whielacronx

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gas 2.2.0 generates wrong code

This bug in gnu assembler 2.2.0 http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10856 miscompiles Crypto++, causing pycryptopp and Tahoe-LAFS, which depend on Crypto++, to fail: http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/ticket/853 There is a patch in gas trunk which fixes this issue, which was a regression from the previous release of gas. See the sourceware.org link above for that. Here is the...

2009-12-13 21:35:18 UTC in MinGW - Minimalist GNU for Windows
Comment: easy_install silently fails

Hey good news! I used distribute v0.6.3 from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/distribute and gave it this URL: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/pywin32/pywin32/Build%20214/pywin32-214.win32-py2.6.exe?use_mirror=softlayer and it worked! Here is the command line that I executed: easy_install -v...

2009-09-28 17:24:45 UTC in Python for Windows extensions
ANNOUNCING Tahoe, the Lofty-Atmospheric Filesystem, v1.5

The Tahoe-LAFS team is pleased to announce the immediateavailability of version 1.5 of Tahoe, the Lofty AtmosphericFile System.Tahoe-LAFS is the first cloud storage technology which offerssecurity and privacy in the sense that the cloud storageservice provider itself can't read or alter your data. Here isthe one-page explanation of its unique security andfault-tolerance properties:

2009-08-02 18:48:32 UTC in allmydata.org Tahoe Least-Authority FS