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Dropbox referrals

Hi all,

Well, I’ve started using Dropbox quite a lot now for my own syncing of stuff between PCs - as some are still on Windows XP - which doesn’t have a great method of syncing documents.

One thing I’d love is to grab a bit more space! As they give you an extra 500Mb for referring people, if you don’t have an account with Dropbox already, please use my referral link to sign up!

Night VFR Rating complete

Its been a while since I’ve posted about my aviation training… Last week I finally managed to get that wonderful sticker in the log book for my Night VFR rating. Held up for months after having issues with aircraft, and mixing that with the variable Melbourne weather - its finally complete.

That is all.

Xen 4.1.2-6 & kernel-xen-2.6.32.56-1 available

Another round of updates just pushed out. Some of the mirrors are still syncing so you may have to be a little patient.

NOTE: You will need to upgrade to kernel-xen-release 6-3 or above to get these updates.

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* Mon Feb 20 2012 Steven Haigh <netwiz@crc.id.au> - kernel-xen-2.6.32.56-1
- Linux 2.6.32.56
  USB: ftdi_sio: fix initial baud rate
  USB: cp210x: do not map baud rates to B0
  USB: serial: CP210x: Added USB-ID for the Link Instruments MSO-19
  hwmon: (sht15) fix bad error code
  hwmon: (f71805f) Fix clamping of temperature limits
  USB: usbsevseg: fix max length
  usb: io_ti: Make edge_remove_sysfs_attrs the port_remove method.
  USB: cdc-wdm: updating desc-&gt;length must be protected by spin_lock
  USB: ftdi_sio: Add more identifiers
  USB: serial: ftdi additional IDs
  USB: ftdi_sio: add PID for TI XDS100v2 / BeagleBone A3
  USB: ftdi_sio: fix TIOCSSERIAL baud_base handling
  dm: do not forward ioctls from logical volumes to the underlying device
  block: fail SCSI passthrough ioctls on partition devices
  Revert "ARM: 7220/1: mmc: mmci: Fixup error handling for dma"
  crypto: sha512 - reduce stack usage to safe number
  crypto: sha512 - make it work, undo percpu message schedule
  drm: Fix authentication kernel crash
  eCryptfs: Make truncate path killable
  ecryptfs: Improve metadata read failure logging
  eCryptfs: Sanitize write counts of /dev/ecryptfs</netwiz></code>

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* Thu Feb 02 2012 Michael Young <m .a.young> - 4.1.2-6
- Fix buffer overflow in e1000 emulation for HVM guests [CVE-2012-0029]

* Sat Jan 28 2012 Michael Young </m><m .a.young> - 4.1.2-5
- Start building xen's ocaml libraries if appropriate unless --without ocaml
  was specified
- add some backported patches from xen unstable (via Debian) for some
  ocaml tidying and fixes

Xen i386 kernel available for testing

After a monster effort of building kernels, the 32 bit version of my Xen Dom0 kernel is now available for testing.

Installation procedure is exactly the same as for x86_64. The howto can be followed here.

Bug reports are most welcome via the new mailing list.

As there are no changes to the x86_64 kernel, I have not bumped the version number for 64 bit builds. The build numbers will come back into sync when we go to kernel 2.6.32.56.