After the decision to remove linux-modules-extra-2.6 from Debian, it is now time to move all modules to a new method for compilation. Nothing is bad about module-assistant - beside the problem that you must know about it and understand how to use it.
mupen64plus in Debian
mupen64plus was accepted by ftp-masters and will hit the archives soon. The debian package needed some adjustments to be accepted. This means that glN64 had to be removed because it is not distributed under a dfsg compliant license. If anyone knows Orkin then please ask him to contact the mupen64plus team.
GnuPG Key Transition
I'm currently change my PGP key from 0xA901B029594CA03B to 0xEC371482956781AF. There are different reasons for that and this key is hanging around on my hd since a while, but dkg found a good reason why I should change now and gave some tips for the transition process.... and as a good Debian maintainer, I shouldn't going against the orders of an upcoming Debian developer :)
Del.icio.us links for 2009
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Instant socks proxy over ssh
There is currently the situation that on some schools (and maybe also firms) in this region that only whitelisted ports to the outside world are opened. Connections are established through a socks proxy when you want to connect to a computer which is not part of the local network. They use simple pattern matching to find "dangerous" words before delivering the content to the client which of course creates many false positives. Most of time they disable encrypted versions of a protocol (like HTTPS or POP3S) so the users most use the unencrypted versions. The problem is that some content is only provided when you connect over https on some webpages (like login pages or svn commit support on sourceforge). "Unknown" ports will also be filtered - so git-fetch over git's own protocol will propably fail.