I've been trying to make some maps of my local area using OpenStreetMap data. I got Osmarender to render the OSM data to SVG, and then tried to use the SVG editor Inkscape's command-line mode to render that to a PNG. However, I kept getting an error:
** (inkscape:1085): WARNING **: 108374760 bytes requested for pixel buffer, I won't try to allocate that.
I Googled the error message, and found the code which throws the error online. Here it is:
if (size > 100000000) { // Don't even try to allocate more than 100Mb (5000x5000 RGBA
// pixels). It'll just bog the system down even if successful. FIXME:
// Can anyone suggest something better than the magic number?
g_warning ("%lu bytes requested for pixel buffer, I won't try to allocate that.", (long unsigned) size);
return;
}
Er, a command-line option?
FOSDEM was fantastic - I met for the first time several people I've known for many years (e.g. Hakan Waara, Henrik Gemal) and got a lot of work done. Prompted by KaiRo's talk, the scripts to enable the Bugzilla Reorganisation (moving components, that sort of thing) are now written and being reviewed. So as soon as Firefox 3 ships, we can hopefully move on that.
I particularly want to thank the OpenSUSE folks for taking pity on us, and agreeing to trade our 100-seater low-ceilinged room ("sauna.mozilla.org"), which we had packed out, for their 150-seater raked auditorium which they weren't using all of. Philip has assured us that he is going to give us back a large room next year, so thanks in advance to him as well :-)
For the last year or so, I've been buying some online backup storage from the excellent folks at rsync.net. Their support pages and website shows every sign of their being a company with a great deal of clue, I like the way they do business:
All support is handled by engineers. No first level techs or ticket systems. NO data will EVER be released to LEAs/TLAs without direct order by court with jurisdiction.
and they offer a wide variety of useful access methods, such as rsync, SVN, FTP and WebDAV. There's even a discount for free software developers. Highly recommended.
Bruce Schneier notes that a fourth and fifth undersea cable have malfunctioned or been cut.
It's probably a little early for conspiracy theories but if I did have a midget submarine and I wanted to cause a great deal of trouble, this would be one way to do it. But also, once I'd cut a particular cable once, why stop there? Once the cable is cut, the company has no way of monitoring the status of that segment. So why not cut it five times, at five random points? The company fixes the first break, but the cable still doesn't work and so they have no way (that I know of; people who lay these things for a living may differ) of telling where the other breaks are. They have to raise or inspect the entire segment, which would take weeks or months. Particularly if you break enough to exhaust the world supply of suitable ships.
I'm very glad there's a campaign going on to get addon authors to upgrade their addons for Firefox 3. However, it still has some way to go; my list is currently split as follows:
Compatible:
Incompatible:
Redundant: