Today, Ubuntu released a PAM security update and we applied it. OnUbuntu 10.04, this upgraded the Ubuntu PAM package from version1.1.1-2ubuntu5 to 1.1.1-2ubuntu5.2 (other Ubuntu LTS releases hadsimilarly versions numbers); as you can see, this is a very minorversion bump. As you'd expect, this did not change, eg, the libpamshared library soname version (not even the minor version)

Here is a confession: I have been sitting on an update to DWiki thatadds some things to its dialect of wikitext for going on four yearsnow . The core problem boils down to twoissues specific to wikis.

The first is that in a wiki, additions to your markup language are moreor less forever. Once people actually start writing pages that usethem, you have three choices; you can support the addition forever,you can drop the addition and live with the resulting broken pages, oryou can go

I used to look a bit oddly at people who talked about Firefox beingslow, because that wasn't my experience at all. My Firefox worked fastand stayed that way even when I left it running for months, and Iusually attributed this to not allowing Javascript to run (I wroteabout this a long time ago and I still stand byit). The idea of migrating to another browser for faster speed alwayssounded a bit odd; how much closer to instant responses could you reallyget?

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